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Here at TailgatingIdeas.com we sometimes deviate off topic and discuss stuff that is non-tailgating related. This is one of those times so please feel free to get over it. Jimmy Traina over at Sports Illustrated’s Extra Mustard Hot Clicks recently did a segment on athletes and their celebrity look-a-likes. Last week the sports blogoshpere lost their [...]

Mis padres piensan que malcriamos demasiado a mi pequeña Bárbara (2 años). Y mis suegros lo mismo. Yo mismo hubiera dicho lo mismo antes de ser padre, si viera alguien haciendo lo que mi mujer y yo hacemos. Aunque eso sí, todos reconocen que es un encanto de cría!! Nadie me dice que está malcriada, sólo que la malcriamos... ¿y cómo es que si la malcriamos no está malcriada?La mayoría de

This is off topic and a blatant plug. My wife is an artist and has opened her first online store selling original artwork and designs including gift cards, t-shirts and hand painted clothing.Click here to check out Kazart Gallery.

"Rinpa" is a word created by the founders of the group meaning "to bring people together, while "Eshidan" essentially means "art crew." The Rinpa Eshidan is a team of artists brought together by a common creative expression.Rinpa Eshidan, i would say that they are one of the best art crew i have ever seen, they produce really good art work and video tape it in mostly stop motion and have really ni

What a historical and monumental moment! I will never forget Nov. 4, 2008. I am so earthly proud of Barack Obama! CHANGE has truly come to America! Now let us come together and support our President-elect, Barack Obama and the First Family.

This is an off-topic blog post, but I gotta show some hometown love to my city and post this audio from The Masked Avengers, a comedic Montreal radio duo that is notorious for their prank calls. Earlier today, they pulled off another major prank on none other than Sarah Palin. Pretending to be French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Please visit for the full p

I was sent this one and found it funny, so thought I'd share it with my readers. This showcases the wonders of Photoshop...

El blog de Yeray Muad' Dib (excelente por muchas razones), ha reseñado esta noticia, publicada originalmente en la edición digital del periódico El Pais, sobre la peculiar historia de Toru Arakawa, un japonés de 70 años, que desde hace tres años viene todos los veranos a España para ayudar en las exhumaciones que la Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica viene efectuando

Hat Tip to Crooks & Liars..

Despues de un mes de vacaciones (creo que es la primera vez en mi vida que me entrego tanto tiempo a los placeres veraniegos), regreso a los calurosos espacios de la capital para retomar mi aburrida vida. Si, queridos lectores, aburrida y bastante desaprovechada, me temo. Y es que, este Agosto ha supuesto en parte, un punto de inflexión en mi manera de ver las cosas y en como las afronto.En reali

Bellissimo questo video scovato da niimai… Mi ha fatto morire dalle risate Lasciate un commento se vi è piaciuto Rimani sempre aggiornato…Abbonati ai miei feed

Si, queridos lectores míos, me marcho a pasar unos días con la familia y no regresaré hasta finales de Agosto. La playa, las siestas, las juergas nocturnas, el pescaito frito y la luz de mi Ceuta natal me esperan.Me he propuesto pasar unas vacaciones mucho más activas que el año pasado, así que continuaré con el footing, aprovecharé para hacer natación (que me vendrá de perlas para la es

En uno de esos viajes a la deriva por la red de redes, justo en esas horas de la tarde en que el calor afixiante que otra vez azota la capital me dió un respiro, me he topado con este post. El editor del blog Replicantes fué designado como integrante de una de las mesas electorales de su municipio en las pasadas elecciones generales y decidió plasmar sus impresiones sobre la experiencia en su b

Antes que nada, quiero contaros que hace un calor insoportable en Madrid que me impide, virtualmente, hacer otra cosa que no sea permanecer lo más quieto posible frente al ventilador, una de mis posesiones más preciadas. Me preguntó ahora como pude sobrevivir el primer verano en este piso sin esas benditas aspas. Es tan tremendo el calor que sufro que mi mala ostia es directamente proporcional

Yo fuí esa clase de niños de carácter introvertido que, a diferencia de otros niños de su edad, prefería dibujar, soñar despierto, enredar con los Tente (la versión española de Lego) o leer tebeos, antes que dar patadas a un balón o simplemente hacer el cabra por esos montes de dios. En las escasas ocasiones en las que me acerqué al balonpíe y despues de soportar la humillación de que

