Songs of Sunday

I like this song, it's different. Being different is a good thing! Tomorrow begins a new term at school, and I'm looking forward to it! My roomie starts his new job, so I can use the AC while he's gone and watch movies on the flat screen. Life is good! Hope you all have a great week! ;) peace

Foster the People-Pumped up Kicks. AND they're hot! :)

Shut-up Stupid Sunday: 10%

Polls show that 10% of the American people approve of the way the republicans are handling the debt crisis that they created. Who the hell are these 10%?

To show my bias here, I can understand the 40% who approve of the way Obama is handling it. I don't agree but I understand.

This crisis could go away if Obama made a speech and said, “F-you bitches, I killed Bin Laden and I'm invoking the powers of the 14th amendment to solve this. Got a problem with that?”

So to anyone who approves of the job that any one involved in the negotiations on this insane theater of the absurd is doing, I say, “Shut-up Stupid, everyone involved is showing their highest levels of incompetence.”

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

Beautiful

My roomie got a job! So this means I get to us the AC, I can watch TV, have the place to myself, walk around buckid nekkid, and use the AC. Beautiful! I also finished my final today in a class where I can NOT stand the teacher, and got an A. Well, we all did 'cause he just stressed us out for days preparing for it, and he didn't even grade our finals, we all got A's. Kinda dislike him even more. So that was bitter sweet.

Also found out that Eyre didn't get the diagnosis she was afraid of getting, Beautiful! They're still not sure what is wrong with my friend, but I'm thinking positive thoughts, and I know she'll be fine.

Last, but not least, today was just a chill day. I finished my last class, I've got a few case studies to do, but I have until Friday to do them, and I'm starting a new term on Tuesday. My new teacher is hot! You may not think he's hot, but I've liked him since the first time I saw him on campus. HTT is hot, but this teach brings more to the table. I also will have Ethics next term. My tech classes make me think, but they're more intuitive, Ethics will actually make me think and study.

Great day to end my term. Looking forward to the next one! ;) peace

Another Review

My free ebook I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE got another review.

This time at Shark's Short Story Review.

Check it out.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

Larisa Popa - Miss Universe Romania 2011

Name : Larisa Popa
Age : 24 (pageant year 2011)
Height : 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Homwtown : Slatina

Title(s) : Miss Universe Romania 2011
Major Competition(s) :
* Miss Universe 2011
* Miss Universe Romania 2011 (winner)
* Miss Universe Romania 2010 (contestant)

Larisa Popa was crowned Miss Universe România 2011 at the Residence Domenii Plaza Hotel in Bucharest. She will represent Romania in Miss Universe 2011

Keilyn Suzette Gómez - Miss Universo Honduras 2011

Name : Keilyn Suzette Gómez

Age : 22 (pageant year 2011)
Height : 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Hometown : San Pedro Sula

Title(s) : Miss Universo Honduras 2011
Major Competition(s) :
* Miss Universe 2011
* Miss Universo Honduras 2011 (winner)

Keilyn Suzette Gómez was crowned Miss Universo Honduras 2011 pageant held at the Centro Social Hondureño Arabe in San Pedro Sula. She will represent Honduras in Miss Universe 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 12.

    

Turn Around

Finals were this week, and I have my last one tomorrow morning. It's a group project, so your grade is dependent on your group. Great. I have my part down, but I also went and completed the whole project by myself just to see if I could, and also to step in if someone needs help.

So today's blog muse is about a guy at school who I think likes me, but I never really thought about him like that. I mean, I have, but wasn't sure if he was gay or not, or if he even liked me. I'm still not sure, but he does flirt, so today we had some really good banter, and as I walked away I felt I should have turned around to see if he was looking, but I didn't. When I think about him it's always one of those "right under your nose moments", heck I don't even tweet about him. So I will see where this goes and maybe be more aggressive in my flirting? Maybe? I dunno. He's hella sweet though. Sweet is good. Hope you all have a great weekend! ;) peace

Fantastic Future Friday: Dawn

Lost in the reporting about the Space Shuttle retirement the Dawn mission went under reported. The Dawn spacecraft is investigating the two largest asteroids in the Solar System. Vesta and Ceres. Last week it went into orbit around Vesta. NASA is holding a press conference on August 1 to explain the findings in detail.

