I’ve talked about the One Red Paperclip guy in one of my previous posts. Apparently he’s successfully traded all the way to a house! And it only took 14 trades, although some are quite questionable.
From paper-clip to house, in 14 trades (from /.) – A 26-year-old Montreal man appears to have succeeded in his quest to barter a single, red paper-clip all the way up to a house. It took almost a year and 14 trades, but Kyle MacDonald has been offered a two-storey farmhouse in Kipling, Sask., for a paid role in a movie.
Wow! Just amazing!
Random Crap:
It’s been awhile since my last random crap post, huh?
I downloaded a movie trailer with the filename: tcm_thebegining_h720p.mov and thought it was a Turner Classic Movie called The Beginning, but it turns out TCM here actually stood for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which also has one of the few words that still keeps the British ‘re’ (i.e. centre) instead of ‘er’ (i.e. center).
911 loose change 2nd edition (from /.) – I downloaded this video awhile ago, but finally had a chance to watch it. Basically more conspiracy theories about the whole 9/11 event. I’m not saying to believe everything they say as I certainly don’t, but it’s interesting of what is revealed and not revealed. I skimmed through certain parts, but it is a long documentary (almost 1.5hrs)
Tongues are big business in the meat trade – Each year, U.S. beef, pork, and poultry companies export hundreds of millions of dollars worth of various meat items that most Americans never see on store shelves, but are considered a delicacy elsewhere. Foreign countries buy steaks, pork chops, and chicken too but it is the stomachs, tongues, kidneys, livers, and chicken feet that U.S. meat companies are particularly anxious to export because if sold domestically, those products would bring much lower prices. I certainly do miss eating much of this stuff back in LA.
Limo driver gets big tip: a kidney – “He gave me part of his body. He saved my life,” Faraj, a diabetes sufferer whose kidneys were failing despite a three-times-a-week dialysis regime, told area television stations.
Desktop Linux Defined: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (from /.) – SUSE 10 looks so pretty. I think it’s time to upgrade.
Ultraviolet Secrets (from Ungsunghero) – no this doesn’t have to do with the movie, but our credit cards and driver’s license having UV logos on them is something I never knew about. I was just researching what the difference between UV light and blacklight is and found: What is the difference between a black light and a normal light bulb?
Fight erupts at shoe sale; customer shot – When customers rebelled against orders to close the store because of overcrowding and started to fight with one another and with salespeople, a store employee shot his gun into the air, Anatolia said. The bullet struck the foot of a customer, who was taken to a hospital, while the shooter was taken into police custody, the agency reported. Sigh… it’s just a shoe sale. Then again, I bet over 80% of the female population would disagree with what I just said.
Photos from Things to do when your coworker goes on vacation (from ChewyDensise) – this actually might rival some of the stuff that happens on my floor.
Nude stand-in wants exposure – A Chinese actress who played Hollywood movie star Zhang Ziyi’s naked body double in “The Banquet” wants her name in the movie’s credits, state media reported Friday. … Huayi’s deputy head, Xu Li, said Shao’s name wouldn’t appear in the movie’s credits due to contractual issues and decried the actress’s posting of the dispute on her blog. There wasn’t anything interesting about this article, but the fact that there was very little information of Shao Xiaoshan (邵小珊). After a bit of digging around, I found more info and actual pictures of this body double: 冯小刚《夜宴》中章子怡裸替明星邵小珊惊爆裸体内幕（音频/照片）
How to Avoid being Arrested by Cops (from /.) – a very educational video about what civil rights you have during an encounter with police officer(s). Definitely worth the 45min it takes to watch it.
So I was watching movie trailers awhile back and while I was watching the trailer for Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man, he said a phrase that reminded me of childhood book I read: He’d spend days on every line, so he spends a year looking at a song. The book it reminded me of was of course Sideways Stories from Wayside School. In one of the stories, there was a kid that drew really fast and would finish his painting in less than a minute. The teacher told him to slow down and started telling him how great artists like Van Gogh or Picasso tooks years to finish a masterpiece. The kid understood and as he left school that day, he talked to Louis (the ball guy/janitor/recess monitor) about drawing a cat. Louis said he can’t wait to see it tomorrow. The kid goes, “Ha! I don’t think I’d even be done with the whiskers by then.”