Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Organic has no health benefits
according to this article in bbc.com...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8174482.stm
manny, say it aint so!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
I was gonna take him, to get fixed
I think the Rat has paid his due for his illicit pigfucking activities.
Somebody fix this man!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Exemplary Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid's Bedroom Ceiling
very dangerous idea... for all of us!
http://gizmodo.com/5323788/exemplary-mom-builds-98%20inch-screen-inside-kids-bedroom-ceiling
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Get well soon Rat
cooler buddies,
i think da rat is sick
his lack of posts during the past two days has led me to believe he has been ill
and not able to go to work
by not showing up to work, da rat cannot post
get well soon buddy
Football season is coming
You guys are free to join this game if you can't wait to get your football fill.
You get to create a player and build him up every season. You don't have to pay or anything-- your player will still level up with experience from games and daily training and you can join leagues appropriate to your level. It's actually pretty cool, I've been playing it for a year, and it only takes a couple of minutes per day.
I'll just post the features it offers instead of explaining (click to enlarge).
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
More fun with the fuhrer
In light of recent postings, i remeber seeing this about a year ago... it's more ... Panama centric
Monday, July 13, 2009
The Monday Movie From Wayback Machine
In light of good times on Saturday, I've decided that each monday I'm gonna post a trailer to a movie from back in the day, just for good time's sake.
Poti, Yanx, this one's for you!
Interesting Article, for these Interested...
Panama Canal Project Opens a Tropical Window
Serge Bloch
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By NATALIE ANGIER
Published: July 6, 2009
THE CULEBRA CUT, Panama — You can’t leave Aldo Rincón alone for a moment.
As a small knot of scientists and visitors dressed in hard hats and orange safety vests milled around on the banks of the Panama Canal, chatting about the $5 billion expansion program now under way to widen the storied canal and so accommodate the ever-fatter freighters that ply the planet’s seas, Mr. Rincón, 30, quietly pulled a few digging tools from his backpack. He squatted down near an unremarkable-looking patch of pebbles and broken rock and began methodically scraping away in the dirt.
The helmeted throng wandered off briefly to inspect a sloping chop of sedimentary and volcanic layer cake that the construction project had exposed nearby. On returning to Mr. Rincón and his rasping trowel, scientists and guests alike gasped with amazement. In a mere 15 minutes of work, Mr. Rincón, a paleontology intern with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, had unearthed a big, beautiful fossilized femur bulging up pertly from a sedimentary substrate. The bone was about seven inches long and so flawlessly preserved it looked fit for a soup pot.
Mr. Rincón, tall, slender, monkishly focused and wearing sideburns, fashionable black plastic-framed glasses and a braided leather bracelet, guessed that the femur belonged to an extinct species of llama that lived in the area some 20 million years ago. He should know: he has found llama bones before, as well as the mineralized mementos of prehistoric crocodiles, peccaries, anacondas, giant tortoises.
One of his discoveries, of a partial skull from a leaf-eating horse, was described in the May issue of the Journal of Paleontology, in an article by Bruce MacFadden of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
“Aldo has an amazing ability to find fossils,” said Camilo Montes, his supervisor at the Panamá Geology Project. “Whenever he digs, he finds another fossil.”
These days, Mr. Rincón and scores of other scientists are digging as fast as they can in the shadows of the really big dig that is the Panama canal expansion program, the most ambitious overhaul to the complex array of locks, channels, dams and bridges since the canal was built a century ago.
The Panamanian government initiated the project for purely economic reasons. In its current configuration, the 51-mile shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans can grant passage only to boats carrying up to 65,000 tons of cargo. But many international shipping companies increasingly prefer to use mega-freighters that can haul up to 300,000 tons.
As a result, the Panama Canal has been losing business to other transoceanic routes; and with canal tolls amounting to close to $100,000 per ship per one-way crossing, and potentially more for the giant freighters, the government decided it had no choice but to widen and straighten the canal to make room for the S.U.V.’s of the seas.
For scientists, the massive engineering project promises spectacular spinoffs. The tropics are thought to be nature’s romper room, the habitat where the majority of the world’s life forms got their start and thus of great interest to evolutionary scholars. Yet the very conditions conducive to biological diversity and innovation end up obscuring life’s biography. The sun, the water, the greedily growing plants: nothing remains exposed for long, and fossil evidence is pushed ever deeper beneath successive pages of growth and decay.
Tropical verdure also masks tropical geology, the underlying story of how the landscape came to be. This blurring is a particular shame in the case of the Panamanian isthmus, given its pivotal role as a bridge between two continents. Geologists have longed to understand how and when the isthmus arose, but the tropics aren’t Arizona and there is no Grand Canyon to serve as an open book.
