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It Snowed Today in Houston

impudent — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:08:33 -0800

It snowed today in Houston. I know that to most of you it is “no big deal”. But to Houstonians, well we might go five or six years between snows.

As political animals we tend to get all caught up in our worries. The economy, the war, global hoaxing, The O’ssiah, and the Gotterdammercrats. But sometimes we don’t stop and take time to consider the really important things in life....

College Rankings - My formula. Who did you beat?

impudent — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:37:37 -0700

After the fifth weekend of College football, the rankings are full of biases, silliness, and laziness. I have a system that only takes the polls into consideration one time. The poll ranking is only used as a starting point.

The teams are ranked into eight groups, highest to lowest. You get eight points for beating a top team and only one point for beating a team in the lowest ranking. ...

Houston Greek Festival

impudent — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:52:53 -0700

This past weekend I attended the Greek Festival in downtown Houston. MMMM! lots of good souvlaki, gyros, baklava, and other treats. Nice Greek music and dancing. And here are some debutants who posed for me in their Greek costumes.

Micheal Jackson? What the hell is this!?!?!

impudent — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:26:50 -0700

Well, Micheal Jackson, the so called King of Pop died yesterday of heart failure. Micheal and I grew up together as I am also fifty years old and remember watching him and his family in their first ever appearance on the old Ed Sullivan show. He suffered the fate of many child stars and certainly never had a normal life.

But I was amazed, and a bit appalled at all ...

Beautiful Spring in Texas again

impudent — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:36:33 -0700

Here is my wife and a friend among the Bluebonnets.

Later the Bluebonnets will give way to Indian Blankets, Buttercups, and Black-eyed Susans.

Maybe we should just stop teaching the classics.

impudent — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:00:46 -0800

Years ago, I floated through high school and college without reading many of the classic novels of literature. I did read Moby Dick, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Animal House, Anna Karenina, and Ivanhoe. That is about it. For all the rest of my book reports I relied on Cliff Notes, or Comics Illustrated (an invaluable source).
Lately I decided to make up for the past and actually try ...

Blogging is like going back to Highschool

impudent — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:56:48 -0800

According to Seth Godin at "Seth Godin's Blog", The Greatest Blogs are those who are leaders of a tribe. (Hat tip Newmark's Door)

Garr Reynolds doesn't try to teach everyone about Powerpoint... instead, he leads a tribe of people committed to changing the way the world communicates in meetings.

Go down the list. Hugh leads a tribe. Josh leads a tribe. So does Mitch. And Guy, who just ...

The End of an Era in Time

impudent — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:50:27 -0800

The End of an Era

From 1661 to 2008, It was a good run.

From time to time in the course of human events there exists new Ideas and new was of thinking. These can have a profound effect upon history either for good or bad. It is my belief that this nation, and Great Britain before it, followed a new way of thinking, which arose during the enlightenment, much ...

My College Football rankings, pre season 2008!

impudent — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:11:22 -0700

It's that time of the year again. Here are my picks. They are not like everybody Else's.

Tim Tebow (superman?)

Number 1: USC Hey, I hate it, but they will probably be number one. Just too much talent, and good coach.
2: Oklahoma - The Sooners have underperformed last two years, but you can't write off Stoops for very long.
3: Florida - I look for them to win the ...

Energy Big Brother? I think this is important.

impudent — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:39:01 -0700

I got this from Redstate

Jack_Savage's Diary

Conservation - YES! Umm, not so fast, my friend

Or: How I changed my mind on energy

Posted by: Jack_Savage

Monday, July 14, 2008 at 11:12PM

If I need to drive a Prius, and burn wood in the winter, and buy gas on odd days to achieve energy independence from the Middle East, sign me up!

Well, at least that is the opinion I spouted until last summer.

Spring time in east Texas - more pictures

impudent — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:25:28 -0700

Here are some pics off I-290 near my house.

these are Black eyed Susans

These are called Indian Blankets:

This is a Golf Course near my house.

Here is a country Pond.

This is a perfect little country Church.

Just smashing the rumors that the Houston Area is not beautiful.

This Thing called Adoption

impudent — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:53:23 -0700

About four years ago, in my mid-forties, I had an overwhelming desire to be a father. The desire had been there for a long time, slowly gaining strength. My wife and I had never had that as a high priority before, My wife had several medical problems and we always had a hard time with jobs and finances.

Working as I did in the oilfield, it was all up and down, several jobs I had were lost ...

Interesting Free Podcasts

impudent — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:49:09 -0800

WOW! an actual post! yeah, it's been a while, but no one reads me anyway, so what the hell.

