Heidi Klum and Seal buy a Giraffe
Heidi Klum and Seal buy a Giraffe - And then drive away with it in their Lamborghini. What’s not to love?
Heidi Klum and Seal buy a Giraffe - And then drive away with it in their Lamborghini. What’s not to love?
Cool word of the day: cowling - Impress your friends!
Apparently some sort of spice was pulverized when the chicken was breaded a couple of nights ago, resulting in green chicken at the Binz Refectory. It was not a particularly bright green, but a rather sickly green - almost the color that people turn when they are very sick. We were assured by Mary (she is the sandwich lady, who is a very nice person — her son actually goes to school here) that the chicken was normal. This wasn’t anything remarkable, though it does merit note, especially given Food at the Binz’s remarkably long silence.
But no, noble readers, the real story lies in the beverages. I experienced something not particularly disgusting but truly novel in my pre-meal beverage gathering during the night of the green chicken. This will require some background. At your local fast-food restraurant and at most places that serve pop (or soda, as your geographical region may dictate) in large quantities, they do not simply have large amounts of liter bottles lying about. This is not cost effective. So, in a process regulated by beverage companies (who want their product to taste as it was intended), tap water is purified, carbonated, and mixed with soda syrup (the high fructose corn syrup, flavoring, and caffeine) on site and as the beverage is dispensed.
Enter me, who never gets pop, but who’s eye was caught by a missing label above one of the pop dispensing buttons. “Try it!” urged Dan, the ever-adventurous soul. I placed a glass beneath the nozzle and hit the button. Cold transparent liquid immediately filled my glass. I didn’t think much of it, and resolved to find more interesting new things to try. Upon returning to my seat, I tried the mystery liquid. It was heavily carbonated water. I mean, this stuff had the bite of a cola, with the strange taste that only an old purifier can impart to St. Paul municipal water. I was brought back to the days of “H2Oh!” — that horrid carbonated water drink that was so popular before Aquafina and Dasani tackled the market.
Green chicken and really fizzy water = our cafeteria. Yes, yes. We’re considering adding orange juice to the fizzy water to see if we can homebrew some “Slice” knock-off or something. Spring-fever, indeed.
I wonder how far in the air this guy is - “Don’t talk trash about male cheerleaders, they can throw you further than you think.”
Britain’s worst driver was behind bars last night after being banned from the roads for nine lifetimes plus 109 years - Can’t beat the sound bites from this article: “In 2000, Williamson was branded the worst driver “in Scotland, if not the UK”, after earning his sixth life ban.”
Trading up from a paper clip to a house - Over the course of about 10 trades, this guy has gone from a large red paperclip to a year’s free rent in Arizona. He’s looking to continue trading until he gets a house.
This man is a genius.
Panopticon - When researching that previous link, I ran across the panopticon, a prison designed by a philosopher (sounds interesting already) that would: “allow an observer to observe all prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a ‘sentiment of an invisible omniscience’.”
Perhaps the internet really can make you smarter — or at least armed with a trivial storehouse of knowledge.
Man caught changing traffic lights - This guy was changing traffic lights for two years with something called an Opticon, and was only charged $50 when caught. I would think it would be way way more.
In the grand Tumbledry tradition, I bring you another round of “5 Questions.” Five questions is presented here on a very irregular schedule; that is, whenever I think of it. It is a tumbledry feature, just like “Food at the Binz” or “boring posts about my life” (the latter category receives many many entries). For those of you who are new to the game: the first five questions asked of me via the comments attached to this post will be answered. Plain and simple.
I will leave a comment below to answer the questions after five have accumulated. If I have not yet written answers, yet 5 questions have been asked, you may still write questions — but there are no guarantees about whether you will receive a response.
Ask away.
Credit to Jimmy Eat World for these lyrics. On their newest (amazing) EP “Stay On My Side Tonight” (recommended by tumbledryer Nils) is a great song called “Closer.” The lyrics follow.
Every day I get a little closer dear
Will you love me darling when I get there
I’ll need sunshine
I’ll need rest
Pour us whiskey, water, kiss
Remember me she said smiling
Write my name somewhere safe
Touch and taste fades with space
I’ll never be who you dream
Every day I try a little harder dear
But those things you do I don’t wanna hear
You’ll have yours I’ll have mine
No one guilty
No one right
Every day I get a little closer dear
Gonna drive fast all night ‘til I get there
Not much time we can waste
Nothing pretty left to say
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