These two asteroids have a special place in my heart as they were the setting for my book THE SETTING EARTH which is free to download this weekend.

The real work of the Dawn Spacecraft won't begin until she settles into orbit and can start taking readings, but she has already discovered some mysteries.

Vesta is one of the shiniest objects in the Solar System. It was thought that its shininess was because it is primarily composed of Iron-Nickel, a very tough metal. However the impact craters on its surface are much shallower than one would expect if is was all Iron-Nickel, so there is something about its surface composition that we don't know that makes the impacts shallower than predicted.

It also has some huge grooves that go completely around the proto-planet. We can speculate how those were formed but until we get more information that speculation is pretty meaningless. Some of the smaller grooves were expected. Those little lines are most likely formed as giant boulders shook loose and started rolling across the surface. In the very low gravity they continue to roll for quite a long time.

Over the coming months Dawn will make more and more discoveries. As she settles into orbit we will be able to determine the exact mass and density of Vesta. We will get a much better look at her surface and find out what caused these mysterious features.

One thing I do expect from the Dawn Mission is the unexpected. Whenever we explore new worlds we always find things that fill us with awe. The Voyager probes revealed that Jupiter has a system of moons that are worlds in their own right with liquid oceans under the ice that not only will make them good places for colonization but might harbor life of their own.

Revisiting the Earth's Moon we discovered that the Apollo Missions landed on the driest parts of the lunar surface. That probably wasn't a coincidence, safety engineers like to have people land on the flattest, most boring surfaces just because landing in craters and on the sides of mountains increases the dangers exponentially.

Dawn is the first spacecraft to orbit a large asteroid and she sure to make some amazing discoveries. Soon Vesta will show herself to be a unique world with strange properties that no one imagined. As we learn about these we can figure out uses for this new world and that will lead to a fantastic future.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

Author Photo

Just wondering which Author photo is better:

1)Cats Eye

2) Galaxy

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

Tats

No real muse for tonight's post, I just haven't posted tats in awhile. School is good finals this week, so I'm preparing for those. Also, it's birthday month for Leos, so that gets a woot woot! I'm kind of going through this phase where I miss the beginning of school last year. I miss Hottie, and SJ, and Jessica, and that annoying ghetto chick, and Dan, and just that "new" feeling. 2nd year has been tough, but I think I'm doing okay so far. Been a reflective term for me. Not used to NOT being at school everyday and NOT having so much homework. I'm not complaining it's just a different feeling. I have some friends starting their 2nd year next week (new term) so I'm looking forward to that. Hope every one had a great hump day! ;) peace

Act Now!!! (Shameless self promotion)

My newest writing post is up HERE.

Now on to my Shameless Self Promotion. Some writers say that you should stop just short of grabbing people in a headlock and screaming at them, “BUY MY BOOK!”

Doing that is hard over the Internet but I will try, so I'll need some help:

You must pretend that I am grabbing you in a headlock and screaming, “BUY MY BOOK!”

Because you are pretending that it is only fair that you can use pretend money to pay for it. So go to Smashwords and pick out any or all of my books. Enter the coupon code: SSWSF and it will be free of charge. Then pretend you paid for it so I can release my pretend headlock.

This sale ends at the end of the month.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

BW Pics

So I have a final Saturday in the class where I can't stand the teacher. Here's his spiel "your final isn't going to be on anything in the book, but what I've taught you hands on". Okay, so what did I do all the quizzes and case projects in the book for? "Hmm...should I be an ass and break the virtual machines before I give them to you? Yeah, I think I will". Really? Your hands on wasn't that informative, and now I have to work harder to fix the VM's BEFORE I do what you barely taught us, you're a prince. "Oh, and this will be a group project so your grade is dependent on your team". So, none of us know what the heck you are talking about, and now my final grade is based on people who are just as ignorant as I am? I'm liking you more each minute, ass!

Those were my thoughts from Saturday morning class. Here is my thing, I'm at school to be taught, challenge me yeah, but teach me first. Don't throw me in the water and yell "swim". I like things in Black and White, tell me what you want, show me how to do it, and I will give it back to you! ugh! ;) peace

Feeding my Poll

Great news is my poll has increased in size by 50%. I always get excited when my poll grows, or is it the other way around.

