Urban Legends Gone Wild

Snopes is invaluable. Everyone has one of those friends who sends "crap" that turns out to be patently untrue. Usually, a quick search on snopes puts them in their place. But sometimes, it's true.

Interesting Idea

Are you the prefect typist? Do you ever mispell or just have a different idea of how to type a common-word? If the answer is yes and you sell on EBay, you might have a problem.

If you are an EBay buyer, there might just be an opportunity for you. Fat Fingers allows you to type in a search word then they compute possible mis-spellings and return EBay items that possibly mis-spelled your word.

Chances are you won't have a lot of competition for that spinnaler that you always wanted and might just get a good deal.

HDTV Recommendation

If you have, or just got, a High Definition TV, do yourself a favor and re-watch Nova. The graphics and photographs are incredible, but the real winners are the scientists. These guys obviously primp for the show but they just can't escape the HD lens. Watch this show again, you owe it to your HD tuner.

Bob Ross Paints the Sea

I know this isn't supposed to be my sailing blog but my sailing blog shouldn't be about painting either. This is my second favorite Bob Ross episode ever:



From "Rob Bartlett's Not For Profit TV Special".

This is Next

Next thing that you're going to see in High Schools, kids doing this:


Not singing....but wearing crappy 80s throwback new wave hairstyles. Bank on it.

Do You Floss?

Neanderthals did.

Apparently, some Neanderthals used sticks to clean their teeth as they have "grooves formed by the passage of a pointed object," according to paleontology professor Juan Luis Asuarga.

This is quite the find as I seem unable to get my 2 year old to brush his teeth despite 63,398 years of evolution over this Neanderthal. Maybe if I get him a stick.

Essential elements of story lifted from Yahoo.

Jack stalked by menacing T-Rex

but lived to tell the tale...

Crushed Cars

I caught this picture as I drove home from work yesterday. It's obviously hard to take a picture with a cameraphone while driving 80 MPH on a busy freeway so if I happened to swerve into your lane or scare you a bit believe me it was for a good cause.



See, I got a cool picture of crushed cars and you can barely see that my dog schnoodled all over the passenger side window. I bet these were the remnants from a monster truck rally!

Brendhan meets his namesake

While pounding abalone at some friends' house Sunday afternoon, I heard a loud "Woah, COOL!" from the daughter of one of the guests. There, on the fence not two feet from me, was this dude.

It's worth pointing out that these friends live in East Corte Madera-on the water with a perfect view of the bay and Edward's sailing ground. If Brendhan the stow away was given a burial at sea, this would be the perfect venue for a resurection. Or, perhaps this guy is just Brendhan 2.0.



Brendhan 1.0 meets Brendhan 2.0.