richard dean anderson (aka "macgyver") in the 70s rockin out! i love this man even more...
Showing posts with label macgyver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label macgyver. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday, September 26, 2008
macgyver, money & my life...
so yesterday after getting off work & fake rapping my lil heart out to "vans" i blew off a cbc happy hour i rsvp'd for and went home sweet home. to complete the compliment i got that am i received another one as i walked from metro to bobbi brown (my car). like 93% of compliments i get it was in 1 ear & out the other b/c i was tired...
once home i thought about working out, but decided to eat dinner 1st then relax for a little then run (bad idea)... after eating i realized the satellite signal was down so none of my channels worked (darn you comcast)! i was going to watch smoe's shin shan dvds but decided to watch my fav series: macgyver! as i'm trying to savor every second of viewing pleasure, i've been going uber slow through my macgyver seasons. i'm on season 3 rite now. last nite i had the pleasure of watching episode #55 entitled "kill zone". it started off great, b/c richard dean anderson (actor who plays mac) was in the opening scene!
as it unfolded i realized the episode took it's inspiration from the movie andromeda strain. the only reason i know that is b/c i just happened to see the movie over the weekend on demand... proof again that mac & i were meant to be! just think if i hadn't seen the movie i wouldn't have seen the many similarities in the episode, which made it even more enjoyable :) ok i digress from my nerdiness
so i'm still trying to wrap my head around this financial crisis situation we're in... this am i was reading my time in the gym & they did an awesome job in succinctly explaining what's going on. with this being said, if taxpayers are paying for wall street's excesses, think we need something other than a promise that we're keeping america strong... how about a holiday? to mark the day the hard working, everyday folks bailed companies out??... ok maybe that's not the most logical thing, but i just like getting days off :)
b/c i woke up uber early to work out i also had a chance to read some usaa booklet i got in the mail yesterday. in it they did a spread about myth busters, such as do owners of red cars pay higher insurance (no, not based on color, but if you have a little red corvette yes b/c it's a more expensive car); if you rent does the landlord cover your stuff if something happens to it (nope, but apparently renter's insurance is cheap, etc). one question was "i'm young, healthy, do i really have to worry about life insurance"... that caught my eye b/c it sounded like me. the response was "honestly, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. who will be available to cover your funeral costs" it was advised that the earlier you look into life insurance the better, as it gets more expensive in time. good to know as me dying wasn't even on my radar, point noted usaa...
songs of the day
thom yorke: eraser; i already knew radiohead was great, but thanks to my bro i discovered (late) the lead singer's solo efforts were good stuff too!
child rebel soldier (crs): us placers; awesome song & very cute video! also a pretty good verse from pharrell
once home i thought about working out, but decided to eat dinner 1st then relax for a little then run (bad idea)... after eating i realized the satellite signal was down so none of my channels worked (darn you comcast)! i was going to watch smoe's shin shan dvds but decided to watch my fav series: macgyver! as i'm trying to savor every second of viewing pleasure, i've been going uber slow through my macgyver seasons. i'm on season 3 rite now. last nite i had the pleasure of watching episode #55 entitled "kill zone". it started off great, b/c richard dean anderson (actor who plays mac) was in the opening scene!
as it unfolded i realized the episode took it's inspiration from the movie andromeda strain. the only reason i know that is b/c i just happened to see the movie over the weekend on demand... proof again that mac & i were meant to be! just think if i hadn't seen the movie i wouldn't have seen the many similarities in the episode, which made it even more enjoyable :) ok i digress from my nerdiness
so i'm still trying to wrap my head around this financial crisis situation we're in... this am i was reading my time in the gym & they did an awesome job in succinctly explaining what's going on. with this being said, if taxpayers are paying for wall street's excesses, think we need something other than a promise that we're keeping america strong... how about a holiday? to mark the day the hard working, everyday folks bailed companies out??... ok maybe that's not the most logical thing, but i just like getting days off :)
b/c i woke up uber early to work out i also had a chance to read some usaa booklet i got in the mail yesterday. in it they did a spread about myth busters, such as do owners of red cars pay higher insurance (no, not based on color, but if you have a little red corvette yes b/c it's a more expensive car); if you rent does the landlord cover your stuff if something happens to it (nope, but apparently renter's insurance is cheap, etc). one question was "i'm young, healthy, do i really have to worry about life insurance"... that caught my eye b/c it sounded like me. the response was "honestly, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow. who will be available to cover your funeral costs" it was advised that the earlier you look into life insurance the better, as it gets more expensive in time. good to know as me dying wasn't even on my radar, point noted usaa...
songs of the day
thom yorke: eraser; i already knew radiohead was great, but thanks to my bro i discovered (late) the lead singer's solo efforts were good stuff too!
child rebel soldier (crs): us placers; awesome song & very cute video! also a pretty good verse from pharrell
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
do guns kill people or people kill people??
very sad to hear about the shooting at the finnish school this am... apparently the 22-yr old made a you tube video last week saying "you die next". police took him in & interviewed him yesterday but let him go b/c they didn't have enough evidence to revoke his licence.
i'm already weary of people's bad intentions b/c of the bad stuff that's been going on in the dmv (dc, md, va for you slowskis), so this def doesn't quell those subtle paranoias! why can't folks "shoot" for A’s & B’s in school, instead of fellow students?… still have not come to a conclusion about the proverbial question, not the chicken and the road 1, no no not if the egg or the chicken came first, not if macgyver or chuch norris is better (though chuck norris is amazing, macgyver hands down)... but if people kill people or if guns kill people...
