I like turtles...

apparently zombies do too.

(click here for you facebook and rss readers)

Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost.

Turtles are cool! Of all the animals I've seen in the sea, they are the ones I could follow and watch forever.

Of course, I suspect that I feel this way, because every other opportunity for me to see a whale-shark has been thwarted for one reason or another (e.g., bad timing, cancelled trips, living in Ohio)

But, I digress... back to the turtle.

Turtles are held in high regard, even sacred, in many cultures. In the Far East, the turtle shell (carapace) is seen as a symbol of heaven while the underside (plastron) is symbolic of mother earth. Some Native Americans believe that the earth on which we live was made from the mud found on the back of a turtle's shell. What ever the story is or what people believe in, you can't disagree that you're hit was awe when one of these majestic creatures slowly and purposely swim by you.

For me, the turtle embodies my thoughts of how one should live their lives. Turtles are thought to be slow creatures and are never in a rush.. they operate at their own pace, getting to where they need to be when they need to be there. What should we get out of this? Easy... go with the flow and be happy and content with the pace which life is taking you. Life is a journey, enjoy it as much as the destination.

In my magical world, turtles would be willing to share their secrets... because, chances are, they have many.

(http://www.explodingdog.com/title/nothinglastsbutnothingislost.html)

Here's my current desktop image that I've taken from explodingdog.com. It only relates to this short post in that there is a turtle in it.

And, for the record, I would never condone turtle servitude. I like to think that the turtle, pictured above, has taken it on himself to help his friend along his journey.

Here's some video for fun.

(For those of you that don't see the video, click here.)

I was looking through archives and I noticed about the same time last year, I blogged about turtle legend. I blame spring fever and my need to get some diving in.

It's not alright...

I thought it was funny, but may not be your cup of tea.

(no video?! click here.)

Three pretty cool words all in one movie title.

If you know me, I love movies. I mean I'll pretty much watch just about anything. Why? Because, I'm a loser.

Plus, throw in the the fact that Sherrie is normally my movie watching partner, chances are I'll have a pretty well rounded repertoire. Just so we're clear, Sher's the one to add culture and class to my normal movie line-up (e.g., "Shoot 'Em Up", "Time Bandits", and "A Time to Remember")

In 2009, there's a whole bunch of movies I would like to take time out to see; however, one has caught my eye enough that I couldn't help but highlight it here.

(pop-out, if you're seeing this through rss.)

I mean it has three words that'll get most any heterosexual guy pretty excited, i.e., "Lesbian", "Vampire" and "Killers". So, you know you can't go wrong.

The movie has already been release in Germany and is slated to be in the UK, on March 20th. When will it be in the US? I dunno, but I'm sure Google has the information somewhere in it's information hungry belly.

If you're a movie lover too, friend me on flixster, or if you're unfortunate to be my friend on facebook, check out our compatibility.

My current state of affairs...

This pretty much sums up how I feel right now.

"Why Am I Still Sick?" from explodingdog.com.

Do you twitter?!

I twitter. So, the first thing you ought to do is follow me at http://twitter.com/knightdiver. Why?! Because I have absolutely awesome insight and will keep you up to date with everything that is cool. Okay, not really, but it seems to be the thing to do is to solicit people to follow you on twitter. Now that this is out of the way...

What is twitter you ask?! My two second explanation: twitter is a microblogging tool that allow people to keep up with your short updates... if you're not satisfied by this explanation, here's something more concise from Common Craft that helps explain "Twitter in Plain English"

There's many tools out there to help "gauge" your twitter usage. What's it all mean? Who know... I'm just cataloging them here, just to do so.

Follow Cost
http://followcost.com/
Ever wonder "How annoying will it be to follow so-and-so on twitter?" Well, wonder no more.. you can have some straightforward statistics on how many updates are made per day, and how the last 100 updates have been. It also measures your performance in milliscobles.

Twitter Grader
http://twitter.grader.com/
Twitter Grader measures the power of a profile. How's this calculated? Some twitter voodoo and crazy number crunching you'll get a score relative to those who've been graded before you. The higher the score the better you are... can rank among the other "elites" in your area?

Mr Tweet
http://mrtweet.net/
Mr Tweet is your personal networking assistant. Using the magic of the internet, Mr Tweet will take statistics of your tweets and conversations and provide you information every two weeks. Information you'll get from Mr Tweet include people within your sphere of influence, people who you aren't providing reciprocal follows with, and general usage statistics.

Twitter Counter
http://twittercounter.com/
If you like numbers and graphs, you'll like this tool. This tool keep track of how many followers you have and predicts how many followers you will have in the near future. It's all about averages. And, from what I've gathered.... I'm pretty average.

Welcome to my world...

If you can't read the credits, the image is from Alan from poisonedminds.com

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Bacon Explosion: The Experience

So my business partner found the recipe to Bacon Explosion on bbqaddicts.com.  It's a recipe guaranteed to get you to "Pork Nirvana in no time flat."  Also, it's a recipe unapologetic for the amount of pork meat required to make it, about four pounds.

