Prehistoric Lake Monster of Kyle, Texas

This was a truly hideous beast!

Parrot Secrets

http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/parrot-secrets/

I mention the above to everybody I know. $400k in one year for a pdf describing how to take care of parrots? Is that true? What similar thing could you write about that would make you some money?

Attorney General Eric Holder Unable to Say Something Obvious

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/-248862--.html

Why can't he say that radical Islam could be one of the things that motivate terrorists to do what they do? Any ideas?

Netflix Review

Here are some movies I've recently watched on Netflix:

1. About a Boy: Hugh Grant plays a very shallow guy who comes to realize who he is and eventually makes changes. I liked it. It was pretty funny.
   
2. For a Few Dollars More: Classic western. Must see if you like westerns.
   
3. The Host: Korean horror/monster film. It was ok. Some of the monster scenes were well done.
   
4. I Love You, Beth Cooper: I like the idea of this movie a lot. A complete nerd gives a valedictorian speech that gets everybody's attention, including the girl he silently has had a crush on throughout high school. Hilarity ensues. It's not a bad movie.
   
5. The Men Who Stare at Goats: A George Clooney flick. I didn't care for it.
   
6. Metropolis: A visually interesting anime sci-fi film. I liked it. It had a reasonable plot and some decent moments.
   
7. Much Ado About Nothing: Ok. I don't mean to be offensive. However, this movie is gay. Avoid it. Go watch DiCaprio's Romeo + Juliet instead.
   
8. Nerdcore Rising: This documentary is ok. Not the best I've seen recently. It chronicals the first tour of a geek rapper named Mc Frontalot. Imagine a rapper rapping xkcd comics and that's what I mean by geek rapper.
   
9. The Outlaw Josey Wales: A classic western. I liked it a lot. One of the better old westerns that I've seen.
   
10. Pale Rider: Another classic western. I liked the allusions the movie made to other things.
    
11. Planet B-Boy: One of the better documentaries I've seen. It is very well done. Watch it with your sound turned up. It follows teams as they prepare for and participage in a worldwide breaking dancing championship. I know that may sound lame. However, it was actually pretty cool.
    
12. Sita Sings the Blues: An animated movie about some mythology from India. It was very well done but I had lots of trouble following what was going on. The characters talked very fast and the movie moved very fast too. Also, I'm not very familiar with the stories it was telling.
    
13. Spirit of the Marathon: A good documentary about the Chicago marathon.
    
14. The Station Agent: I didn't like this movie very much. Not enough happened. It was essential a character movie with three characters. I think I didn't like this movie for exactly the same reasons I didn't like Lost in Translation.
    
15. Timecrimes: I thought the main charater in this time travel movie wasn't believable. He was very dumb sometimes and very smart other times. He probably could have avoided all of his time travel problems if he had just watched Back to the Future a couple of times before the events of the movie. Having said all that, I still kind of liked this movie. It tried. The plot was complicated and interesting.
    
16. Waiting for Guffman: I didn't like this movie too much. The cast of this movie has made several movies. A Mighty Wind, Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap were better.
    
17. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?: A tough old lady buys a painting for nothing. She battles the snooty and arrogant art community trying to prove it is a Jackson Pollock. Her experts come up with pretty good evidence that it is but that doesn't matter to some people.
    

Oh. I almost forgot. I urge all members of the US Congress to add all the above movies to their Netflix queue as fast as humanly possible, if not faster.

GregH Is Nobody's Puppet

Scores Posted For SA Open

http://www.sanantoniodiscclub.com/saopen.htm

Here are the scores for the disc golf tournament I played.

I urge Congress to "act quickly" and view these scores "immediately".

Why Does Obama Always Want Congress to Act Quickly?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36989.html

He said the same thing about health care reform.

Posted Without Comment

Kevin James

Bob Costas

Elena Kegan, Supreme Court Nominee

The Saddest Moment Ever Caught On Video

Watch the above from 6:43 through 7:10.

Listen to what Honeysuckle says right at the end (Warning: Your heart might break).

No Oil From the Spill In the Gulf Was Burned Off?

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/fire_boom_oil_spill_raines.html

Is that article true?

And, do you think the Feds were on top of the oil spill from day one?

http://www.politico.com/largevideobox.html?bcpid=15202024001&bclid=1201016315&bctid=82523507001

Visualization of Obama's Quest to Cut $100 Million From the Budget

Haha.

Disc Golf Backyard Putting Shootout (2010-04-28)

San Antonio Burger Rankings

1. Chris Madrid's: Not an "everyday burger". Eating too many of these would kill you. It's a trophy burger.
   
2. Five Guys Burgers & Fries: Very good burgers served in a brown paper bag with abundant fries. Many different free toppings to choose from. Also, this place has bags and bags of peanuts to munch on while waiting for your food.
   
