I wasn't too impressed by any of them. I enjoyed the first Careerbuilder.com ad and the Fedex one but besides that, none of them really seemed too special. Here's all the commercials.
Monday, February 06, 2006
0 commentsSuper Bowl XL Commercials
I wasn't too impressed by any of them. I enjoyed the first Careerbuilder.com ad and the Fedex one but besides that, none of them really seemed too special. Here's all the commercials.
Tim vs. The Black Widow, July 4th 2006, Pete & Eldas, 10 minutes, winner takes all
A 100-pound woman ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes at a New York restaurant, winning the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship.
Sonya Thomas won $8,000 US for the contest at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square on Wednesday but said she was disappointed in her performance.
"I could have done better," she said, adding that she was aiming for 30 sandwiches.
Sonya Thomas won $8,000 US for the contest at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square on Wednesday but said she was disappointed in her performance.
"I could have done better," she said, adding that she was aiming for 30 sandwiches.
Bad idea: putting killers on the street. Really bad idea: putting psychotic killers back on the street
State psychiatrists say a Troy man who bludgeoned and mutilated his mother to death in 2000 should be released from an institution, placed in a group home and eventually returned to the community because his mental illness is in remission.
Oakland County prosecutors, however, plan to fight his release at a hearing Wednesday.
James Yang, 30, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in Oakland County Circuit Court in 2001 after he beat his mother, Kazuyo Yang, 58, to death with a chair leg, crowbar, hammer and iron weights in their Troy home. He used a hacksaw to cut off her face and then ate her eyes.
Oakland County prosecutors, however, plan to fight his release at a hearing Wednesday.
James Yang, 30, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in Oakland County Circuit Court in 2001 after he beat his mother, Kazuyo Yang, 58, to death with a chair leg, crowbar, hammer and iron weights in their Troy home. He used a hacksaw to cut off her face and then ate her eyes.
This car costs too much so I'm gonna buy it, crash it into the dealer ship and set it ablaze
A disgruntled car customer in South Florida who was apparently angry with the price he was charged for his new car drove the vehicle into the dealership showroom, poured gas on it and set it on fire, police said.
Investigators said Gerald Georgettis had just purchased a new Ford Escape from a Miami dealership.
After the purchase, police said Georgettis drove the vehicle into the dealership and doused it with gasoline. He then set it on fire, causing $1 million in damage.
Totowa = Annie's Road
A ruptured tank spilled more than 9,000 gallons of refined oil into a river Sunday, causing an eight-mile oil slick, authorities said.
At least two water companies temporarily stopped taking water from the Passaic River after the 9 a.m. spill, said Passaic County Sheriff's Department spokesman Bill Maer.
The leak started at a factory in Totowa, about 20 miles west of New York City. Oil was flowing "like a spout" into the water, said sheriff's department Capt. James Hearney.
At least two water companies temporarily stopped taking water from the Passaic River after the 9 a.m. spill, said Passaic County Sheriff's Department spokesman Bill Maer.
The leak started at a factory in Totowa, about 20 miles west of New York City. Oil was flowing "like a spout" into the water, said sheriff's department Capt. James Hearney.
Friday, February 03, 2006
0 commentsBrokeback to the Future
C'mon. Admit it. You laughed... or shook your head in disappointment. Having sound for this one is definately a plus.
50 Cent to write chidren's books
Rap star 50 Cent is planning yet another career change after claiming he is to write a series of children's books.
After a successful chart career, the hip-hop heavyweight has just released his first movie 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and has also starred in a video game of the same name.
But after completing work on his first autobiography, the star, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, insists he wants to write books for young children, teaching them life lessons.
Weird if you think about it
Hundreds were feared dead Friday when an Egyptian ferry carrying some 1,400 passengers and crew sank in the Red Sea in what appeared to be one of the worst maritime disasters in decades.
By afternoon, rescuers were stated to have pulled 14 survivors and 35 bodies from the sea where Italian-built al-Salam Boccaccio 98 went down some 90 kilometres from its destination, the Egyptian port of Safaga.
Al-Arabiya news channel reported that several dozen bodies had been recovered from the sea - while there remained hopes that a growing search and rescue operation would recover more survivors.
Some people have no shame
The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested 22 Colombian nationals for smuggling heroin into the United States via various methods, including surgically implanting the drug into puppies, officials said Wednesday.
