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| 04:17pm 29/03/2009 |
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We bought some wine.. actually, 12 bottles of wine (the travel cases only fit 6 instead of the usual 12), so we have technically what constitutes 2 cases (from a physical number of boxes). My question is, not taking into account the airline will rape us with additional baggage fees for extra boxes, what is the total amount of booze (wine, and some other stuff we may buy to give to friends) we can bring back to the US with us....
And if it turns out that we can each bring a case which constitutes 12 bottles of win, then we are going to go on a shopping spree for 12 more bottles :) |
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| More pics from vacation |
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| 06:02pm 26/03/2009 |
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Here are 3 pics from the wildlife preserve we went to (not the same one from where I posted the previous pics). We got a chance to pet and handle the 3 month old baby white tigers (1 has no stripes, but is not an albino, just a rare stripeless white tiger). They were very very cute and no, while they look like they are tired, they did move around abit and then plopped down (they had just had radio trackers implanted in them). They were very friendly, and the cheetahs next door wanted to play too, they are only a few weeks old though.
All the money spent to play with the animals goes towards a cross breeding program to help stop inbreeding in the wild due to the various genetic lines being seperated by mans encroachment on their territory. Unfortunately this in breeding is causing sterility in the wild. The Cango Wildlife preserve (where these pics where taken), take part in this breeding program, even though tigers are not native to Africa.
Why do I mention this, because I do not need anyone reading this thinking that their are places out there that Kim and I would visit who exploit the animals for their own profit. This is not the case, this is an attempt to breed the animals, who will eventually be released into the wild on reserve areas (there is no true wild areas due to poaching). Unfortunately for the cheetahs, which are native to South Africa, once they have been in contact with humans, they are permanently domesticated, and will live in captivity for the rest of their lives, atleast until they are able to increase the populations without human interferance.
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| Yo.. from Africa's and all that goodness.. |
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| 12:32am 24/03/2009 |
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Well, I have posted these pics to my facebook and MORE boards....
Anyways, I have been in South Africa for about a week now. Played the pseudo tourist, spent time with family.. I will post more pics later, but here are a few of the better ones...
Here we have 2 lions tag teaming a warthog....
The lions failed.. lionness is rather pissed and not happy
Suicidal Zebra who just sauntered across the road in front of us....
This is a 3 week old Elephant... Cute as hell....
The watering hole where we got really close to some of the native wild life..
Zoom lens or not.. we got really really close to this sucker, she does not appear to be happy about our intrusion into her daily life...
I will post some more crap later...
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| My yearly or so post of animal cuteness |
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| 03:20pm 19/11/2008 |
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You are tasty.. please come a little closer...
Attack cat taking down the giant munchkin eater (Gus) with Louie mocking Gus's plea for help...
We did not do whatever you think we did...
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| WTF is wrong with VH1 |
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| 11:47am 25/06/2008 |
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Seriously, its a little bit of programming between the ads... I mean this literally, I am working from home today, so I put on VH1 for some background noise...
This odd show (according to my Tivo called Sneak Peak from 11 to 12), but its one of those "I love the $insert_year_here" shows crossed with "Where are they now" type show.. its mildly amusing as they tear into things from whatever year they selected.. except for the ads.. 12 min of ads.. no I even timed it..
11:00 to 11:11 - actual program
11:11 to 11:23 - ads
11:23 to 11:30 - actual program
11:30 to 11:41 - ads
11:41 to 11:46 - actual program
11:46 to 11:55 - ads
and well its now 11:55
What the fuck... that is all.. The music channels are absolute crap these days... The only channel I actually liked was IMF (International music channel), and Verizon killed that off...
Is there no music channel that can be put on in the background for some noise, that is not genre specific (why.. why is there a MTV Jams channel.. why in the world would there possibly be a need for a channel with all R&B and cRAP on all the time...)
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| I rarely post stuff.. but this was posted on one of my MTB Bike forums |
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| 11:58am 09/06/2008 |
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To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
(You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour', 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise'. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').
3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as 'like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let M*crosoft know on your behalf. The M*crosoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize.
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not ready to shoot grouse.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables.
Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
8. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar or mayonaise.
10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Gywneth Paltrow attempt English dialogue in Shakespeare in Love was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater. (Not to forget about Renee Zellweger's attempt in Bridget Jones)
12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body Armour like a bunch of nancies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.
13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4:00 pm with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen! |
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| The new member of our family zoo is officially ours.. |
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| 08:55am 05/05/2008 |
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First weekend with Gus.. did not go too badly.. however it would be nice if he would not decide to play with Louie... at 6am.. Louie does not want to play.. and Kim and I would like to sleep.. I foresee many mornings of early up till they get used to each other, and we go through some obedience training (and bringing Louie for a refresher as well)
A few more Pics...
