Space News - Earth Photographed from Saturn

I have previously told you about the Cassini probe which is orbiting Saturn right now(link).

In the above photo, taken last month, the Cassini probe looked back at Earth, which appears as a lonely dot in the night. (Click the photo to enlarge)

Not since Voyager 1’s portrait of Earth from Neptune – famously known as the Pale Blue Dot(link) – has our home planet been photographed from the outer Solar System.

Cassini used its wide-angle camera to snap this home portrait while at a distance of about 930 million miles (1.5 billion kilometers) from Earth. The orbiter was looking down on the Atlantis Ocean and the western coast of North Africa at the time this shot was taken on Sept. 15, 2006.

A hint of the Earth’s Moon is visible in a close look at the pale blue orb.

Kid Tip - Donations Instead of More Toys

Are you sick of your child accumulating more and more grubbby toys that just take up space and never get played with?

Next birthday, instead of space consuming plastic junk made by kids in China, have the birthday party guests bring donations for poor children or to the local animal shelter.

Look at all the great stuff Madeline got to take to the animal shelter today from her pre-slumber party this weekend.

Worse than Worst Advertisement Ever.

I would like to apologize to Hardee's, Carl Jr., and Norm McDonald for calling the Hardees Star the worst advertisiment ever.

Pre-Slumber Party

Today is Madeline's birthday and tonight was Madeline's 7th birthday party. There was fingernail painting and picture frame making as all 16 girls arrived dressed in pajamas with their favorite lovey and donations to the local animal shelter instead of presents for Madeline.
Next, all the lovey's were piled in a heap for musical lovey (curl up with a lovey when the music stops) and find your lovey (in the lovey pile, while blind-folded).
Next was pizza and cake.
Then there was an insane dance party.

At one point Sam started his famous break-dancing routine and the girls gathered around chanting "Go Sammy! Go Sammy!". Then they picked him up and carried him around the room, still chanting "Go Sammy! Go Sammy!"











Finally, the girls settled down on the sleeping bags and pillows that had been spread around, and watched a movie in the dark while waiting for their parents picked them up around 8:00.

Historical Turnipblog Moment

I just checked the Site Meter for Turnipblog and check out the number of hits. Wacky Huh.

More 1969 - 'It's Your Thing"

Since we are on the subject of 1969, here is the song list from the second cd that I made for my kids featuring songs from the year I was born, 1969.

1. It's Your Thing - Isley Brothers
2. Spinning Wheel - Blood Sweat & Tears
3. Going Up The Country - Canned Heat
4. Down on the Corner - CCR
5. Sally Simpson - The Who
6. Take Me to the Pilot - Elton John
7. I Want You Back - Jackson 5
8. Turn, Turn, Turn - Judy Collins
9. Heard It Through the Grape Vine - Marvin Gaye
10. Grazing in the Grass - Friends of Distinction
11. Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young
12. Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is? - Chicago
13. Worst That Could Happen - Brooklyn Bridge
14. Swlabr - Cream
15. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
16. Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James
17. Dizzy - Tommy Roe
18. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End - Beatles

Space News - Neil Armstrong Quote Revised

That's one small word for astronaut Neil Armstrong, one giant revision for grammar sticklers everywhere.

An Australian computer programmer says he found the missing "a" from Armstrong's famous first words from the moon in 1969, when the world heard the phrase, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Some historians and critics have dogged Armstrong for not saying the more dramatic and grammatically correct, "One small step for a man ..." in the version he transmitted to NASA's Mission Control. Without the missing "a," Armstrong essentially said, "One small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind."

The famous astronaut has maintained he intended to say it properly and believes he did. Thanks to some high-tech sound-editing software, computer programmer Peter Shann Ford might have proved Armstrong right.

Ford said he downloaded the audio recording of Armstrong's words from a NASA Web site and analyzed the statement with software that allows disabled people to communicate through computers using their nerve impulses.

In a graphical representation of the famous phrase, Ford said he found evidence that the missing "a" was spoken and transmitted to NASA.

"Told you so... A-holes", Armstrong said in a statement.

Top 11 Ridiculous Reasons For Iraq War

I try to not be political on Turnipblog, but GWB is such an idiot that his stupidity transcends politics.

Top 11 Reasons put forth by Bush for War in Iraq in descending order of ridiculousness.

