So any idea what lies beyond the link?

Just when you thought things couldn'r get any weirder, I heard about this on the radio this AM. Decided to check it out. Whodathunkit!?

"April 20, 2006
Steven Seagal with New CD "Mojo Priest"

Oh yes boys and girls. Everyone's favorite chubby action star Steven Seagal has released a new music cd called "Mojo Priest". Ummm... actually come to think of it.... I really like the title. Anyway...

So I went on over to the official page for the album and noticed that all the tracks have 30 second samples that you could listen to. So I decided to listen to them and got ready to laugh my ass off. But guess what... I actually liked what I heard. No seriously... I might actually buy this cd. Holy crap... never thought I'd say that.

It's actually a mix blues/jazz/southrn kinda feel... and what can I say... I liked it. who da thunk? I think my favorite song title is "Talk to my Ass".

Source: http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2006/...ojo_priest.html

Apparently this is his second album release - the first being "Songs From the Crystal Cave". I hear he hit No.1 in France.

Modern mixing techniques and modulation can fix anything.

And if you criticize his music he pulls your lungs out through your nose.

I've always kinda liked old Seagal, tho his roles are often pretty awful.

I prefer Jackie Chan. All the way from back to The Big Brawl. He has more personality, a lot better moves, as well as more creativity.

He's bad. I mean martial arts wise. Of course they always look that way on tv. Phylis Diller could be a master. But Segal looks tough.

It sounds like he took a few shots to the throat.

Speaking of Phylis Diller, I saw her credited for a voice over on an episode of Robot Chicken, a show on Adult Swim.


The weird thing was she played a mutated Phylis Diller monster. It was hideous. Huge flailing tentacles and other mutant stuff. It was funny but I didn't expect her to lampoon herself. She must still have hell of a sense of humor.

I had a friend that did a lot of fighting on a martial arts circuit and he sounded even worse. I wonder how Seagal keeps his nose in decent shape. (as well as who would win between say, him, Chan and Chuck Norris)

Still better than William Shatner's Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds I'd bet.

Or be desperate for work.

South Park had a good Streisand spoof. Mecha Streisand, spitting fire. Suffice to say, she didn't do the voice.






Everything but Yoko beats that.

that's a given. I get the creeps when Lennon sings about her.

We all knew love was blind, but who knew it was deaf too?

I remember an interview the late great Bob Hope gave. He was asked about the folks who used to do the USO Tours with him. He reserved some of his highest praise for Phyllis Diller as being a real trouper - never complained, went anywhere, endured everything with a big smile and always having time to talk with or hug the troops. And funny - joked more than he did. Rest of cast and crews just loved working with her.

[Her husband, the legendary "Fang' must have had a fair sense of humor as well - kinda like Rodney Dangerfield's wife!]

I had forgotten that one. lol. Like my mom always said about Liberace, he laughed all the way to the bank.

Dear Bee,
I suppose this is as good a jumping on point as any other. It being saturday, I've finally found time to catch up in reading some old posts. I've pretty much been out of the computer loop for the past couple of months due to some personal catastrophic assaults on my life. Suffice it to say: Beware teenage crackheads who know how to hotwire cars and use to abuse neighbors and friends alike. (I'll elaborate on that later on some other thread (Medical News, perhaps)). Anyway, I just read, for the first time, your delightful limerick.

Posted 2/10/06

There once was a poster called roserose
who's unwitty remarks cloaked in poor prose
were really quite batzy--
just like that Bart Katzy--
Are they one and the same ya suppose?

Another strange thing about roserose
his most prominent feature's a brown nose
it gave him a start
to realize he's Bart
For wherever Barts ass is, his head goes.

Cute, clever, and downright funny.

Oh, and there's this one about a month later...



Talk down at ya later slow peace dropper.

Watch this one. Wonder what they forgot?

http://www.shopautobahn.com/v-hitech.html

In their defense, Germans are better at going than stopping. Makes a little bit of a statement about the EU too.

Germany, not the technology leader any more.

I saw a japanese concept car on TV that had 8 wheels. It could go really fast in a short distance and used the braking for recharging the batteries. It was $350,000 though.

Eliica eight-wheeler


It doesn't require plutonium to power its flux capacitor. It won't travel through time when it reaches 88mph. And unlike the Doc and Marty McFly's DeLorean of Back To The Future fame, it needs nothing more than a power point to keep it running.

