Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Guy Fawkes Day

Remember, remember, the 5th of November
Gunpowder Treason and plot ;
I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'Twas his intent.
To blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below.
Poor old England to overthrow.
By God's providence he was catch'd,
With a dark lantern and burning match

Holloa boys, Holloa boys, let the bells ring
Holloa boys, Holloa boys, God save the King!

Hip hip Hoorah !
Hip hip Hoorah !

A penny loaf to feed ol' Pope,
A farthing cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down,
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar,'
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head,
Then we'll say: ol' Pope is dead.

Video of the Week

If you aren't familiar with Pentatonix, you need to check out their videos. Primarily an a cappella group, they’ve posted dozens of videos on YouTube and toured the world. Here’s a sample of one of their songs. They’re also performing at the Puyallup fair tonight if you get a chance to see them.

Earth Hour?

Did anyone celebrate earth hour this year? It just ended here. I turned every light on in the house and moved a few lamps near windows just to make sure the outside world could see. I was going to burn an old tire or two as well, but I'm currently using all of them right now for other projects.

Happy Pi Day

Here is a photo of a cake made for Pi Day.


Cake Pi demotivational by nine-tailedgirl on deviantART

Here is a video made about pi.



Posted on 03/14 at 15:09:26

Huh?

Lois Lerner, who has repeatedly proved that she has no respect for the Constitution or other laws of our country, now decides that she is protected from testifying about her illegal actions by invoking the Fifth Amendment? That’s ironic.

Happy Holidays!

It seems that I post for holidays more than other occasions.  Today is the official observance of the Federal holiday known as Washington's Birthday.  Although his birthday is actually on the 22nd, Americans have a tendency of closing official things down on Mondays instead of on the actual holiday.  He was born February 11, 1731 according to official documents of the British empire, which meant that it was recorded using the Julian calendar since it was before the Calendar Act of 1750, which somehow makes the official date February 22, 1732 in the Gregorian calendar.  I don't understand where the extra year came from since my understanding is that the two were only 11 days off when they were switched, but I haven't taken the time to research it.  Most people's calendars show that today is President's Day since Abraham Lincoln also had a birthday last Wednesday.

Not bad

Costco currently has Studio Ghibli movies on sale!  Time to fill some holes in my bluray collection.

Sochi Olympics

Dear NBC,

I really don’t care about the life story of some figure skater I’ve never heard of.  I do care that wasting time with all of these “fluff” pieces is taking away from time you could be spending showing events that I might actually be interested in watching.  Show more hockey games and skiing and snowboarding and I might spend more time watching your channel.

Go Seahawks!

Congratulations to the Seahawks for setting the SuperBowl record for the most playing time in the lead with 59 minutes and 48 seconds.

To celebrate watch this video by the New Life creative team:

Groundhog Day

Happy Groundhog day everyone!  Unfortunately the winter will continue.  Today is a special Groundhog day since they decided to commemorate the day with a football game this afternoon.  During the SuperBowl I usually can't decide if I'm rooting for Coke or Budweiser, but this year I'll root for the Seahawks.

Go Hawks!

Tomorrow the Seattle Seahawks are playing in the SuperBowl in New Jersey.  As long as their only opponent is the Broncos they have a chance to win.  If they have to play against the refs again they'll like lose like the last time they played in the SuperBowl.  Either way, it should be a good game to watch.

Welcome, Happy New Year, And All That Other Good Stuff

My abandoned blog is being resurrected.  Amazon is advising that I do this so that I can have new and original content which will inspire the masses that read this to buy items from their site.  By masses, I'm referring to the 6-7 humans that stumble across this blog in any given months, plus the dozen web crawlers that index the pages for the various search engines.  So we'll see how this works.  Enjoy.