Homosexual Martians

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Yes, I have.

http://darkman.is-a-geek.net

bye..

Happy Birthday, to you,
Happy Birthday, to you.
Happy Birthday, dear Osaba Bin Laden,
Happy Birthday to youuuuuu.

I know he is the most reviled man in the God Fearing Western world, but he has turned a milestone today. Today, everyones favourate Jihadist, turns 50!

It isn't everyday you turn 50, so, just for today, I'm going to wish him all the best, good health and hope he has a great day.

..When I came upon this paragraph:

A decline in the numbers of Apis melllifera, the world’s most widely distributed semi-domesticated insect, doesn’t just mean a shortage of honey for toast and tea. In fact, the economic value of honey, wax and other bee products is trivial in comparison with the honeybee’s services as a pollinator. More than 90 crops in North America rely on honeybees to transport pollen from flower to flower, effecting fertilization and allowing production of fruit and seed. The amazing versatility of the species is worth an estimated $14 billion a year to the United States economy.

Approximately one-third of the typical American’s diet (primarily the healthiest part) is directly or indirectly the result of honey bee pollination. Production of almonds in California, a $2 billion enterprise, is almost entirely dependent on honey bees. Every year beekeepers transport millions of bees around the country to meet the ever-growing need for pollination services for almonds, apples, blueberries, peaches and other crops. This year it is possible that there won’t be enough bees to meet the demand for pollinators.

Apparently it is a true story and I found it here. It's a story from the New York Times on the sudden and un-explained, dissapearances, of 20 millio Honey Bees from North America. It is quite an interesting read.

The feeling that I couldn't shake was, you know when you watch a dissaster movie, and it always starts off with a series of perplexing and somewhat unconnected events, but they are a precursor to the main event, be it earth quake or tsunami, it feels like one of those bizaar stories you see in the movie opening scenes, that usually ends up in the slaying of the token black person.

We definately do live in interesting times.

I have had a few different Linux Distro's installed now and I have to say, there certainly is a difference in them. I have finally settled for Kubuntu. It is fast, stable and had the least amount of problems getting it running.

What's more, I'm enjoying my self. I feel like an adventurer of sorts. Windows feels too sterile and everything just works the way it is supposed to. That to me is boring - I'm more of a tinkerer.

I still think I have done the right thing...please, convince me I have..

I have finally moved to Linux as my primary OS. I feel so free! I don't feel the wrath of Bill Gates - because I happened to have had a pirated version of windows - bear down on me and constantly inform me that I have a dodgey version of Windows.

Vista, seems to me to be the biggest pile of poo, that I have ever had the misfortune of using and supporting. I have watched Vista and have seen Linux - with some nifty window managers, like Beryl and Looking Glass - and I have to say, Linux beats windows hands down in the performance stakes and isn't as buggy. Also, I haven't yet come across a program that I use in Windows, that hasn't had available, an open source alternative, .

Wish me luck!

The storm seems to have passed.

It was 39c today although I had no Idea. I sit from 11:30am to 8:00pm in a sterile 24c - it feels more like 18c and more than likely is when people start to leave and the aircon cranks out to the maximum. That means, as soon as I get out of work, the heat hits me like a sledgehammer.

I used to love the heat, but not as much anymore as I'm more used to the arctic airconditioning at work and the sudden heat hitting me is uncomfortable.

But not now, I'm sitting here after just having been outside and soaking up the warm breezes that are squalling around. I fairly impressive storm is moving south, from north east to north west. We aren't getting it in anyway, escept for the wind. Watching the cloud sail by with lightening flashing was just an added bonus.

The problem is now is that the winds are picking up. I havn't heard them this wild for quite some time and in this era of climate change and all, I'll keep you posted.

I'm off to have a scout around for things to tie down - chairs, tables, kids, dogs and other sruff.

  Bye, Bye Perth!  We're on our way to Mandurah.  Let the first great road trip of 2007 start!

. Kings Park

  I love watching Sunday Cricket - at 110KPH!

  Kwinana Freeway

  You should have seen the bemused look in the guys face when our Lancer zoomed past his Subaru WRX STi.

  Nice Ute!

  It was, well, I noticed it!

  Kids are great, I wonder what they were playing?

  Key kids, Let's look down here!  (Do we have to daaad?)

  Look kids, Secret American base!  (They didn't get it!)

  The Licksy Licksy Bancer has done, eleven thousand. one hundred and eleven kilometers.

  I love driving through the bush.  It will be all housing soon.  The urban sprawl is slowly catching up.

  Dad - I just have to have a go on this!

  Hmmm, what is up here?  Hey!  I can see the pub!

  Aparently, they were Sharkboy and Lava Girl, saving the world.  They had fun!

  They were all hanging out for a go.  Uncle Geff had to have a play, first!

 CHARGE!!!

  Catch, Choppa!

  And this was the nice man that we hired to break into my car after I sucessfuly left the keys in the boot.  Lucky I had a spare set in a bag - that was in the boot.

I love road trips.

Anyone remember me mentioning that we had a puppy? Well, here she was..



It's been around 3 or 4 months now, but sahe has grown and become an important member of the family. I just love getting home fomr work at 9pm and taking her for a walk. I need my exercise, after all.

*****Update! This is real, here is his picture


Read all about him on Wikipedia Here.

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I just received this in an email this morning.

O THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF (ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison complex.

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. He says:

"they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave."

He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied: "so these morons will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that >actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd), the Associated Press reports:

About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed- wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished for their crimes not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."

Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of prison spaces.

I have no idea how true this is, but I will be researching it later. If this is true, Joe Arpaio, has just become my hero. This should be done in Australia. Who is sick of prisoners living in holiday camps? I want to start a campaign to bring Joe to Australia to oversee our federal and state prisons.

Onya Joe!