Author Archive for Kristofer Brozio

My son turned three!

Yep, another year has gone by, my baby boy is growing up.. since my mom and grandma are not doing well at all DSCF4453 we had a little party for Vinnie’s third birthday down my moms this past Friday. Even though my mom is sick she still likes doing things for her Grandkids, Vinnie wanted a Vanilla cake with vanilla icing and vanilla ice cream with it as well, and of course that’s what Grandma made him and got him.

He had lots of fun and talked about it all week, he was DSCF4465 so excited, he kept talking about how he was going to have three candles on his cake and sing happy birthday and blow out his candles. I think he was more excited about that than the presents really, on Saturday he wanted us to put the candles back on the cake and sing Happy Birthday again to him.. so of course we did, and we all had birthday cake for breakfast!

He loved the cake, at one point he just gave up with  DSCF4480the fork and dug in with his hands, what the heck right, it’s his birthday so why not?!

Blowing things out of proportion…

So in mid July I made a post HERE about how my two year old opened the car door and tapped the car next to us and the lady flipped out.. I wasn’t there for the incident, and things can get exagerrated a bit at times..

Today I finally saw the car, it’s a nice car and does have a ding in the door, So I figured whatever, I took some pictures and I was waiting for her to come out to apologize for this mess and tell her that the insurance company would take care of it for her and that it’s over with..  but before I could even say anything to her she’s screaming at me saying I’m harassing her, and that she’s calling the police and pressing charges.. and saying that she’s told people that I’m harassing her and I need to leave her alone.. meanwhile I’ve never seen this lady in my life so it’s rather damn impossible that I was harassing her before…

all this while I’m trying to talk calmly to her, but she didn’t care what I had to say so I ended up walking away, and she follows me to where I parked the car to pick up my wife..

all she had to do was shut up for one minute and let me apologize to her for this mess and explain things but she wanted no parts of it for some reason… I don’t understand people at all really..

so basically now I sit here and wait for the police to possibly come knocking on my door becuase I tried to apologize to someone… what a screwed up world we live in, it’s truly amazing that people like this woman exist…

It’s not like I’m even this big guy or anything, I’m all of 160lbs when I’m wet, so it’s not like I’m intimidating or anything.. wow.. just wow

Large Hadron Collider

This is an odd post for me, something off the norm, but then again there’s not much ‘normal’ to this blog anyway right?

So the Large Hadron Collider or LHC is going to be coming on very soon, and honestly I’m a bit excited about it, I’ve always loved physics, or quantum physics to be exact, it’s those things that you can’t see but are there that interest me, and their interactions and reactions that intrigue me.

I’ve always been under the impression that there are even smaller things out there that we don’t know about, sure we can see into atoms etc, but I don’t think that’s the end of it, not at all, we as a civilization are not advanced enough to ‘see’ everything, at least that’s my take on it anyway, there’s more out there, more that will be discovered eventually and the LHC is the first step towards that I believe.

When the LHC comes online fully in about less than a years time I believe we’re going to learn quite a lot, answer many questions about physics and of course produce a whole lot more questions to be answered.

Looking at the cost of the LHC, it’s around $15Billion US dollars, which in the grand scheme of things isn’t much at all really, I mean look at the Iraq War, were talking hundreds of billions of dollars and they’re predicting over a trillion before it’s done and over…

I’m not bitching about the war, it’s more about the fact that the United States at one point was building their own LHC or our name for it was the Superconducting Super Collider or SSC, but the funding was cut and it was canceled.. Why? because our wonderful government didn’t think it was feasible, or they thought there was basically no reason for it… our politicians didn’t and still don’t understand the ramifications this could have on the scientific community overall, and specifically in physics.

It’s a shame that for the moronic wisdom of our government we are going to be basically left out of these discoveries, not really left out, but we could have been on the cutting edge of physics, our country could have been known for something other than war-mongering, obesity, and gluttony…

Now the history books will read about the LHC in Switzerland/France, when they make these discoveries, instead of the US, I guess we’ll be known for spending the most money on a war.. I guess they feel that’s something anyway.

Our priorities are not where they should be, our meaning our government, we should be thinking of advancing our knowledge, advancing our strength in science, but I guess there’s no money to be made in it so they figured why bother right? I suspect that they thought there’s no military applications for this so what’s the point?! It is a shame really what we squander our money on isn’t it?

Seriously though, there really hasn’t been any major leaps or advancements in the field of physics, it’s remained relatively stagnate for the last few decades really, it’s a shame that we, the United States, had a chance to possibly progress physics to a new level of knowledge and understanding.

