Countdown of Sexiest Women Over 35. They Forgot Winona..

MSN did some kinda very non-scientific (i.e. they didn't ask me!) listing of the 15 hottest women over age 35....
The List is Here..

Steven's First Week of 7th Grade..

He seems to be adjusting juuussttt fine. He hasn't talked to any girls he didn't know from elementary. He's keeping his head down, and just doing his thing...

He's been asked to come up with a song that already exists describing what school is like for him now... I was poking around the web, looking for lyrics, and stumbled upon a blog describing a music video called Rotten Hell, about 7th grade. Here is the blooger's own words..

I taught seventh grade several years ago. If there is a hell, it must resemble the seventh grade school experience—vicious and seemingly eternal. Statistically, seventh graders learn the least of any grade-school students, and the average person learns less at 12 years old than at any other age during life. Teacher/education specialist/author Chip Wood writes that, developmentally, 12-year-olds probably shouldn't be in a formal school environment at all. Instead, they should all be in an environment resembling a cross between summer camp and the Civilian Conservation Corps. School is hell for twelves, and no place better illustrates man's inhumanity than a middle school cafeteria.

I pray it goes easier for my boy than that.....

In a 2005 commencement speech at Emory, Tom Brokaw said:

" . . . real life is not college; real life is not high school. Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

The world that you're about to enter is filled with junior high adolescent pettiness, pubescent rivalries, the insecurities of 13-year-olds, and the false bravado of 14-year-olds. "

A Video from a kid about his first dance....

Advanced Video Gets Dose Of Dean

As of Friday, the 17th, I was about 90% complete with the sale of the store, and its assets. Things were going smoothly enough. I was advertising on Craigslist everything under the sun, and stuff was flying out the door, admittedly at lower than desired prices. Below is a sample listing...

All Right, You Win - more free stuff

Apparently everyone in the whole freaking city is broke.
You'll just have to live with your conscience if you take the stuff
I have, for free....

Fully functioning JVC VHS VRS's.
Office Chair
Non-recording VHS fullsize camera, suitable for hooking up to a DVD or VHS recorder for auditions... Camera part works great...

2 Work Benches.
Quit a bit more... too much to mention..

I even took Sunday off, as I was exhausted... Monday, as I was going through my voice mail, I get a message from the LA Fire Dept. telling me there had been a flood, that they had to force entry into my store, and to please come take repossession of the store. The message was left a full 24 hours before.... I rushed in to what was left of my store...A million year old pipe burst about 12 inches below ground in the crawlspace between my store and the Medical Marijuana store next door. This was probably another section of the same pipe that burst 2 years before, flooding the then Asian Massage Parlor, next door... It didn't spare me this time. Everything in the store that was near the floor got soaked. The fire dept. took 70 minutes to arrive, according to a fellow store owner. My security alarm never went off, (and the ADT people said they didn't even have me on file.... odd, since they've been charging me for the last 48 months.)The f-ing slumlord of a landlord isn't even bothering to come out and see what happened.... This is a major setback in Project: New Life...
More to come.....

Water Slide for Real Men

Now THESE guys know how to have fun!
Where were these guys when I was in school?
Full Article with pix here.

Women & Their Asses

There is a new study just released by the American Psychiatric Association about women and how they feel about their asses.

The results are pretty interesting:

1. 5% of women surveyed feel their ass is too big.
2. 10% of women surveyed feel their ass is too small.
3. The remaining 85% say they don't care; they love him; he's a good man, and they would have married him anyway.

Have you seen EVERY ONE of these 10 Awesome Movies?

My list of 10 movies that did reasonably well at the box office, but didn't crush any records, and are MUST SEE films
	The Abyss - Ed Harris
	The Stunt Man - Peter O'Toole
	The Sure Thing - John Cusack
	No Way Out - Kevin Costner
	Doc Hollywood - Michael J. Fox
	Guys and Dolls - Marlon Brando
	Jeremiah Johnson - Robert Redford
	Swept Away - ?
	Monty Python's Life of Brian - M.P.
	American Graffiti - Ron Howard

The List of the Best 250 of ALL-TIME, as voted by frequent visitors to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

Say It Ain't So, Jack Bauer!

It may sound like a publicity stunt, but Fox spokesman Chris Anderson says the network isn't after bigger ratings. "We are publicizing '24's' commitment to climate change for two reasons and two reasons only: to inspire the public to take global warming seriously and hopefully to motivate other studios to make changes to their production practices as well," he says.

I've got NO problem with businesses voluntarily reducing greenhouse gases smog. It's a wonderfully environmental thing to do. But when the GOVT. creates costly financial regulations designed to meet Kyoto ( read Dumb-ass Arnold Schwarzeneggar, GWBush, & Tony Blair) that's when it's time to call time-out.

Just how much of the "Greenhouse Effect" is caused by human activity?

It is about 0.28%, if water vapor is taken into account-- about 5.53%, if not.

This point is so crucial to the debate over global warming that how water vapor is or isn't factored into an analysis of Earth's greenhouse gases makes the difference between describing a significant human contribution to the greenhouse effect, or a negligible one.

Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many "facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.

Human Tetris And Life Size Tetris

Those wacky Asians..
And not to be outdone... Russian students with an empty apartment building, and time on their hands.... (oh to be back at Williams Village...)