Here’s a remixed version of my previous post: Mark Lapid’s movie scene. I just found out that the scene is not from the movie Tatlong Baraha. Really funny.. Great work from Modesto..
A guy named Harper from MillionCount will try to set his own record in counting up to one million. He believes that his attempt will last for about three months. I just checked him live via web cam, he’s approximately on number 49587 as I write this post. See him live.
I thought this list of tidbits of wisdom a father could pass along to his children was a really neat idea. Unfortunately, some of the 23 suggestions in the article fall short of things I’d consider family heirlooms. “A passion for tax-free growth?” Huh? Fortunately, nothing is standing in the way of us creating our own lists:
1. A lucky number. Long before Jordan sanctified it, number 23 was lucky just because Dad said it was. He’d look for it everywhere. Forty years later, his grandchildren fill the lane on the break wearing the number he decided was theirs. Memories accrete around specific things.
2. A passion for tax-free growth.
3. About $3,000. An inheritance cuts your kids’ ambition in half, robs them of the satisfaction of making their own way, and keeps them from lessons worth learning. So you spend it.
4. A team to love. It’s a durable pleasure, best passed from father to child.
5. A team to hate. Despising a team–with all the venom you can muster and for no discernible reason–is a gift that gives life shape. Death to the Astros!
6. A will. And prearrange a really, really, really inexpensive funeral, too. Rule: Money is best spent on people who are alive.
7. Love of country. The quiet, grateful kind.
8. A decent carving knife.
9. A dented wheelbarrow. Associate yourself with stupid donkey work, as in moving this stuff that’s here, over there.
10. A fragment of inspiring verse. Memorized, so they’ll always have it when they need it.
11. Stories of your screwups. In the interest of less pedestal, more human, be sure they’ve heard tell of your greatest misses.
12. A holy book. Your copy of the Bible or Torah, if either has sustained you. Your Huck Finn or Heart of Darkness, if you’re of a literary cast. An atlas of the world around which a pilgrim is free to roam.
13. Enthusiasm for two movies: one stupid, one stirring. Say, Caddyshack and Braveheart.
14. A tattered road map. An old-fashioned, service-station map of a region you’ve traveled a lot with the family. It should have a few words scribbled on it, a couple of routes highlighted in yellow. Some of the crease lines should be torn from wear.
15. A baseless prejudice in favor of a particular make of car. Everybody knows that [fill in name of car manufacturer here] makes the best cars on the road. Period. End of story.
16. A family catchphrase. A brief yelp that captures your take on life and can invoke your spirit long after you’re dead. More in the manner of “Onward!” than “Life’s a bitch, then you die.”
17. Respect for baby steps. Most work gets done an inch at a time. Teach them to just break ground.
18. A coat. Barn jacket, tweed topcoat, or camo hunting shell, there’s something warm about the old man’s coat.
19. A patented shot. You put the hoop up in the driveway, didn’t you? Tell me you did, Dad. Name your unique fall-away jumper (The Dagger) or sky hook (Death from Above). Even memories require marketing.
20. U.S. savings bonds. They seem the very symbol of hope.
21. A handwritten description of a happy day. So what if you’re not Tolstoy? Scribble a few contented lines about that 16th of October and stash it in your desk for postdeath discovery.
22. A pleasure in people. Some get annoyed that people are so odd; lucky folks know that’s the fun part.
23. A maintenance jones. If they see you changing the oil in the driveway, they’ll learn to get more service from their stuff and have deeper friendships.
Doris and Daniel Neeway had a gosh-darn cute baby last May, and they named him …. Georgebush Neeway! No, not George Bush Neeway. Georgebush is his first name.
You’re looking at a one-person Faraday cage, called the Dalek Cage, that allows a person to get close and personal to, oh, like tens of thousands of volts.
It is constructed from fencing wire and a hanging basket planter. It is earthed and should be safe as long as you don’t stick your fingers out. I am standing on the earthed section. Somehow the 3 foot sparks in the left photo look better than the 6 foot sparks on the right. The sparkles are from some steel wool on the cage. It is not really as impressive as you might think as the sparks are largely end on. I have high efficiency earmuffs on and my glasses have a UV filter. The brim of the hat lets me know when my head is getting too close to the cage and also keeps the iron sparkles out of my eyes. There is a slight tickle of high voltage if you touch the cage lightly due to the voltage drop over the full height of the cage which is part resistive at the high currents and part inductive. There is only minimal sensation when using the glove which has two separate earths to the cage. I also lean on the cage as well with the glove.
