Author Archive for Rick
We have too many cats and we watch too much of The White Rapper Show.
I’m not really a gun guy and I’m certainly no marksman. To date, my military firearms training has consisted of shooting a Sig off the fantail of a ship at bags of trash. Incredibly, I was able to qualify on the M9 today. And I ate an MRE for lunch, which was surprisingly tasty. I’m practically in the real Army now.
Minus the tv antenna, the electrical pole, and our neighbor’s roof, today’s sunrise reminded me of my blog header.
My alma mater holds the proud record of graduating more American astronauts than any other undergraduate institution in the country. It has now earned the distinction of graduating more crazy astronauts than any other school.
Mrs. Spacely wore adult diapers so that she wouldn’t have to take bathroom breaks on her fifteen hour drive to eliminate her rival. That’s determination. Diapers on a Shuttle mission: acceptable. Diapers at Mardi Gras: acceptable. Diapers for a long car drive: crazy.
The only cartoons I watch are The Simpsons, Little Einsteins, and Dora the Explorer. But thanks to a panicky public and an obviously overzealous police department, I now know about Aqua Teen Hunger Force. The mooninite voice sounds like the Microsoft text-to-speech translator. Special thanks to Boston PD for keeping me hip.
Sign from some flightseeing operator. But seriously, it’s a mess to clean up.
After nearly losing a digit in an electrical near miss today, I found this to be appropriate.
What I know.
What I need to learn.
I love the direct personification of our worldwide archenemy. During the state of the union, our exalted leader referred to terrorists as “the terrorists” no less than four times. Use of the article “the” is a deliberate literary attempt to put a face on a faceless existence. The Boogeyman is scarier than a boogeyman. I had to chuckle thinking about “the terrorists” getting together at their annual meeting.
I’m pumped. Dead people, skinned, injected with plastic, and splayed out for the world to see. This sci-art hits the Arizona Science Center at the end of this month. I will definitely be among the 400,000 projected visitors. I haven’t been to the ASC since tesla was still cool. This tesla, not this tesla.
