Yo ADRIAN! Rock out!

Adrian Smith, third guitarist of Iron Maiden had a birthday yesterday!

Iron Maiden - Prodigal Son

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtliUagnsa0

Listen to me Lamia, listen to what I've got to say.

I've got these feelings, and they won't go away.

I've got these fears inside that bring me to my knees.

Oh help me Lamia or I'm sure I'll die, oh please.

I feel unsettled, now I know that I've done wrong.

Messed around with mystic things and magic for far too long.

I feel I'm being paid with this nightmare inside me.

The devil's got a hold on my soul and he just won't let me be.

I'm on my knees, oh help me please.

I'm on my knees, help me please.

Oh Lamia please try to help me.

The devil's got hold of my soul and he won't let me be.

Lamia I've got this curse, I'm turning to bad.

The devil's got hold of my soul, and he's driving me mad. Oh

Oh Lamia please try to help me.

The devil's got hold of my soul and he won't let me be.

Lamia I've got this curse, I'm turning to bad.

The devil's got hold of my soul, and he's driving me mad. Oh

WTF Friday: Seedy ROM

Very seedy

Quote of the day: 02/28/2014

You can improve a BLT by removing the LT to make room for more BACON!

~Red Rage

TGIF! Friday, February 28, 2014

TGIF!!!

schatzi \SHAHT-see\, noun: 

• Slang. sweetheart, darling.

Schatzi is derived from the German word for "treasure," schatz, which entered English as a term of endearment for a woman in the early 1900s.

make it rain

• When you're in da club with a [stack], and you throw the money up in the air at the strippers. The effect is that it seems to be raining money.

After Leroy finished [trapping] for the night, he went to the strip club, got 10 [stacks], and made it rain inside the club the whole night.

History

• Methodism: Anglican clergyman and evangelist John Wesley chartered the first Methodist church (1784)
• Shanghai Communiqué: US President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued a document advancing normalization between the two countries (1972)
• M*A*S*H: the final episode — "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" — aired; it was the top-rated TV episode in the US (1983)
• Olof Palme: the Swedish prime minister and his wife were shot in Stockholm; he was killed, she survived (1986)
• Waco siege: 51-day standoff began with a gun battle between federal agents and members of the cloistered Branch Davidian sect; the agents were attempting to arrest leader David Koresh on a weapons charge (1993)

Birthdays

• Mary Lyon 1797 - Educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College)
• Sir John Tenniel 1820 - Cartoonist, illustrator
• Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) 1824 - Acrobat, aerialist, first to walk across Niagra Falls on a tightrope.
• Ben Hecht 1894 - Novelist, scriptwriter, playwright
  

  
• Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962
• Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) 1903 - Director, Liza Minelli's father
• Earl Scheib 1907
• Milton Caniff 1907 - Cartoonist
• Billie Bird 1908
• Zero (Samuel) Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel) 1915 - Actor
• Lee Castle 1915 - Musician, bandleader (Jimmy Dorsey's band)
• Alf Kjellin 1920 - Actor, director
• Charles Durning 1923 - Actor ("Spy Hard", "Dick Tracy", "The Hindenburg")
• Chris Kraft 1924 - NASA flight director and voice of Mission Control for all Mercury and many Gemini missions
• Svetlana Allilueva 1926 - Author, daughter of Russian leader Joseph Stalin
• Stanley Baker 1927 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone")
  

  
• Frank Malzone 1930 - Baseball player
• Gavin MacLeod 1931 - Actor ("Love Boat", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
• Don Francks 1932 - Actor
• Tommy Tune 1939 - Dancer, actor, choreographer
• Mario Andretti 1940 - Auto racer, twin of Aldo Andretti
• Aldo Andretti 1940 - Twin of Mario Andretti
• Joe South 1940 - Songwriter, singer
• Frank Bonner 1942 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
• Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) 1942 - Musician (The Rolling Stones)
• Poul Popiel 1943
• Donnie Iris 1943
• Barbara Acklin 1944
• Kelly Bishop 1944 - Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
• Bubba Smith 1945 - Football player
• Stephanie Beacham 1947 - Actress
• Marty Perez 1947 - Baseball player
• Mercedes Ruehl 1948 - Actress ("Last Action Hero", "Married to the Mob")
• Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) 1948 - Actress ("The Jerk", "Pennies From Heaven"), singer
• Tom Riker 1950 - Basketball player
• Roland Harper 1953 - Football player
• Adrian Dantley 1955 - Basketball player
• Gilbert Gottfried 1955 - comedian
• John Turturro 1957 - Actor ("Girl 6", "The Color of Money", "Desperately Seeking Susan")
• Cindy Wilson 1957 Musician (B-52's)
• Phil Gould 1957 - Musician (Level 42)
• Rae Dawn Chong 1961 - Actress
• Robert Sean Leonard 1969 - Actor ("Manhattan Project", "House")
• Pat Monahan 1969 - Musician (Train)
• Maxine Bahns 1971 - Actress
• Eric Lindros 1973 - Hockey player
• FeFe Dobson 1985 - Singer
• Bobb'e J. Thompson 1996

