FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Apr 7, 2008 -> 09:15 AM) Really been in the news worldwide over the past few weeks. The torch was in London yesterday, and they had security and police surrounding each torch holder, and yet protestors still got through. And now Jacques Rogge has come out and said this; So are people in support of boyscotts for the upcoming Olympics? I think that with not only the Tibet controversy, but with a whole slew of social/political/environmental/etc. issues, China willingly let themselves be put under the world microscope when they won the Olympic bid.

Looking forward to participating in the kinder, gentler version of the slugfest that is the Buster.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Apr 5, 2008 -> 05:17 PM) http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=...=23&sp=true Somehow if this were the Japanese I don't think it would be greeted with such a ho-hum attitude. Espercially considering how much crap they get for whaling. Where is PETA!!!! Yeah, I'd like to not see any intentional sea turtle harvesting – especially one with so much baloney folk remedy aspects to it like giving the blood to kids with respiratory illness. But, FAR AND AWAY, the leading threat to leatherbacks is accidental catch by the global longline fishing fleet, and the US loses all of its moral high ground there because it allows longliners to continue to operate and has even reopened Hawaiian longline fisheries with full knowledge that it will be the chief contributor to the local extinction of the population. There are probably only around 50,000 breeding pairs of leatherbacks worldwide as of now, and that's a huge decline from 25 years ago. Compae that number to the 50,000 leatherbacks (many are non-breeding subadults) that people like Larry Crowder at Duke estimate are accidentally captured by the global longline fleet every year. Crowder estimates that a leatherback has about a 50/50 chance of being killed by a longline hook every year. A species that dates back 100 million years may be gone in our lifetimes if global fishery practices aren't quickly overhauled. And you know I'm not meaning to call you out on the Palistian slaughter of the animal you posted, Alpha – certainly I hate seeing that. I just wanted to give some perspective as to where the real threats to the species come from. The World Conservation Union recognizes the species as endangered, but there isn't an international moratorium on targeted harvest. And even if there was, it wouldn't fix the longline bycatch problem. To be even more depressing, as damaging as the longlines are to sea turtles, it pales compared to what they are doing to the world's albatross populations. 3/4 of the 24 living albatross species face immediate extinction threat due primarily to longlines. Well over 100,000 birds are accidentally killed each year by longlines (that's probably a major underestimate).

I love hearing about the nanos and picos and like Worth Brewing Co. trying to make a go of it. That's what I really want to do one day is to start a pico with a 7-barrel capacity and two styles, brewing each style in alternate weeks for on site consumption and extremely local distribution. My wife is certain I'd drink all the profits, and she's probably right. Cool move by Jim Koch and Boston Beer Co., though for sure. The hop shortage has been a nightmare for the American micros that like to go heavy alpha on their IPAs.

I'm not getting too carried away, but the team has been fun to watch for the most part so far. :gosox2:

The first hour or so will be mlbradio at work. The second hour or so I'll be in transit and will probably have to make a phone call or two to know what's going on. Finally I'll be home for the last few innings. This workingman's cr@p is for the birds.

Or maybe a rotoscoped extra from an 80s Ah-Ha video. . .

QUOTE(The Critic @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 06:35 PM) How's the rest of Oasis? Meh, I think I have more the Pete Townsend look.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 09:33 PM) I think that falls on the parents, AND society. With all the 'self esteem' crap that the liberals have pushed in various programs, such as no valedictorians so noone gets their feelings hurt, no keeping scores in little league or soccer games, etc., the self esteem has turned into me-centered thinking. More here to blame for that attitude than just the parents. I must have missed the meeting the day the liberals decided to make "no scores in little league" a plank in the campaign platform.

Nice catch by JD to end it as well. :gosox2:

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 01:21 PM) Photo Booth? You betcha' QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 4, 2008 -> 01:31 PM) and where's your pimp shot? I left my pimp clothes at home, but here's my Jay Leno impression:

Negligible weight loss this week. Drank too much fat beer I think. Boo.

Here's Flaxx, Warhol-style

Happy B-Day Aboz!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 12:37 PM) Like a Mac . . . Did you know that Adam and Eve were actually the very first computer programmers?? Yep, Eve had an apple and Adam had a wang.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 12:25 PM) That your ex-wife? If my ex was a computer, she would be very reliable and sought after. Like a good computer, she never went down.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 12:17 PM) Sweet! That will be a nice upgrade to the Commodore Vic-20 the same family member lost via the same avenue. A mint, still in the box, unused, Vic 20 that recently sold on a large auction site for many. many times, the original price. I wonder what I could get for my Lisa?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 12:17 PM) I disagree. Absolutely. Throw Addington onto that Hell Express as well.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 3, 2008 -> 10:29 AM) Or at least that is what old guys like FlaSoxxJim and YASNY tell me.[/color] The only way to really watch Deep Throat as it was truly intended is on the ol' Betamax, Baby. Up in an attic at my folks' place in Chicago I still have 8-track versions of Hendrix' Smash Hits, Led Zeppelin II, Zappa's Over-Nite Sensation, Deep Purple's Made in Europe live album, Three Dog Night's Greatest Friggin' Hits, and the Grease and Jesus Christ Superstar soundtracks. The Zappa tape is one of a handful of commercial titled actually released in quadraphonic stereo, so it represents the nexus between two DOA dinosaur technologies and so of course I'm very proud of it. Man, I bet that would have sounded Dine-O-Mite in Tex's plush carpeted burgandy purple mist Chevy van back in the day.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 10:24 PM) I hope by donating blood you mean you played Rugby. Seriously, if that is the worse thing you do to impress a girl or get laid, you have more control than I. Tex "Went to see Barry Manilow" Sox Veeeerry sly, Tex. I mean, next to Barry Manilow even you would have looked manly.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 11:31 AM) After I disect your remark, I'll return and inform to what degree I'm upset. There's something incongruent there. Right you are. And thanks for the complementary post.

If I believed in Hell I'd be certain John Yoo already has a spot set aside there for him. I cannot believe that Berkeley Law School gave this war criminal a job.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 11:21 AM) What's your angle? This is getting to be a very protracted discussion.

QUOTE(Brian @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 10:58 AM) This is an ACUTE observation. They say PA has acute angina, but I haven't had a peek at it yet. If true though, that's good, because his boobs are awful.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Apr 2, 2008 -> 12:15 AM) That's because you WERE 61 when it happened. Shut your mouth and stay off my grass, you punk kid.