Category «Random Stuff»

How Soft Have We Gotten In America

HIGH SCHOOL — 1959 vs. 2009 Scenario  1: Joe  goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school  parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack. 1959  – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Joe’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Joe. 2009  – School  goes …

Schlitterbahn Opens

We were at Schlitterbahn Kansas on opening day! A quiet opening with not all of the phase I rides open yet but still a fun few hours with an exceptionally small crowd. The potential is absolutely there for a great water park but not just yet….as expected for the first few weeks until the final …

Stone Canyon Golf Course – Kansas City, MO – Independence, MO

All Spring the Kansas City area was bombarded by commercials on TV, radio and print for Stone Canyon Golf Course in Independence, MO designed by Greg “The Shark” Norman. And all these promotions included promoting a $50 preview rate in 2009 before the club went private in 2010! Well, today (6-20-09) Stone Canyon sent out …

A talking post?

This post is really a test post, I am testing NaturallySpeaking from Dragon Software it is dictation software that may or may not be working. I am watching the words delayed by about anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds as I speak them, but the accuracy seems to be pretty good. I will talk a …

Did You Know?

This is a pretty cool video. About 5 minutes long. It may elicit many emotions from different people: Fear, joy, amazement, dropped jaw, anger but it will absolutely make you think. CLICK BELOW FOR THE VIDEO Technology

Good or Evil?

When I started this blog I really had no idea what it would be or what it would turn in to.  I’m still not sure I know. So far I’ve avoided politics, but…Obama….seriously people….really?  Okay, that’s enough controversy.  Luckily, nobody really reads this stuff. So my question today is not so simple and not exactly …

Old Friends

When I first started this blog it was mainly to learn about how WordPress worked and how blogs worked.  My intent was to ramble on about things that I wanted to vent about.  Like idiot drivers, horrible customer service, the stunningly inaccurate weather forecasts in Kansas City, how bad our local sports teams are and …

Ball Girl Makes the Grab!

I’m pretty sure this is fake but it’s still entertaining.  Enjoy! Amazing Ball Girl Video UPDATE – As I suspected, this is in fact fake. It apparently is a Gatorade marketing ploy.

Express Ticket to Hell

A lot of people do a lot of bad things.  And if you believe in Karma maybe it’s OK because what goes around comes around. Perhaps you believe in hell, perhaps you don’t but I think we’ll all agree, if there is a hell this is a great way to ensure your spot. Chase turns …

Left lane traffic monitors

I can’t say it more clearly, nor can the rules of the road. THE LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY! The left lane does not exist for you to pick what is “fast enough”  as*hole! If you are not passing another car in the middle lane GET THE HELL OVER and let those of us …

It’s good to be PayPal

I’ll save my rant about auto insurance for another time – how nice is it to sell a product required by law that everyone who drives must buy?!?!??! Anyway, being PayPal is good.  And eBay being very smart realized this years ago and bought them.  They seem to have absolutely ZERO liability for anything.  I …