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Drex Davis Recent Posts- Just amazing the resiliency of the human baby body
- The Edwards Affair
- Mr. T - “I’ve been pitying fools for 28 years”
- as a follow up to the story/part below, don’t miss the part
- somebody has to make a movie out of this
- When guppies eat their young . . .
- Love and Demands
- What is government doing to your money?
- Robotics - playing fetch has never been weirder
- Scathing, Lucid, Brilliant Dismemberment of the Obamessiah by “the Hammer”
For any kid whoever dreamed of “riding on a cloud” - you can!
All you need is a bunch of balloons and a lawn chair!
Don’t believe me? This guy went more than 200 miles riding on a chair pulled by balloons!
This would make a great plot for a story.
Truth IS often stranger than fiction.
Technorati Tags: balloons, balloon ride, cloud ride, kent couch
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My pet peeve
People who leave me voice messages while they’re chewing food. Smacking and all that yucky stuff.
Just had a voicemail where the person was smacking and chewing while leaving a message. Gross.
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Learning Russian
I’ve spent the last 4 months learning conversational Russian. I just completed the first two courses (of six) from Pimsleur.
I decided in February that I needed something intellectually stimulating. I listen to the CDs and do the exercises on my way to and from work and also on my walk in the evenings (which used to be a run before the appendectomy . . .).
I’ve also been reading the Book of Mormon in Russian. Learning the Cyrillic Alphabet has been, and continues to be, a real challenge. I speak fluent Spanish and understand and read a fair amount of Italian. I wanted to learn a new alphabet and language that was quite different from those. (I’ve actually been surprised at how similar Russian is to Spanish . . . may “aural” cognates.) I don’t really know what I’ll do with it . . . but I’m going to keep it up until I’ve been through the 2 Intermediate and 2 Advanced courses. It has been good for my brain and my interest on my drives.
Also, a little sad, I just went through all the comments my blog had flagged as spam over the last few years and found a lot of non-spam comments in there. If you’ve left a comment in the past and never saw it go live, that’s why. It’s fixed now . . . I have to approve the comments but at least they’ll go into the right bucket!
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You’re kidding. One night stands are immoral?
Every once in a while, you see something refreshing, like this, that helps you to not completely write off humanity.
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Quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read
What happens when 42 midgets try and fight an African lion? Sounds like the set up to a punchline, right?
But this is no joke.
If it weren’t true, it would be funny. But it is true, and it had tragic results.
Just another reminder to not be cruel to animals . . . they just might be cruel right back.
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goals for the year
1 - not get asian bird flu.
(end transmission)
more goals to follow. but they won’t mean much if i don’t accomplish goal 1. so i’ll stick to that for a while before getting really ambitious.
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The Easter Bunny and Religion
People do stupid things.
Last week a friend and I were discussing some people close to him and their recent decisions to relax their behavioral code because they no longer believed the origins of the religious tenants that required of them the behaviors. The odd thing is that the behaviors were those that science has also declared to be good. Read more
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Holding on and Letting Go
When do you hold on? And when do you let go?
At various times in my life, I’ve been clinging to a hope and recieved differing forms of advice. For example, when I was a teenager I remember breaking up with a girl and then wanting to get back together with her. She wasn’t really responding.
Some of my friends said, hold on, don’t let her go, keep pursuing.
Other friends said, you need to let go, get over her; don’t hold on, it’s time to move on.
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Airline Insecurity
Monday morning in the Minneapolis Airport, while standing in line to check my bags, something unusual happened. It was 6:30AM and the airport was already packed and bustling. Lines were long. People were grumpy.
I glanced to my left and noticed a couple of feet away from me a garment bag laying in the middle of the floor unattended. I asked everyone in line if it belonged to them. Nobody claimed it. Some of the people in line started to get nervous. We sat there staring at it like it was a dead body or something. Some of the people in line even started moving away from it out of line.
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Mishack
The first thing you have to understand about Mishack is that he is tough as mierda. Mishack (God rest his soul) is our recently deceased dog. He was a large, white, German Shepherd who due to health problems finally had to be put down. Three weeks ago my folks called me to let me know that Mishack’s hip dysplasia had gotten so bad that he could not raise himself up. I was pretty heartbroken and shed a tear or two.
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