The Colombian organization brought more than 20 kilograms of heroin into the United States, concealing some of it by slitting open purebred puppies, according to John P. Gilbride, the DEA’s New York Field Division special agent-in-charge, in a news release.
At least three puppies died from having liquid heroin packets placed inside them and then being stitched back up, DEA spokesman David Ausiello said.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
0 commentsWho is Tim Jackson?
Tim Jackson's solo for the Drum Corps International Individual & Ensemble competition is amazing. I don't even have sound on this computer and I can tell.
In Kentucky, vehicular homicide while speeding and text messaging is ok
A Kenton County grand jury's refusal to indict text-messaging teen driver Jeremy Deming for the May 7 accident that killed 2½-year-old Nhiem Jennings has left some questioning if justice was served.
Deming admitted at the scene to driving about 10 mph over the speed limit and text-messaging on his cell phone before hitting the boy, yet the Covington teen, now 19, seems to have gotten off without even a traffic ticket. He had faced a Class D felony charge of reckless homicide. This case is more proof Kentucky needs a lesser vehicular homicide charge such as Ohio's negligent homicide statute. It also suggests the need for tougher laws against multi-tasking motorists.
There are some who argue Nhiem's uncle or the uncle's girlfriend were remiss in not keeping the youngster safe, and new legislation cannot be based on a single sad case. Deming and the Jennings family surely feel miserable about Nhiem's death. But Kentucky juries should be given more options in vehicular death cases. Commonwealth's attorney Bill Crockett had given the grand jury the option to indict on misdemeanor charges. They declined.
Deming admitted at the scene to driving about 10 mph over the speed limit and text-messaging on his cell phone before hitting the boy, yet the Covington teen, now 19, seems to have gotten off without even a traffic ticket. He had faced a Class D felony charge of reckless homicide. This case is more proof Kentucky needs a lesser vehicular homicide charge such as Ohio's negligent homicide statute. It also suggests the need for tougher laws against multi-tasking motorists.
There are some who argue Nhiem's uncle or the uncle's girlfriend were remiss in not keeping the youngster safe, and new legislation cannot be based on a single sad case. Deming and the Jennings family surely feel miserable about Nhiem's death. But Kentucky juries should be given more options in vehicular death cases. Commonwealth's attorney Bill Crockett had given the grand jury the option to indict on misdemeanor charges. They declined.
At $13.49 it's a steal
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Badminton is the most comprehensive and up-to-date badminton-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round badminton-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.
No other badminton book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance.
Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
No other badminton book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance.
Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
In Punxsutawney, a rodent is god
Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who fans claim is never wrong, predicted six more weeks of winter on Thursday, matching the forecast of professional meteorologists.
"Phil is incapable of error. If he says six more weeks of winter, you can take it to the bank," said Mike Johnston, one of the 15 members of the Groundhog Club Inner Circle in Punxsutawney, site of the annual Groundhog Day ceremony.
According to legend, when the rodent emerges from hibernation on February 2 and sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter. If he does not see his shadow, spring is near.
Lottery
I got thinking about the lottery. I was wondering if there was a way to guarantee a win. The only legal way to do that is to buy a ticket corresponding to every possible numeric combination.
So with the New Jersey lottery:
There are 5 numbers (1-56) plus the "gold ball" (1-46).To match the first 5 its 56 x 55 x 54 x 53 x 52 (1:56 chance to get the 1st number right, 1:55 chance to get the second number, etc.)Then to get the "gold ball" its just multiplying by 46 (1:46 chance). So for the first five its 458,377,920 possible combinations. But because it doesn't matter what order the numbers are in we divide by 5 factorial (number of numbers chosen) which gives us 3,819,816. Then multiply that by the "gold ball" so 3,819,816 x 46 = 175,711,536 possibilities.
So in order to play every possible ticket you need $175,711,536. To make it easier you could team up with people and each put in like $100-$1000. Say you do $1000 per person, then you need 175,712 people. So that's about Daytona Speedway plus about 8000. So it's not really out of hand yet (sort of).
Taking the cash prize actually decreases by over half since all the taxes are taken out at once. It's about 60% taken out. So to break even in the lottery you need the advertised cash prize to be about $292,852,560. The largest mega million jack pot in history is $315 million. So with taxes taken out (25% federal, NJ residents are exempt from paying NJ state tax on lottery winnings), the cash prize is about $236.25 million. Tallied up among all the people who played that's $1,344.52 a person. Which means each ticket made 34 cents. Awesome... simply awesome...
