Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Blonde Furry Lobster


This thing is so cool! I want a blonde furry lobster!

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Iran making weapons going to Iraq?

I am really hoping that this turns out to be a false report, like so much in the media right now. But I am worried its not. If this is true, this is something that could convince alot of people in the country that military action with Iran is not a bad idea. I have written on Iran several times and my views are pretty clear. Even without this, i would consider bombing the oil and power facilities. Now i am not sure that a strike on the governmental buildings would be a bad idea. F-35 ready yet?

News Update

A few updates in the world today.

1) Russia has offered Iran a deal that is much closer to what it is seeking and not at all what the US, France, the UK want. Russia apperently (although confirmation is not at present there) has offered to allow Iran limited amounts of nuclear enrichment on their soil, with the bulk of fuel coming from Rusia. The other countries have insisted on no enrichment in Iran. This marks a break between the big countries.

UPDATE: Russia is denying there is a compromise offered even close to this. See what i get for relying on the MSM

2) Bird Flu is back, and scaring lots of people

3) The Oscars sucked, and so did the ratings, down 8% and under 40 million for only the 2nd time in 20 years. Oh and according to liberal critics, if you didn't want Brokeback to win best picture, you are homophobic. Yippie.

4) Kirby Puckett is dead at 45

5) AT&T merged with BellSouth, huge ramification in the telecom industry

6) South Dakota has banned abortion, pretty much all of it. There is still the morning after pill, but no abortion unless the mother's life is in danger. Let the screaming begin on both sides...

7) I just had a job interview with CEMEX

Monday, March 06, 2006

Solomon amendment still there

From the Supreme Court today, the Solomon amendment was ruled constitutional. It was an overturning of a ruling by the 3rd Circuit Court that ruled it was not. This means that any school recieving federal funding from the US government (not student aid) has to allow military recruiters at least equal access compared to civilian employers. This does not mean that the school can't say what they want, but that they have to at least allow access to the recruiters. Good for the Supreme Court.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

The result from the 2nd attempt with the straight razor

Well, got the straight razor a few days ago and made two runs with it thus far. The first run created a very nice shave but was marked with several problems. The first problem that occured was shaving the mustache area near my top lip. There isn't a very good way to hold the razor here and when trying to get the hairs right up against the nose, i cut myself twice. The other area of concern when shaving was the sides of my neck. Because i have to hold the razor in a certain way, I have a problem getting the side of my neck visiable in the mirror. Seeing what i am doing here is really tough and i had two decent sized cuts on my neck. Not the best thing ever. The quality of the shave in the other areas was quite good and very smooth. No razor burn either. And, well, the classic approach is just cool cause its a straight razor.

The second attempt was today and its about the same as last time. I got a nick on my chin and above my upper lip and a cut on my left side where the check moves down towards the neck. Its really more of a visibility issue at this point i think there though. The quality of the shave wasn't as good as my Merkur either sadly. It might have something to do with the lather because since my lather cake soap and boar brush and all are not here yet and i am stuck using Edge Pro Gel. Not bad for canned lather but I am hoping for a marked improvement. It might be that the straight razor will improve dramaticly when i have better lather but as of right now, the Merkur is leading for the best shave.

As an asside, Sara and Liz (Tom's Girlfriend) both compared our shaves at Military Ball and mine was dramaticly smoother by both accounts. Liz was noticeably impressed, but i think Sara is more used to me being smooth. Tom uses a high end model electric. Perhaps i can convince him to learn to use a safety razor.