So the latest question everyone seems to be raving out about is if the US government should bail out the automotive industry?

Well first of all I’d like to get your comments on this.

Now I’ll state my thoughts. I think it’s the worst idea ever conceived by human beings! Why would you pay the largest industry in the world to continue producing the worlds largest and most inefficient fleet of vehicles? What ever happened to free market?!

If the government is going to put money into the auto industry it should fund better technology. We are still using automotive technology from the late 18th century! The original Model-T from the early 1900’s

I’ve had a lot of people ask me which is better, so I thought I would write a review about my experience with both, then let you decide.

I first began using Blockbuster in mid 2007 shortly after moving into my own apartment. I didn’t have roommates any more, and thus I did not own a TV of my own. Neither did I want a TV because the allure to watch is usually to much for me, and very shortly I am reminded as to why I didn’t want to turn the blasted thing on in the first place!

This is usually about when the first Progressive Auto Insurance and Lending-Tree advertisements start to show up showing me brief flashes of satisfied customers or some guy shaving his head to be more “Progressive”, followed by another ad with some guy telling me to go to my doctor and ask about Cialis. Well this goes really well for me at the time when I didn’t have a doctor and no medical insurance… You do the math! And it gets worse for me when McDonald’s comes on telling me to go try their new flavor of Chicken Nuggets, and buy some new brand of Nike shoes cause my current pair is “obsolete” or “out of style”, followed by some advert asking me “What’s in your wallet?” or telling me that I MUST own the latest quick mop for getting those hard to reach places in my apartment that has only 2 hard floors in the kitchen and bathroom. Let me be the first to say that I only have 1…count them ONE, hard to reach place, and that’s behind the toilet, why again should I get in my car, spend gas to go

Not everyone is aware of the recent accident in Huntsville Alabama but they should be! A bicyclist pedestrian was hit by a driver of an SUV who was distracted. This situation should never have happened indeed it is unacceptable. To think that a person could hop on their bicycle and go for a ride thus ending up dead thanks to some person playing <insert distracting device/event here> while driving is reflective on the deplorable situation here in Huntsville, not to mention the complete lack of planning and leadership from the city of Huntsville. (Speaking of the total safety feeling one gets while riding a bicycle down roads such as

There are a lot of people claiming that HHO is a complete scam, and there are a lot of people who claim to give mathmatical evidence as to why it cannot work, and they usually go on about how you can’t get something for nothing, how nothing is free and no such thing as a free lunch. On and on they go!

On the other hand there are a lot of people who claim it has worked for them and that

All these parents are not complaining about the dangers at the air show, and how things were not properly handled. While I

More to come on HHO gas later,

Yesterday I went by our local bike shop just walking distance from my office and looked at the bikes they have for sale and I found one I liked. So I rode my old new bike back to Walmart and returned it. Thankfully the customer service lady did give me a full refund, she better have after all that went so totally wrong with that thing in just 2 days! The lady in line behind me laughed because it was so new the tag was still on it. Then I walked back to the other bike shop and they had me test ride the bike I had picked out and I liked it. When I was done testing it out, one guy said there was another one in the back corner with the same set of features, including a few extra features and also more built for my size. So I test road that one, and they said it was still a little small, but I fell in love with it immediately! So that was the bike I purchased. In the last two days I’ve grown to love it even more! It is such a joy to ride. The bike is a Scott mountain bike with some road bike cross-over features since I’ll be using it to commute to and from work every day.

Today I took the bike in and had some extra stuff installed on the bike. They did it for FREE!!! I didn’t even know they would do that! SOOO AMAZING! So if you live in the Huntsville Area, and you are looking for bike, I can definately say Madison Cycles is THE PLACE to go! Who says there isn’t such a thing as FREE energy?! If I can get to and from work without having to put gas in my tank, then I call that free energy!

www.madisoncycles.com

Thanks! You guys ROCK!!!

Cheers

Seth

Last week I thought I’d buy a bicycle so I can start to ride to work rather then drive and spend more on gas. So I shopped around and the nearest bike shop had their cheepest bike on sale for $400. I thought that was a bit high for a bicycle so I went to Walmart and looked around. Their best bike was about $200, so I got it since it was better then any bike I’ve ever had in the past! Disk breaks, suspension. A few days later we had a massive rain storm and on my way home I thought if I’m going to ride my bike to and from work, a rain coat might be a good idea. So I got one at Walmart on my way home. When I got home I realised that I accedently left my bag of Doritos that I paid for at the store. So I thought, hey what a great chance to test out my new bike and make sure I can get to work in the rain since Walmart isn’t far from my office, just across the street almost. So I changed into exercise cloths, threw on my rain coat, grabbed my water proof backpack and jumped on my bike. I rode my bike towards my work, and discovered that the only way to get from the new housing development to our corporate campus was to cross a dirt field that has a dirt road running through it. In the rain this dirt road became a pit of mucky RED Alamaba Clay! I got across to our campus but not before becoming soaked in red mud head to toe. Fortunately the rain coat kept the mud off my exericse cloths. When I reached Walmart I had to chain my bike up and stamp the mud from my shoes as much as possible. I went in and got MY Doritos. Put them in my backpack and got back to my bike. On my way back to my place, I tried to race through a yellow light on my bike and pulled a muscel in my back. That was painful! By the time I reached the mud pit again the handle bars on the bike where loose, so loose I could barely control the thing. The mud only made this worse! I got across again and back to my place at which point I had to completely hose off with a garden hose, the bike and myself completely! Finally I changed into some dry cloths and sat down to enjoy MY Doritos! Sound the Feasting Horn!

