Thursday, August 23, 2007

Who likes FAC?!?!?!

I DO! I DO!

Come celebrate school starting, or lament it as you wish, at THE SURFSIDE!

Surprise!

Friday at 5:00 ish. Come for the cheapo drinks, stay for the foul odor.
I actually have not been there in awhile (Sunday), so it will be nostalgic for me!!

We can share stories of our first week at school, how glad we are the (K-12) kids are back and/or how lame it is that the college students are back. We will bet on if there will be riots at the border war game, and how many alcohol related deaths will occur during this school year. Also, someone will tell me about fantasy football.

UPCOMING FUN TIMES: Of course after FAC is trivia (run by me) at Choice City Shots!!!!!!!! Fun prizes and the winner for the night gets a $20 bar tab....invite your friends! Starts at 8:00! I am this funny in person too!
Also at Choice City Shots: Wednesday night POKER is BACK! Woo!
I do not play poker but WOO anyway! I know it is fun for some of you!

What has happened this week?

Well you may know this guy:























That's Bob Murray, owner of the Utah Crandall Canyon Mine. He called the families of miners "totally irrational" this morning on NPR. He also said "I have men here that have hundreds and hundreds of years of mining experience. They never saw this before. The mountain is alive, it's a deadly mountain. I'm not going near it." (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13866983)

I am going to presume he means their collective experience. Here is the mountain:
















Looks pretty mellow, like most mountains. Not that the incident wasn't tragic, but they were digging into the mountain...and blowing up parts of it....and taking out the pillars of coal that were holding up the roof....
Now THIS mountain is ALIVE:


















That is a mountain you do not mess with. It will melt your face off. It eats Gollums for breakfast. And it is the only way to destroy that infernal ring.
Here is another image, with it's little eyeball tower friend...











Here are some images of a mountain on fire in California:












That is an effing scary mountain.

This one is pretty deadly, but again, if you left it alone it would be much less lethal:
















It has a part called the DEATH ZONE! DON"T CLIMB IT! It has claimed over 115 lives in the past century!

Death zone
Main article: Death zone
While conditions for any area classified as a death zone apply to Mount Everest (altitudes higher than 8,000 m), it is significantly more difficult for a climber to survive at the death zone on Mount Everest. Temperatures can dip to very low levels, resulting in frostbite of any body part exposed to the air. Because temperatures are so low, snow is well-frozen in certain areas and death by slipping and falling can also occur. High winds at these altitudes on Everest are also a potential threat to climbers. The atmospheric pressure at the top of Everest is about a third of sea level pressure, meaning there is about a third as much oxygen available to breathe as at sea level.[25]

To sum up, NATURE IS DANGEROUS. Do not expect to pillage Earth's resources without some repercussions. It is sad to lose a life but do NOT blame the mountain.

And happy brain cells create more branches, and they are called 'dendritic arbors'.




























The number of dendritic arbors (more = happier) is %40 more in MIDDLE CLASS people than in LOWER CLASS people. Whoa. Difference between upper and middle? Negligible. Money = Happiness to a certain extent.


Bear "Diamonds on the soles of my shoes" Bonney

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