Screw laser surgery to remove tattoos, replace the arm skin.  Pharrel plans to replace the skin on the arms then get some new ink…  This comes form luxist. 

“To Pharrel Williams being a grown man means no longer have fire tattoos on his arms but instead of having a laser treatment to fade or remove the flames the rapper/producer/entrepreneur is looking to have his arms replaced! — well, at least the skin on his arms. There is a revolutionary new procedure where a lab, using a sample of your skin, can grow more skin to be used as a skin graft over the portion where the tattoos currently reside. They just sew it on and voila! You have a seamless, tattoo-less arm that once healed will be ready for new ink designs. Pharrel doesn’t seem to care that it costs upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the procedure and it sounds like he anticipates a new ink job when his lab-grown-sewn-on-skin is good and ready.”

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You have to set goals and do your best to keep them rolling. 

Don’t get bogged down with the details.  While the details have to be done, make sure you remember the big picture.  Each small goal relates to larger goals.  Do not give up the larger goals because of adversity with smaller goals. 

 It is good to get your head out of the sand and see the big picture.

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“We never finish, we just run out of time”

If this is your business strategy, it might be time to start over from scratch.  Go ahead and forget about the Phantom…

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This caught my eye for a few reasons.  The adventure of boating around the world is crazy.  The boat itself has an amazing design.  Then breaking/crushing world records is an added bonus.  Being jailed in Guatemala and pirates don’t sound like something I would want to go into it knowing that is what would happen.  But it seems like an adventure.  The way the boat goes through the water is also crazy…  It does not go over the waves, but through them.  Anyhow, here are some pics of the boat, the map, and a link to more info. 

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 This house would probably look good nearly anywhere.  It is 4,000+ sqft and sits on 1.2 acres of land.  It has four bedrooms, rec room, jacuzzi and dry sauna. 

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“Raging bulls beware: Novitec unleashes 717-hp F430 Scuderia”  from Autoblog.  Just when you think you have something perfect, you get someone trying to make it better.  Remember you can always improve.

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I have been under some stress the past few weeks.  It is hard to see the big picture when you are stressed.  I tend to concentrate all my energy to the stress until I can not function properly. 

Here is a definition of stress from wikipedia: “Stress is the condition that results when person-environment transactions lead the individual to perceive a discrepancy, whether real or not, between the demands of a situation and the resources of the person’s biological, psychological or social systems. …” 

There are various ways to relieve stress and some are much healthier than others.  I am generally able to relax with basic workouts and breathing, but these last few weeks have been rough.  I am going to be spending a week in July and hopefully that will help me clear my head and refocus a bit.  I will be in Piqueros, which is a bit remote.  I am excited because it is close to the one area I have found that I would love to retire.  So I might do some land shopping. 

This video is about how my head has felt the last few years. 

If you have any great stress relief techniques let me know.  Ultimately keeping things rolling is what works best.  It is when I get stuck on things that I get stressed. 

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“Bad news for Jacob Arabov. The man, better known as “Jacob the Jeweler” and namechecked in stars by hip-hop stars like Missy Elliot for his expensive and gaudy creations has just been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Arabov has been sentenced to 30 months in prison, and will have to pay a fine of $2 million in a sentence handed down today by U.S. district court judge Avern Cohn in Detroit. Arabov was arrested on June 15, 2006 on money laundering charges involving more than $270 million in narcotics earnings for a Detroit-based drug ring.”

This is from luxist.com.   Washing a 1/4 billion sounds sick.  Seems like there is probably more going on here, but I am not trying to guess. 

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Straight from the heavy hitters magazine unofficial site… 

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Go ahead and start making room on the driveway.  The Icon A5 is scheduled to come out 2010 (which probably won’t happen, but incase it does, start saving the benjamins).  Here is a link to the company’s site. 

- Seats: 2
- Maximum Weight: 1430 lbs
- Useful Load: 430 - 530 lbs (option dependent)
- Baggage: 60 lbs (maximum)
- Fuel (Auto Gas or Av Gas): 20 gal.
- Maximum Speed (Vh): 105 kts (120 mph)
- Range: 300 nm
- Takeoff & Landing Distance: 750 ft
- Engine (Rotax 912 ULS): 100 hp

And just to keep everyone content, they got the ipod dock…

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