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Nature Can Be Chilling…

Dog Pack Attacks Gator In Florida

At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.

The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the “apex predator”, can still fall victim to implemented ‘team work’ strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and “survival of the pack mentality” bred into the canines.

See the remarkable photograph below courtesy of Nature Magazine.

Note that the Alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the gator preventing it from breathing, while another dog has a hold on the tail to keep it from thrashing. The third dog attacks the soft underbelly of the gator.

Not for the squeamish… Click on the link below to see the photo.

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Just Some Stuff

There is no ice in the fridge. That sucks, because yeah, I can turn the ice maker on, but by the time it starts producing ice, its going to be bed time. stbm.

I feel like crap. I think I am coming down with a bug or something… I am feeling aches and shit coming on. Hopefully a good night’s rest will get rid or it though. I’m probably just tired.

I sent my Mom some money by one of those money transfer companies. When she went to collect it, they told her they had no info on any transaction from me to her, can you believe it? Guess what the problem was! When I checked the receipt, I found that the guy who processed it for me, despite transcribing the info from my driver’s license, put down my first name and my middle name, Mad Aloysius, instead of my first and last, Mad Bull. Whussup wit’ dat?

Huh? Oh yeah, muy name is Mad Aloysius Bull. Whats wrong with that? Cho. Gweh! :)

I was supposed to be in Florida tonite. I didn’t end up going tho. My bank is sending me on a training course but there was some kind of scheduling problem and it got postponed. Didn’t really bother me still. I prefer to go with others from my bank, and now maybe that is the way things will work out.

I finally persuaded Natty to watch Californication with me. She found it interesting, but the wayward lifestyle of the main character seems to annoy her a bit.

I have been being a bit bad. I haven’t been going to the gym as regularly as I should. :(

Oh, by the way, it turns out that I have been giving the ice maker in my fridge a bum rap! It made the ice in no time. Sadly, the drinks are done, so is my bath and so I-man a go bed. Bye…

The Mission

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go and check out Miss Jamaica’s wardrobe. Just click on the picture below if you are up to the mission.

Song of the day: Contagious, by Trapt. If you can’t handle the No. 1 mission, then do mission 2 (or do them both if you like :) ). Watch the music video.

Enjoy your day. Laterz!

He Ain’t Having It!

So I’m reading the Friday Compass… MBJr. is nearby. He says to me, “Dad, do you think we could go to a movie? What is showing at Caymana Bay?” As I leaf through the Compass looking for the advert by Hollywood Theatres, I buck up an article which says that the Vatican has put out some changes that they think will woo Anglican pastors (or are they priests) to the Catholic fold. I exclaim, “But don’t Anglican can married! What the baxide dem a talk bout. Me haffi read dis!”.

As always, when I get excited and break into the unintelligible (to MBJr.) patois, he wants to know WTF is up?

“What are you reading, Dad?”, he asked.
I said, “Nothing.” because I wanted a chance to read the story, but he wouldn’t accept my attempt to sidetrack him. “What’re you reading, Dad? Tell me!”.

I decided to tell him. “It appears that the Catholic Church has made some changes to how they operate that they are suggesting may woo some Anglican priests to turn back to Catholicism. You see MBjr., this interests me because the Catholics (wrongly, IMHO) do not allow their priests to marry! The Anglicans ARE allowed marry, I believe! This makes me wonder what exactly these changes the Catholic Church have made are! You are a Catholic, you know, even though you hardly go to church. You were baptised as a Catholic, anyway…”.
“I know.”, MBJr. replied.

Every now and then I flirt with the idea of going back to church. In these flirtations, I think about taking MBJr. with me. Not Natty, she is immovable. She naw go. And I can understand that, because she has NEVER been a regular attendee at any church, as far as I know. I decided to use this moment to drop in one of my church going hints.

I continued, “When I was little, my Mom and Dad used to force me to go to church. Because of that, I eventually stopped going. I was trying to rebel against their rules, you know, but it eventually became a habit. Still, it is not a bad idea to go to church sometimes, you know?”.

I looked at MBJr., wondering what he thought of my implied suggestion. He replied, “What are they showing at Caymana Bay, Dad.”. :eek:

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Tramp Stamps

I was watching a blue movie the other day, given to me by a guy at work. It was one of those parody X-Rated movies. I think it was a parody of the TV Show “Friends” or something like that. It was okay.

What was interesting about the movie to me though was this ‘tramp stamp’ that one of the starlets in the movie had. It was a pretty intricate tattoo of a butterfly, really pretty! I noticed it when the girl was getting it doggy style, with the camera shooting from above the girl’s back. I was finding myself becoming mesmerised by the butterfly as the girl moved back and forth, and it was like I became more interested in watching the movement of the butterfly than concentrating on the actual activity that was taking place.

