Man's Most Precious Possession

If you don't get it, you are either too young, or you are not a man.

Photo to Text

Very cool web page, you upload a picture and converts it to text.

My Picture is here.

You can make your own at photo2text.com.

Kuwait - Good or Bad ?

I wrote a post last year about Kuwait being my favorite place.

I came across this review by Katzen titled Kuwait - just a waste of space.

She does make some valid points but it all depends on how you see things.





Maybe Kuwait is not for everybody.

Kuwait Airways Nostalgia - Circa 1975

Original source of these pics can be found here. Thanks Mark.

Coffee Haiku

Strange Love Triangle
My daily needs are but few
Cake coffee and you



Taken from here.

Cool Ads

Some very nice, innovative ideas for ads that I received by email which I would like to share with you. Enjoy and have a nice weekend.

Cool New Punctuations

We all learned about punctuation marks in school, I hope. Punctuation marks such as the full stop to end a sentence. The comma to provide a little pause within a sentence, and help you digest what was said. The question mark to ask a question, such as where do I use a question mark? Exclamation mark! for indicating a strong feeling or higher volume when read aloud. I just learnt about two punctuation marks that I feel can be very useful and appropriate for a multitude of sentences.

Introducing:

‽ The Interrobang. The Interrobang combines an exclamation mark with a question mark, A sentence ending with an interrobang either asks a question in an excited manner or expresses excitement or disbelief in the form of a question. This would be equivalent to having a WTF at the end or beginning of a sentence but in a more refined eloquent way.

The Irony mark (؟) (French: point d’ironie) is a punctuation mark that purports to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level. It is illustrated by a backward-facing question mark. An irony mark may sometimes be referred to as an irony point, snark or zing. Its usage is extremely rare but I feel it could be very useful.

Sentences that you could use the irony mark in could be:

Life is short, then you die ؟

or, If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular؟


There are other punctuation marks that are underused but the Interrobang and Irony mark I find very appealing. Forget the LOL, BRB, WTF, ROFL,LMAO, and assorted smileys symbols and abbreviations that crept into the English language and use these instead to sound eloquent and kash5a :-)

Television in Bed

I have a television in my bedroom. When I wake up I watch music videos, when I get back from work I watch movies and before I sleep I change channels to a news channel with someone droning monotonously about world problems to help me sleep.

My TV set is around 8 years old and I need to upgrade it. I was thinking of a nice new flat panel that I can hang on the wall, but after seeing this TV setup here, this is exactly the type of TV I want.

Dubai versus Kuwait

Two scenes that caught my eye in Dubai's airport and Kuwait's airport.



Dubai Airport


Kuwait Airport - The dust graffiti on the car sums it up.

Breakdancing

Moral of the story: Keep your kids away from breakdancers.

Digg is Down

UPDATE: Digg is back online.

The popular site for submitting content and having users voting on it, digg, is down.

Digg had some controversy recently about its users posting links to pages revealing the copyright encryption key for HD-DVD discs. Digg's users rebelled. Hundreds of references to the code flooded the site's submissions, filling its main pages and overwhelming the administrators' attempts to control the site's content.

Digg founder Kevin Rose said the site would no longer try to prevent users from publishing the code. "We had to make a call, and in our desire to avoid a scenario where Digg would be interrupted or shut down, we decided to comply and remove the stories with the code," he wrote. "But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you've made it clear. You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won't delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be. If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying."

More here from Forbes.

Digg is now down, I hope it is just a maintenance shutdown rather than a legal one.

Jordanian Special Forces

The valiant Jordanian Special Forces conducting an exercise.

Bank Robbery

Ski Masked gun men, a bank's main branch, guns waved around, sacs of money, customers thrown on the floor, a pretty girl, an explosive situation. See what happens here.

Soundboards

This link is a treasure trove of all these great quotes of famous and infamous celebrities set up as a convenient soundboard. The sound bites are arranged in such a way that you can compose your own phrases and sentences into a full conversation. It is so comprehensive you could even call your buddies and have Britney Spears talk to them, or have Dr. Phil tell your boss, "do you understand at all what I am saying", or Jack Nicholson call someone up that owes you money and persuade him in his own special way to pay up by stating "Are you trying to intimidate me with that party attitude?".

Check it out here, you will have hours of fun.

Quacks and Charlatans

Watch this and you will stop believing quacks and charlatans that want to fool us into believing magic tricks as real, supernatural or divine.



James Randi exposes Uri Geller and Peter Popoff

A New Trailer for the Fantastic Four and the Rise of the Silver Surfer

Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer Full Trailer - The most amazing home videos are here


Another trailer of the Fantastic Four and the Rise of the Silver Surfer with the voice of Laurence Fishburne for the Silver Surfer.

Baby Playing with Cobra

One Comment: WTF???

Bad Boy

When I was around 13, together with my best friend, we where walking on the park's fence which had a brick ledge. We wanted to walk all around the park's low wall and iron grate fence.

The park attendant saw us and shouted at us to get off. We flipped him the bird and he got mad so he chased us. We ran out of the park, into the street and down into an underground parking basement of one of the nearby apartment buildings. We took the utility elevator up to the 9th floor and hid there. We looked down the stairwell window and saw the park attendant looking for us down in the street. That was the baddest thing I can remember doing at this age.

I guess 13 year old boy's are more sophisticated these days. Check out what this bad boy did.

Microsoft Rules - or - 10 Facts about Microsoft

Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In other words, Microsoft’s daily net income is about $55 million. That’s $55 million in pure profit every 24 hours. Do some quick math and you’ll learn it takes Microsoft only about…

10 hours or so (yes, hours!) to exceed Red Hat’s quarterly net income of $20.5 million.
four days to exceed Research In Motion’s quarterly net income of $187.9 million.
four days to exceed Starbucks’ quarterly net income of $205 million.
one week to exceed Nike’s quarterly net income of $350.8 million.
two weeks to exceed McDonalds’ quarterly net income of $762 million.
two weeks to exceed Apple’s quarterly net income of $770 million.
18 days to exceed Google’s quarterly net income of $1 billion.
23 days to exceed Coca-Cola’s quarterly net income of $1.26 billion.
five weeks to exceed IBM’s quarterly net income of $1.85 billion.
10 weeks to exceed Wal-Mart’s quarterly net income of $3.9 billion.


Source: TechIQ