   

 

    

Turtle Thursday: Schutes 2014

Ever since my turtles were little hatchlings, as they shed layers of schutes I would collect them into a plastic bag so I can go back and find the tiniest bits and remember when they were all babies. Pretty similar to parents keeping their children's baby teeth, except turtles never talk back.

Proper Shell Care

When turtles are hatchlings they require a lot more care then once they are fully matured. Hatchling and juvenile turtles need a diet rich in calcium and vitamin A. In addition a good full spectrum light is needed for the proper UVA and AVB rays, as well as vitamin D. Without all of the above, turtles can grow deformed shells and show pyramiding. It's easy to avoid, so just do the right thing and your turtle will love you for it.

IMPORTANT: NEVER FORCE THE SCHUTES OFF! They will fall off on their own when they are ready. Forcibly removing schutes can cause bleeding, infection and other maladies. Be warned!

Once a shell injury is observed, the best bet would be to get your turtle to a reptile vet asap. However, such specialists are in short supply. A good fix (at least better than doing nothing) is applying an antibiotic ointment (like Neosporin, not necesarily a petroleum based one like bacetracin as that one doesn't seem to absorb in very well.) and drying out the animal for periods of time. The worse the injury, the more dry time until healed.

REMEMBER: "Dry Docking" must be accompanied by heat and humidity. Don't just stick the animal in a box and forget about it. While these are aquatic turtles I am referring to, they only require an hour of "hydration" each day. In worst case scenarios you can keep a turtle in dry dock all day if need be, just rememebr he will need some time in water or the animal WILL DIE, just like you will if deprived of water. These little guys do not produce their own tears or saliva and need water for those tasks.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

albumen \al-BYOO-muhn\, noun:

1. the white of an egg.
2. Botany. the nutritive matter around the embryo in a seed.

Albumen comes from the Latin word for "white," albus. It entered English around 1600.

Russian Toilette

• After sitting on the toilet to poop, you notice that there is less than one-quarter of a roll of toilet paper, and no spare in the bathroom. You decide to poop anyway, gambling on the fact you will have enough toilet paper to have a satifying wipe.

Husband: "Honey, I just played Russian Toilette, and lost"

Wife: "Sucks to be you. Try not to bite your fingernails"

History

• Dominican Republic: became independent of Haiti (1844); then got its first elected president after 38 years of dictatorship (1963)
• Leaning Tower of Pisa: the Italian government requested aid in preventing the tower from toppling; however, it was considered important to retain the tilt (1964)
• carbon-14: radioactive isotope that is the basis of radiocarbon dating was discovered at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1940)
• Kuwait: oil-rich Arabian Peninsula country was liberated from Iraqi occupation during the Gulf War (1991)

