Beautiful country, would like to visit sometime. I'm probably more German than Irish but most Americans are just mutts anyway

Well I will agree about the eyes being a window to ones soul or more how their life has been. Take someone that is young and has had a virtually stress free life, you can see a twinkle in their eyes. Now look at someone the same age that has lived a rough life you just don't see that twinkle if you will. I've been on the earth for almost half a century and have looked into many souls if you will and I've seen people that looked as though they were lifeless just by looking into their eyes. JMHO

Way to go Teach!

Just sat down to enjoy a juicey T-Bone steak and what comes on the radio? Moby-Dick! Yeah tell the 3 J's I'm enjoying the 3 B's Beef-Beer& Bonzo BooYahhhhh!

Cajun boudin sausage recipe . pronounced Boo-Dahn Ingredients: 2 pounds pork meat, about 30% fat 1 1/2 pounds pork liver 2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. black pepper 1 large onion cut up 3 bunches green onions cut up, divided 12 cups cooked rice 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, divided 1 lot sausage casing Preparation: Cook meat, liver, salt, and pepper in water to cover until meat falls apart. Remove meat and reserve some of broth. While still warm, grind meat, onion, green onions, and parsley, saving about 1/2 cup of green onions and parsley mixture. Mix the ground meat mixture with the 1/2 cup green onion and remaining parsley, rice and enough broth to make a moist dressing. Stuff the dressing into sausage casing using a sausage stuffer. May be refrigerated, may be frozen. Prepare for eating by steaming. Do not fry or microwave as it will shrink and burst the casing.

Took a ride up to the capitol yesterday to pick up a couple of vehicles from one of our contractors. Well the manager handed me half a dozen gift wrapped boxes and said here these are for you guys at the shop, thanx for your business and have a Merry Christmas So when I returned to the shop I passed the boxes out to the other mechanics there. Well it turns out these gifts were supposed to be for one of our supervisors and his cronies. 1 Bottle of Heineken- $1.75 1 Box of Gourmet Pecans- $30 Knowing they were meant for an Asshat supervisor- Priceless! Mmmmm! they taste so much better now!

Time machine acting up? can anyone say "Groundhog Day?" edited to say "That's why the websites always say click once when paying"

Can I take a ride in that time machine?

A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students. "Human beings are the only animals that stutter," she says. Little Johnny raises his hand. "I had a kitty-cat who stuttered," he volunteered. The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked young Johnny to describe the incident. "Well," he began, "I was in the back yard with my kitty and the Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard! "That must've been scary," said the teacher. "It sure was!" said Johnny. "My kitty raised his back, went 'Fffff, Fffff, Fffff'? and before he could say "F*ck", the Rottweiler ate him!"

Stay with me~Sir Rodney

Lol, we have them too! They collect the tax so our politicos can go out and sin with it

Whaa? I think I saw Doral cartons here for $26 inc tax

currently 57f

67f might have to break out the long sleeve shirt in the morning

I ran across some paintings somewhere out there in the www that looked like normal scenery but when you turned off the lights and turned on a black light some really freaky images would appear

Nothing Else Matters~Metallica

Just put it up in the exam room and tell them it's a new age eye chart "How many rocks do you see?"

Now look here Barbie Doll, I've earned those benefits and I've never mooched off anyone. That's why I pay union dues Thanks I do feel better now

Paid sick leave

I wish! doesn't really get hot around here until July, Unless you're on high blood pressure medicine or fat!

It's snowing in the "BigEasy"

Interesting article. Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West FordWritten by Anthony Kendall on May 2nd, 2006 at 9:39 am From DamnInteresting.comAt the height of the Cold War in the late 1950s, all international communications were either sent through undersea cables or bounced off of the natural ionosphere. The United States military was concerned that the Soviets (or other "Hostile Actors") might cut those cables, forcing the unpredictable ionosphere to be the only means of communication with overseas forces. The Space Age had just begun, and the communications satellites we rely on today existed only in the sketches of futurists. Nevertheless, the US Military looked to space to help solve their communications weakness. Their solution was to create an artificial ionosphere. In May 1963, the US Air Force launched 480 million tiny copper needles that briefly created a ring encircling the entire globe. They called it Project West Ford. The engineers behind the project hoped that it would serve as a prototype for two more permanent rings that would forever guarantee their ability to communicate across the globe. The project itself was a virtually unqualified success. Though the first launch ended in failure, the second launch went without a hitch on May 10th, 1963. Inside the West Ford spacecraft, the needles were packed densely together in blocks made of a napthalene gel that would rapidly evaporate in space. This entire package of needles weighed only 20 kg. After being released, the hundreds of millions of copper needles gradually spread throughout their entire orbit over a period of two months. The final donut-shaped cloud was 15 km wide and 30 km thick and encircled the globe at an altitude of 3700 km. Copper Dipoles from Project West FordThe West Ford copper needles were each 1.8 cm long and 0.0018 cm in diameter and weighed only 40 micrograms. They were designed to be exactly half of the wavelength of 8000 MHz microwaves. This length would create strong reflections when the microwaves struck the copper needles, in effect making them tiny dipole anttennae each repeating in all directions the exact same signal they received. The first attempt at remote communications using the West Ford belt was made on May 14th, 4 days after the launch. At this point, the dipoles had not completely spread out to fill their entire orbit so they were much more densely spaced than in their final configuration. Using two 18.5 meter microwave dish antennae, Project West Ford engineers managed to send voice transmissions between Camp Parks, California and Millstone Hill, Massachusetts. The voice connection was described as "intelligible" and was transmitted at a data rate of approximately 20,000 bits per second– about the speed of a 1992-era telephone modem. But as the needles continued to disperse to their final cloud, the data rate dropped off significantly, so much so that by June 18th only 400 bits per second could be transmitted. On July 2nd, the experiment was terminated. At this time, the tiny needles were spaced about 400 meters from each other. Despite its technical success, the ultimate goal behind Project West Ford was never attained. Serious scientific opposition to the project sprung up almost immediately after it was first proposed in the late 1950s. Though West Ford's cloud of dipoles was carefully designed to return to Earth within a few years of its launch, a fully-functional cloud dense enough for robust communications might be a permanent fixture of Earth's orbit. Because of the great distance between the tiny needles, the West Ford belt was visible only in the first few days after launch when the spacing was much smaller. A denser belt intended for permanent communications would probably not have been visible except by very powerful optical telescopes. But, at radio and microwave frequencies, the final dipole clouds may have become scars on the night sky, forever obscuring the universe beyond. However, it may not have been the opposition from prominent scientists that finally killed Project West Ford's dream. By 1963, communications satellite technology had become more and more capable. Compared to those sleek products of Space Age technology, the relatively low-tech West Ford dipole cloud was an unsightly dinosaur. However, the West Ford engineers remained convinced of the feasibility of their endeavour, and largely blamed the end of the program on the opposing scientists rather than flaws in their own technology. Most of the West Ford dipoles re-entered Earth's atmosphere sometime around 1970, according to theoretical and observational evidence. The needles slowly drifted down to the Earth's surface, unscathed by re-entry because of their size. Some consideration was given to recovering one or more of the dipoles in order to learn more about the space environment. Calculations showed that as many as five dipoles would have landed per square kilometer in the high Arctic. But the exceptional cost of recovering these tiny needles from the haystack of billions of tons of Arctic snow killed off any practical attempts at recovery. Back in space, the failed 1971 1961 spacecraft and some larger clumps of the 1973 1963 dipoles remain in orbit like so many other pieces of space junk, silently carrying the long-dead hopes of this nearly forgotten experiment.