Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen, revised

The “too many cooks in the kitchen” phenomena is perhaps the most frustrating thing for me in work life as a freelancer. Though perhaps it could be re-written “too many people with chef hats, not enough people that know how to cook”.

I’ve posted about this over at themographblog, but it’s a never-ending saga of (as my favorite Hillary Clinton quote puts it) too many people that are “All Hat, No Cattle”.

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

So right now there is a commercial that plays on conservative radio here in LA (yes, I listen to conservative radio on my way to work… gotta hear all perspectives, even if they are dreadfully nauseating) and in this commercial it has “testimonials” from people about a certain proposition that will be on an upcoming ballot.

One of the actors says, “The Constitution says we are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What ever happened to that?”

Eh hem. Pardon me, hate to be a bother with the whole “facts” thing again, I know how much neo-cons hate those darn facts. I, of course, fully support the phrase… but “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

Go back to bed America, we will now return you to your regularly scheduled disinformation.

Declaration of Independence:
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm

Constitution:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/index.html

I am Yugoslavian Special Forces, 17 years

So, this weekend we jumped out of a plane. “Skydiving” the kids are calling it, it’s all the rage. My beautiful better half, my roommate, and three “i think it’s too windy maybe we should leave” Welsh fellows drove up to Santa Barbara on Saturday to huck ourselves out of an otherwise perfectly functional plane.

The guy I tandemed with has definitely killed people. With a super-thick accent he told me how he was Yugoslavian Special Forces for 17 years and has “9,869… well, i guess dis one make for 9,870″ jumps, his highest being from 35,000 feet with over 2 and half minutes of freefall and requiring oxygen… badass.

Anywho, everybody survived without cause for worry and we had a great time. It was definitely original, nothing quite as surreal as sticking your feet out the door of an aircraft and throwing yourself out of it. (except maybe sitting on a rock with three sleeping tigers)

Is it better than bungee jumping? Meh, I think bungee jumping is more frightening. With skydiving you can’t even really tell the ground is coming at you, it’s just really windy. And terminal velocity is only 120mph… and I DEFINITELY HAVE NEVER GONE ANY FASTER THEN THAT ESPECIALLY WHEN ME AND LUKE WOULD RIDE DOWN THE STRAIGHTAWAY ON BARTLETT STRIP ON OUR BIKES, NOPE NEVER BEEN ANYWHERE NEAR 140. But skydiving is absolutely gorgeous, so beautiful and so stunning. I will definitely go again sometime, it was a fantastic experience.

A++ thumbs up.

Question for the Times

Alright, in a week already riddled with “x vs. y”, this one trumps all.

Freddy Mercury vs. Bon Scott vs. Steve Perry

The ultimate Battle Royale.  So, who is it?  Who is your pick for greatest voice in the history of the universe?

Discuss amongst yourselves, I’m feeling verklempt.

Early Ending

So, the rugby season is over.  Whatever.

We started out 3-0 and were #1 in the country, then we dropped 2 straight and because of the conference we were in, the losses gave us a snowballs chance at the playoffs.  Losing again this weekend to a pretty good SF team sealed our fate and gave us an early start on the summer.
Oh well.  At least I made it through the season without any serious injuries, that’s always a silver lining.