Ol' Dirty Bastards

"As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarian--nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels, and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches."
-William Osler, MD - 1905-

Wil (my college roommate), is placing his money on Clinton and Romney. I'm going to have to go with Obama and McCain. I think Thompson will probably drop out and throw his support to McCain too. Anyhow... I don't have much more to say than that.

wee wawooo waaaah

I think that's how Beaker sounded in the Muppets... correct me if I'm wrong. In fact, little known is his (and two others') rendition of Oh Danny Boy.

If you're still paying attention, it's election day! Or caucus day, at least in Iowa. Few people know how HUGE of a fan I am of presidential politics. It's bigger than the Superbowl, more money is spent than on the Olympics, it only happens every four years, it's winner take all, and THE FATE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD rests on the outcome. The stakes are so high and the winner so important that it's like a 10 month orgasm for political pundits around the world.

What's more... there hasn't been an election season this exciting with BOTH major parties hanging in the balance. ANYBODY could win! If anybody reads this before tonight, weight in on who you think will win in both parties.

I guess Obama and Romney.

Back in the Day

This is a photo that I took on a Kodak disposable camera when I was in East Timor. We were on a hike up Mount Ramelau and this scene emerged from the fog.

ahemmm...

Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday tooo me
Happy birthday dear Michael...
Happy birthday to me!!!

ah thank you.

The morning before

I'm not really sure where the title of this musing came from or what it is wanting to explain, but I'm going to leave it up there anyhow. Take that. Chew on it for a while. Spit it like camels do.

Yes, yes... I know it's been an actual month since I last posted that Peter Atkins quote up here and I completely missed the 2000th visitor to the site. I'm actually hanging my head in shame. Seriously... it's below the keyboard right now and if you like to try these things, that's hard to do. We (the managers of this site [actually it's just me {how many people remember the orders of brackets like that}]) actually like to think in orders of magnitude, so 2000 isn't that great. 10000 is the next big thang.

That still leaves me with a complete lack of things to talk about. I even wrote a musing somewhere around here that notes how hard it is to find things to talk about. So, no more of thaaat. Hmmm....

Okay. Lets play a game. I'll think of a word that most people should know. You have to guess the word. For each guess you give, you'll get a number of points depending on # of letters you get right irrespective of order. For example if my word is "LOSING" then you might guess "CLOSER," which would give you three points. "LOSERS" would also give you three points. "LONGER" would give you four points, whereas "GAMERS" would only give you two points and "MURDER" would get zero points. The points are cumulative and the person who picks the right word gets 10 points extra, the person with the most points wins and may get a beer from me. So, I'll keep score on this page as words come in by comment. If you want to play, just give me some initials (or random letters) to refer to you by.

I've chosen another 6 letter word and I'll even throw in a definition. (or two)
1: "a contributing cause in any action"
2: "one of the components that, by multiplication, make up a number or expression"

We'll see if people like this at all...

AH - "motive" - 2 pts
anonymous - "factor" is correct - 6 pts + 10 pts = 16 pts