Being Five

Hey everyone, please check out the website for this strip.  It's called "Being Five" and it's one of the best strips I have read in a long time.  This one in particular reminds me of my son, but they are all funny.  Head on over to the Being Five web page to read more...

Spiderman

[Technorati tags: cartoon , childhood, blogging, spiderman, funny , humor]

posted by George 6:59 PM

Reprinted here with permission of the creator George Sfarnas.

Huummm no, our news isn't censored at all...

This picture says it all. It confirms what many have thought for years but couldn't prove exactly. Take a look at this weeks news week covers from around the world. Huummmm which one is different? Up until today I read Newsweek as a trusted source of information, those days are over :-(



This is straight from there website. I heard about it and couldn't believe it, so I went and saw for myself.... sad, really sad.... LINK

Jackass II #1 Movie in the country

Well, OK seems the movie industry is right. Shoot for the LOWEST common denominator and you will have a hit movie. People really don't want things like an interesting story line, believable characters or quality film making. Guess just those freaks that go see indie films or go to Sundance want that. Sigh, as the great Jim Gearhart says..... "Where are we going and what are we doing in this basket?"

Flickr Find - john boat 377

john boat 377 (sunset)
Originally uploaded by Saltyb.

I just came across the photo's from this artist on Flickr tonight. Lots of great pictures! Please visit him and enjoy!

Rare Woodpecker Sends a Town into Complete Panic

The folks in Boiling Spring Lakes, NC are scared. There is a resurgence of a rare woodpecker that was on the endangered list. Last I checked this was a good thing. This means we are helping the environment in some areas and preserving a priceless treasure for future generations. Seems that the folks living in this town think that if they are declared "woodpecker land" they will lose there homes and get thrown out of the area. Well, this is just not true in fact they have been told explicitly that as long as the woodpeckers have trees to live in, the town will be able to continue to build and expand just with better planning.

Weeellllll these geniuses just don't believe them I guess, so what's the answer? Cut down every freaking tree you can see. Of course, that make perfect sense! AAaahhhhhh.

Read the whole sad story here.... LINK

The chain saws started in February, when the federal Fish and Wildlife Service put Boiling Spring Lakes on notice that rapid development threatened to squeeze out the woodpecker.

The agency issued a map marking 15 active woodpecker “clusters,” and announced it was working on a new one that could potentially designate whole neighborhoods of this town in southeastern North Carolina as protected habitat, subject to more-stringent building restrictions.

Hoping to beat the mapmakers, landowners swarmed City Hall to apply for lot-clearing permits. Treeless land, after all, would not need to be set aside for woodpeckers. Since February, the city has issued 368 logging permits, a vast majority without accompanying building permits.

The results can be seen all over town. Along the roadsides, scattered brown bark is all that is left of pine stands. Mayor Joan Kinney has watched with dismay as waterfront lots across from her home on Big Lake have been stripped down to sandy wasteland.

“It’s ruined the beauty of our city,” Ms. Kinney said. To stop the rash of cutting, city commissioners have proposed a one-year moratorium on lot-clearing permits.

What Superhero are you?

Heres my results:
You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern 85% Spider-Man 80% Robin 62% Superman 60% Catwoman 55% Supergirl 55% The Flash 50% Hulk 50% Iron Man 50% Wonder Woman 45% Batman 45%

Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Q

Labeling, just be honest, it's easier

Here is a small glimpse into my psyche, but it's fun :-)  I have a new pet peeve.  Marketing / ad people are now on my list.  However it's a specific kind of them, but I don't know what to call them.  Well, yes I do..... those people who think up what to call stuff.  OK, so, why can't they just be honest?  I'm a big boy, I can handle things being called what the really are.

