i suspect every pretentious dimwit out there suddenly wants to find out how it works. don't worry numskulls, i have it all figured out. but let's just say i'm not in the mood to impress every diehard sucker one of you, therefore, i won't give out my hullabaloo engineering hoopla and all that bling until i see some pennies for my thought first. i'll only let you know it's called a...clothes line. NOT! :D
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Rating the state of our economy
The Guru said. Please take a moment to contemplate with me the names of two of our nation's largest and most respected credit rating agencies.
Moody's...Standard And Poor's...Cheeze Everyone, that's the state of our economy.
Toxic, junk and AAA. Our beloved agencies gave the world the magic that turned all the former into all the latter. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world...The 70s saw the end of the gold standard. And now we see the beginning of the poor standard. But Don't worry, the Guru said. The Moody's They Are A-Changin'
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Moody's...Standard And Poor's...Cheeze Everyone, that's the state of our economy.
Toxic, junk and AAA. Our beloved agencies gave the world the magic that turned all the former into all the latter. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world...The 70s saw the end of the gold standard. And now we see the beginning of the poor standard. But Don't worry, the Guru said. The Moody's They Are A-Changin'
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Pickup line for joggers
I was out with my friend and wanted someone to take a photo of us. I asked a cute girl who was jogging to take it. I gave her my camera and instructions how to use it. When I thanked her for taking the photo I told her that I was happy to hand her the camera because I noticed that she is very fit and a good runner but not as fast as I am and that's very important to know before I ask someone to take a photo of me with my camera. She asked why? I told her that's because if she runs away with the camera I need to be able to catch up to her..!! :)
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Makes my Spartan heart melt...
September 3, 2009
7:20 p.m. - 8:05 p.m., Greece
I had the most memorable evening swim complemented by a very touching and beautiful gesture. A love note on the beach meant for me.
I arrived at the beach on a beautiful sunset around 7:20pm. The place was empty and calm. I could only see two girls a few meters to my right lying on the beach facing the sunset and apparently taking looks at me as I made my way into the water.
I stayed in the water swimming for about half an hour till a beautiful full moon pinned like a silver plate took its turn on the sky.
I come out of the water and take a look around me. No one's there any more. It's getting dark and cold and the girls who were lying nearby are also gone.
I walk towards the spot I left my towel. As I make my way to reach it, I notice this note carefully placed on the towel with a stone acting as paper weight against the wind.
The girls I had seen earlier must have written it and placed it there. They were the only ones around. I didn't take a good look at their faces but they did at mine.
I don't know if they were Greek or foreigners but it doesn't matter. I know they were nice.
And their beautiful gesture proves it!
If you're not one of the girls but you clicked on the photo and read the note, you'll agree it was very nice of them what they did.
Imagine their beautiful gesture for a moment.
They saw me getting into the water and swimming far away from the shore. They must have been observing me even though I didn't notice them doing so. Most probably they spent a good part of their time talking about me while I was in the sea swimming for both of them :)
As they were "living" the beach, they scrapped a piece of paper and wrote those short and very nice words for me to read and remember the time, the place, the chance encounter that never happened, the presence of all of us being there.
No names. No contact details.
Just the memory of it on the paper whose back side hints at some kind of card game they might have been playing.
That was the kind of gesture to make the heart of any Spartan melt.
I'm "living" the place tomorrow so I won't be able to come back and look for them.
But I can return the gesture, I thought, by posting this beautiful note online in the hope that one day one of the girls will stumble upon these lines, see the note and take pleasure from knowing that their thoughts of me were well received and greatly appreciated.
I have my reasons for not mentioning the name of the place.
If they come across this post one day and see their note, they will know it can only have been the sweet boy swimming for them as they were "living" the beach that 3rd of September evening in Greece. Only he could have gotten the note. There was no one else at the beach at the time.
I don't know if they will ever get to read these lines. Even if they do one day, many years may have passed by then. But if the girls who wrote the note and left it on the beach ever decide to contact me, I would know it's them because they will be able to tell me the name of the place.
Whoever you are beautiful-girl-note-droppers, please know that you touched the Spartan's heart.
His only regret is that you weren't around to see the smile on his face as he picked up the note and read it...
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7:20 p.m. - 8:05 p.m., Greece
I had the most memorable evening swim complemented by a very touching and beautiful gesture. A love note on the beach meant for me.
I arrived at the beach on a beautiful sunset around 7:20pm. The place was empty and calm. I could only see two girls a few meters to my right lying on the beach facing the sunset and apparently taking looks at me as I made my way into the water.
I stayed in the water swimming for about half an hour till a beautiful full moon pinned like a silver plate took its turn on the sky.
