Doomsday: April 13, 2029

Apophis is the name for 2004 MN4, a Near-Earth Asteroid predicted to pass closer to Earth than any other known asteroid on April 13, 2029. It is 1,300 ft long and will pass within the orbit of our geosynchronous satellites (22,300 miles). What's scary is a rock of this size comes this close to us every 5 years though this is the new best candidate for a collision. 1,300 ft is pretty big and would have global consequences, but not an "Extinction Level Event." It would cause large tidal waves on the ocean and flood coastal cities if it hit the ocean (most likely) or it would cause a whole lot of dirt to cloud the Earth's sky should it hit land (not to mention cause a HUGE crater). It ranks 4 out of 10 on the Torino scale.

The chances of it colliding with Earth are now about 1 in 60, however, as its position is more accurately tracked the chances of it colliding with Earth lessen...hopefully.

There's a great interactive animation of this asteroid at the NASA website. You can also read NASA's article and track the orbits of all the other 800+ Potentially Hazardous Asteroids.

A few favorite Family Guy clips

Gain Some Perspective!!

...and I mean that in a nice way.

Thanks to HornyGuy and his comment on the previous post "Feeling Insignificant Anyone?" for providing us all with a bit better perspective...not only on how

tiny

we are but also to how

VAST

the voids of space are...

not only in our own solar system but in each and every constituent atom.

Long live Mr. King

Gerald Ford died today, becoming the longest-lived president since ... Reagan ... last month. This much I know, but sadly, I must admit, I knew little of the man, since I'm a Reagan baby. Ahh, but that's what the internet is for!

Let's see ... apparently he was named Leslie Lynch King for the first year of his life ... he got a law degree from Yale ... served in the Navy during Dubya Dubya II ... first person to serve as either VP or President without ever being elected (mildly interesting) ... inflation ... taxation ... pulled outta Vietnam (Yay) ... lotsa vetoes against Democratic congress ... "Drop dead, NYC" ... two assassination attempts from hippies in SF ... beaten by Carter ....

Okay, well, I'm well-informed now ... sooooooo ... no sex scandal or self-imposed war? Did anything exciting happen???

One Holiday Ends ... Another Begins!

I hope everyone gets what they want for Kwanzaa this year.

..... even Nancy.

Set phasers to limp!

Some people on Myspace have WAY too much time on their hands. I cannot find this boy's name for the life of me, but I do recognize him from the show ... vaguely.

... and he was a bit cuter than that Wesley kid.

Merry Christmas, boiz!

Mama never told me Santa looked like this or I'd wish for more than just toys!

.... For Your Pleasure!

Feeling insignificant anyone?

You are here...

Sirius (not the radio) is a white dwarf and the brightest star in the sky in the constellation Canus Major. (Actually it's a binary system.) Pollux is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, brighter even than its Gemini twin and quadruple star system Castor. Arcturus is the 3rd brightest star in the night sky in the constellation Bootes near the Big Dipper.


Antares is a red supergiant in the constellation Scorpius. If placed where our Sun is, it would reach out to Mars orbit. Aldebaran is the bull's eye of Taurus and has just burnt off its hydrogen and is primarily burning helium as it swells larger. Rigel is the 9th brightest star and the brightest in the constellation Orion. Actually it is a triple system; a binary pair orbits the main star. Betelgeuse, a red supergiant, is on Orion's right shoulder and is as large as Jupiter's orbit, one of the largest known stars.

Whaaaa....uuuuhhhh...mmm

Lookie!

I changed up the side over there just a bit. Hope you likey!

Psst! Now you can click on "hotties" and just scroll through them all!

All I want for Christmas is you!

Christmas time is here again...and it's always best to be with the ones you love. And nothing will make you yearn for the ones you love that you can't be with more than Christmas. This year I'm spending mine with my parents...might as well, I'm already living with them. =P I'm just playin'! Even if I wasn't living here I'd still be spending it with them.

Ah, but the one I want to be with the most is my Stevie.

(I've been begging him to take a decent photo himelf. And by decent I mean both with clothes on and at a better resolution, hehe.)

Ah, Pookie, where do we begin? It's been 2.5 years since we first met and became friends, but something happened to us this past year or so. I had never really considered you more than a friend since you had a boyfriend. We soon talked every day, and if we didn't you'd know I missed you when you returned. You were there for me when I needed you. You helped me through my difficult times. When I needed to talk to you, you'd drop an honesty bombshell on me and it would take me days to process it. You became my best friend. We laughed and cried and giggled and drooled together. You sent me sexy gifts I never would have thought to buy myself and LOVED. You gave me confidence and inspired me to wear tight undies and try new things. You KNOW me! Often better than I know myself. You make me come out to myself! You turn me inside out! You make me live! I sing at the top of my lungs now...Donna Summer even! I can no longer watch The Notebook without bursting into tears like a little girl, thanks to you!

