… check out these bear auto-wreckers:
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Get Outdoors blog)
Category: humour
amazing Switzerland ice storm photos
ET sent me that email.
SNOPES confirms they are from Lake Geneva, Jan. 2005.
Here are a few more ice storm photos I hadn’t seen before. And a video.
stuff white people like
Ah, white people. They are such an easy target.
New blog, uber-popular right now:
A few samples:
#87 Outdoor Performance Clothes
#86 Shorts
#80 The Idea of Soccer
#78 Multilingual Children
#75 Threatening to Move to Canada
It’s almost more, stuff YUPPIES like. Still funny.
extreme parking garage mountaineering
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
A spoof on the popular TV documentary, Discovery Channel’s Everest: Beyond The Limit.
(Thanks Adventure Blog)
TED conferences, videos and blog
Garth recommended the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
The format is fast-paced, with 50+ speakers over four days (plus short talks, performances and evening events). In 2005, an additional conference, TEDGlobal, was inaugurated. It’s held every other year, in a different location, focusing on a different theme.
TED brings in the best of the best, like Sergey Brin from Google, to speak to the wealthiest of the wealthy.
But when technical difficulties stopped the Brin presentation the other day, a heckler jumped up from the audience:
… He riffed about a new Apple product called the “iWhy?” and a few seconds later said, “I have just one question about the British royal family: All that money and no dental plan,” which got a lot of laughs and a few sympathetic nods toward the BBC presenter sitting behind him (who appeared to have perfectly fine dental hygiene).
He didn’t spare panelist Brin and Google, noting that if you walk into Google you see everyone in front of their computer sitting on exercise balls, “which I think is how they’re hatching new employees.” …
I’ve subscribed to the TED blog.
TED themes – official home page
too long away from Canada?
Seems there is some sort of election in my home Province of Alberta.
Who knew?
Still, an expat in the developing world (USA), I honour my Canadian roots.
by Sherry Roberts, Great West Gym Fest, Idaho
my home in the Thousand Islands
ET emailed me a menu of home choices in the Thousand Islands, 1865 islands, actually, in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from Lake Ontario.
I choose this fortress Elaine, and I challenge you take the castle on the far side. We can wage warfare across the straight strait.
really BAD place to take a nap
I saw this near San Antonio, Texas.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue models
Will Ferrell teams up with Supermodel Heidi Klum for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
miserable Valentine candy
The Despair Inc. Blog » Bittersweets – Valentine’s Candy for the Rest of Us
UPDATE: Speaking of “Aging Poorly”, I got an I.D. check the other night. Waiter asked if I qualified for the “Senior’s Rate”.
(Seniors there are age-55. He let me have the discount anyway since I looked old enough.)
Rick McCharles 