Air Force One Photo op In New York City. Idiots!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Nude Sketch of Jessica
One of Jessica's students was listening this morning and sent us one of her sketh's of Jessica. Jessica said it was cool to post it here.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Very cool for kids
Check this out! Our friend gave these awesome letters for the baby's room. They are handpainted and come with hand painted pins to hang them from. They make a very cool gift. If you interested in getting some done you can contact Darla O'Guin with "The Writing On The Wall" in Bastrop, Texas. Her number is 512-698-2800 or check out her stuff at www.thewritingonthewalls.net Darla's email is doguin@austin.rr.com Have a great day!
Sandy
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Somali Pirates
Thanks to Jeremy Leitz for sending me this.
Just a little background on the pirates the news will never report: In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention." At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by overexploitation – and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters." This is the context in which the "pirates" have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least levy a "tax" on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia – and ordinary Somalis agree. The independent Somalian news site WardheerNews found 70 per cent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence". No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters – especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But in a telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali: "We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas." William Scott would understand. Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our toxic waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We won't act on those crimes – the only sane solution to this problem – but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 per cent of the world's oil supply, we swiftly send in the gunboats.
Just a little background on the pirates the news will never report: In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury – you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention." At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by overexploitation – and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters." This is the context in which the "pirates" have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least levy a "tax" on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia – and ordinary Somalis agree. The independent Somalian news site WardheerNews found 70 per cent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence". No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters – especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But in a telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali: "We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas." William Scott would understand. Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our toxic waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We won't act on those crimes – the only sane solution to this problem – but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 per cent of the world's oil supply, we swiftly send in the gunboats.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Bri the Clown at Starbucks
Bri had to pay up for not drinking the raw egg. Her punishment was to go to a Starbucks with Clown Face. Enjoy.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
On More Thing
Grab the Friday, April 3rd copy of the Austin Business Journal. They did a cool piece on me and JB.
Random Bullet Points
Lots of stuff going on at work. Most of it good, I think you may start hearing a little different version of the JB and Sandy Show. Think about that for a second. What do you think we may be doing? I'll keep you updated here.
JB and I hosted the American Women in Radio and Television Awards Gala tonight. Great crowd and nice people. However, we did not win the award we were nominated for. We get nominated every year and every year we go and every year we lose. I don't really see it as losing. I figure hosting it was cool enough to me. I got to meet Bob Cole from KVET-FM, hard to believe in 13 years we have never met. He is a class guy all the way around. Attendees of the event said it was the best job of hosting they have ever had. That made me feel good. Who knows, maybe next year we win an award. No biggie really.
Tricia and I are taking a weekend trip to Houston this weekend. We set a small part of our income tax return aside and thought it would be fun to stay in a hotel in Houston for a couple of days. The big question is, will I snore and keep her awake? We have been sleeping in seperate rooms for over a year now and we are cool with it. I did have some surgery to my nose and throat with the hopes of eliminating the surgery. I think it has, we will know for sure this weekend. This will be our last little getaway until long after the baby is due. Due date is June 7th. So we are looking forward to seeing Houston. The few times I have been there, I always like it.
It's that time of year to start working in the yard again. Just doing the little things around the yard and bushes. A basic cleanup and replanting is in store. I really want to get this done before it gets too hot. Yard work is good for the soul.
Did you notice my Twitter updates on the side of this blog? Pretty cool how you can intigrate the two.
Really thinking of making the switch from Blackberry to IPhone. My wife has an Iphone and I have been playing with it. It just seems cooler and better. That is my review of an Iphone, "cooler and better than a Blackberry" The truth is, I really don't want to spend the money of the Iphone when my Blackberry is working pretty well. I like that the Ipone has more storage for pictures and music. I do not like the keyboard of the Iphone. I have fat fingers and would struggle with it. Anyone reading this, that has had both, please give me your thoughts, and if you are feeling extra generious send me a few bucks so I can get one of these things. How long is the learning curve. Remember, you are dealing with a DJ here.....not so bright
Great seeing the students at Tamara Bell's Public Relations class at UT. JB and I talked to them about getting thier clients on the radio as guests. Great group. It was nice to see people excited about what lays ahead of them. I spend too much time worrying that my life and carreer will have a sad ending. I know I shouldn't think that way but I do. I have so much to be thankful for and fear that one day it will all just go away.
JB and I hosted the American Women in Radio and Television Awards Gala tonight. Great crowd and nice people. However, we did not win the award we were nominated for. We get nominated every year and every year we go and every year we lose. I don't really see it as losing. I figure hosting it was cool enough to me. I got to meet Bob Cole from KVET-FM, hard to believe in 13 years we have never met. He is a class guy all the way around. Attendees of the event said it was the best job of hosting they have ever had. That made me feel good. Who knows, maybe next year we win an award. No biggie really.
