What makes someone do something like this?
After reading this story: Nose biter gets 10 years (for biting off the tip of a Clovis man's nose), I was reminded of a man I used to work for, several times on several different rigs. I could write for hours about him - he was quite a character - but will save that for another time. He fancied himself a pretty good brawler and bore several scars from past fights, one being a pretty good notch on one of his nostrils, about the size of half a dime coin. The old wound was from it being bitten by someone and I can't recall if I ever asked him if he won or lost the fight. I don't know why I didn't ask, or can't remember. That's been a long time ago, that'll have to be my excuse.
I do remember telling my dad about how tough this man was, how much of a fighter he was and described the scar to him. Pop mulled the information over for a few seconds and blithely replied:
"Doesn't sound like he's THAT tough if someone can hold him down and bite off his nose."
I've been in a few scraps in my life, won several, lost a couple, some were pretty severe both ways, but I never gave anyone the chance to bite off a piece of my nose. Guess I'm tougher than I thought I was.
Hope everyone nose that.
June 18, 2010
Who Nose?
June 12, 2010
Back to the Future III Weird Scene
This has been floating around the 'net for quite some time - probably since the movie came out - but all the movies are on tonight and reminded me of it.
In a scene at the end, one of Doc's kids makes a weird gesture; to be honest, I never noticed it until it was pointed out in a video much like the following.
I really think the kid was trying to tell his mother or the director off-camera that he needed to pee.
June 1, 2010
Angry Owls
A little creepy.
WARNING!!! You might want to turn your sound down before clicking the "start" button.
February 24, 2010
January 24, 2010
The World's Most Expensive Bath
Sorry, no photos because there's not a one of the bath on the website, but there's some flowery prose:
Arctic. White. Pure. Vacant. The water in this treatment is unique and expensive! Water that started its voyage over 15,000 years ago in the ancient glaciers of the polar ice cap is blended with desalinated 100% certified Hawaiian Deep Sea Water sourced 3,000 feet below the ocean surface off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Surrender to perpetual clarity. Around you is nothing more than peaceful isolation. Beneath you is only the vapor of your thoughts. All that surrounds you is the comfort of your being. Your reservation to this private sanctuary lies ahead.
There's also a list of ingredients put into the bath; Sidr Honey, Peruvian Pink Salt, Illipe, Murumuru and Kokum Butter along with Israeli Jojoba Oil and 24-karat gold.
Retail prices starts at: $50,000.
I don't need all that for an enjoyable bath. 
What does the world really need?
A good five cent shower.
The World's Most Expensive Bath
January 7, 2010
How to Gleek
From WikiHow, instructions on How to Gleek
This caught my eye because it seems to me to be a rare "talent"; my big sis can do it at will, and I can do it most of the time and quite often involuntarily when I yawn. Maybe it runs in families, I dunno but when I've done it for people it's almost always impressed them. To be honest, they were my friends and, like me, are easily amused.
Gleeking is the act of stimulating the saliva glands underneath your tongue into spitting a concentrated jet of pure saliva. Usually, it happens naturally when you yawn. It takes practice and concentration to gleek on purpose but these steps will help you learn how, so you can add it to your arsenal of body tricks.More at:
How to Gleek
September 9, 2009
Oh Nine!
Know what day it is today? It's the ninth of September -the ninth month- of '09, a rare occurrence, but even more rare will be nine minutes and nine seconds after nine a.m. this morning:
09:09.09 09/09/09
It even works on the European method of the date, reversing the month and day from how the United States does it.
You can read Why 09/09/09 Is So Special or what Wiki says about all the things that have happened on the regular years of each September 9 .
Here's some more information about the date:
* 09-09-09 is also the last of the single-digits dates for quite a while - 92 years to be precise.
* It is also the upside-down number of "the beast" - satan = 666, of course.
* The day itself falls on a Wednesday and both Wednesday & September have 9 letters.
I bet a lot of folks will play zero and nine on their lotteries, which will mean it would be strange if the numbers came up together...and will also mean a lower payout because so many people played those numbers. I dunno about the "666" deal, never was sure about that, but it's probably true that the devil is having an easy time in this evil world, probably can do it standing on his head, maybe that's why "999" is "666" upside down.
Anyway....
Weird, huh?
Revolution Number 9 - The Beatles
Not the entire song, but a cool snippet starring the guest of honor today!
BACKWARDS
Wiki entry about this song being backmastered. Also interesting is the following entry explaining the ties to this song and Charles Manson.
August 5, 2009
World's Strangest Ice Cream
Among them are lavender, bacon, garlic and even Viagra.
(I'll skip the gratuitous jokes -you're welcome)
The one most off-putting to me would probably be the haggis flavored.
(and that would be "flavoured", since it's found at Harrods in London)
World’s Strangest Ice Cream
July 19, 2009
Largest Lips in the World
And they're not Angelina Jolie's.
In the Darfur region of western Sudan. View in Google Maps.
Reminds me of the opening of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
July 17, 2009
May is Gone!
Yes, I know the month has passed, but all my May posts from two years ago when I started this blog are gone! I'm not for sure how many there were, but most of April's are gone as well. There's a single post in April, but then it skips to June.
I first noticed something unusual when I wanted to re-post some photos for the recent Woody Guthrie post; there were three different pics of metal sculptures of the score of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land". The post was titled "Name That Tune" and a search using the Blogger supplied site search turned up nothing.
The photos can be seen starting here in the album. (use the arrow at top to scroll to the next two)
I wonder why an entire month's posts vanished?
July 5, 2009
Meet the Trollsen Twins
A lovely little site for kids, sure to give them nightmares, courtesy of PETA. It seems they're angry at the Olsen twins for including fur in their latest clothing line.
Dress up the Trollsen Twins at peta2.com!
Here's a sample of the site's message:
Don't think it's OK that 50 rabbits die for one fur coat? Tell Hairy-Kate and Trashley to cut it out now.
There's even a page to "dress" Hairy-Kate and Trashley. I chose Hairy-Kate because she was the "hottest" one of the two.
As you can see, I went with the choked chinchilla hat, the dead doggie shoulder bag with kitty clutch, the butchered beaver boots and the murdered mink mini-skirt for a stylish ensemble.
On the surface, PETA's initial aims were admirable, but the way they've gone about it is reprehensible and puts them in the category of ecological terrorists, much like the "monkeywrenchers" who spike trees with nails so logger's chainsaws will hit them and perhaps cause a mortal injury or even the folks of Sea Shepherd who attempt to foul research ship's propellers and lob stink/slippery "bombs" onto their decks to keep them from legally harvesting whales.
The site has been up for over a couple of years and I'm wondering why there's not been a lawsuit over this.
Related post: "PETA Wrote Me!"
July 3, 2009
May 9, 2009
March 18, 2009
Freaky Favicon
Quite a few hits on this blog come from image searches, such as the following:
Sometimes it's easy to see...as above...what the post was, but sometimes the Feedjit widget just shows someone came to this site from the Google image search. The result sometimes does not show what they were looking for and I have to click on the link in the frame from the Google image search to see what graphic they were wanting to see.
I noticed something unusual the other day when I clicked on the link; usually the favicon (the tiny image in front of the URL in the address window) will show the Picassa favicon:
But the following photo had a favicon that was the photo!
This is going to bother me until I figure it out.
I'm thinking of adding a favicon to this blog, BTW, but most images are not very clear when reduced to 16x16.
