In the 1400’s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb”
Seriously, that’s where it’s from – can you believe that!?
Where Are You in the Dating Graph?
This is a good graph that was sent to me that can accurately diagram who the person next to you in bed is, or how they fit into your dating perspective. While some of my friends have set up camp in the Zone of Pain with their “go ugly early” strategy, others jump between the dreaded cycle of Friend – Awkwardness – F-Buddy – Awkwardness, while the rest meander around in the dating zone with occasional layovers in the Zone of Pain.
Where do you stand (or should i say sleep)?
Ridiculous Video Vol. 3
Freakin’ Brothers
These guys are playing piano in an unusual way. You have to admire not only their skill but also their threshold for pain
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=odlbhpM_k60]
Complaint Choir
The Complaint Choir of Helnsinki. The creation of a Finnish husband-wife artist team, Oliver Kochta Kalleinen and Tellervo Kalleinen, the choir stars in the most instantly accessible and funniest comedy/art video I’ve seen in a while.
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3DzKv68]
Butterfly
This is a trippy, yet very cool metamorphasis of a woman into a butterfly. Only a minute long and worth it.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHVFszDT1Ic]
If you like these, check out Ridiculous Videos Vol. 1 and Ridiculous Videos Vol. 2
An Albino Deer – A 1 in Million Occurance
I got this message emailed to me today by my mom’s friend in Wisconsin. Apparently a deer jumped out in front of her car and when they went to rescue it they saw it was an albino deer. Looks pretty cute…
A very eventful day around here. A once in many lifetimes experience! Mark saw this lil’ feller run out in front of a car, thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW. A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Momma deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of Mark.
Well, he is THE neatest and cutest thing any of us ever saw. And such a ‘freak of nature’, that only 1 in more than a million are even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, doing great. We called the Zoo & Fossil Rim and both were interested, but we’re actualy going to send him to a Rehab farm. Maybe he will make it in captivity somewhere and be appreciated. I hope so. These deer are very rare. We wanted to keep him but it’s not the right thing to do – and not legal either.
Here are a couple of pix to show ya. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Our kids called him Powder. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him.
Pass this around, a lot of folks have never and will probably never see even another picture of an Albino deer fawn……
Kramer's Racial Tirade
This is an insane video of Michael Richards – Kramer from Seinfeld – doing a pretty racist and rough standup show. This is definitely worth checking out…
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=gsxiB5dZNNs]
Other link: http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1772645
What's My Name Bitch!
I found this site today which has the real names of musicians. It’s interesting to see that Sly Stalone, Eddie Vedder and others aren’t really called that. Here are some good ones….
Aaliyah – Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Tori Amos – Myra Ellen Amos
Ashanti – Ashanti Shaquoya “Shani Bani” Douglas
Erykah Badu – Erica Wright
Beyonce – Beyonce Giselle Knowles
Bjork – Bjork Gudmundsdottir
Michael Bolton – Michael Bolotin
Jon Bon Jovi – John Francis Bongiovi Jr.
Bono (U2) – Paul David Hewson
Pat Boone – Charles Eugene Boone
David Bowie – David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones
Bobby Brown – Robert Barisford Brown
Jackson Browne – Clyde Jackson Browne
Buckethead – Brian Carroll
Vitamin C – Colleen Fitzpatrick
50 Cent – Curtis Jackson
Ray Charles – Ray Charles Robinson
Cher – Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere
Eric Clapton – Eric Patrick Clapp
Patsy Cline – Virginia Patterson Hensley
Joe Cocker – John Robert Cocker
Coolio – Artis Ivey Jr. Continue reading “What's My Name Bitch!”
Instead of a Diet, Get a Camera
Americans are obese, but at least we have a slew of technology out there to help us out. In fact, there’s a new HP camera, that actually makes you look slimmer. Check this out:
And the website reads:
They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is a subtle effect that can instantly trim off pounds from the subjects in your photos!
