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the travails (and tall tales) of el Craplastico

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September 15, 2007

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This is a phalanx

Good friends hosted movie night in their garage turned theatre with the full complement of treats and we watched 300, a movie I knew nothing about. The flick features a stylized account of a historical period I breezed through sometime in the 10th or 11th grade.

Apparently, once upon a time (480 or so BC), the Persian emperor Xerxes tried to take Greece but fell into hard times in Sparta when Leonidas and 300 of his elite soldiers held off countless warriors until reinforcements could arrive.

The movie is about that Battle of Thermopylae.

For me it was one of those flicks that time-machined me in and I appreciated the moment of escape! The battle scenes were stunning as the soldiers worked together in synchronous unison to defend their land. The 300 were as one. When they died, they all died together. That's not the ending though so I didn't give it away.

September 12, 2007

33¾

Beware: the Dominoes Oreo Pizza

September 11, 2007

Whoa!

This is amazing news.....I think!

ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.


I will drive down to the wharf tonight and blast some classic rock as I pour the ocean into the LE6G...and I will save the planet too!