Watched TS3 with my oldest (she's 4) the other day, enjoyed the movie a lot and now we've been repeating Ken quotes for a week straight. I started browsing youtube to sort of get a refresher and this particular video caught my attention.
What's funny is I happen to know a few Ken's and there's at least one quote for each one of them that makes this doll, all too familiar.
Though the video is still very entertaining without knowing anyone by that name...
Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Dog food diet.
I take no credit for this, nor expect any hub score! but it's just so funny I had to post it. A friend sent it to me by email, and I tried to read it to the office later, just cracked up and could not deliver the punchline!
Enjoy!
Yesterday I was at my local Costco buying a large bag of Purina dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.
What did she think I had an elephant? So, since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I
ended up in hospital last time, but that I'd lost 2 stones before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry.
The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again.
(I have to mention here that practically everyone in queue was now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me.
I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff aPoodle's arse and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard.
I'm now banned from Costco's nation wide.
Enjoy!
Yesterday I was at my local Costco buying a large bag of Purina dog food for my loyal pet and was in the checkout queue when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.
What did she think I had an elephant? So, since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I
ended up in hospital last time, but that I'd lost 2 stones before I woke up in intensive care with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry.
The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again.
(I have to mention here that practically everyone in queue was now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified, she asked me if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me.
I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff aPoodle's arse and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard.
I'm now banned from Costco's nation wide.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Battle of the grinds (Convex vs Scandi)
This is pretty much a no brainer for anyone who has played with these grinds, whilst you have some people who will indiscriminately take sides before trying either for whatever cause, the fact remains Scandinavian grinds are far better, whatever the task.
Let me go a little bit into dept before criticizing me.
So lets break this down into a few categories, game, woods, general utility.
While convex grind is "stronger" grind (though not proven) rhumor has it that it wont roll as easy or chip because it has more steel behind the edge backing it up, however this has proven to be false in numerous cases and I among others have discovered that a properly tempered blade, be scandi or any other grind will perform just as well, I have cut through bone with a mora 510, a 10$ knife without rolling or chipping, I have done the same with a BRKT northstar a knife well over 100$ and it chipped.
both are good here but what will determine a winner for game prep will generally revolve around, handle ergonomics and materials used (slick vs grippy), thickness of the blade and belly curvature.
For woods use now, not much a convex cant do that a scandi cant but lets explore fine detail work and precision cutting.
because of the convex of the blade you can scrap the idea of either and should pick up a scandi, the single bevel of this grind allows you to cut straight without swerving in/out of your line all the time allowing you to control your cuts and making them the most precise, there are several examples of this on youtube, one of my favorites is from a user called hobbexp. make sure to check him out.
And finally general utility, didn't bother over analyzing this cat, because general utility can also be done with a paring knife imho.
Another cat we didn't examine but could probably score points for a convex is camp chores (splitting wood... etc) but.... again nothing a scandi can't handle.
I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on this, I'd be willing to investigate further and rethink my grinds but until anyone has played with both for a period of time and put them all through the same test in the most non-biased way. only then can you choose for yourself which works best. Though more and more of these tests can be found on youtube, where the pros lay at would be Scandinavian.
Let me go a little bit into dept before criticizing me.
So lets break this down into a few categories, game, woods, general utility.
While convex grind is "stronger" grind (though not proven) rhumor has it that it wont roll as easy or chip because it has more steel behind the edge backing it up, however this has proven to be false in numerous cases and I among others have discovered that a properly tempered blade, be scandi or any other grind will perform just as well, I have cut through bone with a mora 510, a 10$ knife without rolling or chipping, I have done the same with a BRKT northstar a knife well over 100$ and it chipped.
both are good here but what will determine a winner for game prep will generally revolve around, handle ergonomics and materials used (slick vs grippy), thickness of the blade and belly curvature.
For woods use now, not much a convex cant do that a scandi cant but lets explore fine detail work and precision cutting.
because of the convex of the blade you can scrap the idea of either and should pick up a scandi, the single bevel of this grind allows you to cut straight without swerving in/out of your line all the time allowing you to control your cuts and making them the most precise, there are several examples of this on youtube, one of my favorites is from a user called hobbexp. make sure to check him out.
And finally general utility, didn't bother over analyzing this cat, because general utility can also be done with a paring knife imho.
Another cat we didn't examine but could probably score points for a convex is camp chores (splitting wood... etc) but.... again nothing a scandi can't handle.
I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on this, I'd be willing to investigate further and rethink my grinds but until anyone has played with both for a period of time and put them all through the same test in the most non-biased way. only then can you choose for yourself which works best. Though more and more of these tests can be found on youtube, where the pros lay at would be Scandinavian.
A bit about what's going on here?
I've manage to get a few pages up this morning, I will try for the most part to cover outdoors related topics, but at anytime I may also talk about programming and technology.
I don't feel like it will be necessary to have a downloads section as I don't care for hosting anymore but reading the blog on a regular base, you'll probably see me referring software from time to time. I'm using ubuntu 10.4 lucid so windows users, be vigilant and ignore them. You may however find something written in java that would be portable to a windows system but rarely will this be noticed, as I personally dislike the use of java and won't go near programs that use it.
As for the Outdoors part of the blog, this will be a more stable/permanent thing. I'm quite the adventurer and love discovering new things, it appears it comes naturally to me as I'm very passionate and care for every detail of the experience. Ideas and findings will be explained and documented to the best of their representation, but if you need further explanations or finding something unclear, please don't hesitate to contact me.
I don't feel like it will be necessary to have a downloads section as I don't care for hosting anymore but reading the blog on a regular base, you'll probably see me referring software from time to time. I'm using ubuntu 10.4 lucid so windows users, be vigilant and ignore them. You may however find something written in java that would be portable to a windows system but rarely will this be noticed, as I personally dislike the use of java and won't go near programs that use it.
As for the Outdoors part of the blog, this will be a more stable/permanent thing. I'm quite the adventurer and love discovering new things, it appears it comes naturally to me as I'm very passionate and care for every detail of the experience. Ideas and findings will be explained and documented to the best of their representation, but if you need further explanations or finding something unclear, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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