Ryan Lube

Make the world a better place!

After smoking pot and cigarettes for over 4 years, I made a decision to quit in January this year. Mostly due to one of the anti-smoking campaigns - where they list the amount of poison which is in each cigarette, including rat poison, bleach and other nasty stuff.

I have been going well, except for when I go out, I find myself craving a ciggy or two. Mostly due to the fact that I'm so drunk I feel "what harm can it do". Luckily I wake up in the morning thinking how stupid it was and don't touch the things.

However, after watching the ad below, I feel like I am put off them all together. Tell us what you think?

Carotid - 30 Secs Small file Play  - 1.4 meg

Carotid - 30 Secs Large file Play  - 10.1 meg

CCCrusaders - Winning Streak

We are 3rd on the ladder and don't look like stopping until we're number 1. Come watch the Central Coast Crusaders State League Men side play the next two weekends at Terrigal Stadium (Duffys Road).

Saturday 26th May - 3pm - VS  - Sutherland Sharks

Saturday 2nd June - 3pm - VS - Macarthur Heat

Dalai Lama in Sydney

Originally uploaded by MatthewBradley.

Would anyone like to join me? Mick, Karen?

15 June - FREE Sydney 2 – 6.30pm - The Domain

Major Event: FREE Dalai Lama Talk & Tribute Concert
‘Peace through inner peace’
One Earth – Conservation & Tribute Concert to the Dalai Lama
Ben Lee, Mia Dyson, Lior and Jen Cloher
& The Endless Sea

OR

16 June - FREE Sydney - 10 -11.30am - The Domain

Major Event: FREE Public Talk
‘The Power of Compassion’

Cats Cats and more Cats

I am usually a dog person, but these pictures show just how cool cats can be!

Interesting News - Why Australia is the happiest place in the world

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Originally uploaded by Samson Daniels.

Vietnamese criminal gangs in Canada have developed a sophisticated method of growing pot indoors all year round. It greatly increases both the yield and potency of the cannabis and cuts growing time.

Latest criminal intelligence suggests that Australia-based Vietnamese drug dealers have traveled to Canada to learn how to cultivate the highly addictive cannabis.

No more try times for Australian dope smokers!

Funny statistics the report revealed:

* Two million Australians have used amphetamines
* 5.5million have tried cannabis
* At least 100,000 ecstasy pills are used every weekend in Australia
* Australia has the world's highest rate of ecstasy consumption
* Twenty per cent of Australians aged 20 to29take ecstasy
* Drug users told a national survey that heroin, amphetamines, ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine were easy or very easy to get.

End of our run

Hale-Bopp
Originally uploaded by foreversouls.

A lot of people try and predict the future of everything. The Stockmarket, the economy, trends, civilisation, the weather and the Earth.

As I saw a star 150 times the size of our own sun die today (or 240 million light years away) I think to myself, no matter how much information you have, nothing or no-one can accurately predict our future. At any moment a Comet could slam into earth and we wouldn't know what hit us.

Movies such as Armageddon and deep impact give us the false sense that we can prepare for these situations, I think not.

No matter how good our technology, or our reaction time to respond to such an event, I don't think we would be a match and I'm sure the world as we know it would be demolished within seconds. Oh but the good old USA would be able to come up with some kind of plan... Don't think so.. judging by their "Emergency response time" to New Orleans when Katrina struck... they should be hitting the alarm bells about 10 minutes before impact.

But all this said... I think the main reason no-one really thinks about this... or let's it effect our day to day life, is that we have enough issues and possible causes to worry about. Who cares about a comet when a germ the size of a pin head could kill you!

I'm sure most of you would read this and think... what a downer... look on the lighter side of life etc... When in fact It only makes me want to enjoy life even more, live everyday as if it were my last. I can happily say that we were destroyed tomorrow, I wouldn't be sad, I would just enjoy the view!