I come out of the water and take a look around me. No one's there any more. It's getting dark and cold and the girls who were lying nearby are also gone.
I walk towards the spot I left my towel. As I make my way to reach it, I notice this note carefully placed on the towel with a stone acting as paper weight against the wind.
The girls I had seen earlier must have written it and placed it there. They were the only ones around. I didn't take a good look at their faces but they did at mine.
I don't know if they were Greek or foreigners but it doesn't matter. I know they were nice.
And their beautiful gesture proves it!
If you're not one of the girls but you clicked on the photo and read the note, you'll agree it was very nice of them what they did.
Imagine their beautiful gesture for a moment.
They saw me getting into the water and swimming far away from the shore. They must have been observing me even though I didn't notice them doing so. Most probably they spent a good part of their time talking about me while I was in the sea swimming for both of them :)
As they were "living" the beach, they scrapped a piece of paper and wrote those short and very nice words for me to read and remember the time, the place, the chance encounter that never happened, the presence of all of us being there.
No names. No contact details.
Just the memory of it on the paper whose back side hints at some kind of card game they might have been playing.
That was the kind of gesture to make the heart of any Spartan melt.
I'm "living" the place tomorrow so I won't be able to come back and look for them.
But I can return the gesture, I thought, by posting this beautiful note online in the hope that one day one of the girls will stumble upon these lines, see the note and take pleasure from knowing that their thoughts of me were well received and greatly appreciated.
I have my reasons for not mentioning the name of the place.
If they come across this post one day and see their note, they will know it can only have been the sweet boy swimming for them as they were "living" the beach that 3rd of September evening in Greece. Only he could have gotten the note. There was no one else at the beach at the time.
I don't know if they will ever get to read these lines. Even if they do one day, many years may have passed by then. But if the girls who wrote the note and left it on the beach ever decide to contact me, I would know it's them because they will be able to tell me the name of the place.
Whoever you are beautiful-girl-note-droppers, please know that you touched the Spartan's heart.
His only regret is that you weren't around to see the smile on his face as he picked up the note and read it...
http://www.thinkaloo.com
Global Warming Solutions. Eat the sun!
"I eat the sun," Japan's First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama says, raising her arms as if to tear pieces off an imaginary sun. "Like this: yum, yum, yum. It gives me enormous energy. My husband has recently started doing that too."
The land of the Eaten-San is stuck deep in the hole. Creative solutions were desperately needed. We looked around for some unique skills in people to get us out of the mess. Someone whose wife's resume includes being abducted by aliens and a trip to Venus to verify that the grass is green and the girls are pretty sure is the best person you want to hire for the job. I am confident we made the right choice.
So now, if we can all, following the example of our leader, start eating the sun, some of its warmth will go away.
We have it all figured out. If we can just let the people do what's natural to them then Global Warming will go the Kyoto path and global hunger will also be solved!
Here's the trailer for "Mission Impossible 2009: In the land of the Eaten-San", starring, in this life, Miyuki Hatoyama and Tom Cruise.
At least they seem to be genuinely in love. That should count for something, right?
http://www.thinkaloo.com
The land of the Eaten-San is stuck deep in the hole. Creative solutions were desperately needed. We looked around for some unique skills in people to get us out of the mess. Someone whose wife's resume includes being abducted by aliens and a trip to Venus to verify that the grass is green and the girls are pretty sure is the best person you want to hire for the job. I am confident we made the right choice.
So now, if we can all, following the example of our leader, start eating the sun, some of its warmth will go away.
We have it all figured out. If we can just let the people do what's natural to them then Global Warming will go the Kyoto path and global hunger will also be solved!
Here's the trailer for "Mission Impossible 2009: In the land of the Eaten-San", starring, in this life, Miyuki Hatoyama and Tom Cruise.
At least they seem to be genuinely in love. That should count for something, right?
http://www.thinkaloo.com
Global Warming Solutions. Eat the sun!
"I eat the sun," Japan's First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama says, raising her arms as if to tear pieces off an imaginary sun. "Like this: yum, yum, yum. It gives me enormous energy. My husband has recently started doing that too."
The land of the Eaten-San is stuck deep in the hole. Creative solutions were desperately needed. We looked around for some unique skills in people to get us out of the mess. Someone whose wife's resume includes being abducted by aliens and a trip to Venus to verify that the grass is green and the girls are pretty sure is the best person you want to hire for the job. I am confident we made the right choice.
So now, if we can all, following the example of our leader, start eating the sun, some of its warmth will go away.
We have it all figured out. If we can just let the people do what's natural to them then Global Warming will go the Kyoto path and global hunger will also be solved!
