Your Weekly Moment of Zen #4

This one goes out to all the ladies:

Powerball Update

Damnit, I'm 0 for 1. This is a waste of time... I give up.

Powerball

Today I bought my first ever lottery ticket. Powerball.

Lets hope I go 1 for 1.


Later I'll let you know how I do.

Hurray For Beer.

Thanks to National Geographic I've got the top 25 per capita Beer consumers for you.

1. Czech Republic------------------160.5*
2. Ireland---------------------------127.4
3. Germany-------------------------109.9
4. Austria---------------------------105.8
5. Belgium---------------------------98.6
6. United Kingdom-----------------95.7
7. Denmark-------------------------92.5
8. Slovakia--------------------------92.4
9. Australia-----------------------87.8
10.Venezuela---------------------83.3
11.United States------------------82.8
12.Spain-----------------------------82.1
13.Finland---------------------------81.7
14.Hungary-------------------------80.1
15.New Zealand------------------77.3
16.Netherlands
17.Poland
18.Portugal
19.Canada
20.Romania
21.Bulgaria
22.Russia
23.Switzerland
24.South Africa
25.Norway

Sorry for only having volumes for the top 15, but that is all Nat. Geo. gave out. And, in case you hadn't noticed, I bolded all non-European nations.

*All volume measured in liters per capita.

Your Weekly Moment of Zen #3

I can stand Honda, but I love this commercial.

As if the Kazahks didn't have enough problems.

First they get stuck with Borat, now the national bank of Kazahkstan has mispealled the word "bank" on their new currency. Apparently Borat hadn't done enough damage to the nation's image so they decided to let the government take over. And, it isn't just some of the money, it is about 80% of the currency printed for the year.

Just a Reminder

For some crazy reason, or because I fucked something up, my blog is best viewed on a Mac or PC running Firefox as the web browser.

If you haven't yet experienced FireFox go ahead an download it now, there is a box thing you can click over there ---> and down a little bit (or alot if your PC is messin' up my blog). Then you can see my blog, and the internet, the way it was meant to be seen... without MS's hand in pants... I mean business.

300 Million Americans

Tomorrow morning at about quarter till eight the US will reach the 300 million mark for population. We reached 100 million in 1915, 200 million in 1967, and are expected to reach 400 million by the year 2043.

I'm not entirely sure how they can be sure we'll reach 300 million at 7:46 am October 17th, but that's what they're saying. Anyway, in case you didn't realize this, the United States is already the third most populous nation on Earth, and now we'll be only the third nation with over 300 million people (but I suppose that is self explanatory).

Your Weekly Moment of Zen #2

This is only about 4 minutes longer than it needs to be.

Maine Rednecks

*Sorry for the delay in postings, my internet went down (again) this weekend.*

This past weekend I took my girlfriend up to Maine for the weekend. Being relatively new to the north she had yet to visit Maine, so we thought we'd make a weekend of it. You may be wondering why we would choose this weekend to visit Maine. Well I have two answers for you; 1) the October issue of National Geographic Traveler touts Maine's Fryeburg Fair as being a wondrous experience, 2) no woman (not even my girlfriend) can pass up outlet shopping, especially in a place like Freeport.

By God were we wrong. The Fryeburg Fair must have been one of the worst experiences of my life. The fair takes place hours from the nearest highway, in what amounts to be a residential area with only 2, maybe 3, small access roads. A 4:20 drive turned into a 7 hour drive because of more traffic than I've ever seen in my entire life, and in the northern reaches of New Hampshire of all places. Once I got into the fair it totally sucked. It was overly crowded. It looked more like a cheap carnival than a fair. And, worst of all, I had to finally admit to my girlfriend that northern rednecks/ white-trash, are in fact much much worse than anything she ever saw growing up in Atlanta, and then living in Alabama. I had and aunt that lived just south of Canada, in Vermont, and I do recall seeing numerous country folk, but never did I realize how back water some of these people are. I expect more from New Englanders. I don't think I've ever seen so many mullets in one place. And I know for a fact I haven't seen that many Insane Clown Posse, and Eminem t-shirts in one place since the late 90s, it ever. No wonder Canadians dislike Americans, we've stuck all our genetic rejects right on their border. One of the main selling points in the article was the amazing food, and specifically maple sugar cotton candy, at the fair. Wow, that sucked too. It tastes like normal cotton candy, although the ear of corn covered in maple syrup was pretty damn good.

The weekend wasn't all bad. We did stay in a fairly nice hotel, which was over an hour from Fryeburg, and Freeport was fun. I bought a kickass winter hat at the LL Bean factory store, and some new socks. The drive back to Connecticut was also fun, no traffic, only a few tolls, and the thought of never having to return to Fryeburg for so long as I shall live.

Metalocalypse

When I was an angry teenager I went through my heavy metal phase. Most guys do, but I grew out of it. Sure I have all of Metallica's albums, but so do alot of people. Anyway after years of repressing my metalheadness, Metaloclypse has brought it back out. It is a short featured on Adult Swin on Cartoon Network, and each episode is under 15 minutes long. This is hands down the best cartoon created since South Park. Don't believe me? Check out this episode for yourself (it's not my favorite episode, but the only one I could find in its entirty on YouTube).

Part One:


Part Two:


And for some reason the intro sequence was cut off of Part One, so here it is.

Your Weekly Moment of Zen

Hopefully this will be a new tradition here on The Guinness Tooth.

Beam Me Up Scotty

We haven't quite reached Star Trek levels of teleportation, but some scientists over in Copenhagen (a truly beautiful city, you should visit), have managed to teleport both light and matter about half a meter. Who knows how long it'll be before we can send people, or cows, any great distance, but it will happen. I know for a fact I will not be one of the first to use it. The last thing I want is to end up with my atomic structure scattered throughout the universe by some mistake in the calculations. Or even worse, end up like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.

This is The Sex

The word for today is "Juxtaposition."
From the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary:
Pronunciation: "j&k-st&-p&-'zi-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin juxta near + English position -- more at JOUST
: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side; also : the state of being so placed

Here's an example of poor use of Juxtaposition:

Why place such terrible music "side by side" with one of the most beautiful cars of the last...forever.