Holiday greed

Have you noticed the lines at local stores lately? Oh duh no kidding huh? At 6:00am November 25th 2005 the doors of my store swung open and the herd of waiting cattle....errr customers burst in and in a marathon style. They took off twards electronics (which makes me happy I don't work in that department) if they all had been wearing white shorts and white t-shirts it would have been a remake of "Charriots of fire" Luckily the people that shopped that day did well. There was no fighting or cutting just a well managed shopping frenzy.
But not all is well elsewhere. For some reason people think its necessary to fight over meaningless things. Case in point....my own Washington state made the news when two men got into a brawl while shopping. A woman got robbed at gun point and her new X-box got stolen. I watch things like that and wonder why its such a big deal. Sure you may be getting a good deal but is it really worth it just to impress a child or a close loved one for all of 10 seconds on Christmas day? It seems people have forgotten what the holidays are about. Family and the people you care about. Gifts are just a way to show how you feel and how fast you can get into debt. (I love you or I think you are the coolest=X-Box 360. I think you are ok and I hope I get something cool from you=gift card.)
Now don't get me wrong I auctially like gift cards, they are simple.
My last gripe is about the mothers and fathers that are buying their spoiled little brats things like the new X-box or those IPods. Kids today don't appreciate things today and believe me my parents never got me things extravagent like that. I'm glad they didn't because of how I turned out today.
Kids should have to earn what they get. So to the people stop pushing, shoving, fighting, yelling and screaming to get that stupid gift. Most people like to get things that are sentimental.
Lillys rating: Stay back Santa your sley might get jacked.

Geopolitical Rant of the Day: Benzene Floats Downstream

Environmental Disasters continue to occur in countries with lax safety standards. The Songhua River flows with a 50 mile stretch of water contaminated by benzene, which is winding it's way to Russia's Amur River. Russia is downplaying the severity of this disaster because their economic ties with China are more important than protecting it's citizens from cancer causing agents (The BBC).

Although the Chinese citizens will never know, scientists have predicted that the benzene with settle into the sediment of the river, to be eaten by tiny fish, thus entering the food chain. Benzene with an insidious ability to bond to and mutate DNA, causing cancer, is a persistant chemical that is not metabolized by the body. Thusly it can accumulate in bodies much in the way DDT did in the eagles.

Oddly, the usually heavily restained Chinese newpapers, are actively critisizing the governments response to the spill, so perhaps their is the silver lining of raising Chinese awareness of the environment.

Please Invent This Number 2: Paperclip

Have you ever been reading a web page or doing something within a window while trying to have an instant message conversation like I am trying to do now. The little orange light brightens every time they respond, you have to stop what you are doing and open the window. Reply. When you return to your . . *stop open up IM window. . reply to Lilly's IM*.. return to task at hand you find you have lost your momentum *dang it Lilly quit IM'ing me while I write this.*. .

Of course if your are like me the curiosity of what they say supercedes all other trains of thought and you must compulsively interupt the task at hand to open the IM window, because the unopened IM window glows brightly like the embers of unexplored gossip. BRB CODE ORANGE.

My solution, the ability to attach the IM window to whatever window you are currently working on with a "paperclip" option. Thus the IM window will attach to the open window and stay in the forefront. If you glance around windows much of the room is taken up by advertising and other wasted space.

Another use would be the score of the pinochle game I play, I could attach it to the pinochle game window. Additionally I could hook together groups of smaller windows like a quilt and further increase my multitasking. . . The possibilities are wonderful. I need this skill.

Please invent the Paperclip quilt window.

This sounds like something Mozilla Firefox would do. On a semi tangent I love Mozilla Firefox's window browser, because it lets you tab, unlike windows which puts everything in the dang blue area where stuff starts stacking up.

Geopolitical Rant of the Day: Boycott the Evil of Monsanto

Monsanto, ahh the name brings so many images to mind. Strange, and creepy images of scientists developing suicide seeds. Of insidious CEO's devising new ways to alter the natural order in order to make money. Of corrupt politicians saying mmmhum, we don't have to eat the food of the poor so do with it what you will.

Monsanto's evil lies in creating products such as Bt corn.

Lets take a look into the inner santum of Monsanto (in red of course for evil):

Some random overheard conversations at Monsanto: Hmm, lets take corn and splice a bacterium into it. Better yet lets take a non-persistant integrated pest management control used by organic farmers and make it persistant and permanent so that the corn borer can build up a resistance and kill a few innocent beneficial insects. And then the organic farmers will be out of luck and we can release our next evil product!!!

Lets think hard now. Got it. We make Round up right. So hey strange and creepy scientists can you make a plant that is round up resistant. All right, we've got these farmers now, buy our seeds and our pesticide.

How is the genes from people to vegetable's department going.

And the growth hormone we make for cows that ends up in milk. Doing great! sure makes the cows big, of course obesity in America's youth couldn't be related to drinking diluted growth hormone from cows!!! No way man.

And our lawsuits against farmers whos seeds they save from last year show traces of our patented genes from the soy beans. Isn't wind blown cross pollination great.

Best have we sold our suicide seeds to those third world impoverished folks in Asia and Africa. Hopefully we can destroy a long standing culture of seed preservation by tricking them into buying these seeds that will create eunich plants. And then they will have to buy more and more

Fade out into maniacal devil controlled Monsanto leaders high fiving Bechtel and Dupont maniacal leaders in their success so far at controlling the world and owning the White House Dems. or Reps.

