Heres one of me and the pope during 'Hat Day' at the Vatican.

Finally got the pictures developed from when I went on a sailing trip around the Great Lakes of Michigan last easter!! Heres one of me in full sailing attire ready to make some wake! "All hands on deck, mateys!" Heres one of me with Larry the easter bunny! - Were just holding hands, I swear! And heres one of me pretending to be a gang-banger easter bunny, sporting my bran-new souveneir easter bunny ears under my sailors cap! More pics of my vacation to come! Hope you like em!

Yer Blues | The Beatles

ah. I ate McDonalds like 4389 times today

Ole' Joe always looks so into it..., , I'm sure you've seen the Woodstock performance of this song?

What Made Tommy Happy Today #651 I just downed a pot of coffee... and my $1200.00 USD cheque FINALLY CLEARED AT THE BANK AFTER 11 COCK-SUCKING BUSINESS DAYS. HONESTLY THIS ISN'T 1970BLAHBLAHBLAH ANYMORE - I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK A BUSINESS DAY IS! 11 DAYS TO CLEAR IT!? SURE... BUT THE GOD-DAMN SPLIT SECOND I OVERDRAFT, THEY CATCH IT, 12 ALARMS GO OFF AND THE COPS SHOW UP AND I GET SLAPPED WITH $627 IN OVERDRAFT FEES, 6 OF MY CHEQUES BOUNCE, THE IRS SHOWS UP WITH FILES (I HATE FILES)... WHERES MY PISSIN' 11 DAYS NOW HUH? YOU'RE TELLING ME WE CAN BUY AND SELL GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICHES WITH MOTHER MARY'S LIKENESS ON IT INSTANTLY ON E-BAY FOR $24000, BUT WE CAN'T GET A CHECK TO CLEAR IN A WEEK AND A HALF? 11 days... ...christ. Thats what made me happy today.

lol... shhhh.., I'm busy setting up the fans and lighting angles... ahm, Turns out I'm not doing any of that, rather, I just went to sleep.

Oh my god. Sheer genius. Mirror pics to follow

I've tried it. Let me see what I can come up with.

I have a technical question for people of photographic excellence. I'm a guy. I do not like pictures - indeed, I despise pictures and I normally want to kill whoever is taking one trying to get me in it. I also refuse to have someone take a picture of me, well.., for myself. What I'm really trying to say is that my god damn arms are too short or some shit for taking my own self- portrait - always zoomed so the fuckin far in that you can't see anything, or maybe its just everything that I don't want people to see. Either way - How the hell do people take pictures of themselves? ! Is this venture even possible? I thought girls did this shit like every 23 minutes? Please help, I just wasted like 3287 slots on my digi camera. P.S. I apologize for the emoticons - I missed the internet bus as a teenager

Really cool stuff everybody! I will post some of my comparitively crappy, , "drawings" once I locate a scanner.

This is as close to a room as can be had via the internet

Previous opinion unchanged.

lol. A little tuned up were we? Cute smile though.

Below is one of my favorites of Jimmy from Paris 1969-10-10 - so mysterious... but its sort of plain... If you feel like gettin downrite jiggy with it though, you might put some color to it! Might be a fun task? My avatar, however small it is, is from the same concert so you can see the correct colors. I will post it in a larger, more see-able version tomorrow. Of course, you by no means have to do this picture. Just suggesting it to you if you like it or whatever.

Many reasons. The equation for bending stress is Mc/I, where M is the bending moment, c is the distance from the neutral axis of bending to the outermost surface of the material, and I is the area moment of inertia. Because the diameter of wire that paperclips are made of is so small, the area moment of inertia (I) will be very small. Since this very small number is on the bottom of the fraction of the equation, the resulting internal stresses will no doubt be very high, eventually causing it to break. You could fix this by using larger diameter wire, but then it would be heavy, and would not bend at all when you tried to paperclip a larger stack of papers together. Another reason they fail due to fatigue is the cheap metal that paperclips are made of. Generally, the cheaper the material, the lower the yield strength. A material will yield whenever the internal stress in a part (Mc/I) is greater than the material's yield strength. Edited to add: You very well could design a paperclip with infinite fatigue life, but they would no longer be cheap, easy to produce, disposable, or economical. I would rather forcus my efforts on something with a little more meaning

Mechanical engineers will be the first to tell you that they don't know shit about electrical. As for the stripped out shafts - we design (with economic reason) to what people tell us the typical loading will be. Unless its life-threatening, it was probably almost better that the shaft sheared once the impellar locked up, because if it didn't, you could have incurred more costly damage to the engine, support bearings, etc. Designing a shaft that could withstand the things you speak of would be bad for resources as well - it would have a diameter of 2 feet, and it would cost and weigh a shitload. Aside for designing things that "never break", part of being an engineer is to decide what will break first. It follows that you simply cannot please everybody all the time

Holy shit! This one is fucking amazing. Keep it up

Awesome... what sort of music do you play!?

I've read the Iliad - it was a required reading in one of my english courses here in college, and I wholly enjoyed it. As for the others you mention, I have some catching up to do. It just so happens that Herodotus is the main historian from whos accounts The Battle of Salamis (The book I just finished) was assembled. As for any other histories, I have yet to discover, but I've heard Herodotus had the best accounts, thus I will look into these next.

Thank god, for the ability of moving on past ackward first encounters, that this is the internet and that we will likely never meet - Yet had the time ever came upon us that we should, how much quicker I would forget the past in favor of the future (however average it may be). "compliment"? There was not then, nor should there now be any uncertainty; when I wrote those things, I meant you to see the version without quotations. Such is the risk though, I suppose, with not being succinct.

Spats. What is with the never-ending self confidence issues, man? Moreover, why is nearly every post I've seen of yours regarding some sort of off-chute of that very subject? It "kinda makes life'm drag" if you know what I mean. You've simply got to stop bumming out about it. Especially in front of women. 5 out of 5 of their senses can sense your weakness from a mile away. None of your weapons can be effective at that distance. Confidence, for lack of a better term, is your trojan horse. Look at it like this: Don't settle for an easy kill because you need to (desperation = turnoff) - go out on a limb for a hard kill because you want to (risk = reward). Get my drift? They aren't ever going to fall into your lap. And for god's sake, quit letting the enemy know your weakness (i.e. in every post you make)- theres just no fun in hunting weak prey. By the way: The less things change, the more they stay the same.

Thats a huge time period... I might imagine there is alot to say. The books I've read have been pretty short, looking for something a little longer to hold me over for more than just a few days... I've read things like Homer's The Odyssey, The Battle on Salamis, the works of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, etc, and tons of Greek mythology... but nothing about Greece itself... sounds interesting! Whats it mainly about? If has anything to do with politics and/or warfare, I will be more inclined to read it.