Any M.C. Escher fans out there?

I stumbled across these videos for the same song, "Golden Cage" by The Whitest Boy Alive. Both are pretty cool, and the music isn't half bad either:

Daaaaaaaamn, Jamaal...

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If I ever said bad things about Jamaal Charles, I may take them back (or I'll have to thank the trainer on the sideline putting Super Glue on his gloves). 290 yards against Nebraska, 180 against OSU--quite impressive. Then the 174 yards he ran up on Tech yesterday. Not exactly defensive powerhouses, but still, only one minor flub with the ball this weekend helping to a 59-43 win over the Red Raiders and their cry-baby coach.

And what's up with Colt McCoy? If I looked at the stats alone for the last three games, I'd guess Vince Young was back playing for the Horns with all the rushing yards he's accumulating (55, 106, and 51 yards over the past three games).

This is one wacky season. The only unbeatens are Kansas and Hawaii? Notre Dame has only had one win all year? I'm almost tempted to predict Air Force will be the break out team next season.

Maybe I should just convert my money into gold bullions...

Rappers tend to know what the finer things in life are based on the bling they flash in their videos. So it seems to be a sign of the times and a clear signal that the United States may be losing its "top dog" status in the world when even Jay-Z is forgoing the American dollar and using Euros instead as his money of choice in his latest rap video "Blue Magic":

I guy once told me, if you're going to do something bold, remember to wear your brown pants...

You can probably just skip to the middle of the video:


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Why I had to Chuck Norris kick the Kool-Aid Man out cold...

Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves...

A clip of this song was on 30 Rock a few weeks ago. If you're still not watching this show, you should be. Don't bother watching the visuals. Just listen. Kind of late, but still funny enough for me to post:

A few extra calories never hurt anyone, and maybe it will give you an extra year or two on your life...

Sometime in the past couple of years or so, my Body Mass Index (BMI) edged into the obese range, prompting me to get in the pool and back in the gym over the summer. I had grand plans to somehow get myself back to my svelte college BMI that was in the normal range, but alas, I think age, the accompanying decreases in metabolism getting older brings, and my lack of inhibition when it comes to fatty food, is preventing me from getting there. A new study that will be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, however, may make me feel a bit more satisfied about my overweight frame. From The New York Times:

Linking, for the first time, causes of death to specific weights, they report that overweight people have a lower death rate because they are much less likely to die from a grab bag of diseases that includes Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, infections and lung disease. And that lower risk is not counteracted by increased risks of dying from any other disease, including cancer, diabetes or heart disease.

As a consequence, the group from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute reports, there were more than 100,000 fewer deaths among the overweight in 2004, the most recent year for which data were available, than would have expected if those people had been of normal weight.

Now there's probably more to this study than meets the eye, and I don't think the purpose of this report is to give us all carte blanche to get crazy with cupcakes. Still, I kind of like having a reason to not feel so guilty about that extra slice of pizza I eat every so often.

You don't know where that lime has been...

I know Wander is a big fan of kicking back with a bottle of Corona with lime. I can't say I actually know where the addition of lime got started in the history of Corona Extra consumption, but I guess it does add that little bit of flavor that makes Mexican beers in general pretty darn good.

I never put any thought to the cleanliness of that citrus garnish to my beer, and it looks like no one in New York City did either, until now. The New York Times has a entertaining story about a local saloon that got dinged for a bartender barehandedly inserting a lime into a bottle of Corona. Instead, they suggested servers wear rubber gloves, use tongs, or serve up the slice of lime on a plate and leave the patron to put it in himself. Seems a bit over the top and silly to me. If you're drinking Corona, are you really the type of guy that's going to be that much of a germ-a-phobe? I guess others in NYC agree:

His friend Tom Carney, 67, who retired last month from Elaine’s, the Upper East Side grand dame of bars, heard about the lime tongs and said, “You’re kidding me. That’s asinine.”

“Pair of tongs to put a lime on top of a beer bottle?” he said, and went on to perhaps date himself. “It’s got a skin on the back of it that takes scurvy off parts of your body. It’s what they use on ships.”

When pigs fly...

Three teams from the Big 12 in the top ten of the latest BCS poll?  Oklahoma, fifth--that's not so surprising.  But Mizzou at number six?  Kansas is number four in the nation?  That's just nuts!  I kind of thought Mark Mangino looked more like someone that could do the "Fat Guy in Little Coat" gag really well, but he must be one heck of a coach to have brought KU to this level.  I mean, c'mon.  I know the Jayhawks rock chalk the hell out of everyone in basketball every year, but who knew they were capable of this level of play in the football realm?  And 76 points this weekend on a hallowed football program like Nebraska?   Nuts!

And we don't call it "pop"...