Birthdays

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - Poet
• Enrico Caruso 1873 - Opera singer
• Hugo (Layfayette) Black - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Marian Anderson 1897 - Opera singer
• John Steinbeck 1902 - Writer ("The Grapes of Wrath")
• Gene Sarazen 1902 - Golfer
• James T. Farrell 1904 - Author
• Franchot Tone 1905 - Actor ("Mutiny on the Bounty")
• Joan Bennett 1910 - Actress ("Little Women [1933]", "House of Dark Shadows")
• Ted Horn 1910 - Auto racer
• Irwin Shaw (Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff) 1913 - Novelist ("The Young Lions")
• John Connally 1917 - Governor of Texas, was shot during the JFK assassination.
• Guy Mitchell (Al Cernick) 1927 - Singer
• James Herlihy 1927 - Actor ("Four Friends"), writer ("Midnight Cowboy")
• Joanne Woodward 1930 - Actress ("The Three Faces of Eve")
• Elizabeth Taylor 1932 - Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?")
• Ray Berry 1933 - Football player, coach
• Ralph Nader 1934 - Consumer advocate
• Chuck Glaser 1936 - Singer (Glaser Brothers), songwriter
• Jay Silvester 1937 - Discus athlete, first to throw over 60m
• Barbara Babcock 1939 - Actress
• Peter Revson 1939 - Auto racer
• Howard Hesseman 1940 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
• Mary Frann (Mary Frances Luecke) 1943 - Actress ("Newhart")
• Wil (Wilbur) Jones 1947 - Basketball player, coach
• Eddie Gray 1948 - Musician (Tommy James & The Shondells)
• Debra Monk 1949 - Actress
• Steve Harley (Nice) 1951 - Musician (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel)
• Dwight Jones 1952 - Basketball player
• Neal Schon 1954 - Musician (Journey)
• Reinhard Fendrich 1955
• Garry Christian 1955 - Musician (The Christians)
• Johnny Van Zant 1957 - Country singer
• Adrian Smith 1957 - Musician (Iron Maiden)
• Paul Humphreys 1960 - Musician (OMD)
• Grant Show 1962 - Actor ("Melrose Place", "Beverly Hills 90210")
• Adam Baldwin 1962 - Actor ("Wyatt Earp", "Ordinary People")
• Mike Cross 1965 - Musician (Sponge)
• Chili 1971 - Singer (TLC)
• Roderic Clark 1973
• Tony Gonzalez 1976 - Football player
• Chelsea Clinton 1980 - Daughter of U.S. President Clinton
• Bobby Wilson 1981 - Musician (Mista)
• Josh Groban 1981 - Singer
• Liz Chavez 1985

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Micheal Nicht! 2014

See the vid here:

http://www.flabber.nl/archief/022846.php

International Rock Star MAX Debuts New Single

International rock star and TV personality MAX has premiered his debut single "Have a Nice Flight," and will release the official music video in early March. MAX has played for millions of fans throughout Europe over the past decade and has been seen on numerous TV shows. His over the top style is a unique mix of high-octane party rock combined with outlandish humor.

The memorable tongue and cheek lyrics combined with a driving rock groove make "Have a Nice Flight" the perfect blend to debut MAX's signature sound, drawing influences from classic rock acts like AC/DC, Aerosmith, and even KISS.CraveOnline.com on the new track: "It’s a bizarre universe where Gogol Bordello meets the B-52s, laced with the dangerous unpredictability of Mindless Self Indulgence." In the upcoming official music video, he stars as a wacky airline pilot guiding a plane as it spirals out of control and the chaos that ensues. A brief preview clip from the video can be seen HERE.

In April, MAX will follow up his debut single with a new track entitled "My Name is Dick," produced by two-time Grammy award winning producer Howard Benson. MAX's musical philosophy - "Don't take life so serious - enjoy!"

"Have a Nice Flight" will be available for purchase on iTunes on March 11th. For more information on MAX, be sure to follow him on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and visit his official website at www.maxmusicinc.com.

"Have a Nice Flight" Stream: https://soundcloud.com/maxmusicinc/have-a-nice-flight

Official Video Preview: http://youtu.be/vn70YCdb8n0

Web/Social:

• www.maxmusicinc.com
• www.facebook.com/pages/max-music-inc/690180854348113
• www.twitter.com/maxmusicinc
• www.instagram.com/maxmusicinc
• www.youtube.com/maxmusicinc

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

sooth \sooth\, noun: 

1. truth, reality, or fact. 

adjective:

1. true or real.

Sooth derives from the Old English soð meaning "truth, justice; reality." It shares this root with the word soothe, as reflected in soothe's earliest sense, "to verify."

WSD

• "Write Shit Down". A popular method of organization. Works equally well in one's personal or professional life.

Dude, you don't need ritalin. Just use the WSD method - trust me, you won't forget things anymore and you'll actually get them done!

