The Syko Ward

WOW!! I have been a Sci-fi fan for years. I love authors like Isaac Asimov, Stephen Baxter, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear and more. The technology that they come up with in Sci-fi is just amazing and would be and incredible boon to man if possible. Here are technologies that may that are emerging that would be life changing.

Printable batteries.
Check out this Yahoo article from Livescience.com:http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090702/sc_livescience/tinynewbatteryisprintable

And 2 more from LiveScience.com:
Microscopic Battery made from live Viruses: http://www.livescience.com/technology/080820-micro-batteries.html

Superbots: http://www.livescience.com/technology/090623-robot-combine.html

I just hope I get to see some of this stuff and more before the end.

Wow! This is one sad story. Long time coach shot and killed by a former student and athlete. My condolences go out to both families.

Now, the main reason I am posting this is not so much for the story, but for the crazy wild religious rants that erupted on Yahoo Sports news. Read the article here: Iowa coach Ed Thomas shot and killed. Then scroll down and start reading the comments. It very quickly devolved into a religious rant fight among all involved. The story is supposed to be about someone who was tragically killed yet it turned into an religious and political battle among all the Yahoo users.

Here is my opinion on all this. And the reason I’m posting here, instead of on Yahoo, is that it would have been quickly lost in the confusing muddle on Yahoo.

The story is sad. A long time coach loses his life by being shot by a former student. This should not have happened. The school should have had adequate security. Granted, since it was a former student he was probably not suspected of anything. Sadly the man was shot and killed. That is where the story should end and the discussion following should be about that.

But here is where I must point out the dumbing down of not only American but of Americans. The comments posted to this article quickly devolved into a ranting of Religious fanatics, God haters, God lovers, Obama bashers, Bush haters and a myriad of other things. What the Fuck! People talking about not having God, not knowing religion, too much religion, guns are bad, etc, etc. One guy said we were becoming a Pagan nation because we didn’t know Christ. What?

First I want to say to say that the Pagan beliefs trump all other modern religions as the Pagan beliefs came first. All modern religions have stolen what they believe in from these older beliefs and modified them to their own ends. Please people. Do some research, read more and make yourself more informed instead of following blindly and believe what other say to you. Find it out for yourselves. Read about it. Make your own informed decisions. Nothing frustrates me more than someone talking about something they really have no idea about because they are just repeating what has been said to them instead of researching it firsthand. Yes the Country was founded by God fearing, religious individuals, but the Constitution upholds and protects our individual rights to believe what we want as long as we follow the rules.

Second about guns being bad because they kill people. This is not true. Guns do not fly through the air and kill anyone they feel like. People kill people. It’s been this way for thousands of years even before guns. If someone wants to kill someone else bad enough they will use anything they can get their hands on to do it. Be it a gun, knife, arrow, piece of glass, even a pencil!! So it’s not the guns fault. Its he persons fault. Do not ban guns because of bad reasoning. We were founding withe the belief in the “Right to bear arms”. I still believe this.

Third. Making this political? Now this is just plain idiotic. There is nothing political about this article. I don’t care if you are Repulican or Democrat or who you voted for. This article was not about politics but of someone getting killed. You want to talk the Economy, Bail outs, the wars, then yes that is political. But this story was not.

Damn! I have such a headache now. My ranting is over for now. But I’m sure it will get sparked up again by the next set of stupid, uneducated comments that I see people post all the time. Peace out!

Police in Indianapolis charged Fifth Third Bank manager Dwayne Roberts, 31, with arson and theft after the failure of his scheme to cover up embezzlement. Police said that Roberts elaborately staged a fire inside a locked vault so that an undeterminable amount of money would burn up, thus perhaps covering his cash shortage. However, after Roberts had set the fire and locked the vault, he realized he had left his keys inside and could not re-open the vault or lock the bank’s doors or drive home. [Indianapolis Star, 5-12-09]

Donny Guy, 31, was arrested in Hickory, N.C., in May and charged with burglary of the Captain’s Galley Seafood restaurant in a caper caught on surveillance video. Guy was immediately a suspect because he lives in an apartment about 50 yards from the restaurant, and there were two paper trails from the restaurant almost to his front door. The video revealed that, in carrying away the two cash registers in the dark, the burglar failed to notice that the spools of paper in each machine had snagged on something in the restaurant and were unraveling with each step he took. [Hickory Daily Record, 5-16-09]

First-time bank robber (according to police) Jason Durant, 32, reported to the hospital in New Milford, Conn., shortly after knocking off the National Iron Bank in April. As he fled the crime scene, he accidentally tumbled down a steep hill behind the bank, losing control of his stash, and his gun, during the fall. He broke his leg in several places (saying later that he heard snapping sounds). At the bottom of the hill, he crashed into a plow blade, slashing himself before dragging his bleeding, broken body to his getaway car (with only $2 left from the robbery). Suspicious hospital staff members notified police. [Republican-American (Waterbury, Conn.), 4-30-09]

George Carlin. One of the great comedians of all time. Always came up with best comments anywhere. Here are few of my favorites.

