June Pictures

I know I am late posting the June album, but it was worth it - full album here. 

Nasty NASCAR crash at Bristol

This is damn cool!

I bet this game can guess your animal, vegetable, or mineral in 20 questions or less!

When it started asking me "Is it furry?" on question 12 when my item was a stuffed animal - I laughed out loud!

FREAKY!

http://www.20q.net/

One in 50-100 million

A rare two-toned lobster is seen in this Thursday, July 13, 2006, photo taken in Bar Harbor, Maine. The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer's Bay is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked. Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Abigail Curtis)

It looks half cooked!!!! Yummy.

And a shout out to Scotty B and Chris who both sent this to me.

link here

Sword Slip (QVC)

Guy has a little "accident" on QVC while showing off a "real, functional" katana sword. Listen closely to the stand-in at the end.... ha!!!!!!

Something to ponder. It's only going to get worse!

link here

Meekrosoft Hep Wine

I thought this was hilarious. A Microsoft Tech calls a customer back and leaves a phone message attempting to address the problems the user was having with their computer.

It's a banner day!

For those golfers out there, you will understand why today is a day that I will cherish for many years to come. On July 9. 2006, I broke 100!

With a 99. Is there any other way to break 100?

For those who are not golfers, this hump is one that average golfers like me hope to do when we first start playing. Really - it's the first major accomplishment. A little like your first bogey, par, and birdie. But when you break 100, you had a consistent game all day.

Thank you, thank you - I'll be here all weekend.

Trading One Red Paperclip for a House?

Remember this post? Well, it seems it only takes a year to trade one red paper clip for a house!

Kyle will trade a movie role for a house on 503 Main St, Kipling Saskatchewan Canada.

Here's how he did it: A fish pen for a doorknob, a doorknob for a Coleman stove, a Coleman stove for one red generator, one red generator for an instant party with beer and all, an instant party for a skidoo, a skidoo for a trip to Yank, a trip to Yank for a cube van, a cube van for a recording contract, a recording contract for free rent to a house in Phoenix for a year, free rent for one year for and afternoon with Alice Cooper, an afternoon with Alice Cooper for a KISS snow globe, a snow globe for a movie role, a movie role for A HOUSE.

Oh, and he will take possession of his house exactly one year from the date he posted the red paperclip for trade. Pretty cool, huh?

His site here.

Most Watched Video on YouTube Ever

This video currently has 27,729,218 views on YouTube and has only been posted there since April. I had to watch the entire thing, and Beck just looked at me when I died laughing 5 times.

Great Creativity Here: Get a good job

Soda, coffee and ATM machines with *great* photographs n the side of them

My favorite is the ATM machine... working with accountants and CPAs all day, this one made me laugh.

Canadian CT-155 Hawk Injests Bird, 45 Second Controlled Spiral Before Ejection and Crash. Impressive HUD footage.

This is a Canadian CT-155 Hawk. I thought you might find it interesting to see a crash from the cockpit of an airplane. Pretty interesting.

Starlings Almost Take Down Some Trees

Why are they so attracted to that tree??  Really cool clip of Thousands of Starlings in Collegeville, PA (a suburb of Philly) not to far from our place.

http://fraser.blogs.com/pcl/2006/01/the_birds.html

Message in a bottle

This is a bit freaky.  http://www.wltx.com/fyi/fyi.aspx?storyid=39027

P.S.  Does anyone actually read this blog anymore?  A brother likes a comment or 2 every now and then.

Go ahead, punk - leave a comment.

What country had the first license plates? What is the life cycle of an eyebrow hair? What is arachibutyrophobia? How does a person get out of quicksand?

For years, a small band of researchers at the New York Public Library has been tackling questions from young and old, the clueless and the haughty, the vexed and the unvexed, reducing life's infinite jumble to an answer, more or less.

Today, despite the Internet, the eight women and two men of what is known as the telephone reference service are still at it. Every day, except Sundays and holidays, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., anyone, of any age, from anywhere can telephone (212) 340-0849 and ask most any question.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/nyregion/19answer.html?ex=1308369600&en=06a00c2b21cf065a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

P.S. The answers are in the comments.

Craigslist.com: Taking over the US?

Great Wall Street Journal article on Craigslist.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115049840863382886-9QyN65ef6meo_D2UlLOxAdRmbN0_20070616.html?mod=rss_free

This is out of control! A MUST WATCH!

The Lyrebird is an unbeleivable jungle bird that mimics other bird and human sounds such as: car alarms, chainsaws, cameras, AWESOME!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3433507052114896375

Boa vs. Kangaroo

Via http://www.laurel-travel.ru/kreo/kenga.html

An update to the Mentos + Diet Pepsi/Coke is here

What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane.

The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes.

It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, brought to you by the mad scientists at EepyBird.com.

http://eepybird.com/dcm1.html

A Few Good (Sales) Men!

Sales: "You want answers?"

Finance: "I think we are entitled to them!"

Sales: "You want answers?!"

Finance: "I want the truth!"

Sales: "You can't handle the truth!!!"
"Sir , we live in a world that requires revenue.
And that revenue must be brought in by people with elite skills.
Who's going to find it? You? You, Mr. Operations? We have a greater
responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You scoff at the sales
division and you curse our lucrative incentives. You have that
luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: that while
the cost of business results are excessive, it drives in revenue. And
my very existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you,
drives REVENUE! You don't want to know the truth because deep down in
places you don't talk about at staff meetings ... you want me on that
call. You NEED me on that call!
We use words like value-add, refresh, discounts, swaps. We use
these words as the backbone of a life spent negotiating something.
You use them as a punch line! I have neither the time nor inclination
to explain myself to people who rise and sleep under the very blanket
of revenue I provide and then question the manner in which I provide
it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way.
Otherwise I suggest you pick up a phone and make some sales calls.
Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!"

Finance: "Did you expense the lap dances?"

Sales: "I did the job I was hired to do."

Finance: "Did you expense the lap dances?"

Sales: "You're goddamn right I did!"


-Courtesy of Boom Boom