Brent’s Thoughts

I have a friend who has this on her site and ever since I read hers I wondered what would go on mine, so I thought I would scratch down some bits and see what it says:

* I was born a redhead, through my childhood I was almost white headed
* My CB Handle is Shotgun
* Todd and I walked to school the last day of our 6th Grade year carrying a bag full of water guns. It rained half the day once we got there.
* I didn’t go to prom
* I didn’t get senior pictures
* I have shaved my legs three times
* I wore a kilt for four years
* I once got in-school detention for signing my name
* I am left handed by use scissors with my right hand
* I weighed less than 100 pounds my at the end of my freshman year of high school
* I was six feet tall when I started high school
* I have saved 4 people from drowning
* I have helped to teach over 100 kids to swim
* I once had to tread water for 45 min and then rescue float for 30
* I worked at a racetrack before I was 12 years old
* I have a picture of me going over Niagra Falls in a barrel
* I have been to Disney World
* I used to work in a cage
* I have three best friends
* None of my best firends live closer than 250 miles from me
* The song Someday Never Comes by CCR upsets me
* I have jumped off a cliff
* I used to average swimming around 5-6 miles a day
* I could swim a mile in less than 19 minutes
* I have built five decks in my life
* I have been lost on a four wheeler before
* I have thrown away my report card before anyone could see it
* I have dressed up like the devil twice for Halloween
* I have less than 20 people on my buddy list
* I read the The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 4th grade
* The nickname Diablo has nothing to do with any of the games of the same title
* I didn’t pick Diablo, someone else did
* I have almost had my nose broke at a party before
* I downloaded Mp3s before it was cool and before Napster
* I have never successfully written a working Linked List implementation
* I once started a Tribes clan
* I have helped at 5 accident sites
* I have helped bring one person back to life

I have a new favorite quote for today. This is from this thread on slashdot.

freeze128 (544774 wrote:

Only on slashdot can you be called an idiot if you don’t know anything about nuclear fusion.

Pauline had a picnic with the rest of her co workers this weekend out at the dam at Barren River Lake. I was brought along for moral support I think, or and to drive too.

It was something of an interesting event I have to say. At one point I was driving around in someone else’s truck with a him in the back holding a lit barbee-Q grill. That doesn’t happen every day. I also spent about 30-40 min. playing vollyball without a net (basically just a bunch of people standing in a circle hitting it back and forth) with no one except me speaking english. That doesn’t happen everyday.

Oh yeah, did I mention that out of the 20+ plus people there only 3 people including P and I were not of orential origin? We were the only three people that didn’t speak chinese, though the two kids that were there didn’t speak it very well they definitely understood it. I ask the oldest kid, a boy, if when his parents got mad at him if they talked in English or Chinese and he said that they spoke in Chinese, but in that situation you don’t have any trouble understanding them. Smile

Another interesting thing is that shrimp soaked (and I mean soaked) in vodka and then cooked on a grill have a very different texture than the shrimp you might have had the other way. The only way I might be able to describe them is “powdery”. Like when you put them in your mouth and bit into them there wasn’t any resistance, they just fell apart and sort of dissolved. It wasn’t really my favorite texture, but it was ok.

They didn’t really have any out of hand different food there. About the only think that really looked odd was the boiled eggs that had been soaked in Soy Sauce. They looked really different, but pretty much tasted like a boiled egg. The outside of them was kinda leathery though.

It was pretty fun and I think P had a good time, after the intial task of being in charge of getting everyone together was completed. I think the fact that we were in the Triumph was a little of a help though. That just seems to make you happy.

Hey did you know that both Bush and Kerry are both members of the Skull and Bones? This is a group that has only 15 new members a year.

What are the chances? Here is a link to some other information about them.

http://www.matrixmasters.com/world/usnews/skullandbones.html

So I am watching a show on the Discovery Channel last night about the Bermuda Triangle and a large part of the commercials that they have on during the breaks are for new shows that are coming up soon. They have some really cool stuff lined up. Then I started thinking about it and realized that the Discovery Channel is pushing for a lot of scientific exploration and I would only assume funding it.

Yeah they aren’t just doing it to be nice guys or anything, they are getting TV shows out of it and who knows what else maybe, but the fact that they are fronting up the cash to let these people test their theories is really pretty cool.

I mean last night this guy set out to find 5 Navy Avengers that might have been the flight that was lost originally in the Triangle and that he had seen like 20 years ago. He has all this tech that he is using to find them and there is no way that he could afford it. He does find 5 Avengers within one mile of each other on the ocean bottom, but they are THE Avengers that everyone talks about. Of course then you have to ask why are 5 Avengers crashed there so close together. Discovery Channel funds that investigation as well. It is really pretty cool.

Another example is their program about recovering Liberty Bell 7 (The Mercury Space capsule that was lost to the see). They fund the search and when the guy loses his underwater robot, they rush production on another one, aptly titled “Discovery”. I forget the cost they stated for creating it, but they did say that the Discovery Channel fronted most of it.

To me that is really pretty cool.

http://www.discovery.com/