Women we love

I am a big fan of both Natalie and Scarlett and while I don't have anything in particular (for this post) to say about Ms. Johannsen the Admiral did just "make" me watch this lil diddy. Ah Amore'...Oh and I love the Admiral too.

So bad its good

I know I'm a dork but I find this to be tremendously funny.

What's on YOUR mind?

The next time "she" asks you what you're thinking try one of these...



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Drink of the week

Here's something I've been wanting to do for quite a while now. A weekly (hopefully) series of drinks that are worth trying at least once if you have the "noive". Things I promise (most of the time, sort of) to provide in these little segments are:

1. The name of the tasty beverage,


2. How to make it (when applicable), and


3. The expected retail cost.

I will admit that my company provides products to many an alcoholic beverage producer and I'm not above pimping out the name of these items. But for the first installment I'm going with something a little closer to my heart...Scotch. More specifically...

Oban 14 years

Oban 14 Year Old Scotch Whisky.(Eighty-six Proof)This distillery in the Western Highlands is close to Islay, but does not have the heaviness and peatiness usually associated with Islay whiskies. This single malt whiskey has a fresh, delicate hint of peat in its aroma, and its flavorful palate impression has a smooth and pleasing finish.

I stumbled across this while the Admiral and I were at her annual (and my obligatory) "hurray fantasy football season is over" steak dinner. These dinners always run me about $300 and provide an excellent incentive to do well during the season. But I digress.

Cyemm (cyemm.blogspot.com)and I were at the restaurant bar when we noticed the bottle on the shelf and decided to try a couple of fingers worth. Yum. The description above is dead on. When you first get it you smell the peat right off. Being a middle year scotch I was worried that it would also have that typical overly woody taste that usually follows. I was pleasently surprised on my first sip and have loved it ever since.

Named for and distilled in Oban, which is about 3 hours away from Glasgow, a couple of fingers of this will usually run you about $11 depending on where you're ordering it. A bottle at the local liquor store should cost you around $80 - $90. If you're of the mind to order it at your local establishment I beg you to drink it "neat". Don't ruin the experience by mixing it with soda or water and do try to avoid having it "on the rocks". Above all, take your time, sip it and enjoy.

Who's Thirsty?

What the FAA sees as an immanent threat I see as a brilliant way to smuggle alc. Ok maybe the FAA and I aren't so far apart after all.

It's called the Dram Sandal. The description for this item on Amazon is a bit campy but worth a laugh.

"The Dram Sandal features a flask in the heel so you can smuggle your moonshine into any sporting event, concert, or even a boring lecture. Reef incorporated a polyurethane-encapsulated canteen in the heel that opens with the included church key/fin key. How dope is that? But the Drams don't stop there. These flip-flops' synthetic nubuck uppers and compression-molded EVA uppers are mad comfortable and they won't get thrashed by the water, which makes the Dram Sandals great for boating or chilling on the beach."


It retails at about $45 - $50 and is available online at Amazon and Ebay for starters. Unfortunately I can't find any information on how much it holds.


Now why didn't I think of this?

An Inconvenient Commute

A few months ago the man that would be king (Al Gore) won an Oscar for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. While layed up in bed for a week with my very swollen foot I had the opportunity to watch this film. It was what most documentaries are...BORING!! So much for all the hooplah. Still it was probably a movie that needed to be made (and seen) so as hard as it was to stay awake I'm glad I rented it.

But here's a movie that I didn't hear anything about. I would have liked to have seen this just so I could watch them shred the cars. I also would like to see it because I firmly believe that politics are the main reason we haven't progressed beyond the current automotive technology.

The name of the film is "Who Killed the Electric Car". Ok so Gore's movie had a title with more pizzaz.

Fly me to the moon

For those of you that will read this and wonder just what the fuck was on my mind at the time let me just say that the new bar that just opened up down the street was closed today. This is important because I'd decided that today I would check it out for the first time to see if it was worth going to on a more routine basis. But they're closed on Monday. WTF?!?!?!?! If you are ever entertaining the idea of opening up a bar there are very few days that you should consider being closed. Monday isn't one of them. In fact Monday is one of the days that you should always be open. You should possibly be open longer hours than any other day of the week.

