Shawn, got this as a forward of a forward of a forward. Its interesting, and perhaps wholly unrealistic, BUT its an interesting thought exercise, and maybe, just maybe, crazy enough to work.

I am against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I am in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America
in a "We Deserve It Dividend."

To make the math simple, let us assume there are
200,000,000 bona fide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is
about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So
200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that
equal s $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every
person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Click here to read more about the "We Deserve It Dividend"

Happy Birthday, Sly!

Posted September 22nd, 2008 by Shawn

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Last Day of August

Posted September 3rd, 2008 by Shawn

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Video shot by our friend J Curtis in HD using a Panasonic HVX200A.

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First Day Jitters!

Posted August 12th, 2008 by Nappy

Hello everyone! Thank you and welcome to "The Almost Grand Opening!" - the "real" Grand Opening will be on September 3rd, 2008 but I want to welcome you to drop by and look around.

This is where I live with my new friends, Shawn and Lesa. I'm really enjoying getting to know them and we are having a lot of fun. Turns out, we like the same things - traveling and food!

I hang out a lot more with Shawn - Lesa is busy writing a book about Photoshop. I don't quite understand it (what is a "book"?) but she seems trapped in the house a lot. :(

Shawn and I ride around a lot on one of these - I absolutely love the feeling of the wind blowing through my feathers!

I've never been on anything like it before and I wish my flippers reached the controls - I bet I could handle one of these things. But maybe I should start out a little smaller.

As we were out riding last week, we met some of the Scooter Divas - 4 delightful women riding their own rides on scooters!

There are a lot more pictures on my Flickr feed - bookmark it and this page to keep up with all I'm going to be doing the next few months!

Raini's punchline was "I did take him to the zoo. Now I'm taking him to the beach!"

Welcome!

Posted August 12th, 2008 by Nappy

My name is Napoleon (my friends call me "Nappy") and I am an Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri). I've somehow managed to make friends with two very nice humans - Shawn and Lesa - who are very kind to me and are going to let me indulge in my wanderlust.

You see, being a penguin, while glorious, does have its disadvantages. The main one being travel.

Oh sure, we can walk all over Antarctica and swim in the sea but, we can't visit Paris. Or Los Angeles. Or the Mediterranean. So, if you're a penguin like me (and I assume you are otherwise, why would you bother reading this?) and have an urge to get out and see the world, being flightless and living at the bottom of the planet presents sometimes insurmountable challenges.

I say "sometimes" because I have managed to leave my homeland (I won't say "escaped" because I love Antarctica!) and will be traveling as much of the world as my flightless wings and tiny feet can take me!

This promises to be quite an adventure - certainly for me but I also hope you, my fellow penguins, will join me virtually. Who knows - maybe I'll get to meet some of you in the Real World.

Enjoy!