No, not that kind of gas although if you know me, I can understand why your mind would go there. I’m talking about helium and sulfur hexafluoride. We all know that helium makes balloons float. It also makes your voice sound funny when inhaled. Well so does sulfur hexafluoride only it makes you sound like a demon instead of something… that’s not a demon.
Here we have Adam Savage from Mythbusters inhaling both types of gas with awesome results. If you pay attention, you’ll probably learn something too. Our website is now almost better than some inner-city schools.
There’s not much to be said about this except that I watched it over and over and laughed every time.
A few years ago, Holly and I went to a comedy club in Ogden with some friends. There was a guy named Marcus on the stage that was absolutely amazing. We got there a bit late so we only saw a few minutes of his act but I couldn’t get enough. The whole time we were there though, I was irritated by the fact that I knew him from somewhere; I just couldn’t put my finger on where. Then it came to me; he sold me a laptop a few years earlier. How’s that for a career change? Selling laptops one day and then doing five minute gigs at the local comedy club the next. Personally, I think that he made the right choice because he’s extremely talented and very funny.
Over the past few months, the Colt has acted as though the the fuel pump was trying to die. I decided that instead of paying somebody $500 to fix it, I would do it myself. After talking with some “car guys”, I came to the conclusion that I should try replacing the $15 filter before I tackle the $199 pump. It was an easy enough job and seemed to resolve the problem. That is, until Monday.
Monday afternoon I had to go to the DMV to pick up plates for my scooter. Just as I pulled into the parking lot, the car died. It had been trying to strand me for a few miles so I’m glad that it died where it did. Luckily, Holly was in Kaysville and was able to pick me up before I was even ready. I’m not sure if that says something about how fast she was or how slow the DMV was… Anyway, we left the car and went to pick up my scooter then came back a few hours later. What do you know? The car was fine. Based on past experience, I was pretty sure at this point that the fuel pump was bad.
Before I get started, let me say that in this post, I am in no way making fun of those who suffer from epilepsy or other ailments that cause seizures. Now that that’s out of the way, let me get started.
Lately I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend in advertising. It seems as though stores, real estate developers, and restaurants all think it’s a wonderful idea to have a spasmodic teenager standing on a street corner holding a sign while appearing to have a seizure.
I’m sure that some advertising executive came up with this idea thinking that if a person is freaking out on the street corner, people will pay attention to the sign that they’re holding. Please explain to me how this is any different than the crazy, homeless guy on the street corner holding the sign that says… Well, I’ve never really paid attention to the sign. When I see a crazy person on the corner, I’m not looking at the sign that they’re holding; I’m wondering how long they can keep carrying on before they gyrate into the street where they will meet an untimely end as they collide with some sixteen-year-old girl on a moped.
Since Holly finished up her first year of nursing school on Wednesday, she thought that it would be fun to go on a little vacation during her week and a half break. You see, she starts her RN year next week and wanted to do more than just sit at home doing nothing during her time off. I agreed with her and so the planning began.
Since neither of us had ever been to Zions National Park or Bryce Canyon National Park, we decided that we should take a road trip through Utah and enjoy some of the beautiful scenery that this state has to offer. We booked our hotels and I told my boss I was leaving for a few days, then we loaded up the van and started driving.
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Last year, I wrote a post about how gullible people are. In it, I mentioned an article that I found that told how Nathan Zohner did a science project 11 years ago showing the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. For his project, he described the dangers of water. But by using a scientific name, people were convinced that it needed to be outlawed.
I recently came across this clip that further elaborates on how just how gullible people are when they perceive this particular chemical to be dangerous.
If hippies are so eager to get water outlawed, do you think that they may be wrong about global warming? Just a thought…
I had a beautiful rant all typed up on how horrible television commercials for “social introduction” phone lines are but it was pretty harsh so I decided to not post it. It’s too easy to blast some model who is unconvincingly trying to tell me that spending the night at home alone while talking to complete strangers on the phone is her favorite thing to do. I like to think that I’m above taking such cheap shots but how stupid do these people think I am? Like she’s so socially inept that the only way to meet people is by paying $4.99 a minute. Get these commercials off of the air.
Anyways… What I finally decided to write about is packing peanuts. You know, the things that you use when shipping a big box with a small item inside so that it doesn’t break? While they may prove useful to many people, I strongly dislike them.
eBay used to be one of my favorite websites. It was the world’s garage sale where you could buy a vintage Boba Fett in mint condition for $8 and pay $1 for shipping. Now it’s where you can buy a wall plate that has television components on it for $35 and pay $8 shipping. Where have the deals gone?
Actually, I got a pretty good deal on my TV wall plates. I got two of them for a total of $60 which isn’t too bad considering I found them at numerous online retailers for well over $100 each. The thing that I hate is the fact that in order to get the good deal that I did, I had to pay for enormous shipping charges. $13 to send two wall plates that probably weigh a total of half a pound combined is ridiculous.
Last night as Holly was clipping coupons from Sunday’s paper, she came across one for a new cereal from Kellogg’s called Wild Animal Crunch. The coupon struck me as funny due to the fact that it showed a panda on the box.
My first thought was that a major corporation has finally stopped pretending that they care about the environment and is actually making a panda flavored cereal. Just what I always wanted: a cereal that has more panda than it’s competitors. I hate the fact that there’s just no good breakfast cereals on the market made from endangered species.
I decided that I needed to look into this more and find out what the deal was. Not only is Kellogg’s making panda cereal, they also have dolphin, polar bear, meerkat, and baby seal varieties.
