Here's To All

Bitly 404 Page

I was trying to view a recipe posted on the Foodgawker Facebook wall, but kept getting a 404 page.  They said they had fixed the link, but didn't.  That's the problem with using these link-shortening services - far too often something happens in the conversion of the link and it's invalid or they make a mistake in copying...either way, it's a broken link.   Here's a screenshot of what I got:

Still, the Bitly 404 page is a pretty cool one - funny and animated, with a seagull flapping its wings, clouds floating across the sky and waves bobbing a dead pufferfish? up and down.  See it for yourself. (put your cursor over the water to make waves-I don't think anything else is interactive)

Vintage Valentines

15 vintage Valentines cards at Oddee

Racist as the following might be, it's my favorite...and my motto.

Shoot, it even kinda looks like me.

Vintage Valentines

paraskevidekatriaphobia

paraskevidekatriaphobia

noun

fear of Friday the thirteenth

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2015 has three Friday the 13s. What are the odds?

Yawning is Contagious

Yes, yawning is contagious.  Even thinking about yawning is enough and in fact, there's a 50% that you're about to, or just did, yawn.

OTOH, there's close to a 100% chance you will yawn while reading this blog.

Beer & Money

I was visiting StartSampling earlier today and the daily trivia question was what type are the Budweiser horses.  Yesterday's question was who is on the back of the $50 bill. 

I got both correct, but wasn't too surprised to see more people got the Budweiser question correct than did the $50 bill one.  After all, a fifty dollar bill isn't something found in most people's wallets (at least not mine, anyway) but most people have probably seen the Budweiser Clydesdale advertisements hundreds of times. 

The Trouble With Cam Movies

I saw a link to the latest Night at the Museum video and thought I would check it out but the problem was it was done with a cam by someone pirating the movie at the theater.  I've never seen a very good quality file of that type and other problems are obvious - the illegality, the background noise, a shaky video and of course, this:

I wonder how much that barrel of popcorn and the tanker-sized soda cost that woman who is blocking the view?

That reminds me of this Seinfeld episode:

(fast forward to 1:20)