Chance's Weekend Update: 06/01/2008
Good Morning Cubs fans, or soon-to-be Cubs fans...It has been a long time since I have seen so much brand new Cubs apparel around but that is fine, because a large influx of fair weather fans is a good precursor to a championship team. Anyways, it is now officially finals week at North Central College which is pretty exciting if you are into studying--but it also means that I have no more classes...i.e. plenty of time to do what ever I want (probably a lot of sleeping though)...Also on an interesting side note, Kennedy and I kicked off our post collegiate dueling this past weekend with the 'Senior Sunset 5k"...he was coming for me the last 800m but at the end of the day couldn't handle the heat (current score 1-0, next race June 15th)
Some things that don't suck:
VOTE NOW!!!, and a local 5th grade girl Nichyria Byrd could win ESPN's first-ever "Earn Your Stripes Youth Achievement Award" as part of the 2008 ESPYs. She is actively part of a charity called 'Girls on the Run' --if you are so inclined you can read all about it here. (Thanks for the heads up Alli)
Boys High School Track is going nuts this year...first local Chris Derrick runs 13:55 for the 5k, and now German Fernandez runs the most insane mile / 2-mile double anyone has ever heard of at the California State meet this past weekend: first a 4:11 preliminary 1600m Friday, followed up with a 4:00.29 1600m // 8:34 3200m Saturday...the link provided is to a video of his two-mile, but just for fun here is his mile run as well, click.
Holy Crap Batman, Monkey's can control robotic arms with their thoughts. "monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary"...pretty soon we won't even have to move anymore
$1,000,000 if you get a picture of Bigfoot with this sweet trail camera. It is a camouflaged camera with a battery which lasts an estimated 30 days, it can be set to take high resolution photos or 15 second video clips whenever triggered by motion.
Kerry Wood, this afternoon at Wrigley I watched him throw some powerful strikeouts as the Cubs closer in the 9th and it reminded me of the 'good ole days' when Wood and Prior were kicking ass left and right...here we are a couple of years later--the Cubs are dominating again--but Kerry is the closer and Mark is pitching in a Tee-Ball League somewhere. Serendipitously when I went to the Cubs website to check some stats there was an article about how it is the 10 year anniversary of when rookie Kerry Wood tied the MLB record of 20 strikeouts. The video is awesome, but here is the accompanying article.
Why Macs are better than PC reason #...."just hold a CD or DVD or video game or book or whatever up to my webcam, and it magically reads the UPC and downloads that item's cover and all pertinent information about it, and displays all my stuff on photo realistic shelves"...it is called Delicious Library--besides keeping an inventory of all your stuff, you can also check-in and check-out your things so that you never lose track of them...sweet
HotWicks Candles, finally some wax and fire that smells a little less Yankee and a little more manly. Some of the scents include: Campfire, Coffee, Beer, Pancake, Stripper--"After hundreds of hours of research and a lot of dollar bills we succeeded in capturing the legendary stripper scent", Grass, and New Car
Women: Age Matters, I have seen this before and it is kind of offensive, but also to good to get caught by the filter. In a very stereotypical fashion, the author outlines the pros and cons of dating women in each of his defined age categories--hilarious...and in advance ladies, I am sorry.
PDF Files, when you click on them thinking they are a normal link it takes extra long to open...but they always appear just as the author intended them and pretty much everyone can open the file without having some expensive software suite (i.e. Word, Excel...)--so it is easy and safe to send them around the internet--and now you can make your own for free online.
Some things that do:
Former Illinois Governor Ryan, not only did his corruption lead him right to a jail cell where he is patiently awaiting the company of our current head of state G-Rod...but his appeal was overturned this week--meaning that unless his legal team lead by another corrupt former Illinois Governor, Jim Thompson, is able to beg a pardon out of President Bush they will need to jump on the Obama bandwagon and pony up some campaign donations--or he will spend the next 6.5 years in prison.
Naperville Central Principal Plagiarized graduation speech...from a former student // current Naperville Central Teacher // member of the audience witnessing the plagiarism...