3. Chester's Hamburger Company: Good "everyday burger". Get the green chile cheeseburger for something different.
   
4. The Cove: I got the Texas Burger last time I ate at The Cove. It was full of flavor. They have a wide selection of burgers with unusual and high quality ingredients. Plus, you could do your laundry or wash your car before or after you eat. It's a favorite of The Current crowd.
   
5. Timbo's: Really good, big burgers. Get the Shypoke Eggs and/or the Poppers and Coins. Skip the fries and get tater tots.
   
6. Big'z Burger Joint: This place is really good. Sit outside on the covered deck and watch all the kids run around and play.
   
7. Bunsen Burger: Good burgers with a sci fi theme. Get a milkshake and the sweet potato fries.
   
8. Whataburger: The best fast food burger in town.
   
9. Biff Buzby's Burgers: They have sweet buns and free beans (for some reason). Get the tater tots. It has an aviation theme. Lots of military people frequent this place.

Fuddruckers would have made the list but I've heard they filed for bankruptcy.

My Immigration Policy

Immigration was a recent topic of a conversation I was involved in. So, I thought I'd post my immigration policy here.

1. I'd have a guest worker program that allowed people from outside the US to work inside the US without too much hassle. I'd make reasonable requirements for participation. For example, maybe the guest worker would have to have a job lined up in the US before he could enter. As part of the program, I'd have protection for the workers from abuse at the hands of employers. Also, participants in the program would pay some amount of taxes on their earnings.
   
2. For a short time, maybe a year, I'd have an amnesty program which allowed illegals already in the US to either enter the guest worker program or get returned to their countries without criminal penalty.
3. After the amnesty program is over, I'd have laws and programs designed to catch illegals in the country without resorting to racial profiling. For example, proof of identity would be required for things like working, renting or buying property, getting health care, going to school, getting a driver's license, buying a car, etc.
4. There would be stiff penalties for employers that knowingly hired illegals.
5. There would be objective standards for who can become a citizen of the US. In general, we'd only let people who would make the US a better place become a citizen. So, we would reject criminals, people without good skills/abilities, people who can't speak English well enough, etc. We don't owe the people of the world US citizenship. The US should act in its best interest when deciding who to allow to become citizens.
   
6. I'd probably make long participation in the guest worker program without criminal activity/problems something that makes obtaining citizenship easier. Maybe each year in the guest worker program adds support to a person's citizenship request.
   
7. The 14th Amendment essentially makes any child born the US a citizen. I'd change the amendment to make the mother or father legally being in the country a requirement for the newborn to become a citizen.

I think the above ideas/policies are a good start. However, I'm sure there would be other things that would need to be done. I just can't think of any of these things right now.

EDIT: I advocate the above policy as long as the US remains as it is politically. We give away too much "free stuff". If we had an open border policy in the current context, it would ruin us. If we fix the government in the US (a huge, fat if), I'd advocate an essentially open border policy.

Vacationing a Human Right?

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/news/Vacationing+human+right+chief+says/2924330/story.html

Yet another idiot.

The Author of This Piece on CNN.com is an Idiot

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/11/martin.confederate.extremist/index.html?hpt=C2

Somebody should revoke his "I can think my way out of a paper bag card".

More From This Weekend's Tournament

Here are three videos:

Throwing from the 12th tee:



Throwing to the 18th island green:



View from the 18th tee:



Also, the results have been posted.

http://www.pdga.com/tournament-results?TournID=10073

As you can see, my 80 was really, really bad and my 61 was pretty good.

80 and 61

So, I participated in my first disc golf tournament today. I had a really, really bad first round. I shot a 78 plus I added my score wrongly and got a 2 shot penalty. So, my first round was an 80, one of the worst rounds by anybody in my division.

I think I played so badly the first round for these reasons:

1. I wasn't warmed up.
2. I was nervous/intimidated
3. I hadn't played or even seen half the holes we played.

My second round I shot a 61. I had a bunch of pars and either two or three birdies. 61 was a better number than any person I played with posted (7 different people). I'll be able to see how good of a round the 61 was when the full results are posted here.

Also, in this previous post, it might have appeared to some that I was talking a lot of trash before the tournament. That's not right. As with everything I do, you have to read between the lines. That post was really me just wishing everybody well and me hoping that I enjoyed the tournament and learned some things. I did.

The Greatest Human That Has Ever Lived?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

Is it that guy?

If it's not him, who is it?

Algorithm For Making a List of the Dammed

Here are the steps:

1. Go to this link.
2. Scroll down to the "Recreational" section.
3. Remove the name "Greg Lange" from the names you find there.
4. The remaining names make up the list.
   

Some may think I've misspelled the word "dammed" in the title of this post. I did not. These people are "dammed" because there is a huge obstacle in the way of their desire for success. Imagine a Hoover Dam sized and shaped structure on the disc golf course in Boerne. Now, imagine that structure is good at disc golf. Only now do you understand what I mean.