Crossing the Finish Line by the Skin of Your Teeth

In 1977, a 13 yo kid found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

Road trippin'

According to Google Maps, it only takes 16 min to go from Blue Ball to Intercourse in Pennsylvania.

Curling shoes

Apparently, curlers wear one shoe that's sticky and one shoe that's slippery.

Watersheds

This may have been posted before, but I'm too lazy to use the search function to find out.

The watersheds that supply water to New York City are the size of Delaware. -from a Snapple bottle cap

It doesn't mention if it's area or volume, though I don't know how one would estimate the volume of a state.

Random trivia

I was down in Oak Ridge, TN for the week, staying at the Hampton Inn again. Their "breakfast-to-go" baggies come with mints that have a trivia question on them. Somehow, this time, all four of the ones I grabbed had the same question on them:

Q: Where was Kevin Costner's Field of Dreams located?

A: Dyersville, Iowa.

Also, though, I heard a trivia question on the radio.

Q: New Hampshire is the only state in which it is legal to drive without this?

One of the DJ's sarcastically remarked: A clue? No, I've driven in Massachusetts.

The answer is actually a seat belt.

teetotalism

monday, 1 december, 2008 09:20 MAT

i learned that i'm a teetotaller.

Teetotalism (or T-total) is the practice and promotion of complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages. A person who practices (and possibly advocates) teetotalism is called a teetotaler or teetotaller (plural teetotalers or teetotallers).

i practice teetotalism. i think i might have found something to put in the religion box on facebook now. ha.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teetotalism

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indenting in blogger

friday, 14 november, 2008 08:15 MAT

      someone says that blogger does not allow the first lines of paragraphs to be indented. i wonder if hard coding spaces in html will allow for this property to appear properly.

      i guess it's annoying to have to type that in front of every paragraph, but without that, the only other option seems to fiddle with the template, ick.

that works for now.

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disney = muppets - sesame street

wednesday, 20 august, 2008 15:00 MAT

disney owns the muppets portion of jim henson but not any of the sesame street parts. means elmo is not disney... good to know.

Disney buys Jim Henson's Muppets and Bear

Courtesy of The Walt Disney Company
February 17, 2004

The Walt Disney Company and The Jim Henson Company today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Disney will acquire the beloved Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House properties from Henson.

The transaction includes all Muppet assets, including the Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo and Animal characters, the Muppet film and television library, and all associated copyrights and trademarks, as well as all the Bear in the Big Blue House characters, television library, copyrights and trademarks. The parties have signed a binding purchase agreement and expect the transaction to close within two months, subject to receiving the necessary regulatory clearances. The transaction does not include the Sesame Street characters, such as Big Bird and Elmo, which are separately owned by Sesame Workshop. The deal also includes non-exclusive production and consulting agreements under which Henson will develop potential new programming featuring the Muppets and Bear in the Big Blue House for Disney.

source: http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2004/021704.shtml

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display rotation

sunday, 17 august, 2008 22:25 MAT

if ctrl + alt + arrow key is pushed when using windows, the display rotates or flips around. apparently, this is a windows function and works with most windows applications. it worked with the powerpoint presentation on the laptop during class. but, disappointingly, it does not work with a widescreen (or, i cannot get it to work with my widescreen or dual screen monitors).

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Platypus

A baby platypus is called a puggle.