Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@antipodean Chuck is always good for some quotes.
But a true upset is a #1 and #2 seed losing to a #15 and #16 seed - unlikely but not impossible. There will be plenty of lower seeded teams beating the teams seeded 5-8, which I think is what he is meaning.
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I don't know if any of you have been following the upcoming shitfight between Google and Uber, but this goes way beyond the whole Apple/Samsung patent disputes thing into straight out accusations of theft and conspiracy. For those with interests in things techie / geeky or big business legal bloodsports this may be the most compulsive story of the year. This bloke, who I didn't previously know, has done a great job summarising the case and his regular updates are must reads for me.
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The Perversions of Chuck Berry
Enclosed please find a tease of an idea I spoke to Allan about today. It involves the legendary Chuck "Johnny B. Goode" Berry himself. It seems that Mr. Berry has been very BAD.
With Chuck Berry dying itys a good time to remember what a great way he lived his life. Eating shit & farting into hookers mouths while they rimmed him. I like to think if I were a 90 year old rock & roll legend I'd be doing that too.
The video of him farting into a hookers mouth is, of course, up on Reddit. Its magical.
Johnny B Goode indeed..
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@JC said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I don't know if any of you have been following the upcoming shitfight between Google and Uber, but this goes way beyond the whole Apple/Samsung patent disputes thing into straight out accusations of theft and conspiracy. For those with interests in things techie / geeky or big business legal bloodsports this may be the most compulsive story of the year. This bloke, who I didn't previously know, has done a great job summarising the case and his regular updates are must reads for me.
I went to gradschool with the guy who is the focus of the story. He was a massive bullshitter without much technical competence of his own.
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The Parrot With a Call as Infectious as Laughter
Kea parrots can make a warbling noise that whips other keas in earshot into a playful frenzy.
Kea's are awesome. Scientifically proven.
Raoul Schwing remembers sitting on a New Zealand mountaintop, watching a kea hovering in front of him, just an arm’s reach away. The large green parrot had jumped into an updraft, and was flying into the rushing air with such skill that it stayed in exactly the same spot. And then, it made an almost imperceptible shift in its wings, and shot off like a cannon. Keas do this a lot, and since they rarely hover more than a meter or so off the ground, they’re clearly not doing it for the view. Instead, Schwing says, they’re playing.
That might sound a bit anthropomorphic, were it not for, well, everything else about keas. These parrots are famed for their intelligence, curiosity, and vivacious nature. They’ll chase each other through the air, doing loops and spirals and wheeling side-by-side, before landing in the same spot from which they took off. They’ll toss a rock back and forth, like some kind of parrot tennis. They’ll sneak up and briefly grab each other by the feet. They’ll wrestle: One kea will lie on its back like a kitten, and another will jump on it.
Unlike other birds, which shy away from new and unfamiliar objects, keas are drawn to novelty like moths to flame. Schwing once demonstrated this by asking one of his colleagues at the University of Vienna to shine a bicycle light at some captive ravens. Even though he had hand-raised those birds, they fled when the light came on. But when he did the same to captive keas, half the birds immediately flew over to investigate. This makes them very easy to study in the wild. “For most birds, you need hides and blinds,” says Schwing. “But if you see a kea flying in the distance, you can make as much noise as possible and wave things around, and they’ll make a beeline for you.”
