My Uncle and Aunt gave us this sofa. It is pretty cool. We passed on the gesture and retired the futon to our friends they needed something for their TV room. Oh yeah, It is a sofa bed too. SWEET!
fullyclothed
Monday, February 28, 2005
Friday, February 25, 2005
Weekends couldn't come sooner
Well, Here it is Friday afternoon. Just a fe more minutes and I am outa here. Lots o' homework thisa weekend but other wise it will be pretty cool. AMy and I are celebrating 9 years on Monday. Technicaly it is Tuesday But hey, I took Monday off in addition to Tuesday morning. Maybe we will stay up late. Maybe even until midnight!
Man I am getting Old!
Man I am getting Old!
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Something we can all learn.
Story via UPI
By Robyn Dixon Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
For a panic-stricken baby hippo, lost and far from home, the sight of a wrinkly, rotund old male tortoise must have suggested something different: Are you my mother?
Owen the hippo sought refuge behind the tortoise one day just after Christmas, and weeks later here they are together, safe and warm on a lazy afternoon. Owen looks like a character in a children's book, his eyes closed as he snuggles in a mud puddle near a reptile 130 years his senior. He pricks up his Shrek-like ears at the slightest sound, opens his eyes and then dozes off again.
In the wild, hippos are sociable creatures who live in close-knit groups. But this bonding of mammal and reptile has surprised the experts.
The details of Owen's adventure are not entirely clear, but it seems to have begun when a group of hippos were swept from the river where they lived and into the sea, perhaps because of heavy December rains.
The hippos are thought to have made their way back home despite heavy seas caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the opposite side of the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26. But Owen somehow got separated.
Alone, he spent several days wallowing helplessly in the salt water before the Kenya Wildlife Service and local fishermen wrapped him in a fishing net, tied him up and put him in a truck to be taken away.
When he was set loose in Haller Park outside Mombasa in an enclosure with two giant tortoises and some bushbucks, he bolted to the tortoise named Mzee, or Old Man, and hid.
"When he arrived, he was completely exhausted and stressed. He got up and started staggering around a bit and then he went straight for the tortoise. We never expected something like this," said Sabine Baer, rehabilitation and ecosystems manager at Lafarge Eco Systems, which runs the wildlife park. "After all that being chased around by humans and all the noise and hassle, he must have been looking for protection.
"A mammal with a mammal, yes it happens. But reptiles and mammals, we haven't seen this," she said. "We were all quite amazed to see how fast it happened."
Separated not long after birth
Owen, thought to be about a year old, was partly weaned and living on milk and grass when he was separated from his mother. In the wild, hippo calves stay with their mothers until about 18 months of age, or until the next calf is born. Then they join a group of older calves.
Hippos often lie around in groups and rest their heads on one another.
Owen likes to rest his head on the giant tortoise. He licks Mzee and puts his mouth gently around the tortoise's head in what Baer said looks like a form of play. He spends most of the day with the tortoise.
"He walks behind the tortoise. He goes to sleep next to the tortoise," Baer said. "When he wants to go into the water, he nudges the tortoise and licks it as if to say, `Come on, let's go into the water,' walks off a little bit and then looks around and comes back to see if the tortoise understands.
"And when you go too close to the tortoise, he chases you away and defends it as his mother."
At 265 pounds, Owen is capable of inflicting significant damage. But he can't go back to a group of wild hippos. The males are very territorial and would kill him, Baer said.
He almost certainly would have died, too--from dehydration, exposure and hunger--had he remained in the sea, said Dr. Zahoor Kashmiri, a Kenyan wildlife veterinarian who attended the calf after his capture. "Hippos are freshwater animals and their whole physiology is adapted to freshwater," he said.
`Now he's nice and round'
As it was, the staff worried about Owen when he got to Haller, a converted quarry. He refused to eat for the first two days.
"He was quite thin when he came. He was this dull dark color," Baer said.
But the connection to Mzee the tortoise helped him adjust. Watching the two tortoises eat, the calf realized that the strange, dry brown stuff they ate was edible, even if it was different from what he was used to.
"Now he's nice and round. You can see the change in color. He's more of a brown-pink color, you know, hippo color," Baer said.
