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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Mark Your Calendars - A Week From Tuesday
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That's also the "first day of winter". Coincidence? Nope..
The Ultimate Bacon Lover's Gift Guide
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Everyone knows someone who loves bacon. (If you don't, you're hanging out with the wrong people...) And who wouldn't love something bacony under their tree?
So to make your holiday shopping easier this year, here are some bacontastic gifts to help spread the holiday cheer. And remember, every time a bell rings, a guy gets his bacon.
Bacon Of The Month Club
The gift of pork that keeps on giving... They'll get 2 packages of bacon delivered to their doorstep every month. And there is a variety of Bacon of the Month Club memberships to suit every kind of bacon fan, like No Pepper, Nitrate Free, Sampler, Bacon and Pancake, and more. It's gonna be a good year.(Price varies) @ BaconFreak.com
Bacon Platter
Need something to serve all that delicious bacon on? Try this big 10-1/4" x 6" ceramic platter, that can hold an entire slab of bacon. Who says guys don't have decorative serving pieces?$19.50 @ McPhee.com
Bacon Placemats
Let 'em eat bacon while looking at more bacon. Soft vinyl mat is easy-to-clean so you can wipe off the greasy goodness. And drool.$2.95 @ McPhee.com
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Friday, December 10, 2010
The Dumbest Kid In The World
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A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you."
The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?"
The boy takes the quarters and leaves.
"What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"
Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. "Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?"
The boy licked his cone and replied, "Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!"
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Amazing Super Cell Image
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It was apparently a huge storm cloud over Montana not too long ago. Brave photographer!
College Classhole
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This is so true - I hated it when a particular student would take it upon himself/herself to ask 50 questions near the end of each class. Meanwhile the rest of us are looking at our watches, thinking "Jeeeeez - this is what professors have office hours for! Go see him in person and stop wasting OUR time!!"
The 15 Smartest and Dumbest U.S. Presidents
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Universally and instantly recognizable, the President of the United States – the heads of state and government of the world’s largest superpower, the commander–in-chief of the US Armed Forces, the omnipotent and oft-termed “Leader of the Free World” – requires no long-winded or flowery introduction. What does require clarification, however, are the notions of “smartness” and “dumbness”. What makes someone smart or dumb? Is it their level of education? Their talents? Their actions? Their achievements? Their IQ? Their intellectualism?
Apart from the obvious answer (that it is one’s ability to ask a string of rhetorical questions) “smartness” is a concept that is open to a range of interpretations, so it is conceded that the assessments made in this article are open to debate. However, to stifle Internet debate (a.k.a. “flame wars”) this article will not base its assessment on policy decisions made by the respective presidents, and, furthermore, accepts that the act of holding the presidential office in itself demonstrates some inkling of intelligence.
The Smartest
This section of the article deals with the most interesting of the presidents that can be deemed intelligent. Whilst some might bemoan the lack of Obama or Kennedy, who are undeniably intelligent, the presidents here either have madder skillz or achievements that outshine them.
Thomas Jefferson (3rd President, from 1801-1809)
No matter how one interprets “smartness”, Thomas Jefferson would unequivocally qualify. The principal author of The Declaration of Independence, Jefferson’s talents could constitute a book; the following catalog barely does them justice. During his teenage years at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, Jefferson became incredibly proficient in philosophy, mathematics, history, French, Latin and Greek. “Pfft-“, some hipster reader will undoubtedly say, “-Wikipedia knows all of those things- and Jefferson couldn’t Wikipedia like I Wikipedia!” In this obtuse and poorly articulated response lies a valid criticism – the ability to merely retain knowledge from books may not constitute smartness. But Jefferson was more than just book-smart: a polymath – which is a person distinguished in many varied fields, and not an obnoxious exponential equation – he was also an accomplished archeologist, author, inventor, lawyer, musician (talented in the cello, clavichord and violin) ornithologist, paleontologist, poet and speechmaker. And before you interrupt with some obscure insult, hipster, his architectural and horticultural prowess was such that he designed the University of Virginia (which he himself founded) and the Poplar Forest. This ridonkulous amount of talent was recognized by later president John F. Kennedy when he addressed 49 Nobel Laureates, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."John Adams (2nd President, from 1797-1801)
Another Founding Father was John Adams, whose dinners with Jefferson (amongst others) resulted in the American Declaration of Independence, the screenplay to the 1996 blockbuster smash hit starring Will Smith, the document where the American colonies announced and justified their secession from the British Empire. With his polymathic fingers in every pie, it is unsurprising that it was Jefferson’s hand that predominantly penned the Declaration, but it was John Adams who championed it in Congressional debates. Adams’ oratory was so dedicated and effective that Jefferson wrote in a letter, “No man better merited, than Mr. John Adams to hold a most conspicuous place in the design. He was the pillar of it’s [sic] support on the floor of Congress, it’s [sic] ablest advocate and defender against the multifarious assaults it encountered.”James Madison (4th President, from 1809-1817)
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28th President, from 1913-1921)
Theodore Roosevelt (26th President, from 1901-1909)
James Garfield (20th President, from March - September, 1881)
The Hybrids
As raised before, the notion of smartness is very subjective; depending on which criterion one uses, one can reach very different assessments. This section considers presidents who exhibited both smartness and dumbness depending on different criteria.
