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Baby Dancing To Beyonce

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:15:04 +0000

One of the funniest things that I’ve seen in a long time. Makes me laugh even more because I have a young toddler who loves to get down and dance as well. Especially have to love the leg shake about a 1/3 of the way in.

Bad Joke Friday

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:29:48 +0000

How do you catch a unique horse?

Unique up on it.

How do you catch a tame horse?

The tame way.

Cheap Trick’s new song – Sick Man of Europe

roiBert — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:42:40 +0000

Sick Man Of Europe – from “The Latest” – Cheap Trick

For die hard Cheap Trick fans, you have to wonder if the naming of the song is a homage to the early days of Cheap Trick. As in the name of the band before the name of the band.

Great tune. Relevant but yet still maintaining that classic CT sound. Can’t wait to see them in concwert with Poison and Def Leppard.

Armegeddon Avoided… For Now.

roiBert — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:36:32 +0000

On Monday it was announced that a 10-story asteroid barely missed the Earth by about 48,800 miles. Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? But consider for a moment that 48,800 is roughly about twice the distance of the telecommunications satellites that mankind has put into space. Or to put it another more shocking way, only 1/5 the distance to the moon.

Talk about dodging a bullet… a really, really BIG bullet.

Kind of scary how close that was. Some are calling it a cosmic near-miss. Thankfully NASA has the Near-Earth Object Program that identifies such threats in plenty of time for us to decide on an appropriate course of action. What’s that you say? News agencies are reporting that “Astronomers say they didn’t see it coming until Saturday.”

They didn’t see it until Saturday? Wholly crap and hug the wife and kids.

In less than 72 hours from the time of reported discovery it passed by at about 12 miles a second. Not much time to get the affairs all in order is it? No, it isn’t. But it is a great reminder to live life to the fullest and make every moment count.

Now… go hug the family and tell someone you love them.

Atlantis Found

roiBert — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:45:48 +0000

Has Google Maps located the lost city of Atlantis off the northern coast of Africa? A series of under-water grids has been discovered that leads many to believe that it has. After all, the underwater grid-lines certainly appear to indicate the possibility of ruins. So much so that one aeronautical engineer said that it looks like an “aerial map” of a city.

Is Atlantis off the coast of Africa?

The location itself is even near to where Plato described it. So could it really be the fabled lost city?

Not according to a Google spokeman who says that “what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (sea floor) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor. The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.”

Sonar artifacts? Leads one to question why there are not more of these grids across the rest of Google Maps. Has Patrick Duffy been question about this? He should be able to tell us if this is Atlantis or not.