[what's on my ipod...]

[things it takes most of us 50 years to learn...]

1. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

2. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight-saving time.

3. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

4. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above-average drivers.

5. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is: age 11.

6. There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”

7. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”

8. The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

9. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter/janitor, is not a nice person.

10. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

11. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

12. Your true friends love you, anyway.

[jesus inspirational sports figures...]

Jesus Sports Figurines – a quote from their website:

“Handpainted resin statues on a solid wood base are the perfect gift for every young Catholic athlete. These statues portray Jesus actively participating with boys and girls in a variety of sports. A wonderful way to reinforce Jesus “as friend” in everyday activities.”

Humm… I don’t even know what to say.

[wrapped up in a bird...]

The bald eagle… mystical, mysterious, magical… it’s more than a raptor… it’s the USA wrapped up in a bird!

[chicken nuggets...]

Put that nugget down because you’ll never guess what they put in them. A tiny bit of chicken and 38 other ingrediants including lighter fluid. Mmmmm, tasty. Click here to read on.

[how to nab free t-mobile wi-fi lovin' without running vista...]

“So, you’re not quite ready to spring for a copy of Vista, or maybe your system can’t handle it, or perhaps you’re running Mac OS or (gasp) Linux. Why should you be left out of those three months of free T-Mobile WiFi just because you don’t kowtow to The Man? Never fear, it turns out it isn’t all that hard to get tricksy on those T-Mobile Hotspots, since they’re only verifying your OS based on the user agent string your browser spits out. Luckily for you, a simple bit of googling will quickly reveal methods for swapping the user agent on most major browsers, and once you enter the string “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)” you should be all good to go. Then all you’ll need to do is train your browser to http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/vista/ and start browsing those internets. Tell ‘em Engadget sent ya’, they’ll understand.” (www.engadget.com)

[mother russia...]

I’m heading out to Russia in June to hang with some rocking orphans in Yuryvets (9 hours outside of Moscow). In preparation for the trip, I often scour the web for fun sites depicting Russian life and culture. Here’s one of my most favorite sites: EnglishRussia. It’s a really unique site that gives a hilarious and sometimes sober look at life in a country that represents 1/6th of the planet.

[vertigo anyone?]

On the other hand, here’s one of the coolest things to come out of my home state Arizona. A definite stop when we trek down to visit our family.

A new way to experience the Grand Canyon.

[only in utah...]

Here’s another example of the best news we have to offer from the great state of Utah.

Foot Fungus

[100 years ago...]

Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. This new blog will definitely be a daily visit for me. Enjoy.