Oddities

There was a strange, large scale overnight gap in the UUP Bullish US Dollar ETF which wasn’t confirmed as strongly in its bearish counterpart, the UDN.  Let’s take a look at these two ETFs on their daily chart to see if we can get a better picture. Bullish Dollar ETF - UUP: Price gapped from $26.00 down [...]

I've finally begun making plarn purses and I'm so excited! Everyone I show them to is very intrigued and they love what I've done. Here is my first attempt, using various colors of grocery bags: Then I tried a clutch. .. Then a clutch with a different process... Here's my favorite of them all, a large market bag: The most recent one I've made has a flap and a 'button' of sorts... I

In my infinite quest for Airedale related news items of interest I was alerted to a recent New York Times article. The title of the article uncovered in my search is titled, “The Mysterious Cough, Caught on Film.” A professor of engineering at Pennsylvania State University has captured on film the seemingly invisible, a cough. [...]

Lucien Crochet La Croix du Roy, 2005This is a brilliant Sancerre, sporting an elegant nose of subtle flowers, freshly bailed hay, pink grapefruit, basil and hot stone notes. The palate is a lesson in precision, pumping out a fresh meadow of herbs along a beam of long, liquid mineral injected flavors that echo w/ ease, 92 points.Francois Chidaine Vouvray les Argiles, 2005A surprisingly forward, opu

I'm off to sunny Mallorca for a few days, which will be very weird after being in rain-deluged Northumberland today. From wellies to flip flops in the space of 24 hours.For the minute, though, I shall leave you with these oddities from the 80s: singles I found in the pop dumper. No one bought them, hence the flog-off in the bargain bin, but I loved them and hugged them and called them my own. A

If you know anything about the mert, it's that I grew up with hurricanes on the east coast in Maryland (off of the Chesapeake Bay), and experienced my first earthquake a week after being transfered to Oakland , California while in the Navy. Yeah, I'm talking about the big one that collapsed the Bay Bridge, the very bridge that we had been on only 10 minutes before it collapsed?But I digress... Wha

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Though my sweet wife cannot understand how you could watch such a boring sport, I enjoy watching and playing baseball. I'm also a fan of Baseball trivia. Recently, a few oddities have surfaced that I have found interesting:Scott Baker struck out four batters in one three-out inning. Overachiever.The Dodgers beat the Angels without getting a hit. Not exactly the no-hitter you always dreamed about t

Supermodelo 2008 got off to a quiet start as Operación Triunfo gathers even more momentum here in Spain. The popular Supermodel contest usually rebounds once the Operación Triunfo wake surges (or at least it did last year). But honestly, I don’t know what to make of Supermodelo 2008 this year; half the instructors are in fact French! Readers will be left [...]

~Snooper~As I spent a great many of hours organizing my posts these last two days, I ran across so many items that I have written and opined about it made my head spin. At the same time, I monitored all my favorite writers and discovered one of them started their own blog...I guess I need to pay more attention to my surroundings. While monitoring and connecting the dots on a wide variety of topi

Developer - RDI SystemsYear - 1985This ones new even to me!! Created by Dragons Lair developer Rick Dyer the Halcyon was intended to let people play Laser Disk games at home. This powerful console could do FMV games which everybody seemed to want back in the mid eighties. Only two games were ever released for it, Thayers Quest and Raiders Vs Chargers, and it seems as if it was a little ahead of it

System - NESDeveloper - Mattel/PAXYear - 1989Ah the Power Glove, probably one of the most infamous gaming accessories ever made. Although it was an official product Nintendo took nothing to do with it's development and I think that shows. Supposedly it could track your hand movements and translate them into on-screen movements though it was pretty unreliable. To be honest it made it HARDER to do e

I’m not much into sci-fi, but I thought this was an interesting use of scrap metal… Who knew that broken bike chains could be “scary”? I need one of these. Seriously, this thing actually had some speed and can hold up to 400 lbs.

