Everglades Pythons win. Get your alligator hunting permit here.

You big bunch of sissy Rambo's!

Do you know how many pythons were successfully hunted this past year?

Zero!...Nada!....None!

WTF!

You couldn't catch a python if it slithered out your big wazoo!

All mouth and no python boots for you!

Well my chaps, 

for I know what you wearing,

Redemption time is neigh!

Florida Gator Hunting  permits go on sale June 3!

The alligator hunting season runs 11 consecutive weeks from Aug. 15 through Nov. 1.

Approximately 6,000 alligator harvest permits will be available.

Winners will be selected in a random drawing.

All those seeking a harvest permit must be at least 18 years old by Aug. 15. 

A permit allows the harvest of two alligators on a designated area.

Successful applicants must pay for an alligator trapping license and two alligator harvest tags, or provide proof of a valid alligator trapping license (must be valid through Nov. 1) and pay the fee for two harvest tags. No other hunting licenses are required. 

The cost for a resident alligator trapping license and alligator harvest tags is $271.50, and nonresidents pay $1,021.50. 

The cost for each additional alligator hunting permit is $61.50, regardless of residency. 

The FWC offers a no-cost, three-hour training and orientation program in July and August at various locations throughout the state. Permit holders will receive, by mail, permit packages listing dates and locations.

Lets see if you mighty hunters can pull this hunt off?

I need new gator boots!

Steve

Arizona, Home of the Fourth Reich Nazi Republicans

WTF!! Where did my America go? 

I remember the days of The Andy Griffin Show.

Now we have states talking succession, raising armies and now this crap from den demokratischen Staat Arizona. The capital, Buchenwald, former known as Phoenix, has issued new decrees for the non politicians of the state.

The law requires state and local police to determine the status of people and to arrest people who are unable to provide documentation.

"May I see your passport, please?"  Firesign Theater 

Soon other Far right states will adopt the same tactic employed by Arizona. A big "Yee....Haw" goes up in Texas and South Carolina will praise the Lord as the lord has praised them with tax free money and "Bitches".

Indians will file suit in den Demokratis Peoples Courts and the United States Supreme Court to allow Indians these same rights. Watch out Whitey!

I am sure that there is other pearls of shit buried in this bill and though these pearl may gleam for a few bigots who couldn't go a week working and living like the minimum wage scum they do not represent. These pearls stink of pure shit to the thinking people of this country.

Time to stop thinking and time to start doing?

I don't mean the right wing "grab a gun" approach.

Everyone should decry this and other atrocities the Right Wing Tea Party Republican Biggots. Made up of 99% lard-butter honkies. Call them out! Shout out their names! 

Write, blog, Letters to the editor and by a voice that can be heard by the apathetic!

WTF? These shit heads are not who my father fought in a war to protect us from.

Steve

Self Cleaning Brain Cells of Slacker Florida Teachers

"Because you can't, that's why!"

Remember back in the day, There was only so much knowledge that we had to learn and that was it, nothing much more to learn. If you do remember those days then you are most likely not reading this because you are afraid the InterWebNet will give you herpes.

In our lifetimes, we have seen the future become the past faster than we ever could imagined. The growth in academic publications is up 71.54% with a doubling time of 1.28 years, and for patent applications, filings are up 71.37% with a doubling time of 1.29 years.Knowledge now doubles itself every 15 months! WTF!!!

I remember my fathers grand parents telling me stories of living in a cabin. Shooting deer and turkeys out of the one and only window. The homestead was near 16 Mile (Big Beaver) Road. The 16 mile trip to the big town of Detroit would take them two days to make though it could be done in a day in an emergency. Their entire life was lived in a 20 mile radius. Never had a TV, washer / dryer or a hot water tank. A dentist for gramps was pliers to pull and chewing tobacco to staunch the blood flow. All done while sitting in the rocker on the front porch.

Great grandfathers only car was one he won in a radio contest. It was delivered, he tried it and the controls were not the same as was on a tractor. The car lasted 43.6 seconds.

My mothers grand parents had the first indoor bathroom and phone in their county. They were extremely progressive people.

My "Wonder Bread Years" was the Leave it to Beaver era, not to be confused in my later  beaver hunting era. A simple and happy time, except for the ever present threat of total global nuclear annihilation. The general public was taught not to think, to not ask questions of authority. Bliss.

In my lifetime, we have done what was once called impossible, too technically advanced or not even yet dreamed of as a possibility. And applications of these technologies is a whole new snowball of businesses rolling down the hill.  Nanotechnology is yesterday's plastics, Joe.

