Potatoe vs Potahtoe

http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=4337401001

Short Term Memory Issues

I was thinking that I sometimes have a problem with my short term memory until I read this article on the internet. This fellow has lost so much at such a young age that it is a wonder he can function at all. Or, perhaps he never had a memory to begin with. So many angles to explore here, and the internet just abbreviated the entire episode.

Since these two met at a casino, it also proves my theory that gambling is dumb.
Read on................

Fri Aug 28, 7:52 pm ET, by Associated Press
FERNDALE, Mich. – Police in Michigan say a first date went from bad to worse when a Detroit man skipped out on the restaurant bill, then stole his date's car.
Police say 23-year-old Terrance Dejuan McCoy had dinner with a woman April 24 at Buffalo Wild Wings in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale. The woman says the two met a week earlier at a Detroit casino and she knew McCoy only as "Chris."
The woman told police that McCoy said he left his wallet in her car and asked for keys. He then sped away in the 2000 Chevrolet Impala.
The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak reports that police identified McCoy by a photo he'd sent to the woman's cell phone, and his phone number.
McCoy is charged with unlawfully taking the car, a five-year felony. He waived a preliminary exam and was bound over for trial Thursday.

What happens with free National Health Care

This video would not download, but it is worth a watch. It makes the case against free National Health Care for the insane..................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILD97YEAn6E

Another Life - And paving the way to the Highway

In my former life I made it possible to mine tens of millions of tons of rock that went into, among other things, asphalt paving, but until now I had never purchased any directly for my own account. Indirectly we all have paid for and directly used a lot of rock in our lifetimes. It is just an inescapable part of our world. I used to "harrumph" at people that hated mining and vowed to never allow themselves any participation in this sort of extractive endeavour, at least until they realized that they could not go anywhere without the stuff and that just about everything we use is mined if it is not grown. An environmentalists dilemma.

Anyway, we just paved our driveway in a nod to the relative futility of trying to sell our home in this housing depression. We want to enjoy a little time not having so much dirt and mud tracked around so we are continuing our work sprucing up the place.

In the photo above you will notice that there is a "steam roller" compacting the asphalt and that is what a lot of people still call them even though they have not been powered by steam for a hundred years. It just sounds cool, I guess. Steam had a fairly short life as a significant mode of power.