Year: 2006

This Zoids Mega Model Kit 1 Gravity Saix looks a lot like one of the Voltron cat things. Hence, that makes this cool. Oh wait. It also has walking action, sword missile, opening cockpit, rotating cannon assembly and the sword…

A real life eleven-foot tall robot roaming the streets of Japan saving stranded motorists! Just imagine being stranded and seeing this big robot come to save you. Autobot or Decepticon?

In the news “Ohio bowler rolls perfect 900 series.” Billiter, 24, of Colerain Township, rolled three consecutive 300 games Monday night to achieve a perfect 900 series sanctioned by the United States Bowling Congress.(CBS News) The interesting thing is that…

USA Olympic luge athlete, Tony Benshoof, has a blog at: www.tonybenshoof.com. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a list of olympic athlete blogs? I was going to compile such a list, but then came across this Kyodo article, “Blogs by…

Ok, the last post has a ton of comments about the opening dancing, and then the country outfits. So i’m starting a new post for the next part of the ceremony.

Click on the comments below to read my live comments about the opening ceremony for the 2006 winder olympics in Torino Italy.

Storm Troopers are so cool. I want to be a storm trooper. Maybe instead I’ll just settle for buying this ultra-neat set of stormtropper figures. Oh I guess this package also has clone troopers. For some reason clone trooper doesn’t…

When a baby turns 11 days old, it will be ONE MILLION seconds old. 1,000,000 seconds sounds like a lot for a newborn. But you turn ONE BILLION seconds old when you are 31 years and 8 months old. It’s…

Now excuse my extreme ignorance here, but here’s a conversation my friends and I had while Stevie Wonder performed in the pregame concert of 2006 Super Bowl XL. — “isn’t he dead?” — “yeah, i thought so” — “no that’s…

“CRTs contain 4 to 6 pounds of lead plus other toxic materials that leach into the soil and water if not properly disposed of. At this point, most LCDs contain lead and nearly all contain mercury.” source: PC World. Wow.…

Does drinking hot tea or coffee make you warm? I never felt any warmer after a hot drink. The same thing with ice cream, never noticed feeling any colder. But then a couple of days ago I moved my temperature…

The most rad Xevox figure has to be: Xevoz Infil-Traitor – Biomecha. This IS the coolest Xevox toy. Check out the rest of the Xevoz figure and tell me if you think there is a cooler one.

When I say the word “penguin,” what do you think of?

Four years ago today on 02/02/02 the comic strip Groundhog Croquet was launched. It only featured two comic strips total, but it was a huge fan favorite. Now just a few days ago Dreamworks released a video game called “Over…

My brother Erik posted on his blog that the Chicago Cubs are offering fans the opportunity to get their very own 4″ x 8″ personalized brick to be placed somewhere around Wrigley Field. Erik wants to get a brick that…

Yesterday I burned my top of my mouth eating some very hot pizza. I still have a blister there now, and it makes food less tasty. Perhaps the top of your mouth helps you to distinquish the texture of the…

You finish off a bag of Chex mix, but then there’s those parts that are all ground up at the bottom. Who eats those? Most of the time I would just pitch them. But you can pour them into a…

An ad on craigslist: Head out to Delilah’s on February 2, 2006, 7:30pm for an information session. You’ll get all the info necessary to find out whether you have what it takes to be a Windy City Roller. Following the…

I want a Firefox extension that can do the following. Let’s say you are leaving a comment on someone’s site, and you want to make one of the words into a link, you have to manually type in the a…

Dude. This Jedi Starfighter vehicle is so cool. Just look at it! firing blaster cannons, spring-open wings, opening canopy and retractable landing gear.

An unusual two-toned rock on Mars was found a few days ago. What could this be? It looks like: Ancient crystal covered in snow Transformers foot Ancient tool Dinosaur egg What do you think it is?

You’re buying something on Amazon, and if you buy it through an associate (like me), I can make 5% of the order at no extra cost to you! So I’ve made a bookmarklet that will stick my associate code onto…

Construction cranes probably have some sort of lightning rod at the top of the crane. Such a huge tall metal object is probably grounded, right? So then is the operating seat, like all covered in rubber or something?

There’s this new transformer by Hasbro that changes Darth Vader into his Tie Fighter ship. It’s so cool! It’s part of the Star Wars Transformers Wave 1.

All the 4-letter words that have 3 vowels sound funny: ‚Ä¢ aero ‚Ä¢ aeon ‚Ä¢ aery ‚Ä¢ ahoy ‚Ä¢ aura ‚Ä¢ auto ‚Ä¢ ease ‚Ä¢ easy ‚Ä¢ euro ‚Ä¢ iota ‚Ä¢ obey ‚Ä¢ oily ‚Ä¢ ooze Can you think of…

Speaking of big stuff from yesterday, my color laser printer arrived. It’s so huge! It came in a 32″ long x 22″ wide x 22″ high box weighing in at 88 lbs. Mr. T was having quite a hard time…

Carrying a 32-inch by 40-inch mat board around makes you aware how big other things are. The rack on the 2nd floor of the Metra train is just short of 32 inches. A Metra two-person seat is just over 32…

Yes, this oversized popcorn popper with wheels actually walked on the Moon. It was launched in 1970 even though it looks like something from the 1950s. And it was created by the Soviets. Ah those Soviets, they know how to…

Imagine you are an alien. You are approaching planet earth for the first time. You could totally end up approaching earth from any direction. What if you approached earth from what we call the bottom, and you see Antarctica first?…

Yahoo was talking about How did the phrase “out of whack” come about? and they mentioned that the phrase “in fine whack” had previously been used to describe something fit and sturdy. As John Hale describes Abraham Lincoln in 1863:…

The library seems even more quiet than my apartment by myself. Even though there’s more noise at the library–constant hum of the escalators, copy machine beeps, people walking. The fact that the people at the library do these activities quietly…