Hannah should be striking the US sometimes on Saturday. It's still uncertain how strong Hannah will be, but it should make landfall as a Cat 1 Hurricane, possibly a Cat 2 if it can rapidly gain strength. Either way, it will effect the East Coast with wind and heavy rain. For my area, probably just some wind and rain, but the wind gusts could be strong enough to cause power outages over the affected areas. I will be well prepared with my flashlight collection, but everyone may want to keep a flashlight handy as most of us will be dealing with the effects of Hannah during the night time hours, you know, when it's dark outside.

Hurricane Ike's track is still yet to be seen. Now it may wind up in the Gulf, or it may strike Florida, or it may still sneak up the East Coast. If Ike makes it up the East Coast it may impact us worse than Hannah, at least wind wise. If Ike goes into the Gulf, it may head over for LA or Texas. Good luck with that. Hopefully it won't end up taking the New Orleans worst case scenerio track. Even Katrina didn't take the worst possible track.

So good luck with these storms everyone. Stay alert, stay informed, get prepared.

Well, it's that time of year again, and the tropics are very active right now. If you live in hurricane prone parts of the country, or world, start paying attention to the weather/news now and get prepared. Gustav is taking aim at Texas/Louisiana, at least that's the long range projection, but there is another possible hurricane developing that may head towards Florida's east coast, or up the east coast. Then we may see one or two more storms develope in the Atlantic behind that which have potential to make landfall in the US as Hurricanes or tropical storms.

If Gustav does track through the Gulf and heads towards Louisiana or Texas it shouldk be a major hurricane as the Gulf waters are very warm right now.

http://members.tripod.com/weatherman91 1/index.html

I've had some users requesting more OH SNAP posts, with pictures of critters, nature, etc. I was at my parents' house last night for dinner and I usually find lots of good OH SNAP material in their yard. However, like an idiot, I forgot to bring my camera. However, I had the iPhone's camera and a pocket magnifier which lets me take close up shots with the iPhone. They come out kinda crappy, but with a little adjustment in an image program, it's acceptable. So I found this big toad there, this picture really doesn't do it justice. I wish I got a shot of the whole toad because it was really fat, looked kind of like those Pacman frogs. Here it is:

Well, I broke down and decided to get a 3G iPhone for the wife and I. We went with the 8GB versions to keep the cost down. Our old Verizon contract was up and we were due for new phones. It looks like the iPhone plan may end up being a bit cheaper than what we were paying with Verizon. The main reason I went with the iPhone is due to new App Store and all the cool apps that keep coming out.

The new Simplify Media app lets me connect to my home iTunes library and listen to it away from home. This means I don't need a huge iPod that can hold all of my MP3's in the unit. There is also AOL Radio, Tuner, and Pandora which let me stream music as well.

However, there has been a lot of news lately about poor 3G performance. So if you happen to have a 3G iPhone, how has it been performing for you? I just put in 2.0.2 so I haven't had a chance to try the latest update in a 3G area, I only have Edge around my house.

For those who didn't know I was away on vacation this past week in Chincoteague, VA. We went to the beach, we saw wild ponies, I got to meet Misty the famous Chincoteague pony that was featured in a popular children's book, Misty. To bad Misty died like 3 or 4 decades ago, but they stuffed her, and her daughter Stormy, whom I met too, the dead stuffed version...

Click here for pics from my trip.

Before I left for vacation, actually the night before, I went and saw The Dark Knight with one of my friends. I'm glad I did. It was awesome and I really want to go see it again. When Heath Ledger died I was kinda shocked and surprised, but I didn't really care that much. However, when I saw his performance in The Dark Knight I realized what a great actor we lost.

So who here has seen The Dark Knight? What did you think? It's breaking all kinds of records. Right now it has its sights set on Titanic's record for total gross of over $600 million. It is already over $300 million and is seeing a lot of repeat business, and a lot of people are telling everyone to see it. I can see why, and I'm also telling people to go see it.

If you're not aware, this is a great movie. This is something you really should go and see as movies like this don't come along very often. The Joker steals the show and you just keep wanting more Joker as you watch the film. When I heard Heath Ledger should be nominated for an Oscar I was like "Yeah, give the dead actor an Oscar as a silly tribute..." but when I saw the film I realized he deserves at least the nomination dead or alive, and I wouldn't be surprised if he won it. He is probably one of the biggest reasons this movie is such a force, so why shouldn't he win the Oscar? His performance has resulted in this movie shattering records and people raving about him. If that isn't Oscar worthy I don't know what is.

Anyway, if you haven't seen the movie, go see it. If you have already seen it, go see it again. Fuck Titanic! The Titanic needs to be sunk a second time, but not by another ice berg in the night, but by The Joker in The Dark Knight.

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LOL! You want more wildlife videos, here you go. This was from my parent's outdoor surveillance camera, they have some set up to watch wildlife, crazy NG stslkers, etc:

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Ask requested, by a some, my squirrel video. I had the camera like 2 feet away from this guy. I was surprised how tame it was, but maybe it was rabid or something. At one point when it kinda stood up and looked at me I was thinking, this thing could leap on me and start attacking, but it didn't.

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Was taking the trash out tonight when I noticed a couple of young skunks in the backyard. Crappy video because it was with my little digital camera and a flashlight:

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Here's a northern water snake I pulled out of my parents' pond. They go after their goldfish, etc, so they don't want them around. I relocated him to another area, hopefully he won't find his way back. I had to reach under water and feel around under a rock to get him, hoping it wouldn't bite my hand as I couldn't see anything. Kind of like noodling for catfish. If you don't know what noodling is, look it up. These are also the most aggressive snakes in north america, they will try to bite you if they have the chance. They are not poisonous. Many people mistake these for copperheads, etc.

I thought I'd share a picture from the 2008 Newgrounds.com Mod Meat.