I often have free time in public places, shopping, waiting rooms etc. And I find that I must blot out the constant barrage of overplayed 60's and 70's pop and rock music which is invariably bombarding me in these public places. So I carry my cheap Ipod knock off with me everywhere I go. (Sanyo Sandisk, highly recommended)

But I get ...

Final College Football Rankings - why LSU is legitimate

impudent — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:20:55 -0800

Here are the final 2007 season AP college football rankings after all the Bowl games.

1.	LSU (60)

2.	Georgia (3)

3.	USC (1)

4.	Missouri

5.	Ohio State

6.	West Virginia

7.	Kansas (1)

8.	Oklahoma

9.	Virginia Tech

10.	Boston College

10.	Texas

12.	Tennessee

13.	Florida

14.	Brigham Young

15.	Auburn

16.	Arizona State

17.	Cincinnati

18.	Michigan

19.	Hawaii

20.	Illinois

21.	Clemson

22.	Texas Tech

23.	Oregon

24.	Wisconsin

25.	Oregon State

As you can ...

Black Snake Moan - a film review

impudent — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:13:13 -0800

Black Snake Moan is one hell of a movie. It was released early in 2007 and got very mixed reviews, either you love it or hate it.
The movie was written and directed by Craig Brewster. I have to give it a total thumbs up.
Being a moviegoer for many years I am very jaded. It is not easy to give me something new, something fresh. This is definitely different from all the other crap out there.
Samuel ...

House passes blatantly unconstitutiona law, - again

impudent — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:40:54 -0800

House just overwhelmingly passed the "Securing adolescents from online exploitation act". A stupid and obnoxious piece of lunacy . read here

It seems that all we have to do to get a ban on abortion passed is to call it the anti child porn bill of 2008.

This bill would require people with a wireless site to catalog all the people who use their site, and report anything anyone might call a lascivious site using photos of young people.

First ...

A New Bill of Rights

impudent — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:10:54 -0800

    The purpose of this amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America is to correct errors of interpretation which have arisen.

    Any law or regulation within the jurisdiction of the United States which halts, or creates a serious impediment to the right of sane and lawful citizens to purchase, own, or carry a personal firearm shall be rendered immediately null and void.

    No individual, beginning on the year following ratification of this amendment, shall be ...

A more Sane method of picking the top college football teams.

impudent — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:17:39 -0800

The BCS will probably go with a limited playoff system, and that would be an improvement, but it would not stop the controversy because you still have to determine who gets into the final four or what ever the number they pick.

The problem with the current system the way I see it is twofold. Reliance on API and coaches poll which always skews things toward traditional teams and conferences.
And, the presence of conferences (this year it’s the big ...

Never give up.

impudent — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:09:55 -0700

This happened at a game between Trinity high School and Millsaps.

its wild. Click it here.

Friends

impudent — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:44:27 -0700

There are several types of friends, good friends, close friends, acquaintances, lost friends. You have heard writers going on an on about the different types. But this is really unimportant. The most important thing is not the types of people who become friends, the important thing is the type of person YOU are.

There are two type of people, those who attract good friends, and everyone else.

If you are the type who accumulates friends then you will not understand ...

Hello, again, from SATAN !

impudent — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:59:34 -0700

Have you considered my servant, Dave Wannstedt.

First I got him the head coaching job with the Bears, According to my INFERNAL WILL, he drove that franchise into the ground. Then, thanks to my powers he was rewarded with the Dolphins Job which he then proceeded in destroying that franchise. Now he is in the process of destroying Pitt football. MUAHHHAAAAAAAAAHAAH!!!

New pictures

impudent — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:57:34 -0700

as I promised, new pics in the photo area.

Death of the Science Fiction Movie? Not likely

impudent — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:44:29 -0700

This is a discussion started from the Q & O site, a site I frequently blog. McQ asks this question here.

Here are some excerpts and my reply

Is the Science Fiction Movie Dead?

Ridley Scott thinks so:

At the Venice Film Festival for a special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley said that science fiction films were going the way the Western once had. “There’s nothing original. We’ve seen it ...

Good Health, Longevity, and preventing Cancer

impudent — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:12:00 -0700

Here is a new article about how a little bit of Sunlight each day could avert as many as 30,000 cases of cancer a year. That is because your body creates Vitamin D from sunlight. I wonder how that might be linked to the high incidence of disease linked to aging in African Americans. If you have very dark pigmentation you will absorb less sunlight, and if you live in a northern climate, you will receive less sunlight. Compound that ...

