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I need my FTP!

Tragic. They're taking away my FTP access to my blog through blogger. I'm not sure if I want to make the domain changes they're demanding, so this could be "all she wrote" for Ryan Patton's Thoughts.

On the plus side, I won't have to think as often...

Keep smiling!

-Ryan

I Was Promised Donuts!

This sign was used as part of some San Franciscan's protest to a "protest rally" by people belonging to Westboro "Baptist Church" (which is truly a misnomer).  When the people protesting the protesters were finished, a local cop wanted the "I was promised donuts" sign for her Sergent's car.  Nice touch, I must say.

For the full album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubin110/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Security Theater, Anyone?

So who else has been tempted to say something when the TSA goon takes the water bottle from the 90 year old woman?

Xkcd.com:


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Term Limits for Congresspeople

Clearly, the time has come to impose term limits on all the folks in D.C. When did serving the people become a career move?


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Oscar Winners

I'm rather glad some new faces won the big Oscars last night - even if the 'new faces' are the ex-wife of the guy that directed the sinking ship I still want 3+ hours of my life back for watching, the first person to win a best Oscar and worst Razzie in the same weekend, and 'the Dude'.

Air Tran

I must admit, I was quite excited to hear the news that Huntsville's found a new "low-fare" carrier. Air Tran will serve Baltimore and Orlando from Huntsville starting this May. Let's just hope this has a ripple effect on fares from Huntsville, the most expensive city to fly out of in the country. Oh, and that we can keep them, which seems to be the part of this equation we can't quite figure out.


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von Braun

Photo: von Braun (center) explains the Saturn Launch System to President Kennedy (right) (nasa.gov)

As a resident of Huntsville, Alabama, I thought I'd share these interesting comments of former Huntsville resident (and German/American rocket scientist and pioneer) Wernher von Braun, who (along with his team) invented the Saturn V rocket that took man to the moon. During WWII his team designed rockets for a much different purpose, though, including the V2 that brought terror to London throughout the war.

Nearing the end of the war he knew Germany was to lose, and was faced with a decision of who to surrender his team and technology to -- the Americans advancing from the West, or the Soviets from the East. His comments about that decision in an interview:

"We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured." (W. von Braun, Biography television series, 1961-64.)

Don't touch that!

Well, now I know why we buy too much. Apparently if you touch it, you have to buy it...

Worst. Invention. Ever.

Really, who comes up with this stuff? More importantly who approves this stuff???

Twitter-equipped bathroom scale tells the world how much you weigh

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