Jose

So last night, my new roommate asked me to go get a drink with him, so we went to Azalino's, the new bar where smut and eggs used to be. It was karaoke night.

So, we're sitting at the bar drinking some PBRs, and this drunk man from Honduras sits next to us. Aaron sees him looking into the mirror and checking his hair in the mirror behind the bar and my roommate gives him the thumbs up. This guy sees the thumbs up as an invitation to talk to us.

This is where the story begins.

He starts asking us what we do. He tells us he's an engineer. And that engineers do everything! He said this with great gusto while lifting his Corona in the air. He then listed off all the things that engineers did. Farming, civil engineering, agronomy, economy, the list went on and on. Engineers can do anything! Littered throughout these facts about all the things engineers do - my roommate makes the statement "I am a police officer", and later "I've got to be to work in 20 minutes."

This guy goes on for about twenty minutes talking about how he loves engineers, and how he is an engineer. (We're pretty sure he's not an engineer) Finally we ask him his name and sign him up to sing Karaoke. We sign him up to sing the go-go's. When it's his turn, it takes some prodding, but Jose goes up to sing. He holds the mic out to the crowd for about half the song, and then they stop the song. For some reason, they restart the song, and he starts repeating "holy shit. you fucking puntas" throughout the entirety of song. Words cannot express the hilarity of this drunk guy, in a polo shirt with the sleeves cut off just repeating this profanity into the Karaoke mic.

Later, he came back to sit next to us, and taught us the "cheers game" in which, he would hold up his corona offering a cheers, and then pull it away before actually allowing the cheers to connect.

Anyway, I know that this was very long winded, and not much of a story, but it was awesome.

Military Time

Q: How is midnight (00:00) referenced in military time?
A: "Midnight"

Q: How is 12:15 am referenced?
A: "midnight fifteen"

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Ever seen this text? Most likely you haven't unless you are a designer, or maybe a web developer or some other job where you look at page layouts. What is it? Filler text.

Where does it come from?
It's derived from Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum or On the Ends of Goods and Evils.

What does it mean?
From Wikipedia:
H. Rackham's 1914 translation: "Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"

Why is it used?
It's used to draw attention away from the content, and let the viewer focus on the page layout. It's meant to have no meaning, and along with its typical distribution of English letters, it helps direct the user towards the layout of the page design, instead of the content.

giant slip n slide

I want one:

http://www.gopotato.tv/player.php?video=GPJ1188000251GP46cf71fb39387&etype=3

Man killed and eaten by own 'pets'

In conversation, I referenced hearing this story a couple times over the weekend. The gist of it is some guy in Germany kept a lot of weird pets in ways that maybe he shouldn't. He was killed by a black widow spider, named Bettina and was not found for a week or two, and was munched on by some of the other animals - various spiders, lizards, snakes...

Gross.

Czabe's Top 5 Sports Falls

Well here's the inspiration for yesterday's post:

Steve Czaban's epic sports falls

I was inspired by the top 5 crashes segment on the Bob and Brian show this morning. So I looked up some sports falls this morning.

Some guy put this together:


Lance Armstrong - 2003 Tour de France


Elise Ray - 2000 Olympics


Jake Brown - 2007 X-Games


Hermann Maier - 1998 Nagano Olympics