I do not eat kittens. I do not endorse eating kittens. I do not know what kittens taste like so please do not ask me. That sort of thing may happen overseas somewhere but here in Memphis we stick to pigs mostly. Cows too. Also Catfish, which has no genus relation to feline kittens as far as I know. We cool?
Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Michael
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No excuses from here out. I am running the Peach Tree 10k on the 4th of July 2009 in Atlanta Georgia. All the stars have aligned: My brother registered me (and paid for my entrance fee as a birthday present. Thanks Sean!) My Mom, who was here last weekend to visit for my birthday, hooked me up with all new gear. Thanks Mom! Also thaks to Jan (My Mother-in-law) and the rest of my family for a great birthday weekend! So I finally got fitted with proper running shoes. I got some new socks (Fancy cool-guy running socks, they make you faster) and the awesome, mind blowing, cancer curing, world peace creating Nike + iPod running gizmo. You can watch my progress here. I already have a heart rate monitor so I am good to go. My brother has been coaching me and I have been reading a lot on running on the web. If I can keep up my pace HOPEFULLY by July I will be able to finish the 10k without needing a paramedic to revive me. I’ll keep ya’ll posted.
Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Michael
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Just in case you need a refresher course…
Hilarious!
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Michael
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Happy Thanksgiving! We’re off to a great holiday so far. We woke up and turned on the Macy’s parade, I’ve got some Christmas music playing over the stereo and Jeanne has started cooking. It’s going to be a fun day and I am very greatful this holiday for many things. My biggest thanks go to my wife, Doctor Krigsman and Doctor Davis for the awe inspiring work and progress they have done recovering Charlie. I just know, with all my heart, that Charlie will live a “normal” life thanks to the efforts of my wife and our doctors. Thank you all so much! I hope everyone one gets to have nice belly full of good fixin’s today and enjoys this holiday! Have fun!
Posted on November 27th, 2008 by Michael
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I am a literary dolt. I don’t really read books. I most certainly have no ability to quote the classics to drive a point home. So my little pea brain has to rely on memories from movies to quote stuff. Pretty lame but that’s just how it is with me. That being said I want to share a little miracle with you that happened to me yesterday. You’ll probably think it’s lame however; to me it was big. Yesterday I touched a small piece of metallized Mylar polyester film. Pretty much looked like a scrap of tin foil. Wow. You must be so unimpressed at this point. Big deal I touched something. Well here comes my movie ping. In Star Trek: First Contact, Captain Jean Luc Picard, upon touching the missile that would make history by becoming the first Human starship traveling at warp, explained to Data that sometimes a touch can make objects more “real.” So that scrap of foil was from a NASA satellite launched on August 12th, 1960. The Echo 1A was a passive communications satellite: it functioned as a reflector, not a transmitter. After it was placed in a low orbit of the Earth, a signal would be relayed to Echo, reflected or bounced off its surface, then returned to Earth. The spacecraft was nicknamed a ’satelloon’ by those involved in the project. Echo 1A reentered Earth’s atmosphere and burned up on May 24, 1968. On that day bits of it fell in the backyard of of a man who is the grandfather to a fellow who works for me, Jeff. Jeff told me this story a few days ago and I asked him to bring in this nugget of history. He did and I was elated to see and touch it. For me to touch an object that originated on earth, left our gravity, orbited the planet and returned is simply amazing. Man’s ability to leave his planet of origin, to me, is simply miraculous. I am so in awe of what an Astronaut gets to experience. So that little piece of film brought me that much closer with one little touch.
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Michael
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I kept trying to call my wife yesterday and kept getting voice mail. When I got home I found out she was on the phone all day with Congressmen and the likes of David Kirby ! Wow! How cool!
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Michael
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This post goes out to Tampa Mark, the guru of enviro-eco-goodness. I have been working diligently to improve the gas milage of my 11 year old car. It’s a 1997 Volkwagen Jetta with a 2.0 liter, 8 valve four banger under the hood. I have made the following “mods” to improve milage:
Yesterday I put all my “mods” to the test as we drove from Memphis, TN to Austin, TX. Here is what was working against me:
The result, here comes the miracle, an incredible 37.1 miles per gallon! The best I had ever seen before all of my changes, on the highway, with a light load, cool air and not running the A/C was 31mpg. I am very pleased!
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Michael
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Wall*E Opens today and the first review I read is enough. It is exactly what I had hoped for. Tomorrow is the big day for Charlie ’cause we are so there! Here is the review from Gizmodo
Wall-E might be the most sympathetic, lovable robot ever created on film. While R2-D2 was hilarious and endearing, he had the benefit of C3PO to translate for him and a cast of human characters to carry the weight of the story. At the end of the day, R2-D2 was simply comic relief, but his descendant, whose voice was also created by Ben Burtt, is so full of humanity that you feel like your heart might just burst. Simply put, Wall-E is a masterpiece.
The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E are almost completely without dialogue. Instead, the story is told visually, as we see Wall-E, the abandoned garbage bot, puttering around a staggeringly rendered post-apocalyptic Earth. He goes around doing his job, as he has for the past 700 years, compacting trash into cubes and stacking them into immense towers. On the side, he collects remnants of humanity to keep for his own amusement. Zippo lighters, Rubik’s Cubes, Christmas lights: these are what Wall-E surrounds himself with. Because he’s so alone (except for a little cockroach), these dirty, abandoned objects are his companions, his contact with humanity. Read more…
Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Michael
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Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by Michael
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The World Wide Developer Conference in 60 seconds:
Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Michael
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