Fun & facts
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It turns out I'm not average-looking after all!
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I Stumbled Upon a web site about face research: Researchers Lisa DeBruine and Ben Jones are experimental psychologists working for the University of Aberdeen. On their web site, FaceResearch.org, you can test some of the computer tools they have developed including an intriguing application which allows you to create average faces from a number of…
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Look out for cracks in the road while cycling
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Whilst sightseeing by car on Corsica in May this year, a couple of friends and I came across this fellow who had dragged his wife/girlfriend/woman along on a cycling trip. He was equipped with all the usual pro gear: head band, tiny backpack and cycling shorts. She was about 100 meters behind him, presumably to…
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Eleven comedies to watch
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These are eleven comedies that I feel comfortable recommending! O’ brother where art thou: a modern take on the Odyssey Four weddings and a funeral: the hassles of getting married or not Austin Powers – International Man of Mystery: James Bond gone hippie Austin Powers – The Spy who Shagged me: Who does number two…
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Fifteen ingenious songs by Weird Al
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Weird Al Yankovic creates the most ingenious parodies of concurrent popular music, additionally he composes brilliant music of his own! Below is a list of my favourites! Amish Paradise, parody of Coolios “Gangsta’s Paradise” Fat, parody of Michael Jackson’s “Bad” You don’t love me anymore, Weird Al original Living with a Hernia, parody of James…
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The dangers of fly-fishing
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Vreid lead singer and Avinet co-founder Sture sent me these touching photos from his annual salmon fishing expeditioin to the once famous, now apparently empty, salmon river Gaula in Trøndelag. The thumbnail photo shows a no. 10 fly-hook (accidentally) embedded into Stures index finger. The photo below shows a wall exhibition of fishing gear removed…
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32 ways to tick people off
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Came across this wonderful list of ways to tick off your colleagues at work or other people for that matter: HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF 1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies. 2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.” 3.…
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Lorem Ipsum
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I have always been curious of the meaning behind the latin sounding “lorem ipsum” text frequently used as “placeholder text” by graphical designers. Here’s what I found: The phrase originates from a speech, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, made by Marcus Tullius Cicero in the year 45 BC. The latin title means something like “On…
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8 000 rpm clothes drier
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I spotted the ‘Clothes Drier’ at an electric appliance store the other day. This aptly named machine aspires to dry your clothes in a more efficient way, but I wouldn’t throw away my tumble-drier just yet. The Clothes Drier consists of a vertical cylinder mounted on a tripod with an electrical oven about fifty centimeters…
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Star Wars inspired hand-held vacuum cleaner
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While scouting for something to make the removal of leftover bread crumbs from fundamentally useless irish bread more efficient I encountered this laser-gun looking device. Vacuum cleaning might have been fun had I been in possession of one of these when I was little. Nowadays I am more uncertain as to whether this is the…
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Please do not place cash in this box
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As exotic problems go, my horizon was significantly broadened after a recent visit to Laoise County Hall. By the entrance door there is a postbox with the following warning on it: ‘Don’t put money in this box’. The thought of doing so never occured to me in the first place, but if people would want…