10. WMD's that don't exist
9. Non-existent link to 911.
8. Non-existent connections to al-Qaeda
7. Saddam is Evil and Dangerous.
6. We care about Iraqi people and they need freedom and democracy like us.
5. We are at war with the concept of "terror"
4. To bring Peace (WTF?) to the Middle East.
3. God told me to do it.
2. Fight them there so we don't have to fight them here.

and finally, the most ridiculous of all

1. So that there will be a comma in history books.

Pink Panthers

Madeline moved up from the Blue Bells (ages 4 and 5) soccer team to a new league and new team, the Pink Panthers (ages 6 and 7). Yes, they are very pink. Madeline even has pink soccer shoes as shown in this photo from the last game.

Duke Football - A Charade

From The Charlotte News and Observer
Published: Oct 02, 2006 12:30 AM
Caulton Tudor, Staff Writer

Duke has every right to be as bad in football as it desires, just as it is free to retain coach Ted Roof for years to come.
But please, Duke, stop the football masquerade. Just stop it.

Stop pretending that football matters. It's transparent. It's also agonizing. It's like watching a trapped animal gnaw off a foot.

It's important to understand that unlike at most colleges, even those in the private sector, there's no motivation at Duke to become competitive in football. Other than the coaches and the players, no one even cares enough to press the issue.

During much of the past decade, Duke football has been alternately frustrating and depressing.

Now it's simply irrelevant. It might as well be a moon over Pluto.

Where football is concerned, Duke has become a place completely different from Northwestern, Stanford, Rice, Navy, Vanderbilt, Boston College and Wake Forest. Each of those schools has a desire, maybe a need, to stay within shouting distance of the football mainstream.

Duke could not care less, but it doesn't yet have the courage -- nor the intelligence -- to say so.

The program has become nothing more than an excuse to spend lots of money on facilities, scholarships, coaching salaries, support staff, travel, stadium upkeep and many other related areas. In college football, losing is an expensive ordeal, and that's especially the case at private schools.

The good news is Duke doesn't care about the steady financial drain. There's that much money in the endowment fund. Most schools try to raise donations by the millions. Duke rakes it in by the billions. The football program can be compared to owners of some professional sports franchises. It's an expensive hobby, but so what?

Through four games this season, Duke has scored one touchdown. Seven of 10 losses last season were by 25 or more points.

It's been proposed by some that the program should be dropped down to the NCAA's Division I-AA. If being more competitive becomes important, going I-AA makes some sense. At least it would be a reasonable refuge if Duke really wants to have a program.

Duke football, from 1930 through most of the 1960s, was good enough to beat any opponent in the country. But situations change. Attitudes change. Priorities change.

Since the late 1980s, the Blue Devils have been in full retreat on the field and in the offices of the program's management. It's all happened in the absence of strong objection on campus or off. Football just doesn't matter any longer, and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that. But Duke, of all schools, should be smart enough to admit the obvious.

Worst Ad Ever?

What do you think is the Worst Advertisement Ever?

My Worst Ad Ever is actually an ad campaign that came out in the 1990's.

This campaign was so bad because it amounted to the business just giving up.

Throwing in the towel if you will.

Remember the Seinfeld episode where George started wearing sweatpants in public. Jerry's quote from that episode pretty much sums up this ad campaign:

"You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.'"
- Jerry in The Pilot

Have you guessed the ad campaign? Probably not because it sucked that bad...


The Hardees Star.

Impressive isn't it! Who designed that, Dreamworks or Industrial Light & Magic?

Who can be the voice of the star? I got it, the star of that blockbuster Dirty Work, and the man who lent his voice to one of the talking animals in Dr. Doolittle 3 (which didn't even have Eddie Murphy like the first 2) - Norm McDonald

A grubby, yellow, five pointed, with a stupid smiley face, canadian sounding, star.

Somewhere out there, Speedy McGreedy is looking over at Gilbert Giddyup and Super Mouth and shaking his head in disgust.

Another Soccer Player is Born

One reason that I started playing Soccer is because my parents knew absolutely nothing about it and couldn't try to teach me how to play in the yard...(link)

Haiku - Tragically Hip Concert in USA

Maple Leaf Jerseys
Canadian Sausage Fest
Hip Show in U.S.

Optical Illusion - Wacky Square

Scroll the image up and down your monitor. Does the square move?

I Get It Now!

Have you ever seen bits and pieces of a television show and you really couldn't figure out what was going on, so you decide that you don't like the show?

There was a show that was like that for me until one day last week when I happened to catch the very first episode, the "pilot" if you will.

After seeing this first episode where the characters are introduced and the basic premise of the show is laid out, I now understand and like the show. In fact, I have watched this show every day since.