Thought is like many sided, rotating Rubik cube. Ever spinning in your head till they come together and a spark of a idea is emitted. Do you have any thoughts?

The internet helps. It can feed your mind with different cultures and ideas. I Posted two blog, one about liquid glass and the other about artificial spider hair surfaces. Did you read those yet? Why not, slacker? Go read them now! The rest of us will wait through you inconsideration. 

While they are catching up on reading, let me digress. With the growth of knowledge coming so rapidly, the teachers are out of touch on the subject unless they continually study and you know human nature, slackers, "I learned everything in college. I don't need to know more." That is too...too bad because you are a slacker. You are out of date, the people you are practicing teaching on may know more than you. So you are a teacher, the best this country has? I can't fathom the self importance these slackers have. The few good teachers are driven into private service leaving you behind to fill the void. And in Florida, teachers are not paid by results. WTF! I wish I had a job like that!

Ok....Thanks for taking the time to read my blogs.

What did you get out of those two articles? There maybe a thousand answers, a thousand careers. Perhaps you could combine the two technologies. An article covered by the two idea could make protected surfaces that clean themselves from a rain. 

Surrounded by mediocrity,

Steve

Cosmic Toyota or The Ghost in the Machine?

"The Mystery Man came over
An' he said: "I'm outa-site!"
He said, for a nominal service charge,
I could reach nervonna t'nite."

              

Detroit Free Press

Federal regulators are studying whether sudden acceleration in Toyota's is linked to cosmic rays. Half of more than 1,500 recent complaints to regulators involve other models, raising questions whether Toyota has fixed its problem.

Radiation from space long has affected airplanes and spacecraft, and is known for triggering errors in computer systems, but has received scant attention in the auto industry.

"Look here brother, who you jiving with that cosmic debris?"

Or is the problem caused by The Ghost in the machine?

Defined as the unknown cause of malfunction or unexplainable abnormal behavior of a machine or computer.

An anonymous tipster whose complaint prompted regulators to look at the issue wrote that the design of Toyota's microprocessors, memory chips and software could make them more vulnerable than those of other automakers. Some researchers echo the concern, saying the possibility deserves a closer look.

Toyota, the industry leader in using electronic controls, claims that its engine controls are "robust against this type of interference." Such radiation occurs virtually anywhere.

Electronics makers have known for decades about "single event upsets" (SEUs) — computer errors from radiation created when cosmic rays strike the atmosphere, such radiation occurs virtually anywhere. Yet, the tipster last month told the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) that "the automotive industry has yet to truly anticipate SEUs."

The phenomenon can trigger software crashes that leave no trace. Unlike radio-wave interference, there's no way to physically block particles; such errors typically have to be prevented by a combination of software and hardware design.


Electronic throttle controls such as the ones under scrutiny in Toyota's are widespread in the industry. They're more reliable than mechanical links; they save weight and space; and they make other technology, such as stability control, possible.
Toyota staunchly defends its electronics, saying they were designed for "absolute reliability." The automaker said its systems "are not the same as typical consumer electronics. The durability, size, susceptibility and specifications of the automotive electronics make them robust against this type of interference.

 

WTF?! What kind of science is this? Cosmic particles pass through the planet. Even Mr. Toyoda's lead lined sack can not stop them!

Testing for the problem would involve putting vehicles in front of a particle accelerator and showering them with radiation, a step that experts said would help resolve the question.  Listening MR Toyoda?

"The Mystery Man got nervous
An' he fidget around a bit.
He reached in the pocket of his Mystery Robe
An' he whipped out a shaving kit!"
A minuscule portion of cosmic radiation falls to Earth. It's not enough to harm humans, but the risk of errors has grown as circuits in computers and cellphones on the ground have shrunk to the width of several dozen atoms.

And why will Toyota not release the data from their on-board event data recorders?  

"Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"

                   Frank Zappa  

and Steve

Obama Begins to Destroy 50 Cities to Appease Environmentalists!

  
Obama and the Central Government plan on taking your home and business, destroying it and everything you have worked for just to make some tree huggers happy. While planing to cut 40% of the population! WTF!

It seems virtually everyone—from Wall Street bankers to ... business owners—has been affected by the economic downturn. Now, the recession’s latest victims may be American cities. The Obama administration is reportedly ... plans to raze ... 50 economically depressed US cities, condensing these towns’ shrinking populations and city services to smaller areas. The plan, dubbed “shrink to survive,” may seem kooky, but it could be big news for environmentalists: In many cases, bulldozed districts would be returned to nature via forests or meadows. This is what the liberal right radical tree huggers want, more trees, less people!