Uno de los servicios de Feedburner es el de mostrar, además del número de suscriptores de tu feed, el de visitantes, los posts a los que acceden y las formas en las que llegan a tu web, en este caso vía Google. Y he aqui algunas de las cosas, que aunque tu buscador favorito te diga lo contrario, nunca vas a encontrar en este blog:¿Cuanto dinero ganó Jack Black en su carrera como actor? Sincer

Aprovechando que estoy volviendo a ver la mítica "Cosmos", os traigo gracias a este post de Gizmondo (cultura geek en pleno apogeo y que teneis desde hace algún tiempo en el blogroll), una pequeña selección de las fotos que del planeta Marte está haciendo la sonda espacial Phoenix. Vistas así, no puedo más que advertir en ellas que el planeta rojo no es un lugar tan lejano ni diferente como

I know Father's day passed this Sunday, and my apologies for not commemorating it on my blog...but perhaps that was all for a very good reason, because  I am sure now that I have come across what I consider to be the Father of the Year. Yesterday my sister sent me her usual morning instant message telling me that she had stumbled upon on a blog and had been crying all morning. So of cour

Un buen video que merece la pena verlo, son varios anuncios de una compañia hipotecaria, gracias a AtaryBaby por compartir el video con nosotros. Don't Judge Too Quickly... We Won't. - video powered by Metacafe

Desde que ando inmerso en esto que llaman la blogosfera, he sido consciente, con todo mi dolor, de las terribles faltas de ortografía que muchos internautas cometen diariamente en sus comentarios en blogs, foros y portales de la red. Unas veces son pequeños lapsus, otras olvidos perdonables, pero la mayoría del tiempo podemos afirmar que mucha gente demuestra un total desconocimiento del correc

Gracias a la offoffcrítica, os traigo este impagable documento en el que dos gallegos en un bar opinan sobre Chikilicuatre y de que manera este peculiar personaje ha supuesto un antes y un despues en el festival. Está en gallego, pero se entiende perfectamente.

Esto escapa a la tematica del blog pero creo que es valiosa esta informacion para todos aquellos amigos de las mascotas y para todos aquellos que puedan ayudar. LES QUEREMOS AGRADECER A TODOS POR CONTINUAR AYUDANDOLO A CAMPEON Y OTROS PERROS RESCATADOS POR PROYECTO 4 PATAS. TAMBIEN QUEREMOS PEDIRLES DISCULPAS PORQUE AUN NO HEMOS PODIDO RESPONDER MUCHOS MAILS PERO DE POCO VAMOS A HACERLO. LO DE C

Eduard Punset es abogado, economista, divulgador científico y tiene tambien su propio blog personal. Con una trayectoría profesional y política realmente impresionante, es una de las grandes mentes de nuestro país, conocido por todos por ser presentador y conductor de REDES, uno de los escasos programas de divulgación científica de la televisión. Aunque no le faltan detractores, que tal lle

Paseando por menéame.net, he podido leer esta noticia, publicada por la versión digital del diario Público, según la cual el 68% de los niños superdotados fracasan escolarmente en España.Como nota anécdotica, los autores de muchos de los comentarios que la noticia tiene en menéame, unas veces se cuestionan su propio coeficiente intelectual, otras hacen la típica gracia sobre la superdotac

Keith Olbermann passionately summarizes President Bush's genesis and subsequent handling or management of the Iraq War in the video below.When asked about the blunders of the Iraq War President Bush is quick to pass the buck or responsibility to other folks. What this President and many of his cronies fear most is the American people electing a Democratic President such as Barack Obama this fall

Bill O'Reilly must be an extremely charming boss or colleague. My favorite part is at 00:30 when he stands up to do the suit shake to regain his composure but then sits back down and drops uncontrollable f-bombs. He does not appear to be much of a Sting fan either. In my opinion, it is less stressful on the liberal side of the fence. Having to walk that tight narrow conservative path everyday

Arturo Pérez Reverte es un tío que goza de mis simpatías. Hombre curtido en mil batallas, escritor de éxito y con un toque anarquista que comparto, suele tener, aunque le pese a muchos, entre ellos más de un envidioso respecto a su condición de creador de best-sellers, más razón que un santo.He encontrado un artículo suyo a través de menéame.net y lo he considerado interesante, ya que m

Have been absent for a bit. Hold your horses I had a perfectly good reason to be away. I am now a proud Oma (grandma) again. We added another baby girl to the fold. Grandparents are prejudice though cause they all think their’s are the cutest. Soon as I get some picks I will post a [...]