This shenanigans (and many more!) with electricity can be found at one of my favorite websites: Telsa Downunder.
The Vatican has issued a set of “Ten Commandments” for drivers:
The Commandments include advising motorists to be charitable to others on the highways, to refrain from drinking and driving, and to pray you make it before you even buckle up.
An unusual document from the Vatican’s office for migrants and itinerant people also warned that automobiles can be “an occasion of sin” - particularly when they are used for dangerous passing or for prostitution.
It warned about the effects of road rage, saying driving can bring out “primitive” behaviour in motorists, including “impoliteness, rude gestures, cursing, blasphemy, loss of sense of responsibility or deliberate infringement of the highway code”.
Here’s the Ten Commandments for Drivers:
1.You shall not kill
2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm
3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events
4. Be charitable and help your neighbour in need, especially victims of accidents
5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin
6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so
7. Support the families of accident victims
8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness
9. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party
10. Feel responsible toward others
Here’s an Indian version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller Music Video. I don’t know if this is meant to be funny or scary. But it got me laughing hard for sure. The dance moves are really funny, the music sounds a bit weird though. Golemar!
Ain’t no mountain high for eighteen-year-old Samantha Larson, reached the peak of Mount Everest on May 16th and became the youngest person to have ever climbed all the world’s “seven summits”. I believe she’s also the hottest person to reach the summit. Visit her website - samanthalarson.com and her blog - samanthalarson.blogspot.com
This chart is a smart creation of blogger Wellington Grey. It’s based on the recent obesity statistics all over the world. Larger version of the chart here.
A Chinese grandmother who went to hospital with a headache was found to have had a bullet in her head for 64 years.
Jin Guangying, 77, of Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, went to to Shuyang Leniency Hospital for an x-ray.
“We were surprised to learn there was a bullet inside her head,” her son, Wang Zhengbang, told the Yangtse Evening Post.
Jin remembers that she was shot in 1943 during the Second World War by the invading Japanese army when she was taking supplies to her guerrilla father.
She later learned that the bullet had gone through the arm of a person beside her before hitting her head.
The chief surgeon, who removed the rusty bullet, was amazed it had remained in her head for so long without causing major problems.
“The fact that the bullet lost strength and speed passing through another person, and that the point it struck is not vital, may explain her survival,” he said.
Unluckily, didn’t pass the auditions. 
Before the 9/11 took place, it was New York’s deadliest terror attack that took place at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway on September 16, 1920, when a horse-drawn wagon was abandoned by its driver.
A bomb consisting of one hundred pounds of dynamite packed with five hundred pounds of cast-iron slugs violently vomited red-hot shrapnel and destruction in every direction. A number of passers-by were instantly vaporized by the extreme heat and pressure. The blast sent a nearby automobile careening through the air as countless jagged iron fragments ripped through the crowd.
Damn Interesting, where you’ll find history you’ve never heard before. Warning : gory details - damninteresting.com.
A photo of the Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park, taken around 1982. Georg Gerster, a Swiss areal photographer whose work spans 40 years, six continents, and 111 countries captures fantastic areal shots. I spent a lot of time browsing his gallery and won’t get tired of browsing it again - georggerster.com.
I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk
Now you too can have your name in lights at notcelebrity.com
Cool and breathtaking figures formed by a plane firing countermeasure flares. Love to see these sky artworks bursting its way, forming gigantic ang beautiful figures.
“Arco valley pearl” (575 carat and 3.1 inches long) - is the world’s largest natural pearl. This pearl used to belong to the descendants of Chinese Kings, Genghis Khan, and even Marco Polo. Well now, it is being auctioned you can have it if you are willing to spend $8 million.
More here..
Here’s a vintage soap advertisement that looks like a horror movie poster, which is an odd idea. More weird vintage advertisements on weirdomatic.com, some of my favorites are the chocolate poulan and beauty micrometer advertisements.
A customized credit card that belongs to Otto de Voogd, one of the clients of SEB bank. This bank in Estonia allows its clients to use any design they want for their credit cards.
Yes, they did.
