Sasquatch

He's back. Bigfoot himself was reportedly photographed in Ridgeway, Pa by hunter Rick Jacobs who mounted a camera to a tree in hopes of photographing deer.

Jacobs did'nt photograph any deer, however he did get an image of a furry image walking on all fours.

Bear or Sasquatch? You decide.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307020,00.html

For the Love

There is the whole ritual of dating filled with awkward gaffs, meeting the parents and inevitably copious amounts of cheap wine.

Who needs a significant other when you have the Internet?

A Zogby International and communications consultancy, 463 Communications, http://www.zogby.com/, poll released this week reveals that one in four Americans say the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other.

The online survey, perhaps making it biased to begin with, conducted Oct. 4-8, included 9,743 adult respondents nationwide.


The survey signifies a dynamic shift in this country's sociological mindset.A once open armed, chat with your neighbors culture has manifested itself into a digital avatar life that is replacing the core of human existence — physical, a.k.a.. real, relationships. The survey reports 24 percent of Americans said the Internet could serve as a replacement for a significant other. And while highest among singles, there was no difference between males and females openness to the idea of the Internet as a surrogete partner.

Self-actualization in this country is in limbo, and the Internet is redefining individual relationships at an alarming rate.More than one in four Americans has a social networking profile such as MySpace or Facebook, according to the survey. And of the 78 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds who report having a social networking profile, more are starting to refer to that as their social life.

As frightening as the fact that one-quarter of America would prefer to eat dinner with a computer rather than a member of the opposite sex, perhaps even more fighting is the fact that Americans support using this technology to create an Orwellian future. More than half of Americans said Internet content, such as video, should be controlled in some way by the government. Twenty-nine percent said it should be regulated just like television content, according to the survey. While 24 percent said government should institute an online rating system similar to the one used by the movie industry. Only 36 percent said the blocking of Internet video would be unconstitutional.

And while Americans apparently want government to monitor what they watch for them, parents are open to the idea of monitoring their children via tracking devices. One in five Americans said they would be willing to insert a chip into a child, 13 or younger, to help track them if they are lost, abducted, or just tend not to be where they are supposed to be. What kind of Draconian Big Brother reality do we live in when people are ready to treat their children like cocker-spaniels.

This isn't some science fiction Robert Ludlum novel, these are real people wanting to institute real technology to make a generation, dependent on computers, more dependent on technology. Imagine if you will a not so distant future where our children, implanted with tracking chips, sit in front of their computers interacting with their significant other aptly named the Web.

I need some cheap wine.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1922 - 2007

Raise a glass to a man who knew no bounds...

To Pierce or Not to Pierce? Is That Really the Question?

I accepted a long time ago that I couldn't get a piercing.

My reasoning, if you’re tough enough to have a piercing you should be tough enough to take a punch.

I have never been very good at taking a punch. I curl into a ball and wheeze like a broken bagpipe.

But that’s not to say I don’t empathize with my pierced brethren who are afraid to express themselves via a stud in the nose.
I too, know all too well what it is like to have to modify your appearance for the sake of “professionalism.”

I happen to be partial to a certain type of hairstyle known as the “mullet.” But as you can imagine the office doesn't lend itself to this particular look.

However, my hairstyle is not the point here. The real point is where does the office end and personal life begin?

Odds are very few employees out there are able to entirely be themselves in the workplace.
Majority of businesses’ exert some sort of dress code or policy on its employees.

But exactly how much control does a company hold over its workforce?
While an organization wants to present a professional image, whose to say someone who doesn't fit those conventional “norms” can’t be perfectly professional with a giant tattoo and tongue ring.

On the same token, when you go in for surgery would it make you comfortable if the last thing you saw was the doctor’s nose ring dangling above your head?
The core of this issue isn't piercings, tattoos or even hairstyles. It is people’s preconceived
notions.

Everyone has a stereotype in their mind about individuals based on appearance, whether they want to admit it or not.
Mine is that you have to be “tough” to get a piercing. That’s clearly absurd. I’ve seen infants with pierced ears.

And while a younger generation of workers may look different than their predecessors, odds are those professional stigmas and stereotypes will always exist in some form.
Which means no matter how much the work place evolves, there will still be some sort of restrictions placed on employees appearance.

Whether that is right or wrong is up to each individual to decide. Then celebrate that decision with a nose piercing or custom tattoo.