U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. questions Obama's patriotism for not wearing a flag pin on his lapel while not wearing one himself. Typical.

I woke up at 3:00 AM to study a bit more for my Civil Procedure exam and some time afterwards felt an earthquake in Grand Rapids! It was my first earthquake. The slight shake was accompanied by a boom. It was a very strange feeling. The earthquake hit during this newscast:

This is the question I’ve been asking myself since their latest update and I’m seriously considering dropping Entrecard. I still drop 300 cards per day. However, the amount of return drops has dropped off significantly. It seems that several Entrecard members believe that they do not need to drop cards anymore. I’ve seen several [...]

By Marie-Helene Wagner

Que nadie me malinterprete. Esta es la definición contenida en el Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española:Imbécil.(Del lat. imbecillis).1. adj. Alelado, escaso de razón. U. t. c. s.2. adj. p. us. Flaco, débil.Bueno, pues la primera acepción, apliquémosla a todo un país. De la segunda acepción, nos quedaremos con el segundo adjetivo, añadiendole otro más: mental. Asi tendríamos que España es imbécil y débil mental. Si es que lo mio ha sido siempre la suma y resta de adjetivos.Todo esto viene al caso, porque en estas vacaciones semanasanteras he oido varias veces en el transcurso de mis salidas nocturnas el ya famoso "Chiki Chiki" de Roberto Chikilicuatre (que no es más que uno de los personajes encarnados por el actor David Fernandez, colaborador del programa d

It has been approximately 37 days since I signed up for Spottt and I decided to remove the ad last night. This was a total waste of valuable ad space in my opinion. I wrote Comparison - Entrecard vs. Spottt on February 16 and I said that I would write a follow up article approximately 30 [...]

Porque los huesos ya no son de goma. Ejemplo: También porque los campos de fútbol están llenos de salvajes a los que les da igual partirte la pierna. No ha sido el caso; Kristian, con pundonor, esfuerzo y amor propio, luchaba un balón dividido y los porteros de barrio sabéis que no se juegan el tipo [...]

This posting is off topic for my blog but sometimes I come across extraordinary non-environmental stories that are worth blogging about. What is most disturbing, frustrating and true to the meaning of the word ignorant is that most people do not know they live in ignorance. They are prisoners of social constructs. When people discriminate or behave racist they are mimicking what was taught to them, which represents the struggle to repress minorities like blacks or homosexuals. It is a complex scam and a disease. People really do reap what they sow and these people that attacked this woman ooze with ignorance and probably live a marginal existence. From The Huffington Post:Three people upset that a news crew was reporting on the arrest of a relative attacked the television reporter and yell

Ogni tanto bisogna fare uno strappo alla regola… e noi di www.mrcbr.com siamo abituati… Un lavoraccio… ma ne vale la pena, 600 foto di paesaggi, monumenti e quant’altro!!! Uno Spettacolo di Galleria Fotografica… Se il post ti e' piaciuto e ti fa piacere, potresti offrirmi un caffè... :D

After looooong weekend Martin AKA (also known as) smRt or sMARTIN is back to the real life. Me - Martin Stich apart of being a real identity lives also in virtuality. This weekend a local area network was set up in a small village Ostrovce where other freaks like me met to play computer games. The event was temporary called Hell Mill Lan as the house we used as a shelter was situated near very old scary mill. The atmosphere at the LAN was great, however I was out of reach on my mobile which may have caused some trouble to those who were trying to call me. I have had the phone calls forwarded though. Thank you for patience and please accept my apology for inconvinience. After all I am back. I am upset that I had to leave such a good fun behind, but where something ends something starts. Let

As most of you already know, I joined Entrecard approximately 50 days ago and it has been a huge asset to this site. As of this post, I have received 3,967 clicks via ads I placed on other Entrecard members sites and 4,094 clicks from entrecard.com. I also wrote My Thoughts on Entrecard, 30 Days [...]

Have you ever noticed how you never see fictional American Beauty character Lester Burnham and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee at the same party?Coindence? Maybe, maybe not.