This one gives you an idea of how much bigger then Louie he is.. but Louie still does not take shit from him, but atleast they like to play sometimes, and Louie needed a friend anyways...
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| Saw Iron Man last night.. |
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| 08:14am 02/05/2008 |
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It rocked.. that is all :)
ps.. even Kim liked it.. which means it must be good.. cos she usually hates the crap that I like to watch... and while on the subject of crap.. saw the new Hulk trailer.. he still looks like bad plastic CGI.. but it has Ed Norton in it.. so we will see how well it ends up being... |
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| So I suppose I need to post something... |
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| 08:13am 30/04/2008 |
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mood:  tired music: The ramblings in my head...
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Nothing major going on.. except for a new addition to the family.... zoo :)
This is Gus, and yes, he is sitting on my lap....
Also.. someone finally posted the pics taken from a night ride a few weeks ago. Pic was taking after the ride in the parking lot.. so replace the concrete/tar with dirt, roots, rocks, other natural items that will attempt to murder you at 10mph with little visibility :)
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| My random rare update |
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| 08:52am 17/03/2008 |
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This weekend was interesting.. and very very expensive...
Went to the woodworkers show on Sat, left with
Jointer - check (managed to squeeze the 300 pound cast iron machine in the car.. and assemble it.. spinny blades of doom.. yay)
Table Saw - Check (getting that sucker delivered, weighs about the same as a mazda miata)
Another Router with a lift base and a plunge base - check (still need to get a table)
Random router bits to make pretty crown molding, picture frames, baseboard molding etc - check..
Infiniti FX35 - check (yes Kim got a new car.. well newused.... or newsed car)
Getting your eco friendly tree hugger Chesapeake Bay supporting plates transfered to what has to be one of the more eco unfriendly but really run to drive cars... - check (and obligatory priceless statement).
Just need to either purchase, or build (whichever is cheaper of more space efficient) a router table to support the router.
And then a crapton of wood.. yes I will be purchasing a crapton of wood to start furnishing projects.
First on the list.. some small items, a wine rack for Kim, then a Work table for the garage so I have something a little more stable to work with my wood (mind out of gutter.. besides.. way too many sharp cutty and point objects on the table for that....)
That said, anyone who I know well enough and trust who wishes to partake in said wood working projects need only provide themselves and a stock of wood (www.exoticlumberinc.com in Annapolis is a good spot for nice woods, not cheap, but not too expensive either) with some plans and the time to have fun..
PS.. this is a use at your own risk please obey safety standards when using items with spinny blades of doom and death...
representative image of Kims new car with the Tech package...
We have black seats though...
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| 09:09am 03/03/2008 |
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The war is over.. sorta.. how many of you with xboxes bough the hd dvd optional drive.... before the massive drop in price to $49...
And if you knew now about the format wars what you knew when you bought your toy.. would you have bought a PS3 or an XBOX 360...
Or do I buy a table saw, which will probably give me just as much enjoyment while I build my entertainment center... but will then result in an empty slot where a high definition player of sorts will be located.... named a PS3 since they are still cheaper then stand alone units that support the 1.1 profile....
Arg decisions decisions... its the Tivo incident all over again... |
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| New Iron Man trailer is out... |
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| 01:44pm 29/02/2008 |
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Okay.. so I know I go to the movies to see crap all the time, and I usually enjoy them because I have very low expectations... However, This movie, after seeing the teaser trailer made me want to see it opening weekend.. well I have not seen the new trailer, but so far my geeky counterparts have all raved about it..
With that said.. I am going to see it opening night.. and if Kim won't let me.. I want a divorce :) (just kidding about the divorce part.. :) ) |
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| Things to remember to save yourself 8 hours of pain |
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| 11:35am 10/02/2008 |
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When spoofing MAC addresses.. always make sure that you also change the MAC address of the interface your are trying to spoof...
What took me 8 hours. should only have taken me 2 min.. (Verizon FIOS uses MAC address's for their DHCP client list.. attempting to get rid of the POS fios router, and bridging it requires that you spoof the fios router coax mac address on the external interface of your preferred gateway)
Of course.. very few people will actually understand this.. but I figured I would let everyone know why I went to bed at 4am.. I am lame and need to get a new hobby... :) |
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| I want one... no really I do... |
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| 03:12pm 01/02/2008 |
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With one of these.. I could take pictures of nude chicks... on European beaches from New York....... If only the Earth was flat :)
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| I've been duped... |
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| 08:58am 04/01/2008 |
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Kim somehow suckered me into running... yesterday.. for the first time since high school, I ran (other then running from the police... just kidding.. mostly.. but that was during high school).
I woke up this morning.. my legs hurt and refused to move.. stupid body.. use the same damn muscles for running as cycling.. oh well, guess its time to break in a new set of muscles.....
oh, and as for the wedding pics.. umm go see them while you can, the web server is going away soon.
http://images.tcpipbitch.net/v/wedding |
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