FINLAND'S GUN CULTURE
- 1.6m firearms in private hands
- Only the US and Yemen have higher civilian gun ownership
- All gun owners are required to have a licence
- Minimum age for buying a gun is 15
- About 14% of homicides in Finland are gun-related
this & full article can be seen here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7630969.stm
i'm already weary of people's bad intentions b/c of the bad stuff that's been going on in the dmv (dc, md, va for you slowskis), so this def doesn't quell those subtle paranoias! why can't folks "shoot" for A’s & B’s in school, instead of fellow students?… still have not come to a conclusion about the proverbial question, not the chicken and the road 1, no no not if the egg or the chicken came first, not if macgyver or chuch norris is better (though chuck norris is amazing, macgyver hands down)... but if people kill people or if guns kill people...
FINLAND'S GUN CULTURE
- 1.6m firearms in private hands
- Only the US and Yemen have higher civilian gun ownership
- All gun owners are required to have a licence
- Minimum age for buying a gun is 15
- About 14% of homicides in Finland are gun-related
this & full article can be seen here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7630969.stm
Saturday, September 20, 2008
A's, B's, C's!
A - army 10-miler... so i'm running the army 10-miler again this year, so i'm really excited!!! i'm so excited i haven't been training as well as i should :) i'm trying to watch my consumption though, i cut out all alcohol & minimized my sweets but i seriously should stop playing around & hit the track!
last year (i trained more) ran it w/ 1 of mi hermanos & mi papa. this year's special b/c my dad (claims) this is going to be his last 10-miler b/c his body isn't what it used to be and he needs to take it easy on his long races. the man's been running the army 10-miler since 1991 (not 2001 b/c the race was canceled)... after questioning him several times about ending his 10-miler days, he finally admitted that he's "going to see how this race goes" and "not going to make any public statements until after the race". i swear he literally said public statements, as if he's going to hold a press conference! ha!
B - board meetings... 3 times a year it's board meeting time and it never fails every time i'm always nervous pervis! thursday am we had our fall board meeting and of course i was stressing about it all week, but it went well, they're great folks, very pleasant and really appreciate the work we do. now that that's over i'll be stress free until, say, dec 10th (the next meeting)!
C - channels... ok, i'm a fan of thrifting (shopping at vintage stores & consignment boutiques), huge fan of music, but not that hot on tv. there's nothing wrong w/ watching tv, but ever since the wire went off the air nothing excites me as much...except the news (i love anything on msnbc and/or bbc world news, actually cspans great too) & cartoons (from cartoon network to nick to pbs kids, it's all good)... i say all this to say i have a satellite so clearly have over 500 channels! this is a bit much for me as i'm sure i watch the same 5 channels! comcast should offer some prorated price that's determined by your activity (i.e. if you don't use all your channels, if you never utilize on demand, rent movies you shouldn't pay the fixed amount) i know this'll never be, but can't a girl dream??
last year (i trained more) ran it w/ 1 of mi hermanos & mi papa. this year's special b/c my dad (claims) this is going to be his last 10-miler b/c his body isn't what it used to be and he needs to take it easy on his long races. the man's been running the army 10-miler since 1991 (not 2001 b/c the race was canceled)... after questioning him several times about ending his 10-miler days, he finally admitted that he's "going to see how this race goes" and "not going to make any public statements until after the race". i swear he literally said public statements, as if he's going to hold a press conference! ha!
B - board meetings... 3 times a year it's board meeting time and it never fails every time i'm always nervous pervis! thursday am we had our fall board meeting and of course i was stressing about it all week, but it went well, they're great folks, very pleasant and really appreciate the work we do. now that that's over i'll be stress free until, say, dec 10th (the next meeting)!
C - channels... ok, i'm a fan of thrifting (shopping at vintage stores & consignment boutiques), huge fan of music, but not that hot on tv. there's nothing wrong w/ watching tv, but ever since the wire went off the air nothing excites me as much...except the news (i love anything on msnbc and/or bbc world news, actually cspans great too) & cartoons (from cartoon network to nick to pbs kids, it's all good)... i say all this to say i have a satellite so clearly have over 500 channels! this is a bit much for me as i'm sure i watch the same 5 channels! comcast should offer some prorated price that's determined by your activity (i.e. if you don't use all your channels, if you never utilize on demand, rent movies you shouldn't pay the fixed amount) i know this'll never be, but can't a girl dream??
with all this said, i've discovered 2 great channels: the discovery & history channel. i think i'm going to incorporate the history channel into my saturday routine. last saturday i was watching a show about ancient wonders of the world & almost didn't get out of bed to go volunteer, when i came home i was glued to the tv learning how winged animals were evolved & early life of neanderthals! i'm actually watching it now & learning about the history of the hot dog (as a semi vegetarian i'm kinda disgusted). discovery channel is also amazing b/c they have man vs wild (i like bear's accent), how it's made & myth busters (omg they did a 2-part episode about macgyver myths & i was glued to the screen)...ok enough blogging for now, i'm off to watch tv :)
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