Good Morning!  Welcome to Saturday!  These first couple of videos are fantastic.  All with the same theme.  Supposedly there was a website that went along with them, but when I tried to check it out it was not found [Error 404].  Anyway, the youtube versions are fantastic.  Sit back with your coffee and enjoy!  Great stuff!

 

 

Okay, this one is WAY cool.

WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU SUFFER FROM PHOTOSENSATIVE EPILEPSY!

http://www.neave.com/strobe/

Thanks to Frederick and jokenite for this GREAT link:

Photos of “soft” landing on land of Russian Soyuz descent module.
Soyuz TMA-18 Descent Module Landing Photos
These were really bone crunching.  Look at all the burned areas – must have been very hot, too.
What a landing!
These pictures are from the landing of the Soyuz carrying Skvortsov, Korniyenko, and Caldwell on 25 September 2010.

 

Dr. Calvin Rickson, a scientist from  Texas A&M University has invented a bra that keeps women’s breasts from jiggling, bouncing up and down, and prevents the nipples from pushing through the fabric when cold weather sets in.

At a news conference, after announcing the invention, a large group of men took Dr. Rickson outside and kicked the shit out of him.

 

 

Deer season has started

So I thought I’d better send out a reminder

About what a Whitetail Looks Like!

I believe that serious consideration should be given to this scientific discovery and a commission of scientists specializing in this area or genre should be gathered, and special funding or a huge grant should be assigned to the board for study purposes.  Since I am a highly trained and world wide recognized Subject Matter Expert, I would be happy to lead this board, with this large funding, in this area of investigation…

Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year.
If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance about 35 feet from the earth’s surface.
This would explain the death of the dinosaurs – the tallest ones, anyway.

I would like to invite Lethal Leprechaun and several other of you experts to join me on this scientific panel…I’m sorry…there’s a question in the back…

for those of you who couldn’t hear, the question was, “What field of expertise are you looking for.”  I would think it’s obvious.  The first would be in the field of Bovis Scatology.  While a second in Continuously Reciprocating Absurdity and Pastiche would be extraordinarily helpful.  Are there any other questions?

No, I didn’t think so.

Our favorite member of the bar is back!  Thanks to Lucille for this and the last one.

A man walks into the pharmacy and asks the pharmacist, “Do you have any acetylsalicylic acid?”
“Do you mean aspirin?” asks the pharmacist.
“That’s it! I can never remember that word!”

Some really bad and fashionably late ones from our favorite groan-master:

Q: What happened when the turkey got into a fight?

A: He got the stuffing knocked out of him.

Q: Why was the turkey the drummer in the band?

A: Because he had the drumsticks.

 

Two chefs in Boston who were competing for the title of “Finest Fish Fryer.” Their talents were about equal, their dishes equally  excellent. However, at the last moment one of the chefs glazed his entry and won the title.  “Alas!” lamented the other, “There but for the glaze of cod go I!”

This is an organization that I belong to….seeing as how I’m an Air Force Emergency Manager, you can understand why that makes sense … and here’s something for those of you who have kids might be interested in letting them download and play.  It is currently perfectly safe, I did it myself and my 9 year old daughter had a fun time playing.  It’s really only a play once kind of thing though, so after all your kids have played, and learned the really good lessons there are to be found there, you should probably just go ahead and delete and uninstall it. 

The Air Force EMergency Management Association

Microsoft Vista Ad That Should Never Have Seen The Light of Day!

I have to tell you, I couldn’t even watch the whole thing, it is that bad!  But for you masochists out there or someone who enjoys a really crappy joke (Zack, you listening?) this may be right up your alley:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/windows-vista-ad-that-should-have-never-seen-the-daylight/

Microsoft Office 2010 Left Handed Edition

http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/where-i-can-buy-microsoft-office-2010-left-handed-edition/ 

Where did the Google Chrome Logo really come from?

National Geographic Pictures: Some of the best ones yet!

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“Everybody was kung-fu fighting… Those cats were fast as lightning.”

Dessert Anyone?

This one is WAY cool!  I have GOT to try this.  If any of you have the nerve to try this at home, please let us know and send in pictures!  The gastronomical delight that is the CHERPUMPLE!

 

Yup, saw that one coming!

I was unable to verify the veracity of the letter or the author and I did even see one reply that said this was improperly attributed to this Marine….now, having said that…it’s still a GREAT essay and the thoughts and opinions behind it are valid, no matter who wrote it.

“The Gun Is Civilization”
      Interesting take and one you don’t hear much. . . . . .
      As the Supreme Court hears arguments for and against the Chicago , IL Gun Ban,
I offer you another stellar example of a letter (written by a Marine),  that places the proper perspective on what a gun means to a civilized society.
      Read this eloquent and profound letter and pay close attention to the last paragraph of the letter….
          “The Gun Is Civilization” by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
      Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force.
      If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force.
      Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
      In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion.
      Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
      When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force.
      You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
      The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
      There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations.
      These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job.
       That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.
        People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
        Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury.
        This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.
         People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst.
         The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.
          The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter.
          It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
          When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone.
          The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force.
           It removes force from the equation… and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
            By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)