The five-year Panama canal expansion project, begun last year, offers scientists a kind of drive-by canyon experience, a brief yanking back of the chlorophyll cloak. Using dynamite, bulldozers, backhoes, excavators and many, many shovels, workers will be rearranging hundreds of millions of cubic meters of dirt and rock. “There’s nothing else like it, to get this much exposure in the tropics,” Dr. Montes said. “We cannot lose this scientific opportunity.”
Carlos Jaramillo, also of the Smithsonian, said, “We know we’re just guests here, but at least they’re digging us a $5 billion hole.”
At the canal there are neither slow boats nor rain checks. The moment workers blast open a new cut, researchers must move in immediately and gather what data they can. Not only is the jungle always ready to reclaim naked land, but the canal authorities are similarly devoted to quick forest restoration, and they will add topsoil where needed to spur a fresh round of stabilizing vegetation. They want no repeat of the many tragedies that accompanied the building of the original canal, when thousands died in landslides because the terrain had been too quickly stripped bare.
“We’re in a race against time,” Dr. Jaramillo said.
Speed dating for scientists has already borne fruit. Through analyzing more than 2,000 fossils, the stratigraphic record revealed by each new rock cut, paleomagnetic data, isotope ratios, carbon signatures and more, researchers are getting a sense of what an ancient tropical rain forest looked like.
Some 15 million years ago, when Panama served as the southernmost outpost of the North American continent and the land bridge had yet to form, the forest was nevertheless a crossover dream. Its fauna, according to Dr. MacFadden of the Florida museum, was similar to the animals then living in Florida and Texas, which means leaping llamas and leaf-eating horses that looked like large tapirs, and mid-size tapirs that looked like tapirs, and forest rhinoceroses, and an especially fierce carnivore that was half-bear and half-dog. Yet the flora looked South American, the apparent result of seeds traversing the ocean on currents of water or wind and finding friendly soil in the Panamanian swelter.
Starting around 10 million years ago, the isthmus of Panama began to form, and researchers are finding that the tiny country is one of the most geologically complex places on earth, part Caribbean, part North American, part a tiny piece from an island in the middle of the Pacific, part a tiny piece from an island arc. “Four tectonic plates are involved, and all of them are colliding in Panama,” Dr. Jaramillo said. “You won’t find that sort of tectonic plate configuration anywhere else in the world.”
Moreover, while most of the world’s tectonic plates are rigid, now slamming together, now breaking apart, the plates of Panama are rubbery.
“They seem to be bending, and we don’t know why,” Dr. Jaramillo said.
Maybe they’re warming up for the day when, high over their head, the revamped locks are opened and the wide loads start coming through.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Obama Recovers
Obama later on learned a bit of discretion, probably after getting bitched at (or just picturing his wife bitching). The French and Italian presidents didn't give a fuck.
You know you're badass when...
When people break into your house and this happens:
Thieves flee after breaking into Dolph Lundgren's Spanish home
Dolph Lundgren can be seen to the left wearing some very Soviet-looking red and yellow trousers. He is also pretty much the only Russian in history that you can just refer to as "The Russian" and people know exactly who you're talking about.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
tough decision!
lemmiwinks has 1,004 facebook fans...
we need a username. lemmiwinks is taken. can't make up my mind!
this is what i got so far that are available:
lemmiwinkspeludo
bestbandever
elgallinazo
lemmiwinkspanama or lemmiwinks507 (boring)
Another US polititian crosses the line
This one spreads the gospel about fags being The Devil. She best not ever see the Rat crossing the street as she's driving.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
The Cooler is suffering due to the crisis as well??
Number of posts as of July 1st 2008 = 240
Number of posts as of July 1st 2009 = 149
We are down 38% from our output in comparison to last year, if this was a company we'd be in deep shit...blame this on:
- people getting married
- dont have time to post at the office
- da rat disappearing for 2-3 months
- others (or other??)
This must be rectified at once!
Monday, July 06, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
To the biggest cuecs
Not drinking Abuelo = Cuecs
Being in Panama = Manly
Not being in Panama = Cuecs
So, by this definition, we have 2 cuecs in this blog, but one of them far exceeds the other in terms of both distance from Panama and time of her last consumed Abuelo beverage.
To that one I tell this:
Book 12 will go on stores Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Not sure how it works in Spain, you might have to order it from the UK or sumthin'. Unless you want Mat's battle cry to be Me cago en la ostia, then by all means get it at your friendly neighborhood bookstore.
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