Fun Stuff

Who needs a phone charger?

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Now this is some cool technology! Basically, Nokia has come up with a way to harvest ambient radio waves and turn it into electricity to charge the battery of your phone. In other words, your cell phone could slowly recharge in your pocket and could essentially stay in standby mode forever, without ever needing to be recharged. Think of all the energy that is roaming around us via cell phone towers, power lines, radio transmissions, etc. that is going to waste. Tapping into and using that otherwise wasted power is like finding another natural resource. That’s thinking green!

Going a completely different direction now, I came across this humorous article about people who start Twitter accounts, post just one message, and quit. That article led to this blog about “1 post wonders“, that is, people who make blogs with only 1 post, never to post again.

Hopefully reading a few of those blogs will help you appreciate my blog a little more. 😉

Wait, there’s a pirate party?

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According to Reuters, the Pirate Party has actually won a seat on the European Parliament, via Sweden, including this no joke quote from the article:

The Pirate Party captured 7.1 percent of votes in Sweden

Pirates going legit? Gaining political power? What has this world come to?

Possible Pirate Party Logo

 

The Mitch Morgan

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The next time you are out in a bar, make sure to ask for a Mitch Morgan:

If you can’t tell from the picture, a Mitch Morgan basically consists of bourbon and a strip of bacon.  Now I’m on record as saying many of the bacon things you people send to me sound disgusting. Sure, if I was on fear factor and had to eat something disgusting, it would only be improved by adding bacon. But when I’m in the privacy of my own home, I don’t have to mix snack bars and bacon, I can eat snack bars and bacon separately.

That being said, I think the Mitch Morgan actually sounds good, and for sure sounds better than bacon flavored vodka. I wasn’t really sure why, but I think the link originator and I sussed it out:

Jackie: “It’s the crunchy. Bacon needs that texture.”
Me: “Yeah, exactly! Plus, somehow bacon goes with bourbon and also you are just getting a taste of the bacon with the bourbon, rather than the bourbon being inundated with bacon, you know?”
Jackie: “And, ultimately, you can totally imagine a chunk of meat marinated in bourbon and then covered with a bourbon sauce and crumbled bacon.”

So there you have it, two of the finest bacon scholars determining why the Mitch Morgan gets my vote, even though I’ve never tried one.

En guard ye foul hotdog!

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Once again, my favorite online shop ThinkGeek comes through with an awesome product, just in time for summer! The Swashbuckling BBQ Sword. As the ad says:

Now you don’t have to choose between seeing your enemies flee before you, and roasting the perfect weenie.

Now thats a hot dog roaster!

Now that's a hot dog roaster!

What to do in case you are sent back to the 1950s, and then experience a zombie attack

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Remember those old school public safety announcements, like the famous “duck and cover” campaign? And now, of course, when you watch those things (or even old T.V. shows for that matter) they seem so ridiculous and dated. Well, how would a saftey video for zombie attacks have looked? I’m glad you asked!