Just wondering….

Inspired this 31 hour 4 minute run coast-to-coast. The youtube videos and the previous record run.

and …

The checklist for the 31 hour 4 minute run, which hit a top-speed of 160mph (256 kph):

• Twenty packs of Nat Sherman Classic Light cigarettes
• Breath mints,
• Glucose and guarana,
• Visine and riboflavin,
• Gatorade and Red Bull,
• mail-order porta-pissoir bags of quick-hardening gel,
• Randolph highway patrol sunglasses,
• 20-gallon reserve fuel tank,
• Tasco 8 x 40 binoculars fitted with a Kenyon KS-2 gyro stabilizer,
• military spec Steiner 7 x 50 binoculars,
• Hummer H1-style bumper-mounted L-3 Raytheon NightDriver thermal camera and LCD dashboard screens,
• front-and-rear-mounted sensors for a Valentine One radar/laser detector,
• flush bumper-mount Blinder M40 laser jammers,
• redundant Garmin StreetPilot 2650 GPS units,
• preprogrammed Uniden police radio scanners,
• ceiling-mount Uniden CB radio with high-gain whip antenna.
• E39 BMW M5,
• copilot,
• $150,000,
• chase plane…

What about MMOs, I know a few people that could star in the sequel:

Darwin Dating:

Attractive people are at a disadvantage on normal internet dating sites. They have to wade through a plethora of ugly people and ugly people pretending to be attractive in order to find someone who matches their own attractiveness. Our strict rules and natural selection process makes Darwin Dating the perfect medium for attractive people to find other people of their own kind.

Darwin Dating is a site for 18-35’s only. The male sex drive peaks at 18 and the female sex drive peeks at 30 making 18-35 the perfect breeding age bracket.

So if you are into sex and shallow people who’s only criteria is perky breasts, now you know where to go.

With 93 million Wangs China is running out of names… in a country of around 1.3 billion people, about 85 percent share only 100 surnames… It sounds like genetics almost with the fathers’ names being the dominant ‘gene’ in the ‘gene’ pool. Some geneticist should do a research paper on this!

All I can say is… I am shocked! I actually agree with Paris Hilton. From her statement to the press about all the hullabaloo around her 45-day jail sentence:

“I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials. I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world.”

Hear, hear!

The BBC ran this article about funeral strippers.

Five people have been detained in China for running striptease send-offs at funerals, state media say. The leaders of five striptease troupes were held.

The once-common events are held to boost the number of mourners, as large crowds are seen as a mark of honour.

Well as they say ’sex sells’, so why not use it to sell a funeral, an otherwise depressing affair. Turn it in to something … interesting. Can you just imagine, parent forbidding their children from attending funerals and children wanting to go? This would be a twist wouldn’t it?

I was listening to This American Life and they had a program that they called “Mind Games”. It is about ImprovEverywhere. This is a group that does great street theatre. My favorite is “Look up More”. Although, the mini-skit of “Meet a Black Person” in the 0.44% black Aspen, CO was pretty good as well.

This reminds me of the flash mob craze from a couple of years ago. I guess some people are still doing it.

Decent movie. $8 of $9 value. Good actors and some good lines. Jennifer Ansiton’s boring straight hair hung around her face making her look like Cousin ‘It’, but she delivered a good performance. What I like most about this movie is that it gave a realistic ending that was a nice romantic ending without being ridiculous.

This contest is just too cool. Hitachi posted some wav files of harddrives crashing. These are the results after the remixes got through with them.

$5 of $9 value. Skip the theatre … see it on DVD. The series is improving but I am still waiting for the Harry Potter to show some sign of being a good wizard. He has always seemed to me to be a C-student who have some friends that are A- and B- students that always seem to pull him out of trouble. Think about the Triwizard Tournament - did Harry actually do any research, or performed any deed that really resulted in him deserving the win?

• Dragons - Ron and Hermonie gave warning and solution (There is that usual bit of flying around on broomsticks that HP did on his own - I guess all those Quidditch matches that end up in half-destroyed buildings paid off)
• Mermaids - Our helpful villian planted the clue and the solution.
• Maze - The villian helped HP find the cup.

Lets talk about the whole rigging of the TriWizard Tournament just to get HP to a certain location. Can anyone explain why the villian simply just didn’t hand HP any object magicked up as a portal key? Why go through all this overwrought rigging and drama?

This ‘fame’ within the movies that he has always seem to be overdone and grating. “Oh are you the famous Harry Potter?” Yes, yes I know he is supposed to be famous because he survived Lord Voldemort. But quick - name anybody in the real world who has fame for surviving something that lasts more than 5 minutes. Fame based on something other than deeds has a half-life measured in minutes, but yet Harry Potter’s fame has lasted over 15 years. May be there is something in the books that can explain it but certainly the movies don’t.

Fortunately the totally worthless aunt, uncle and cousin story line is completely gone. Hopefully permanently.