GW's Scribbles

Licensed “energy drinks” at Bulk Barn

Every Friday night we get “Friday Night Treats”. The kids look forward to it every week. We usually end up going to the Bulk Barn. The other day we were there, and I noticed the following drinks in the cooler:

In case you can’t tell, there is Flaming Moe’s (from the Simpsons), Power Up (with Super Mario), and Romulan Ale (from Star Trek). My first thought was, “Wow, how can those be legit?” I looked on the cans, and they all have copyright or trademark information on them

I checked out the Boston America web site, and they have lots of different energy drinks that have licensed characters on the can. I guess they are legit. The only thing that kind of bothers me is that some of the cans would appeal to kids.

Andre Agassi making the rounds

In the last week, I’ve listened to Andre Agassi on three different talk shows. They have all overlapped (of course), but all three were worth listening to. If you’ve got the time (I listen on a lunch-time walk), here are the links:

• 60 Minutes – Andre Agassi’s Extraordinary Journey
• Prime Time Sports – aired Friday, November 13, 2009 (view it here, listen to it here)
• Fresh Air – A Tennis Star Who Hates Tennis?

Walken Family Reunion

I haven’t seen a lot of movies with Christopher Walken, but you gotta love the way he talks. This Saturday Night Live skit is very funny!

Buying eyeglasses online

Recently LifeHacker had a good article about someone’s experience buying eyeglasses online. I’ve always wanted to try this. Maybe I will now…

New mothers prefer hotels to hospitals

From Hotels Magazine:

Expectant mothers in Ireland are making the recession work for them by booking special deals in luxury hotels for their post-natal care, in preference to expensive stays in private maternity hospitals.

A growing number of pregnant women are avoiding the large bills associated with consultant-led private treatment by opting for free, communitybased midwifery services. Some are then using the savings to book into hotel suites within hours of giving birth, getting top-level after-care for far less than a stay in a private hospital due to the special deals on offer in the hospitality industry.

Birthday Calculator

PaulSadowski.com has a neat page where you enter your birthday and it returns more information that you could ever want about that day. For instance, a person turning 50 today, would learn this and much more about their birthday:

Your date of conception was on or about 3 June 1958 which was a Tuesday.

You were born on a Tuesday
under the astrological sign Pisces.
Your Life path number is 5.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Billy Zane (1966) Kristin Davis (1965) Eddie Murray (1956)
Steven Jobs (1955) Alain Prost (1955) Edward James Olmos (1947)
Joe Lieberman (1942) James Farentino (1938) Michel Legrand (1932)
Abe Vigoda (1921) Chester W. Nimitz (1885) Enrico Caruso (1873)

There are 365 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 51 candles.

Those 51 candles produce 51 BTUs,
or 12,852 calories of heat (that’s only 12.8520 food Calories!) .
You can boil 5.83 US ounces of water with that many candles.

GW’s Scribbles back up and running

After over 4 years, I’m actually doing another posting!

Of course, those of you who know me know that I’ve actually got 7 blogs going for different purposes. But I’ve had some random things I’ve wanted to blog about and so I figured I’d get this going again. Stay tuned for some sporadic posts in the coming days/weeks/months…

English Bible History

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/

The fascinating story of how we got the Bible in its present form actually starts thousands of years ago…

1980’s Commercials

http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/

There are about 30 downloadable commercials from the 1980’s. It brought back fond memories of singing along with the California Raisins!

Download a 12 sided calendar

http://www.ii.uib.no/~arntzen/kalender/
Very cool!