Clean up and Speed up your PC

impudent — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:47:56 -0700

The average PC windows instillation is loaded with programs you don't need, or will only use once. Many of these applications are set up to automatically load on start up. The hog your systems memory and greatly slow things down.

Courtesy of a site called OCModshop, see the link here. I have reprinted the list here of programs you might want to disable. Open Control panel, then Open Administrative Tools, then Open Services. This lists the service programs ...

Football! Football! Football, it is right around the corner.

impudent — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:13:49 -0700

Well, it is that time of year again and time to make predictions.

Here is a picture of the Longhorn's Colt McCoy, he was outstanding as a rookie, until he got a concussion near the end of the season. But, I don't think Texas can win a national championship. The big twelve has three powerhouses this year in the southern division. Texas, Oklahoma, and A&M.

USC is the team to beat this year for the top spot, Everyone is ...

Smelling the Flowers

impudent — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:09:43 -0700

And in the Latter Days,… Men’s hearts shall fail them for fear. Luke 21

I have not been blogging as much lately. Nor listening to as much talk radio, nor watching as much TV. It is not because I am busier than before, it is because I have been trying to uncomplicate my life.

Now, do not get me wrong, I am still informed, and engaged. However, there comes a time when you have to pick your battles. ...

Retro News: Why the Left are so Economically incompetent

impudent — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:57:59 -0700

repost from two years ago:

A Luddite named Bonddad posted some economic drivel on a dairy in DailyKos, the arch typical Lefty blog. here is the gist of his argument.

Tax receipts for the years 1993-1996 were (in billions) 509, 543, 590 and 656 respectively. That indicates that a tax increase raises revenue. That's a 28% increase, you moron. In addition, Clinton's history of tax revenue from individual taxpayers shows continued increases from 476 billion to 1 trillion in 2000. ...

I am a sucker for things like this

impudent — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:42:30 -0700

God how I wish i had so much money and so much time on my hands I could just make gigantic sculptures out of Legos.

and:

Retro Stuff! VIDEO Magazine from Jan. 1981

impudent — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:20:17 -0700

I recently cleaned out a lot of old stuff from my Dad's home. I came across a Video magazine dated Jan. 1981 which means it came out in late 1980. Now, I had just graduated college then, so I know I was shopping for my first VCR.
The Magazine says "Special Future Issue" on the cover, so lets see just how good they were at predictions.

The inside cover had a two page slash advertising for Laser-Disc. Just so ...

Wargaming in Houston again!

impudent — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:38:47 -0700

I was at "Gathering of the Tribes" at Little Wars in Houston this weekend. It was pretty fun.

Here are some Texan irregulars about to open fire on Santa Anna's troops.

Here is an owl hoot about to ambush someone.

Here are two swashbucklers from my own little game I created.

Hey? Have you seen this spaceman?

impudent — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:34:20 -0700

When I was a kid, back in the '60's. I had several of these little toys. They were different colors, but each one was all of one color, They were on circular bases, and they were very small, about one inch in height.
Some had rifles and there was a little spaceship for them.
I have searched all over and cannot find any one selling these antique toys. I do not even know what they were called, either Spacemen, ...

Not much going on, but a big atricle comming

impudent — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:04:39 -0700

Been hit by a pretty bad spambot. If some candidate for president really wanted to pull ahead of the others they would endorse a death penalty for spammers, junk mailers, and phone solicitors.

Summer sucks in Houston, and there is nothing going on until football season.
ciao

Torture Torture everywhere, Oh Noes! Its Torture!

impudent — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:59:33 -0700

Just a little rant here. Everyone on the left and a few idiots on the right are getting all worked up over torture. Well, not real torture, but you know, splashing water on people, making them listen to Yoko Ono, and putting panties on their head. We have heard things like "Saddam's torture chambers have reopened under US management." Never mind that I would personally like to torture someone who says something so irresponsible in a time of war. ...

Stop Killing Yourself - Filosofia part 3

impudent — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:38:26 -0700

Stop killing yourself

The person who reads this might be at any point in their life but I will assume that some of you are rather young, and perhaps feel lost in life, maybe you are frustrated and in bad health. Something is not going right or you would probably not be reading this book. Before we can delve into philosophy or any weighty matters we first have to learn how to just live a normal life.
(1)...

The Case Against the NBA

impudent — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:38:53 -0700

It seems to me that in sports talk shows and on sports magazines discussion of the
NBA takes up an inordinate amount of time. People drone on endlessly about the current weak stars and the antics on the court, not realizing that they are probably boring most of the audience to tears.
Why do I say that? Well, because the NBA is no longer one of the most watched or even popular sports. It really isn’t. Now it is ...

