Happy New Year! Bring on 2010

I'm in Canada. It's cold. But I'm glad to be home. Team Canada won at the World Juniors. In your face USA. Hopefully Canada will win again.

Jennifer Lopez on the ABC NYE show...not sure I'm into that. Just sayin'.

Anyway, back to business. The year was action packed. Traveled to Europe and Africa for the first time. Ate a lot of food. Lost weight. Watched a lot of tv. Used a lot of internet. Kept Yelping. Started Tweeting. Did some Facebooking. One guy ruined air travel on Christmas day. My dad is fighting cancer. I don't have cancer. Moved residence. Didn't change jobs.

8 mins to New Years.

See you on the flip side.

The Origins of You Can't See Me

One of the most memorable acts in sport (or life) is the You Can't See Me action. When you do a search in Google for You Can't See Me, the first result is You Can't See Me - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This link is to the wikipedia of John Cena's album. The third result is Urban Dictionary: YOU CAN'T SEE ME!.

John Cena. John Cena. You are amazing:



Now, normally You Can't See Me is done when you're winning...and this is still true, but you should make sure you can see at some point because this could happen to you:



But if you're not fighting at all, then you could be doing this:



I wanted to put clips of DeShawn Stevenson, but I was not satisfied with what was out there. Youtube has a bunch, but not enough of the goods.

Anyway, this post did not explain the origins very well, but it did show you that You Can't See Me is rad and should not be ignored.

C'mon Man!

Michael Jackson may get laid...and this time, no one can watch!

I saw it on Google. Below is the screen shot. Look for the cursor.

Hey Charlie, you stink!

Just want to give a shout out to Charlie Weis for making Stanford look good. They did plenty to make you win, but you couldn't close the deal. And no, Urban Meyer won't be taking your job at ND.

Get out of our state before your stink spreads to the San Jose Sharks.

Friar Tuck is everywhere!

So we've been watching a lot of tv...no surprise, but we've been seeing Friar Tuck look a likes. First spotting was on Top Chef. Our friendly neighbourhood lumberjack Kevin. He's our favourite! But he looks like Friar Tuck. Put a robe on him with a big rope belt and there you have it. I wish I had the pictures from the finale where everyone got a hair cut! This is not a post about Top Chef,  but it has been pretty amazing this season.

Another sighting we had was just tonight on FlashForward. I don't have a good picture of this one, but trust me. Have I been wrong so far? Anyway, in tonight's episode, his hair is a little bushier than usual. Those he's not as 'jolly', he's definitely on the list of Friar Tuck look a likes.

Ok, so there aren't too many other example (maybe none at all), but now you'll look out for Friar Tuck look a likes in your everyday life. Promise.

Roadhouse.

Leonid Meteor Shower - Meteoric Fail!

Wasn't in the know when it came to this leonid meteoric shower, but let me tell you, in Berkeley, not all it's cracked up to be. Way too much light pollution and where there was very little (Tilden Park), you were not allowed in past 10PM. At least Berkeley thought it was important enough to maybe open the park up for a few extra hours this one time.

So our night went like this:

11PM - phone call for work scheduled, but is delayed until 12AM
12:30AM - roommates get ready to go look at meteor shower, but I cannot go
1:30AM - call over, I go outside to check it out, but don't see anything
2:15AM - go to Jack In the Box for night time fuel, still a ton of people rolling through the drive thru
2:55AM - see meteor...great.

Anyway, I saw 1.5 meteors fly by. It was like a missile. But as soon as I saw it and as soon as it went away, so did my interest. A little too much hype for me. Next time I'll stay home and watch it on youtube.

"Gesundheit!", "Gesundheit to you!"

So the other day, I was thinking about sneezing. It's pretty funny, but according to wikipedia, "...sneezes spread disease through the infectious aerosol droplets, commonly ranging from 0.5 to 5 µm. 40,000 droplets can be produced by a sneeze.[2]"

Gross.

Sneezing for me is kind of random where I don't have a specific habitual sneeze. I'd say that I probably sneeze a little differently each time I sneeze. But I've learned that this is not the case for a lot of people. There are some people that sneeze in pairs, triples and quads! What I don't understand is if you sneeze, you're trying to clear some kind of irritation, but I'm guessing that a lot of times, just one sneeze will do. I'm starting to think that some people sneeze out of learned behaviour or habit. Thoughts? Keep track of how you sneeze the next couple of times and see if you have a pattern that you follow.

The other discussion that I had was what is the proper etiquette for sneezing? Is it to sneeze into your arms, tissue, or clothes? Or sneeze free into the open air (of course not right at someone)? I'm thinking that you want to promote the sneezing into your arms, tissue, or clothes, but if someone sneezed into the open, I'd promote the idea of sneezing into your arms, tissue, or clothes. Whether this is right or wrong, I don't know, but what I do know is that the first place that people will look for answers is wikipedia so you may as well prepare for the sort of dangers that wikipedia describes to not be a social outcast. Or the next stop is yahoo answers where you can find anything from an anser that sounds right to an answer about your mom.

In other news, when I cough most people think that I sneezed based on the way it sounds. I've gotten many bless you's after I've coughed. I've stopped explaining that it is a cough and just say Thank You.

Thank you to all of you who have said bless you to me.