Primio sam mailom zanimljiv link. Lijepa multimedijalna poruka za 2008. Svi vi s "fotografskim" ambicijama uživat ćete, osim u poruci, i u prekrasnim fotografijama.

Kau da "boj ne bije svijetlo oruje, ve boj bije srce u junaka". Slino vrijedi i u fotoamaterskoj brani. Tehnika je uzalud ako je s prednje strane objektiva prekrasan motiv, a sa stranje nakupina sivih stanica koja u tom trenutku misli o neem sasvim drugom. Ja sebe i dalje smatram amaterom to se tie buljenja kroz objektiv, iako se svojski trudim neto nauiti i naueno primijeniti. Ali eto, taman kad neto naui postane ti jasno moda zaostaje s tehnikom. Sa svojim Lumixom otkvrcao sam preko 15.000 fotografija. Moglo bi se rei da ih vrijedi oko stotinu. Ostalo su fete, godinji odmori i eksperimenti. Onda me poelo smetati to nemam manualni fokus i zoom. Onda me poela smetati premala rezolucija. Pa me zatim poela smetati ISO (ne)osjetljivost. Nadalje, u mraku sam bio slijep, bljeskalica je imala domet metar i pol. Niti imam dosta brojeva blende a niti dostatan raspon ekspozicija. Unato svemu napravio sam nekoliko sjajnih fotki, opskrbio se knjigama , raspitivao se, eksperimentirao i zavoli

I recently stumbled in a certain website that offers MONEY MAKING just by CLICKING THE ADDS. All users have to do, is CLICK an AD. Simple enough right? No skill, energy, or work needed, just simply CLICK an AD, and get paid! That's it! Here's more, you can EARN $2.00 for every new member you refer! The more members you refer, the more money you'll make! Not enough? Well, you get a bonus ranging from $0.50 to $0.01 for every ad your referrer clicked!SOUNDS GREAT? Start now and make a LOT OF MONEY. My account just $10 yesterday for 5 days. No hassle! Just that! NOW CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW TO GET STARTEDThis is isn't fraud, spam or whatsoever. JUST SHAR|NG!thanks for feeding. have a great day. RHo

The Czech football international Milan Baros (currently playing for Lyon in France) was caught by French police speeding. Not just some speeding. It looks like he broke all time French speeding violation record with 271 km/h in his black Ferrari F430 Spider. French police confiscated both, his drivers licence and his Ferrari. Not surprising after exceeding the speed limit by 141 km/h… The previous “record” was 248 km/h set by a motorbike… Did not take long, and guess who came out to explain his stupidity. None other then Tomas Enge who’s own stupidity ruined his possible F1 career. (more…)

Heh.. you know, some folks say it is good to post something off-topic every now and then. Let me try.. Do you remember who was Fonzie? He was the leather-jacket cool dude in Happy Days long long time ago. Let me ask.. Can anyone in this universe be as cool as Fonzie? Man I keep on laughing on these videos.. Check out this video in which Fonzie saves the day (again).

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They say that a fifth of all blog readers have their own blog - so if that's the case then this post really only applies to one fifth of the people reading it! :)  I heard about a new traffic generating service called BlogRush.  Basically it generates a dynamically updated list of blog posts from many other blogs and lists them on your website.  Your readers may see a blog post in the list that is of interest to them and then they can click through and read about it.The benefit to me (or anyone who adds this feature to their blog) is that every time someone sees the list, it generates a credit to my BlogRush account.  For every credit I will have a blog post listed on someone else's BlogRush list they have on their website - so readers of other blogs may find their way to my blog.  Basically it will help blog authors increase traffic - and there is no cost to either myself or my readers. (Blog Authors: the links I have to BlogRush are referral links - they wi

On October 15th - Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind. In its inaugural year, Blog Action Day will be co-ordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment.Etiquetas: blog, action, day, environment

I just got home. Traffic was horrible. The proposal for my thesis remains a scattered jumble of ideas that don't seem to come together in the sentence I write.Anyways, to get out of the monotony of thinking about Lacan this morning I browsed on over to digg.com and saw an entry for Best Colleges of 2008. I had to check where my school ranks and what chances I have of getting into a good PhD program.Haha. I might as well discard my futile attempts at writing a thesis because there doesn't seem to be much hopes in the way of me getting into a good program and later a good job.Here's some of the verbiage from the U.S. News & World Report website on how they breakdown their ranking system. See what you think about it.Student selectivity (15 percent). A school's academic atmosphere is determined in part by the abilities and ambitions of the student body. We therefore factor in test scores of enrollees on the Critical Reading and Math portions of the SAT or Composite ACT score (50 percen

