OT: Things we find freaking neat but no place to post

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[mattola]

Wheelchair-bound boy scores touchdown (video)

 

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The Art of Manliness | Men’s Interests and Lifestyle

 

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http://www.news-leader.com/article/...-FBI?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|&nclick_check=1

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*gasp*HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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So, I was in Play It Again sports (as I do a lot looking to outfit the boy who WON'T STOP GROWING) and it looked like someone just sold off a Jersey collection. Lots of jerseys of high profile players and some recently traded.

Flyers: Bobrovsky, Richards, Carter (Plus LeClair, Roenick and Lindros)
Flames: Huselius
Avs: Foote
Blues: Gretzky
Jackets: Klesla, Huselius, Mason and Vyborny.

They also had the old "CBJ" Jackets one for Nash. 30 Bucks each. So I grabbed the Nash one. Checking it out, it has tie downs and stitched nameplate. And two puck marks.


I am wondering if I got a game worn piece. Because whoever sold the stuff also sold a Signed Nash helmet and a game used LeClaire goalie stick.

Gonna go back tomorrow and look closer at the rest. Especially the Roenick one.

 

[puckhead]

NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have discovered the most distant galaxy identified so far in the universe.
Appearing in images as a diminutive blob, the galaxy is 13.3 billion light years away and only a tiny fraction of the size of the Milky Way. Due to the time it takes light to travel through space, the images seen from Earth now show what the galaxy looked like when the universe was just 420 million years old, according to a press statement released from NASA.
The newly discovered galaxy, named MACS0647-JD, was observed 420 million years after the so-called Big Bang, the theorized beginning of the universe, and its light has traveled 13.3 billion years to reach Earth.
The discovery is the latest from a program that uses naturally occuring "zoom lenses" to reveal distant galaxies in the early universe. The Cluster Lensing And Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH), an international group led by Marc Postman of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, is using large galaxy clusters as cosmic telescopes to magnify distant galaxies behind them.
The cluster's gravity boosted the light from the faraway galaxy, making the images appear about eight, seven, and two times brighter than they otherwise would.
"This cluster does what no manmade telescope can do. Without the magnification, it would require a Herculean effort to observe this galaxy," says Postman.
According to NASA, MACS0647-JD is so small it may be in the first steps of forming a larger galaxy. Analysis indicates the galaxy is less than 600 light-years wide. Based on observations of somewhat closer galaxies, astronomers estimate that a typical galaxy of a similar age should be about 2,000 light-years wide.
For comparison, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy companion to the Milky Way, is 14,000 light-years wide. The Milky Way is 150,000 light-years across.
"This object may be one of many building blocks of a galaxy,"said the study's lead author, Dan Coe of the Space Telescope Science Institute. "Over the next 13 billion years, it may have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of merging events with other galaxies and galaxy fragments."
The study will appear in the Dec. 20 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.


Astronomical discovery is old - Science - CBC Player

 

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1 word...Dr. Pepper BBQ sauce...saw it in Playboy...looks fabulous. Anyone ever try anything like that?

 

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Watching the F1 USGP and the announcer just said that Michael Schumacher likes the area so much that he just bought a 500 Acre ranch nearby.

It's in Austin Texas. A very cocky, rude foreigner with more money than God on a ranch in Texas... where NO ONE will know who he is.

The concept makes me giggle.

 

[puckhead]

so, we're watching some football today, and an ad comes on with Richard Simmons.
my kid asks "daddy, is that person... what's it called when a person is brain damaged?"

 

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Coach Hufnagel's pre-game speech yesterday...

 

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Lions already starting to look at new personnel for next season?

 

[puckhead]

cricket highlight!

 

[Darkstone42]

Manvotional: The Courage to Face Ingratitude | The Art of Manliness

This is a brilliant essay. A couple quotes I have particularly enjoyed so far:

"Man should not be an automatic gas-machine, cleverly contrived to release a given quantity of illumination under the stimulus of a nickel. He should be like the great sun itself which ever radiates light, warmth, life and power, because it cannot help doing so, because these qualities fill the heart of the sun, and for it to have them means that it must give them constantly."

"He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world."

 

[Darkstone42]

More Art of Manliness.

The Woodsman Workout | The Art of Manliness

I must try this.

 

[SLY]

More Art of Manliness.

The Woodsman Workout | The Art of Manliness

I must try this.