Tin Foil Soldier

Attn:Nickelback
Make Chat Kroeger get a haircut before you make any more music videos.  We watch the HD music video channel in the morning before work as something to eat and drink coffee to, and Photograph came on.  The song doesn’t really make any sense to me, but I think its nice to listen to as [...]

Unfortunately I don’t think today was as much fun as usual at motorcycle class.  It started out fun, but then some of the turns are just ridiculous in what they expect us to do while not looking at the tiny little dots on the ground.  Yes, I am going to look at the ground if [...]

I never got around to posting about it, but day 3 was mostly like day 2 in the learn 2 ride class.  We practiced shifting, stopping, cornering, U-turns, etc.
Day 4 was another classroom session where we reviewed things like swerving, carrying a load / a passenger, cornering, etc.  We also took the 50 question multiple [...]

YouTube - Quantum of Solace - Proposed Theme Song
It has a strangly addicting beat, and the song itself is just hilarious.
What is a Quantum of Solace anyway?

frontline: assault on gay america: how ‘homophobic’ are you?
In 1996, as part of his study on homophobia, Dr. Henry Adams and his colleagues at the University of Georgia developed their own “Homophobia Scale” by modifying scales used by other researchers in earlier studies. It’s a 25-item questionnaire “designed to measure your thoughts, feelings and behaviors [...]

Top 10 Armor/Bodysuits | Casualty Gamer
If there’s one thing that’s been established in a video game, it’s that you can rarely succeed without donning a full-bodied, hi-tech armored suit of some kind. Sometimes these very suits define the character; they are such iconic symbols that one immediately knows the game that they are from. In [...]

9NEWS.com | Colorado’s Online News Leader | Focus on the Family asks people to pray for rain during DNC
COLORADO SPRINGS – A video producer for Focus on the Family is asking people to pray for rain when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) makes his speech at the end of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Obama is [...]

How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter | LiveScience
Because it burns calories so quickly, aerobic exercise is a threat to the body’s energy reserves. Heeding this danger, the body acts to protect one of its most precious, and energy-demanding, organs: the brain.
Unlike cells in less critical organs, neurons are extremely vulnerable to disruptions in energy [...]

SWAT team raids mayor, shoots family dog because someone mailed them pot - Boing Boing
Cheye Calvo, mayor of DC suburb Berwyn Heights, was raided by a SWAT team after 30lbs of marijuana was delivered to his home. They broke down his door, shot his two black labradors, and interrogated him and his wife as their [...]

via Joe. My. God.: Bipartisan Crazy

YouTube - Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency
President Bush will seek to comfort victims of his presidency as they try to make sense of the destruction he has caused.
via Towelroad (and the Onion News Network)
More from The Onion:
The Onion: Pretend You Give A Shit About The Election
The Onion: ‘Gays Too Precious [...]

Today we got to sit on the motorcycles.
After reviewing the different parts on the motorcycles, we mount them:

standing on the left side of the bike, grab the right handlebar
lift your right leg over the bike
straighten it out and upright
raise the side stand

Then we start the bike using FINE-C

Fuel switch - to ON
Ignition - Key to [...]

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hess Corporation “Office Manager” And Her Husband Both Gave $28,500 To Elect McCain
As we reported below, ten Hess Corporation executives and Hess family members each gave $28,500 to the RNC’s committee to elect John McCain president, just days after he reversed his previous opposition to offshore drilling.
um, [...]

Beginner
Basic RiderCourse
The Motorcycle Safety Foundation’s Basic Rider Course BRC is a Beginner / Novice motorcycle rider-training program designed for those with very little or no experience in riding a motorcycle. The program consists of classroom and hands-on motorcycle training. The ability to ride a bicycle is necessary for this program.
Classroom adult learning discussions [...]

Wednesday: Fired by MnDOT, now at Homeland Security
Sonia Pitt, the MnDOT emergency response executive fired for taking an unauthorized, state-paid trip to Washington during the Interstate 35W bridge disaster, is now working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Pretty much somes up this disaster of a HR department.