And the theme song of the show is awesome.

Kid Tip - Mixed CD's For Kids - 1969

It is a common problem. The music that you like is inappropriate for children and/or your kids hate your music. Likewise, kids music makes you want to puke.

The Solution - My Mixed CD's For Kids (or kid friendly (or (kf))) cd's.

One of my kids' favorite cd's is 1969(kf). I made this cd to show my kids that the music on the radio the year that I was born is much better than today's music.

1. Sugar Sugar - The Archies
2. Guitarzan - Ray Stevens
3. Cinnamon - Derek
4. You Showed Me - The Turtles
5. Get Together - The Youngbloods
6. Wedding Bell Blues - Fifth Dimension
7. Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) - Steam
8. Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash
9. These Eyes - The Guess Who
10. Badge - Cream
11. My Cherie Amor - Stevie Wonder
12. Cripple Creek - The Band
13. Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
14. Everyday People - Sly Stone
15. Space Oddity - David Bowie
16. Suite Judy Blue Eyes - CSN
17. Clouds - Judy Collins
18. See Me, Feel Me - The Who
19. Here Come The Sun - Beatles
20. You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones

Duke values $ over Academic Integrity

Is it fair to a high school graduate applying for college when they get rejected and a less qualified applicant gets into a University because they are a great athlete?

Is it even less fair when less qualified applicants get into a University because they are rich?

That is what happens at Duke.

Despite her boarding-school education and a personal tutor, Maude Bunn's SAT scores weren't high enough for a typical student to earn admission to Duke University.

But Ms. Bunn had something else going for her -- coffeemakers. Her Bunn forebears built a fortune on them and, with Duke hoping to woo her wealthy parents as donors, she was admitted.

Duke bends admissions standards to make space for children from rich or influential families that lack longstanding ties to the University. Through referrals and word-of-mouth, Duke identifies applicants from well-to-do families. Then, as soon as these students enroll, Duke starts soliciting gifts from their parents.

The formal practice of giving preference to students whose parents are wealthy is called "development admits". Duke has been particularly aggressive in snaring donors through admissions breaks. Widely considered one of the nation's top ten universities, Duke accepts 23% of its applicants and turns down more than 600 high-school valedictorians a year. Three-fourths of its students score above 1320 out of a perfect 1600 on the SATs.

Yet in recent years, Duke says it has relaxed these standards to admit 100 to 125 students annually as a result of family wealth or connections, up from about 20 a decade ago. These students aren't alumni children and were tentatively rejected, or wait-listed, in the regular admissions review.

The strategy appears to be paying off. For the last six years, Duke says it has led all universities nationwide in unrestricted gifts to its annual fund from nonalumni parents.

Students admitted for development reasons are held to the same lesser standard as some top athletes; not whether they can excel, but whether they can graduate.

The system at Duke works this way: Through its own network and names supplied by trustees, alumni, donors and others, the development office identifies about 500 likely applicants with rich or powerful parents who are not alumni. (Children of major alumni donors are given similar preference in a separate process.) It cultivates them with campus tours and basic admissions advice; for instance, applying early increases their chances. It also relays the names to the admissions office, which returns word if any of the students forget to apply -- so development can remind them.

The development office then winnows the initial 500 into at least 160 high-priority applicants. Although these names are flagged in the admissions-office computer, admissions readers evaluate them on merit, without regard to family means. About 30 to 40 are accepted, the others tentatively rejected or wait-listed. During an all-day meeting in March, Mr. Guttentag and John Piva Jr., senior vice president for development, debate these 120 cases, weighing their family's likely contribution against their academic shortcomings.

Once these children of privilege enroll, the development office enlists their parents as donors and fund raisers.

Cissy Bunn acknowledges her daughter didn't fit the academic profile of a Duke student. "She's bright, she had good grades, but she doesn't meet the superstar status," Mrs. Bunn says. "Did my normal child take the place of somebody who could really make a difference in the world? Sure, yes, to an extent. But there are so many things you can lose sleep over. I'm happy for me and my child."

Kid Tip - TACTF

Give a child a fish, the fish will eventually end up decomposed on the bottom of the tank.

Teach a child to fish, you may get a good photo-op.

SCIway.net

SCIway, pronounced SKY-WAY, is an acronym for South Carolina Information Highway.

SCIway.net – is the largest directory of South Carolina information on the Internet. Links to South Carolina information are listed alphabetically from "Accomodations" to "Webcams".

