Showing posts with label sand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sand. Show all posts

Monday, May 27, 2013

Genius Idea for a Toilet Plunger

~ A clean one, hopefully..


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Friday, February 8, 2013

This is Sand



Not one of my better creations, but it was a quick one to illustrate how great the site is. Click on the image above to go try This is Sand.

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UPDATE: Here are two of my better ones: (2nd one took about 3x as long)..


Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Impressive Collection!


Source: Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History / Via

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Zach Johnson's Amazing Golf Shot

...in case you haven't seen it yet.

This is one of the most difficult shots in the game of golf - the fairway bunker shot.

Here's the reason it's so tough: Over time, most golfers become fairly capable of getting out of a green-side sand trap, in which you hit behind the ball with the face open, and slide under the ball, allowing the sand to "blast" the ball out. You never touch the ball. But the fairway bunker shot requires you to hit the ball as if it were a regular fairway shot, but you must make perfectly clean contact, taking no divot. You have to "pick it clean".

I always tell people to put the ball a little back in their stance, use one club longer than you might think, close the face a tiny bit, aim about 10 yards right of where you normally would, and swing at a steeper angle, so that you pick it clean, and then get out - without risking any type of divot. Hit this type of shot a little fat, and it's gonna go about 30 yards. Hit it a little thin, and if it doesn't re-bury itself, it might go 10 feet.

So this is already one of the toughest shots there is. Magnify it by the fact that this is during a tournament.. a PGA Tour event.. on Sunday.. in a sudden death playoff for the title:


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The shot won him the tournament. Well done, Zach!

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Breaking The Law


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As a golfer I find this absolutely hilarious! I halfway expected to see him dig a hole or take a dump in the sand trap, or on the green. You know, the course marshals go nuts if you drive the cart within like 50 yards of the green.. or if you don't use the 90° rule with the cart. Etiquette says you rake sand traps to pristine condition.. fix your fairway divots.. repair your ball-marks on the green..

This little guy is like, "I feel good!" (Source), and, well Google, of course..

Good stuff!

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Iron Maiden - Face in the Sand

-- also from 2003's Dance of Death


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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Nothing to See Here...

Just an awesome lighted sand castle..


CTE!

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Mini Band - Metallica's "Enter Sandman"


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Must see - even if you're not a hard rock or Metallica fan. These 8-10 year old kids do a fantastic job for their ages. I'm jealous.

Metallica - "Enter Sandman" original..

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Friday, July 15, 2011

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

Pregnancy Simulation


A couple just started their Lamaze class and they were given an activity requiring the husband to wear a bag of sand - to give him an idea of what it feels like to be pregnant.

The husband stood up and shrugged saying, "This doesn't feel so bad."

The instructor then dropped a pen and asked the husband to pick it up.

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"You want me to pick up the pen as if I were pregnant, the way my wife would do it?" the husband asked.

"Exactly," replied the instructor.

To the delight of the other husbands, he turned to his wife and said, "Honey, pick up that pen for me."

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Thursday, November 12, 2009