Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The Shark
A New York toddler still in diapers has a growing reputation as a pool shark with a mean bank shot, even though he has to stand on a chair to reach the table.Two-year-old Keith O'Dell Jr. from upstate New York has pool shooting videos posted on YouTube, has his own Web site (http://www.poolprodigy.com) and is the youngest member of the American Pool Association.
The son of pool-playing parents, the toddler recently traveled to Las Vegas to put on a demonstration for the APA, the governing body of amateur pool.
O'Dell started playing pool on a child-size table, but has since moved up to a regulation table.
His parents say his learning hasn't been limited to billiard games. Pool is also teaching him colors and how to count.
A Solution To Global Warming
WHITE ROOFS!!
Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun's rays.
More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by reflecting heat into space rather than allowing it to be absorbed by dark surfaces where it is trapped by greenhouse gases and increases temperatures.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist said the US was not considering any large scale "geo-engineering" projects where science is used to reverse global warming, but was in favor of "white roofs everywhere".
He said lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.
"If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of color rather than a black type of color and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of... reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years – just taking them off the road for 11 years," he said.
"The US will move, inevitably it will move first, as a more developed country we should be moving first, and I hope China will follow," he said.
Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun's rays.
More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by reflecting heat into space rather than allowing it to be absorbed by dark surfaces where it is trapped by greenhouse gases and increases temperatures.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist said the US was not considering any large scale "geo-engineering" projects where science is used to reverse global warming, but was in favor of "white roofs everywhere".
He said lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.
"If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of color rather than a black type of color and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of... reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years – just taking them off the road for 11 years," he said.
"The US will move, inevitably it will move first, as a more developed country we should be moving first, and I hope China will follow," he said.
The Ten Worst Work Habits*
1. Procrastination
2. Being a sloppy e-mailer
3. Confusing informal with disrespectful
4. Taking advantage of leeway
5. Refusing to mingle
6. Always running late
7. Being rigid
8. Acting as the resident contrarian
9. Badmouthing the company
10. Politicking
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/06/03/cb.10.worst.work.habits/index.html
*(according to CareerBuilder and CNN....)
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Starting Tonight...
I'm in!
SPEIDI is breaking down rapidly...
How great is this picture...?!?!?
Apparently things aren't going too well in the Costa Rican jungle for Mr. and Mrs. Pratt -- with both of them regretting the decision to sign up in the first place. Sources told Ryan that the devilish duo thought the show would be as fake as "The Hills," and they'd only be stranded in the jungle during filming. "They thought they would be staying in a Four Seasons Hotel, working out and getting a tan, an insider said.
An NBC executive made an emergency trip to Costa Rica to talk the two out of quitting since, as sad as this is, they're the biggest stars on the show. Surrounded by the likes of Janice Dickinson, Sanjaya, Stephen Baldwin and Lou Diamond Phillips isn't sitting well with Mr. and Mrs. Pratt either.
This Little Piggie.....GOT SHOT!
This giant feral pig was shot on a Pilbara, Australia, cattle station after it was spotted eating a dead cow.The picture has been circulating on the Internet alongside claims the boar was killed at various locations across the continent. It had been written off as a hoax by many, including the local Department of Environment and Conservation, and sparked much debate when published on the Web site for newspaper PerthNow.
But The Sunday Times of Australia confirmed that the pig was shot at a Pilbara cattle station near Newman, 744 miles northeast of Perth.
Sources close to the family of the man in the photo have confirmed he is Pilbara pastoralist John Anick and the picture was taken on his property three years ago.
The family refused to talk about the giant boar, for fear that illegal pig hunters would flock to the area.
The source said the beast was eating a cow when it was first seen by workers mustering cattle in a helicopter. Mr Anick saw it again on a trip to check windmills on the property and shot it.
"I can vouch 100 percent, I don't even have to say 90 percent, that it [the photo] was taken in the Pilbara and it is who I said it is," the source said.
Doing It (or never again...) For Love
A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday.After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official.
The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt's poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor.
The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed after the incident.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still recovering in the hospital.
Traditionally, marriages in these conservative parts of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families — and are rarely for love.
Killer Sno-Kones
The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan., will no longer be selling blue sno-cones after a dangerous mix-up at the refreshment stand, Fox4KC reported.Four people became sick Thursday when a zoo employee accidentally poured a degreasing agent into the sno-cone machine instead of the flavored syrup.
The two bottles are the same size, shape and color and were accidentally placed next to each other.
A zoo spokeswoman said the employee didn't read the labels and apologized to families who got sick.
None of the victims ingested enough of the chemical for it to be dangerous.
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