…but where were you when I needed you man!? For anyone that lurves sleep, this should positively reinforce your already established love for it, and SEX!
Sleep, one of man’s greatest allies!
Marching Band Creates Giant Stick Figure Football Player
•December 30, 2010 • Leave a CommentThe University of Hawaii’s Rainbow Warrior Marching Band formed a giant stick figure football player on the field during a recent game. Well done:
This blog is light on the sports, so here’s another football moment worthy of le blognessness:
Gingerbread Serenity created by Firefly fan Kristoffer Gressli [DIY]
•December 30, 2010 • Leave a CommentThat Primary Buffer Panel looks delicious!
Firefly fan Kristogger Gressli spent a few days building this Joss Whedon-inspired treat with his brother.
He even included a few photos to give us an idea of their process – although someone will have to let me on the secret of baking cylindrical gingerbread. Click the pics for photos on Facebook
Happy Birthday Caitlin!!!
•December 29, 2010 • Leave a CommentI still totally wish my dad hadn’t walked through the front door thus boob-blocking a most memorable fail – Epic scarring for life much! Happy Birthday pigeon pal. You’re living towards attaining your dreams and I envy that in a person, envy in a most excellent light of course. Well done miss 24!
“Casteller” by photographer Mike Randolph
•December 29, 2010 • Leave a Comment
In the city of Tarragona, Spain, castellers gather every two years to see who can build the highest, most intricate human castles. This is so intense and brilliant!
To be a Casteller requires astonishing strength, finesse, and balance. Not to mention courage:
Added to the bucket list! Care to join me?
Never-Ending Synchronized Diving [huh?]
•December 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment“It’s raining men!” Not as enjoyable to watch as other synchronized water-sports, but it certainly is something. Impressive that they don’t collide into each other that’s for sure:
“Fake It” by Denki Groove. Directed by Hideyuki Tanaka.
I think the music helped pfft haha
Man Faces Five Years in Jail, For Reading Wife’s Emails
•December 28, 2010 • Leave a Comment
SH*T!
Interesting case; Rochester Hills man Leon Walker has been charged with unlawfully reading his wife’s emails – which showed she was having an affair with her violent second husband. Unlawful sure, but give the guy a break.
Walker forwarded the emails to the woman’s first husband, who is the father of her son, out of a sense of duty for the protection of the child—but now faces a possible five-year jail term for breaking a Michigan identity fraud law. No exceptions to the rule? Harsh.
A legal gray area is expected to be probed by the case, thanks to the nature of the snooping. Walker accessed his wife’s emails on a laptop he claims the family shared, using a password she stored in a book next to the computer. It wasn’t exactly high-level hacking.
FREE LEON WALKER!
HOLY SHITE! FIVE YEARS! That kind of scares me…he wasn’t hacking and certainly not with mal-intent, damn. E-snooping maybe. The thing is, if I ever get married, I’d let my woman know all my passwords, big deal, what I don’t understand is the severity of this ruling considering the two were married and the woman was in the deep-end of wrong.
How is Adultery, which in Michigan is Punishable by Life in Prison, less of an offence compared to low-level Identity Fraud? Sue a victim instead of going after the possible domestic abuse case involving a child and a cheating, stupid woman? I believe the Prosecutor is wrong in this case.
About 45% of divorce cases involve some snooping – and gathering – of e-mail, Facebook and other online material. But those are generally used by the warring parties for civil reasons – not for criminal prosecution.
Entertaining thoughts of another guy is one thing, but to act on such a thought and cheat is the next big step and she took it. No empathy. I don’t think five years for this man is fair – At all. Poor fella.
Give Leon a courtesy or an award, one of the few hack cases in which the hacker stumbles upon something accidental but truthful. Which was a sad realization in the case of his marriage, and more so considering all this got him was a five-year jail sentence. (Government scare tactics?)
Yes, privacy is a basic right, but whose right is it to judge the internal intentions of people and conclude with a closed-case ruling based only on comparison of actions and not quality of life?
I like democracy, but I can’t help but think the way I do, and entertain the idea that this was another showboat case specifically ruled to set an example for the law withstanding. Internet privacy being a universal asset especially within the Government and a sex crazed cynical only burdening the one; ‘sacrifice the few for the many’ is the only way I can make sense of this story, and the ridiculous ruling. Very Democratic Underground – Hackers beware… Hmm, is this too morbid for le blog?
Michigan statute 752.795 reads, in part:
“A person shall not intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization do any of the following:
“Access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system or computer network to acquire, alter, damage delete or destroy property or otherwise use the service of a computer program, computer, computer system or computer network.”