The best thing about sciway.net is the free monthly south carolina e-mail newsletter that you can subscribe to. The newsletter keeps you up to date on upcoming events all across the state, like this weekend's Greek Festival in Columbia.

Here is the link to sciway.net(link).

Jen from Hi-5

Other Blogs Suck

I don't know if you really appreciate how great Turnipblog actually is. As blogs go, Turnipblog is top 90%.

Don't believe me, scroll to the top of the page and click on the "Next Blog" button on the right hand side. This button takes you to a random blog. Most of the other blogs fall into 5 suck-types:

1. Blog not in english;

2. Blog started and abandonded after a few posts (Turnipblog has been up and running for over a year.);

3. Blog is about politics:

4. Blog is the ranting, rambling and/or musings of an uninteresting person; and

5. Blog has too many words and not enough images and visuals.

So stop taking Turnipblog for granted!

Breathing Optical Illusion

For this one you need to scroll the image up and down your computer screen.

Haiku - Tour Bus

With Pot and Mushrooms
No One Could Just Wait To Be
On The Road Again

New Mission Statement

I visited a business the other day and discovered, to my amazement, that the business had a ridiculous "Mission Statement". This Mission Statement was so stupid and nebulous that I decided to steal it for Turnipblog. So here it is, Turnipblog's brand new Mission Statement:

"Consistently Create Encore Experiences That Enrich Lives One Person At A Time!!"

Freaky Lab Animals

Nothing creeps me out more than Freaky Lab Animals(link).

Every time I hear of another Freaky Lab Animal, I know we are getting that much closer to The End Times(link).

To learn more about Spider Goats (pictured at right),Here is a poll and who's who of freaky lab animals(link).

Real Life Lionel Hutz

Here is a 2 part video of a real life Lionel Hutz.

Lionel Hutz part 1

Lionel Hutz part 2

Great Lawyers - Lionel Hutz

Lionel Hutz is the incompetent lawyer from the Simpsons, voiced by the late Phil Hartman. Lionel Hutz's law office is in the Springfield Shopping Mall and is called "I Can't Believe It's A Law Firm".

Although known for being an attorney, Hutz, who was at one time married to Marge's sister Selma, is also a babysitter, agent, bodyguard, unauthorized biographer, realtor, cobbler, and possibly a drug dealer.

The character was retired after Hartman's murder in 1998, as well as his other main character Troy McClure. Lionel Hutz still appears in clip shows and flashbacks, as well as crowd scenes, but only in non-speaking roles.

His first appearance was the second-season episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car," and his final speaking role was in the ninth season's "Realty Bites."

The episode where Hutz defends Marge for Shoplifting is one of my favorites.

Scenes from Marge's Trial:

Opening Statements
Prosecutor: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Who do you find more attractive. Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson?
Judge: What is the point of all this?
Prosecutor: Your Honor, I'm so confident of Marge Simpson's guilt, that I can waste the court's time rating the superhunks.
Hutz: Ooohh. He's gonna' win.
Marge: Mr. Hutz!

Cross examining Apoo, the Prosecution's star Witness
Hutz: Now Mr. Nahasapeemapetilon, if that is your real name.
Have you ever forgotten anything?
Apu: No. In fact I can recite pi to 40,000 places.
And the last digit is 1.
Homer: Mmm... pie.
Hutz: Well if you never forget anything. Tell me this. What color tie am I wearing? [turns around]
Apu: You are wearing a red and white club tie in a half-windsor knot.
Hutz: Oh, I am, am I? Is that what you think? Well if that's what you think, I have something to tell you [ugh]. Something which may shock and discredit you [ugh]. And that thing is as follows [as he finally undoes the whole tie]. I'm not wearing a tie at all. [jury gasps]
Apu: If I am wrong about that. Maybe I am wrong about Mrs. Simpson.
Hutz: No further questions. [Hutz raises his arm and the tie is sticking out of his sleeve]

Waiting for Verdict
Hutz: Kids, I have a crazy feeling your mother's not going to prison.
Bart & Lisa: Yay!
Lisa: You're a latter-day Clarence Darrow!
Hutz: Uh...wasn't he the black guy on The Mod Squad?
Bart: Mr. Hutz when I grow up I want to be a lawyer just like you.
Hutz: Good for you, son. If there's one thing America needs, it's more lawyers. Can you imagine a world without lawyers?
[Hutz imagines a scene of people of all nationalities (plus Elvis) holding hands and dancing around in a circle under a rainbow]
Hutz: Argh.