History

• Bank of England: issued the first one-pound note after the government forbade paying out from the diminished gold reserves (1797)
• Grand Canyon: the enormous gorge was established as a national park (1919); Grand Teton National Park was established on the same date in 1926
• World Trade Center: bomb in basement killed 6, injured more than 1,000 and caused serious structural damage (1993)

Birthdays

• Nicolas Joseph Cugnot 1725 - Inventor
• Victor Hugo 1802 - Author
• Honore Daumier 1808
• Levi Strauss 1829
• William "Buffalo Bill" Cody 1846 - Frontiersman, showman
• John Harvey Kellogg 1852
• Herbert Henry Dow 1866
• William Frawley 1887
• Jean Vercors 1902
• Madeleine Carroll 1906
• Jackie Gleason 1916
• Mason Adams 1919
• Tony Randall 1920
• Betty Hutton 1921
• Margaret Leighton 1922
• Fats Domino 1928 - Musician
• Johnny Cash 1932 - Musician
• Bill Duke 1943
• Paul Cotton (Poco) 1943
• Mitch Ryder 1945 - Singer
• Bob "The Bear" Hite 1945 - Musician (Canned Heat)
• Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich) 1947 - Singer
• Priscilla Lopez 1948
• Jonathan Cain 1950 - Musician (Babys, Journey)
• Michael Bolton 1953 - Singer
• Greg Germann 1958 - Actor ("Ally McBeal")
• John McDaniel 1961
• John Jon 1961 - Musician (Bronski Beat)
• Jennifer Grant 1966
• Suzi Simpson 1968 - playmate from Athens, Greece (Jan, 1992)
• Erykah Badu 1971 - Singer
• Rico Wade (Society of Soul) 1972
• Marshall Faulk 1972 - Football player
  Oliver Wakeman 1972 - Keyboardist, son of Rick (YES)
• Mark DeRosa 1975 - Baseball player

Review Tuesday: DAYBREAKERS (2010)

What would happen if the world becomes infected with the vampire strain? What will happen to the human race as it becomes a dwindling food source for new masters of the world? These are the thoughts behind DAYBREAKERS.

In an alternate world, the Earth is populated vampires and humans are a rare food source and one scientist is looking for an alternative. 

It's been over ten years since vampirism had spread across the planet. It wasn't condemned but embraced as you are made immortal, stronger, and free from the ravages of age and disease. But the cost is to hide from sunlight and drink blood for food. Logically, farming would present tremendous challenges to a civilization that cannot set foot into sunlight. Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) is a scientist trying to find an alternative food source as the supplies are near rock bottom. 

The cast, action, special effects, and plot are all pretty impressive and makes for an unusual vampire movie. 98 minutes of fun. Worth watching.

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This might be happening!

Karl Urban has confirmed that there have been talks for a Dredd sequel!

More HERE.

SPAM du jour: 02/25/2014

From my email:

 

From: mrthomasstevenson44@gmail.com
Sent: 2/23/2014 11:19:52 A.M. Mountain Standard Time
Subj: PAYMENT APPROVAL FROM THE FIDELITY WORLDWIDE INVESTMENT NEW YORK, NY USA. ********

 

FROM: MR. THOMAS STEVENSON.

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, FIDELITY WORLDWIDE INVESTMENT.

Office Address: 350 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK NY, 10022 USA.

 

Tel: +1 940 238 7506.

Tel: +1 917 604 9066.

 

  ****PAYMENT APPROVAL FROM THE FIDELITY WORLDWIDE INVESTMENT NEW YORK, NY USA. ********

 

Gooday to you,

 

I am Mr. Thomas Stevenson, Executive Chairman Fidelity Worldwide Investment New York. This organization was set up to fight against scam and Fraudulent activities worldwide. This Group is responsible for investigating the legitimacy of unpaid contract, inheritance and lotto winning claims by companies and individuals and directs the paying authorities (Banks) worldwide to make immediate payment of verified claims to the beneficiaries without further delay.

 

You are being legally contacted regarding the release of your long awaited fund. After a detailed review of your file, the United Nation Monetary Unit has been authorized to release your fund immediately. The sum of US$10,500,000.00; has been approved in your favor via my desk. This payment will be made via Bank to Bank Wire Transfer or by Online Banking System.

