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Teletran-1 : Captains Log Suplimental

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Futureama F'ing EH!!!!!!

Short poast, I just read on Slashdot that Futureama is going back into production for 26 new eppisodes. So im going to go freek out now and you can read this.

Poast your favorite futurama quote here:

Leela - "Depth at 45 hundred feet, 48 hundred, 50 hundred! 5000 feet!"
Farnsworth - "Dear Lord, that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure."
Fry - "How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?"
Farnsworth - "Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one."
Then there is my second favorite

Racetrack PA announcer: And the winner is number three, in a quantum finish.
Professor Farnsworth: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!

Oh and who can forget

Fry: Hey Professor, what are you teaching this semester?
Professor Farnsworth
: The same thing I teach every semester: The Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields. I made up the title so that no student would dare take it.
Fry: ...mathematics of wonton burrito meals. I'll be there!
Professor Farnsworth: Please, Fry, I don't know how to teach! I'm a professor!
later that eppisode
Professor Farnsworth: [In an empty classroom] ...And so, by process of elimination, we can determine that the electron tastes like grape-ade.




Update

Apparently Billy West (vioce of fry) was given bad info. There are futurama movies being produceced but they are not renewing the TV series.

Oh well movies are better than nothing.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

PENETRATE, PENETRATE, PENETRATE!!!!!!!!

Ok so recently I penetrated my first wreck. Meaning I swam into a sunken ship located 25 metres below the surface of the ocean. Oh man that was a huge rush. This is why I got into scuba diving in the first place. It took 3 years of training and practice before I felt I was ready but it was well worth it.

It is actually quite a difficult task. You have to be very good with your buoyancy so you can hover in mid deck without banging your tank on the ceiling or dragging yourself along the floor. You also have to learn special finning techniques so you don’t kick up a lot of silt and screw up your vision. For safety you use a line when you enter a wreck which you tie to a point outside the wreck. It prevents you from getting lost and, if you laugh at getting lost in a ship you have to realize that it is very easy to get disoriented when you are neutrally buoyant. Also if you kick up a lot of silt you can loose site of the exit or even the end of your hand. Also for safety we limit how far we go in ( 140 linear feet from the surface ) and you limit your air use. The rule is 1/3 of your air going in, 1/3 coming out and 1/3 for emergencies. Considering you start with 3000 psi that means you have 1000 psi to get down to the ship, find an entry point, tie you line and enter. This seriously limits you time if you are not very good with your air consumption.

If you want to see some pictures from that weekend check these out. They are of the first wreck I was on, the HMCS Saskatchewan, a destroyer escort sunk in the late 90's. I did not take my camera on my penetration dive as that would be an entanglement hazard. Oh and divers really like using the term penetrate so I think I will penetrate again.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

And the Winner is...........Humanity !!!

OK so i am still haveing a bit of trouble sitting down and writing poasts, It takes me a bit, i have other things to do and other genereic excuses are all i have. That being said here is a little something my good friend Paul sent me.

This years Darwin Awards are out
Now the Darwin Awards are given out to those who aid evolution be removing themselves from the gene pool. This does not require death but it usualy is involved. 2 runners up this year did stupid things but i really dont think they should be concidederd as they are still in the gene pool but what can you do.

5th RUNNER-UP: Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a foam pad. 22-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead at Central Mammoth Hospital. The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's departme! nt said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski run called Stump alley and removed some yellow foam protectors from lift towers, said Lt. Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect skiers who might hit towers. The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. It has since been investigated and determined the tower he hit was the one with it's pad removed.

4th RUNNER-UP: Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call the police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out witho! ut paying. Police found him unconscious in front of the store. Paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to death.

3rd RUNNER-UP: Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell onto him

2nd RUNNER-UP: "Man loses face! at party." A man at a West Virginia party (probably related to the winner last year, a man in Arkansas who used the .22 bullet to replace the fuse in his pickup truck) popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tongue. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during the party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne. "Another man had it in an aquarium hooked to a battery and was trying to explode it. It wouldn't go off and this guy said I'll show you how to set it off." He put it into his mouth, bit down and it blew all his teeth out and his lips and tongue off, Payne said. Stromyer was listed in guarded condition Wednesday with extensive facial injuries, according to a spokesperson at Charleston Area Medical Division. "I just can't imagine anyone doing something like that," Payne said

1st RUNNER-UP: Doctors at Portland University Hospital said an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is lucky to be alive and will be released soon from the hospital. Tony Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation into a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous (probably known now as Stupid Mountain Men Anonymous) in Grants Pass, Oregon. A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered Robert's right eye. Doctors said that had the arrow gone one millimeter to the left, a major blood vessel would have been cut and Roberts would have died instantly. Neurosurgeon, Doctor Johnny Delashaw, at the University Hospital in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of br! ain with the tip protruding at the rear of his skull, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said that had Roberts tried to pull the arrow out on his own he surely would have killed himself. Roberts admitted afterwards that he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said Roberts, "I feel so dumb about this." No charges have been filed, but the Josephine County district attorney's office said the initiation stunt is under investigation.

THIS YEAR'S WINNER: (The late) John Pernicky and his friend, (the late) Sal Hawkins, of the great state of Washington, decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the George Washington amphitheater. Having no tickets (but having had 18 beers between them), they thought it would be easy to "hop" over the nine foot fence and sneak into the show. They pulled their pickup truck over to the fence and the plan was for Mr. Pernicky, who was 100 pounds heavier than Mr. Hawkins, to hop the fence and then assist his friend over. Unfortunately for (the late) Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot drop on the other side of the fence. Having heaved himself over, he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was abruptly halted (and broken, along with his arm) by a large branch that snagged him by his shorts. Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and saw some bushes below him. Possibly figuring the bushes would break his fall, he removed his pocket knife and proceeded to cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree. Finally free, Mr. Pernicky crashed into holly bushes. The sharp leaves scratched his ENTIRE body and now, without ! the protection of his shorts, a holly branch penetrated his rectum. To make matters worse, upon landing his pocket knife penetrated his thigh. Hawkins, seeing his friend in considerable pain and agony, threw him a rope and tried to pull him to safety by tying the rope to the pickup truck and slowly driving away. However, in his drunken haste, he put the truck into reverse and crashed through the fence landing on his friend and killing him. Police arrived to find the crashed pickup with its driver thrown 100 feet from the truck and dead at the scene from massive internal injuries. Upon moving the truck, they found John under it half-naked, scratches on his body, a holly stick in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his Shorts dangling from a tree branch 25 feet in the air. Congratulations gentlemen. You win. And some more idiots have been removed from the gene pool