CTA Green line Derailment, they blame the driver who apparently ran a red light and then disabled the emergency brakes which would have prevented the accident--the driver has 31yrs experience with no prior accidents so I am guessing that this is something commonly done to keep from falling behind and this was just as it seems...an accident.
Until Next time,
-Chance Kelch
"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."
-Stephen Colbert
VOTE NOW!!!, and a local 5th grade girl Nichyria Byrd could win ESPN's first-ever "Earn Your Stripes Youth Achievement Award" as part of the 2008 ESPYs. She is actively part of a charity called 'Girls on the Run' --if you are so inclined you can read all about it here. (Thanks for the heads up Alli)
Boys High School Track is going nuts this year...first local Chris Derrick runs 13:55 for the 5k, and now German Fernandez runs the most insane mile / 2-mile double anyone has ever heard of at the California State meet this past weekend: first a 4:11 preliminary 1600m Friday, followed up with a 4:00.29 1600m // 8:34 3200m Saturday...the link provided is to a video of his two-mile, but just for fun here is his mile run as well, click.
Holy Crap Batman, Monkey's can control robotic arms with their thoughts. "monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary"...pretty soon we won't even have to move anymore
$1,000,000 if you get a picture of Bigfoot with this sweet trail camera. It is a camouflaged camera with a battery which lasts an estimated 30 days, it can be set to take high resolution photos or 15 second video clips whenever triggered by motion.
Kerry Wood, this afternoon at Wrigley I watched him throw some powerful strikeouts as the Cubs closer in the 9th and it reminded me of the 'good ole days' when Wood and Prior were kicking ass left and right...here we are a couple of years later--the Cubs are dominating again--but Kerry is the closer and Mark is pitching in a Tee-Ball League somewhere. Serendipitously when I went to the Cubs website to check some stats there was an article about how it is the 10 year anniversary of when rookie Kerry Wood tied the MLB record of 20 strikeouts. The video is awesome, but here is the accompanying article.
Why Macs are better than PC reason #...."just hold a CD or DVD or video game or book or whatever up to my webcam, and it magically reads the UPC and downloads that item's cover and all pertinent information about it, and displays all my stuff on photo realistic shelves"...it is called Delicious Library--besides keeping an inventory of all your stuff, you can also check-in and check-out your things so that you never lose track of them...sweet
HotWicks Candles, finally some wax and fire that smells a little less Yankee and a little more manly. Some of the scents include: Campfire, Coffee, Beer, Pancake, Stripper--"After hundreds of hours of research and a lot of dollar bills we succeeded in capturing the legendary stripper scent", Grass, and New Car
Women: Age Matters, I have seen this before and it is kind of offensive, but also to good to get caught by the filter. In a very stereotypical fashion, the author outlines the pros and cons of dating women in each of his defined age categories--hilarious...and in advance ladies, I am sorry.
PDF Files, when you click on them thinking they are a normal link it takes extra long to open...but they always appear just as the author intended them and pretty much everyone can open the file without having some expensive software suite (i.e. Word, Excel...)--so it is easy and safe to send them around the internet--and now you can make your own for free online.
Some things that do:
Former Illinois Governor Ryan, not only did his corruption lead him right to a jail cell where he is patiently awaiting the company of our current head of state G-Rod...but his appeal was overturned this week--meaning that unless his legal team lead by another corrupt former Illinois Governor, Jim Thompson, is able to beg a pardon out of President Bush they will need to jump on the Obama bandwagon and pony up some campaign donations--or he will spend the next 6.5 years in prison.
Naperville Central Principal Plagiarized graduation speech...from a former student // current Naperville Central Teacher // member of the audience witnessing the plagiarism...
CTA Green line Derailment, they blame the driver who apparently ran a red light and then disabled the emergency brakes which would have prevented the accident--the driver has 31yrs experience with no prior accidents so I am guessing that this is something commonly done to keep from falling behind and this was just as it seems...an accident.
-Chance Kelch