Called the Eliica - short for Electric Lithium-Ion battery Car - this radical 800bhp eight-wheeler from Japan is proof that electric vehicles can be fast and fun to drive, too. Boasting a four-second 0-60mph sprint and seven-second 0-100mph time, the Eliica is faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo.

So what is it like on the road? In this world exclusive, we took the controls to find out. As soon as you climb into the snug cockpit, you realise this car is built for speed. It's more than five metres long, shaped like a bullet and carries its batteries, software and motors in a narrow chassis bed, giving it the lowest centre of gravity of any prototype we've come across.

In tests, the Eliica has recorded a top speed of 370kph (230mph), although its inventor Hiroshi Shimizu claims it could clear 400kph (250mph) in the right conditions. "When you're dealing with technology thought by most to be slow, heavy and lacking range, you must do better than any supercar," he said.

At our drive at Keio University near Tokyo, we punched the 'D' button on the dash, pointed the car down the road and flattened the gas pedal. With a faintly audible whirr of eight 100bhp in-wheel motors, the 0-60mph sprint was smooth, effortless, quiet - and surreal. The mind-boggling acceleration was on a par with that of a 500bhp GT racing car. Yet the lack of a transmission meant there were no jerky cog swaps as we were thrust back in our seat by an incredible 0.8Gs.

With that ultra-low centre of gravity, the car handles surprisingly well, and has virtually no body roll or nose-dive. It turns in sharply with well weighted steering through the front four wheels, and gives adequate feedback. And it does not feel as big or as heavy as its length and 2,400kg kerbweight suggest.

The only downsides, apart from the tiny cockpit, are that it takes 10 hours to recharge, and a production version would cost £170,000. To bring Shimizu's research back to the future, he needs a major firm's financial power behind him and the whole electric car movement.


http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/previews/5169...ghtwheeler.html

OK, let me get this straight; if I stand on the brakes then the car will go forever; but when I hit the accelerator I'll get a .8g rush, then have to recharge for 10 hours. Whew.

They didn't say how long a charge would run. I thought the main drawback to battery powered cars, aside from the batteries was the power and speed. This car has taken care of that.

Monkey email...

http://host-d.oddcast.com/php/careerbuilde...D=0?mid=8321764

Grandpa Simpson: The last time the meteors came, we thought the sky was on fire. Naturally, we blamed the Irish. We hanged more 'n a few.

Check out the deer attack video on this page:

http://www.askmen.com/video/2006_apr/apr23_deer_attack.html

Anyone plant a garden in the spring?

I'm expanding to 9 plants.




Green and yellow bell peppers, cherry, yellow and 1 other tomato, green beans, peas and two kinds of cucumbers.

We try every year. Herbs do well. Strawberries are hit-or-miss. Veggies just willl not make it in time. High mountain deserts (which Colorado Springs truly is) do not have a long enough or warm enough growing season with enough adequate rainfall (fifth year of drought - limited watering rights - although you'd not know it today and yesterday - 45 degrees in fog and light misty rain)) to make it happen reliably at nearly 7000' above sea level (plus I live on what we like to call "Briargate Beach" around here - ain't the best soil.). But still we try.

Hope does spring eternal. Even false hope.

Watermelon, cantelope, tomato(e)s, strings of onion, squash, basil, cilantro, radish, cucumber, variety of peppers from bell to jabenero. Wildflowers (for fun) too. Bloomin' hoe work. Pears coming in soon.


WHAT I REALLY LIKE ABOUT AOL PROMO CD's


Great scarecrow material.

So I decided to check my router because the connection is a little slow at times. Anyway, unbeknownst to me my cable internet goes out for the 1st time this year while I'm checking the router.

I spent an hour trying to repair or reset the damn thing and it wasn't my fault.





(check the lights on the cable modem)

<shakes head>

Elaine Supkis, Call your service!!!

"Researcher Finds Letter Linking Geronimo, Secret Yale Society
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo.

The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters.

According to Skull and Bones legend, members — including President Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush — dug up Geronimo's grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I. Geronimo died in 1909.

"The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club... is now safe inside the (Tomb) together with his well worn femurs, bit & saddle horn," according to the letter, written by Winter Mead.

But Mead was not at Fort Sill and researcher Marc Wortman, who found the letter last fall, said Monday he is skeptical the bones are actually those of the famed Indian fighter.