The next day I went for another ride to Walmart, after the mud had dried and tightening the handle bars. At this point I discovered that the shifter wasn’t working and the gears would jam. Also the front disk breaks are completely gone, and the mud shield had come partly off, even though there wasn’t much mud on it to begin with. Most of the mud ended up on the tires and not on the shield! This is Alabama clay we are talking about after all. The lesson is, don’t waste your money on a Walmart Bike, no matter how nice it looks!

Cheers

Seth

I’ve heard a lot about unemployment lately in the news so I thought I would do a series of posts about the cost of living and job searching since I’ve been doing it for a number of years now almost continously, I feel I have a pretty fresh idea on how to make it work.

That said I have only just recently landed my dream job, and doing it in this job market, I believe is a testament that speaks louder then any words about just how well I’ve managed to adapt.

Ok so you’ve lost your job, been laid off, or had your hours cut below 5 hours a week. Believe me I’ve been there! If you don’t believe me maybe you should have a look around on my site and see for yourself in some of my photo galleries.

First things first. Cut all your non-essential expenses. This means Cable TV, home phone, extra features on your cell phone (e-mail, extra minutes, internet, vision, etc…), stop using your Air Conditioning so much!, any habbits such as Saturday night DVD rentals or theater runs, cut back on everything that is absolutely non-essential to searching for a job. You may have to cancel some doctors visits unless it’s vital medical issue. Stop going for pedicure’s, manicure’s, and minimize your shopping down to almost nothing, also only a haircut when it is really necessary only. This means no more frequent trips to the hair shop for highlights and all the extra treatment junk. You should be able to maintain a professional appearance without all these extra expensive treatments. (Lets face it, you have minimal to no income! Gas prices are shooting up faster then the Space Shuttle! You need to be real about your situation!!!)

Essential elements for a job search are the following, A cell phone (You need to take every single call, no matter who it is or what the caller ID says! Any time day or night!) You still need car insurance, renters insurance, and high speed internet (for online job applications), food to maintain yourself in reasonable health, basic cosmetics to look professional on a moments notice when that interview does get setup, a good functional car to get you to interviews on time in your local area, and gas in your car so you don’t have to stop for gas and fillup before an interview, and most important of all, a nicely pressed clean professional suite and tie or business suite for women with a knee length dress. It will also help if you can have a classy looking leather organizer to hold resumes and papers that your interview will give you, as well to hold example work from previous jobs. These organizers are cheep and can often be found as

I couldn’t help but write a response to the top story this morning on CNN.com

More here:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/30/brazil.tribes/index.html

Apparently this article describes how these people have never had any contact with the outside world. The article goes on to state, “Its director, Stephen Cory, said the new photographs highlight the need to protect uncontacted people from intrusion by the outside world.”

But what I don’t get is what are we protecting them from? Starbucks and birth control pills? The last I check the modern world has a lot more innovations that make life a heck of a lot nicer not to mention life spans MUCH longer by removing problems such as Malaria, Colera, Yellow Fever not to mention cutting back on the mortality rates from the Flu, TB, Measles, and Pnumonia. So I ask again what is it that we are saving them from? Electricity, fresh drinking water? Or is it polution and over population that we are saving them from. If that is the case then why don’t we all go native and strip naked to go back to living in caves with leather straps for clothing and pick berries from the bushes.

What really bothers me is the following quoted statement in the article, “Cory said in a statement. “The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct.” ”

Let me make this perfectly clear! These are HUMAN BEINGS! These are NOT some species of panda or tiger! What would be extint here is the mind-set of sub-human culture older then the 3rd world. What becomes extint is the cave-man social civilization, if it can be called that. More to the point what is lost is the attachement to pre-science understanding of the world in which we live and with it a measure of the superstitions that accompany a narrow world view such as a flat Earth, Earth centric universe, or dare I say it, a Sun centered universe. Maybe people should be focusing their energy more or “Protecting” HUMANS from the Moon Landings Hoax and inspire our kids to go into fields of science, math, physics and chemistry and challenge them selves for grades better then a C-minus.

Just some food for thought!

Seth