Category: Misc Stuff

I’ve had problems everywhere we’ve lived finding a real barbershop.  We need more….

Bringing Back The Old Style Barber Shop

Why walk?  This is a good article.

Solvitur Ambulando: It Is Solved By Walking

Funny…how to work with software engineers

https://www.kennethnorton.com/essays/how-to-work-with-software-engineers.html

Good article on making friends when you move.

How to Make Friends in a New City

Not him getting banned but the act itself.  I think the principal should get a sense of humor and let the kid participate

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If you’ve never heard of it…go read about it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308193/The-cell-phone-free-town-West-Virginia-sees-influx-residents-allergic-electronic-devices.html

…how does one shoot someone through a door on “instinct.”  I’ve got to be missing something.  Here’s a quote:

“When you are a sportsman, you act even more on instinct,” he said. “It’s instinct – things happen and that’s what you do.” 

Allegedly–this is pretrial–he shot his girlfriend through a door while she was hiding in the bathroom.

Perhaps, this wasn’t premeditated.  I’m willing to believe that he got upset–for some reason–decided to get a gun and shoot her. But that isn’t instinct.  Instinct would be reflexively shooting someone when you walk downstairs at 3am to investigate a noise.  You then find out what you thought was a bad guy was your girlfriend.  Both result in a person being dead; however the first is cold-blooded murder and the second is a horrible accident.

As a hunter myself, I have a problem with his dad’s statement.  Hunters do anything BUT act on instinct.  One of the things drilled into you is to KNOW YOUR TARGET.  Don’t shoot a noise.  Get a positive ID, evaluate the target, verify there is no danger, and only then fire.

Image from chicagopublicmedia via flickr

Well, last week, I had my checkup after trying contacts (Day 1, Day 2, Days 3 4 and 5).  I complained about how poorly I saw.  The doctor gave me a mini eye exam and said we’d make a slight change.  Well, I have another trial pair and can see much better.  Yesterday, I tried to take a picture of my eye (because they were nice and clear).  After 8 pictures, I got the one above.  it isn’t great but….

…Instant “coffee” isn’t coffee at all.  It will barely do in a pinch.  The only thing it is fit for is a hlando nescafe.  You take instant coffee and mix with cold milk and ice.

By the way, if you are British, found this, and wonder why I’m saying this….think about this:  what do you think of powdered tea?

Image from roadsidepictures via flickr

First off, I’m not going to spend this post talking about why I’m against gay “marriage.”  I am because the Bible says marriage is between 1 man and 1 woman.  Out of wedlock sex with anyone is a sin regardless of who it happens between.  Quite simply, I want to say this isn’t a “rights” issue.  It is a “we want to redefine a word to fit what we want” issue.  Why?

Well, quite simply gays, straights, upside-down, or right-side up, all people could get married.  What?!?!  I hear the cries.  No they couldn’t you say.  Yes they could I say.  Cyndi and I got married.  A gay, lesbian, purple-people-eater or whoever had the same right.  Any man could marry a woman and any woman could marry a man.  Everyone was equal and had the same rights.  But yet, the opponents of “traditional” marriage pressed on.

They wanted the word marriage redefined in the law so a man could marry a man or a woman a woman (or, I assume to a purple-people-eater).  Well, on Tuesday, that happened in the UK when the House of Commons in England voted to redefine marriage.

Interestingly enough, though, this has caused havoc with the definition of other words.  For example, adultery is defined something like out of wedlock sex between a man and a woman.  Interesting.  Did you catch that?  That means that gay people can’t commit adultery in the eyes of the law.  That causes all sorts of other havoc.  If you’re “married” then sex with anyone other than your “other” should be adultery.  Something similar happened in the US with divorce.  The laws in the states with gay marriage proposals didn’t adjust to include other terms.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.  This isn’t a civil-rights issue.  It is a we-want-to-force-you-to-accept-our-way-of-life issue.  Before the law changes, everyone had exactly the same rights.  They just couldn’t  do what they wanted.  There is a difference.

Image from o. ortelpa via flickr