Tuesday, June 17, 2008

How funny!

I was browsing around looking at pictures of Tiger Woods, his supermodel wife Elin Nordegren, and their daughter, when I stumbled upon this:

I hope little Sam Alexis has medical, because with all the accuracy her daddy has displayed recently, any golf equipment to the head could put a serious dent in her supermodel/golfing career. (Though I have the feeling this has been photoshopped. Shhhh!)

Metal

Did you know that spotlights, like the one shining out of the top of the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, are operated by a metal halide lamp? Yup. These lamps shine so brightly they can be seen from space. Not your ordinary retro lamp...

Three Little Words

Eldrick. Tiger. Woods. It is hard to imagine that an athlete could come off knee surgery so soon and not only compete, but win another major. There is no other dominate figure in any sport quite like there is in golf. What Michael Jordan was to basketball, and Lance Armstrong was to cycling, Tiger is to golf.

Have you ever looked at Tiger's endorsements and earnings money? He averages over 1 million dollars every 3 days he's alive. Golf magazine says that by 2010 he should be the first player to ever clear the 1 billion dollar mark for total earnings. Unbelievable. No wonder he has the best golf apparel and equipment on the planet. Nike custom fits and then mass produces anything he approves of, and then they sell like hot cakes.

I need to work on my game.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Beam me up, Scotty.

Not often do we realize that www.this and www.that wasn't available until just 15 or so years ago, in 1992. Although it was created in 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee didn't unveil www until 1992, in Geneva, Switzerland. After that, hyperlinks, html and the internet raced to becoming as famous as television and telephones. Dot coms blew up, and dot coms fell apart. AOL used to be an empire, but now it's the land of the Google.

In our generation, we've been introduced to so many new terms. There was dial-up, then there was broadband, then cable, then satellite internet services, then GPS in the dashboards of our cars. Now phones that used to weigh 8-pounds and resemble a shoebox with an antenna sticking our are smart, sleek, and capable of grabbing the internet out of thin air. I hope I live to see 2020, I figure by then we'll be able to fax ourselves to any number, sorta like The Matrix. Keep your fingers crossed.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Convention this and convention that

My friend went to a convention this weekend in L.A.. I don't want to mention which convention it was, but let's just say that there was plenty o'entertainment abound.

I just got done checking out his photobucket account, which I'd list for the world to see though I'm pretty sure someone would not wanna see (for various reasons.) I still can't believe all the booths that the various exhibit builders put up. The entire place was packed wall to wall with exhibits, large banners, and lifesize posters.

I only regret not getting a chance to go. It was like Toys 'R Us for Adults. Enough said!

Friday, June 13, 2008

I'm torn

Which one of my official nfl jerseys should I wear on "Jersey Fridays" coming up soon? Should I go with my Pacman Jones jersey now that he has been reinstated? Or, stick with my trusty Brett Favre jersey. I don't know about you, but when you're nickname is Pacman you've got a certain nostalgic something that makes me want to "waku waku waku waku waku waku..."

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Celtics come back from 24 down!?

Since it looks like the boys in green are about to close the series out up 3 games to 1, you better hurry up and check out some Celtics gear at an online nba shop. Get your lucky jersey on and wish them luck, it's not that being Irish with a 3-leaf clover and a Leprechaun as a mascot doesn't help enough.