Showing posts with label random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Friday, August 21, 2009
Squirrel-y
I'm sure everyone has been the famous photo-stealing squirrel by now. If you want your own photo to be "squirrelized," now you can. A fun and silly diversion...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Odd Facts
I got these from a forwarded e-mail. Some of them are just too great not to share. (My commentary in italics.)
• The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. (That's a lot of termites.)
• A snail can sleep for 3 years. (I wish I could. I certainly feel like I could sleep that long.)
• No president of the United States was an only child. (I'm sure we will some day--only children weren't very common in years gone by, as they increasingly are.)
• No piece of dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. (It is true for a letter size sheet, but I haven't tried anything larger yet.)
• Seven percent of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
• Five percent of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem. (These last two facts are very odd... why know someone else's anthem and who bothered to figure this out.)
• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
• More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones. (Mine's neither.)
• In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. (We need stricter academic integrity policies and enforcement of them in the US.)
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. (Am I the only one who reads this and wants to make an imprint of their tongue? And compare it to others'?)
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. (I love the giraffe's pointy black tongue.)
• In a recent survey, Americans revealed that their favorite smell was banana. (Ewwww... it's not mine. In undergrad one day a bottle of isoamyl acetate was broken in front of the air intake for the second and third floors. The whole building reeked like over-ripe bananas.)
• The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
• Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. (That's a lot of termites.)
• A snail can sleep for 3 years. (I wish I could. I certainly feel like I could sleep that long.)
• No president of the United States was an only child. (I'm sure we will some day--only children weren't very common in years gone by, as they increasingly are.)
• No piece of dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. (It is true for a letter size sheet, but I haven't tried anything larger yet.)
• Seven percent of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
• Five percent of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem. (These last two facts are very odd... why know someone else's anthem and who bothered to figure this out.)
• Thomas Edison, light bulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
• More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones. (Mine's neither.)
• In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals. (We need stricter academic integrity policies and enforcement of them in the US.)
• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. (Am I the only one who reads this and wants to make an imprint of their tongue? And compare it to others'?)
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue. (I love the giraffe's pointy black tongue.)
• In a recent survey, Americans revealed that their favorite smell was banana. (Ewwww... it's not mine. In undergrad one day a bottle of isoamyl acetate was broken in front of the air intake for the second and third floors. The whole building reeked like over-ripe bananas.)
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Llama Song
Last night JQ was amusing me and BD by recounting (and sometimes reenacting) the YouTube clips that he had shown to another person the previous day. This had us in stitches. I was entertained by the portrayal of the scenes as well as by how uproarious the other two were. (JQ also kept asking me if I was scandalized by any of this and if I would still speak to him afterwards.)
At one point he asked if I knew the Llama Song. When I admitted that I wasn’t familiar with it, I was told that I must watch it later. But unlike the others he wouldn’t say anything more about it. (Now I suspect that it’s because he cannot sing it through.)
For your viewing pleasure on this rainy spring afternoon, I present the Llama Song.
At one point he asked if I knew the Llama Song. When I admitted that I wasn’t familiar with it, I was told that I must watch it later. But unlike the others he wouldn’t say anything more about it. (Now I suspect that it’s because he cannot sing it through.)
For your viewing pleasure on this rainy spring afternoon, I present the Llama Song.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
60 Million Acres
I learned a random fact at a lecture today that I thought I'd share with you all.
There are 60 million acres of idle cropland in the United States which is equal to the area covered by roofs, parking lots and roads in the US or the entirety of the state of Oregon.
There are 60 million acres of idle cropland in the United States which is equal to the area covered by roofs, parking lots and roads in the US or the entirety of the state of Oregon.
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