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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
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I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
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I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.
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I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.
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I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

A girl came skipping home from school one day. “Mommy, Mommy,” she
yelled.”we were counting today, and all the other kids could only count to
four, but I counted to 10. See? 1,2,3,4,5,6, 7,8,9,10!”
“Very good,” said her mother.
“Is it because I’m blonde, Mommy?”
“Yes, it’s because you’re blonde,” her mother replied.
The next day, the girl came skipping home from school. “Mommy, Mommy,” she
yelled, “we were saying the alphabet today, and all the other kids could
only say it to D, but I said it to G. See? A, B, C, D, E, F, G!”
“Very good,” said her mother.
“Is it because I’m blonde, Mommy?”
“Yes, pumpkin, it’s because you’re blonde.”
The next day the girl came skipping home from school. “Mommy, Mommy,” she
yelled, “we were in gym class today, and when we showered, all the other
girls had flat chests, but I have these!” And she lifted her tank top to
reveal a pair of 36Cs.
“Very good,” said her embarrassed mother.
“Is it because I’m blonde, mommy?”
“No …. it’s because you’re 25.”

An old Indian chief sat in his hut on the reservation, smoking a
ceremonial pipe and eyeing two US government officials sent to interview
him. “Chief Two Eagles,” asked one official, “You have observed the white
man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his material wealth. You’ve
seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.”
The chief nodded that it was so.
The official continued, “Considering all these events, in your
opinion,where did the white man go wrong?”
The chief stared at the government officials for over a minute and then
calmly replied, “When white man found the land,
Indians were running it.
No taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, women did all the work,
medicine man free, Indian man spent all day hunting and fishing, all night
having sex.”
Then the chief leaned back and smiled, “White man dumb to think he
could improve system like that!”

Dear Abby,

After I retired, I could really spend some time enjoying my favorite pastime — bass fishing. I got my own little fishing boat and tried to get my wife to join me, but she just never liked fishing.

Finally, one day at the Bait & Tackle Shop, I got to talking to Sam the shop owner who it turned out loves bass fishing as much as I do. We quickly became fishing buddies. As I said the wife doesn’t care about fishing she not only refuses to join us she always complains that I spend too much time fishing.

A few weeks ago we had the best fishing trip ever. Not only did I catch the most beautiful bass you’ve ever seen, only a few minutes later Sam must have caught his twin brother! So I took a picture of Sam holding up the two nice bass that we caught and showed the picture to the wife hoping that maybe she’d get interested. Instead she says she doesn’t want me to go fishing at all anymore!!

And she wants me to sell the boat!

I think she just doesn’t like to see me enjoying myself.

What would you do? Tell the wife to forget it and continue my hobby or quit fishing and sell the boat as she insists?

Thanks, A fisherman

PS I have enclosed the picture of Sam showing off the bass we caught.

BOOO!!!

When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in the Arizona desert for training.

One day a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question which his son translated for the NASA people: “What are these guys in the big suits doing?”

One of the astronauts replied that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed that information to the old Navajo, he got very excited and asked if it would be possible for the astronauts to deliver a message from him to the moon.

Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official who had been accompanying the astronauts said he would be delighted to do so and told one of his underlings to fetch a tape recorder. The recorder was set up and the microphone was handed to the old man. After his comment, which was surprising short, the NASA official asked the son for a translation of what his father had said. The son listened carefully to the recording, then laughed uproariously but declined to translate. Irritated, the NASA people took the tape to a nearby village and played it for other members of the tribe. They, too, laughed loud and long but also refused to offer a translation.

Finally, an official government translator was summoned to listen to the elder’s recorded words. After he, too, had a good laugh, he finally shared the old man’s words: “Watch out for these assholes. They have come to steal your land.”

1. Money isn’t made out of paper; it’s made out of cotton.

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself (eeww).

4. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

5. The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a “tittle”.

6. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

7. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

8. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo … no one knows why.

9. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

10. Every person has a unique tongue print (no licking at the scene of a crime!).

11. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

12. The ’spot’ on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

13. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

14. During the chariot scene in ‘Ben Hur’ a small red car can be seen in the distance.

15. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

16. Chocolate affects a dog’s heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

17. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
18. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

19. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

20. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

21. Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

22. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time ( … and multi-tasking was invented).

23. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

24. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

25. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

26. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

27. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

28. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

29. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

30. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar ( … good to know … ).

31. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completly useless).

32. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb (sign of a true civilized society … not).

33. American Airlines saved $40,000 in ‘87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

34. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

35. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It’s the same with apples! (guess what I’m buying on my next trip to the grocery store!)

36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

37. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

38. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

39. Back in the mid to late 80’s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator game.

40. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them (families taking long car rides should adopt this same policy).