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Why everyone needs “Air”

Rick — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:14:05 +0000

Click on the Comic for a larger version.

MacGyver would have loved it.

Comic from The Joy of Tech via Geek Culture

If you don’t know about the MacBook Air (MBA), shame on you, and click here.

Happy New Year & Deranged Snowmen

Rick — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:37:20 +0000

We hadn’t originally planed on it, but Phaedra & I ended up having an impromptu New Year’s Bash at our home. Three generations of LaPreta’s plus our friends Stacy & Mike helped us bring the new year in. Thanks to Anthony, we’ll have enough cold-cuts & antipasto to last the whole year. Thanks to my overzealousness, we’ll have liquor to last just as long. Photos of the night can be seen on our family website. Phaedra & I wish everyone a great 2008.

As a holiday bonus, at the end of this post, you’ll find some Calvin & Hobbs’ snowman comics, written and illustrated by Bill Watterson.

To see photos of our New Year’s Eve, please go to our private family website family.hernandezlife.com, or, to save time, just click here.

SPAM SPAM SPAM

Rick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:38:37 +0000

I hate SPAM, and I’m not talking about the food product, I’m not talking about the play, I’m not even talking about the song. I’m talking about those ~~greedy sons of %!$^@#~~ unscrupulous ~~spawn of Satan~~ persons who flood our emails and who leave commercial scams in comments on blogs. I have an automated spam catcher that is pretty good, it has zapped just under forty spam comments to date. However one just recently made it into my Guest Book hawking Viagra. It was up for a few hours before I found and zapped it into oblivion. I also banned the IP address it came from from all my web sites.

So dear reader (and I assume there are only a couple of you), If you see any postings, comments, links, or Guest Book entries either promising to turn your garden snake into a python, sell you Viagra without a prescription, or claiming you can make $1,000 a day reading email, please be assured it did not come from me. Send me an email and I’ll delete it and ban the ~~retard~~ lowlife that posted it.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Dec 5th – A New American Drinking Holiday

Rick — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:13:45 +0000

At least it should be. Yes we celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo, but these are not American holidays. Repeal Day commemorates the anniversary of Congress repealing the Eighteenth Amendment and giving us the government’s approval to consume alcohol in all it’s glorious variations. Repeal day is a great ~~excuse~~ occasion to get together with friends and pay tribute to our constitutional rights.

Here’s a quick history:

On January 16th, 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, outlawing alcohol mostly due to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, who believed alcohol was the root of all evils. Predictably, our thirst for alcohol increased during Prohibition, and organized crime rose up to replace formerly legal methods of production and distribution. America was not happy, and in the thirteen years that followed, even many of the original proponents of Prohibition came to their senses. In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for President on a platform that included the repeal of Prohibition.

On Decenber 5th, 1933, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition and restoring the American right to a celebratory drink.

Click HERE for a great video showing what life would be like if the Volstead Act had never been repealed. Also click HERE for a very good Bartender’s blog on the same subject.

So to wrap it up, On December 5th, make sure to get together with friends and family, have a few drinks (but don’t drive), and start a yearly celebration of “Repeal Day”.

Funnies

Murphy — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:48:56 +0000

I just love this.