When I was 17, my two best friends and I were talking about this girl.
Dave, the driver was sorta seeing her. Danny, the other passenger was in
the same classes as this girl. Me, I was good friends with her.

So we were teasing Dave about her - the usual "we know something you
dont know... she said something" and so he figured it was a good time to
tease back. So he starts swerving the car to bounce us around. Wouldnt
you know it, on that warm May day, it actually had snowed, and the road
was wet. The car slid sideways and got wrapped around a telephone pole.
I got the worst of it - broken ankle, broken chest bone and probably
some other "ouches".

You'd think that was the worst of it? I eventually married that girl.
Then got divorced. Ah, the irony of life's little "ouches"

When I was young there was a neighborhood bully picking on my younger
brother. Relentless. So I chased him, and we were running through ppl's
yards through the streets, round the corner, and he ran into a car.

Splat.

Dead.

I'd go back to the moments my children were born.

From:
http://consumerist.com/consumer/strabucks/free-starbucks-next-week-242448.php

Starbucks across the country will be giving away a free 12 oz or "tall"
cup of coffee next Thursday, March 15th, from 10am to noon.

It won't come without a price. Expect long lines. Some people report
using up their entire lunch break just waiting for their free coffee
when Starbucks does one of these free national coffee break deals.
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But, is it really worth it for "free" coffee from Starbucks? Its just
not that amazing. I prefer DunkinDonuts for plain coffee, and I'll goto
SB's when I want something other than cofee. What about you?

Ladies: How many trash-mails do you get from guys on this site?

I get the feeling that there's ALOT of it. Whats the ratio of
"reasonable" sounding emails, vs crap? What do the crap ones usually
sound like? 'hey baby i think u sexy call me' ??

There isnt enough carbon-dioxide gasses released in 100 years of modern
society to even compare to one good volcano's worth of dust, CO2 etc.

Sure there is measuarble damage caused by pollution, but, its local, not
global. All the global warming talk will wind up being more taxes, fees,
restrictions, and hassles, and still have the same uncertain effect on
the future.

Death for some crimes is appropriate. However, any death imposed by a
govt is plain wrong. So, if a jury found a person guilty of a crime
warranting the death-sentance, the *act* of injecting the needle should
be left to the family of the victim.

When a govt gets in the business of legalized murder, its civillians who
get killed.

What I do best is to learn new things, and not accept the world the way
it *is*. Always try to see things deeper, understand the 'why', try to
change the 'how'.

But, the efforts aren't as great as the idealist intensions.

Well lets be honest. There's a difference between a guy who is a slob,
but nice, and a guy who just isnt photogenic but also nice. The
difference is in the perception/presentation of how the guy views
himself.

If he's totally slob, well, you get what you see. Maybe he is a really
nice guy, and if he were to clean up a bit, he'd be perceived as someone
who cares enough about presentation to pay it proper attention. Of
course, that goes too far - is he overboard with matching scarf and
cuff-links?

"Mystery" - well that is unique!

I gave my girls "unique" names too, and my family was all twisted with
the names I chose. But, over the years, they've all admitted 'that was a
really cool name you chose...'

The names? Celine, Valentine, and Priety.

I was recently in India, me and a bunch of guys hanging out at the
hostel restaurant. We order lunch and to drink we asked for Lassi -
which is a yogurt + fruit kind of "shake". The Ozzie guy in the group
speaks up: "Say, can we have the *special* lassi?"
"the Special?" asked the waiter slowly,
"Yes, me and my mates want the righteous Special please"
"very well"

A few minutes later we all get this dark green lassi. The guys who
"knew" quietly sipped it. The newbies, including me, sipped and gagged.
"What the he11 is THIS? It takes like grass clippings!" I yelled.

They laughed, "dude, its a pot shake. you wont get munchies!" with a
good round of laughter.

It was my first encounter w/ pot, it was so NASTY, and so lame. It had
such a slight mild buzz to it that it simply wasnt worth the disgusting
pot-burps that i had all day.

Mr Kat,

No, you assumed too much from my posting (or did you mean Island's
Original post?). I was suprised at how strongly worded your reply was.
Anyway, you asked specific questions:

1. Dispute the fact that a tree's age can be determined by counting the
rings when you cross-section it?

..No. Radio carbon dating etc has a rational, objective principle

2. Dino bones faked?
..Ha ha. No I do not. Of course, there are no 100% full dino skeletons.

3. are nothing more than the creation of some who would
choose to fool people the world over...?

