Took this with my phone on their third pass down the street.
Not a great photo so here are the details:

• Beater vehicle
• Some rope
• Buddy sitting in back to capture on phone
• Skateboard(s)
• Smalltown road

And here’s what you get:

Now my question to you is…are these High School students lazy, or innovative?

I was sent to this blog today in one of those co-worker e-mails with subject “Need a laugh?” Of course, I love laughs! So, it turns out Tire Shop is the ’stage name’ this guy uses to remain anonymous, and “the company” is how he references his corporate place of business. Even funnier as it turns out is that “the company” is where I used to work!

Anyway, it is totally hilarious, crying, laugh-out-loud-by-yourself kind of funny blogs….and I’m not sure if that is because I’ve experienced most all of it my last 10 years of corporate employment, or just because it’s that funny. So please let me know what you think.

I just can’t stop going back there reading older posts!

Here’s the link: Stupid Is The New Smart (the Tire Shop)

Here’s some of my favorites so far if you want to start somewhere:

• “My First Time”
• “Bathroom Rules”
• “Denim and Dummies”

Ok so I’m not usually one to write about dreams, but this one last night was just strange so I wanted to post about it! The only thing I can think of that caused me to dream about this was the other day I saw photos of the Soviet Space Shuttle being barged to it’s final resting place in a museum in Germany.

So my uncle Spence was I’m sure the one who discovered this adventure, because it was myself, Spence, and Chad that took this trip. We had to deliver mail, and other various Americanized supplies…and of course we were the ones doing this ya know! HA!

So we board the shuttle, but it was more like a regular plane inside. And the only people that were suited up in space suits were the “professional astronauts”…not the three of us. I don’t remember much of the flight so it must not have been very exciting.

We land on the moon, and it’s like a regular city! We get off the shuttle, and are greeted by some astronaut (who again is all suited up in his space suit.) It’s very snowy and like 10° but all we had on were long sleeves and wind jackets. We went immediately to a car because we were starving. So Spence wanted to drive on the moon, and our “guide” agreed. So this car seemed pretty normal looking outside of the knobby tires. We get inside, and Spence turns the key, the back trunk opens up and these two huge batteries (like oversized “D” cell batteries) raise up out of the trunk. This car was a hybrid that ran on these batteries (which were somehow Hydrogen based) and regular Hydrogen fuel. It was very quiet as I remember Spence tried starting it twice because we couldn’t hear it running. So we’re driving along and see another vehicle (this one was a pickup) and were able to see these batteries (we couldn’t see ours because the trunk lid hid them from inside the car) sticking up. Another goofy thing was that these batteries gave off an “exhaust”.

We’re driving around this city on the moon, and it’s made up of all these big shed like buildings, each with a state name (Kansas, South Dakota, etc) and it turns out that each state that is participating in testing various things on the moon, has their own building. Curiosity got the best of us, and we stopped at one of the sheds to explore around. There were three other students inside, and they too were normal like us, just wearing street clothes…as well as two other astronauts that were all suited up.

They had all sorts of tools in this shed, and Spence being a farmer, had to check them out. They were all rechargeable hand tools, that were using these hydrogen battery packs…and yes they gave off exhaust too! But they were SUPER powerful….like high PSI air tools (sounded like NASCAR air guns!)

They also had photo strobes (of course!) that were really cool! They used some sort of fluorescent looking spiral bulbs, but they were daylight balanced and really bright. They had several bulbs in this one head, pointing all different directions. You just opened up the flap of wherever you wanted the light to come through. They had this really cool material that created barn-doors to focus the light, but what was cool was it kept it’s shape how you moved it, but yet it felt like a fabric (almost like denim). These strobes had to be left off all the time too…you could turn them down in power, but they had to remain powered on at all times…no idea why!

So how’s that for strange?! That was all I remember, it must have gotten cut short by waking up or something. So maybe the moon will be a vacation spot sooner than we think…I mean I’ve been there, and it’s quite the happening place…what are ya’ll waiting for?!

Ok, here’s a wacky one for today! A Taiwanese inventor has come up with a tandem bicycle where the riders can face each other, as opposed to the one in back staring at the back of the front ones head/back! The inventor says this: “Face-to-face is suitable for a parent and child, or dating couples, while the back-to-back mode gives both riders a good view, and the one at the back can have both hands free to shoot pictures or eat snacks.” I’m sorry, but any baby stuck on a bike facing backwards will probably never want to ride a bike when they are old enough….and I’m thinking if you’re on a date and you have them sit backwards, that’ll probably be the last date….and any pictures being taken on a moving bike are going to be ‘interesting’ at best! Oh, and eating while riding bike…isn’t that counter productivity at it’s finest?!

Don’t quit your day job Mr. Inventor, or focus your marketing on parade goers and circus acts!

I thought this ashtray made by Surgeon Generals Ceramics was awesome…something every smoker should have to visually remind them what they are doing to their lungs!

On the bottom it has this warning: “SURGEON GENERAL’S CERAMICS WARNING: The Anatomically Correct Ashtray Causes Those Who See It to Think Twice. Thinking Twice Does not Cause Lung Cancer, Emphysema, Or Complicate Pregnancy.”

This is a fun little website that, well…generates facts! (like you didn’t see that one coming!)

Now that the writers are off the streets, here’s a place for us all to go give them our feedback. It’s called Nitpickers, a place to post comments about movies or TV shows with nitpicks such as, plot, editing, translation, vehicles, special effects, technology, etc. You can search to see what others are nitpicking about as well…go get NitPicky!

They may be our countries leaders, but they still have all sorts of habits, struggles and vulnerabilities the rest of us do.

This list includes medical operations, smoking/drinking histories, and medically insignificant conditions like color blindness, talking in their sleep, crying in office, and fear of the dentist! Check it out here: Medical History of US Presidents

I was hesitant to post this, since over 74 million people have watched it, but even if you have seen it, it’s pretty darn awesome so just watch it again!

For those of you who have not seen this video, it’s a comedian dancing to top songs over the past few decades….

Today’s Wacky website takes us on a food, culture, and design trip back in time. It’s a collection from the Alice Statler Library of old menu collections.

Pretty cool looking back at the designs, and seeing how the culture was in these eras. Not to mention the prices have increased a tad bit over the years!