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Security at airports have been very tight lately. The man whose bag went through xray machine had to go through further inspection. The disassembled a hydraulic crimping tool to make it fit his bag and for some reason it looked like a gun. The security personnel had him open his bag and look for the other parts he removed. I don’t know why he even had to bring that tool with him out of the country. It can be bought anywhere.

Bad Timing, that's all..

As I install our latest commercial playground equipment, I think of the recent political exercise in France. In my opinion, Sarko, or Nikolas Sarkozi lost mainly because of bad timing. His term ran smack into the worst economic crisis of recent times and nobody could have done anything about it. It also didn’t help that he’s not born into royalty and that a lot of people didn’t like him stealing their childhood crushes, Carla Bruni.

Gunslingers of Today

I once saw a guy wear a Cowboy Hat designed safety head gear in a construction site and I find it quite cool. In most of the real world, cowboys are mainly remembered as the horse riding and gun slinging gringo who shot Indians out to rob them. This is mainly because of the Hollywood movies that got international release. I hope that the cow boy mentality in the movies stays there and does not get into international diplomacy.

Massive Reforestation Programs

Looking at my planter box reminds me of a TV documentary about an attempt at a massive reforestation effort. The principals of the program determined that people making excursions at the forests and planting it with seedlings will not actually help reverse the rate our forests are being denuded. 

They figured that there should be a way to airdrop huge amount of seedlings that will get directly embedded in the soil. This will be faster, more efficient and effective at a massive scale.