The ONLY reason to go to the movies anymore.

impudent — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:09:24 -0700

Lets face it, going to the movies is not as great an experience as it used to be.

First there is traffic, then there are the crowds. Most of all there is the expense. OH DAMN! it is expensive. And if you buy an mountain of popcorn and an ocean of soft drink, (which are the only proportions available) on top of the ticket price, then its a wallet buster.

Would you do all of that just to ...

The Myth of success?

impudent — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:37:10 -0700

We have all heard the many stories of rags to riches, whether it is Conrad Hilton's autobiography found in every Hilton hotel room, or recent movies like Will Smith's "The Pursuit of Happyness". And certainly in our own time we have the example of the dot com billionaires.

Now all of these stories can serve to motivate people I suppose, and there is of course a grain of truth to the rags to riches story. However, lets be real ...

What happens if Russia invades Estonia?

impudent — Tue, 29 May 2007 03:25:53 -0700

In what is being called the first ever cyberwar, Russia used its vast computer resources to try and knockout the Internet in high tech Estonia. Read about it here, Estonia, One of nations of the old Hanseatic league of trading nations was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union as part of the Hitler-Stalin pact. it was colonized by many ethnic Russians who are a large minority and are causing problems. Estonia, like its neighbors in Finland, turned to ...

Ham Nation's The week in peeps.

impudent — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:44:44 -0700

Freakin hilarious. its here

Just thought I would reprint some of my recipes

impudent — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:56:52 -0700

more to come in the future.

Kyle's Recipes: part one

impudent — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:47:57 -0700

Here is a quick, tasty little treat I call;
The Mini-Pizzas of Cuthulhu

Ingredients: English Muffins (3-5), Deviled Ham (one large can or two small ones),
Cream Cheese, (the whipped kind), Pizza sauce, or spaghetti sauce, Shredded Parmesan or Romano Cheese, (not the grated stuff)

1.You mix the deviled ham with the cream cheese at a 2:1 ratio (NOTE this also makes a great party dip!) 2.Heat the oven or a toaster oven to 350, 3.slice the muffins ...

Kyle's Recipes: part two

impudent — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:42:45 -0700

Syrup Bread from area 51,

for a bread machine.

Here is a damn delicious loaf, easy to make and very rich.
put in:
2/3 cups of milk
1/2 cup cane syrup or molasses, or maple syrup, or honey.
2 tablespoons of butter (I use the yogurt based Brummel and Brown)
3/4 teaspn of salt
3/4 cup of wheat flakes, or bran, or oatmeal (fine cut )
3/4 cup of whole wheat, or Rye flour (I use rye)
3/4 to ...

Kyle's Recipes: part three

impudent — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:42:12 -0700

Mutant Salmon Scampi

When you think of Scampi, you think of Shrimp. But I made this one with Salmon
and it was very good. The specs you see on the bowl is grated Romano cheese.

Ingredients:
1 pack of pasta of your choice (I used whole wheat spaghetti)
1 8 oz packet of salmon, or fresh salmon if you can get it.
2 cloves garlic
1 entire stick of butter
1 tbsp of olive oil
1 tbsp of lemon ...

It Was a Grand old Party

impudent — Sat, 19 May 2007 04:33:11 -0700

It was a Grand old Party, but now the party is over. President George H W Bush did much damage to the conservative movement and the Republican party by his squishy blue blood politics. When a Republican raises taxes or enacts left wing social legislation Conservatives are blamed for it, even if that Republican is not a conservative.

Still, the party was able to overcome these negatives until the election of the son, George W. Bush. Now, the ...

Thoughts on Ron Paul

impudent — Wed, 16 May 2007 04:19:21 -0700

I used to believe in a foreign policy like Ron Paul espouses, but its a chimera.

What a nice thought, what a great world that would be. We could all be living in a nice little isolated USA, no cares about the rest of the world, we could have a tiny military and low taxes, and everyone would live in a small town. You know like the play Our Town, and we would all pose for a Norman Rockwell painting....

Weeds may be the fuel of the future.

impudent — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:13:54 -0700

Yeah, its that bio deisel thing. There is a promising weed that might solve many problems, you can read about it here.
It certainly makes more sense than using corn.

What I was wondering about was can we use genetic engineering (gasp, oh noes!!!) to create a Super Weed? It would grow everywhere just like kudzu, it would create much oil to be used as biofuel, and it would have a kick ass load of THC in it, (for ...

