Communication Breakdown - Smoke Signals to Satellites

When I look at this picture of my son and friends, I wonder how this generation will communicate as adults. I remember the agony of such iconic 80's standards as: phone booths, writing thank you letters and having to ask a girl out face to face.
The ironic truth about this picure is that when I took it, the three of them were communicating to each other via their dsi's. This is amazing to me and I hope that the beauty of written and spoken word will not be something a future generation looks back at and says "Remember when..."

Dundee United - Scottish Cup Winners 2010

This is dedicated to my old school pal from Dundee - Keith Barr. Sadly Keith is a Dundee F.C. supporter and has no clue what it feels like for his team to lift silver. Have a nice day Barso.
Cheers.

What's a Scot to do?

It's about to be that time again when you wrap yourself in the national flag and cheer and pray for your team at the World Cup. Once again the thistle men are left to spend their WC summer on holiday without the glory of global attention, the kind of global attention that could spark interest in SPL players!
So as we inch closer the South African addyssey I am at unrest with the burning question of who to pull for?
One of my English customers assumes as a "Brit" that I must cheer for England, after he paid his bill I gave him my answer -  F**K OFF.
With and American wife and children, my loyalty will now lie with TEAM USA aka - the most boring, small, fast and underrated team in the competition. I can only pray that the colonists beat their former occupiers and send laughter from Polokwane to Dunnet Head.
Come on you Yanks.......


Perhaps the world's most fun army - the Tartan Army, all dressed up for nothing. Again.

Where is the damn stop button

Never having been one to chain myself to a soon to be broken tree, or pass up a tuna fish sandwich with tuna caught with dolphins in the net, I am having a serious epiphany over the BP Gulf disaster. I guess you can call me a fairweather fan of saving the planet, only shouting out when my little corner of the world is in danger of pollution. Well here goes.
BP, Transocean and Haliburton - The three stooges responsible for the blackening of the blue gulf, the money grubbing devils who stuff their pockets while the planet suffers. Where is the failsafe for environmental hazzard?, What is the backup plan for a major oil leak?, Do you have a plan B?
The latest attempt is the 21" pipe inserted into the leak trying to syphon one fifth of the oil leaking out, is that not like trying to fit a hot dog through a hula-hoop?
At this point I believe they have to try anything to stop this from becoming the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Comic remedies like hairballs and golfballs have been mentioned as possible plugs, why not send Tiger Woods down there and let him fire off a few buckets at the hole, I am sure his experience with large leaking gashes will do wonders.
At the end of the day people like me are to blame, I once held a BP gas card and shuffled  in line to get the gas to fill the minivan, to get to Disney World, to buy the crap and eat the junk and so on and so on.
I for one will take a step back and try harder to not pollute my home, I guess it is time to dust off the old bike.

Banned in the Sausage House

When a man is blessed with the news that in 9 months he will become a father, the rush of emotions run the gamut from exhilaration to extreme panic. There is never a point during his wife's pregnancy that he is pulled aside by some learned elder and told to "Read these ancient scrolls of dad wisdom"  He is pretty much on his own, left to sponge memories from his own father's teachings and hope they still relate to today's bairns.

Today in the congress and senate of mum and dad, we passed  down a new  law for our 2 boys ages 11 and 7.
As of today we do not want to hear the word "Hate"  from our children.

 I am sick of  "Hate" I know how easy it is to throw out the word for such basic things like  "I hate homework", or  "I hate broccoli"  but the truth of the word makes me sick.
To say you hate something brings emotions of bigotry, violence and intolerance, and using that word to describe a dislike of vegetables is diluting the power and disgust from the real meaning.
In our society politicians hate other politicians, ethnic groups hate other ethnic groups and so on and so forth, so when you see news footage of hate manifested into violence it is difficult for me to accept the word from a child who knows nothing of the vitriol of the real meaning of "Hate"
Some may argue that it is just a word, yes just a word indeed, but the power behind the word "Hate" should not be acceptable to be used for innocent children who have not learned or even felt 'Hate" as most adults have.

I hope my 2 boys can grow up understanding the difference between hate and dislike,  I am sure there will come a time in their lives when they will feel "Hate" I hope they will be able to separate the two.

This is the saddest and one of the most disgusting pictures I have ever seen
using children to spread "Hate"