Chance's Weekend Update: The Lost Episode
A Timely Side Note:
I love Easter--not so much for the religious aspect--the hook for me comes mostly in the form of Cadbury Eggs and Easter Parties. There is really nothing better for me than a cream filled chocolate egg...except for maybe an accompanying "Robin Egg" (also known as a 'Whopper' in its more traditional round form) or Peep. The only problem for me comes as an annually ignored question which Wikipedia will finally help me answer. Why a bunny for Easter? and further why does it lay eggs? Well interestingly enough the Easter Bunny was brought to the United States via German immigrants but its roots are much deeper. According to popular folklore, Eostre--the ancient pagan goddess of the spring, pronounced "Easter"-- once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that rabbit became the modern Easter Bunny--a symbol of both spring and fertility. Tada, the most celebrated icon of a sacred Christian holiday is Pagan....
Some things that don't suck:
Hulu, a web service similar to YouTube where we can LEGALLY watch all of our favorite TV shows and movies without searching all over the internet through shady websites and pop ups. It is about time...but between this and March Madness I do not see the GDP gaining an inch this month.
Smoque BBQ, It is in Chicago and on the Food Network...if you haven't heard of it yet, you will. This is no Top Chef shop, it was started by 5 regular guys who love food and their popularity is growing by the day...maybe they will eventually get a liquor license too, but for now it is BYOB. If you are in the area get on on the new thing while its still new...
BrickArms, is your Lego set boring? Maybe you should add some weapons...
The YouTube Awards, The winners of the 12 categories including: music, sports, comedy, instructional, short film, inspirational, commentary, creative, politics, series, eyewitness and adorable were announced this past Friday after hundreds of videos had been nominated and millions logged in to cast their votes. My personal favorite is the 'eyewitness' from Africa where a baby Water Buffalo gets attacked by lions then during that attack gets bit by an alligator, and then its entire herd attacks the predators while it WALKS AWAY.
Mind Controlled Video Games, I'll be honest, this is pretty insane. A step up from the Wii in terms of technology, later this year video games could be released that are controlled by our brainwaves via a sensor that the user would wear on their head. A step down from the Wii physically, kids are going to get really fat.
The Nike Trash Talk, Ingeniously, the Nike Trash Talk ($100; April 2008) features an upper that's made of leather pieces collected from the factory floor, the mid-sole uses scrap foam, and the outsole uses less toxic rubber and incorporates Nike Grind material from outsole manufacturing waste. A nice step in the green direction, and it still looks very cool.
100 years of Cars, this is a nice visual time line of the century that has elapsed since 1908 when the first Model T rolled off the assemble lines at Ford. Here is another sweet one which explains the current state of world currencies in the relative terms of Starbucks coffee. If you like what you are seeing, check out the next item.
Good Magazine, The magazine carries the theme of freedom, innovation, and environmental responsibility and gains a bit more credence by contributing 100% of your subscription payment to the nonprofit of your choice
Some things that do:
Hilary can be President because she stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and that is literally all she has got going for her according to 11,000 pages of schedules documenting her 8 years of "experience" shaking hands and taking pictures with girl scouts and florists.
The Kindle sold out in 5 1/2 Hours, the very sweet e-book device from amazon sold out almost instantly thanks mostly to my endorsement. The internet sales giant has orders backed up at least 6 weeks, but posted a very nice letter of thanks to customers on their home page. I understand if they are too busy to send a formal letter of thanks.
SEC Rule 10b5-1, which conveniently allows high wealth executives to schedule potential trade plans within a wide range of time, and then if presented with unfavorable insider information they can cancel the trade without consequence from the SEC because there was no actual illegal transaction. Why does this matter? Because the public does not have access to the information helping executives dodge portfolio busting Wall Street land mines and that is not fair. Want more dirt? Check out WikiLeaks.org
Chicago Curfew, While this is not of consequence for most people that I know, I am sure that it is annoying for a huge number of Chicago Minors. If they are on the streets after 10pm on a weeknight or 11pm on a weekend and NOT coming home from a church function, political rally, or an errand for a parent then they can be issued a citation.
Second Hand Fat, This is the first time that I have read about someone dying of someone else's "morbid obesity". A prudent mother in La Joya, TX needed a babysitter and she chose her bedridden relative. Unfortunately for her two year old son, the relative was not quite as bed ridden as everyone thought...and the child was crushed to death.