 

Be informed that we are working in collaborations with the United Nation secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, who authorize the immediate payment of your long awaited fund without any further delay.  You are advised to include the followings below:

 

(1). Your Full Name, (2). Direct Telephone Numbers, (3). Contact Address, (4). Your Occupation, age and Marital Status (5). Bank Name and Address. (6). Account Numbers. (7). Routing Numbers (8). Swift Code. (9). Beneficiary's Name. Note that the above fund has been cleared from terrorist or fraud related activities.

 

Thanks for Your Cooperation.

 

Mr. Thomas Stevenson

Executive, Chairman

Fidelity Worldwide Investment

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

blatherskite \BLATH-er-skahyt\, noun: 

1. a person given to voluble, empty talk.
2. nonsense; blather.

Blatherskite was a popular colloquialism in the U.S. in the early 1800s, thanks in part to a Scottish song called "Maggie Lauder," which featured the word (spelled bletherskate) and was popular among soldiers during the American Revolutionary War.

umbrella hitchhike

• to hitch a walk under a stranger's umbrella when it's raining.

Paul: It was raining so hard I had to umbrella hitchhike a couple blocks on my way here.

James: Dude, that's pretty dangerous, invading a stranger's personal space like that.

History

• Regnans in Excelsis: Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I of England in support of the Roman Catholic rebellion; it did not go well (1570)
• Hiram Rhoades Revels: became the first African-American senator, filling the unexpired term of Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis (1870)
• hockey: was first televised; the Rangers beat the Canadiens 6-2 at Madison Square Garden (1940)
• Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston: the boxer later known as Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston at age 22; he lost it and rewon it twice more (1964)

Birthdays

• Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841 - Impressionist artist
• Adelle Davis 1904
• Zeppo Marx 1909 - Comedian (Marx Brothers)
• Millicent Fenwick 1910 - Human rights activists
• Jim Backus 1913 - Actor (voice of Mr. Magoo, "Gilligan's Island", "Rebel Without a Cause")
• Ralph Baldwin 1916 - Horse trainer
• Anthony Burgess 1917 - Author ("A Clockwork Orange")
• Bobby Riggs 1918 - Tennis player
• Monte Irvin 1919 - Baseball player
• 'Texas Rose' Bascom 1922 - Trick roper
• (Elsie) Lisa Kirk 1925 - Singer, actress ("The Producers")
• Bert Remsen 1925 - Actor ("Dick Tracy")
• Ralph Stanley 1927 - Musician (Stanley Brothers)
• René Thomas 1927 - Musician, jazz guitarist
• Ralph Stanley 1927
• Larry Gelbart 1928 - Producer, writer
• Tommy Newsom 1929 - Musician, arranger, composer, back-up conductor (NBC's Tonight Show band)
• John Astin 1930
• Faron Young 1932 - singer, actor, founder of Music City News magazine
• Linda Cristal (Marta Victoria Moya Burges) 1934 - Actress
• Tony Lema 1934 - Golfer
• Sally Jessy Raphael (Sally Lowenthal) 1935 - TV talk show host
• Tom Courtenay 1937 - Actor ("Doctor Zhivago", "The Last Butterfly")
• Bob Schieffer 1937 - Report
• Diane Baker 1938
• Denny Lemaster 1939 - Baseball player
• Ron Santo 1940 - Baseball player
• Carl Eller 1942 - Football player
• Karen Grassle 1944 - Actress ("Little House on the Prairie")
• Matt Guokas 1944 - Basketball player
• Jack Handey 1961 - Author, TV writer ("Saturday Night Live")
• Cesar Cedeno 1951 - Baseball player
• Lee Evans 1947 - Track and fiedl athlete
• Dennis Diken 1957 - Musician (Smithereens)
• Stuart Wood 1957 - Musician (Bay City Rollers)
• Mike Peters 1959 - Musician (Alarm)
• Veronica Webb 1965 - Actress
• Téa Leoni 1966 - Actress ("Jurassic Park III", "Deep Impact")
• Carrot Top 1967 - Comedian
• Sean Astin 1971 - Actor ("The Goonies", "The War of the Roses", "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring")
• Julio Iglesias Jr. 1973 - Singer
• Chelsea Handler 1975 - Comedian
• Rashida Jones 1976 - Actress ("The Office", "Parks and Recreation")