As I pondered my drink selection at Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse BBQ today, it occurred to me that this was a somewhat subtle sign that I've truly moved back to Texas.  Can you see why?

This makes my testicles shrivel up into my chest just watching this...

Some company called Rip Curl developed a heated wetsuit warm enough to withstand the cold waters of the Arctic.  I guess with the Arctic Circle melting and all, there's even more you could do up there than just look around for polar bears.  

Something funny that was in my e-mail today...

"Even when you're having a really bad day, someone will still screw you."

I'm interested in how far up the scale goes.

The best I could manage at this level where semi-educated guesses. It really helps to have an interest in etymology, as I do, to help you choose the right word. Words as they are meant today often have unexpected origins. The best example I can think of off hand is the word 'sincere.' It comes from Latin and means 'without wax.' As the story goes, marble sellers would often hide blemishes or cutting mistakes in marble by filling them with wax. If a piece of marble was without wax, it was sincere, and this label probably made it's way to the seller from there, and then to people in general afterwards.

And oh yeah, dig it:

Procrastinate for a good cause...

Firecracker George, with that insane vocabulary of his, should enjoy this game.

FreeRice gives you an endless quiz of your word knowledge, and donates 10 grains of rice for each answer you get right. I got up to a vocabulary level of 44 (perhaps partially by luck - you've got a 1 in 4 chance of being right just by guessing) before I had a string of wrong answers that discouraged me enough to quit for the afternoon.

Friggin' sweet, indeed!

If you didn't get enough of that Star Wars spoof on the season premiere of Family Guy, it looks like they've already got a script written for The Empire Strikes Back, and the cast already went through a preliminary table read.

On a side note, I don't think I ever realized the voice of Meg was that chick from That 70's Show.

That's the sort of market that we're tryin' to get into ...

Ever since Swany introduced us to Business Time, I have been highly anticipating the reruns on HBO for the Flight of the Conchords. To get my fix I will occasionally go do a search for some of their videos. Here is one that is pretty good.

Just gotta hope your would-be assailant doesn't get thirsty midway during the chase...

Some designer in Japan created these disguises to help potential crime victims allude muggers. Somehow, this vending machine costume fits under some flap in a woman's skirt, so she can simply pull it out and cover herself to hide if she's being chased. I suppose in a darkly lit city environment, this might work. Might be an easy way to make some cash, too. I've lost many a dollar bill on Coke machines that ate my money. Hmmm.

Now that's what I call a bonfire...

I'm not sure I really understood the extent of the inferno that Southern California has become until I came across this modified Google Map. I've always been convinced that Northern California was destined to fall into the ocean someday, but I never realized that the southern end of the state was at this much risk for apocalyptic disaster. Considering how much real estate is over there, I'm wondering if all these people that are watching their homes go up in flames had enough money left over to buy adequate insurance. Imagine the economic fallout that's going to result from this.

Something tells me this was more of a calculated "slip of the tongue"...

The more I hear and read about Mitt Romney, the more I really dislike the guy. This little gaffe, though, really put the nail in the coffin for me. Either he's subliminally working on the minds of voters and really pushing the envelope on our terrorist fears or someone sneaked in a typo into his teleprompter:

GREENWOOD, S.C. — Mitt Romney might have still been a bit bleary-eyed this morning when he twice confused Senator Barack Obama with Osama bin Laden when referring to the latter’s new recorded message.

Mr. Romney was talking about global trade this morning, rolling out a spiffy new PowerPoint presentation before the Chamber of Commerce here in which he called for the United States to initiate global free trade zone agreements with other countries that he called the “Reagan Zone of Economic Freedom.”

But he paused to talk about the threat of radical Islam, taking John Edwards, one of his Democratic opponents, to task for comments he made several months ago that criticized the “global war on terror” as a bumper sticker for President Bush.

“I think that is a position which is not consistent with the fact,” Mr. Romney said. “Actually, just look at what Osam — uh — Barack Obama, said just yesterday. Barack Obama calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. That is the central place, he said. Come join us under one banner.”

The comment set off some confusion among the press corps. Glen Johnson of the Associated Press was momentarily frantically searching for comments made by Mr. Obama, another Democratic presidential contender, about jihadism and Iraq.

It turns out, of course, Mr. Romney was talking about the new audiotape from bin Laden calling on insurgents in Iraq to unite.

Oops.

Kevin Madden, a Romney spokesman, said afterward: “Governor Romney simply misspoke. He was referring to the recently released audiotape of Osama bin Laden and misspoke when referencing his name. It was just a brief mix-up.”

I'm betting you can't sit perfectly still and listen to this...

This music video of Le Tigre's "Deceptacon" looks and sounds like some throwback to the days of Revenge of the Nerds or all those teenage angst John Hughes movies:


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