That’s almost eerie – but whatever, pass the turkey
Dartmouth Soccer Scores in Zimbabwe
I played with Methembe my freshman year at Dartmouth and beyond being one of the nicest guys ever, he was a truly amazing soccer player. Called as “the Mayor” on the field ever since his youth when he tore up the Zimbabwe youth league, he also become known as “Captain Hook” to Chris Pedrick and others who liked to watch. I never forget when Methembe rolled into preseason my freshman year and was marking me on defense. He pretty much dominated my every move and walking off the field one of the players mentioned to me that Methembe was a few days late to preseason because he was playing the World Cup qualifiers against Nigeria and i should be too upset that he crushed me on the field b/c just a few days later he was marking Amochaci and Kanu. Yeah, that’s quite a switch – world cup qualifier to Ivy League preseason. Anyway, i bring all this up b/c i wanted to post the latest of Methembe’s accomplishments in Zimbabwe and with Grass Roots Soccer which is a great program:
Former Dartmouth Soccer Star Scores Again
Methembe Ndlovu is arguably the best soccer player ever to pull on the Dartmouth green. He left Dartmouth to return to his homeland, Zimbabwe, where he earned the nations highest honor, captaining the national team. He made a brave decision to return to Zimbabwe last year to lead Grassroot Soccer’s HIV prevention efforts there. According to the WHO, Zimbabwe’s has the lowest life expectancy in the world and has dropped from 69 in 2000 to 35 in 2006. Everyone who can leave has left. Methembe returned.
Under his leadership the Grassroot Soccer Zimbabwe program has flourished, in large part due to a partnership with Highlanders, one the nations most popular teams. In return for Methembe’s coaching services, GRS has access to all the players (pro’s and Highlanders youth), the Highlanders games for graduation ceremonies (see attached photos) and their facilities for conducting the HIV education program. The partnership has paid off for Highlanders now too as 2 days ago Methembe became the youngest coach ever to win a Zimbabwe national title.
The Dartmouth-Highlanders/Zimbabwe connection is a strong one. Dartmouth graduates Andrew Shue, Jesse Bradley, Tommy Clark (CEO of grassroots soccer), Geoff Wheeler, Brian Wiese, Chris Mitchell and former coach Bobby Clark have been involved with the club.
Feel free to drop Methembe a note at: mndlovu at grassrootsoccer.org (note, very slow internet service in Zimbabwe so don’t expect a quick note back) or check out www.grassrootsoccer.org to find out more about this project.
Web 2.0 and Chuck Norris
As the founder of qloud, i’ve been immersed in Web 2.0 for the past 12 months (at least) and as a man i love Chuck Norris. Like Chuck, i never sleep, i wait. While i was waiting, i found this list of Chuck’s activity in web 2.0 world. Read on….
- Chuck Norris was refused an investment by a VC. Once.
- Chuck Norris read the entire blogosphere. Including splogs.
- Chuck Norris invented blogging in 1974 in order to keep track of people he roundhouse kicked to the face.
- Flickr gave Chuck Norris a funny look. Now you know why it needs a massage.
- Chuck Norris doesn’t search Google. He just stares at the screen until Google pops the website he needs.
- Chuck Norris does not build to flip. He builds to roundhouse kick to the face.
- Chuck Norris has more friends on MySpace than Tom.
- Chuck Norris did not get acquired by Yahoo. He traveled back in time to 1849 and started Yahoo! himself. Now you know how the gold-rush started.
- Chuck Norris showers with AJAX but no water.
- Chuck Norris does not use a web server. His beard serves HTTP.
- Chuck Norris does not use tagging to remember websites. He roundhouse kicks them to the face then they remember him.
- Chuck Norris doesn’t validate. All standards are required to conform to his content.
- Chuck Norris has an open API. His right leg, coming straight at your face.
- If you’ve been spending too much time on Slashdot, this is for you.
- Step 1. Chuck Norris.
Step 3. Profit.
- Step 1. Chuck Norris.
Day for Numbers
There was a great clue this weekend at the beer scavenger hunt that was only numbers which had to be decoded to receive the location. I was so happy that someone (Tiger) spent the time and effort to make someone work for their beer. In honor that clue, i’m sharing this little piece of trivia that i got from my cousin Joe:
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
i have no idea who figures this stuff out