My Car Hit the Big 111,111.1 Today!

Wow! 111,111.1 I will never see 222,222.2 so I better enjoy it

I just came across this great WikiHow article and had to link to it. I know several people who could benefit :-)

http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Swearing

How to Stop Swearing

Swearing can easily become a habit and is generally a bad habit. It is reinforced by the company we keep, the people we are trying to identify with (e.g. the "in-crowd"), parental examples and workplace behaviour. Parents must be extra careful to curb swearing tendencies as they are the first and principal cause of swearing children. If you don't want people to get the wrong impression of you and you are tired of swearing instead of speaking clearly, then this is a short guide to helping you to think about why you swear and how you might be able to curb the habit.

Chad Vader Ep.3 is out!

Vader is back with a new 5 min episode! It's a good one :-) I love these guys!

Eddie Trunk loves the Wiggles :-D

Ok, so I was driving home from work last night listening to Eddie Trunk on his radio show "Friday night Rocks" which is the only metal show I can get on the radio up here. If you don't know who Eddie is he does this show and it is syndicated all over the US, he also works with VH1 and VH1 classic doing shows like "Rock Honors" and as a host for there metal and hard rock shows. Basically this guy has been an idol of mine since the early 90's. Enough background......

He was on air last night with Artie Lang talking about his new movie Beer League and of course playing metal, mostly Artie's requests when out popped the funniest thing I had ever heard him say. They had just finished talking about boob scenes in the movie that were there, just because they could be when Eddie pipes up and says....... "this is an aside, but can anyone out there hook me up with some Wiggles tickets? I'm serious. I have a two year old that has GOT to go and it's like trying to get tickets to a Led Zeppelin Reunion show."

I'm not sure which is worse, that the Wiggles sell out major arenas or that the king of metal DJ's wants to go :-) Eddie did save himself right after there was a very awkward silence in the booth followed by raucous laughter. He mentioned that the Wiggles look like gay Star Trek characters to him. I never though of that before, but it really made me laugh. I instantly thought of Greg with his goofy features and big belt buckles but that image went away quickly as Murray came to mind. Murray of the red shirt and we all know what happens to the red shirts on Star Trek. Poor Murray! :-D

Flat Daddy Program for Iraq

August 29, 2006

Life-sized likenesses of Guard members ease separation pains

Posted by The Associated Press, Wire Report
at 11:11 AM

http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/006922.html

The Flat Daddy / Mommy program was rolled out at the beginning of this year with the deployment of the Brewer-based B Company, 3rd Battalion of the 172nd Mountain Infantry. The Guard is paying to have a photo of its member blown up and provides supplies to families to attach the photo to foam board. Cutouts also are provided to parents and family members of childless service members. This is weird. People are carrying there photo's all over. According to the article linked above one has been to birthday parties, ballgames, school, the hairdresser and a funeral.

This is supposed to create less separation anxiety. However, it seems this may do more damage than good. Kids dragging around a life sized cutout is going to bring on questions from the general public and ridicule from there peers, especially at school. Children don't need this. A picture is not a substitute for a person. Emails, letters and phone calls are what kids need when a parent is absent.

Read the article, judge for yourself........ but I think this is a bad idea that just makes the situation worse :-(

RadioShack Employees fired via email!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/083006dnbusradioshack.30c5bc1.html

RadioShack Corp. laid off 403 employees at its Fort Worth headquarters Tuesday Aug 29th via e-mail. Email! What kind of world are we living in? This is a multi-billion dollar multi-national company. Shouldn't someone in HR have thought to actually go and talk to these people face to face? That's just common courtesy, especially to people who helped to keep you company going. The article states that they were expecting it, and knew the dismissal might come this way, but that is a truly horrible way to drop to down size your workforce. I equate this to the urban legend of a relationship being broken up on an answering machine message or even worse a post-it note. "We wanted to treat our employees with as much dignity and respect as possible," RadioShack Spokeswoman Kay Jackson said.

This Week's Words of Wisdom by Master Sheng Yen

This Week's Words of Wisdom by Master Sheng Yen

Chan practice is a pursuit of personal wisdom. But how can you judge what wisdom is? Within, it manifests as freedom from vexation. Without, it manifests in the way we interact with what is around us.