An Interesting Week

NOTE: this was written about 24 hours ago but would not upload to Blogger, hope it is all OK now.

This has been an interesting week. Friday was the 100th anniversary of the state of Oklahoma so at the college that I work at we had a number of free events. While the bar-b-que on Tuesday was nice, Wednesday was the high point of the week. Any one who lived in Oklahoma for 30 years or more will remember a weather man named Don Woods. Well as part of the Oklahoma Centenial he came to the college and was drawing his trademark Gusty cartoons (for free). He would always close his forecasts with Dusty reacting to the weather forecast he just gave. Gusty it seems is the official cartoon of Oklahoma so that was the tie to the centennial celebration. While he drew a lot of the same ones for most people, I stopped and talked to him for a moment since it was a slow time. He had been an adjunct at another campus of our college teaching weather, and he and I traded our experiences as teachers. When it came time for him to draw mine, he asked me what I wanted Gusty to be doing. Well, I work with computers, so I asked him to do one at a computer. I am now the proud owner of a Gusty typing at a computer. If I get a chance I will scan it in and post it some time soon. For now check out Gusty and Don's web site. On the artwork pages there is one of Gusty at a computer. Mine is like that but not in color.

Of course, being that Friday was the anniversary, all state institutions were closed. Guess who had a day off. As you can tell I had a lot of time to look at news stories and post my comments about them. I will make up for it cause at 8AM I have to be there for the Saturday classes.

Anyway. More later. I do have a new blog to talk about but it will wait till I get some sleep.

L8R all

November Pictures from the Home Depot

Home Depot Pirate Ship November 07

Pirate ship time at the Home Depot.  We had a good time making the ships.  Have not tried to float them yet.

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Crime in a children's virtual world

Children's Virtual World Destroyed By Hackers - News Story - WSMV Nashville:

"Webkinz is a virtual world for children where gamers spend hours accumulating virtual money and then spend it on furnishing an online home.

Jesse Shafer spent a year putting together a fantasy world and then all of a sudden it was gone after his account was hacked.

'I had a pool table, clocks. I had a couch, some plants. I had movies,” said Shafer. 'About $30,000 worth of stuff went down the drain.'

Word started spreading at Shafer's school that everyone was getting their Webkinz world hacked and robbed."

I know my own children have Webkinz accounts and I know how much time it takes to earn the Webkinz cash. It has caused some problems when it comes to doing cores around the house. But like real life nothing comes easy. That someone would steal these accounts from them is just plain wrong! Unfortunately it does teach the children about the real world in a bad way.

Time to investigate?

MINEOLA, N.Y. - The estranged wife of a pastor claims her husband blended his professional and personal finances so thoroughly that his church should be counted as an asset in their divorce.

A judge agreed in a decision published this week to hear arguments on the claim, and he ordered a financial appraisal of the church. Lawyers said it could represent the first time anyone in New York state has tried to treat a religious institution as a marital asset.

The wife argues that her husband of 31 years used his Brooklyn church as a "personal piggy bank," setting his own income, spending the congregation's tithes as he pleased and running a catering business from the building, according to the decision by state Supreme Court Judge Arthur M. Diamond. The couple's names were redacted from the decision.

Pastor's wife: Church is a divorce asset - Yahoo! News


Will the senator that is investigating people who abuse their ministerial credentials take a look at this one also.  I mean, it would appear that if his finances are so closely intertwined with the church that this would be pale in comparison to what the televangelist are doing!

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From the 'which is the most stupid thing to do?' department

FOXNews.com - Michigan Boy, 13, Driving for Drunk Dad Charged With DWI - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"CLIO, Mich. — A police officer checking on a truck that got stuck in the mud at a city park was startled to find a 13-year-old boy behind the wheel.
The officer also was surprised that the boy appeared to be drunk.
So did the teen's father, who was riding in the front seat. He told police that he had turned over the driving duties to his son because he'd had too much to drink.
Open containers of beer and liquor were found in the vehicle, said Clio Police Chief James McLellan.
'[The boy] even said he didn't want to drive because he was too drunk,' McLellan told The Flint Journal for a story published Thursday."

I am not sure which is more stupid here. The fact that the father gave a 13 year old kid the keys to drive him home because he was drunk, or that the father would let the kid get drunk in the first place. It may be a tie.

NASCARGOT - A NASCAR Parody

Sometimes watching NASCAR races this year had seemed like this....

