I am often running across incredible video clips on the internet that people MUST see.  Today I’m launching best personal best-of video site called CoolStuffISee.info.  It’s important that you subscribe to this site so that you stay on top of the awesome daily video that I run across.  Enter your email in or subscribe in a reader (on the right hand side).

CoolStuffISee.com

Here’s a sample of items.

Poor guy – He tried – Really really bad rendition of Amazing Grace

How does Google store all this data? Look inside a massive data-center

A new way to write without a keyboard using mouse navigation – cool!

How the last 200 years changed the world – fascinating graphs

Twelve Year Old Catches Two Foul Balls – Against incredible odds!

Total cool robotics. Seriously, we can do this? 

This is sweet – if you love lasers

Trying to figure out what this is about. Hope no one was sitting in the middle

No way this is real. Sound effects are a give away.

James May Rides In U2 Spy Plane – Awesome views

 

 

Hi folks!  I hope you’re having a great summer.  I’ve taken a little time off from TF.com for some web projects at work.  But….my camera continues to click.  I’m getting ready to post a number of great blogs on various topics and they all include great video and photo galleries.  Here’s a hint at what’s to come.

Our puppy Mia is growing up just fine.  She will surprise us with free entertainment on a daily basis…including her new sleeping spot on our recently paid off furniture.  Stay tuned and have a great August. 

Knowing there is nothing planned for the empty field to it's north, the new road markings at the Mendards in Dundas lead traffic into a curb.

1.  If I could have that waist line now!

2.  Is that a 1978 green “Vega”?

3.  What’s in my pants?

4.  Where are those fish now?

5.  Nice effort Andy!

6.  Who picked out my cloths that day? 

7.  It took 6 months to develop this film (marked with NOV 81 in bottom left)

8.  Those are most likely Bullheads.

9.  Maroon socks?

10.  Chances are Andy caught all of these fish.

This was hilarious. I need to be more careful when cutting veggies. We all played with the little thumb nub and had a good laugh. We even let the pup have a turn.

From Bloody fingers

From Bloody fingers

From Bloody fingers

From Bloody fingers

 

Baseball starts in just two days. So, it's time to bring out my favorite "first pitch" clip. See, I always wondered how I'd do under the pressure of throwing one pitch in front of a major league team and audience watching. I understand that some might short hop it, but this is ridiculous. I'll never get sick of this! I laugh so hard every time.

Story by VIV SAVAGE

Ernie Eastrom was satisfied with five flag poles for years until he recently decided to pursue a lifelong dream.  Eastrom hopes to raise enough money at Tuesday's stir-fry breakfast to purchase his sixth flag pole so he can raise his flag to see if anyone will salute.  

"I've always wanted to be the guy who raises his own flag to have others salute you out of respect", said Eastrom of his desire to have someone salute his homemade family flag.  Korean War veteran Eastrom had a custom made family flag designed and sewn in the 60's after the last Eastrom family reunion when everyone pitched in with ideas to reflect the family heritage. 

"We ended up having a lion or two, along with your traditional shield, sickle and rice gain to tie in our Latvian-British-Laos heritage. I don't have any Laos blood, but I wanted to include my wife Chen into the project", said Eastrom.

You can stop down to the local Bald Eagles Post on 5th and Grand to help the cause.  The goal is to raise $139 for the new pole.  Breakfast is served at 6am.  Egg rolls and hot tea included.  Family flag to be on display.

For those familiar with my obsession with the shape of the state of Minnesota, I was so thrilled to find a chocolate sucker in the shape of the great state of "sky tinted water" (Souix meaning for Minnesota). Speaking of 'sky tinted', I had to look more into the translation. It directly translates to cloudy in the native language. So, Minnesota really means 'cloudy water'. Isn't that pleasant. Of course, sky-tinted sounds better. In fact, so good, that Hamm's used it as their marketing theme for decades. "From The Land of Sky Blue Waters...Refreshing".

See original 1960's commercial here. 

But I digress.  I found this sucker at the Cooco Bean in downtown Northfield.  Eileen also informed me that her MN cookie cutters were on back order.  I need to get back there. 