Here is what pushed me over the edge on this.  I just went and washed my hands at work.  The liquid soap label was facing away from me but I knew it was soap.  Logic :-)  OK, the soap was green.  I put some on my hands and the wonderful smell of apples came to me.  I liked it, it was very pleasant.  I finish washing my hands and tun the soap around because I am curious what it is so maybe I can buy it.  The picture on the label is 4 different kinds of apples, the soap is green like an apple and it smells like apples.  Guess what is written in large letters on the front..... HARVEST BLEND!  WTF??????

Harvest Blend.... sigh.  OK, so where's the harvest?  It's just apples!  Why not call the scent apple?  Makes a lot more sense to me.  As the old expression goes... if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.  Well I guess this duck is a whole harvest. 

WTF of the day.... USB slipper

For that person who has everything.  And I mean EVERYTHING, I present to you USB powered slippers.   Uuhhhh yeah :-D

click on the picture to enlarge

USB Heating Slippers Product Code: ULIFE004300
You can have a USB Heating Gloves or USB G-Gloves when you feel your hands freeze. However, you will wonder how about my icy feet? Don't worry! A pair of USB Heating Slippers can help to keep your feet toasty while you are working near the computer under a chilled environment or in winter time.
	US$25.00
Features: Cozy design De-frosting your feet Warming pad for generating heat via USB port Plug and play USB powered Support any devices with USB port, e.g. PC, Mac, PlayStation 2 or Xbox360 Cable length: 120cm Size: 34x33cm Weight: 265g Package Content: USB Heating Slippers
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Welcome Big Brother

It's getting scary out there. Seems now that in the UK there are not only security cameras in public areas, but now they are live monitored and talk back! Huummm sure seems like the vidscreens in George Orwell's 1984. See the full story here up at BBC News ......

Town trials talking CCTV cameras

Street offenders on Teesside are being shamed by "talking" CCTV cameras.

Seven cameras in Middlesbrough town centre have a facility, which allows operators to bark orders at those involved in anti-social behaviour.

Officials hope the additions to the town's 160 cameras will help to further reduce street crime.

It is the latest crime prevention move for Middlesbrough, whose elected mayor is Ray Mallon, the former senior police officer who was dubbed Robocop.

Ask A Ninja

This has got to be the funniest Ask A Ninja episode i have seen yet! It is a special crossover of Ask A Ninja with Doogtoons. Visit them both (Ask A Ninja & Doogtoons) for lots of fun :-)

A Easy Case - Folding A Paper CD Case

The content of this page is based on Tom Hull's original origami CD case instructions. You have tons of CD or DVD discs spreading around your room? Want to put those CDs/DVDs in order but don't know how to start? When it comes to organized those discs, a paper folding CD case can be very handy. Please follow the steps and learn how to fold a CD case. All you need to is a 8.5 x 11 inches piece of paper to start.   1. Fold the left and right sides.   2. Fold the bottom edge up, then fold it back. This part will be the pocket.   3. Fold the top edge down and then fold it back. Then fold the top edge down and then fold it back. This will make the spine and top flap.   4. Spread the sides of the pocket to the sides to create "wings". The fold lines may be off slightly depending on your printer.   5. Tuck the wings behind the front part of the pocket. Flatten the pocket. And your disc will stay in the pocket. Then make two little dog ears on the top flap.   6. Tuck the top flap into the pocket.   7. . And....you're done! Pictures and verbage from  http://www.supermediastore.com/cd-dvd-case-folding-instructions.html Start Step. 1 Step. 2 Step.3 Step.4 Step.5 Step.6 Step.7

Fwd: MESSAGE FROM KOFI NANA

This sounds great!  Should I do it???? LOL  Wow, I haven't recieved one of these in a long while.  I think I just might email them back from a throw away mailbox just to mess with them :-)  LOL

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MR KOFI NANA <goldcoastnana1bfboxw@walla.com>
Date: Sep 17, 2006 12:08 AM
Subject: MESSAGE FROM KOFI NANA
To: MR KOFI NANA <geekzendaddy@gmail.com>

DEAR SIR
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Blog News

Namaste!

