Remember the Alamo

Last week while at a work conference in San Antonio I had the opportunity to visit the Alamo it's a pretty sobering place to visit when you consider what happened there.  The actual iconic building (below) isn't all that big, but the Alamo "compound" it self was pretty big, and when you consider how few people there were there to defend it, it adds even more weight to my thoughts on what these men did.  As far as "tourist" spots go it was neat to see but I wouldn't recommend treking down to San Antonio just to see it, to be honest I was not a fan of the city.

**For those of you with iPhone or iTouch the above was manipulated using Photoshop Mobile (PS Mobile) it is awesome)

Myth Buster

Many a man subscribes to the logical theory that since alcohol kills germs, that if alcohol is introduced into the body it simply must do battle the germs that cause sickness and emerge victorious.  Turns out alcohol introduced into the bloodstream does not infact kill germs and keep you from getting sick.  Because I went bar golfing wich introduced many forms of alcohol into my bloodstream and woke up sick on Sunday.

BUSTED!

Video of the Week

View from a Hotelroom... San Antonio, TX

Oh Work...

Work Emails:

Email #1 (from agency)

News Flash:

When accessing the FCA website you must use the prefix www you can not simply put fca.gov in the address bar, you must use www.fca.gov.  

Email #2 (from co-worker)

[sarcastic] What, what's this www thing is it new?

Email #3 (my response)
It’s pretty advanced technology, it’s this virtual “web” if you will, that links computers “world wide” together.  You can access news, information, and clips of cats playing the piano:

Personally I think it’s a sham and will never take off.

Get on the Bus

I discussed this with a co-worker yesterday, in business there is a popular metaphor that floats around about "seats on a bus" often times it is associated with a change in direction or a restructure, basically it's meant to "get people on board" get them a "seat on the bus" to move them into the future, new direction whatever.  Well, we happend to be discussing some pending organizational change and this metaphor came up, it got me thinking though; who really wants to be on a bus?  My experiences with buses by and large are not all that stellar, they are usually cramped and smell funny (in the case of CTA buses) which begs the question why was a bus the vehicle of choice?  Why not a limo?  I mean that is a vehicle people can get excited about having a seat in (in not on ala George Carlin), if given the choice between a bus and a limo I'd bet people choose limo everytime.  So... from this point forward my team at work (MRD) is herby known not as a bus but a Hummer stretch limo, which of course runs on ethanol, (yeah farmers). 

I anticipate moral jumping at least 54%, very nice.

SAMCRO

Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Rewood Original (SAMCRO)

Best show on FX you pry aren't watching.  I thought this show looked stupid as could be last year when it was advertised, no way can a drama about a motorcycle club be that good.  I was wrong... the show is awesome, great characters, great stories.  Ron Pearlman (Hellboy) is awesome and  Katy Sagal (Married with Children, Futurama) is also awsome as the bad arse queen bee of the whole works.  But by far my favorite is Jax played by Charlie Hunnam, you can't help but love the character.  Any without going on and on about it, I highly recommend you tune in it's on Tuesday's at 9:00 and replays a few times thoughout the week, it's worth the hour.

What's a Hutterite Anyway?

The Hutterites are a religious colony similar to the Amish or Mennonites.  I had the pleasure to visit the Mountain View Colony just outside of Billings, MT while I was on a bank job up there last month.  This was my second trip up there and it was just as impressive the second time around.  The Hutterites colony is on a big patch of land, they have unassuming buildings or 7-plexes where the families live, surrounded by various out buildings that house their enterprises.  Mountain View for example has a Chicken laying barn, Hog facility, Dairy milking facility, butcher shop, wood shop, metal shop, and a large large garden.  For the most part the colony is very self sufficient, they raise all their meat, grow nearly all their vegetables, and make nearly all thier furnishings.  The colony is really something to see.  I found myself a bit envious of their lifestyle, while I would certainly miss my blog, facebook, gmail, House, MD, and Sons of Anarchy (more on SAMCRO later), I thought about all my rants on here about politicians and the general insanity of people.  They are, for the most part isolated from that, one because they are in middle of no where Montana and two because they aren't bombarded by 17 different forms of media.  I honestly don't think I could ever give it all up and "unplug" but walking around with them you can't help but think that it might not be a bad way to live.

From FCA Farm Tour

From FCA Farm Tour

If you want to read a little bit more here is a link to wikipedia entry on Hutterites

Welcome Back.....Again

So I've pretty much done as bad a job as I possible could have done over the past weeks of posting.  No real solid excuse aside from being just plain lazy.  I would use the trendy "work" excuse, but lets face it posting video clips, pictures, and nonsensical rants and raves, really doesn't take a whole lot of time or thought.  I once again will make the promise to do better.