To Infinity And Beyond…

On this day in 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the moon. We haven’t been back since, but here is a list of things that you can thank the space program for: lightweight compact discs, microcomputers, enriched baby food, ribbed swimsuits, pool purification, golf ball aerodynamics, portable coolers/warmers, solar energy (though we should probably just credit them with harnessing solar energy, not inventing it), breast cancer detection, automated urinalysis (could have done without that), invisible braces, studless winter tires, and advanced lubricants. Find a more complete list here.

Cheers to the final frontier!

Hopefully This Won’t Affect My Blogging

I haven’t worked since February. Since then I have traveled all over Costa Rica, seen a few spots in Panama, gone home to spend time with friends and family, left friends and family to drive down the Pacific coast and set up shop in lovely San Diego. All good things must end, I start work monday.

To unemployment.

California Love

To West Coast Gangsta Pool Parties.

Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays

Here are some June 7 birthdays you can celebrate:

• Liam Neeson (55), my favorite quote (paraphrased): “I don’t consider myself to be handsome, just terribly attractive.”
• Allen Iverson, if he’d tried to be a real point guard, he would’ve been one of the greatest…
• Dean-O(big 9-O) and Tom Jones(67), lump these two together and toast, especially if your in Vegas.
• Anna Kournakova (26), I think she used to play tennis

• Prince (49), everyone I was with talked shit about his superbowl show, but I thought it was great.
• Gauguin (159), funny I could’ve put a pic of one of his amazing works on this post, but I decided to go with Ms. Kournakova. I think he died of syphilis in the South Pacific. I guess you gotta take the good with the bad.

So here’s to all you June 7 birthdays out there.

The Big Apple

Being born and raised in the Pacific Northwest I will always have a love for the west coast that can never be taken away.  We simply have better trees, mountains, and simply find it neccessary to wear suits much less often.  However every now and then the Northeast manages to suprise me by being way ahead of the game, even in a city like New York wear people wear suits entirely too often.

When I was visiting NYC a week ago, I came across the most amazing thing.  You can get a pizza delivered anywhere in the country, but in New York you can get anything you want delivered, including alcohol.  My west coast friends and I have been dreaming about such a thing for as long as I can remember (and of course by that I mean since we turned 21).  It simply provides an endless supply of possibilities and completely does away with one of the last legitimate reasons to ever leave your home.  Tip O’ the glass to you New York City for beating everywhere else to this one (though you did get a few hundred years head start on most of the west coast).

You would think this is about mullets, but its not

Heres to all you mullet wearing problem solving extra clever folks out there.  If you have ever gotten beer out of a keg with out a tap, this ones for you. So today we hear at chinchin reccomend drinking in a creative way, possibly construct a beer bong out of random supplies around the house, or maybe make yourself a foam dome.  Whatever you choose dare to dream in the spirit of Macgyver.  Cheers!!

Light ‘Em if You Got ‘Em

According to Wikipedia, May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. I have two problems with this. First off, it isn’t a very catchy name. Secondly, most people start smoking when they are teenagers, and they do it cause people tell them not too. Now the World Health Organization has given them a day they can start smoking and be all ironic, as the kids like to do.

So lets raise one up to the short and caugh filled lives of every teenager who smoked for the first time today, and then lets go have a smoke.

Meth-head

To the (assumed) meth-head who broke into my car over the weekend only to get away with an I-pod that does not work.  Have fun trying to sell that for drug money, heres to getting the last laugh.

How did we get second?

Shortly after my last post I found this article which seems to contradict all of the results of Expedia’s study.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL2245467620070523?feedType=RSS

Basically a 41 year old american man was caught strolling around German butt-naked. Why was he doing this you may ask, was he crazy? Was he on drugs? I wish we could blame it on something like that, unfortunately the truth appears to be that he simply thought thats what German people did. Did he not realize that everyone else he saw on the streets was wearing clothing? I mean seriously how does one obtain such a complete lack of common sense? My guess is that he was a frenchman posing as an american.

Anyways today let’s raise our glasses to those people around the world willing to let it all hang out.

At least the French were last

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL2273073120070523?feedType=RSS

In a recent study conducted by expedia.com it was determined that Japanes people make the best tourists. Tip of the cap to those kind folks for letting the whole atomic bomb thing go and continuing to be respectful to the rest of the world. In a complete shocker Americans finished second, although one can only assume this is because we have money and tip well, not because we are respectful as my buddy Eric showed on his recent trip to Europe.

In the end we tip our glasses to the highlight of the article, French people finished dead last, even falling in behind China and India. Cheers to the further recognition of French people for what they truly are.