Well, as I alluded to in a previous post I have indeed split the blog again. We now offically have the "GeekZenDaddy Network" :-D Going forward I will be posting Buddhist and Zen items here. I am doing this to make my life and my readers lives easier. So, head on over if you want to see, it is up and running. In fact, I already have 8 or 9 posts over there to get the ball rolling :-)

Yours,

GeekZenDaddy

9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team

Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 15 2006

A 9/11 toxic dust whistleblower, a ground zero hero and one of the individuals influential in the release of documents proving a government cover-up that deliberately put police, firemen and rescue personel at risk, has been raided by a New York SWAT team - who ransacked his home for three hours after he was arrested.

Major Mike McCormack is a hospital technician and civil air patrol pilot who worked the ground zero site for eight days after the collapse of the twin towers. He is one of the real heroes of 9/11 and was the man who found the American flag that was later displayed as a token of unity atop the rubble.

Within hours McCormack was coughing up black mucus and within days he was coughing up blood as the toxic dust that was deliberately covered up by the EPA poisoned his lungs along with all the other rescue workers, police and firemen who were being used in photo ops by Bush and his cronies while their very livelihoods were being endangered by a government cover-up.

McCormack now suffers from an extreme respiratory sensitivity, has a 5-millimeter metal nodule in one lung and has been forced to give up his passion of scuba diving.

McCormack is part of an organization lobbying Congress to demand a response from the federal government to the toxic dust cover-up and just compensation for the heroes of 9/11 who were deserted by their own government while the Bush administration had the audacity to use the attacks to fulfil a pre-determined political agenda by exploiting the unity created by the events of that day.

Read the whole article here. LINK

Star Trek a la George Lucas

So, it seems Paramount Pictures is taking a page out of the George Lucas playbook and revamping the original series like Lucas did to the Star Wars trilogy. Paramount is going to remaster and enhance the whole 1960's run with up to date sounds and effects. I am not sure how this will work out. I would love to see what Gene Roddenberry would have created if he had been around today, but to many, the charm of the series is it's campiness and at times cheesiness. Lets cross are fingers, toes and anything else that they did the show and it's legacy justice.

Here is a blurb fron C-Net news.....

Four decades after Capt. Kirk and crew zoomed off at warp speed to "the final frontier," the iconic sci-fi series "Star Trek" returns to broadcast television this week with an extensive digital makeover.

CBS Paramount Domestic Television, a unit of CBS, is digitally remastering all 79 episodes of the original series to enhance the show's 1960s-era visual effects with 21st-century computer-gene rated graphics.

Digitally created images will replace the miniature-scale models used for exterior shots of the various spacecraft on the show, including Kirk's Starship Enterprise and the enemy war vessels of the alien Klingons and Romulans.

Shots of distant galaxies and planets also will be touched up with computer graphics to give them greater depth. The flat matte paintings used as backdrops on the surface of the strange new worlds visited by the Enterprise crew will be digitally enhanced to add texture, atmosphere and lighting.

Moreover, the music and sound for the show's opening sequence have been rerecorded in state-of-the-art digital stereo, and William Shatner's classic 38-word introduction, beginning with "Space, the final frontier," has been digitally remastered.

Dog Arrested..BS!

Just off the AP Wire, Duane "Dog" Chapman, Leland Chapman and Tim Chapman were arrested on kidnapping charges. WTF??????? The news channel said Mexico issued a warrant for Chapman's arrest for his alleged kidnapping of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster three years ago. Ookkkaayyy. So, they are being arrested for bringing back from Mexico a man who was sentenced to 125 years in jail for drugging, raping and video-taping women ? Ok that makes sense. Here is a copy/paste from the link I placed in the last sentence from Wikipedia....

