video – diving bloopers

Summer is over. This is already nostalgia for me.

Those who can’t do, teach.

After a long gymnastics camp, we coaches recreated at the swimming pool, mistiming every dive we could dream up.

Click PLAY on the video below or watch the clip on YouTube.com

Funtastics Gymnastics in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

movie – The Party

We got talking about Peter Sellers recently. His greatest movie was Being There, no question.

But I would rather re-watch The Party, where Sellers is a bad actor from India who literally crashes a big Hollywood party.

The Party

getting rid of your old fridge

After buying a new refrigerator, a fellow had to get rid of his old (working) fridge. He put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying:

“Free to good home. You want it, you take it.”

For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people were too untrusting of this deal. It looked to good to be true, so he changed the sign to read:

“Fridge for sale $50.”

The next day someone stole it.

Thanks Dana

zombies invade San Francisco

Is your town next?

Want to feel like a dancer from the Michael Jackson Thriller video?

zombies.jpg

more photos from the San Francisco Zombie Mob

This wasn’t the first zombie attack. Last year zombies took over Canada starting in July 2005 with Montreal and then in September 2005 it was Vancouver (Vancouver Zombie Walk 2005), followed by Toronto (Toronto Zombiewalk 2005) in October 2005. After the Montreal invasion, the zombies moved down to the US and in July 2005 they invaded San Francisco. Last Christmas, even santas became zombies at Zombie Claus in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In 2006, the zombies made their way to Australia, first to Brisbane in April (Brisbane ZombieWalk) and then Melbourne in May (Melbourne Zombie Shuffle). Most recently, the zombies returned to Vancouver (Zombie Walk 2006).

Laughing Squid » Zombies Invade San Francisco!

Gadling.com now my favourite blog

This is my kind of travel website!

spy-tours.jpgBerlin and Moscow are two exotic cities which struck fear into the hearts of western spies throughout the Cold War.

There is nowhere on this planet more legendary for espionage and things-that-go-bump-in-the-night than these two capitals. Sadly, with the fall of communism their glory days have long passed. The spooks and their haunts, however, still remain.

Lovers of the Spy Genre will be happy to hear that The Smithsonian is conducting a nine-day tour this October that whisks cloak-and-dagger fans through the former headquarters of East Germany’s Stasi, the KGB Museum in Moscow, the Glienicke Bridge (where spy exchanges were conducted), Gorky Park, the remains of the Berlin Wall and a host of other John LeCarre locations. The tour will even be joined by retired KGB officers in Moscow who will undoubtedly have a handful of great stories to tell.

The cost is $6695 and must be paid with small, non-sequential bills or uncut diamonds.

Red Corner: Spy Tour – Gadling

Joanne Colan – Rocketboom

Joanne Colan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joanne.jpg

Joanne Colan replaced quixotic Amanda Congdon as Rocketboom.com host on July 12th, 2006.

I, like hundreds of thousands of others, thought Rocketboom was history. Amanda was Rocketboom.

But I have a renewed interest in the video blog. Joanne is much different, but still compelling. And the video content has improved.

Be sure to check out the new hostess with the mostess on Rocketboom.

music – OK Go – Here It Goes Again

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.

– Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

You have to admit, Hunter had a way with words.

The music industry is changing. Artists can bypass the pimps and thieves, posting their best stuff on YouTube directly.

Hunter Thompson would have loved this video by OK Go.

Click PLAY or watch the clip on YouTube.

better safe than sorry

This is a drink cooler in the Montreal airport.

I get the feeling that liquids are no longer welcome there.

weapons.jpg

Can you believe that some say security has over-reacted to the latest alleged terrorist plot?

» next travelogue post on this trip – Mike the activist