Test of Luck

This story on BBC is a true testament to serious bad luck or good luck! or both!
This guy survived both atomic bombs in WW2. He is from Nagasaki but was in Hiroshima on business the day it was hit. So he survived H and then went back to N to have to survive N!!
If you think about it for a sec, it blows your mind.
Atlanta and I were talking about this and trying to come up with similarly bad lucked scenarios. He mentioned during 9/11, escaping one tower to go into the other one after the first is hit.

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Are my examples in bad taste? Possibly. At least when i put up this story in facebook, someone wrote me immediately saying there are people who find both topics offensive. But why? How would either the real story or my silly analogy offend anyone? The stories are supposed to have good endings. and they are devastating disasters which had many victims, but does that mean we cannot talk about them at all? Isn't talking about these things better because they keep them more alive in mind?
So although I disagreed with the email that I received, I still took down the story and instead i put it up here. But I am interested in what people think about this issue.
Or if you have any other funny (but sad) analogies!

Attack Dog

Chemical Party!

From Gillen's blog. Which element do you want to be?
I am thinking of one of the alkali metals, as " They are soft shiny metals that usually combine with group VIIA nonmetals in chemical compounds in a 1:1 ratio."
i like the 1:1 ratio thing and who doesn't want to be soft and shiny :-P

If you hardly remember your chemistry, here is a quick list of properties. I am also hoping my chemical brothers and sisters will throw at us some of their knowledge! :-D

brilliant!

wonderful song, video... everything!

le Café - Oldelaf (english subtitles)
by Boebis

A tip of my hat to La Gillen

La Gillen gave the following link as a comment, but it is so hilarious it deserves its own front page announcement. The following is a most hilarious song about a boy and a girl ... and what happens at night. It is such a deja vu it is not funny. I lie, it is actually hilarious!

Australian Comedy act Tripod performing "Gonna Make You Happy":


ps I already know some people (you know who you are) are going to complain about the xbox mention. Suck it up!
pps La Gillen is seriously the best for continually introducing me to new music and hilarious shows and... the world! :-D

Colorful Benediction

I love the wording of the benediction by Rev. Joseph Lowery during President Barack Obama's inauguration:

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.

Then Jon Stewart added a couple of more lines:
When Blue will be allowed in two, when Puce will be set loose, when we rise above the minutiae of Fuchsia, and Orange …. screw Orange!

Your morning laugh

Enjoy!

Ape like

Recently Atlanta and I were listening on NPR to an interview with Josh Brolin who plays Bush in the movie W. While he was talking about learning the gestures of Bush, he mentioned a particular habit of Bush: when he stands, Bush has an ape-like tendency to angle his arms with the back of his hands pointing to the front. I finally got what he meant when i saw the above picture! it is so true!!! :-P

Meanwhile seems Bush is handing out Medals of Freedom to his good buddies little Johnnie Howard (the old PM of Australia), Tony Blair and Alvaro Uribe (president of Colombia) for their support of anti-terrorism and promotion of democracy in the world... meaning for blindly following in the footsteps of Dubya. What an honor to be in such an elite group...

Favourite Past Time

A new favourite activity of mine these days is watching Alvaro play Metal Gear Solid online... He is Ellen Petrovich and there is something so incredibly addictive in watching her try to rise above her sloth status :-P hehe I kid I kid. He is definitely a hawk (wannabe). He belongs to this colombian clan and you know they are the elite of the elite. He leaves around playboy magazines and while the innocent are distracted by these trashy mags, he executes them, Ellen style. That's just the way s/he rolls you see. But he really is getting better, making more head shots, and cries and curses the gods only once in a while.
Trust me... it's more entertaining than any TV show. 24 has nothing on this. :-P

Smile

This video always makes me Smile :-)

Enjoy.

Mortal Komedy

Mortal Komedy

If you have ever played Mortal Kombat, you will ROFL and LOL and all types of other acronyms at the above video.

weird

There are some really weird pictures in this blog.

New Obsession

My new obsession, Flight of the Conchords, is a TV show on HBO about two NZ-ers trying to make it as a band in NY. The show and the songs in it are some of the most creative and funny i have ever heard. They are ear worms and when i play them, I go in a trance of ecstasy.. :-P

Here is one of the songs from the show which they play in concert -- my second goal in life right now is to watch these guys in concert. Anyway Jemaine and Bret explain the song so no more introduction but listen well to the lyrics.

Christine has introduced me to a lot of new obsessions lately... remind me to tell you about the other shows that are a must.

Dr Horrible: I've got a PhD in Horribleness.

Ahoy all you fans of Joss Whedan.
DaJoss has a new 3-part musical-comedy web series, Dr Horrible, that is being released incrementally this week before being taken off the web this sunday, after which it will be available on DVD. So... you only have a couple of more days before it is no more. They have released parts 1 and 2 and 3 will be released tomorrow. Part 2 is quite hilarious... I had a couple of outbursts of laughter while watching at work!
It's a superhero spoof starring Neil Patrick Harris as a supervillain wannabe who dreams of being accepted into the Evil League of Evil (what a sweet name!). Thwarting him from his goal is his nemesis, Captain Hammer (played by "Firefly" star Nathan Fillion), as well as his affection for a girl from the Laundromat (played by Felicia Day).

w0w... seriously.

Listen to this and just... absorb.

Back story: A girl named Olga was out with her friends and she talked to this guy named Dmitri for all of two minutes. Then she gave him her card and said “give me a call.” These are the messages he left. It gets especially funny/shocking/horrifying near the end. source.


I mean seriously... wow.

check out...

Valardur's recent post on some AMAZING new directions of research! blows my mind and makes me want to try out crack cocaine.

New App1e product: the i-Rack!

Really funny video!

Follow up to the Goat

Pie charts

Above is a pie chart about procrastination.

The 9 Manliest Names in the World

There are those real-life men walking around who, by design or coincidence, have been gifted with names so manly you'd expect their penis to rip free of their pants and attack passersby. Here is a list of the 9 men with the manliest names in the world. I found this article on Digg.