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    Toyota ads?

    Funny....I'm getting adds for mail order Russian brides.....and hair transplants. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  2. Well my friend is involved with foreign relations and has some interesting friends.....great guy to know if you want to get interviews. Any how he was saying a "cultural and educational" exchange initiated by Iran.....I'm thinking ah ok? What is this Ping Pong Diplomacy? But after a little bit of thought.....it sounds like a very viable way of Iran's current hard line dictatorial government to save it's own skin. After all if you look carefully the spring is moving west to east and well....Iran is looking to be next. With a well educated progressive and liberal population the question of "Why not us" may hold water. But if Iran were to show on the global stage it was reaching out to the west and the west not accepting the olive branch it would look very bad for us and further strengthen the Iranian government. a true a catch 22. agree to talk and you are talking to a dictator who arms terrorists and well you have the Isreal thing. say no....and perhaps loose a great opportunity to open up not not only dialog but also maybe even open up relations to one of the biggest players on the field. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  3. http://hotchicksofoccupywallstreet.tumblr.com/ Given the choice of hitting on a Causie....who looks this good...... Or some engineering chick who's ego is over blown....... Pass me that bean curd tofu what ever..... Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  4. You can huff and you can puff and you can stomp around like a little child....but odds are Palestine will get a seat in the UN in the next year. As for attacking Iran's nuclear facilities.....HA! I'm sorry.....wait HA! No really...HA! Yeah....OK! Egypt to the left, and armed freedom fighters to the north......and the US too sick and tired to help! Good luck with that one! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  5. You know what guys, all things aside, this has been a very good discussion. Who knew we can be civil! Well except for those civil engineers....they just build targets! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  6. I'm going electric go cart racing tonight....about $20. Ever wonder why the ladies love the HD's? I'll give you a hint it has nothing to do with the MPG
  7. Cool car but it's missing the lion's roar And that rumble and that feel....and it's' an automatic! Darling does that car make your panties melt? Hell it makes me ask, "So.......if i were to get in it and drive with the top down all day...........what do you mean I can't drive all freaking DAY!" Now slap a turbine in there running on bio diesel and ha HA! Now we are talking! http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/electric-shocker Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  8. I asked him opinion about a Prius we had just rented.... He called it an "Elephant prostate massager" The guy use to work on the SR-71 program back when they were thinking of arming that bird to take down incoming ICBM's Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  9. That was it...."Because it is there" I am an engineer, I still do....or try my best to do. And work hard at encouraging others to push and do as well. As a Black Belt I've mentored a few very good teams, and I still have no clue why but engineers get scared of two things. 1) Failure 2) Saying "I don't know" Hell man! I love failure! That's job security right there! Why did that thing blow up when you plugged it in? I don't know but we do need it to work so let's figure out why! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  10. I can't say much since I can't verify this info....but a good friend in the know said something really odd to me the other day..... No joke he said "Watch in the next year Iran will reach out to the west for cultural ties." I told my friend WTF! He told me in no uncertain terms that Iran is willing ready and able to reach out for cultural interactions with the US, and in typical Persian style is going to do it to embarrass the US. I hate to say it but I think my friend is on to something. How can you be pissed at some one if they show up holding flowers? He said it has something to do with Palesting getting a seat at the UN....and how the religious right are going ape about it behind the curtains. Really strange stuff! But then again, if i had told you a year ago Mubarack would be in jail, Kadafi killed and Syria about to fall over...would you have believed it! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  11. OK so what kid says "When I grow up i want to be a Mars Rover!" http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/e/e4/Ralph.gif NO KIDS use to say they wanted to be pilots, and astronauts and would look up and admire what we had done for them! Now, what is a kid looking up to? What do they aspire to be? Hedge fund managers? Reality tv stars? George Mallory (1886-1924), answer to the question 'Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest ?'. "Because it is there." As an older engineer once told me "Engineers today...can't justify a two door over powered convertible that sounds like a unhitched lion that melts panties and puts a smile on your face from ear to freaking ear!" while drinking his Bourbon straight and dreaming of what could have been if we grew our balls back! normiss That photo....TITS! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  12. GREAT! We are no better than where we were in say...1985! Woo hoo! Pardon me for expecting more of us! Hell man in a way we are worse off than 1985....we had a space program back then that kids could look up to, and a commercial aircraft that could do mach 1+ All we have done is sharpened the pencil every year just a little sharper....and a little sharper and now....it's time to put it down and pick up a pen. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  13. You know what it is...it's evolution. Plain and simple...it's evolution turned on it's ass! It's not survival of the fittest for fastest or he or she who pushes out and explores new ideas.....rather he or she who can hide under their shell the best. I've been in meetings where engineers were just like fracking turtles....you first try to push them to try new things to experiment and to be ok with failing...so what it blows up....screw it we study the failure and build a new version a better version and we will make this work, if a project is a total success out of the door we didn't try hard enough! That's like pushing jello....fun for the first 5 min then you realize how scared these guys are! And that frustrates you and you get angry and you can't figure out why these men and women the best of the very best are afraid. And of all things failing! And the harder you try the more stubborn they become until they are hiding in their shells hoping this crazy person with his crazy idea that failure is not the end of the world will stop talking and stop pushing and just stop existing...... That's where you see it, the looking at your shoes, the fumbling, the texting, the us of big words and