Discouraged I sauntered home to drink the beer that was in the fridge and to post about alien encounters. *Sigh*

In the book "MAKING CONTACT: A SERIOUS HANDBOOK FOR LOCATING AND COMMUNICATING WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS", A man named Jonathan Vos Post, has written an excerpt entitled "Me Human, You Alien: How to Talk to an Extraterrestrial". If your a dweeb like me then the Introduction and first chapter are interesting enough to make you consider downloading this online book.

Introduction

This is your first meeting with an un-Earthly non-human entity: an Extraterrestrial (ET).
If you handle it well, you will be the greatest hero alive, and be able to make a fortune
selling your story to the media. If you blow it, the repercussions could be unimaginably
terrible, perhaps an interstellar war that could annihilate humanity.

Feeling a little stressed out? Rule Number One: DON'T PANIC.

Just follow these simple guidelines, and all will be well. We hope.

The first chapter is a description of what you should have on you if you should happen to encounter an Extraterrestrial. It is entitled "A Handfull of Coins, A Loop of String, a Flashlight, and Two Magnets". Jonathan then goes on to both list the exact objects you should have on your person and what you would use them for. This interesting tutorial is available to you after the jump (fancy blogspeak for click the link because we bloggers are much to clever to just say that).

http://www.magicdragon.com/EmeraldCity/extraterrestrials/alien.html#coins

But for those of you that aren't upset about my local watering hole not being open on a Monday (bastards) - and if you were hoping that this posting would come with a song - I give you The Chairman of the Board himself and his rendition of Fly Me To The Moon.

Lock the door and lose the key

What do you get when two blowhards get into it on TV? They're both idiots! Seriously, where is the mute button on this thing?

Cacophonic Eruption

Today was one of those days when all the voices in my head were screaming as loud as possible. The resulting sound is something akin to an orchestra that is warming up before a big concert. A bunch of instruments playing loudly in various random keys. None of which come even relatively close to meshing. I refer to these moments as the Cacophonic Eruption.

It would be great if the source of this eruption was one single element but alas life is never that easy. I swear to you if someone asked me what I did today between the hours of 7 and 3 I could not answer them. I know I was busy putting out fires but don't ask me what was burning. And so ends the disclaimer for the randomness that is to follow.

American Idol

I'm a bit fascinated by the show right now. Not enough to actually watch it but enough to tune in for 5 - 10 minutes when its on with the hopes of watching the train wreck. Admittedly I do have someone on the show that I'm willing to say I'd be interested in hearing what an actual album of there's would sound like. If curiousity is overwhelming you it's Gina "the Rocker Girl". She caught my interest when she covered an Evenescence song and managed to not butcher it entirely. I also find myself pulling for Sanjaya. Not because I think he's any good. He's fucking horrible. I just love the idea that somewhere out there, there is a group of idiots not eating because he's still on the show. It's almost enough to make me call in and vote. Almost. Meanwhile, I'd like to offer up a video from someone who claims to have been on American Idol. I've done a web search and can't prove that he was but that doesn't change the brilliance of the song. A quick warning...if you're at work you may want to put the headphones on.



Some of you have commented on some of my ramblings from "The most powerful man...". Specifically the bit about the fabrication of evidence that promted our support of the Iraq war. Please allow me to clarify this statement so as to avoid any confusion. The current administration - meaning George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Carl Rove - were instrumental in propagating the idea that Al Qaeda attacked both of the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon. And that a third highjacking was foiled by the passengers of Flight 93. Much has been made of this claim. We've seen movies both cable and Hollywood to support the claim. I wonder how many of you have bothered to watch this one. You simply cannot watch this video without coming away feeling as if you've been duped by the White House.

Just as a warning this is a full 1 hour and 20 minutes long and is very politically polarizing. Everyone should watch it but you should be in the mood for it first.



But enough of the depressing hard core crap. Here's something almost all of us can relate to. I don't know how long this little hottie has been doing this but its damn entertaining. Ok screw entertaining. She's fucking brilliant! If you like this as much as I did there are more available at
http://cubenews1.com/

Here you'll find gem's like Chair butt..."I don't know but I've been told, my butt looks pretty old"; Cubicle View (yum); My Nuts Are Your Nuts "mind if I borrow a pen"; See her lose her southern accent and wear a blonde wig in Shut the Fuck Up; And one that we've all thought of succumbing to Feeling Postal



And lastly I had lunch yesterday with a good friend of mine. He and I are at odds on the subject of which movie will be more entertaining on opening day. The two choices are Live Free or Die Hard and The Transfomers. I'll let you be the judge. Can you say double feature!

Live Free or Die Hard


The Transformers