Ants having a picnic on recycling day; April 23, 2008 — Photo by Me. . I’ve been going grey for the past few months. I noticed the last time I grew a full beard… which would have been last fall. My hair is a light brown or a dirty blond but my beard is mostly black except [...]

Laurenzo's Italian Center16385 W.Dixie Hwy.N.Miami Beach FL 3316www.laurenzosmarket.comWhere is it?This is hard to find, and if in doubt you may have to ask for help.To get to the bathrooms, you'll first need to head to the deli counter (not the meat counter, fish counter, pasta counter, prepared foods counter, breads counter or cookie counter -- which all look alike to some degree). Once there, look for where there's a separation in the bar that's about three feet across (between the deli meats and the olive bar). Go through that separation and into the storage area behind the deli area. Then take an immediate right (if you go straight, you'll be in the storage rooms and meat lockers) and you'll find the bathrooms facing you.What's it like?Laurenzo's is a large Italian Market in North Miami that specializes in authentic Italian ingredients, like in-store cured meats, imported prosciutto and porchetta, rare mushrooms, wines, as well as top-quality meats, fish, cheeses, fresh pa

Just had a knock at the door and was pleasantly surprised to find the UPS guy there with a package. Pleasant because the package was for me, surprised because I’ve been too broke to order anything lately. Turns out it was a groomsmen gift from the couple whose wedding I’ve written about before. No, I wasn’t a groomsman (thank God!), but I was instrumental in getting them together in the first place, so it was still a nice thought. It does make me wonder if anyone ever gets the members of their wedding party useful gifts, however. Having been married, known many married couples, and even worked in the engraved gifts industry I’ve seen far more than my fair share of groomsmen and bridesmaids gifts. They’re typically borderline elegant (depending on budget), overly appreciated, and rarely functional in any way. Still, it’s an honorable tradition and one that I support. Just make sure to put some thought into these thank you gifts. none

I’m home again yay! The night before last I dreamed that we were on a planet, me and some other people… well, it could have been Earth not sure. And it was covered by a very thick material. And someone was saying how fascinating it was, as we were walking on this material, that it was all one pieces and wrapped around the entire Earth. Hrm. Then when we needed to get off the planet there were these tree like objects, and we hung on and they blasted us off to the spaceship above. It was a wild ride! Earlier in the night I dreamed I was with my sister in some lobby.. doctor or dentist or something like that. And there was a door that was so mis marked it was weird. It said 1st floor, but it really was the 2nd floor. And it had directions that were wrong… I don’t remember so much now, but it was an odd one!

Here's how the story ended:Not everybody was in festive mood, especially the opposite neighbour...Create your game | Share As pissed off as he was for not being invited, he decided to unleash some of his domestic animals, like his bear in the garden...Create your game | Share As if the bear wasn't enough, he unleashed another of his "pet":Create your game | Share Everybody was so panic-stricken -including Auntie Elfriede- that they all dashed out of the place to catch the first train...driven by the German lady!But if you remember, she was so boozed up that...Create your game | Share Not a single life was spared.The end!Malika.

Over the last week I’ve stumbled across some rather odd health-related stories and photos, so I thought I would share them with you… Sprouting is great for your health, just be careful where you plant them… (click for more photos of plants growing on keyboard.)     We all know that condoms are important for preventing the spread of STDs… Is this guy a walking condom dispenser? Ever wondered what it’s like to have an out of body experience? Experts have found out that it relates to tricking your brain into thinking your body is elsewhere. Click to find out more.   So you think the FDA are bad? You’ll have second thoughts when you find out that China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. How bizarre is that?! (Keep reading…)     If you like this post please let me know and I’ll try and uncover some other health oddities for future posts. ---Related Artic

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The ninth hole is where all the action is at Firestone Country Club. Tiger Woods struck a ball that landed in the crook of a woman’s arm and he later chipped in for par. Then Rory Sabbatini, in second place six shots back of Woods at the time, took offense at a spectator’s question and had the fan expelled from the course. In other words, it was another routine day at the ninth during the final round of the Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday. Remember how Woods more…