Tricia and I are taking a weekend trip to Houston this weekend. We set a small part of our income tax return aside and thought it would be fun to stay in a hotel in Houston for a couple of days. The big question is, will I snore and keep her awake? We have been sleeping in seperate rooms for over a year now and we are cool with it. I did have some surgery to my nose and throat with the hopes of eliminating the surgery. I think it has, we will know for sure this weekend. This will be our last little getaway until long after the baby is due. Due date is June 7th. So we are looking forward to seeing Houston. The few times I have been there, I always like it.
It's that time of year to start working in the yard again. Just doing the little things around the yard and bushes. A basic cleanup and replanting is in store. I really want to get this done before it gets too hot. Yard work is good for the soul.
Did you notice my Twitter updates on the side of this blog? Pretty cool how you can intigrate the two.
Really thinking of making the switch from Blackberry to IPhone. My wife has an Iphone and I have been playing with it. It just seems cooler and better. That is my review of an Iphone, "cooler and better than a Blackberry" The truth is, I really don't want to spend the money of the Iphone when my Blackberry is working pretty well. I like that the Ipone has more storage for pictures and music. I do not like the keyboard of the Iphone. I have fat fingers and would struggle with it. Anyone reading this, that has had both, please give me your thoughts, and if you are feeling extra generious send me a few bucks so I can get one of these things. How long is the learning curve. Remember, you are dealing with a DJ here.....not so bright
Great seeing the students at Tamara Bell's Public Relations class at UT. JB and I talked to them about getting thier clients on the radio as guests. Great group. It was nice to see people excited about what lays ahead of them. I spend too much time worrying that my life and carreer will have a sad ending. I know I shouldn't think that way but I do. I have so much to be thankful for and fear that one day it will all just go away.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Bullet Points
We are getting very close to getting to Ellen Degeneres. I would bet we have her on the show with in the next week. Brei has made it her mission to get Ellen on the show.
I'm also VERY close to making the switch from Blackberry to Iphone. My wife got one and I have been playing around with it. I have to say, it is way cooler than the Blackberry. I just hate the thought of having to learn everything all over again. I hate that.
Tricia is doing well. Her scores from her gestational diabetes test were perfect. I am proud of her, she studied very hard for it. 2 months and one day from today (April 1) we could be bringing home our little girl. Pretty crazy huh? I planon getting her some Dallas Cowboys and Texas Longhorn gear. Right now most of her stuff is pretty girlie.
Does love seeing the Bluebonnets every spring make me a dork? If yes, then I am a dork. Love seeing them on 290 and 360. Caution, before setting your kids in the Bluebonnets for pictures, make sure there aren't any snakes. With the warm weather, snakes are starting to move around. Don't mean to scare you, just be careful. I swear one of these days I am going to put my 6'1" 235 pound body in a patch of Bluebonnets, take a picture, frame it, and send it to my mom.
Oh, I lost 15 lbs. How? cut waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back on the beer and Crown Royal. Lost of calories in that stuff.
My neighbor who is a conspiracy nut almost has me convinced to stop drinking anything with Aspartame in it. He says it is a biological war weapon used by the gov't for something. I dunno, sounds bad though.
Find out what I did to the girl in college at www.mix947.com, click on confessionals.
out!
I'm also VERY close to making the switch from Blackberry to Iphone. My wife got one and I have been playing around with it. I have to say, it is way cooler than the Blackberry. I just hate the thought of having to learn everything all over again. I hate that.
Tricia is doing well. Her scores from her gestational diabetes test were perfect. I am proud of her, she studied very hard for it. 2 months and one day from today (April 1) we could be bringing home our little girl. Pretty crazy huh? I planon getting her some Dallas Cowboys and Texas Longhorn gear. Right now most of her stuff is pretty girlie.
Does love seeing the Bluebonnets every spring make me a dork? If yes, then I am a dork. Love seeing them on 290 and 360. Caution, before setting your kids in the Bluebonnets for pictures, make sure there aren't any snakes. With the warm weather, snakes are starting to move around. Don't mean to scare you, just be careful. I swear one of these days I am going to put my 6'1" 235 pound body in a patch of Bluebonnets, take a picture, frame it, and send it to my mom.
Oh, I lost 15 lbs. How? cut waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back on the beer and Crown Royal. Lost of calories in that stuff.
My neighbor who is a conspiracy nut almost has me convinced to stop drinking anything with Aspartame in it. He says it is a biological war weapon used by the gov't for something. I dunno, sounds bad though.
Find out what I did to the girl in college at www.mix947.com, click on confessionals.
out!
Worms in the Mouth
This is the first round of "I'll put something in my mouth and I bet you won't" We started with NighCrawlers Enjoy
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