I wanted to blog about this even though I know that the female McBlog base won’t enjoy it. The fact is an elite few of us enjoy bonding together whenever possible by playing video games. It’s a male tradition that dates back to Cain… er Noah… anyway, Cotton has not been able to join in the latest wave of Battelfield 2 mania b/c he owns a mac. Check this out though!!
Alright tech geniuses, howd this guy do it and can we do it on Cotton’s mac?</strong
Last night we watched the movie An Inconvenient Truth at our place with Brad and Tiffany. TMom sent it to us after viewing it, so we decided to give it a shot. Not your typical romantic Friday night date, but, hey, our brain cells increased as Al Gore showed us a plethora of graphs which all indicated steadily rising temperatures, sea levels, and carbon dioxide levels, worldwide. I already knew that this was happening, and always felt depressed about the whole thing. Al really made it hit home with his in-depth explanations and his personal stories to go along with them. I found it fascinating (let me see if I get this right) that when the sun’s rays hit the North Pole, 90% of them are reflected off the ice, back up into the air. But when the rays hit water, 90% of them are absorbed, so the water gets hotter as the ice melts, which melts more ice, which causes more of the sun’s rays to be absorbed into the ocean, causing warmer waters. Does that make sense? It’s kind of crazy.
A criticism of the documentary is that he spent about five minutes of it going over his loss to President Bush in the presidential elections. I did not think that had anything to do with all this, but I’m sure it made the Republicans feel a tinge of guilt for not voting for him so he could save the earth. Also, he should have spent less time discussing the problem and more time discussing the adjustments we could all make to be part of the solution. Some of these suggestions, which were just listed at the very end of the movie, were to buy Energy Star appliances, insulate your home better (windows, etc.), walk/ride a bike or get a vehicle with better gas mileage…. basically you have to have plenty of money to make a big difference all at once. But small contributions can be made by using less gas and electricity and also recycling!!! Utah definitely needs to jump on the bandwagon for that last one, seeing as how 2 people in our whole neighborhood actually pay the 5 bucks a month it costs to recycle. Why does it cost money to recycle here? It isn’t much money, but apparently people either don’t see recycling as a priority, or they don’t want to put forth the extra cash each month to help in this whole save the earth thing. I mean, it’s kind of a big deal because at least in our household, the vast majority of our waste (meaning garbage, in this case) is recyclable! Luckily, our next door neighbors are kind enough to let us just throw all our recyclables into their can, so we get to save the earth without spending that dreaded extra 5 bucks a month.
Anyway, what do you think?
Special Thanks to McGrandma who noted the times of each video so I could input the transition time. Now you can click on one video and sit back and eat popcorn, they’ll just keep playing, and playing, and playing!
Joy and I are part of a new website catering to the Christian gift market. Largely made up of LDS themed gifts, LDSstock.com is a treasure trove of Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day and any other holiday gift ideas. After surfing around for seconds, Joy wanted to buy the CTR hoop earrings, I informed her we were setting up the website to sell stuff not buy stuff… what would you buy?
Answer me this. We have basic cable and for five bucks all the basic HD channels. So ABC and ABC HD right… well Discovery is on basic cable, but we don’t get Discovery HD! Are we getting robbed… you bet we are! SO I emailed Comcast to see what explination they had for such rottenness. I’ll let you know what their reply is.
Sign (leave a comment) this e-petition so I can send them proof of how stupid their reasoning is.
Hey Gino, no need to post pictures of Courtney, I just typed in Gino’s Courtney into Google images and she popped up! What an amazing invention. Unfortunately, when I typed in Rachel’s Dustin for you to see him, looks like he used to be a girl… oh well.
Our cell phones are back to normal! Pace is now with Cricket, though, so no more long chats on the phone with those who have unlimited Verizon-to-Verizon minutes. But he has unlimited minutes all the time, so if you don’t have a limit, you can chat with him all day long and it won’t make no difference to no one. I think that’s a pretty good deal, and I would have done it too, except that most of the people I talk to for a long time have Verizon. So I’m on a plan with Rachie and Pace is all alone now. I’m sure you’re glad you just read all this.
Well there is no reason for you to be lost during this season of LOST, they took an hour to recap the entire three seasons and catch us all up. Here’s a cool map I pulled from one of ABC’s latest fake but ever so amusing teaser websites.What did you think of the new episode?
We are experiencing cell phone problems. To reach us temporarily, call 8 0 1* 🙂 * 🙂 . We will hopefully be back to normal next week. Thank you.
UPDATE: We’re back to normal again… a least with cell phones
This is the coolest website I’ve ever learned about from the 10 o’clock news! PropertyRoom.com sells all the stuff people steal and get caught with, that people never come get b/c they stole it in the first place! Isn’t that cool. You can pick up an Xbox 360 for 250 or a Unix Server for 1.00. Check it out, but men beware, I found myself surfing around for a bit, especially when I saw military items and golf items! 😮