In 1996, 1997 and 2000, however, Luster allegedly gave three women GHB, a known date-rape drug, and raped them while they were unconscious. Luster was brought to trial in 2002. Soon afterward, police officers found videotapes of Luster raping the women in question, including one tape labeled "Shauna GHBing." On January 3, 2003, after one of the victims had testified, but before the jury viewed the "Shauna" tape, Luster vanished from his house, along with his dog and his truck. Luster was later convicted in absentia to 124 years in prison by a California court.

Fake penis case resolved- $425 fine and permanent loss of dignity :-D

'Penis' in microwave case is settled

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

By Ann Belser, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The case of the "penis" in the microwave was settled this morning with an agreement on a disorderly conduct plea.

McKeesport Police Capt. Bryan Washowich said Leslye Creighton, 41, of Wilkinsburg, has agreed to take full responsibility for the incident in which she asked a clerk at a Get Go convenience store to warm up a penis-shaped device in the store's microwave.

When the object gave off an odor, the clerk checked on it and found what she thought was a real penis. She reported it to police.

Ms. Creighton agreed to plead guilty to disorderly conduct. Her companion in the case, Vincent Bostic, 31, of Pittsburgh, who was also charged, will have the case against him withdrawn.

The two entered the convenience store in February, asked the clerk to place the device in the microwave in order to bring the urine-filled device up to body temperature so Ms. Creighton could pass a drug test to get a job.

Mr. Bostic's attorney, William H. Difenderfer, said Mr. Bostic has agreed to replace the $425 microwave at the store in exchange for the charges being dropped against him.

Curious George

Remember that guy? Well, so do I and it seems after a movie from a few years ago, he's back. I didn't know this until about two weeks ago. Ya see, George here is one of my favorite childhood memories. Back in grade school we had a librarian who would read Curious George books out loud to us and once a month or so show us one of the cartoons based on the books. This is the person who gave me my love for books. I don't remember her name, wish I did, but she had a huge impact on me that is still being felt today!

Well it seems like father like son. Red Baby and I have been watching them for the last few days faithfully. He loves that monkey! Yeah! Now the new show is not the "classic" I remember, but it's pretty good. My wife has informed me that our older son loves the show too. This just makes me happy, we have a common bonding experience to talk about and reminisce on later in life :-) I think I'm going to take my son to the bookstore this weekend and find us a monkey book.... a classic one :-)

Quote of the Day

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

Terry is one of my favorite authors. He writes the infamous, hilarious and often odd Discworld series. Do yourself a favor, check one out today!

My kid might become a video game addict

My child who is not yet 3 may become a video game addict down the road. He sat down at the family Mac more than 3 hours ago to play the game pictured on the left. He has only taken 1 very short potty break as he's in the zone :-) He wouldn't let anyone help him with the game or show him what to do as far as controls on the keyboard. Despite that, he's doing ok. He is running up and down the halls killing robots in the game like there's no tomorrow and when he gets bored of that he takes Obi Wan to a drop off and makes him hurl himself repeatedly over the edge. That parts normal, it's the laugh afterwards that scares me :-) Ah well, kids are weird.

UPDATE - It's now been 5 hours, second potty break taken and still going strong. Here is the real reason for the update...... In this game you always have two characters at all times on the screen and can switch between them when you want to. Well, the padawan has learned that if he attacks the other character, it will fight back. So, he is having some very elaborate lightsaber duels with kicks and jumps and some cool spins :-) AAaahhhhhhh yeah an addict is born. LOL

Tea is good for you

I love tea. I always have. I'm not one of the tea snobs, in fact I'm sure a lot of what I like is garbage :-) Hey, I'm from Jersey, we don't always know a good thing when we have it and we can deal with a whole lot of crap just see out govt. Ok, back to topic.....

Here is an excerpt from Medical News Today . See there site for the full article.

If you drink three or more cups of tea a day you might be doing your health more good than drinking plain water, say researchers from King's College, London, UK. This new study found, among other things, that the urban myth that tea dehydrates could not be further from the truth - tea hydrates as well as water does, say the researchers.

Wow! That makes me happy because water is just so boring. In fact I'm off to have a cuppa Lipton :-)

MMMmmmmm Coffee!

