Looks like KITT from Knight Rider is for sale on Ebay, with the *Turbo Boost* function and all. Well, not really. It’s a replica but it sure does look like the real thing. Between that and the Delorean (from Back to the Future), those represent two of my favorite on screen vehicles/ machines ever. However, KITT would totally stomp on Delorean if they ever were in a boxing match. I could also do without David “Baywatch” Hasselhoff.
The car is a remodeled ‘84 Pontiac Trans Am, has 200,000 km on it and is sold by a Canadian. By the sound of it he is in Toronto. He wants C$30,000 for it, and claims to have invested over $40,000 and 4 years redoing the whole car.
I want it! But for that kind of money, I think I’ll stick to just ooh’ing and aah’ing. Looks like nobody has bid on it yet (at the time of writing this) and the auction is ending today. That is one fine looking car or maybe I am the one that only thinks so.
Maybe someday Santa Claus will bring me one for Christmas. What’s that?… he doesn’t exist? …. Nooo.
1. It is always possible to find a parking spot directly outside or opposite the building you are visiting.
2. When paying for a taxi, don’t look at your wallet as you take out a note. Just grab one out at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
3. Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment it’s aired.
4. Creepy music (or satanic chanting) coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.
5. Any lock can be picked with a credit card or paper clip in seconds. UNLESS it’s the door to a burning building with a child inside.
I am a big fan of martial arts movies. I did Taekwando years ago getting a blue belt (with a red stripe), should have gone on to get my black belt and am kicking myself for it now. If I were to do it again, I’ll have probably to start from the very beginning (I think).
I am a big fan of Steven Seagal as I like his style of martial arts i.e. Aikido (he has a 7th Dan Black Belt in Aikido). However, in his last 10 movies or so, he has somehow changed his way of fighting — to a more Kung Fu way. My question is… why? He looks real stupid fighting in a style that he is unaccustomed with and with that really makes him look like an amateur martial artist.
Got to admit that kick-em-up martial arts fighting movies are so 80s and 90s, the movie industry is just not interested in it anymore. I think the only person that can make decent money on making martial arts films right now it Jet Li. Even he knows it as he claims to have made his last true martial arts movie last year and concentrating on just action movies.
I looked up Steve Seagal on Wikipedia and it seems that he is making his comeback on the big screen this year. Lets hope he goes back to basics of what made him a unique action movie star - his slick Aikido moves that really kicks butt.
I have seen many great Wordpress themes but this one wins the prize for the most unique and geekiest ever. And as a self confessed geek, I do of course love it … how about a CLI (command line interface) version of a Wordpress theme.
Thanks Roy McFarland, you just made my day!
Being a left hander, I have always tried to find reasons to why that is. Theories seek to explain the dominance of one hand either in terms of environment and upbringing or through a gene-based hereditary chain. No gene for left-handedness has been found yet, but here are a few theories:
- Sun-worship, with most of mankind being in the Northern hemisphere and following the sun across the sky from left to right, established right as a favored direction, leading to right hand dominance
- The use of a shield in the left hand to protect the heart on the left side of the body led to the right hand being used to hold weapons, which led to general right dominance
- At birth babies are neither left or right handed and the actions of those around them will educate them into one side being dominant
- Left Handedness is hereditary, transmitted from parents to children
- Left Handedness is controlled by a genetic bias, which is random but favors a right-hand dominance
Any other theory you might be able to add?
I noticed something on Starbucks cups a few days ago which blew me away. They now have quotations on the side of their cups from a select group of people reflecting on how they see life. Actually it is nothing new and has been around for a few years now but somehow I didn’t look at the side of the cup until now. The quotes have the heading called “The way I see it” and Starbucks does have a website dedicated to it.
My cup had one from Ed Viesturs, First American to climb all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks and author of No Shortcuts to the Top:
I’ve learned in climbing that you don’t “conquer” anything. Mountains are not conquered and should be treated with respect and humility. If we take what the mountains give, have patience and desire, and are prepared, then the mountains will permit us to reach their highest peaks. I believe a lot of things are like that in life.
Nicely said but more intriguing is the fact that they had a short disclaimer below it saying “This is the author’s opinion, not necessarily that of Starbucks. To read more or respond, go to www.starbucks.com/wayiseeit.”
I guess that, no matter how pure and beautiful the message is, the Starbucks legal team had insisted on a disclaimer to avoid someone’s misinterpretation leading to controversy.
But what prompted them to do it?
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Saw this on the news yesterday. This might qualify for an I-am-an-idiot award …
A main in Akron, Ohio gets arrested for drunk driving during the day. Not being able to drive properly, tests a 1.1 on the breathalyzer, the police man throws him in jail. He gets out hours later being bailed out by his girlfriend.
The man walks into the police parking lot, jumps into his girlfriend’s car and proceeds to slowly drive off. Several policemen watching him get into his car with his girlfriend and drive off, start to flag him down and book him again. The guy ends up getting booked twice in one day for drunk driving.
He is scheduled to be in court with 2 counts of drunken driving charges and his girlfriend was booked/ charged with willingly allowing him to drive drunk. Guess he didn’t learn his lesson the first time round.
I think the picture says it all. Poor Mrs. Duck… I hope the photo taker got some help or he/she really needs a kick in the butt!
If you haven’t heard, Wordpress 2.1 Ella (named after jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald) was released yesterday with updated features and over 500+ bug fixes.
You can download it from here.
It is an easy one touch upgrade. I have tested it out on my test site but I have decided not to upgrade it on my main blog at this time as some of the plugins don’t work with the new version. Since my main blog has version 2.0.7 which is pretty secure/ stable, I’ll wait on the upgrade for now.
Here is what’s new in 2.1 Ella:
* Autosave makes sure you never lose a post again.
* Our new tabbed editor allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing instantly while writing a post.
* The lossless XML import and export makes it easy for you to move your content between WordPress blogs.
* Our completely redone visual editor also now includes spell checking.
* New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
* You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a
content management system.
* Much more efficient database code, faster than previous versions. Domas Mituzas from MySQL went over all our queries with a fine-toothed comb.
* Links in your blogroll now support sub-categories and you can add categories on the fly.
* Redesigned login screen from the Shuttle project.
* More AJAX to make custom fields, moderation, deletions, and more all faster. My favorite is the comments page, which new lets you approve or unapprove things instantly.
* Pages can now be drafts, or private.
* Our admin has been refreshed to load faster and be more visually consistent.
* The dashboard now instantly and brings RSS feeds asynchronously in the background.
* Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10.
* Better internationalization and support for right-to-left languages.
* The upload manager lets you easily manage all your uploads pictures, video, and audio.
* A new version of the Akismet plugin is bundled.
I must add that from testing it out, this is the best Wordpress one yet - the developers really listened to all our gripes/ complains and implemented them. Being a big AJAX fan, it’s had me sold before I even used it.
Oh and just a heads up … there are little easter eggs (hidden features) everywhere. I’ll write a post on Wordpress 2.1’s easter eggs (as I know where they are) sometime later so be sure to check back at The Foo Logs. In the mean time, look for it and see how many you can find.
This really cracked me up… this little guy can dance! Look out Mini Me (Vernon Troyer), there is a new *kid* in town.
