Good morning! It's early ... too early. I'll explain why I'm awake at this hour later. :) Yesterday after sorting through the mail I had a Carnation Instant Breakfast & then crocheted for a little bit, checked facebook & took my game turns, picked Kyle up in Princeton, & then tried to clear out some of my AOL e-mail until Pete got home & got some cleared, but didn't even get halfway through all of it. Nighttime routine & then early this morning Pete wakes me up because Kyle missed his bus, Pete needed to get to work, & I had to take Kyle to school. I was half asleep but drove Kyle to school, & checked My AT&T. City Council Meeting tonight.
Apparently Jerry Ford has a vacation coming up. He's going to Hawaii in his motor home. -Johnny Carson 1982
As you age, volunteering can:
(a) Improve your sex life
(b) Decrease depression
(c) Both of the above
Answer: (c). It's well established that middle-aged & older people who spend time volunteering are less prone to depression, but it was a pleasant surprise when University of Pittsburgh researchers found that a sense of "higher purpose" in life, often achieved through volunteering, led women to report more enjoyable sex lives.
Build a card house on your desk at least 4 stories tall.
ChordMemory:
Memory game for chords and harmony. Useful for students of music and
good for children. A challenging game for advanced students of music
and non-musicians alike.
By early 2006, Jon Stewart, the irreverent host of The Daily Show,
a fake television news program on Comedy Central, had seen the ratings
for his show jump dramatically as a result of its coverage of the 2004
presidential election. The show spawned a popular spin-off, The Colbert Report, starring Daily Show regular Stephen Colbert, and a best-selling parody of a social studies textbook, America (The Book).
On March 5, 2006, however, Stewart took on his highest-profile gig to
date--hosting the 78th annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Kodak
Theatre in Los Angeles.
In preparation for the Oscars, Stewart enlisted a team of writers from The Daily Show led by Ben Karlin, a former editor of the satirical newspaper The Onion and the then-executive producer of both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
After the stars swanned down the red carpet, the ceremony began with a
filmed segment suggesting Stewart was the last possible choice for the
hosting gig and showing a series of former hosts refusing the job.
While
Stewart’s deadpan humor might have had audiences laughing at home, his
constant poking fun at Hollywood and the stars themselves seemed to meet
with a less friendly reception from the Kodak Theatre audience. Jokes
about Scientology and Hollywood’s liberal politics fell flat, but the
audience did warm up to Daily Show-style fake ads mocking
Oscar-campaigning tactics and Stewart’s ad-libbed running joke about the
exuberant acceptance speech given by the rap group Three 6 Mafia, who
won an Oscar for Best Song for “It’s Hard Out There For a Pimp” (from Hustle & Flow).
In
the post-show media analysis the next morning, the consensus seemed to
be that Stewart struggled; his hosting performance and its reception by
the audience was compared with less-successful hosts from the past, such
as David Letterman and Chris Rock, as opposed to Oscar favorites like
Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. He was praised, however, for poking
fun at the bloated, self-important nature of the Academy Awards ceremony
itself, with its often-overdone production numbers and political
posturing by the stars themselves. Stewart earned a second Oscars
hosting gig--and better reviews--in 2008, in the wake of Hollywood’s
writers’ strike and in the midst of the presidential campaign season.
The 78th annual Oscars were also memorable for the surprising upset victory of the ensemble drama Crash in the Best Picture category. After the Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took home the Best Director Oscar for Brokeback Mountain,
that film’s string of awards seemed to have given it the front-runner’s
momentum to win Best Picture, the last statuette of the night. The New York Times called Crash’s selection as Best Picture a “stunning twist” to the evening, while Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times observed that some Academy voters may have been uncomfortable with the subject matter of Brokeback Mountain, which starred Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as sheepherders who fall in love while working in Wyoming in the early 1960s. Acting awards went to Rachel Weisz (Best Supporting Actress for The Constant Gardener), George Clooney (Best Supporting Actor for Syriana), Reese Witherspoon (Best Actress for Walk the Line) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Actor for Capote).
Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do & the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all 3.
Professional hockey goalies w/ the most career shutouts as of 2010 top 10:
- Martin Brodeur
- Terry Sawchuk
- George Hainsworth
- Glenn Hall
- Jacques Plante
- Alec Connell
- Tiny Thompson
- Dominik Hasek
- Tony Esposito
- Ed Belfour
What doesn't kill you ... makes you look younger? Realizing that neurotoxins in viper venom paralyze muscle in a way that's similar to Botox, businessmen in Brazil began selling small dosages of snake venom as a beauty treatment to erase wrinkles.
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