Colbert

One of the best political commentary shows on television currently is defiantly the Colbert Report as I know many of my friends know. Well I hope all Colbert Report fans saw the White House Correspondents Dinner. For someone who appears to not like Bush on his show, its a wonder they wanted him to speak at the event. Most of the jokes were at the administrations expense and it was obvious Bush did not like all of the commentary but it was defiantly humorous for the Democrats, like myself. The best geological comment, and yes there was one, was when Colbert was comparing talking to Rev. Jessie Jackson like boxing a glacier. He then commented that we should not take the joke for granted because our kids will not know what a glacier is. Ok it was funnier on TV.

Star Wars Weekend

Star Wars Weekend is currently postponed due to family-in-law obligations. It will currently be held on May 14th until the next postponement.

Exploding Cows

There is an urban legend of a farmer who one day decided to ignite his cows' gaseous anal expulsions. Unfortunately, according to this urban legend, one of his cows produced such a high quantity of methane that the flame shot back up into the cow and caused it to explode. The farmer, as a result of this, was killed when a flying femur bone hit his head at over 80mph.


This was found on Wikipedia.com while search for exploding cows because of something we heard on the Histor Channel

Movie Weekends

So I've decided to make a Sunday movie marathon event. I am going to watch movie series in complete order during one Sunday a month. These are what I have decided so far to do. Anyone who wants to come over is welcome to and watch them with me.

1. Star Wars - all 6 with a possibility of the Clone Wars cartoon

2. Lord of the Rings - all 3 extended editions

3. The Matrix - All 3 movies and the Animatrix

4. Jurassic Park - All 3

5. Back to the Future - All 3

6. Indiana Jones - All 3, but this would be better is the Young Indy series was on DVD.

and that's all I have at the moment. Star Wars starts May 7th. And we go on from there.

Honeymoon pictures

View from our room


Us hanging out in the pool after a romantic dinner




View of the sample bar at the bacardi factory, thats right any samples we wanted. They did let us take pictures of the factory itself because it could blow up the factory (right)


After collecting some samples for the Texas geologist

Catch more over here at my cutie's website

Honeymoon recap

Ok I know I have been negligent lately but I am going to catch up slowly. First off is the honeymoon. It was fantastic. I highly recommend going to an all inclusive. We went down to a Sandals in Nassau, Bahama. The food was all terrific, even if we did get sick one night. Drinks were all top shelf (helps when there is a Bacardi factory on the island). And the rooms were super comfortable. Lets start this off in order. We arrived on Saturday and were extremely confused at first. Just leaving the airport was an experiment in cross cultures. They had random signs around with conveyor belts and people and we did not know whether to talk to them or keep walking. Then check in was just confusing because they held onto our bags and our room wasn't ready. But eventually everything turned out wonderful.

Over all our days consisted of trying each of the 8 different restaurants, laying in the sun, swimming in the pool, relaxing in the numerous hottubs, reading my book and drinking. We met a couple of super nice people the first night there at the Japanese restaurant. Dan and Julie are from Wisconsin and we spent most of the week drinking with them and Joe and Nicole are from Chicago and were around our age.

The first day after we met Dan and Julie we saw them while we were relaxing around the pool when we start hanging out. Eventually Dan walks to the bar and comes back with 4 plastic cups and a cup full of what looked like a Corona. Well after one sniff I could tell I was not going to like this. So it eventually ended up where we had about 7 shots of tequila before the afternoon was over.

One day we went shopping in downtown Nassau which is where all the cruise ships stop. We bartered and we spent lots of money but it was cool, we got lots of cool stuff, like pearls for my newlywed.

So the one downside to the trip started Wednesday morning when we got breakfast in bed. After we ate I started to have an upset stomach, then suddenly it turned to excrutiating pain (37 on 10 point scale as I explained it). I eventually got taken to the hospital where we spent the day. It seemed like I had some sort of liver problem so no more drinking for Jimmy :-(.

And now to the really sad no drinking part, we then went to the Bacardi factory the next day. That was really cool, they had one storage room where all the rum was aged that they said you can get drunk just walking into. I walked in anyway. :-). After that we ended up going home, but all in all we want to go to Saint Lucia next.

Questions

Found this on a another blog and I thought it was clever. I got 1 right.

The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you
whether you are qualified to be a professional. Scroll down for each
answer. The questions are NOT that difficult. But don't scroll down UNTIL you
have answered the question!






1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?





The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and
close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things
in an overly complicated way.



2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?




Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the
refrigerator?

Wrong Answer.

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the
elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through
the repercussions of your previous actions.



3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals
attend... except one. Which animal does not attend?






Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You
just put him in there. This tests your memory. Okay, even if you did
not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more
chance to show your true abilities.



4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and
you do not h ave a boat. How do you manage it?






Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not
been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting.
This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the
professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got
several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says this conclusively
disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a
four-year-old.

Tagged by Steve

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Credit Collections Agent
2. Geology Lab Instructor
3. River Mapper for the US Army Corps of Engineers
4. EMS Associate

Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Star Wars
2. Back to the Future
3. The Land Before Time
4. Big Fish

Four places I have lived:
1. Buffalo
2. Lubbock, TX
3. Geneseo
4. Holbrook, Long Island

Four shows I love to watch:
1. Lost (I know your addicted too)
2. The Amazing Race (I know I can do that better than them)
3. The Pretender (TV DVD's are awsome)
4. Star Trek (I've expanded to almost any of them)

Four places I have been on vacation:
1. The Bahamas (Honeymoon :-D)
2. Puerto Rico
3. Most of Texas
4. Most of the US (See map in previous post)

Four websites I visit daily:
1. TheForce.net (Star Wars)
2. EBay
3. StarWars.com
4. Hotmail

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Strawberry Milkshake
2. Steamed Dumplings (mmmm chinese food)
3. New York City pizza
4. Cheescake

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Def Geneseo (PARTY!!!)
2. The Bahamas (Warmth in the sun)
3. San Antonio (The River Walk)
4. Disney World

Four friends who I have tagged that I think will respond:
1. Veronica
2. I have no other Journal friends other than Steve who tagged me