21.5.15

get the water ... and the lever

b1-67er: <pic attached>
latest bonsai project.  was over 10 feet tall.

b1-66er: I don't know how to break this to you ... horticulture is not mechanical engineering.

12.5.15

the calm before the norm

b1-66er: good article.  I'm dreading HC as our next prez ... which I'm fairly certain is going to happen.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2015/04/30/why-hillary-clinton-lacks-credibility-on-criminal-justice-reform/

entropy dave: I'm not happy about it either.  I think she is fundamentally not oriented toward honesty; and she doesn't stand for anything but herself.

7.5.15

¿where's my piñata sick?

b1-66er: I get on the terminal shuttle at DIA, and what's the VERY FIRST THING I hear over the PA?  fredrico pena welcoming me to Denver ... ¡ño!
my old roommate Tom's glad he's dead.

b1-67er: really? Fedrico Pena?

6: seriously.  and the announcement was truly putrid .... hello, this is fredrico pena (saying only the christian name in that super-cool spanish accented way, but the rest with heavy american accent), I was the mayor of Denver and it was my idea to build this awesome airport 40 years ago.  I'm awesome.  the airport's awesome.  I won't mention that it was done without voter approval, and the baggage system is in rusting mothballs beneath your feet.
WELCOME TO DENVER!
oh, and did i mention I'm awesome?

7: what is, after all, a two billion $ overrun in the scope of a $2 billion dollar project?  apparently credentials to be secretary of transportation.

6: and it so much more awesome-r than that crappy stapleton blocking traffic in the middle of the city.  what?  are we gonna use the border territory of the Rocky mountain arsenal for SOMETHING ELSE?  (and they have awesome trout out here, by the way.  we use a modern ecological approach with them: bathe in toxin, no catch, never worry about release.)

6.5.15

the big guns, son

b1-66er: TSA @LAS.  two black guys, blinged out ... but in T-shirts.  carrying SIGNIFICANT amounts of cash.  that's at least $50K in bricks.

the techno mercenary: Rad. I often travel with a $10k bundle of freshly printed $100 bills, just in case shit goes sideways. I also travel with a battle rifle, a half dozen loaded 30 round mags and a couple of pistols and their magazines. But I never do any of that while black! I wonder what those guys deal is? Did they get bu sted? Because unless they are traveling internationally there is zero reason for them to even be compelled to disclose unless it's $10K or greater.

b1: pure guess, but the fight wad last weekend.  probably fight/gambling related.  they clearly thought it was funny to have the bricks out.
I think, but don't know, that they passed bags through the belt and had to pull the bundles out.
they didn't seem bad ass -more like characters in a B rap video- but they certainly seemed "bad enough."  they weren't 'concerned' that they had to flash it.

TM: Oh yeah I totally spaced out the big fight was last weekend... Duh! Yeah they were high rollin