Here's the trailer for "Mission Impossible 2009: In the land of the Eaten-San", starring, in this life, Miyuki Hatoyama and Tom Cruise.
At least they seem to be genuinely in love. That should count for something, right?
http://www.thinkaloo.com
The land of the Eaten-San is stuck deep in the hole. Creative solutions were desperately needed. We looked around for some unique skills in people to get us out of the mess. Someone whose wife's resume includes being abducted by aliens and a trip to Venus to verify that the grass is green and the girls are pretty sure is the best person you want to hire for the job. I am confident we made the right choice.
So now, if we can all, following the example of our leader, start eating the sun, some of its warmth will go away.
We have it all figured out. If we can just let the people do what's natural to them then Global Warming will go the Kyoto path and global hunger will also be solved!
Here's the trailer for "Mission Impossible 2009: In the land of the Eaten-San", starring, in this life, Miyuki Hatoyama and Tom Cruise.
At least they seem to be genuinely in love. That should count for something, right?
http://www.thinkaloo.com
UnArmed, UnArmored and Totally EnAmored!!
That's what we should consider calling a "private" guard working for the US Embassy in Afghanistan.
They are private, because they are not ashamed to show their private parts.
They are ferocious and fearless, because they're not afraid to shock the Taliban into retreat by showing up in the line of fire armor-free.
It's always with a great sense of fiction that I read such stories on the news. That can't be real...???
We are daily bombarded with news and opinions about the lack of progress in Afghanistan 8 years after the US, with the help of NATO, kicked the Taliban out of the country.
Hundreds of European and American soldiers get killed there, the Taliban are coming back from Pakistan to reclaim territory and sabotage all progress achieved so far and things are just not working well or as well as we would like them to.
As I follow the news in that part of the world I am always left wondering. Why? Why can't we succeed there? We are throwing military and economic resources in that country, yet we seem to be the ones into retreat 8 years after we supposedly Talibanned the place.
Something just doesn't feel right.
Then I read this news and that something which didn't feel right becomes clear.
"Allegations surfaced last week that contractor ArmorGroup North America allowed mistreatment, sexual activity and intimidation within the ranks of private guards hired to protect the embassy in Kabul. The company and U.S. officials are investigating."
"We've immediately taken several actions," said Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. "First of all, 13 of the employees of ArmorGroup have been terminated from their contracts. That's a combination of some management and any of the individuals that were involved in this very disgusting behavior that occurred."
Two things amaze me in this story. The fact that "management" is involved is the first. The second is the use of the word "disgusting" to describe how WE feel about it.
If it is "disgusting" to us in the West who are supposed to be a little more tolerant of parties, booze, boobs and gays, how are the locals supposed to feel about it?
The irony is that this has nothing to do with the Koran or Islam and the locals' morals, their tolerance or lack of it to things Western. This is us calling ourselves disgusted and us firing the people who we hire to guard us from the people we feel disgust for their hate of us and who we force to change with overwhelmingly superior force which also doesn't seem to bring the results we want.
First it was Abu Ghraib in Iraq. A few years later, Obama wants Guantanamo closed as well. One would expect that "management" of the private guards in the US embassy in Kabul would know by now that this is not the kind of behavior to permit under any circumstances whatsoever anywhere in the world, least of all in fucking Afghanistan.
Unless they really believe that place has been totally fucked up and the hopes for a better outcome there are a pie in the sky, it just doesn't make sense that these incidents still keep happening with the "disgusting" patterned frequency they are happening.
It is one thing when one private soldier does something indecent and a different thing altogether when 13 people, including management are fired for "disgusting" behavior in Afghanistan.
This is a US embassy spokesman referring to the incident NOT using diplomatic language. The most diplomatic of all institutions representing the US government is using emotional language to describe the way WE feel about the way the people we hire to do things we don't want them to do.
This is very unusual and sick. We seem to be at a loss as these incidents are popping up like dots in a pattern we can't seem to be able to put an end to or at least bring under control.
Sure. We fired all 13 of them. But that's only after the news came out and was impossible to cover up. For all we know, orgies are addictive and whoever claims they only took part once or they had to take their shirts off because it was too hot dancing so close to the fire, it's like claiming they smoked the poppy but never inhaled it. Yeah, right!
How on naked earth do we expect that just by firing the privates we can still win the locals' hearts and minds and TaliBan this Fucking Poppyland?
Oh yes, silly me. Of course I should have noticed the naked truth staring at me through the fire like a Talibani imbecile.
The privates' faces in the photo are covered in black ink so they are not exposed.
YES! That's something the Taliban and the locals can appreciate.