"What I think we could probably say is they removed some skull and bones and other materials from a grave at Fort Sill," he said. "Historically, it may be impossible to prove it's Geronimo's. They believe it's from Geronimo."

Harlyn Geronimo, the great grandson of Geronimo, said he has been looking for a lawyer to sue the U.S. Army, which runs Fort Sill. Discovery of the letter could help, he said.

"It's keeping it alive and now it makes me really want to confront the issue with my attorneys," said Geronimo, of Mescalero, N.M. "If we get the remains back... and find that, for instance, that bones are missing, you know who to blame."

A portion of the letter and an accompanying story were posted Monday on the Yale Alumni Magazine's Web site.

Only 15 Yale seniors are asked to join Skull and Bones each year. Alumni include Sen. John Kerry, President William Howard Taft, numerous members of Congress, media leaders, Wall Street financiers, the scions of wealthy families and agents in the CIA.

Members swear an oath of secrecy about the group and its strange rituals, which are said to include an initiation rite in which would-be members kiss a skull."

"Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?"
- Jamie Melnitz (aka Annie Potts), from Ghostbusters

Isn't that weird?

Haven't heard that name for a while. She ought to be calling her shrink first though.

Poor Supkis, has got to be one of the top 10 crazies on the internet.

Yeah, only ever "met" two such individuals so absolutely convinced of their innate infallibility (on any subject). "Elaine" was one, the other was an entity entitled "Jade Gold." Not even "Rainbird" in her hey-day was so unalterably convinced that "her" every word was adamantine truth.

Both Elaine and Jade had a similiar modis operandi, name someone and "they" had met them, knew them, and thus could discount them as having unsanitary habits, rank body hair, something.

Hmmm...could they have been the same actual person, and Elaine and Jade merely pseuds? Never did post together as I recall, of course I was a "Russ come lately" to the posting world, so maybe I missed that.

Jade Gold was the main act.

She would always say she disagreed without explaining.

Rosetta Stone was a shared pseud from before my time. I got an email one day asking if I wanted to be Rosetta and it gave me the password. I don't think the mods ever caught on.

Wait.

Jade was a golem, a construct!??! A shill operated by selected posters simply to spike the board?!

Man, if I ever find the name behind the face that so trashed my personal integrity - that individual had better know how to hide really well IRL and on-line!

I dunno for sure about Jade. The way she posted she could have been a bot.

Rosetta was the shared pseud.

Gee, wonder where they came up with this stuff (when we make "heroes" of the "bank" robbers in the popular entertainment - Ocean's Eleven, The Italian Job, Three Kings, etc., [and yes, I know this is old hat in moviedom but still!]), why is anyone surprised? Just the age of the perps?

"Boys Aged 13, 14 Suspected in 7 Canadian Bank Robberies
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Associated Press

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Three boys barely into their teens are suspected of robbing seven bank over six weeks, handing the teller a note in each case and using the city's elevated train to make their getaway.

Police did not disclose how much money was taken and did not identify the boys, though Cpl. Roger Morrow said none of the three had previous run-ins with police.

The two 14-year-olds and one 13-year-old were arrested last weekend after a holdup at a bank in their hometown of Surrey, a suburb south of the city. All three were home with their parents Tuesday after being charged with bank robbery — one with two counts and the others with a single count each. A hearing was set for May 24 in youth court.

The holdups appeared well-planned and executed over a large area, indicating considerable discipline for such young suspects, said Ray Corrado, a Simon Fraser University criminologist in Burnaby.

"The typical youth that engages in this type of serious offense is often impulsive, opportunistic, angry, and they typically talk a lot to their buddies and it gets out fairly quickly," he said, "whereas this seems to have been almost a movie-like mimicking, where they planned and were able to carry it out much like you would see in a prime-time movie or something like that."

In each case, tellers were handed a note, but there was no indication the young robbers were armed, investigators said.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigators believe the boys may be involved in as many as seven holdups in Surrey, Vancouver and Burnaby, Morrow said.

He said they apparently used SkyTrain, Vancouver's elevated rapid transit line, to get to banks near stations and to flee afterward. They were arrested at a SkyTrain location, he said.

"I still cannot for the life of me comprehend at the age of 13 ... ever considering doing something like this," Morrow said."

wow

Babe's family wants no part of Bonds celebrations
Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Barry Bonds is one longball away from tying for second place on the all-time home run list. If and when No. 714 comes, some of Babe Ruth's relatives don't plan to share in the celebration.