Podcasting?

impudent — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:20:43 -0700

Recently I have been fighting boredom on my job by listening to podcasts on my Ithingie. I discovered a site called history podcasts but most of that stuff was pretty dry. I downloaded some weekly podcasts from the Cato institute, and those were better.

One of my preferred sites, Q&O has a podcast but to access it I had to have Quicktime, I will NOT put that crap on my computer. Quicktime is one of those Lord Sauron type ...

The American left has gone completely insane.

impudent — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:42:50 -0700

The extreme members of the left wing community have never had a firm grasp on reality, but it used to be that you could count on the moderate left to at least listen to what people had to say and have discussions.

No more, its complete bat crap crazy now. They do not want to talk or discuss anything, and their ideas are all rote cliches. "Bush lied", "the war is lost" "Global warming", "Christian theocrats are taking ...

OK - So I am back

impudent — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:00:32 -0700

Blog was down for a few days, and I have been really, really busy with working 50+ hours a week, and taking my Spanish class. All that will change soon. I have been working on a few stories I hope to get published in the dead tree media. The weather is beautiful here this time of year, but I have not had the chance to enjoy it much. Soon I will go on a fishing or golf outing before it ...

Best Response on Human Global Warming

impudent — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:16:21 -0700

I found this as a response to a Global Warming letter on RedState. by exsolvo. He summed up my thoughts very well.

You are an expert in Global warming, obviously. by Exsolvo

So I won't waste time argueing things like methane records, or the fact that if we only have 650,000 years of ice cores from a four billion year old world, could it be because the earth's natural state is not to have a polar cap? But I digress. ...

silly pranks

impudent — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:29:44 -0700

OK, so I haven’t blogged much lately, Well, I have many irons in the fire. I know only about 2 or 3 of you ever read my blog, but that will change. When the time comes I will start blogging more often.

Here is a little story about some kids who played a pretty good prank, they glued the doors of their high school together.

Yeah, bur really, that’s nothing, When I was in high school and ...

The bluebonnets are in bloom in Texas

impudent — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:56:59 -0700

Here are some of my roadside pictures.

Got my garden up too.

Duke Grad Builds Beer Tossing Fridge

impudent — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:36:54 -0700

Come on LSU ! your reputation as a party school is in jeopardy. Well this is a great boost to mankind. Hat tip to Newmarks Door. And all I can say is BRILLIANT!

Ann Coulter and the two type of women

impudent — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:12:09 -0800

Recently Ann Coulter does what she does best at a major political meet and greet.
She shamelessly promoted Ann Coulter while putting all of the candidates on the spot by using a childish and repulsive remark. She did this, so said, to combat political correctness. Oh, ok, so how about all the other times she said mean, hateful things and wished death upon her fellow Americans because they did not agree with her?

Some people get the benefit ...

Principles of Economics

impudent — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:52:06 -0800

This is funny as hell.

Hat tip to Newmark's Door.

link

Yes! I am a wargame Geek

impudent — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:00:09 -0800

Weekend before last spent at OWLCON, a yearly wargame convention held at Rice University. I got to play several historical miniatures wargames but the crowning achievement of the weekend was the massive fleet battle of the science fiction game Aeronef. There were sixteen people in this battle and almost one hundred miniatures.

Now the premise behind Aeronef is that in the 1890's a meteor hit the earth and dropped these crystals all over the place. It ...

The Wisdom of Smudge

impudent — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:49:48 -0800

This is my cat, Smudge. Smudge is very wise about life. Here is his opinions on a variety of issues.
Smudge on giving to the poor.
"I couldn't care less about the poor, screw em."

Smudge on Terrorism.
"Goddamn ragheads, kill em all and let Allah sort them out."

Smudge on the NBA all stars, Pro and college basketball, and the sweet sixteen:
"BOOOORING! You mean grown men actually watch that stuff?"

Smudge on global warming:
"Bite me"

Smudge on ...

Ok, What are they?

impudent — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:32:55 -0800

Twisted pouches of human flesh? No, Hannibal, They are puff pastries full of Hershey's chocolate kisses. You bake them and then cover them with a sauce made of melted dark chocolate and half n half. Then you can serve them with a dollop of whipped cream. These were our Valentine Day treats from yesterday. VERY good, and VERY, VERY rich!

A Guide to Living the Good Life?: Filosofia part 2

impudent — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:30:25 -0800

Imagine a person, a man or woman, living anywhere in the developed world. They live a middle class life. That person spends most of their time working, or recovering from the demands of that work. And is often the case, spends a lot of time just getting back and forth to the job. If they have a desire to create, to show off any talent, often all they do is dabble, the needs of everyday life stop them from ...