July 2008

A collection of Jokers... Give me your opinions.

Okay, when it comes to jokers, let's hear your opinions on this motley crew.

I want to hear...
1.Which one scares the batcrap out of you?
2.Which one fits the socio/psychopathic bent best?
3.Which one(s) do you not know of?

A. Cesar Romero... "It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry."

B. John Wayne Gacy... "A clown can get away with murder."

C. Jack Nicholson... "Here's Johnny!"

D. Heath Ledger... "It's because of you Jack, that I'm like this! I'm nothin'... I'm nowhere..."

These should be some interesting comments I think. So ponder, and please leave some below here.

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Quick note...

Thingamablog is being a twit and not letting me move my article on the trip to denver back down to where it belongs...

Sorry for the confusion.

Videos added to youtube from trip to Denver.

Just added a couple videos to YouTube from my trip to the Cherry Creek Time Trials with my Pa. I made this trip May 21st 2008, the day before the tornadoes hit Windsor Colorado, and Cheyenne Wyoming. We went through some of the storminess, horizontal rain and hail, standing water on the roads, that kinda crap coming home, but it was dark, and I didn't have the presence of mind to turn on the camera... I was too wigged out. On the trip, we were places that just the next day would have spelled doom for us. Kind of a creepy feeling! God must have been binding the restless wave... or in this case pressure trough.

Both of the videos are taken from southbound on I-25, one of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. I have always wanted to comment on that, so here goes. In my opinion, while they were conceived by Nazi Germany, copied by the USA, and intended for defense... they are probably the single biggest reason this country became the economic, and production powerhouse it is... which in a way, provides for the national defense. Seriously, I could go into hours of long discussions as to why they are so important to commerce... but I won't. I will tell you, however, if you want YOUR country to be strong, and independent, don't let your leaders plow all their money into weapons and other flashy crap... make them build decent high speed roads, they are really the key. A good superhighway system, is as important as any other single sector you can think of.

One video is of the Glendo Rise, where you leave the North Platte River basin and head up towards the Laramie River in Wheatland. It is one of the prettier examples of a rural superhighway in the world. The other is of driving through Denver during lunch hour on a Wednesday, and as you see, Denver has good traffic flow patterns... we blast right through town with nary a problem. Which, when you think about it, is saying allot for a metropolis of 2.8 million people. Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZxmbsoRNX0 <=- The Glendo Rise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDI9bg20m64 <=- Through downtown Denver

Hope you enjoyed the videos. I have more raw footage from other spots on the trip, hope I can get them up soon!

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