Last week I did a political poll with the same question that most of the polls ask:

If the US Presidential Election were held today, I would...

A) Be very surprised
B) Vote
C) Think it was a trap and stock up on Aluminum Foil

I'm sure that both parties must looking at these results and using them to form their strategies, here are the results:

Half the people who took the poll said “If the Election were held today, I would think it was a trap and stock up on Aluminum Foil”

One-Third would be very surprised.

And only one-sixth would vote.

So changing Election Day to a totally random day has risks for both sides. The GOP does better when voter turn-out is low, however they would lose their base of Paranoid Schizophrenics.

On to the new poll, this one has to do with song lyrics:

In 1976 Thin Lizzy released their hit song Jailbreak. In that song they were very unsure about something according to these lyrics:

Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak,
Somewhere in this town,

It is a very puzzling question, where in this town would the JAILbreak happen?

So that is my new poll question:

Where in this town will the there be a jailbreak?

A) The deepest, darkest recesses of the human soul
B) Bob's Place
C)The five and dime.

I together we can answer this 35 year old mystery.

Like always the poll is on the upper left hand side of the page.

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

Songs of Sunday

I don't normally like powwow songs in English, but if I had to choose this is one of my favs.

Matt dropped out of school. :( I miss him. Still not liking my Networking teacher and this week is my last week of this term. I'm happy about that, now maybe I'll learn something. Was such a waste of time. Oh well, I have homework to catch up on this week, and still look for work.

Hope you all have a great week! ;) peace

Shut-up Stupid Sunday: Pro-Slavery

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke (maybe)

This is like a case study of how a truly insane ranting when gone unchecked can become accepted as fact.

The religious right in this country has its own religious right, guys that the religious right is as ashamed of as much as most Americans are ashamed of the religious right. One of these guys is Douglas Wilson.

Wilson teaches history from a “Biblical Worldview”, the bible allows for slavery therefore slavery must be good. So he teaches how Blacks were better under slavery than they are now being free.

The leaders of the Religious Right used to do an embarrassed cough and turn the other way when asked about Wilson. Whenever he made the news he was rightfully laughed at.

With all the craziness in the news, people have been laughing at other things and Wilson's insane rantings went unchecked. Now the GOP Presidential front-runner Michele Bachmann and Santorum have signed a pledge that blacks were better under slavery. This should be where this craziness stops. But no, the crazy train is just gaining momentum.

Of all people, President Obama had to allow this to keep going on by advertising a talk he had with some college students where he praised President Lincoln for allowing states like Kentucky to keep slavery after the civil war. He used it as an example a the art of compromise, but rather than place it in the context of being a necessary evil, he held it up as a good thing.

Lincoln's writings seem to show he viewed it as a necessary evil as he said that he hoped to have God on his side, but he had to have Kentucky. Lincoln didn't compromise on that for the sake of compromise, he did it because he believed it was the only way to win the war.

The time as come to draw the line on this lunatic notion that slavery was anything more than a barbaric system that exploited people for the sake of a few bucks. Most sane people are rightfully appalled by the fact that it was allowed to go on for so long and consider it a dark chapter in this country's history.

I can tolerate most ideas even if I think they are insane, but to say that slavery was any but truly evil goes beyond the line.

So to everyone, from the insane people that are pro-slavery to people who even tolerate the idea and don't state that slavery was the most evil, vile economic system ever, I say, “Shut-up Stupid, once you say that slavery had any positive impact on the slave your argument is invalid.”

By Darrell B. Nelson author of I KILLED THE MAN THAT WASN'T THERE

Iliana Papageorgiou - Miss Greece Universe 2011

Name : Iliana Papageorgiou
Age : 20 (pageant year 2011)
Height : 5'9 1/2"
Hometown : Patras
Title(s) :
Major Competition(s) :

A professional model Iliana Papageorgiou will represent Greece in Miss Universe 2011 beauty pageant to be held on September 12 in São Paulo, Brazil. She was chosen by the Star Hellas organization.