If I recall correctly the SSC was canceled in 1993 by the US Governement, and in 1995 the LHC was approved for construction.. now estimating we can say it took 13 years for the LHC to be completed, now if the SSC took that long it would have been finished and online now for about 2 years, imagine what we could have learned already in those two years? In affect we could say that by cancelling the SSC we set physics back a few years really… but they had to spend their money on something else…

oh and I have to mention about these goofs out there saying that the LHC is going to create a black hole and it’s going to swallow the earth, that’s just too funny really, and yeah the earth is flat too… my favorite is the lawsuit about it, these goofs are suing to stop construction fo the LHC because of their fears, that’s truly a waste of the judical system… if it does create a black hole to swallow the earth etc, we’ll never know really, it will happen so fast that we won’t even feel it, and I doubt there would be any warning either… maybe the guys at the LHC will notice it for a split second, but there won’t be time to alert anyone.. oh well, I guess if I’m going to go that would be a painless and quick way to do it

of course not to mention the aliens out there, the instant creation of a black hole will really get their attention focused on our little corner of the galaxy anyway right?

The HiPhone on Google Adsense

So I was checking a recent post to my other site for hiphone formatting etc and one of my Google Ads was for the HiPhone! Check it out, it’s the China HiPhone that you can ‘Buy from China’ for $158.80, and of course that’s with the 30% savings..

talk about a blatant rip-off, they just added one letter.. it’s trip really, how did something like this go unnoticed by the Google Adsense team, I thought they had some policy about ads like these…

oh well, I wonder if the phone’s any good though?!

Ghirardelli Intense Dark Midnight Reverie 86% Cacao

I’ve always had a sweet spot for dark chocolate, so DSCF3996 browsing the aisles yesterday I had a craving for chocolate and spotted some very dark chocolate from Ghiradelli with 86% cacao content. It’s aptly named Intense Dark with a sub-name of Midnight Reverie. You can find it on the Ghirardelli website HERE

I picked up this bar at CVS Pharmacy Store near me for $2.50 each. Not bad, it’s a fairly large bar at 3.17oz or 90grams.

From the back of the bar:

The deep, full bodied flavor is noticeable upfront with hints of dark cherries, dried plums and roasted flavor from the high cacao content. The supremely smooth texture has a fine, crisp snap with overall round, warm chocolate notes that linger for lasting, enchanting finish.

This stuff is very dark and bitter, it’s almost as if there’s DSCF4012 no sugar in it at all, and as the description implies it does have a very lingering taste, this chocolate is very good, but it is very strong. For those of you not into dark chocolate I’d suggest staying away from this as it is very bitter and does stay with you for quite a while. This type of chocolate is the type that you only eat one or two squares at a sitting, then wrap it back up for later consumption.

This is nothing like Hershey’s Semi-Sweet chocolate, actually not even in the league with it…

The aroma is strong as well, with a very faint nutty fragrance, specifically like hazelnuts. Tasting it one finds an almost sour taste as it melts on your tongue, and when swallowing it feels thick and pasty in the throat. Overall it’s a very satisfying experience that will linger in your mouth for quite a bit afterwards and alter the tastes of any food that follows…

I can highly recommend this chocolate to anyone who appreciates a good dark chocolate bar!

Rant: All these Fees Suck!

So far this month I’ve racked up $28.80 in fees from Paypal for receiving payments…

we know Paypal is ridiculous with their fees… but this is adding up quickly now…

It costs me $2.50 to withdraw money from my Paypal account at an ATM, but then Paypal charge me $1 on top of that.. so it costs me $3.50 to get my own money?!?!

and I thought it was free to get money if I bought something with my Paypal card, y’know if I buy something and get cash back.. but apparently it’s not, they charge $1 for that as well…

But…

I paid my Electric Bill yesterday over the phone and it cost me $5.95

I paid my car today over the phone and it cost me $10 ?!?!

Stupid Chase Auto Finance doesn’t have an online payment system in my state.. I don’t quite understand that though, what exaclty does the state have to do with online payments?

-my last car was through Chrysler and I could easily pay them on the web every month, the fee was 50 cents but I’d take 50 cents over $10 anyday obviously..

Seriously, WTF?!  Why do I have to pay to give them my money?

I mean, you want my money, but I have to pay you to give it to you.. how does that work?!?

I wonder if all of these fees are tax deductible?

iPhone.. GACK! Things it can’t do that my Tilt can!

OK, the new iPhone is out, but damn I’m already sick of hearing about it…

Go over to Digg and you’ll see several stories about the iPhone or something related to it, and htat’s not just Digg, pretty much everywhere..

I’m sick of hearing about it already, people are acting like it’s this wonderfully amazing thing that’s going to change the world, it’s not going to, it’s a phone for f*cks sake…

Hey I love my phone, an HTC TytnII or ATT Tilt, but I’m not gloating over it.. maybe it’s time I should though… It’s a vastly superior phone even though it’s a year old now

my phone can do pretty much everything the iPhone can and it can do everything the iPhone can’t, all those things that people are complaining about and much more!

Let’s see:

Copy and Paste – Check!

Real GPS -Check!

Turn by Turn GPS navigation – Check!

3 megapixel camera – Check!

Pop/Imap Email – Check!

Don’t have to have itunes account – Check!

Can surf and talk – Check!

Bluetooth Stereo – Check!

Customizable – Check!

Videos – Check!

and I can go on and on about what the Tilt can do that the iPhone can’t.. The Tilt is a far superior phone over all!

iPhone.. Blah, Gack… Go Away you bother me…