It then occurred to me that this might be one of the benefits of tramp stamps. Some guys have issues with coming too early, you know? We have all manner of tricks that we use to try not to come early, such as thinking about something else like a cricket match, or about shyt at work or about a video game or something, anything to distract them from the pleasurable sensations that they are experiencing, but for some guys, the tricks don’t work.

Now when a woman has on a tramp stamp like this butterfly I was talking about earlier, well, if you can get mesmerized by the butterfly or whatever tattoo the woman is wearing and it distracts you from the ‘work at hand’, thats probably a good thing! It might just work out for the guys (and hence for the women), don’t you think?

While we are on the issue of tramp stamps, check this one out:


Note: Not really a butterfly

Now thats a REAL tramp stamp, huh? :lol: Note, this is NOT the butterfly that had me mesmerized!

Wheel & Come again!

I have a little joke to share with you. Its been a long time since I last did that, right? Here goes…

Junior , the Jamaican is on ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’; and has
reached the $1 million question. MeredithVeira says, ‘Right Junior , this is for $1 million, and remember, you still have two lifelines left, so
please take your time. Here’s your question: What type of animal lives in a Sett?’

‘Is it:
A) Badger
B) Ferret
C) Mole
D) Cuckoo?’

Junior ponders for a while and says, ‘Backside Meridith, mi not sure; gi mi di 50-50.’

‘Right, Junior , let’s take away two wrong answers and see what you’re left with.

‘Badger’ and’Cuckoo’ are the two remaining answers..

Junior has a long think, then scratches his head and says, ‘Blouse an’
Skirt Meridith, mi still nuh know, mek mi phone mi island bredren.’

‘So who are you going to call?’ says Meridith.

‘Hmmm, Ah tink I’ll call Selwyn in Mandeville, Jamaica.’

So Meredith phones Selwyn in Mandeville. Selwyn, this is Meredith Veira from ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’. I’ve got Junior here, and with your help he could win $1 million. The next voice you hear will be Junior .’

‘Wha gwaan Selwyn? Where mi money deh…? Anyway, ansa dis an we quits. What type ah hanimal mek im yard in a sett? Is a badger or a cuckoo? ‘

‘Is a badger, man.’ says Selwyn without hesitation.

‘You sure, bwoy?’

‘Definite. Wanundred purcent. Abadger. Definitely.’

‘Right, tank yu man.’

‘I’ll go wit di eediat bwoy Selwyn. The answer is a badger.’

‘Final answer, Junior ?’

‘Yeh mon, Meridith, final answer.’

‘That’s the correct answer. You’ve won $1 million!’

Cue wild celebrations.

Next morning Junior calls up Selwyn: ‘Bredren dat was a blood-fire ansa laas night bwoy, yuh cumgood!
How you did know sey badger yard is a sett?’

‘Me nevah know’, replies Selwyn, ‘but everybaddy know cuckoo live inna clock!’ :lol: :lol:

Ah bwoy, dat one mek mi belly side hot me, di way me laff! I hope it was good for you too. :)

Anyway, I man ago buss it! Peace!

The Morning So Far…

Bolt
Faster than a speeding bullet…able to win races while texting and signalling di plane…it’s a bird, it’s a plane…It’s Super Bolt!

Hey all. I saw the above on someone’s wall on Facebook and thought it was funny so I stole it and then shared it with you. Does that make me like Robin Hood or wah?

Anyway, here is a snip of my Twitter updates this morning… Maybe you should read it from the bottom up, I dunno… Try it both ways and tell me what you think.

madbull4 Ra$$! Some big rain ah drop outside! You want to see how Simba just scooted into his crate! :^) Ah bwoy, the life of an ‘outside’ dog…

madbull4 (sings) All i want to do / Is be more like me / And be less like you … (/sings)
Ok, I know, thats not Silversun Pickups…. I like Evanescence too.
less than 5 seconds ago from web

madbull4 I should go & do some crunches and leg lifts and stuff like that soon too. When you don’t see me, I gone, seen?
7 minutes ago from web

madbull4 Uhoh! Natty is up! I guess she’ll soon be on my ass to get ready 4 work. :^|
9 minutes ago from web

madbull4 Yay! The coffee ready! I saw some white chocolate mocha creamer in the fridge & so I tried it. Not bad, but french vanilla still my fav.
11 minutes ago from web

madbull4 @brownsugawoman Hi back! Have a great day, y’hear!
18 minutes ago from web in reply to brownsugawoman

madbull4 Ok, coffees perking. Eating a banana & taking my vitamins while I wait. Went back 2 the gym last nite. sum ppl actually remembered me, yo!
19 minutes ago from web

madbull4 I want some coffee now. I guess I better go make some … soon come.
29 minutes ago from web

madbull4 @StunnerJ How dat taste? It sounds good! :^) RT @StunnerJ Drinking Appleton and white cranpeach…
about 1 hour ago from web

madbull4 Mornin’ all. Up too early again, but acceptably so. Listening to the Silversun Pickups.
about 1 hour ago from web

Yeah, I know it wasn’t a proper post, but I got writer’s block or something. TTYL.