Note-to-self: be more careful *sniggers* and end this post right now!
FREE LEON WALKER!
Peep Show
•December 28, 2010 • Leave a CommentStylistically, the show uses point of view shots (so well done) with the thoughts of main characters Mark and Jeremy audible as voiceovers – And what humorously awesome voices they have!
Peep Show is a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) award-winning British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others.
It has been broadcast since 2003, with the seventh series currently airing. The show’s seventh series makes it the longest-running sitcom in Channel 4 (its original funding broadcaster) history.
Peep Show follows the lives of two men in their late twenties and early thirties, Mark Corrigan (Mitchell), employed as a loan manager, and Jeremy Usbourne, an unemployed musician (Webb).
The pair met at the fictional Dartmouth University, and now share a flat in Croydon, South London. Mark was a loan manager at the fictional JLB Credit, and is financially secure, but awkward and socially inept, with a pessimistic and critical attitude. Jeremy, having recently split up with his girlfriend Big Suze, now lives in Mark’s spare room. He usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than Mark, yet his self-proclaimed talent as a musician is yet to be recognised, and he is not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself, although he is the more successful with the opposite sex of the two.
One of the few series that consistently manages to make me smile and laugh aloud. It’s probably more fun if you watch this with someone close, kinda like ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ you can bounce the laughter between each other long after the joke’s dead and gone!
“You’re not a pedo. you’re definitely not a pedo”. Hehe Ahrg, I have to get my hands on the rest of the series somehow or something. It’s soooo good and I miss, it. Peep Show – It’s great!
Ice Creams [A Taste Of Summer]
•December 27, 2010 • 2 CommentsYup, nothing beats a good old ice-cream or block in the summer – too bad rest of the world, but here in New Zealand, may I suggest you try the ‘Mint Trumpet’ or/and the tasty ‘Memphis-Meltdown-Raspberry-Marshmallow-Rocky-Road’ *drooooolz*
Memphis Meltdown Rocky Road is a chocolate ice cream rippled with raspberry jelly, dipped in pink marshmallow, and smothered in choc, nuts and coconut – on a stick!
Tip Top produced what is believed to be the world’s first novelty ice cream wrapped in marshmallow! And it tastes great. Reminds me of a Jelly Tip only it’s not… It’s better!
Actually, I might kick it old skool next time and get a scoop in a cone. …I’m off to get more milk now ‘hint hint’ 😉
X-Marks The Spot
•December 27, 2010 • Leave a CommentSo cool I want to touch it and get a photo taken and maybe lick one of them… maybe…
I want to believe.
Ok I believe. Somewhere in Ottawa, Canada. Would have been extra awesome if this was in Maryland. I just remembered that my friend’s mother is in the ninth season of X-Files. Isn’t that great? If I recall, she played a supersoldier with non-human abilities. Yup.
More X-Files related incidents momentarily folks, I just have to debug the place first; ‘they’ are listening.
Self-consciousness or a Philosophical State of Self-awareness? [F]
•December 26, 2010 • Leave a CommentI originally started blogging on MySpace with theories and rants about the big picture and philosophical thoughts in relation to human interaction. Some good discussions were had, even if they were only ever between three people.
Have you ever stepped back and looked at yourself for a moment and seen the type of person you are, or rather, the life you’re living, and seeing this makes you smile because you realize you’re standing on the right stepping stone to be potentially awesome?! But at the same time, the person you are seen as to your friends and others, isn’t the type of person you want to be known as, or want to be?
That’s a thought that has been running through my mind lately. Thinking you’re a good person but knowing you’re not the best you can be. I was going to ask if this was normal, but I know for a fact it is. What I would like to know, is whether part of our personality is something we have ultimate control over and can change on our own in our own time, or whether there is an outsourced factor, like other people and the company we keep and life experiences, that is what shapes us?
Depression and sadness isn’t the mood I want at all by writing this by the way; I’m feeling super great but I do tend to write my headcase-thoughts out of me from time to time. Feel free to comment or just muse over yourself.
…Maybe this is what feeling old feels like?
Grace Jones sings “Little Drummer Boy” to Pee Wee Herman
•December 26, 2010 • Leave a CommentAll you kids today lapping up the uniqueness of soul-sellers like Lady Gaga and the like, have no idea about who and how awesome Grace Jones is! I’d sing to her. Grace makes Gaga look like Hayley Westenra.
Ah Bless Paul Reubens for having the most awesomely weird kid’s show ever to hit the small screen:
Grace Jones is the only woman I consider to be really cool, surprisingly surreal and just a little bit scary all at the same time. I like her. She dances like the Diva from the Fifth Element… or is it the other way around? HA!
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