Until Next time,
-Chance Kelch
Well I didn't die, but I am thankful to be feeling better...but for clarification, I did not intentionally skip sending out an update last weekend in celebration of the North Central College Spring Break. In fact. there were a number of factors working against me; first being that I spent part of the week in Ada, OH which is still years away from electricity and indoor plumbing. And the next big one was that I got hit hard with the flu. While I briefly considered grabbing a newspaper crawling to the computer, I quickly reconsidered and settled back into my schedule of laying around making moaning noises between my naps. I am all better now though, but thanks for all of the emails of concern--of where your update was (not of my health). Again I apologize, but on a positive note I have got all kinds of material for a huge two week special here. **I am sending this out on Saturday (3/22) because I am going to be moving back into school tomorrow and will potentially be too busy to send this out later. This is pretty long so I hope that it will quench your thirst until next week, I just wanted to make it clear that I will NOT be sending out an extra newsletter to make up for the one that I missed.** Now on to the good stuff, but first..."Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
- Gautama Siddharta
A Timely Side Note:
I love Easter--not so much for the religious aspect--the hook for me comes mostly in the form of Cadbury Eggs and Easter Parties. There is really nothing better for me than a cream filled chocolate egg...except for maybe an accompanying "Robin Egg" (also known as a 'Whopper' in its more traditional round form) or Peep. The only problem for me comes as an annually ignored question which Wikipedia will finally help me answer. Why a bunny for Easter? and further why does it lay eggs? Well interestingly enough the Easter Bunny was brought to the United States via German immigrants but its roots are much deeper. According to popular folklore, Eostre--the ancient pagan goddess of the spring, pronounced "Easter"-- once saved a bird whose wings had frozen during the winter by turning it into a rabbit. Because the rabbit had once been a bird, it could still lay eggs, and that rabbit became the modern Easter Bunny--a symbol of both spring and fertility. Tada, the most celebrated icon of a sacred Christian holiday is Pagan....
Some things that don't suck:
Hulu, a web service similar to YouTube where we can LEGALLY watch all of our favorite TV shows and movies without searching all over the internet through shady websites and pop ups. It is about time...but between this and March Madness I do not see the GDP gaining an inch this month.
Smoque BBQ, It is in Chicago and on the Food Network...if you haven't heard of it yet, you will. This is no Top Chef shop, it was started by 5 regular guys who love food and their popularity is growing by the day...maybe they will eventually get a liquor license too, but for now it is BYOB. If you are in the area get on on the new thing while its still new...
BrickArms, is your Lego set boring? Maybe you should add some weapons...
The YouTube Awards, The winners of the 12 categories including: music, sports, comedy, instructional, short film, inspirational, commentary, creative, politics, series, eyewitness and adorable were announced this past Friday after hundreds of videos had been nominated and millions logged in to cast their votes. My personal favorite is the 'eyewitness' from Africa where a baby Water Buffalo gets attacked by lions then during that attack gets bit by an alligator, and then its entire herd attacks the predators while it WALKS AWAY.
Mind Controlled Video Games, I'll be honest, this is pretty insane. A step up from the Wii in terms of technology, later this year video games could be released that are controlled by our brainwaves via a sensor that the user would wear on their head. A step down from the Wii physically, kids are going to get really fat.
The Nike Trash Talk, Ingeniously, the Nike Trash Talk ($100; April 2008) features an upper that's made of leather pieces collected from the factory floor, the mid-sole uses scrap foam, and the outsole uses less toxic rubber and incorporates Nike Grind material from outsole manufacturing waste. A nice step in the green direction, and it still looks very cool.
100 years of Cars, this is a nice visual time line of the century that has elapsed since 1908 when the first Model T rolled off the assemble lines at Ford. Here is another sweet one which explains the current state of world currencies in the relative terms of Starbucks coffee. If you like what you are seeing, check out the next item.
Good Magazine, The magazine carries the theme of freedom, innovation, and environmental responsibility and gains a bit more credence by contributing 100% of your subscription payment to the nonprofit of your choice
Some things that do:
Hilary can be President because she stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and that is literally all she has got going for her according to 11,000 pages of schedules documenting her 8 years of "experience" shaking hands and taking pictures with girl scouts and florists.
The Kindle sold out in 5 1/2 Hours, the very sweet e-book device from amazon sold out almost instantly thanks mostly to my endorsement. The internet sales giant has orders backed up at least 6 weeks, but posted a very nice letter of thanks to customers on their home page. I understand if they are too busy to send a formal letter of thanks.
SEC Rule 10b5-1, which conveniently allows high wealth executives to schedule potential trade plans within a wide range of time, and then if presented with unfavorable insider information they can cancel the trade without consequence from the SEC because there was no actual illegal transaction. Why does this matter? Because the public does not have access to the information helping executives dodge portfolio busting Wall Street land mines and that is not fair. Want more dirt? Check out WikiLeaks.org
Chicago Curfew, While this is not of consequence for most people that I know, I am sure that it is annoying for a huge number of Chicago Minors. If they are on the streets after 10pm on a weeknight or 11pm on a weekend and NOT coming home from a church function, political rally, or an errand for a parent then they can be issued a citation.
Second Hand Fat, This is the first time that I have read about someone dying of someone else's "morbid obesity". A prudent mother in La Joya, TX needed a babysitter and she chose her bedridden relative. Unfortunately for her two year old son, the relative was not quite as bed ridden as everyone thought...and the child was crushed to death.
Until Next time,
-Chance Kelch
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