While Owen is clearly attached to the tortoise, it's more difficult to tell how much of the affection is reciprocated. Still, Mzee at least tolerates the hippo and does seek out attention from people.
Not only does Mzee, one of an Indian Ocean breed that can live as long as 200 years and is related to Galapagos Island tortoises, cuddle next to the warm-blooded hippo calf, but when Mzee sees Baer enter the enclosure, he strides up rapidly. Like a contented canine, he nudges her legs, waits for her to scratch the cool, wrinkly hide of his neck and pick off any ticks.
But the time comes for all young hippos to leave their mothers--real or imagined.
Park staff are planning to separate Owen from Mzee. At some point, they will move him in with a lonely 12-year-old female named Cleo and hope that the two will breed.
Owen probably will have to be lured into a crate and hoisted by crane into his new enclosure. At first, Mzee and the other tortoise will be moved with him, but the hope is that soon he'll forget his maternal figure. "Then we hope that he will focus on Cleo," Baer said.
By Robyn Dixon Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
For a panic-stricken baby hippo, lost and far from home, the sight of a wrinkly, rotund old male tortoise must have suggested something different: Are you my mother?
Owen the hippo sought refuge behind the tortoise one day just after Christmas, and weeks later here they are together, safe and warm on a lazy afternoon. Owen looks like a character in a children's book, his eyes closed as he snuggles in a mud puddle near a reptile 130 years his senior. He pricks up his Shrek-like ears at the slightest sound, opens his eyes and then dozes off again.
In the wild, hippos are sociable creatures who live in close-knit groups. But this bonding of mammal and reptile has surprised the experts.
The details of Owen's adventure are not entirely clear, but it seems to have begun when a group of hippos were swept from the river where they lived and into the sea, perhaps because of heavy December rains.
The hippos are thought to have made their way back home despite heavy seas caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the opposite side of the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26. But Owen somehow got separated.
Alone, he spent several days wallowing helplessly in the salt water before the Kenya Wildlife Service and local fishermen wrapped him in a fishing net, tied him up and put him in a truck to be taken away.
When he was set loose in Haller Park outside Mombasa in an enclosure with two giant tortoises and some bushbucks, he bolted to the tortoise named Mzee, or Old Man, and hid.
"When he arrived, he was completely exhausted and stressed. He got up and started staggering around a bit and then he went straight for the tortoise. We never expected something like this," said Sabine Baer, rehabilitation and ecosystems manager at Lafarge Eco Systems, which runs the wildlife park. "After all that being chased around by humans and all the noise and hassle, he must have been looking for protection.
"A mammal with a mammal, yes it happens. But reptiles and mammals, we haven't seen this," she said. "We were all quite amazed to see how fast it happened."
Separated not long after birth
Owen, thought to be about a year old, was partly weaned and living on milk and grass when he was separated from his mother. In the wild, hippo calves stay with their mothers until about 18 months of age, or until the next calf is born. Then they join a group of older calves.
Hippos often lie around in groups and rest their heads on one another.
Owen likes to rest his head on the giant tortoise. He licks Mzee and puts his mouth gently around the tortoise's head in what Baer said looks like a form of play. He spends most of the day with the tortoise.
"He walks behind the tortoise. He goes to sleep next to the tortoise," Baer said. "When he wants to go into the water, he nudges the tortoise and licks it as if to say, `Come on, let's go into the water,' walks off a little bit and then looks around and comes back to see if the tortoise understands.
"And when you go too close to the tortoise, he chases you away and defends it as his mother."
At 265 pounds, Owen is capable of inflicting significant damage. But he can't go back to a group of wild hippos. The males are very territorial and would kill him, Baer said.
He almost certainly would have died, too--from dehydration, exposure and hunger--had he remained in the sea, said Dr. Zahoor Kashmiri, a Kenyan wildlife veterinarian who attended the calf after his capture. "Hippos are freshwater animals and their whole physiology is adapted to freshwater," he said.
`Now he's nice and round'
As it was, the staff worried about Owen when he got to Haller, a converted quarry. He refused to eat for the first two days.
"He was quite thin when he came. He was this dull dark color," Baer said.
