Can anyone explain this craziness?

Finish the sentence:

"Darla Jean loved ropin' and rasslin' night at the club, but it usually ended with _______________________"

Hong Kong at night.

How awesome does this place look.  Makes me want to party with my pants off... if you know what I mean. {winkwink pointpoint}

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Click pic for larger view, for the love of the sweet mother Mary.

Presidential Betting Odds

I love politics.  It's like a soap opera with real life consequences at the end.  Entertaining and about as relaxing as being beaten with a sock full of oranges.  So what are the odds?  Well, as of February 20th...

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Obama .....6/5

McCain ....7/5

Clinton ...2/1

Huckabee ..500/1

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Hey, how 'bout that Huckabee huh?  I'm gonna put a buck on him because, well, you never know.  I mean, if I had a nickel for every "favorite" I bet on who ended up dragging ass at the quarter mile because some stable hand gave me a hot tip after a day of smoking weed and shoveling crapola I'd be... well... I'd be at least thirty cents richer... uh... yeah... thirty cents at least.

The 3 foolproof laws for getting in shape.

Ok, so I've been going to the gym and working out 5-7 days a week for the last 20 years.  I've seen a lot of things done right and a lot of idiotic efforts.  Here are 3 "laws" for getting into shape.  They are foolproof.

1.  Eat right.  It's a cliche and no one wants to hear about it any more.  But getting your body into good physical shape is about 85% good nutrition.  I'm not gonna get into the whole wacky food pyramid thing, but if you're working out more than 3 times/week your daily diet should roughly include: carbohydrates 5-7 grams/kg of bodyweight; protien 0.8 grams/kg of bodyweight daily; fat 1 gram/kg of bodyweight daily.

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Pound to kilogram conversion: 

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm

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2.  Know what you're doing.  Get a set routine tailored to the goals you want to achieve.  If you don't know how to do this, hire a trainer to get you started.  Many trainers start at $20/hour and can give you a routine and show you how to properly use the weights in 1-2 sessions.  It's more than worth it.

3. Most important --> be consistent.  Unless you have a death in the family or a major catastrophic event (eg., hurricane, mudslide, personal scandal breaking on the local news) NEVER skip a day that you plan to work out.  Go in especially when you don't feel like it.  

So that's it Buckos.  There's the great secret for getting in shape.  This is what all those info-mercial gurus selling you bands and balls and diet pills are trying to get around doing.  But unless the human DNA changes, these are the 3 things you're gonna need to get into shape.  If you stick to this routine faithfully, no matter what, you WILL get into shape - GUARANTEED.  Remember, the is no such thing as a "bad workout."  

Zen, Motorcycle Maintenance, and Paul Potts.

Some time ago I read the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig.  In it, and in his follow-up book "Lila", Pirsig presents a new way of looking at things.  He calls these 'new rules' the Metaphysics of Quality.  A main idea of his Metaphysics is something he calls Dynamic Quality.  This says that all people know quality, or goodness, or "what's right" - no matter their age, or culture, or race, or religion.  That recognizing goodness is inherent in all of us. 

Paul Potts was a nobody who could sing opera.  When I watched this video of him singing for the first time it reminded me of Pirsig's Dynamic Quality.  Potts isn't just singing oprea but showing us goodness.  His performance transcends singing oprea and is more a display of quality for all to see.  Drink it in Buckos.

In The Weeds

The true meaning of the internet.

It would be impossible to put a price tag on what it has cost to develop the internet as we know it.  The hardware and man-hours that have been invested since Project RAND (allowing scientists to communicate) in the 1950s to the Googles' of today; all the infrastructure and cables; the satellites; the software; all the development of hardware and software -- the sum total is probably the greatist and most expensive effort in human history.  And now, my Buckos, comes the fruition of all that effort and expense.  Enjoy this milestone in human achievement.