From Minnesota Shapes

So, I waited as long as I could and ended up eating it as I drove away.  I took a bite and realized in just a second I took out the Aarowhead region of Minnesota.  Those poor souls up in St Louis County and the BWCA.  (notice the photo while driving....dumb).

 

From Minnesota Shapes

BTW, it's not just 10,000 lakes.  It's 15,761.  Nice job counting early-Minnesotan's.

Today is December 8th, 2008 and its been snowing since around 1pm here in Northfield Minnesota.  It's currently....8:33pm and it's still snowing.  Its supposed to snow until morning.   Just coming home, there are dozens of men out snowblowing their driveways.  They know the weather report.  They can see it with their own eyes.  It's still friggin' snowing.  Why are you doing your business now? 

This has been a personal dilemma since I was a child.  I see it all the time and is just one of those things in life that I don't understand.  Am I missing something?  Did my father not teach me something?  The BEST guess that I have is that they fear it will get higher than their blower and will not be able to get the job done if they let it snow anymore.  Following are other possible scenarios that I would consider:

• Guy wants to get out of the house
• Guy wants to use his new blower....bad!
• Other guys are doing it
• Guy doesn't have a truck or SUV to "power backup" through the snow in the morning
• Guy wants to get a head start on the job (which doesn't seem to jive with the manly way.  That is....letting it all build up, plowing out of one major storm using a power tool...doing it all in one shot....flexing his gas-powered muscles while cutting drifts)
• Guy is a wimp
• Guy thinks the snow is almost done (check the weather report dude)
• Guy is a little slow

Me using my new blower last week (notice how the snow has quit....sun is out)

I found the following three Northfield High School Homecoming pride buttons in my old collection.  Now I really want to know what the other years themes were.  Can you even imagine the controversy now-a-days having the 2008 Raider chopping off the head of the opponent?  They don't even allow the new raider mascot to have a sword on his hands anymore.  I really think we've come a long way.

Have you ever wondered if there is an easier way to grow out your sideburns?  Really, unless you slowly let them grow out over a long period of time, there is no easy way to accomplish longer sideburns without having a transition period of odd-looking, dual-length burns.  Well, I am going to give up a secret, one that I have kept to myself for years, for obvious reasons. 

It's really quite simple, and I'm going to let the photos speak for themselves. 

I recently made a rare trip to the DQ here in town.  I love chocolate and decided to get their ultimate "whatever" since I don't often indulge.  After finishing up my "Fudge Brownie Temptation Waffle Bowl Sundae" I started to think about it's fat and caloric detail as I entered some form of diabetic shock. 

Upon finding the DQ website I was able to navigate to their nutritional information, but only after a bit of a hunt.  The first screen was a disclosure regarding saturated fat percentage laws in certain states.  That page is here.  After this I was able to view the nutritional calculator, where you choose the ingredients piece-meal after which I was able to view the results found below. 

998 calories, 50g fat with 50% of the calories coming from fat.  Well, recently, I've been on a diet restricting my daily intake to 1500-2000 calories.  The treat pretty much blew that away for the day. 

But I'll tell you.  It was A W E S O M E!!  I wish I was as exited about broccoli. 

Hayes Scriven contacted me a week ago exited over the corn tortilla chip that he found featuring the likeness of the great state of Minnesota.  Being a connoisseur of fine Minnesota shapes, I was pumped (see my Flickr collection of MN shapes, blog on the eastern Minnesota boarder, or blog on my Minnesota shape collection).

So, I put up this auction.  We had a bid right away.  Sweet.  We were already trying to decide what to do with the profits of this auction.  Surely there was some Minnesota-shape-cult out there (one I might join) willing to pay big bucks for this act of Boreaus-God kindness. 

But, on the last day, we were still at .99 cents.  Hayes emailed me telling me that he'd rather eat it than sell it for a buck.  I was fretting having to pack the thing and ship it, so I pulled it down, canceling the one bid.  I soon found out that the bid was that of Adam Gurno, our friend.  Good one Adam. 

I found this gem from Mike & Sara Harts wedding in 2004 (I think it was).  No, this isn't me, but Brian (not going to disclose last name).   I did dare him to say it because I was too chicken.  Notice the audience reaction.  It's a combination of disgust and laughter.