..Slow down there. I didnt suggest anything of the sort.

4. "that can be put through carbon dating to date.."

..No. You are mistaken. Only once-living things can be radio-dated.
Fossils are chemically stone - they cannot be radio dated. That is a
serious fault in the theory.

5. "This is not dogma, not indoctrination, not doctrine. This is fact."

..Actually, your style and intensity accurately depict the definition of
'dogma', 'indoctrination' and 'doctrine'.

6. "The evolution of something does NOT mean that the old becomes
extinct.."

..See, here we completely agree. Theory of Evolution/Natural Selection
is an observable, measurable, demonstratable reality. Just as you
pointed out. You can even suggest that the theory might explain the
current status of all beings. Maybe. There's no conclusive fact simply
because there is no objective measurement of the past.


7. "...word of god..."

...So it comes down to this? I wasnt suggesting that, but, since you
brought it up, lets discuss. Fact is, that you can find 3000+ years of
character-by-character validation of the text of the Old Testament
within 98% at a char-by-char level. In contrast, you are speaking with
dogmatic intensity that you are absolutely sure that the earth is
millions of years old, and you base this "faith" on a theory that isnt
even 100yrs old. In fact, your "faith" theory has permutated several
times in the last 50yrs. Each new generation wants to slide the scales
of "how old things really are" - and each generation manufactures its
own scientific "scripture" to support the new dogma. Sigh.

Same sh1t, different crowd. I'm comfortable with a tradition thats
remained consistent for 3000+ years, as fanicful as it may seem, and
I'll just laugh at how secularists stab each other endlessly about who
has the latest "scientific scripture" to uphold.

So last night my roomate cajoled me into going to hear a hindu sage give
a lecture. Since there was nothing better to do, I went.

He said alot of interesting things, ALOT of alignment with mystical
Judiaism/Christianity (suprisingly so), but, at one point he was
lecturing on how overwhelemed we can be with the pursuit of
self-satisfaction. He asked "how many foods are there in the world?",
"...how many ways of preparing it? how many spices? tastes? how many
people does it take to prepare these foods? how long does it take to
grow? prepare? how much energy required to cook it..." and so-on.

Then he says, "now, consider this. After the first 2 inches of your
tongue, you can not taste anything. So all these efforts are focused on
the satisfaction of your tongue. Is that balanced? After all, if you had
no taste, you could eat grass and never tire of it."

He wasnt suggesting any ascetic diet, but, making the observation that
we sure put ALOT of effort in making our tongues happy. I thought it was
curiously insightful.

so i just tried to instant-message gina to explain to her why most men
are azzholes. she responded rudely. no doubt lots of guys are azzholes,
but, her demeanor is no better.

if my g/f worked in the crime lab? It would be cool to go see all the
cool sh1t they have to play with. I'd embarass her with all my geekiness
- "this replicates DNA? Really? Can I try?", "this is really a skull
fragment? lemme touch it - pullleeeze c'mon honey"

Whenever you find yourself wishing you werent single, do this one simple
thing - just remember how you felt when you decided enough-was-enough.
That seems to cure most lonliness.

I am one of those "young Earth nuts". Fact of the matter is that there
is no way to "date" rocks. RadioCarbon dating works only on on something
made with carbon. Fossils, are chemically, rocks.

How then do we say that a fossil is "3million years old" ? By the
surrounding rock structure, and make an assumption that the deeper the
strata, the older the bones... but, of course, the fossils are found -
on the surface. Sigh. So much for consistency.

It takes just as much "faith" to accept the crazy, un-measurable, idea
that a stone is 4 million years old. Why? Because someone said so, and
has no objective way to back it up. Might as well say the rock is a
fossilized turd of St Peter, or Krishna, or whatever-god-you-want. Its
all equally valid.

...um, but the real question is "does anyone else want to be ME?" ha ha

I would be me. all over again. Any time.

Pink Floyd
Led Zepp
Rush
Yes
Doors

I see alot of floyd-fans here! Woohoo I feel at home!