No Durian on the Train!

I was sitting on the train today making my way home listening to my music, just pondering and relaxing when all of a sudden...*sniff sniff*...I think to myself "NO IT CAN'T BE!"...a double take...*sniff sniff*...that smell!  It's...It's...IT's...[look towards asian lady sitting across from me]...DURIAN!  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.  That container...on her lap...will she open it again...I turned off my music...she is chewing loudly...I am still safe.  What's this?!  The chewing has stopped?! Oh god no...don't open the conta...NOOOOOOOO.

Yes.  Sorry to those who love Durian (榴莲)...but it smells like someone shart in an old pumpkin.  It also looks and feels like uncooked chicken when you open it...or alien spawn in some sort of freaky spiked egg sac.

NO DURIANS!  Punishment...unmentionable!

I have the final solution.

I LIKE BEAVERS!

Electronic implant allows blind to see

This technology is nothing new, but it has progressed quite a bit in the last few years. Eberthart Zrenner and colleagues at the University of Tübingen have developed a microchip carrying 1500 photosensitive diodes that slide into the retina where photoreceptors would usually be. Individuals with retinal dystrophy become blind due to the degeneration of photoreceptors and this new implanted microchip allows them to see. The diodes respond to light sending signals to the brain via an external power source connected to the eye by a wire.

The New Scientist Article with video below:
Electronic implant allows the blind to see

How to Eat Watermelon

Classic video with Petey Greene.

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh was an outstanding Canadian photographer and one of the best portrait photographers of all time. I adore his work. He was a master of studio lighting and used many different techniques to make his pictures just right. Below are samples of some of his portrait work.

Alfred Hitchcock

Andy Warhol

Anita Ekberg

Betty Low

Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

General Dwight Eisenhower

George Bernard Shaw

Hellen Keller with Polly Thompson

Humphrey Bogart

Mother Teresa

Muhammad Ali

Nelson Mandela

Audrey Hepburn

John F. Kennedy

Albert Einstein

Pablo Picasso

finishing with what is possibly Karsh's most famous portrait, that of Winston Churchill

Happy Halloween

Classic Halloween movie.

Short Thriller.

and then there is Indian Thriller...



and then there is German Techno Indian Thriller...



When zombies take over...



Bill Murray you are awesome!



I laughed so hard when I first saw this. Well...good bye ghostbusters.

Happy Halloween people!  Oh, I watched "How to Train Your Dragon" last night.  I thought it was pretty good...I love toothless (the black dragon).

Speaking of black...one of my favorite clips from the boondocks.

now for something mildly Halloween related...one of my favourite Venture Bros. clips

Vlad the Astrophysicist

Business Time

Awww yeeeeah. LOL