*Plastic Floating Texas*

This just in...well, not really JUST in, but its news to me. There is a giant garbage patch in the middle of the ocean (800 miles north of Hawii). The patch is filled with plastic bags, toys, bins, oil bottles, and other discarded junk. It is approx. twice the size of Texas....wait, wait, wait, did you get that TWICE the size of TEXAS....TEXAS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Apperently all this discarded junk (by the way, it is approximated that each individual throws away 185lbs of plastic each year, thats plastic that will never go away) foats around in the sea slowly making its way to an area known as the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. It is known to sailors as being a desert of water. A place where the winds and the waters slowly churn clockwise in a vortex sucking in debris from all around. It is apperently caused by a mountanous high pressure system that lingers above it.
Contained in this mess of plastic, as well as washing up on shore, are creatures that have mistaken bits of plastic as food. "One animal dissected by Dutch researchers contained 1,603 pieces of plastic." Surveys of the water were done and it was discovered that this area of the sea contains six times (by weight) the amount of plastic as it does plankton, a large portion of which is invisible to the eye. This means that this type of pollution is most likely to get inside of humans who eat the polluted fish.
On a side note only plastics number 1 and number 2 (the number inside the three arrows triangle indicating recyclable items) have a chance of escaping landfills, all other plastics 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 will most likely end up in the dumps for years....and years.

I just heard about this 'floating plastic Texas' in a meeting with a client and decided to look it up. You should too...here is a link to get started...

http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/health-fitness/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we_2_printer.shtml

http://www.gadling.com/2006/08/04/our-plastic-seas/

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/1103/1103_feature.html

Frustrating night

Man was last night frustrating.
I went down stairs to go and hang out with my roommate Becky at her friend Becca's apt. When I walk in the place is a fucking mess. Like, can't even see the floor mess. So I am stepping over records, clothes, bikes, books, some little guy laying on the floor playing video games, and take a seat in between the night stand and the bed. Becky and Becca have barely noticed that I walked in and keep on chatting. So I'm just sitting there, looking around and the next thing I know is that the little guy, who I realize is Becca's boyfriend, gets up and walks over to me, (by this time I've noticed that he is also an albino midget), and starts laying into me about how rude it is to step over someone. I'm kinda just ignoring him, he's being ridiculous and over reacting. Then bam, he karate kicks me in the mouth with his weird, white, little midget foot. I grabbed him by the ankle and flipped him out the back door into the courtyard. Immediatley Becky and Becca are both on me yelling and really getting in my face. Then, just as quick, they are both out the door to see about their little friend.
Dempsey walks in the door and I tell him that what had happened thinking that maybe he'd see it from my point of view. Nope. He rails into me even harder and then runs outside to be with Beck and Becc. Man...can it get any worse???

Half the man I used to be...

My girlfriend is way more hardcore than I am. Just look at her cd/tape/record collection.

Best dishes

Fried crawfish etoufee drizzled in a lemon raspberry vinagrette, frogs legs, smothered pork chop stuffed with prawns, ground beef and onions, steak smothered in goat cheese and sauteed onions, and many, many more.

Bathroom Break

Our toilet keeps getting busted. For those of you that know me well know that this is a big bummer.

The last show

I went to go see Electric Six on Tuesday. And while their music is all fun and dancy and stuff I was completely thrown off by the fact that the lead singer looked like one of my business professors...one of the toughest ones I ever had. Or as Emma puts it, 'like Chris Farley on coke.' The show was rad, people were dancing hard and sweating. I, unfortunately, was too tired/exhausted to really get down...being sober didn't help at all.

Look out....I'm coming back...

one of my favorites:

Muay Thai...Ramon Dekker


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Today I love...

This build is amazing...

Built by local San Franciscan known only as Emangoo.

I would love to buy one....too bad they cost upwards of $1,200 bones for frame and fork. Damn beautiful though.