Another Pair of Boobies

I really intend to post something more...well, something soon. But for now, happy Friday.

Whirlled Series

This year, the Baseball World Series includes my beloved San Francisco Giants, so I'm happy. Last night's game looked like it had all the makings of a classic pitchers duel, matching up Cliff Lee with Tim Lincecum, two of the finest pitchers in the game. In fact, Lee had never lost a postseason game. Smart money would be betting on a very low scoring game.

Glad I didn't bet on the game. A funny thing happened to forecast of "great pitching": 18 runs, 26 hits, 6 errors, leading to an unexpected 11-7 Giants win. Um, "Yay!", but also "wow, that was strange" are my reactions. Regardless of the score, I'm only too happy to celebrate a Giants victory.

(BTW: sorry I've been such a slacker about posting lately.)

Perky Boobies

For another Friday.

Plans Subject to Change

Sometimes things don't go according to plan. Like flying out of Flagstaff this morning. I'm sitting on the plane, having gone through the lovely process that is airport security, when one of the planes engines made a sound that you really don't want to hear. Turned out to be a blown oil pump. Rather glad that we were still on the ground, instead of airborne, when it happened.

So I'm now rebooked to fly out this evening. I hope.

A Boobie

It's Friday, and I'm heading out of town for most of a week to visit my sister and catch a couple of Widespread Panic shows. Posting may or may not happen while I'm away.

Giants!

On to the NLCS. Bring on the fillies!

10/10/10

(Thanks to Lockwood of Outside the Interzone for the graphic.)

John Lennon's 70th

For Lennon's 70th, NPR has a great interview with David Sheff:

In August 1980, writer David Sheff flew to New York for a big assignment: an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono for the magazine Playboy. Every day for three weeks, Sheff, often with his tape recorder running, talked with the couple in their Central Park West apartment, on the street, in coffee shops and in recording studios. The Playboy interview hit the newsstands on Dec. 6. Two days later, Lennon was shot dead on the street in front of his apartment.

Lennon On Writing "She Loves You"

Lennon On Hearing The Beatles On The Radio

Sheff's interviews with Lennon and Ono were collected in his book All We Are Saying. The book is being re-released as an e-book.

All We Are Saying: Three Weeks With John Lennon

Explore John Lennon's full NPR Archive

Also, here is John Lennon's Site

Sports Injuries

Don't push your frog so hard.

Boobies Bouncing Along

I've posted these before, but they deserve an encore. Happy Friday!

Baseball Prayer

Let Timmeh Smoke!

(Go Giants)

Prop. 203

Once again, the people of Arizona will attempt to legalize medical marijuana (it's been passed by the voters three of the four times it's been on the ballot, but courts have intervened) this November:

The 2010 Arizona election is looking once again, at a long held debate over the legalization of medical marijuana. If passed the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act would authorize the use of marijuana for individuals with medical conditions and written certification from a physician. Most controversial to the election outcome, is the fact that Prop 203 would establish a regulatory system under Arizona Department of Health Services to create and license medical marijuana dispensaries.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5842608/arizona_election_2010_prop_203_arizona.html?cat=49

My views on this are quite clear: for humanitarian reasons, there should be no question about medical marijuana. Compassion demands that it should be legal. I can see a legitimate moral argument against recreational marijuana (I disagree, but I can see a valid debate), but it's a very different issue.

Of course, this being Arizona, there are some serious flaws with the law. For one, it's way too restrictive:

Unlike California, where it's possible to get a doctor's recommendation to use marijuana for almost any condition, only patients with a limited number of serious and debilitating conditions, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer's Disease, glaucoma, Crohn's disease, and multiple sclerosis (MS) will be able to acquire medical marijuana in Arizona.

It would not be an initiative that would implement any immediate and wide sweeping licensing, so it is not going to change anything over night. Nor will Arizona become like California in status over medical marijuana, as some conservatives fear might happen.

Still, I support 203 as a starting point. It will be interesting to see how the vote turns out.

Quite a Year

It's been quite a year for weather here in Flag. Blizzards, wildfires (OK, technically they aren't 'weather'; rather 'events'), floods, and now tornadoes. Haven't seen anything quite like it in my sixteen years here. My only question is: what next?

Good Morning Tornado

Nothing like waking up to a tornado warning, even if the tornadoes are outside of town. So far, three are being reported, in the area of Parks and Bellemont (about 8 miles outside of town). Interstate 40 is closed, and "extensive damage" is being reported. The tornado watch is in place until 11:00 am local time.
Tornadoes are not something we're used to around here. I realized that my tiny apartment lacks a storm cellar, like most housing in the region. We'll see what happens, but for now there's not much I can do. More coffee, anyone?

A Post

I'm a lazy slacker of a blogger. Or I haven't had much to say.

Celebrate!

They did it! My beloved Giants are in the playoffs!

Not Ready for Prime Time

Jan Brewer had an abysmal performance in her debate with Terry Goddard. So she's making a smart move by avoiding any more debates. Well, unless she starts losing:

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has had only one debate against Terry Goddard, her Democratic challenger in the gubernatorial election, and she didn’t have a choice: since she took public funds for her campaign, she had to agree to one debate under Arizona election law. Given the option, Brewer prefers not to debate again — and she admitted to a local reporter yesterday that she would only debate the issues again if it was politically advantageous:

“Maybe there would be a possibility that we would debate if my numbers starting dropping dramatically,’’ she said. “And, of course, I’m working hard to see that they don’t.’’ [...]

She said her reticence to meet with Goddard again should come as no surprise.

“We made that decision long ago,’’ the governor said, saying the single debate was part of the game plan all along.“So far, we’ve been right on the game,’’ Brewer said, adding, “And I’m winning.’’

Brewer brushed aside a question of whether Goddard will be disappointed with her stand. “And you think I care?’’ she quipped.

It’s not surprising Brewer doesn’t want to have another debate. In her first one, she struggled to name her accomplishments and subjected the audience to a long, awkward pause; she also advanced a falsehood about beheadings in the Arizona desert and was unable to justify it after the debate. She quietly retracted her claim a few days later.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/01/brewer-no-debate/

The question to be determined is whether the semi-comatose Goddard can take advantage of this. Given that he's shown the typical democratic aversion to actually winning elections, I'm betting against it.

Smart Lock

The best device to keep someone from carrying away your Smart car.

Nice Looking Boobies

A nice pair of Masked Boobies. Is it really October already?

Fire Up the Starship!

Cosmic Log - Alien planet looks 'just right' for life
We've found a 'livable' planet. Can we get there before we completely destroy this one?

Astronomers say they've found the first planet beyond our solar system that could have the right size and setting to sustain life as we know it, only 20 light-years from Earth.

"My own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent," Steven Vogt, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, told reporters today. "I have almost no doubt about it."

The discovery, published online in The Astrophysical Journal, is the result of 11 years of observations at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Astronomers participating in the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey detected the planet by tracking the faint gravitational wobbles it produced in its parent star. Now they say there may well be many more planets out there like this one.

"The fact that we were able to detect this planet so quickly and so nearby tells us that planets like this must be really common," Vogt said in a news release.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/29/5202633-alien-planet-looks-just-right-for-life

Only 20 light years away, which is very close in astronomical terms. The slogan "Earth First! Then We'll destroy the other planets!" comes to mind.
(BTW, Glad to see this came out of UC Santa Cruz, which was the first college I attended. Go Banana Slugs!)