The plan is ... currently underway in Flint, Michigan, the original home of General Motors. The town now suffers from a higher-than-average unemployment rate (about 20 percent) and a rapidly dwindling population, and local politicians claim the city must reduce... to avoid bankruptcy. Flint’s shrinkage plan is spearheaded by Genesee County treasurer, a Democrat, who was reportedly approached by the Obama administration to look into other areas of the country that would benefit from a size reduction.

The government will focus on 50 US cities identified by the Brookings Institution, a Washington " Liberal "policy organization. The list may surprise some, as it contains major metropolises like Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Memphis, as well as other former industrial hotspots. Government officials... bulldozing beloved towns may cause some citizens to cringe.believe that downsizing these economically depressed cities will provide...more green! 

Via Telegraph UK

WTF! No U.S. media reported this story. Even Fox News let us down. Tweet this story! Blog it! Get the word out before your home is torn down!

Bardus populus es facile fossor!

Steve

Liquid Glass Super Protective Coating

Invention starts when someone takes a thought and makes it work. This is what Apple did when they saw the graphical user interface (GUI) proposed by Xerox. It didn't actually work but not knowing that, they designed the Apple OS.

"SiO2- ultra thin layering” is the technical term for Liquid Glass.

The flexible and breathable glass coating is approximately 100 nanometers thick (500 times thinner than a human hair), and so it is completely undetectable. It is food safe, environmentally friendly and it can be applied to almost any surface within seconds . When coated, all surfaces become easy to clean and anti-microbially protected. Houses, cars, ovens, proctologist or any other protected surface become stain resistant and can be easily cleaned with water; no cleaning chemicals are required.

But wait! That's not all, there's more!

Items such as stents can be coated, and this will create anti sticking features. Catheters and sutures which are a source of infection, will also cease to be problematic.

Vines coated with SiO2 don’t suffer from mildew, and coated seeds grow more rapidly without the need for anti-fungal chemicals.

How the technology works, is in essence, they extract molecules of SiO2 (the primary constituent of glass) from quartz sand, and then we add the molecules to water or ethanol. The really clever part is that there are no added nano-particles, resins or additives. The coatings form and bond due to quantum forces.

WTF! this scenario was in a sci-fi story years ago. An old farm house, covered in a tough protective layer, like glass, never aged as it stood the many decades it housed the extraterrestrial. 

This is not science fiction! Very soon almost everything you buy will have this coating. This technology is now available for domestic use in Germany. Full scale retail availability in the UK will commence in early 2010. 

As for the US, what do you want to bet me that some "Special Interest Group, LLC" will fight this to save or make $ no matter the cost or harm done to the public.

Can you think of a way to use Liquid Glass?

Steve

Artificial spider Hair Surfaces with a Nearly Perfect water sheding ability.

Engineering researchers Shu-Hau Hsu and Wolfgang M. Sigmund have created what they say is a “nearly perfect hydrophobic interface” by borrowing from another of nature’s wonders - spiders. By reproducing, on small bits of plastic, the shape and patterns of the minute hairs that grow on the bodies of spiders the researchers have created what may be among, if not the, most water-phobic surface yet. 

The potential applications for the ultra-water-repellent surface developed at the University of Florida , Go Gaters, are many. When water scampers off the surface it picks up and carries dirt with it, in effect making the surface self-cleaning.

Unlike many water-repelling surfaces, this one relies entirely on the microscopic shape and patterns of the material — rather than its composition.

 In other words, physics, not chemistry, is what makes it water repellent. Theoretically, that means the technique could transform even the most water-sopping materials – say, sponges – into water-shedding ones. It also means that Sigmund’s surfaces need never slough off dangerous chemicals. Provided the surface material itself is made safe, making it water repellent introduces no new risks.

The surface works equally well with hot or cold water and Sigmund says a variation of the surface also repels oil, a first for the industry.

While inexpensive, it is hard to produce successful surfaces with great reliability, and different techniques need to be developed to make the surfaces in commercially available quantities and size, Sigmund said. Also, he said, more research is needed to make the surfaces hardy and resistant to damage.

WTF !? Spiders are just insect! What are we, the mightiest species on the planet. going to learn from a bug?

A paper about the surface appears in the journal Langmuir.


Steve