More Hutz Quotes:

Lionel Hutz: This is the greatest case of false advertising I've seen since I sued the movie The Never Ending Story.

Hutz discussing the judge
Lionel Hutz: Well, he's kind of had it in for me ever since I accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly," and replace "dog" with "son."

Who is this?

Does anyone know who this is and why he was in the news this week in Columbia, SC?

Final Farewall Janelle

The Big Brother Finale was last night. Because Janelle won the $25,000 America's Choice award, I am going to give it one more shot:

A Final Farewell Janelle

On the BB Season Finale you won enough money to live for a year in a Hotel.

You started BB Allstars thin and ended the show looking like Botticelli's Venus rising from a shell.

Even though you gained some major weight, you are still hotter than Extra Hot Rotel.

On the BB Season Finale, just how ugly was Julie Chen's Oragami Lapel?

Space News - New Name 4 Pluto

Planets get to be named after mythological gods or Micky Mouse's dog.

Grubby dwarf planets get boring asteroid numbers instead of cool names.

Pluto has been given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet.

On Sept. 7, the former 9th planet was assigned the asteroid number 134340 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the official organization responsible for collecting data about asteroids and comets in our solar system.

The move reinforces the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) recent decision to strip Pluto of its planethood and places it in the same category as other small solar-system bodies with accurately known orbits.

Pluto's companion satellites, Charon, Nix and Hydra are considered part of the same system and will not be assigned separate asteroid numbers, said MPC director emeritus Brian Marsden. Instead, they will be called 134340 I, II and III, respectively.

There are currently 136,563 asteroid objects recognized by the MPC; 2,224 new objects were added last week, of which Pluto was the first.

Another Optical Illusion

The horizontal red lines are straight and parallel, do they look curved to you?

School of Flop - Flop Coach

Remember the Jack Black Movie, School of Rock?

I have an idea for a new movie, staring former Duke basketball player Shane Battier, called:

SCHOOL OF FLOP

Part IV - Flop Coach

Hey, this is former Duke basketball player and current Houston Rocket, Shane Battier.

You may remember me from my college career at Duke, simply as "Ridge Head" or "Klingon Head", but I am also known as "Flop-ee-aa" or "King of Flop"

The announcer and Shane are in a car and they pull up to a mansion.

Announcer - Is this where you live?

Shane - Yes, this is the house that flop built.

They exit the very expensive sports car and walk into the mansion

Announcer Looking Around - This is amazing, and you owe it all to flopping...

Holy &^%$, is that the World Cup Trophy?

The camera pans over to a desk, where the World Cup Trophy is being used as a paperweight.

Shane - It sure is, I was Italy's MVP in this summer's World Cup?

Announcer - You play soccer?

Shane - No, I was the team's coach.

Italy won this year's World Cup, by leading the tournament in "dives".

A soccer "dive" is similar to a basketball "flop" with a few subtle differences.

Now Battier is shown standing on a soccer field, decked out in soccer gear, sitting on the ground is the entire Italy soccer team.

Shane addresses the team - The same general principles of anticipation and technique, that make me a great flopper, will make you successful divers.

Shane pretends to be kicked in the ankle - If you are standing still and are fouled, even slightly, you must fall to the ground and grab whatever bodypart was touched, as you wince in pain.

Shane runs by and then pretends to be kicked in the ankle - if you are fouled while running, you must dive to the ground and complete as many forward rolls on the ground as possible. When you lose momentum and are coming out of the roll, grab the fouled bodypart and wince in pain.

As Battier is lying on the ground clutching his ankle, he glances at his watch.

Battier To Announcer - Let's go, I gotta get back to the States to coach my son's first pee-wee basketball game. I wonder what kind of team we will have?

The scene is now a basketball court where Battier is the coach of the Blue Devils, a team of 5 and 6 year olds. The assistant Coach is an old white guy named Pete.

Once the game starts, it is apparent that the Blue Devils are terrible. The Blue Devils do flop alot and are very good at drawing charging fouls on the other team, but the Blue Devils are undersized, miss all of their free-throws, and end up losing the game terribly.

After the game the camera pans to the Blue Devil bench and Battier is laying on the court, grabbing at his back, and wincing in pain. Battier is carried off in a stretcher.

Announcer - Shane was forced to leave the Blue Devils due to exhaustion and problems with back surgery. Assistant coach Pete took over coaching the Blue Devils.