But the connection to Mzee the tortoise helped him adjust. Watching the two tortoises eat, the calf realized that the strange, dry brown stuff they ate was edible, even if it was different from what he was used to.
"Now he's nice and round. You can see the change in color. He's more of a brown-pink color, you know, hippo color," Baer said.
While Owen is clearly attached to the tortoise, it's more difficult to tell how much of the affection is reciprocated. Still, Mzee at least tolerates the hippo and does seek out attention from people.
Not only does Mzee, one of an Indian Ocean breed that can live as long as 200 years and is related to Galapagos Island tortoises, cuddle next to the warm-blooded hippo calf, but when Mzee sees Baer enter the enclosure, he strides up rapidly. Like a contented canine, he nudges her legs, waits for her to scratch the cool, wrinkly hide of his neck and pick off any ticks.
But the time comes for all young hippos to leave their mothers--real or imagined.
Park staff are planning to separate Owen from Mzee. At some point, they will move him in with a lonely 12-year-old female named Cleo and hope that the two will breed.
Owen probably will have to be lured into a crate and hoisted by crane into his new enclosure. At first, Mzee and the other tortoise will be moved with him, but the hope is that soon he'll forget his maternal figure. "Then we hope that he will focus on Cleo," Baer said.
sending him off with a blast
Look, we here at fullyclothed.com. do not advocate any forms of suicide or anything that resembles it. But man Do we dig people that go out with a bang! I mean check this out. Hunter lived a life that was fast and albeit questionable, he did what he wanted, lived how he wanted andunfortunately died the same. But I just dig this dude. In his last farewell to us here still on the planet, he wants to be sent off just like he lived quick and loud.
Dig it.
Sorry your gone, it would have been great if you had stuck around.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. --Hunter S. Thompson
CBC Arts: Hunter S. Thompson wanted to go out with a blast
Dig it.
Sorry your gone, it would have been great if you had stuck around.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. --Hunter S. Thompson
CBC Arts: Hunter S. Thompson wanted to go out with a blast
Monday, February 21, 2005
Quit botherin' me...
A lot of you (ok like 2 0r 3) have been asking for new pics of the kids. I will get them up soon. I will also have some recent pics of the house too. I am sorry that my rants and the like are not enough for you people. I guess you just like my kids.
See ya.
See ya.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
I have a cold and Jennifer Lopez Cancels European Tour what could be worse?
I have had a cold since friday. We went to the homeshow in Dayton on Saturday it only got worse. I missed work yesterday but am feeling better now. Work is going pretty well. I still like the job. School is kinda strange. My first assignment is due in class today and I think we have a midterm as well. I need to catch up. Hopefully I am not that far behind. The other class is going as good as an online class can I guess. Just kinda diggin it now. We have a baby on the way. It is getting close and I keep forgetting that it is in less than two months!
See Ya.
See Ya.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Add this to the previous comment.
"The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else."--Dubya 2005 state of the Union.
"We are in Iraq to achieve a result: A country that is democratic..."--Dubya 2005 State of the Union.
And they called Kerry a flip-flopper.
CNN.com - Transcript of State of the Union - Feb 3, 2005
"We are in Iraq to achieve a result: A country that is democratic..."--Dubya 2005 State of the Union.
And they called Kerry a flip-flopper.
CNN.com - Transcript of State of the Union - Feb 3, 2005
Ideological Imperialism?
"'I don't think anybody thinks that the unelected mullahs who run that regime are a good thing for the Iranian people and for the region,' "--Condi Rice
What about the people of Iran? Do they think that the unelected mullahs are a good thing? Do we have people knocking at our door asking us to liberate them? I am not saying that I think that unelected leaders are great or anything, I am so thankful for our elected leaders, not that I agree with them but I do get to fire people every few years if I want. However, many people do not want our system of government.
If they did, They would fight for it like we did and create one like it. Then maybe we can help them gain a voice. I am sure that there are people in Iran that feel oppressed. There are also many in the U.S. that feel the same way.
Take a look for a minute. 200 years ago, democracy was an Idea, a dream. Not everyone shares our dream. It may be the way of the future, but how long will the future last? History shows that there may not be the US brand of democracy forever. Many governments before us that were like us have fallen. We too may fall as well.