Summer came and we'd been dancing around the issue for some time, so I'll never forget the time you accidentally said "love you"before running off to bed, as if you'd thought it a hundred times before yet never said it out loud. You were so embarrased. It was so cute...but I was such a wuss I couldn't tell you how I really felt...it had even been since September when you hinted that I should tell you! haha...but it sooned poured out. The end of summer brought someone back into your life, and I didn't know why but I suddenly felt you were taken from me. I felt so selfish I didn't want to say anything to you about it...I just...cried...and didn't know why! My eyes drenched my pillow that night...and then it occured to me -- why was I so torn up over this? I'd fallen hopelessly in love with you! Regardless of the outcome, I determined to tell you how I felt....after all, isn't that what you've taught me to do? You couldn't have made me happier...that day and since. I get to call you mine! =D You have my whole heart, Stevie. I think about you every day, at work, at home, driving, shopping, watching tv, laying in bed at night...all the times I wish we could spend together....well, ok, maybe you'll have to resort to sending me naughty text messages at work, kee hee...

You're my best friend, and I love you, Stevie!

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. *Mwah!*

The Naked Gay Truth

The Gay Agenda is revealed!

It's a Date!!

Mario Nakio!

Finally my dreams have come true!

Since the days of Slater and singlets and Screech (oh my!)

...I've dreamt of this day...

BEHOLD !!

My Joshie Poo!

This is my friend Josh whom I've known for going on 4 years.....I've been drooling since day one. Now he's a cool guy and all, but the bad thing about him is...he knows he's hot! ...Still, I don't mind the skinnydipping!

Truth in advertising?

Who gives a crap!? This guy is HAWT!!

Vindication at last!

You remember how my grammar was drug through the mud and even scrutinized by an English major? Well, they're all about to GET IT when I see them at work!

A fellow computer geek from Raliegh has brought it to my attention that Mrs. Crabapple was right all along!

A period concluding the end of a complete thought, a.k.a. a sentence, has been dubbed a "full stop." There appears to be a recent debate over a single-space or a double-space after such period. I've always been told it was supposed to be one, but they swore it's always been two.

WELL! Apparently, two spaces has long been the standard in mainstream publications for a long time, including MLA, APA, and the CMS. They only started using double-spacing, or "French spacing," after people felt the new fixed-width typewriter fonts made it look weird. Since the implementation of variable-width fonts in mondern computing, a single space after a full stop has again become the norm for most computer word processing programs and mainstream publishers of books and journals. Supposedly some people are still adamant about using double-spacing for accessibility reasons as it is reported that dyselxic people prefer it.

So that's it! No more of this French spacing bullshit! I'm doing it the way it's always been done except for a brief period in time when all they had was fixed-width fonts and some people whined that they didn't like it. But that's all over now, so if they think it's hard to read, then that's their problem!

*folds arms*

Why???

Honestly, WHY would you have tattooed on your back a derrogatory word for yourself? I wonder if anyone of any other group is jumping on this bandwagon.

Really, I see this not going well for him...

Random person: "Dude, what's your tattoo say? Take your shirt off, lemme see."
Him: "Faggot"
Random person: "Nah, I just wanna see your tat. What's it say?!"
Him: "Faggot!"
Random person: "Look man, I ain't no faggot! I just wanted to see your tattoo!"
Him: "It says faggot! You stupid [*insert derrogatory noun here*]!!"


... I picked "caveman," hehe.

I'm a valley girl in a valley world

First The Real World, now this.....what can I say? I'm a glutton for laughing inappropriately.

Before you tell me to turn off the TV altogether, let me explain myself. I take this show in SMALL doses. I usually end up changing the channel before a commercial makes it on screen. Now, I'm not proud of it, but I'm like totally talking about Laguna Beach right now.

Talking to a valley girl is like hitting nitrus oxide -- sure it can be amusing for a short while but prolonged expose will cause permanent brain damage. They can seriously talk your brain to mush.

Take a look at this MadTV satire of the show. (You need not watch the entire thing, of course. I couldn't bring myself to blog an actual partial episode.)

.... *snares blankly* ..... *snaps out of it*

So, like, I work at this help desk, rieeet? And we talk with all these, like, total ditzy, boob job silicon valley girls in California. And one time, no lie, i was just like helping out this girl over the phone, and she's all talking to her girlfriend next to her, like, totally just into the phone like she was talking to me. Rieeet? So like, I'm helping her own with her...whatever, and she's all like "So like, did you go to the party this weekend? Ohhhhhh my gawd, Crissy. I went and I like, took one step inside and was like, oh no, I am not staying here. Like, I went over and talked to one girl I knew but, I wasn't staying there. They were all like drinking and like...ya know?? So, like after that I left. I was sooooo not having that. I'm SO Mormon like that."