The scene is outside of a hospital room. As the camera rolls into the room, Battier is jumping rope. Battier notices the camera, leaps into the hospital bed, and looks like he is in great pain.

Battier's family gather around his bedside. Coach K is there also. Everyone seems to be waiting on something.

In walks a Doctor with an envelope. He hands it to Shane who quitely opens it, removes a piece of paper, and reads it to himself...

Battier starts pumping his fists in the air and doing that two-fists-out-move-them in-a-circle-thing.

Announcer - What is it Shane, did you just find out that you do not have cancer?

Jubilent Battier - No, I just found out the Blue Devil losses this season are not on my record.

Battier holds up the paper so that the camera can zoom in on it. It reads:

PETE GAUDET (Interim Head Coach)
Overall Record: 3W - 14L

Sam's First Soccer Game

Sam had his very first soccer game ever today at age 3. If you look closely, you can actually see some of his leg between his socks and shorts.

Sam did a really good job, kicking the ball twice and even helping Sophie with her equipment.

Farewell Again Janelle

It is no secret that I am a fan of Big Brother contestant Janelle.

When Janelle was voted off of Big Brother 6, I wrote this poem using every single word that I could think of that rhymed with Janelle.

Farewell Janelle

You gave those bitches hell.

We were sorry that you fell.

But you won some stuff you can sell.

Janelle, we think you're swell.

We all wish we could tell

Ivette that her girlfriend does as well.

Well, Janelle has been Voted off of Big Brother Allstars, leaving Mike Boogie and Erica is the worst BB final 2 ever. I could not care less who wins. The producers really screwed up and they know it. Not 5 minutes after Janelle was eliminated tonight they announced that the audience could vote by telephone to give her $25,000 as America's Choice.

Farewell Again Janelle.

The Final 2 this season makes me want to Yell...

..."Kiss My Grits!" like Flo always did to Mel.

I downloaded alot of your pictures on my Dell.

This season they showed you smoking alot and your tummy started to swell.

But you didn't get as big as the woman who played the maid in the 80's sitcom "Gimme A Break", last name "Carter", first name "Nell"

And you still ring our collective Bell.

because your hair is so pretty you could do a commercial for styling gel...

... or Prell.

Frog Alert

Frogs like to get on our back door glass window at night.

Actually, I am not sure if it is the same frog over and over, or different frogs. Sometimes the frog appears larger and more white colored than this frog.

I'll keep you posted.

South Carolina Whups Georgia

(Link)

Haiku - Goodbye Mate

Stingray to The Heart
Goodbye Crocodile Hunter
We Will Miss You Mate

Almost A Miracle

Every ten thousand years or so, something so amazing, so improbable, happens, that one can not say pure chance was involved.

When something like this occurs we call it a Miracle.

True Beauty

Answer = Make-up, flattering clothing, lighting, hair products, drunkness of the observer.

Question = What can make a woman seem more attractive than she actually is?

Because of the above, I have always subscibed to the first-thing-in-the-morning-test.

To judge someone's true beauty, you need to see what they look like first-thing-in-the-morning.

Friday I went to work. Friday night we drove to Charleston. Saturday I didn't shower all day. I did go kayaking, go out on my brother-in-law's boat, and lay around watching football. This morning when I woke up, Sam said I looked like a bat who had been sleeping upside-down.

You be the judge of my True Beauty

Best Chicken Pizza

Cyndy said this is the best Pizza I have ever made.

1. Grill chicken one night and grill 2x what you will eat.

2. The next night, put sauce on a pizza dough (We use random spagetti sauce from a jar).

3. Cut up the left-over chicken and put it on top of the sauce.

4. Cut up a whole lot of fresh cilantro and put it on top of the chicken.

5. Top with mozzarella.

6. Top the Mozzarella with diced onion and peppers (Any kind of peppers will do. We used pablano, wusses could use green pepper).

7. Bake the pizza.

Eat It Up - Yum!

Team Choke

Q = Why are these Greek people celebrating?

A = Because Greece just beat Team USA in basketball to eliminate the USA from winning the World Championship.

Q = Whose Fault Is It that the USA lost to Greece in basketball when Team USA is comprised of NBA players and not one single greek player is good enough to play in the NBA?

A = Duke

Specifically, Duke's Coach K, the coach of team USA, and Team USA starters Shane Battier and Elton Brand.

Thanks alot Duke, for embarrasing our entire country on the world wide stage.

(And yes, it does seem like a recruiting advantage for Duke Basketball's head coach to also coach Team USA)