"In my heart, it's hard for me," Ruth's granddaughter, Linda Tosetti, said from her home in Durham, Conn. "I like to do things in Babe's name. I just don't want his name mixed up in steroids."

Tosetti, 51, and her three sisters are Ruth's four surviving blood grandchildren. Their mother, Dorothy Ruth Pirone, who died in 1989, was Ruth's only biological child.

Tosetti said the family has politely declined invitations from the San Francisco Giants to be on hand when Bonds finally draws even with her granddad.

"They're a great organization and I really wanted to help them out. I said, 'Call me for anything else,'" Tosetti said. "I'm a pretty game gal. I've got a lot of my grandfather in me."

What she knows about the Babe she's had to learn from her older siblings, who delighted in the visits from the large, jovial man.

Ruth died in 1948, three years before Tosetti was born. Her grandmother, Juanita Jennings, never married Ruth and had their daughter when the slugger was married to his first wife, Helen.

Ruth and his wife adopted Dorothy, who didn't learn the identity of her biological mother until she was 59 years old. Dorothy Pirone authored the 1988 book "My Dad, the Babe." Ruth adopted another daughter, Julia, with his second wife, Claire.

The family has seen the Babe's record eclipsed before when the all-time home run king Hank Aaron passed him in 1974. They were fine with that.

"It didn't diminish the feat. My mother always said what a feat [Aaron] did. Records are made to be broken," Tosetti said.

It's the steroids allegations trailing Bonds that are disconcerting to Tosetti. She said drug use sends a disturbing message to youngsters. Her grandfather, she said, enjoyed being a role model for children, even though his hard-drinking, hard-living life is well-documented.

"Look, he did his carousing. But liquor didn't touch his lips when he was with children. That's how his image is for the youth," Tosetti said. "I would hate myself a million times if I shook Mr. Bonds' hand if he did do it. These guys are making adult decisions about their body. It's the kids who think they're bulletproof coming up in high school who don't have that luxury."

Tosetti insists she has no malice toward Bonds, whom she's never met.

"I can't point a finger at Mr. Bonds. That's for people at a higher power to do," she said. "I'm sure he's a nice young man."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2440383

Ditto on that wow. I had never(?) before heard of this. It does explain some folks' incredulity as to my personification.

News to me. I do vaguely recall something of the like about "rosetta stone" but that was back in the ol' BBS days and the only sites I really visited had to do with computer tech help (Agnes chip and HTML protocal stuff) and I avoided lingering in dungeon/dragon VRP crap. Seems to be all the rage these days, though.
I pity the poor fools.

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure what the point is. Connecting the two events I suppose.

What do you think?

Part grizzly, part polar, all bear

By Beth Duff-Brown

The Associated Press

TORONTO — A DNA test has confirmed what zoologists, hunters and aboriginal trackers in the far northern reaches of Canada have dreamed of for years: the first documented case of a grizzly-polar bear in the wild.

Roger Kuptana, an Inuit tracker from the Northwest Territories, suspected the American hunter he was guiding had shot a hybrid bear after noticing its white fur was spotted brown and it had the long claws and slightly humped back of a grizzly.

Territorial officials seized the bear's body and a DNA test from Wildlife Genetics International, a lab in British Columbia, confirmed the hybrid was born of a polar bear mother and grizzly father.

"It's something we've all known was theoretically possible because their habitats overlap a little bit and their breeding seasons overlap a little bit," said Ian Stirling, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service in Edmonton, Alberta. "It's the first time it's known to have happened in the wild."

He said the first person to realize something was different about the bear — shot and killed last month on the southern end of Banks Island in the Beaufort Sea — was Kuptana, the guide.

The bear's eyes were ringed with black, its face was slightly indented, it had a mild hump to its back and long claws.

Stirling said polar bears and grizzlies have been successfully paired in zoos and that their offspring are fertile.

Kuptana, a guide from Sachs Harbour in the Northwest Territories, was tracking with Idaho big-game hunter Jim Martell, who paid $45,450 for a license to hunt polar bears.

The DNA results were good news for the 65-year-old hunter, who was facing a possible $909 fine and up to a year in jail for shooting a grizzly. The Northwest Territories Environment and Natural Resources Department now intends to return the bear to Martell.

Martell told the newspaper he has dubbed the creature "polargrizz."

