http://www.mindmonkey.com I monkey with your brain meats! Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:43:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If my previous post seemed a bit abrupt, it’s because I was trying to get something down in a hurry before the big day when Deanna and I threw ourselves out of a perfectly good airplane came. Just in case we became one of those rare statistics who don’t ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=247 So I”m in Houston right now, and tomorrow morning Deanna and I will be jumping out of an airplane. With parachutes, of course, and strapped to a trained jump instructor, but still - leaping out of an airplane into space at altitude. Deanna keeps teasing me that we’re ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=246 What is it about Legos? Why are these little colored plastic bricks and pieces so fascinating to people? I’ve always liked Legos, from the time I was a little kid and got my first basic building sets, to my first Space sets. I retained that love into ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=244 Several lucky residents of Southern California will be the first (and only) Americans to get a chance to drive Honda’s new FCX Clarity, a Prius-sized sedan that runs on hydrogen fuel cells and electricity. Even these few will only be able to lease the car as opposed to buying ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=243 M. Night Shyamalan’s newest film, The Happening, has to be 90 minutes of some of the worst film making I’ve ever suffered through. It’s an absolute train wreck; the script is god-awful, the dialog is atrocious, the acting is wooden and stilted, and the meandering plot never really goes ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=242 Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones, two personalities from the early 90s, have started up a website together dedicated to their alleged affairs with Bill Clinton. At the website, you can buy videos of them describing their trysts and thoughts on Bill for the low, low price of $2. ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=241 It should not come as a surprise that I dislike Scott McClellan, Bush’s ex-press secretary who has turned on his former master with a scathing tell-all book. The sheer audacity he displayed while press secretary made him a poster child for the Bush Administration; the amount of spin emerging ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=240 American Airlines recently announced that starting June 15, all coach passengers will be required to pay $15 each way for their first piece of checked luggage, with additional bags costing even more. They must implement this change, so they claim, to battle rising fuel costs. Time Magazine has ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=239 I really wonder about our oh-so-intelligent president sometimes. Does the man honestly believe he has any credibility left when talking about the Iraq war? For instance, two economists, Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, have suggested the total cost of the war will be somewhere in the neighborhood of ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=238 Yesterday I made the prediction that the dream ticket for the Democrats would be Obama-Clinton, or the OC, based on the way things were looking. This was in the morning, though, before I heard that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (CA-D) was very pessimistic that any kind of ... http://www.mindmonkey.com/?p=237