It’s still Frakking SWEEEEET!!!

Microsoft Surface….again

I have tried embedding that video 10 times by HTML and wordpress and it just won’t go. So exercise your clicky finger and check it out for S&G’s.

So my workplace has some form of filter to exclude the usage of Pandora. In its place, I found AOLRadio, which was decent but had no “like/dislike” controls. I continued my search and found JANGO. Pretty sweet and more of a sharing community than Pandora. So check the link and listen to my Bosstones influenced Ska Core Channel!! If you join, send me your ID. My ID is obviously clemtgnome.

FUCK YEAH!!

Hello world, we told you once and we’ll tel ya again. Don’t mess with the big boys.

Not only is he going to take all of my money and distribute it frivolously (re: it only took 3 days to pass in our wonderful house and senate) around the country for “stimulus” but now he is going to encourage the passing of an illegal immigrant amnesty bill!!

Hallelujah praise the Lord, good times have come for all!!!

/Extremelyrediculouslevelsofheavysarcasm>

Me wants!
Awesome “6th Sense” video of upcoming technologies

I received this from my mom in an email and thought it was pretty good.

Socialism

An economics professor at Texas Tech University said he had never failed a single student before, but once had failed an entire class.

Students in this class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich. They claimed socialism would be “a great equalizer”. They argued the point incessantly.

The professor said, “Ok, we’ll have an experiment in this class on socialism”.

His ground rule: All test grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade…no one should fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test of the semester the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were somewhat upset and the students who studied very little were quite happy.

But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hardest decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied very little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test of the semester rolled around the average grade was an F.

The test scores never got better as bickering, blame and name-calling filled the classroom. All of which resulted in hard feelings and no one would study or try to help anyone else.

All failed — to their great surprise — and the professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder to succeed the greater the reward, but when a government takes all the reward away; no one will try, therefore none will succeed.

A hearty southwestern soup courtesy of Southern Living.  We double the beef for more substance as well as use the hot and spicy taco seasoning. Top with cheddar cheese as well.

Pad Thai from A Taste of Thai.  Had to do this one twice as I used double the noodles on the first try. Second go around was alot better. Used chicken instead of shrimp and had some spicy asian pepper sauce on the side to give it the extra kick. very good and I hope to make more recipes from that site soon.

Sidenote……I really have to start using my categories.

A chapter of my vehicle life has finally come to a close.  I sold the truck yesterday.  I have to say that I will miss the utility funcitionality of it as well as its ability to continuously take the abuse that I haphazardly doled out over its life.  In the end, the bluebook value was at 2800 and, due to some MINOR mechanical issues, I sold it for 2000.  Some people thought it should have sold for less, but it still ran great, it just had some blemishes.

That truck took some beatings, ranging from hitting our mailbox and scratching the hood in college to a straight front ending that lifted the back end off the ground.  That one needed some body stretching and fender work.  I also straight up backed into a neighbors daughters car on a rainy night and screwed up the latch system on the tailgate (her back end of the car was in my driveway…..which I did not see in the dark rain heading to 3rd shift work).  Then I sideswiped my own parents vehicle…..which is now mine…..for a fender ding.  I think that’s about it.

Now, that truck took the most beating out of all the vehicles I have driven, but if you ask Doug, he can tell you about the most exciting trips my vehicles have taken!

FYI……

I had 2 jobs on the front that I was hoping would come through.  Both have since pretty much fallen through.  One, that I on-sited with, offered the position to another guy as they thought I was too much “Engineer” and not enough “Manufacturing”.  I took that as a positive as that’s what I am!  The potential silver lining is that if the first guy doesn’t accept, they would ask me to come in.  Nothing negative from the company, I interviewed great and all.  They just thought that I was more into the engineering side than the manufacturing side of the business.

The other one did a round table with the economy status and decided that they would freeze all position openings until mid year.  As I only have 2 months of severance, I can’t wait around for that.

So now I am back to the drawing board with the only options left with referrals are engineering corporations.  One would keep me local and in our home, the other would require a move and sitting on a mortgage until we sold the home.  Unless they somehow offered to help out in the relocation with buying the home!!  If that happened, we would be set.

Either way, I thought I would let everyone know that Lawton over at LawtonFunk and I will be forming a band.  It will be called “The Unemployments” and we will not shower or shave to get the hobo look down.

linked by Doug over at Literal Barrage:  A response to Israels recent attacks.