The Boring Minuatiae of My Life

Hullo. I changed my Desktop background in Windows again. Yeah, I got up really early, maybe 3:30am or something and Facebook was boring at that time, and I didn’t have anything to do, and so, in my state of idleness, my background picture caught my attention and I though to myself, “It REALLY is time for that picture to go, you know!”.

The picture above is my new background. It is a picture of the waterfront in George Town, Grand Cayman. It was taken from the roof of the parking garage at my office, which is somewhere between seven or eight floors up. (Yeah, I know that is nothing big in some people’s books, but in Cayman, that is pretty high up!) The picture was taken at about 5:30 pm.

I know that picture is not much of a big deal, but for some reason, I like it. Some of the places shown in the picture are the Bayside Mall (a mall in name only), the Hard Rock Cafe, that store / restaurant that I think is owned by Guy Harvey, and the Atlantis Sub office.

I changed my background because…

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Conversation Snippets.

On the way back to work after lunch…

Mad: Oh ra$$, see how we passed the gas station! I was going to check the tyres… I guess it can wait until we are going home.

Natty: Yeah, don’t worry about it. I will be with you in the car today, so you won’t be able to stop and check your girl!

Mad: When I am with you, I AM checking my girl! :grin:

Natty: I meant the other one!

Mad: There can be only one!

Natty: Yeah, right! LOL

ID4… Reloaded!

MBJr: Bored out ra$$!
MBJr: Bored out ra$$!

I just done watch ‘Independence Day‘ (A.K.A. ID4), starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum. My son was bored. All he has been watching lately is Stargate Atlantis and SG1 episodes and the old Harry Potter movies (we have the DVDs). He was saying that everything else I had was boring, Hah! I hit him with ‘Independence Day’ and he loved it.

As for me, I watched it with him and I was loving it too. I must say, I think that movie is one of my all-time favourites! I am glad he liked it. There are a couple of interesting things I found out while watching it and reading up on the movie online… interestingly enough, the first interesting thing is that the film ‘Independence Day was written, directed and produced by the same people who did the movie ‘Stargate‘, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. Who knew? Not I, thats for sure.

I find the above interesting because when I decided to give MBJr. this movie to watch, it was because I felt that he was watching too much of the Stargate episodes. It is like he has become obsessed with the series! You can hardly get him to watch anything else, and then I finally convince him to watch ID4 thinking I am weaning him (gently) off Stargate, and I find that the movies were done by the same people. Isn’t it ironic?

The second thing I noticed was that the wife of the president in ‘Independence Day’ is the President of the Colonies in ‘Battlestar Galactica‘, none other than Mary McDonnell! Trust me, people, she has got to be one of the hottest 59 year-olds on the planet! Beautiful lady, yo!

Now he is watching ‘Men in Black‘! I think I should show him ‘Predator‘ next. We’ll see what he thinks of those.

Who Wanna Get Drunk?

Oh man! I love this song! Real catchy! Paradiso Girls - Patron Tequila.

Watching the video makes me nostalgic for being out at some hype, really good party, buzzed and dancing that shit off, really enjoying myself. It really puts me in the mood! And you know what? Tonight there is a party in George Town, at Margueritaville. I think they called it the Mature Alternative… Its supposed to cater to people who have been out of school more than five years or so, I guess! I believe they are trying to exclude the ‘wild-n-crazies’ and the gunslingers, so that people can just go out and have a good time.

We have already spread the word to our friends that we should all go to this party and a number of them seem like they will be going. Trust me, if this mood I am in continues, Natty and I will be out tonight, dancing around and wining up and singing all the songs at the top of our voices, drinking shots of Patron Tequila, then swilling down rum like there is no tomorrow! Yo, by the end of the night we’re going to be be SO! MESSED! UP! (and then you know how it go inna the after party! )

Just kidding… I’m going to drink responsibly! :neutral:

If we don’t end up going, well, then there is always an early morning at the beach to look forward to. :)