I was once lukewarm to the second amendment to the US Constitution feeling the amendment was dated and belonged to an earlier time in US history where to pull together a militia for the defense of the country or the need for firearms for protection and food was necessary. I still felt that the second amendment had some utility and that side arms and long rifles for personal protection and hunting respectively should still be a right but in general I thought that the right to bear arms nut...
I saw “Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith It is the episode that ties into the original “Star Wars” movie. The movie starts in the mist of battle in space above the capital planet (home to the multi world senate and Jedi temple) in which the Jedi knight master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his student Anakin Skywalker are attempting to rescue the leader of the Republic Palpatine who has been captured by the Separatist. After his rescue, Palpatine who is really a Sith known as Darth Sidiou...
It’s been a long time since I last blogged about sex. I think I did write once that I feel and know that sex is very important. I support having sex or, if you can’t find a partner for whatever reason, masturbation and I don’t care if the sex is heterosexual or homosexual (rough or gentle, slow or fast). I was thinking about the combination of sex and music. Many of us when we try to romance someone play romantic or what we think is sexually arousing music when we’re with our ‘honey’ at th...
I mentioned some old science fiction titles worth seeing on my last blog. Probably all of the titles can be downloaded for free if you use peer-to-peer software like Kazaa. However even the price of recently released movies on DVD are relatively cheap. You might be able to find some at the dollar store or at a drugstore for three or six dollars. The average price of recently released movies on DVD is about seven dollars and fifty cents. Recently released popular titles or critically ac...
It has been a long time since my last entry to this blog but there really have been a lot of demands on my time and when there weren’t demands on my time I didn’t feel like writing. A lot has happened since my last posting and some of these things I will eventually write about and post to this blog or another blog. That reminds me that I still may drop one of the sites I blog on. I presently post on two sites. I am thinking about only using one site. The topics that I feel are ‘heav...
Epson Printer: I now have an Epson Stylus CX4600 printer. It is one of those all-in-one wonders that copies, prints, and scans. The CX4600 also has slots for various digital camera memory cards (yes, it can print photos). I wasn’t even looking for the picture making ability but it is nice to know that I have it and got it for a pretty good price. The printer came in at about eighty-five dollars (with tax) from Target and this was not a sale price as was the case for a similar Hewlett-Packard ...
The case I was trying to remember on my last blog entry in relation to the Michael Jackson trial presently going on in California was the McMartin Preschool Abuse Trial. This case is a prime example of a child molestation case running amuck (in California no less). A mother in Manhattan Beach, California accused a guy named Ray Buckey (son of the owner of the Pre School) of molesting her son. The police promptly got search warrants and searched Buckey’s house. He was soon arrested. The...
Another high profile trial is saturating the news coverage in the US. It seems that now in mainstream media sensational trials have come to dominate news coverage. They consume a very large amount of news time on all the 24-hour news stations, network news and local news shows. Usually these trials have celebrities or government officials involved but not always as the Peterson case showed. Serial killers and mass killers also earn a wealth of coverage like the recently arrested BTK killer...
After using a Linksys Wireless B adapter for the last year or so I’ve finally decided to adopt the G standard. I purchased a NetGear USB adapter that uses the G standard. I was kind of hesitant to get a Netgear card because a bad experience I had and to some extent still am having with a PCI G standard NetGear wireless adapter presently being used by a family member. There seems to be some type of conflict between the drivers that come with the card and those built into the Windows XP H...
Just tried to get a prescription filled for the painkiller Oxycontin. You will not believe the nonsense I went through. I went to a store named Walgreens. It is a drugstore/convenience store setup but I think they make much of their money by filling prescriptions. The pharmacist at Walgreens on this night really sucked. He did not want to fill my prescription without first contacting the doctor who wrote it. This is extraordinary behavior that is only done if the pharmacist is suspicio...
The funniest story I heard on television last year was on the program Live With Regis And Kelly (Yes, I do peek in on this program occasionally. I watch many programs occasionally. Rarely do I regularly watch any program on television though.). Regis told a story about meeting Jack Nicholson at a dinner party after screening a film Nicholson starred in. I’m going to try and tell it but I probably won’t do it justice. I can’t capture the unique mannerisms of Regis. Anyway Regis was sit...
I read about the new mini Mac that cost 499.00 US. It comes without a monitor (which could add considerably to the cost), keyboard and mouse. I must admit it re-ignited my interest in the Mac. I know how to use a Mac (if the jaguar GUI operates the same as earlier versions of Mac operating systems) and took a computer course in college where the computer science/ computer-programming department preferred the Mac. The various labs on the various campuses however had PCs that had a versi...
I went to see “The Aviator” the other day. Overall the picture was okay but I left the theater feeling unsatisfied. I had the same feeling about the movie “Master And Commander-The Far Side Of The World (2003, C+ grade)”. “The Aviator” wasn’t too reserved as I accused “Master And Commander” of being yet something didn’t thoroughly gel in the film in my view. Scorsese the director of this flick hasn’t made to many films that are A grade in my opinion although no one can argue that he doe...
I saw “Hotel Rwanda” today. It is a dramatization of a Hutu Hotel managers’ experiences in Rwanda during the genocidal rampage against the Tutsis that happened in the around the mid 90’s. The Hutu people of Rwanda turned on their Tutsi neighbors and butchered hundreds of thousands of Tutsi mainly with machetes. Man descended to beast as women and children were given no quarter. The United States shy because of the recent experience in Somalia did not assist and the rest of the internatio...
My online hard hit the ground the other day. No, I didn’t do it. It was my sister. Anyway the drop caused the hard drive to break. I had recently got another forty-gig drive from my brother, which I was intending to use as a backup for my online hard drive (I have a hard drive that I only use offline). Unfortunately it doesn’t work. I have a warranty on the forty-gig Western Digital drive that I got from my brother and will be sending it back for a replacement. This problem would not...