New Item for My Christmas Wish Listhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

I know it's been a while, yeah, yeah...I've been busy too. Anyway, I've found something really cool that I'm adding to Christmas Wish List.

It's called a frybrid. Yeah, you read that right...fry - brid. It's such an ingenious concept, I'm surprised nobody's done it before. Apparently, this guy and his family built a vegetable oil processing system into their 21' RV and traveled from Seattle to Maine on $47 of diesel fuel...and a bunch of free used cooking oil. pretty sweet concept, huh?

They built the system into the baggage compartments in the bottom of the RV. They can pump used cooking oil into on tank, it filters out all the crap and pumps the good oil into another tank. That tank then gets fed into the engine and propels the vehicle! I'm sure, by now, you've heard of biodiesel. Well, instead of processing the used into full blown biodiesel, you can actually just use the oil and it works. I've heard of people doing that, but I've never seen anyone actually filter and use it inside the vehicle. I'm thinking this is what I would buy for my future tour bus...but I'm no expert!

No tongues, huh?

I don't often get worked about things that go on in the "Christian community", but this story got me riled up. So much so, that I couldn't wait until tonight to write about it.

According to this story on Foxnews.com, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has banned the practice and promotion of speaking in tongues, even in private prayer. For those who aren't up-to-date with your biblical topics, according to Paul in the book of First Corinthians 14, we should use tongues as a private prayer language, but use "common language" (ya know, English) when in church or public, unless there is an interpreter.

Given that little lesson, I'm appalled by the decision of the Southwest. Since when has anybody been appointed by God to be the Jesus Police? We shouldn't be telling others how they can and can't worship God, especially when the Bible explicitly says otherwise. I know there are some Christians who would argue that if you don't speak in tongues you aren't a real Christian. I think that's pushing it a bit far, but to say that we can't speak in tongues at all, because it's too "pentacostal" is just idiocy.

And since when do we have some "rivalry" between baptists and pentacostals? Are we going to have some big reenactment of the West Side Story in Heaven? I can just see it now, we're all praising God, then the pentacostals bust out in tongues and everyone starts shifting. Next thing you know, the baptists are on one side lining arrows in their harps strings; the pentacostals are on the other side sharpening their halos and they begin circling each other. Everybody's snapping to the cool jazz music being pumped out by the angel band...you know God's a jazz fan, right? Anyway, the rest of us, who are just grateful that God forgave us and don't care to debate the finer points of theology have taken a seats on God's lap and busted out the popcorn. Surely, this isn't what God had in mind...

I just don't get it. How can you openly oppose scripture and still say you're "Bibically-based"? I think these bible-thumping bozos ought to go back and start reading "The Good Book" rather than enforcing it on God's behalf, but I'm no expert...

Mega camera

Ok, so I haven't posted in a while...sorry. No excuses, just more ranting.

So check this thing out. I read all about this dealie a last week and I can't help thinking that it is absolutely useless except for one thing: looking like a tourist, no wait, not just a tourist, an overcompensating, insecure tourist. Do you have a small...suitcase? No one will notice when whip this bad boy out! Did you have to fly in coach? The ladies won't think any less of you with this monster up to your face! Need to get aaaaaallll of Aunt Edna in the picture? Just turn it sideways and get the panoramic view of...well, you get the picture...no pun intended. Ok, a little intended, but not abused.

But seriously, on that same article, I did find this cool picture of Sydney, Australia. Give it a minute to load, it's a big one!

Poor Pluto

OK, is anybody else feeling really sorry for Pluto right now? Think about it, he's smaller than all the other objects in the solar system. There are MOONS bigger than him. He's got an oblong orbit, as if he can help it. He even has to share part of his orbit with Neptune; how humiliating! And now, on top of all that, he's been demoted to "dwarf planet". That's like getting moved from starter to 2nd string benchwarmer. I'm starting a protest song called "Poor Pluto". It's all about his plight as a, now, dwarf planet and his feelings on the matter. I'm hoping it's a hit.

Frankly, I thought the idea of a group of people voting a planet out of the solar system was kinda ridiculous. Isn't God the only one who can do that? Ok, so they didn't vote it out of the solar system, but being demoted to a dwarf planet is just as bad. We might as well give him a planetary wedgie and dunk his head in the aurora borealis. They could have dignified his demotion a little by naming that category of planets after him - "Plutons"...but I'm no expert.

Word help

Ok, somebody's got to tell me...what the heck is chagrin? My excellently talented wife used it on another blog and accused me of being "much to her's", but I'm not really sure what it is!?!? I know I could just as easily go look it up, but I wanted to get everybody's help on this before I get in trouble!

It sounds French to me. the whole "shh" thing at the begining and it sounds snooty, just like a typical French word. So somebody let me know huh? I can't possibly tell you myself...because I'm no expert, and that includes French!

Shameless plug

Ok, there's a little shame, but not much. The non-expert wife and I have gotten into a multi-level marketing business. Yeah, yeah, I know. This one just got my attention, plus my 'rents were helping us into it.

So here's the pitch: If I could show you a way to lose all the fat you want, painlessly and effortlessly, and make some money, probably some serious money, would that interest you?

Basically, it's a weight loss patch. I thought it sounded kinda silly too, but it seems to work for a lot of people. I'm just hoping it's not one of those diets/solutions/whatevers that only work for people who apparently own stock in Little Debbie, fry everything, and have a permanent IV of Coke going into their viens.

So anyway, for those who are interested, check out http://slimsolutions.info. You'll find info about the patch and its ingredients, the business opportunity, and hopefully you'll sign up, loose weight, and make some money. I may be no expert, but that sounds pretty good...

Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me...

OK, as soon as I saw this thing, I knew I had to have one. With 9 decks, a sweet underwater viewing platform, science labs that I'm sure I would neglect completely, and a height of 171 ft, it's got it all! While no speed demon (it just goes with the currents), it's still frickin' cool!

I'll admit, it looks like a giant phallic object floating in the ocean...that can be overlooked can't it? And it's French, that has to be overlooked...no one can stand the French for Pete's sake! But NASA wants to use it. That's the final selling point for me. If it's good enough for NASA, it's good enough for me.

I'm envisioning Paris Hilton buying one of these and starting some bizarre fad buying frenzy! They'll call them "Party Fins" and pimp them out with plasmas, an iPod-integrated, Bose sound system, and of course, something with hydraulics and a stripper pole (for exercise purposes only). They will be the most expensive, slowest, weirdest-looking yachts in the water, and no one will care, 'cause they're just cool. First, we just need to get stupid "celebrities" like Britney Spears, Puff Daddy (or whatever his name is these days), and Tom Cruise to buy them and get the trend started. Then again, maybe it will just be a supernerd fad and all those crazy Star Trek fans will buy them used from NASA and we'll all just laugh in envy as we continue driving our Camrys, but I'm no expert.