A couple days ago, I went and got the tattoo along my spine touched up and the artist and I got to talking about a couple recent news stories about tattooing. 

The first was about a guy in California that held down his 7yr old son while another gang member tattooed a gang sign on the kid’s hip.  From my understanding, the guy could have faced a life sentence if the judge determined the tattoo was a permanent and painful disfigurement.  Instead he faces up to seven year in prison for cruel and inhumane treatment of a child.  The tattoo is now being removed.  Read more »

The world of science needs to do some advancing for my benefit.  I have all kinds of great stories in my head that I want to get out, need to get out, but from my head to written word something gets lost.  Where is my device to take the thoughts from my head and place them on the screen for me?  Plus, my wrists are shot anyways.

Maybe this wouldn’t be as great as I initially thought.  If my mind wondered then so would the subject matter of what was being written.  My mind drifts too much.  Then I would be spending more time editting and rewriting.  And I am too lazy for that.

I should just find an artist to draw out my ideas as graphic novels or learn to draw myself.

I posted my short story Captain ubel vs Professor Ubel to the site. It is the one I had been trying to get published.  Since that didn’t work out, I am putting it here and moving on to the next story.

Captain Heroic vs Professor Ubel

The salt water stung as we splashed it over the numerous cuts all over his body. He decided that today was the last day he would try to hunt boar. Fish seemed like a safer food to him. Less chance of serious injury, he believed.

It was wasn’t boar that caused his current condition, but the fall off the cliff and into the thorn bushes while running away from the animal that he failed to kill and only pissed off that left him worse for wear.

Definitely fishing tomorrow, he thought. Fishing seemed more like the pirate thing to do anyways.

I like it when I learn something new and today I learned about bioavailability.  Bioavailability is the amount of nutrients your body actually absorbs from the food you consume.  Your body may not always absorb everything you ingest and some foods may inhibit you from absorbing nutrients from other foods.

Here is a break down of some foods and how to increase bioavailability. Read more »

I haven’t posted much here is a while and it is time for a much needed update.

First, I finally replaced my dead Toshiba laptop with an Acer netbook.  Not a bad little machine.  I replaced the 1GB RAM with 2GB and it is running XP.  I would love to see how it runs with Windows 7 on it though.  I am going to have to track down a copy.  It only have a 10” screen, but I believe netbooks are supposed to be smaller devices and not the size of a laptop.  It has build in wireless and Bluetooth and a slop for a 3G card if I wanted broadband access from someone like AT&T.  Overall, it does everything I want and need it to do.  Now to just get writing.  I was using not having something like a netbook to write on as my accuse for not writing.  Well, I fixed that problem.

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