One day on vacation we went to Provincetown (P-Town, as it is known). It’s an artist type town for those that don’t know it. One place they had put up a big wall with a ton of spray paint and anyone could go wild.
Obviously my girls loved it.
Author: fish1964
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One Hour
Vacation is still awesome. Tonight’s sunset:
But pictures never do it justice…
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Vacation Morning
A beautiful early morning at the Cape. That’s Tori in the lower right, she’s an early morning girl.
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
If you haven’t seen this web series, it’s Seinfeld doing 20 minute spots where he talks to another comedian. They are off the cuff and generally hilarious (the Chris Rock one is great).
They always start with Jerry describing a cool vintage car and ultimately he and the other comedian go for coffee in that car.
I have to be honest and say I don’t know George Wallace (the comedian). Apparently he’s been friends with Seinfeld for ages. This episode is very funny. The title of this show (Two Polish Airline Pilots) comes from a joke they remember from a Bob Newhart show that they saw together in 1977. If you don’t have time, start the video at the 9:00 mark.
But it was wide though, wasn’t it?…
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The Best Beer in Baseball
This is a great interactive article. I have issues with it because they consider Stella Artois (the Bud of Europe) to be as good as Guinness on draft, but overall the ratings seem good.
As a Yankee fan, the Yankee Stadium rating is embarrassing, but not unexpected. The beer there just isn’t good. What is especially bad is that there is a great brewery in Cooperstown, NY, Ommegang. Cooperstown? Home of the Baseball Hall of Fame? Hello?
Anyway, wherever you go, try to drink good beer.
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The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz
Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz on this one. There’s a new movie, Get on Up about James Brown, but why watch impersonators when you can watch the Godfather of Soul (you have to be amazing to get two cool nicknames) for real, 50 years ago.
If you don’t have time for the full 18 minutes, start around the 15 minute mark and watch his feet.
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Am I a bad person for this?
I have no idea is this is legit (hey, it’s on the internet, it must be true), but it’s amusing…
http://np.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/2cm5xt/am_i_a_bad_person_for_this/
So a while ago I had decided to treat myself and go to Burger King. I hadn’t had the greatest of days and I had a headache coming on. It was a very long line and I was at the end of it waiting patiently. When behind me comes this woman yapping on her cellphone with a little monster of a child. This kid was out of control, screaming, punching his mother throwing around a gameboy whenever something didn’t go right in the game. The mother didn’t seem to pay any attention to him and his continued yelling of ‘I want a Fucking PIE’. After about 5 minutes of the line with these people behind me, I had gone from a headache to a full on migraine, but nothing was going to stop me from getting those burgers. I calmly turn and ask her nicely if she can please calm or quiet her child down. Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can’t tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business. I nod and turn around, shes still yelling at the back of my head when the child cries out again how he wants a pie, the mother consoles him, calling him sweety and ensuring they’ll get pies for lunch because she loves him so much. Things immediately go back to the they were and I wait another 5 minutes before getting to the front of the line. It turns out it was so slow because they had 1 trainee on cash during the lunch hour rush. All I can think of is how the people behind me ruined my splurge and gave me this headache. I then decide to ruin their day. I order every pie they have left in addition to my burgers. Turned out to be 23 pies in total, I take my order and walk towards the exit. Moments later I hear the woman yelling, what do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all? I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare. I stand there and pull out a pie and slowly start eating eat as I stare back at her. She starts running towards me but can’t get to me because of other lineups in the food court. I turn and slowly walk away.
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Rosetta meets Comet
Sometimes we forget to take a step back and appreciate some of the amazing technology that is going on. Ten years ago the European Space Agency launched a spacecraft, Rosetta, to intercept a comet.
Ten years ago.
To meet up with the comet, Rosetta needed to loop around the sun four times, getting gravity assist from multiple planets (Mars once and Earth three times).
I can’t embed this video, but check it out.
Think of the complexity involved in getting this right. Yet here we are, ten years later, and Rosetta just completed maneuvers to place it in orbit around the comet.
That is just flat out amazing.
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Google Doodle o’ the Day
Today’s Google Doodle is an amusing tribute to John Venn (of Venn diagram fame). I liked it a lot.
Then I realized it’s Louis Armstrong’s birthday and he’s never (to the best of my knowledge) had a Google Doodle.
Venn diagrams are useful, but c’mon Google, Satchmo…
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