This ends our lovely eavesdropping session of the Monsanto corporation. I wonder if this puts me on the corrupt politicians list of possible insurgents. LOL

willow ranting out

Both of us have issues

I thought it would be nice to show you what Willow and I chat about on our messinger. Of corse I have changed a bit of the usernames and what not to protect the innocient...errr..whatever. Its short but enjoy. -Pardon the grammer-

willowm: yeah just got done giving myself a facial
willowm:
willowm: what are you doign?
BUZZ!!!
jojo_101: still there?
BUZZ!!!
jojo_101: i was playing a game but i'm here
BUZZ!!!
willowm: it is way to late for you to be up
jojo_101: i'm waiting for my dad and aunt to get here
jojo_101: they were in L.A about 2 hours ago so they should be here soon
jojo_101: plus i don't work tomorrow
jojo_101:
jojo_101: still no payment from that guy that bought the hoop skirt
willowm: lame
willowm: has he emialed you back
jojo_101: i sent him an email just now asking him if maybe he sent a money order
jojo_101: i haven't herd anything from him since the auction ended
jojo_101: so what are you doing?
willowm: watching tv
jojo_101: do you guys auctially have a t.v now?
willowm: no downloaded shoe
willowm: show
jojo_101: lol
jojo_101: joni get a t.v and spare your computer from possible viruses or hackers
jojo_101: i have a nice t.v you could have
willowm: lol
willowm: no
jojo_101: why not?
jojo_101: hummm probably because you would become a tabasco eatin zombie and gain 500lbs because you couldn't get away from the t.v.
jojo_101: then joel would cry and be like "oh willow why?" Earl whom is now 24 weeps for you to move or at least wash with the "washin stick" because quote "mommy smells of dead ass"
jojo_101: the dog would love you however..."no baths for willow lady i like the smell"
jojo_101: i believe however....the cockroaches would be offended by the evilness that just one t.v has created
jojo_101: no thanks to lilly down younder in san diego gave willow a simple t.v for her viewing pleasure....to gaze upon jon stewart...to watch reruns of the upright citizens brigade...strangers with candy...to catch the news at late hours....oh what have i done to my cousin?
jojo_101: ok i'm done where are you?
jojo_101: lol
willowma: sloeeoping
jojo_101: yeah what now?

Geopolitical Rant of the Day: Whalers should Drown

Whaling. Namely whaling disguised as "research" as done by the Japanese. Last year off the coast of Antarctica, quite a ways away from the "traditional" whaling grounds of the ancient Japanese, roughly 450 minke whales and 5 endangered fin whales were brutally slaughtered for "research". Incedentally the remains were also sold to Japanese restaurants for 26 million dollars. How is this not commercial.

Okay, the oceans are dying. And these are whales. Furthermore some of the whales they want to hunt are endangered whales. This is absolutely ridiculous. And the Japanese are not alone. They are joined in their disgusting pasttime by the Norwegians, and Native Americans/Eskimos. Just one more example of how screwed up everything is. Lets go hunt endangered species. I mean really the meat from these animals is not linked to the survival of the people who are hunting them. In Japan it is gourmet.

This year they want to double their catch to 900 minke whales and 10 fin whales.

Greenpeace is heading down there to impede the research and I wish them the best of luck.

Please Invent This Number 1

I want someone to invent a very simple computer device designed for classroom use in order to cut down on the enormous amount of paper that is wasted every day making "copies" for kids to write on.

This computer device would be flat, so it could sit on top of their desk. It can be written on with a special pen. It will be linked with the teachers computer. The teacher may press a button and the assignment each child will be working on will appear on the reinvented "Classroom Desktop"

It shall have a rudimentary writing program and a spot where a keyboard may be plugged in to work on projects.

It will have a touch screen. It must be very durable. It will have a simple windows style interface.

Children will complete their assignment, hit "Turn in" and the assignment will be sent back to the teachers computer completed. There will also be a "homework" option and an incomplete assignment may be sent home to a home computer, or better yet a "Classroom Desktop" at home.

Other options/perks may apply. Simply this would greatly reduce the enormous amounts of paperwork generated. A target price should be around 100 to 200 dollars a piece. In the long run it would save so much money, on paper, copier parts, inefficient time usage making copies and passing our and gathering papers, lost assignments, ink cartridges. ETC.

A teacher could also send home a childs completed and graded assignments home, the child could then for homework, erase their mistakes and return a corrected paper with the click of a button.

Hello, the future where are you??? I am waiting!!!

Patriotic wedding dress

Picture this: Its a beautiful sunny day, the birds are cherping, the wind is gently caressing your skin. The flowers are bursting full of rich color. The man you are about to marry is everything you have ever wanted in a person. Your heart is thumping in your chest because you are about to change your life forever.......AND HOW! Why not wear this lovely salute to America wedding dress? The stars! The stripes! The "I'v gone too far with this one!"

Now when I think wedding, I think of a flag for a dress. Of corse its every womans dream. This must be the untimate patriotic womans wedding dress. I really do not like it....eeew. I was searching for a wedding dress for a friend of mine with this red, white and blue eye soar leaped off the screen and burned a perfect image of itself in my retnas. Luckily no foolish woman bought this dress, alas there were no bids for the good ole' U.S of A travisty.
Lillys rating: I hope those stars and stripes aren't forever.

Halloween photos O' fun!

I thought you all would like to see how i decorated my front window and the small fenced in area for Halloween. Sorry it took so long but work has been draining me.

Picture #1. My window. Car chalk is so much fun!

Picture #2. The pumpkins. I used patterns from a book, mine sucked but my hubbies turned out nice....guess what one mine was!

Picture #3 & #4 are of the entire Halloween scene. The devil guy I made out of a mask that scream costume and two mini glow sticks for eyes....kickass huh? I'm cool. Lillys rating: Don't throw eggs I have candy!!