Are we beginning to impose our ideals on people that have not even asked for it? It did not work in Vietnam, It has not worked in Korea yet. WIll it work in Afghanistan,Iraq,Iran or anywhere else this cowboy leads us? I don't know. What I do know is that it will NOT work if we give it to them without their asking.
Perhaps by "anybody" she meant "anybody that matters" (i.e. dubya and the gang, big business, lobbyists, etc.)
Read the story:
ABC News: Rice: U.S. Attack on Iran Not on Agenda
What about the people of Iran? Do they think that the unelected mullahs are a good thing? Do we have people knocking at our door asking us to liberate them? I am not saying that I think that unelected leaders are great or anything, I am so thankful for our elected leaders, not that I agree with them but I do get to fire people every few years if I want. However, many people do not want our system of government.
If they did, They would fight for it like we did and create one like it. Then maybe we can help them gain a voice. I am sure that there are people in Iran that feel oppressed. There are also many in the U.S. that feel the same way.
Take a look for a minute. 200 years ago, democracy was an Idea, a dream. Not everyone shares our dream. It may be the way of the future, but how long will the future last? History shows that there may not be the US brand of democracy forever. Many governments before us that were like us have fallen. We too may fall as well.
Are we beginning to impose our ideals on people that have not even asked for it? It did not work in Vietnam, It has not worked in Korea yet. WIll it work in Afghanistan,Iraq,Iran or anywhere else this cowboy leads us? I don't know. What I do know is that it will NOT work if we give it to them without their asking.
Perhaps by "anybody" she meant "anybody that matters" (i.e. dubya and the gang, big business, lobbyists, etc.)
Read the story:
ABC News: Rice: U.S. Attack on Iran Not on Agenda
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Not much going on.
Went up in the attic last night to set the live trap. there was an outgoing tear in the screen. I patched it up, set the trap and no noise was heard all night. I went back up ther to check and the trap was still set. It looks like our friend was out when I set the trap. Sorry there will not be any squirrel pics for ya. At least not anytime soon. We are still getting settled in at the new crib. Now with nothing to do at the old place, we get to focus on the new place. I have class tonight and then tomorrow I will be free to help Amy. I plan to mud the ceiling in the bathroom this weekend maybe even tomorrow night.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
My Favorite painting ever is now available
A while ago (2002) the Museum of Art at BYU purchased a painting titled "Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda". I was excited to hear of this because at the time, it was one of the most spectacular things I had ever seen. I had only seen it in a movie in which it had very brief exposure. I was able to go out to Utah that summer for an education conference. The painting was on display in the museum.
It was one of the greatest, if not THE greatest work of art that I have ever seen. It was an experience that I will never forget. THe painting is fantastic. It stands what seems to be 10-15 feet tall. It is all encompassing. It truly is a grend masterpiece. I went to the museums website today to see if they had a picture of it just because i wanted to see it.
To my surprise I found that the bookstore of the Museum has prints of the great work for purchase. When I was there before, they had them to buy, but one had to buy the framing as well. It is now possible for one to buy the print alone.
I am, to say the least, excited and I certainly intend to buy a print to grace the walls of our humble home. Take a look for yourself, it is captivating.
A link to an article about the unveiling:
http://www.magazine.byu.edu/article.tpl?num=12-win02
A link to the art work itself:
http://cfac.byu.edu/moa/Shop_at_MOA/prints.php
ENJOY!
It was one of the greatest, if not THE greatest work of art that I have ever seen. It was an experience that I will never forget. THe painting is fantastic. It stands what seems to be 10-15 feet tall. It is all encompassing. It truly is a grend masterpiece. I went to the museums website today to see if they had a picture of it just because i wanted to see it.
To my surprise I found that the bookstore of the Museum has prints of the great work for purchase. When I was there before, they had them to buy, but one had to buy the framing as well. It is now possible for one to buy the print alone.
I am, to say the least, excited and I certainly intend to buy a print to grace the walls of our humble home. Take a look for yourself, it is captivating.
A link to an article about the unveiling:
http://www.magazine.byu.edu/article.tpl?num=12-win02
A link to the art work itself:
http://cfac.byu.edu/moa/Shop_at_MOA/prints.php
ENJOY!
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