Monthly Archive for March, 2009
The next time you think you’re having a bad week, remember this guy.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when a US plane dropped the first atomic bomb.
He suffered serious burns and spent a night there before returning to his home city of Nagasaki just before it was bombed on 9 August.
I would be so pissed off if I got A-bombed twice. Too bad nobody could’ve told him.
from the beeb.
It’s interesting that some people accuse Obama of taking our country in a socialist direction… so I wanted to bring back the term “Pinko” and celebrate our president. Teehee.
I’ve only been once, but I’ve got to say that the Russian and Turkish Baths on East 10th in Manhattan is one of my favorite places in the whole world. I was recently reminded of my visit there and wanted to reminisce a bit. They say it best:
Russian Sauna
This authentic russian room is the highlight of every visit to the baths. The oven is filled with 20,000 lbs. of rock which are cooked overnight. During the day, these rocks give off an intense heat. This is one of the few rooms of its kind in the United States.
Surrounding a huge rock-walled furnace, women and men alike will be immersed in a hot, very steamy, stone furnaced “radiant heat”. When the heat starts to get unbearable, take one of the dozens of buckets around the room, fill it with ice cold water, and like the Russians hundreds of years before you have done, dump it over your head. Now don’t be self-conscious because as you will soon notice, everyone is dousing themselves with buckets of water. In that sheer moment as the ice-cold water pours over you, comes one of the most enjoyable moments you will ever experience. It is sheer delight.
For those of you who dream in the future, here are some Space Station Wallpapers:
And for those who want a retro look, here is one that’s Skylab, the space station that came out of the Apollo Applications Program and looks like a quaint windmill compared to the ISS.
For the curious, here’s a head-to-head comparison of the three stations utilized by NASA:
For those who’d like to take a look (especially after the new solar array that will soon be attached by STS-119) you can track the station here.
There is a story about a conversation between General de Gaulle, who, as president of the French Republic, telephoned his American counterpart Lyndon B Johnson, to inform him that France had decided to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty alliance.
Since its foundation nearly two decades earlier, Nato had had its headquarters in France. Now Nato would have to move.
Furthermore, de Gaulle added, it was his intention that all American service personnel should be removed from French soil.
“Does that include,” Johnson is said to have replied, “those buried in it?”
20090310:17:19:26 me: did you guys do anything? or was it just a traditional date?
20090310:17:17:34 him: hot chocolate out
20090310:17:18:05 him: then back to my place, cuddled, watched a movie, cuddled, teased, slept, woke up, fucked, coffee
20090310:17:18:30 me: So it was a traditional date.