Cover Up!
If we can start by covering up the faces, at some point, we will learn to cover up the rest of the body and private parts.
That's the kind of logic we can expect all local Afghanistanis to appreciate.
These guys should really like us. They are so wrong hating us and not welcoming us there with OpenArms, ArmsUp, UnArmed, UnArmored and Totally EnAmored!
In my private parts, I know that's the case. But I'll keep it private for now, for my private pirate code of ethics doesn't allow me to expose all my private thoughts in public.
But I don't mind if You want to!
Yours EnAmored,
JackSparrow
http://www.thinkaloo.com
They are private, because they are not ashamed to show their private parts.
They are ferocious and fearless, because they're not afraid to shock the Taliban into retreat by showing up in the line of fire armor-free.
It's always with a great sense of fiction that I read such stories on the news. That can't be real...???
We are daily bombarded with news and opinions about the lack of progress in Afghanistan 8 years after the US, with the help of NATO, kicked the Taliban out of the country.
Hundreds of European and American soldiers get killed there, the Taliban are coming back from Pakistan to reclaim territory and sabotage all progress achieved so far and things are just not working well or as well as we would like them to.
As I follow the news in that part of the world I am always left wondering. Why? Why can't we succeed there? We are throwing military and economic resources in that country, yet we seem to be the ones into retreat 8 years after we supposedly Talibanned the place.
Something just doesn't feel right.
Then I read this news and that something which didn't feel right becomes clear.
"Allegations surfaced last week that contractor ArmorGroup North America allowed mistreatment, sexual activity and intimidation within the ranks of private guards hired to protect the embassy in Kabul. The company and U.S. officials are investigating."
"We've immediately taken several actions," said Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. "First of all, 13 of the employees of ArmorGroup have been terminated from their contracts. That's a combination of some management and any of the individuals that were involved in this very disgusting behavior that occurred."
Two things amaze me in this story. The fact that "management" is involved is the first. The second is the use of the word "disgusting" to describe how WE feel about it.
If it is "disgusting" to us in the West who are supposed to be a little more tolerant of parties, booze, boobs and gays, how are the locals supposed to feel about it?
The irony is that this has nothing to do with the Koran or Islam and the locals' morals, their tolerance or lack of it to things Western. This is us calling ourselves disgusted and us firing the people who we hire to guard us from the people we feel disgust for their hate of us and who we force to change with overwhelmingly superior force which also doesn't seem to bring the results we want.
First it was Abu Ghraib in Iraq. A few years later, Obama wants Guantanamo closed as well. One would expect that "management" of the private guards in the US embassy in Kabul would know by now that this is not the kind of behavior to permit under any circumstances whatsoever anywhere in the world, least of all in fucking Afghanistan.
Unless they really believe that place has been totally fucked up and the hopes for a better outcome there are a pie in the sky, it just doesn't make sense that these incidents still keep happening with the "disgusting" patterned frequency they are happening.
It is one thing when one private soldier does something indecent and a different thing altogether when 13 people, including management are fired for "disgusting" behavior in Afghanistan.
This is a US embassy spokesman referring to the incident NOT using diplomatic language. The most diplomatic of all institutions representing the US government is using emotional language to describe the way WE feel about the way the people we hire to do things we don't want them to do.
This is very unusual and sick. We seem to be at a loss as these incidents are popping up like dots in a pattern we can't seem to be able to put an end to or at least bring under control.
Sure. We fired all 13 of them. But that's only after the news came out and was impossible to cover up. For all we know, orgies are addictive and whoever claims they only took part once or they had to take their shirts off because it was too hot dancing so close to the fire, it's like claiming they smoked the poppy but never inhaled it. Yeah, right!
How on naked earth do we expect that just by firing the privates we can still win the locals' hearts and minds and TaliBan this Fucking Poppyland?
Oh yes, silly me. Of course I should have noticed the naked truth staring at me through the fire like a Talibani imbecile.
The privates' faces in the photo are covered in black ink so they are not exposed.
YES! That's something the Taliban and the locals can appreciate.
Cover Up!
If we can start by covering up the faces, at some point, we will learn to cover up the rest of the body and private parts.
That's the kind of logic we can expect all local Afghanistanis to appreciate.
These guys should really like us. They are so wrong hating us and not welcoming us there with OpenArms, ArmsUp, UnArmed, UnArmored and Totally EnAmored!
In my private parts, I know that's the case. But I'll keep it private for now, for my private pirate code of ethics doesn't allow me to expose all my private thoughts in public.
But I don't mind if You want to!
Yours EnAmored,
JackSparrow
http://www.thinkaloo.com
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