Check out the recipe here:(http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/)

It was all fun and games until my wife decides that she wants to actually cook the thing.  I should add here that we deviated from the recipe, we had to.  The main reason for this is that we did NOT have a smoker. ;)

Here's a little video of our experience.
(And by little, I mean 10 minutes)

(In case you need the link, click here.)

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The Matrix runs on Windows XP?!

From CollegeHumor.

Are you serious!?

What used to be a great song from the British based post-punk band Depeche Mode, has now been transformed into a 21st century hip-hop / pop song. 

Is nothing sacred anymore?

Hit play, close your eyes and just listen.  For all the gentlemen reading this, be warned... if you watch, your opinion might be swayed.

(pop-out for you rss readers)

You know the song?  It's Personal Jesus.

I'm appalled.  I think I'm going to cry... however, I could watch Hillary Duff over and over again.  She is 18, right?

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Ummm... yeah...

Spider-Man is cool.  This video, not so much. 

Either way, it's your one minute distraction for today.  ;)

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The 80's are awesome...

I posted this a while back, but thought I would share it again.

How To Do The Robot

If you're wondering why I'm posting this...  well, my music hard drive in unavailable and I'm listening to 80's Radio on Last.fm. So, I felt nostalgic hearing stuff from Mike & The Mechanics, Genesis, Richard Marx, and Foreigner.   Lucky you!

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More toys that KILL!!

I posted an entry sometime ago about Toys That Kill.  I have to tell you, I'm getting worried.  In this day and age, with the economy the way it is, the wars that are going on, the political unrest felt throughout the world...  people are getting upset.

What's worse... toys are beginning to rebel as well.

Don't know what I'm talking about?  Check out the video...

Toys that KILL!!

(pop-out, since I haven't figured out to get rss to feed right)

What are we going to do?! 

I'll tell you what *I'm* going to do...  I'm going to go to Starbucks and pick me up a Iced Venti Chai, then train Snowball to attack any stuff animal the looks at me in a funny kinda way.  As well as step up Christian's light saber training.

Check out the main actors to the above film, here.

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Saturday night insomnia...

Here are some websites I frequent when I can't sleep:

explodingdog

It's Sam's site.  Sam draws pictures.  Sam gets inspiration from titles his site visitors send him.  Send a title to Sam and you may inspire him.

PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.  It started as an Art installation for Artomatic 2004 in Washington, D.C., became a website in 2005 and has since gained worldwide popularity.  Recently, foreign language versions have been made.

Send Frank a secret:

PostSecret
13345 Copper Ridge Road
Germantown, Maryland 20874

engadget && ThinkGeek

 

B/C I'm a geek and I like keeping up on the new toys.  (Even though I can't afford 'em.)

kiva

Kiva is a person-to-person micro-lending website.  It's cool, I would highly recommend it.  It'll do your karma good.

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I like simple math problems...

... this was from some SPAM I received earlier today, but, nonetheless, I got a kick out of it.  Maybe, you will too.

Here's the email:

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I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.

Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free.

So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.

Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes.

That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.

A husband and wife has $595,000.00.

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?

Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.

Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads

Put away money for college - it'll be there

Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.

Buy a new car - create jobs

Invest in the market - capital drives growth

Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves

Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG - liquidate it. Sell off its parts.

Let American General go back to being American General.

Sell off the real estate.

Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.

Sure it's a crazy idea that can "never work."

But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!

How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC .

And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards,

Birk

T. J. Birkenmeier, A Creative Guy & Citizen of the Republic

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Sound like a great plan, huh?  Well maybe if the numbers matched up...  I think people get some number numb that they'll assume the numbers always match up...  did you catch the math error?

Oh... and for the record, I'm not in favor of these bailout bills either.  Who's going to bail me out if my clients go out of business and my sales pipeline collapses?  EXACTLY.

Spooky...

check this out, it's kind of spooky. 

Ghost in need of a workout?

Speaking of ghosts and with Halloween just around the corner, anyone interested in doing some Ghost Hunting?

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Mel Brook's animated series.

Spaceballs has been reincarnated 21 years later on G4. 

It's called Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs: The Animated Series. 

[[ I HAD TO TAKE THIS OFF, it annoyed me]]

check out the promo on their website.

(the site: http://www.bounceyourspaceballs.com/)

If you like Mel Brooks' humor you'll probably enjoy this show.

From the previews, it looks more crass than the actual movie version, wow...  so, hold on to your seats and don't watch the clip if you're easily offended.

If you don't know who Mel Brooks is you're probably just too young.  Check out his wiki write-up here, and definitely check out his other movies. I would highly recommend History of the World, Part 1.

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Toys that kill...

Chowin' down.
Originally uploaded by SAM.R.I

Sometimes when I can't sleep, I'll put random terms into a search box and see what I find...

Basically, this is what you get when you cross Lego and Zombies on flickr.com.

Enjoy!

2 minutes and 19 seconds of fun...

Here's a favorite...  it's an honest and emotionally in-touch R&B song from http://runawaybox.com/.  Enjoy.

BTW, I love Boston Market!

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Facebook == Lamebook

Lots of error messages and annoying feature does not a good website make.    Case in point, something I've been seeing all night:


a whole lotta ajax errors; when you send a message, make a comment, or even pick your nose this is what you get...

apparently someone's panties are in a bunch...  sigh.

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