The editors at PC World spent some time using Google Earth to scour the surface of the planet, and they turned up some incredibly strange sights. The giant portrait of Oprah cut through a field by an Arizona farmer is one thing – you almost expect something like that – but the apparently natural phenomena are the truly mind-boggling ones. The image at left, for example, is an overhead view of a natural geological formation in Alberta, Canada. Locals call it The Badlands Guardian, but based on the ear phone, I’d prefer something more along the lines of The Early Adopter. And is it just me, or does that look like Sigmund Freud sitting atop the Guardian’s head?In less entertaining news, Google Earth may have put the company on China’s bad side after the circulation of a satellite shot of what appears to be a new Chinese sub made the rounds on the web, according to IDG News.—Gregory Mone

I was never a big fan of chat rooms, I mean, I'm sure most of the people on it are perfectly normal, but there always seems to be a random weirdo. Somebody gave me a site displaying some of the oddities that can be found in these chat rooms. I would post the quotes here, but some of it contains more... adult material and alot of swearing.Harry's...wand?When fanfiction and video game freaks mixIsn't the world a such a small place?Chess addictWhen cyber sex goes wrongWhen idiots show offWhy you should not multi-task on your computerA lesson on punctuationWhen "your mom" disses backfireFor more quotes, go to bash.org

Flux said...Grizzly Bear Oddities Sonny Rollins The Clean Battles Shellac The Album Leaf Fridge Von Sudenfedhttp://spoiledmetropolis.blogspot.com/ XMP said...ICOOYS brief update action:::Richard H. Kirk - Earlier/Later [2xCD] Concentrated Underground Vol. 2 [Techno/Acid/Electronic] Equations Of Eternity - Vevè [Bernocchi/Mick Harris/Laswell] Lard - Power Of Lard EP [Biafra + Ministry = Lard]Thanks, 'phisto!http://itscomingoutofyourspeaker.blogspot.com/ wassonii said...sorrow under the yew possessed wassonii.blogspot.com

Thursday, 17 August 2006 Click to see real sizeClick to see real size A review of the highly suspicious activity in the sky on 9-11. When does a series of coincidences stop being a series of coincidence and become damning evidence? When it's 9-11... New altitude data obtained through Freedom of Information shows the meeting points I previously pointed out are also the EXACT points that the hijacked planes began their descent towards their targets. Current theories about what happened in the air on 9/11 are based on a mixture of speculation and circumstances. Over the past five years, more information has slowly been released allowing a clearer picture to slowly be developed. The government's story about suicide hijackers has had to face up to a lot of scepticism for a number of reasons.Those reasons include: Complex maneuvres supposedly performed by individuals who have been widely reported to be barely capbale of flying a smal

Looking for a squished frog or hard to find books such as a copy of Head or the Art of Phrenolgoy, Polidon’s The Vampyre, Evil Eye in the Western Highland, Basilisks, Dragons and other Fabled Animals?  Then you are in luck the huge collection of that belonged to the painter Robert Lenkiewicz, is going up for auction. Read the full story in the Scotsman.  Lady Rose

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Well this post is a little overdue. I was recently tagged by Mamma, I am supposed to tell you five 'slightly odd' things about myself. Obviously this has taken a great deal of thought, as being a Saint I am of course perfection personified... oh alright then, yes I know I am a rather worldly Saint so there may just be a few minor blemishes.When texting from my mobile I have to use correct spelling and grammar. Likewise when receiving a text it makes me cringe when the sender doesn't do the same. My wardrobe and my shoe cupboard have to be colour co-ordinated. Yes I do have a slight thing about shoes, in fact I could probably give Imelda Marcos a run for her money... in the correctly colour co-ordinated trainers of course.I have creaky knees, no really they creak very loudly when I walk up and down stairs. I went to the Doctors about it, he reassured me that there was nothing to worry about, they were just noisy knees and gave me the technical name for the condition. I saw JT a littl