Como ya venía comentando en alguna entrada anterior, mañana tengo el último examen final y me voy de vacaciones a Conil de la Frontera en Cádiz durante una semana. Si eres uno de los miembros suscritos al feed de este blog, lo sueles visitar a menudo o lo has añadido a tus favoritos (imprescindibles todos y cada uno para el funcionamiento de este blog), te agradezco una vez más el hecho de que mantengas esta página en tu lector RSS o en la carpeta de tu navegador, ya que durante la semana que viene no habrá nuevas entradas ni se podrán dejar comentarios (para evitar el SPAM más que nada).Por el contrario, si es la primera vez que visitas este blog y has decidido agregarlo a alguna fuente de las mencionadas anteriormente, te invito igualmente a que no lo pierdas de vista porque en una semana podrás participar en el sorteo que se celebrará próximamente.Hoy tenía pensado publicar unos cuantos códigos y trucos para Blogger que he encontrado navegando mientras descansaba de e

Ayer tras intentar formatear mi ordenador durante toda la tarde y parte de la noche, al final me convencí de que definitivamente estaba averiado. Se colgaba constantemente y sólo cuando lo apagaba o reiniciaba tres o cuatro veces, conseguía que funcionara durante algunas horas. A pesar de todo y teniendo que entregar un trabajo el lunes sobre algo relacionado con la Gestión Informatizada de Archivos Administrativos, un amigo informático se lo ha llevado para averiguar que tripa se le ha roto.Entre este contratiempo, los exámenes finales y la semana que estaré de vacaciones en Conil del 29 de junio al 6 de julio, no podré actualizar el blog con la frecuencia que me gustaría. Tenía pensado programar algunos posts para que se publicaran automáticamente durante esa semana, pero no creo que tenga tiempo ni para eso.En todo caso, tanto a tí si estás suscrito a mi feed como a tí si eres la primera vez que entras en este blog o lo visitas de vez en cuando, te invito a que eches u

As if my blog actually HAD a topic?I love cooking and baking, and so I get a lot of emails from companies that sell ingredients, pans, kitchen utensils, etc. This morning I checked my email and was greeted with this; CHEESECAKE LOVERS... which sounds great, but if you click on the link you'll see their front cover ad.If they don't take the ad down, you'll be able to see the sight that greeted me before my morning coffee.Does that cheesecake NOT LOOK like someone THREW UP ALL OVER IT????????OMG. And YES I wrote them to tell them just that.Ewww.Vomit indeed.

This is different from your everyday gadget and tech news but I figured this would make for an interesting read.  Fireplace company Heat & Glo has announced a fireplace that makes 100% heat efficiency by using standard tap water and electrolysis which seperates the hydrogen and oxygen which the unit uses for fuel.  The Aqueon as it is called then add the oxygen as a secondary source to add flame color and brightness all the while releasing only oxygen and water vapor into the room.  Other features of their unit include: Cleanest burning fireplace Replenishes Oxygen 100% heat efficiency Generates 31,000 BTU/Hour of heat Requires 220 single phase VAC 60 amp circuit and uses 1/2 gallon of water/hour Don’t expect to run out and purchase one now though, due to the complexity of the unit pricing and availability has yet to be announced.  Sound expensive :)  At least we know we’re on the right move for alternative fuels. Source: Heat & Glo

This is the funniest video I've ever seen. I liked rabbits already, and now I absolutely love them. It's so hilarious to see that he doesn't give up and starts biting his tail, and the snake takes off. Watch this! It's Gold!Texas Rabbits Rule - video powered by MetacafeLike this? Subscribe real quick!

LawdogPCMHOLDINGSMis-information Manager Joined: March 23 2005Location: United StatesOnline Status: OnlinePosts: 801 Posted: August 20 2006 at 2:33pm | IP Logged Kreditklansman's power must have been cut off during the occupation of Iraq otherwise he would have recognized that photo as being of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf the Iraqi Information Minister of the time. A site devoted to him www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com is still up and running.

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