From the "what was he thinking" department....

SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said.

The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.

Best to use tools when loosening lug nut - Yahoo! News

Kind of makes you wonder if we need a little more chlorine at the shallow end of the gene pool...

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Someone told him off finnaly

From the BBC

Mr Chavez called Mr Aznar, a close ally of US President George W Bush, a fascist, adding "fascists are not human.
A snake is more human."

Mr Zapatero said: "Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people."

Mr Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, despite his microphone being turned off. The king leaned forward and said: "Why don't you shut up?"

According to reports, the king used a familiar term normally used only for close acquaintances - or children.

Love it. This man has been bloviating for a long time. Finnaly someone told him to put a cork in it. I know it will be said that he was a pupet of the US. Any one want to take bets on it.

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Let him who is without the first stone.....

An Embarrassment Of Riches:

"When Congress gets involved, however, beware of slippery slopes. These ministries should comply with tax laws. But Senate investigations could go beyond requiring accountability under current law and lead to new IRS regulations monitoring the internal affairs of churches and other religious groups. And that would have far-reaching consequences for the autonomy and freedom of religious communities. Today Kenneth Copeland Ministries, tomorrow your church."

I am not saying that the churches under question have done wrong, or that they are squaeky clean either. Then again, what ministry has not got some misuse under its hat. Mr. Haynes has hit the nail square on the head here. Let the IRS do its job, then step in if and when you have to. Otherwise you are going to open up a can of worms that will not go back in the can easily.

Is it safe to buy books for Christmas presents this year?

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | GHB fears for Chinese-made toys:

"Millions of Chinese-made toys have been recalled in the US and Australia after they were found to contain a substance linked to the date-rape drug GHB. A total of five children were taken to hospital after swallowing tiny beads known as Bindeez in Australia and Aqua Dots in the US. The beads were coated in chemicals which transformed into the banned drug when swallowed."

Well I guess if it says 'made in China' you better not buy it. Cribs are being recalled now also. Crazy

You might want to remember to shut off that cell phone at church...

YouGetSignal.com - Open Ports Tool

Interesting web site with some handy tools to check things out. See what ports are being blocked and the approximate location of web address including your own.

Comming soon to a Wal-Mart near you

$200 Ubuntu Linux PC Now Available at Wal-Mart | Gadget Lab from Wired.com:

"'It's almost like a Google PC,' Liu says, pointing to the desktop's rack of pre-configured links to all of Google's online applications. It is, he says, the mass-market Linux PC we've all been waiting for. 'That's our dream. ... we go the final step to make it work out the box, to go the whole nine yards.'"

If I had the extra bucks I would like to buy one. It would be for the kids, right...... sure it would..... well maybe........

Mark your territory game

The bold, meaty satisfaction of Meaty Bone®

Living proof of the fact that man has gone to the dogs.

Good, they hit them where it hurts...

FOXNews.com - Jury Awards Father Nearly $11 Million in Funeral Protesters Case - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News:

"The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress to the Marine's father, Albert Snyder of York, Pa."

I only hope that the man will be able to collect as much as he can and bankrupt this group.

United Viruses

United Viruses

Took a while to download, but in the end, kind of funny.....

Looks like a great time was had by all....

A-Rod, your timming stinks

NEW YORK --

Major League Baseball had this message for Alex Rodriguez and agent Scott Boras: shame on you.

Boras announced during Game 4 of the World Series on Sunday night that A-Rod was opting out of the final three seasons of his contract with the New York Yankees. The timing left baseball officials livid.

"We were very disappointed that Scott Boras would try to upstage our premier baseball event of the season with his announcement," Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, said Monday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

You know, I was wondering about the timing of that myself. Glad to see that MLB was not happy with it either. Must have had some Yankee blood in him still to time that the way he did.

Plastic Jesus

The Local - Church plans Lego sculpture of Jesus:

"A church in Västerås is asking parishioners to donate enough pieces of white Lego to create a life-size statue of Jesus. A local priest is leading the drive to construct a white plastic Jesus in the central Swedish town. Per Wilder estimates that 20,000 Lego blocks will be needed to complete the project."

When I was in my early teen years I remember a song about 'Plastic Jesus' riding on the dashboard of my car. Guess He just got bigger.

Why does this offend me?

Still possibe to win the title

Well, one of my favorite NASCAR drivers won his first race in the Bush Series