My typing freezes with this gripping brain freeze.....and I mute her and say..

Needless to say "I'm SO Mormon like that" has become a new tagline of mine.

Bathroom Buddies

Jayden, my snowed-in hottie in the Canadian Rockies, tells me about how they keep warm up there in the mountains of northern Canada.

As you can tell this is one hot boy! So hot in fact, that there's a straight boy that's taken a liking to him....and he's not even out to anyone!

He goes out to this bar with some friends on weekends. He comes back one night with quite a story....

This "super gorgeous Greek god" guy friend of his is dating this girl Jayden hangs out with a lot. So, they're all friends and they hang out when everybody gets together. Now, this guy just happens to go into the bathroom after Jayden. They're standing there, peeing at the urinal ... and his friend looks down to see what he's packin' ... now, this is a self-proclaimed straight guy looking down at the package of a guy who no one knows is gay ... He smiles at Jayden. Jayden kinda smiles back, thinking, "ok, whatever," then zips up and is


suddenly pressed between his friend's lips and the wall


All the pent up hormones this guy's been saving up just realease all at once. And before our poor hottie has a chance to realize what's going on, this boy's got his lips locked on him and his hands are EXPLORIN'!! Jayden was just in heaven getting felt up by this gorgeous guy in a public bathroom at their college bar. Hands were rubbin' all over each other's torsos and crotches. Jayden said he felt like he was packin'. And as soon as it started, it was over. Jayden walked back to their table just in a daze, and this "straight" guy goes back to his girlfriend and they kiss each other openly.......but I assure it was nothing compared to the steam released in that bathroom!!

Since, twice this has happened again -- each time they find an excuse to leave at the same time and they meet in the bathroom for a quick groping/make-out session before it's back to their "normal" hidden lives. Tonight Jayden asked if they could "go somewhere" and this guy giggles and continues to kiss him ravenously...

Oh, Jayden, I hope you two both come out of the ... bathroom together and go where it'll just be the two of you...

...and continue to bring me DETAILS!!

Drooooooooooool

I could watch this over and over again...





...I can't help but notice he's totally checking out that other wrestler in the beginning. I think he's one of those jock bois, and we LOVE those!!

Ms. Crabapple stands CORRECTED!!

I know this may come as an utter shock to ... ok, one person. =) You know who you are ... more about your ass later! Your time is a-comin'!

But tonight at work yours truly, Ms. Crabbapple (notable for her nit-picky self) was corrected on her English!! Not on diction, mind you, but on a grammatical thing. It was brought to my attention by Marcus, a former chemist. The dialog went something like this:

Me: Oh, Marcus, can you read this email before I send it to James and make sure it has everything in it about the whole situation before I send it off?
Marcus: *reading* "Blah blah blah" ... umm...Richard, *glances over entire email* do you happen to see anything particularly wrong with this email?
Me: Mmmm, no.
Marcus: How about here, after the period....
Me: Ummm, no.
Marcus. I only see a single space there and, welll, after every other sentence in here.
Me: Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?
Marcus: No, you're supposed to have two spaces after each period ending a sentence -- one space after a colon, comma, or semicolon, or just one after Mr. or Mrs., but always two after --
Me: Yea, I think I remember doing that for papers in school all the time...
Marcus: Oh, Adam!

Adam is, of course, our English major and recent grad on the help desk.

Marcus (to Adam this time): Adam, let me ask you something since you're an English major, and you'll probably never hear me say that again. How many spaces come after a period at the end of a sentence?
Adam: TWO!! *vehemently* Always two! ...except after a Mr. or Mrs.

Marcus then walks over to Matt THEN Josh!! Matt said one then two soon afterward as if he remembered suddenly and Josh said always two unless after Mr. or Mrs.

I then have to somewhat explain myself a bit. I did always actually go back on my school papers and make sure I did that, BUT I never really thought it was a RULE or anything, so I never cared to remember to do that when I'm just typing an email or a letter to someone unless it was a resume or something. Apparently to the English major, it's just second nature to him. And it's another one of those English rules.

So excuse the pants off of me!

Mrs. Crabapple stands corrected!

Geez, maybe I was out that day in school!

Now, I'm sure that Marcus was just amused at the opportunity to point out something I didn't know as it doesn't happen often. ;)

Finally!!

All that work crap is over for a few days!

SIX days in a row I worked 10 hours a day! I was dumb enough to come in for an extra day AND later to switch my schedule around so my whole sleep/wake schedule got totally F&$#!ed for a a few days.

My car sits in the parking lot at work longer than it does in my own driveway!

But now I should have plenty of money to spend on Christmas gifts...and time to spend

blogging!!

My Kinda Store!

In the pages of my pizza boi past....


I worked next door to this place in Kannapolis for a while. (Notice the Papa John's colors.)

Comic Relief

Anyone who knows where I can find more, let me know!!