Wow! This is a product i can use.... well, the beer too :-)

It's Sept 11'th

Bow your heads and remember the event that changed America forever. Hold no malice since hatred only creates more hatred but remember.

Sigh.... I agree

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WTF of the day...

I snapped this picture today when I was at a local convince store. Let's all sing together...... One of these things doesn't belong here, one of these things just isn't the same......





Note to self....... when creating fictional news, have your fictional fact checker confirm with other fiction writers so we are on same page :-D

New way to smuggle a cellphone

Prisoners in El Salvadore found with several smuggled cell phones.  UUuummmmm  ouch?



Link to Cell Phone X-Ray

Buddhist Saying

The wise fear planting seeds of evil karma.

   Creating no causes, they dread no negative effects.
The foolish fear reaping fruits of evil karma.

   Creating many causes, they dread negative effects.

- Adapted Buddhist Saying

Keychain Atari games... very cool!

Wow, this really brings back memories :-)  I really miss the good ole days of video games..... at $15 I just might have to buy a few so my whole family can play.  Go get yours now!  http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/80fc/?cpg=cj

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Keychain Plug-N-Play

In the olden days of gaming, when quarters were a hot commodity and color graphics were the newest innovation, one name stood out as king: Atari. The games were visually simple, but still retain their hold as some of the most challenging and fun games ever created. Sadly, it's just too difficult to carry around an Atari system and a bag of cartridges and controllers (both joystick and paddle) with you wherever you go. So, we've found a pocket sized solution.

Each keychain has a secret - they contain real games. Plug in the included 6 foot cable (on a battery powered reel) into the keychain and your TV , and you really can enjoy the games of yesteryear. Yes, you read that right: these keychains contain real Atari games, and are fully playable!

Interesting cloud sightings

I am a Buddhist and I do follow the Buddha's warning of test everything before you believe it.  Something tells me this is a reaction to grief over losing a recognised master and the search for signs of Nirvana (no not the band )

Odd Sighting At Dhammananda's Cremation

Sin Chew Daily, Sept 7 2006

SEMENYIH, Selangor (Malaysia) -- Some strange images were seen in the sky during the cremation of the late Venerable Dr Rev K. Sri Dhammananda, the Chief High Priest of Malaysia and Singapore.

<< An image like a meditating high priest awaiting ascension was seen in the sky.

At 9 am on Monday (September 4th), odd images appeared in the sky while two priests from India were chanting prayers for the late Rev Dhammananda in front of the cremation pyre. A ray of light suddenly appeared in the clear sky, projecting the image of a meditating high priest. Another image resembling the bodhisattva Guanyin could also be seen above the first image, as if it were welcoming the high priest image.

The odd sighting lasted for a mere five minutes, disappearing immediately after the priests finished chanting their prayers.

Rev Dhammananda's disciple Ananda said that his master did not encourage believers to indulge in superstitious speculation over such sightings.

When the priests were meditating, another image resembling the bodhisattva Guanyin could also be seen in the sky.  >>

Ananda said his master told believers that such images were quite commonplace. It was just that no one had noticed them.

"Buddhism does not believe in such things. We think they may be natural phenomena or possibly caused by the imagination of the believers."

The staff at the Nirvana Memorial Park said that they had witnessed other strange sights the night before (September 3rd). There had been a loud thunderclap during the cremation and after that people had seen two dragons and a pagoda in the sky, as if to welcome Rev Dhammananda.

<< Two Indian priests made a special trip to the Nirvana Memorial Park to chant prayers for Dhammananda.

Not long after, there had been another thunderclap, and people saw another dragon in the sky.

Because cremation on a pyre is a time consuming process, the cremation only finished at noon the next day. Believers had to wait until the ashes had cooled before they could search the ashes for sarira stones.

Because they were worried that thieves would steal away the master's ashes, the believers kept watch over the pyre through the night.