According to the National Wildlife Federation, there are about 1,200 grizzlies in the lower 48 United States, 32,000 in Alaska, and 25,000 in Canada. Stirling said there are some 24,000 polar bears in Canada, Greenland, Russia and Alaska.



http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nati...698_bear12.html

Cool Lexus IS250 commercial vid.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KHg2B8OkOgU&search=lexus%20is250

Pesonally I think I'd have been daydreaming about the driver.

Celestial Find at Ancient Andes Site
The discovery in Peru of a 4,200-year-old temple and observatory pushes back estimates of the rise of an advanced culture in the Americas.
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writer
May 14, 2006

Archeologists working high in the Peruvian Andes have discovered the oldest known celestial observatory in the Americas — a 4,200-year-old structure marking the summer and winter solstices that is as old as the stone pillars of Stonehenge.

The observatory was built on the top of a 33-foot-tall pyramid with precise alignments and sightlines that provide an astronomical calendar for agriculture, archeologist Robert Benfer of the University of Missouri said.


The people who built the observatory — three millenniums before the emergence of the Incas — are a mystery, but they achieved a level of art and science that archeologists say they did not know existed in the region until at least 800 years later.

Among the most impressive finds was a massive clay sculpture — an ancient version of the modern frowning "sad face" icon flanked by two animals. The disk, protected from looters beneath thousands of years of dirt and debris, marked the position of the winter solstice.

"It's really quite a shock to everyone … to see sculptures of that sophistication coming out of a building of that time period," said archeologist Richard L. Burger of Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in the discovery.

The find adds strong evidence to support the recent idea that a sophisticated civilization developed in South America in the pre-ceramic era, before the development of fired pottery sometime after 1500 BC.

Benfer's discovery "pushes the envelope of civilization farther south and inland from the coast, and adds the important dimension of astronomy to these ancient folks' way of life," said archeologist Michael Moseley of the University of Florida, a noted Peru expert.

The 20-acre site, called Buena Vista, is about 25 miles inland in the Rio Chillon Valley, just north of Lima. "It is on a totally barren, rock-covered hill looking down on a beautiful fertile valley," said Benfer, who presented the find last month in Puerto Rico at a meeting of the Society for American Archeology.

The site is remarkably well preserved, Benfer said, because it rains in the area only about once a year.

The name of the people who inhabited the region is unknown because writing did not emerge in the Americas for 2,000 more years. Some archeologists call them followers of the Kotosh religious tradition. Others call them late pre-ceramic cultures of the central coast. For brevity, most simply call them Andeans.

Benfer and archeologist Bernardino Ojeda of Peru's National Agrarian University have been working at Buena Vista for four years. The site contains ruins dating from 10,000 years ago to well into the ceramic era in the first millennium BC.

The large pyramid and a temple occupy about 2 acres near the center of the site. Radiocarbon dating of cotton and burned twigs found in the temple's offering pit place its use at about 2200 BC.

That is about 400 years after the first pyramid was built in Egypt and about the same time that the peoples who would become the Greeks were settling into the Mediterranean region.

The temple is built of rock that was covered with plaster and painted, although most of the white and red paint has long since flaked off.

Benfer calls it the Temple of the Fox because a drawing of a fox is carved inside a painted picture of another animal, probably a llama, beside each doorway. According to Andean myth, the fox taught people how to cultivate and irrigate plants.

As the team mapped out the site, Benfer observed that a person standing in the doorway of the temple and gazing through a small, flap-covered window behind the altar is aligned with a small head carved onto a notch of a distant hill. The line had an orientation of 114 degrees from true north, pointing southeast.

Benfer does not normally deal with archeoastronomy — the science of ancient astronomy — so he contacted a childhood friend, Larry Adkins of Tustin, and asked him what that angle signified.

Adkins, a physicist who is retired from Rockwell International and who now teaches astronomy at Cerritos College, told him 114 degrees pointed the way to sunrise on the Southern Hemisphere's summer solstice, Dec. 21, the longest day of the year.

"That really got the ball rolling," Adkins said.

The summer solstice marks planting time, as the Rio Chillon begins its annual flooding, fed by melting ice higher up in the Andes. The flooding deposits fresh soil on the land, fertilizing the crops and eliminating the need for manure from domestic animals.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/l...0,4623612.story

Did anyone keep a bookmark for that helicopter in a cave game that bart put up a year or so ago?

I lost mine, and I miss it.

Try Googling it?

http://www.addictinggames.com/helicopter.html

I suppose I should feel dumb - thanks, though.