Richard Nixon (37th President, from 1969-1974)
If one uses the Intelligence Quotient test as a determinant of smartness, then Richard Nixon is the smartest, with his IQ of 143, less his ability to avoid making crucial mistakes. This is finding was evidenced by Nixon being the only president forced to resign from office.Bill Clinton (42nd President, from 1993-2001)
Abraham Lincoln (16th President, from 1861-1865) - Huh??
The Dumbest
This is the section you have no doubt been waiting for - the one that deals with the comparatively less talented presidents. Like tequila shots, the judgments proclaimed in this section should be enjoyed liberally and with a pinch of salt – and one should savor, rather than revile, the burn and the acerbity.
Warren G. Harding (29th President, from 1921-1923)
Perhaps not a household name, Warren Harding is the worst of the first men; he has the ignominy of being ranked America’s least intelligent president. Although the Siena study does not specify how it reaches its conclusions, a consideration of Harding’s conduct during his term yields much insight into this Nein-stein. His presidential term was rocked by scandals greater than either Lewinsky or Watergate: nepotism ran free and many of his friends thus appointed (known as “The Ohio Gang”) were involved in bribery and embezzlement scandals. Although the White House was not subject to the same scrutiny and transparency of today, the shady dealings were so brazen and gormless that they quickly came to light. However, the only thing dumber than these peccadilloes (and it’s not his middle name, Gamaliel) is Harding’s barely hidden consumption of alcohol at private parties in the White House. Why is this dumb? Well, Harding’s presidency coincided with the Prohibition. Also, being apparently handsome, Harding was nominated to try to secure the vote of women in the 1920 election (the first time women voted in America). When it became apparent that his wife was treated as a waitress at these parties, and that he engaged in multiple extra-marital affairs, he disenfranchised and isolated his key demographic.George W. Bush (42nd President, from 2001-2009)
Of course we saved the best for last. It isn’t really necessary to justify Dubya’s appearance in this section –and nor do we have the space – but it’s good fun to reminisce nostalgically over his well documented failings. Like Ford, Bush graduated from Yale (although he only managed a C-grade average) and also like Ford, perplexing, contradictory or painfully banal self-evident observations (yep, they are a real pain in the ass) emerge, unchecked, from his mouth. But unlike Ford, the sheer rate and frequency of these mistakes were so incredible that recording them went beyond cheap political points-scoring: they demanded cataloging for posterity’s sake, lest future generations forget or disbelieve their existence. A neologism had to be coined to describe them, and so “Bushism” entered the American vernacular. The Complete Bushisms, all 13 pages of them, are available here. As a result, the Siena study found him to be the second dumbest president of all time. And perhaps worse still, not even Google can save him from being considered just a tad slimy.Calvin Coolidge (30th President, from 1923-1929)
Ronald Reagan (40th President, from 1981-1989) - WTF??
Andrew Johnson (17th President, from 1865-1869)
Gerald Ford (38th President, from 1974-1977)
Obviously I didn't write the article. Also - like most who would read this article, I agree with most of it, but disagree with some of it as well. But that's politics, right? The article is an opinion, a lot of which is based on an independent study done at Siena University. I have included that .pdf file at the bottom of the post, so be certain you look at that, as well as some of the embedded links -- and then, of course, do continue to the full article.. (Includes the details from the other 10 which are listed here.)
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Juggling To Music
In honor of John Lennon's unfortunate death 30 years ago today, I bring you Chris Bliss juggling to "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" by the Beatles.
Thanks Mom!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The Interactive Map of Metal
Simply a great interactive world with hundreds of tunes - all separated into sub-genres such as Progressive Metal, Speed Metal, Punk Rock, Hard Rock, and many many more. Laid out as a map, and ranging from 60s, 70s, 80,s 90s, to the 00s, the Interactive Map of Metal allows you to look around the "world" of the genre as it has come to be.
Created by Patrick Galbraith - Go click the banner image to check it out!!
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Monday, December 6, 2010
The Olin Studio: Wild (x)ing
American architectural firm The Olin Studio has been selected as one of the five finalists for a next generation wildlife crossing at West Vail Pass, Colorado in the United States. The competition is intended to solve the problem of ensuring safe travel for humans and wildlife.
'Wild (x)ing' is based around the shape of a rhomboid, as it offers structural strength, dynamic flexibility, and efficient modular patterning.
The innovative use of the toroid, as a framework for the diagrid superstructure and habitat module offers adaptability to any wildlife crossing, using a universal geometry to generate the system's form. It will accommodate growth and change of the transportation infrastructure network, allowing highways to be increased in width and corresponding crossings to be enlarged, reduced or removed for re-use at any given time.
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Today's A Special Day
Posts will resume like crazy tomorrow - or later tonight.
Right now I have an anniversary to plan. It's our 7th. Ehh we'll see how it goes.