White Kids Indeed love Hip Hop

How many rap show end with the rapper getting a titty-twister from some zit-faced teenager in the crowd?

Can you imagine 50 Cent finishing off his set, covered in sweat no shirt muscles bulging, when some fan jumps up yanks his nipple and runs off?

50 Cent would shoot him dead right there, along with half the audience and about 30 members of his entourage. The kid would be Swiss cheese.

But that is exactly what happened Tuesday night at the mc Chris show in Denver. Some random kid felt it was necessary to tweak mc’s nipple as he bid farewell.

It’s just one of many things you see at a mc chris show that would never happen to any other rapper.

Mc Chris, real name Chris Ward from Illinois, persona is far from the image most have in their mind from his squeaky high rhymes on his record.

The 32-year-old rapper strolls out on stage plops down his Apple notebook pulls up I-tunes and plugs I his mic. Frankly the short little white guy looks like any one of ten guys at the bar drinking cheap beer, which chris was most likely doing prior to going on stage.

After cuing up the ghost buster theme song and firing off a few quick lyrics, mc tells the audience, composed mostly off overweight Star Wars fans and skinny stoners, to shut up while he tests his levels.

Chris is quick on his feet and a genuinely good rapper, but it is hard to the where the persona ends and the character begins.

Most of his songs revolve around comic books, Star Wars, getting beat up and marijuana. But then keep in mind he got his start in the music business as the MC Pee Pants, a rapping spider on the Carton Network’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Over the course of his half an hour show at Denver’s Marquee Theater, Chris talks as much as he raps, including a five-minute tirade about how much it sucks that they killed off Captain America.

“If you don’t read comic books now would be a good time to get a beer or talk to a girl,” Chris yelled, before going into his tirade

It’s also worth noting mc chris was the opening act for Piebald, and by the time Piebald hit the stage majority of the crowd was gone.

Mc’s fan base runs deep and is loyal, because the bottom line is he is entertaining That’s why a 12-year-old hip hop fan can stand next to a 30-year-old Star Wars fan, whose only similarity is they both still live with there parents, and appreciate a middle-aged white guy joke about the cops not finding his stash.

Surreal? Perhaps, but his favorite kind of nut is the macadamia, so what are you going to do?

Mmmm Buzz Doughnuts

Scientists really outdid themselves this time.

I thought science would never be able to outdo Tang, now that’s a modern marvel of food technology, but now they have created caffeinated doughnuts.

Thanks to the over-stimulated brain of molecular biologist Robert Bohannon, now we can enjoy the equivalent of two-cups of coffee in one convenient doughnut. That means a dozen is like 24 cups of coffee. That’s a lot of caffeine.

The convenient/lethal combination has been dubbed “Buzz Doughnuts” and can also be incorporated into “Buzz Bagels” for those out there who are more health conscious.

Bohannon’s biggest challenge he had to overcome when trying to figure out how best to wake people up and fill them up at the same time, wasn’t getting the caffeine in the pastry, rather still making it taste good.

Apparently, ground up coffee beans in a doughnut tends to have a bitter affect on the normally sugary treat.

To overcome the problem, Bohannon teamed up with “flavoring experts” to mask the bitter bean flavor and still make the doughnut palatable.

The idea of selling the caffeine crème pastries is currently being shopped around to Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Doughnuts.

While it may be tasty and easy to get our morning breakfast and shot of caffeine all in one creamy circle, but it has the making of super-addiction written all over it.

Millions of people are already addicted to food (doughnuts) and caffeine (coffee) separately. How much will it help to combine the tow for them?

“Buzz Doughnuts” will be like legal crack.

And that’s just the beginning. Once Bohannon has the nation addicted to caffeinated doughnut and bagels he’ll roll out phase two. “Buzz waffles,” “Buzz Pop-Tarts,” “Buzz apples” or how about “Buzz Turkey?”

Where will the Buzz end?

Soon we’ll be basting our burgers in “Buzz sauce” i.e. ground up coffee beans without the bitter flavor.

Eventually scientists will just start feeding our crops and cattle Red Bull and Monster Drinks to get them nice and caffeinated before we get them.

The 24-7 buzz will eliminate all need for sleep and a distopia of caffeine addicts is sure to ensue. Insofar Bohannon has destroyed mankind with these “Buzz Doughnuts.”

That being said I can’t wait to try one.