worthless power point presentations.....in the end...the rock wins....the hammer fails for it is not worth the effort of futility. And you are left with where we are now. Look around you, has the world improved by great leaps and bounds? Other than the internet and a few other things.....how is your home heated? Cooled? Food brought to your table? Are we at the moon or just sitting in our back yards trying to find excuses why we can't get up and go? Ladies and gents, this is devolution of not only our species but of our very souls. And the pathogen that has caused this demise of our great spirit....is the quiet engineer who is passive aggressive and sits and hides behind timed jabs at ideas for he or she lacks the spine to be the person at the front of the room. May the next generation be better than the one that is in charge now Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI Is that Madof in the audience? Thought I would never say this, but Regan was on to something when he cleaned up that tax code and brought about some serious leveling of the playing field. Clinton got all the rewards from it and Bush I had to pay for it...but man...hate to say it, an I'm a liberal, but we may need Regan back! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  15. And no one died! Now that's what I'm talking about! I'm sure it went like this. "Hans! FRANZ! Ok who was drinking when they were wiring the guidance systems on that last bottle rocket!" "Oh you cute Germans. we forgive you.....now go make another rocket! And this time do it right!" See, fail, talk about it, work it out get back up and shoot for the moon! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  16. Ven da good Germanz broght zem back from ZA FAZA LANDZ! Actually it was the Army / Air Force then...before it became NASA. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  17. ah shit! no way! bro.... i feel bad! :-( sorry brother! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  18. One of those state schools first and now one of those private schools. It really has nothing to do with education and more to do with employment. I would rather meet a girl who made 50% of what I made with no student loans that one that does. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  19. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1cLQBQTzkM lOOK I'm not saying I'm a PERSIAN GOD......but if you wish to continue calling me as such....I'm not going to argue. True story, I had this amazing chief who I looked up to....I mean I thought this guy was wow! Every one above him thought he could do no wrong and would listen to him intently when he spoke at meeting. And he was only 20 years older than me. One day on a trip I asked this engineer of many years, how he had climbed the ladder so fast and had obtained the respect of his peers? His answer? He killed off high technical risk programs as such reducing costs and reducing over all risk of failure of the organization...... OK i thought...maybe they were shit programs....i can relate to nerds just doing nerdy things because it's "cool". So i went back to the office and asked around, some of the older guys, who were a solid 40 years older than me indicated the guy who I thought was amazing would look at a program, and if it had a 10% chance of failure he would can it and write a report about how he had saved money. According to one of the older guys "If it was up to him NASA would have never moved past the V2 rocket.....after all why improve something that already works! Why would any one want to go to the moon!" And it is from this stew that our latest crop have come from. If all you are doing is promoting those who take no risks and have no idea what it feels like to fail, to fall to bleed and to push back up and keep walking what are you left with? Guys and gals who sadly kill each others great ideas long before they get off the ground for it is in this attrition of choice and death of ideas that promotions are given. And take this from the Six Sigma Black Belt, a perfect tool that if used incorrectly can and will kill innovation when in fact it can be utilized with great ease to nurture and bolster tomorrows great advancements. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  20. yeah i did it sucked...i feel horrible like Nat, I just told her we are done Gorgeous girl, looked like Rhiana and had a great body and a great spirit but....well for the past 10 years of her life she was an Auper...glorified baby sitter. And god as amazing as she was, she even went skydiving to impress me, I could not see her and i in a long term serious relationship. I know a university education isn't the end all and be all of everything but she at the moment was with out a job. She said she was working for her dads company but.....I could never really prove it. I'm 34, I don't make enough money for a trophy wife or a twiky, I make enough money for me and if i'm getting serious with someone she should make 50% of what Im making.....I'm too old for projects. Still, hurts, of the girls I'm seeing, she was the one I trusted the most and thought the most of. And the cats loved her. Such is life right? Good luck Nat Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  21. I don't freaking know I'm in the same place myself Im seeing this great girl who is now in brazil but.....she lacks a university education which is a major issue for me and shes playing for keeps and I'm so not there and........I can't figure out how to break up with this great girl with out hurting her. For a guy who has received god knows how many dear shah email I'm coming up blank. It freaking sucks. We are talking about nut under sucking. And she is one of those great debaters and every time I say something she debates me.....and god I hate making girls cry...it freaking sucks Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  22. Those people find me exciting facinating charming kind caring a good cook a insperation to be amazing and usually start collecting funds for that alter/ statue in my honor. Oh and they are further amazed for I fart lightning and piss bourbon Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  23. You were able to patent beating a dead horse, and misogyny? And more! It will whiten your teeth, clean clogs, make the words best fries....and if you act now not only will you receive your very own but you will get one to give to a friend! And all for $19.95 Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!
  24. legal fees, saturday MBA classes and bad wether...only got in 30 jumps. weren't you the guy who wanted to learn Hindi so you could better communicate witht he Indian professors here in the US who refused to learn the language? if not who was that guy? Read my bio, I have 2 pattents I can talk about openly, the other 2 not as much. My dating life is good, actually great at times. It's the engineering girls I don't like....they tend to run a bit....+ sized and empowered. Not my type. but ok....i get it.....engineers today are passive aggressiev paper pushers to affraid to take risks for they may fail....on average. Shame I can't think of a more important field to humanity than engineering. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!