Really Lame of Me
Completely ripping off our friends at Butterfly Suicide. They posted it first.
Flash Game that RULES!
Play Mario Bros. as your favorite nintendo characters
had to disable cause the music was driving me crazy. If you want to play Mario...go here
Scary moments in getting old.
So, I have to say I have been through one of the scariest moments of my life today. Until recently, the most scary was the moment (and subsequent irrational behaviors) that my parents decided to become recreational Bikers. Not cyclists, but bikers...you know the one's I'm talking about. The ones that ride around on super loud American built motorcycles, growing their hair long (guy's heads, women's armpits), wearing denim and leather, drinking mass produced American beers from aluminum cans, and having Easy Rider viewing parties (the way regular people do with Monty Python and the Holy Grail). It was at this time that they also decided helmet are for fags...and not the sort of endearing, pretending to be socially-anti-conscience kinda way, but for the ass-pounding, going straight to hell, stay the hell away from my children kinda way.
Mind you, it took a while, but I finally came to terms with my parents trying to kill themselves by getting run over by Peterbuilts or by getting mistaken for "real bikers" in a 1960's gangland shootout. After all, they have to grow up and leave the nest someday.
Ok, enough about my previous scary moment. Fast forward to present day. Yesterday, my beautiful wife of 19 years had heart surgery...yup, that's fight, fucking HEART SURGERY. Ok, it wasn't "crack your chest open" heart surgery, but they did use a catheter to go up her femoral artery into her heart and then use electricity to BURN out a section of the wall of her heart. Not Trivial Folks! Complications during a surgery like this can mean at a minimum having to install a pace maker, and you can guess what the most severe outcome could have been.
We spent all day sweating bullets, knowing full well what the risks were, as the surgery kept getting delayed longer and longer. Finally Christine went in, and for 4 hours we all held our breath. Fortunately after all that time, they doctor came to tell us that she was fine, and surgery had been a huge success. The surgery was not without it's difficulties, but she came out unscathed and should be able to train for triathlons without having to worry about having a heart attack.
I am very thankful to Dr. Chan for not only being an extremely competent surgeon, but a fantastic person too. I am in his debt. Science rules!
Who do you follow on Twitter? or Maybe You Should be More Careful with your “friends”
I follow the online techie retail store ThinkGeek.com on twitter and unfortunately for me they had to tweet about Fistulated Cow. And now it is unfortunate for you that you follow me...cause although this is not what you think it is, you will still follow the link and still find it kinda gross.
Have fun with this.
Since May? Seriously?!
Wow....I had totally forgotten about my blog...for a long long time it seems.
I should get back to it someday soon. Just need something interesting to write about.
Stay tuned...
Littering Laws in Belgium
Seriously? This is the kind of verbiage that makes people go "WTF?"
In Belgium this week, 3 professional cyclists are facing criminal littering charges for throwing water-bottles on the ground during the Fleche-Wallone race in southern Belgium. The law reads:
"Any person who holds waste is required to provide or make the management conditions to limit the negative effects on water, air, soil, flora, fauna, to avoid inconvenience in general, without adversely affecting the environment or to human health."
See, the problem with these laws is they get written to be both too specific and too vague all at the same time. First we understand that it is against the law to harm water, air, soil, flora, or fauna...but what exactly constitutes a "negative effect"? And how much are you supposed to "limit" that effect? Is 20% enough? How about limiting it to a little less than a bunch of negative effect. Is a smidgen of negative effect acceptable?
This is obviously the work of a committee of politicians that could easily agree that littering is bad, but actually being able to force people to not litter would make the politicians seem draconian. Politicians understand that firmly taking a stance usually leads to someone feeling oppressed, and oppressed people tend to be the ones that vote, cause they are pissed off.
Of course, in Arizona we have a handful of politicians that have no problem taking a stand and are proud of their draconian ways. And if you oppress people properly they don't have the right to vote, which makes it easier to take a stand when you realize that the people you are oppressing can't do shit about it.
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