Archive for December, 2008
oldie but a goodie
Remember this?
If you see the dancer spinning clockwise it means you’re using the right half of your brain. If she spins counter-clockwise it means you’re using the left.
The theory: by watching the direction of her spin, we can determine which half of our brains we’re using.
Or maybe it’s just a random optical illusion? Who knows?
The interesting thing = some of us see her spinning one direction, some the other, while some see her change directions and others, for the life of them, just aren’t able to make her change directions.
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Stolen Stollen
Literally:
Two couriers at a package distribution center stole a Christmas cake destined for a German newspaper and mailed in its place a package of credit card data, prosecutors said Friday. The mix-up triggered an alarm over lost bank customer details. A batch of microfilmed data including names, addresses and card transactions ended up at the Frankfurter Rundschau daily last week  instead of the cake. Police advised credit card customers with Landesbank Berlin to check their accounts for inconsistencies.
But the incident turned out to be less sinister than feared.
Frankfurt prosecutors said that two couriers stole a Stollen, a German-style Christmas cake, at a distribution center in Mainz.
In an attempt to cover up the theft, the men instead sent one of several packages of credit card billing details destined for Landesbank Berlin to the newspaper, the cake’s intended recipient.
Doris Moeller-Scheu, a spokesman for Frankfurt prosecutors, said the suspected thieves didn’t open the package and “could not know what was in it,” so no harm came to customers.
She said the two men had admitted to the theft. Prosecutors did not name the courier service involved or identify the two suspects.
The cake was good enough that the two suspects have no regrets.
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Area Man Writes Blog
LITTLE CANADA, MNâ€â€Local resident Steve Bachman, the self-styled “Bachster†of Internet obscurity, has announced plans to publish a blog. Family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and checkout clerks are bracing themselves for the expected onslaught of hintsâ€â€subtle and not-so-subtleâ€â€of the “you ought to check out my blog†variety.
Bachman believes that his catchy graphical hook, a black-and-white bust of J.S. Bach wearing crudely hand-drawn pink-tinted sunglasses, will set his blog apart from the crowd. “It’s been a big hit with my test audience,†he says, “many of whom have expressed the opinion that it’s a very cool and subtle way to brand the Bachster name.†He does admit, however, that a few of his readers have misidentified the image. The names Benjamin Franklin, Horace Rumpole, and “Ben Stein in a wig†have come up.
When asked if readers can expect a lot of self-revelatory writing, reflection, and evidence of personal growth on his blog, he says, “No, but I do expect to skewer everyone I know quite unmercifully.â€Â
Check out BachBlog if you likey : )
Keep up the great work, Steve – and remember, there are far worse ways to spend time.
For example, we could be stone-cold-Hollywood pimps defending our territory against would-be-take-our-hoes-ways-from-us-neighboring-pimps.
yeah.
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Beeker
This was one of the very first songs I ever learned to play on the piano.
Beeker does it so much better!
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iGame
This could spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E for the gaming industry and its plethora of hardware platforms – what if all you needed to play your favorite games was a cable and the device you carry with you all day anyways:
Read more here.
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Lars’ dad
Backcountry
When you are in town, wearing some kind of uniform is helpful, policeman, priest, etc. Driving a tank is very impressive, or a car with official lettering on the side. If that isn’t to your taste you could join the revolution, wear an armband, carry a homemade flag tied to a broom handle, or a placard bearing an incendiary slogan.
At the very least you should wear a suit and carry a briefcase and a cell phone, or wear a team jacket and a baseball cap and carry a cell phone. If you go into the woods, the backcountry, someplace past all human habitation, it is a good idea to wear orange and carry a gun, or, depending on the season, carry a fishing pole, or a camera with a big lens. Otherwise it might appear that you have no idea what you are doing, that you are merely wandering the earth, no particular reason for being here, no particular place to go.
 Louis Jenkins
This is the same poem that Mark Rylance read as his acceptance speech at the Tony Awards this past year:
Cheers, Lars.
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