Drink Wilkins Coffee … or else!!!

These are not fake!!! They were actually commercials for Wilkins Coffee.

You may recognize the voice of Jim Henson.

BK Super Seven Incher

A single beef patty? Really?

The Barrel Monster

A North Carolina man is facing criminal charges for creating an amusing piece of public art from construction barrels.

Joseph Carnevale, 21, was nabbed Wednesday after a Raleigh Police Department investigation determined that he was responsible for the “monster” constructed May 31 on a roadway adjacent to North Carolina State University.

Carnevale was charged with misdemeanor larceny for allegedly building his orange monster from materials pilfered from a construction site. According to an arrest warrant, Carnevale “destroyed three road blocking barrels by cutting and screwing them together to form a statue.”

Police estimated that Carnevale’s artwork caused $360 in damages to Hamlett Associates, the North Carolina construction company that owned the barrels.

Hot Fudge Cake

The other day Sayra and I were talking about our favorite desserts.  After thinking about it for a few minutes, I remembered something that I hadn’t thought of in years, the Hot Fudge Cake @ Big Boy’s.

I remember this thing like it was just yesterday, even though it’s probably been over 20 years since I’ve been in a Big Boy’s restaurant.

The dessert was very simple – 2 pieces of chocolate cake with ice cream as the middle layer.  It then had hot fudge poured all over it and was the topped off with a little whipped cream and a cherry.

What made the dessert so good was the hot fudge.  This wasn’t some thin chocolate syrup poured out of a bottle.  This was the real stuff.  The best part would be the contrasting temperatures between the cold ice cream and the warm hot fudge. So good!!!

Unfortunately I haven’t even seen a Big Boy’s in decades. The ones that I remember most was the one in Gettysburg (Shoney’s) and the ones on our way to Florida (Elby’s and Bob’s).

Here’s a few pics of me from the 70’s posing with the Big Boy.  Check out my outfits. I can’t believe my mother actually dressed me like that.

So, You Think Obama is a Socialist?

The hot-pink portion of this pie chart is the percentage of listed American business assets that have recently been nationalized by the American government (ie, General Motors). Obama’s version of socialism is so sneaky you can hardly see it!

Pick The Perp

PickThePerp.com is a great way to kill time. They give you 5 different mugshots and you have to pick which one was guilty of the listed crime. I got about 20% of them correct.

I never knew that Vince Scaccio was charged with Giving a False Name to a Law Enforcement Officer.

World Games Stadium 100% Solar Powered

The dragon-like structure you see is the ‘World Games Stadium’ in Taiwan, which is being built for the upcoming World Games.

What looks like dragon’s scales from afar are actually 8,844 solar panels which is enough to satisfy all of the stadium’s energy needs, and then some. The 14,155m2 roof has the potential to generate 1.14 gigawatt hours of electricity every year, which is actually enough to power 80% of the stadium’s surrounding neighborhood when it’s not in use.

It was designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, cost around $150 million to build and can hold 55,000 spectators. Something like this makes the new Cowboy Stadium and Yankee Stadium already look outdated.

A Good Use of Twitter

The House from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is For Sale

For the small amount of $2.3 million you can own a piece of classic movie history. Imagine the parties! You can check out the listing here.

Dollar Rede$ign Project

Money and the color green are inextricably intertwined in American culture. It’d be a mistake to remove green as the primary color.

Instead, each bill has a brightly-colored holographic strip embedded into it which contains the denomination. The width of this strip also changes with the denomination. This introduces an element which makes each bill extremely easy to identify. There is also braille denoting the bills’ denomination on the holographic strip.

The idea of presidents being on money is also intrinsic in American money and that should change. One thing that definitely shouldn’t happen is the government deciding what cultural figures or movements are the most important or “American.” Instead the most important politicians should be on money. For the same reason, they put government institutions on the bills, representing each of the branches of government.

In addition, one of the most important things about America is our Bill of Rights. It is probably the most important information any citizen can have, and for that reason, it is printed on the back of the bills. It is sometimes thought the amendments are listed in order of importance, so it makes sense to have the first ones on the most common bills and the last ones on the less common bills.

Lastly, change the denominations of the bills. We need to get rid of the penny, because they’ve gotten to the point that they’re more expensive to produce than they’re worth. Instead, the coins would be 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, and $2.

The coins will keep their current design, and the $2 would be slightly thicker and larger than the $1, with a shape similar to the UK 50p coin. I’ve added a $200 bill because the $500 is entirely impractical, but the 200 € banknote is in general circulation and I think a $200 could be useful.”