People into Pencils
Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash – a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.
Each pencil is foil stamped with the name of the person. Only one pencil can be removed at a time, it is then sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils.
Over time the pencil box fills with sharpenings – a new ash, transforming it into an urn. The window acts as a timeline, showing you the amount of pencils left as time goes by.
McDonald’s Partners With Weight Watchers
McDonald’s corporation is trying to slim down.
The Oak Brook-based company has received Weight Watchers’ seal of approval on some of their menu items, including the popular Filet-O-Fish, Chicken McNuggets and the Sweet Chili Seared Chicken Wrap.
“The partnership was initiated for the growing number of customers interested in health and well being,” said Mark Hawthorne, McDonald’s New Zealand managing director. The Weight Watchers items will be marketed to the Kiwis first.
The fast food giant joined forces with the world’s leading weight management organization to offer customers new meal combinations, each offering a Weight Watchers POINTS value of 6.5 per item.
Bag of Randomness
- My only memories of Merlin Olson is that of an FTD spokesman.
- Two things The Marriage Ref needs to get rid of – Marv Albert and anyone doing the fact checking on a laptop. Unless that person is Natalie Portman. At least they got rid of that stupid baseball intro.
- I think last night was the first time I saw Madonna not appear nervous on televison.
- Yesterday’s Survivor didn’t really do much for me, but it was to see 30 Rock back.
- WifeGeeding’s school had an open house last night. When I was a kid, our open houses were always at the beginning of the school year.
- I wonder if school open houses are a regional thing.
- I surprised my wife with a Nook the other day. Sometimes it’s just fun to surprise people with gifts, and you don’t have to wait for a holiday or special event to do so.
- There’s a guy at work that has a political screen saver at work, and stuff like that annoys me. I just don’t think politics should be brought into the workplace.
- Conan O’Brien is coming to Dallas, and I’ve got me two tickets.
- My door had a really bad rattle in for the past couple of weeks, so for the heck of it I Googled “remove door panel nissan altima“. And there sat a YouTube video that showed me how to remove the door panel step by step. In less than ten minutes the rattle was gone.
- It’s about that time to start on yard work.
- John Mayer was in town the other night, I didn’t think he was a big enough artist to sell out the American Airlines Center.
- This week I made the decision to give up watch the Fox4 morning news because that new anchor is just awkward to watch.
- I think Hot Tub Time Machine is this decade’s Dude Where’s My Car.
- The news reported that a woman turned 105 years old yesterday. That means she was born during the Roosevelt administration – Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. To help put that in perspective, Obama is the 44th POTUS.
- Sony attempts to challenge the Wii
- Heartwarming story – stray dogs appear on stamps
- Claudia Schiffer isn’t showing much of a bump at seven weeks into her pregnancy.
- Mike Leach interprets “luke warm”
- For the fans of LEGOs and the movie Up
- Hitler without a mustache
- For the fans of Mystery Science Theater and Haikus
- A collection of funny church signs
- Influential Beards Throughout History
Tempting Video of the Day
The birth of a baby seal.
It goes from interesting, to gross, to cute in less than a minute.
No-Mix Toilet
Although it comprises only about 1 percent of waste water in sewage systems, urine contributes some 80 percent of nitrogen and 45 percent of phosphate. Removing these impurities during the process of converting sewage water into clean weather requires energy intensive pumping, stirring, heating and so forth.
So what’s a solution? Here’s the No-Mix Toilet.
This toilet separates urine and poo-poo at the source. The nutrients in urine can be then recycled for such purposes as fertilizer. And the other sewage can then be transported to waste treatment facilities where actually can be used to produce power rather than consume it.
[Thanks, David!]
Ten Obnoxious Financial Quotes from Sports Stars
This one made me laugh . . .
“I’m tired of hearing about money money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.” - Shaquille O’Neal
Big-Ass Messages
In case you ever wanted to make a very large message on your computer screen: bigassmessage.com
Here’s one I made using the Jeopardy! theme.
Bag of Randomness
- On last night’s Daily Show, Jerry Seinfeld told a story about Hugh Downs. If it wasn’t for an Internet advertisement, I probably wouldn’t have wondered if he was still alive. He’s 89 years old in case you were wondering. And for those of you that have no idea who he is, he was a long time co-host of 20/20 with Barbara Walters. If you only think 20/20 is nothing more than an vision measurement, then you probably go out on Friday nights much more than I do.
- For you Saved By The Bell fans – A Jessie Spano’s Caffeine Intake chart
- Chief Justice Roberts had a good point about whether or not the Supreme Court judges should be in attendance during the State of the Union. They, along with military leadership, have to sit still and pretty much show no emotion in what is really now considered to be nothing more than a political prep rally. Other than being there in a symbolic manner, there isn’t a need for them to be there.
- One year ago it was U2 week on Letterman.
- I’m dreading the time change this weekend. I bet church attendance is usually down when we lose an hour of sleep.
- I didn’t post any random LOST thoughts because I really didn’t have anything to add, that whole episode was just a bit too manufactured for me.
- I bought something off CraigsList yesterday in a neighborhood that I thought was very nice, until the owner told me it’s downwind from the dump.
- I wanted to buy another DirecTV HD DVR so I called DirecTV and asked them if they could cut me a better deal than me just going to Best Buy. The agent sold me one for $50 less than the Best Buy price and is shipping it free. Sometimes it pays to ask.
- Silly me, but I’m looking forward to Celebrity Apprentice.
- I liked the Letterman Top Ten lists better when he started the list by saying something to the effect of “From the home office of . . .” I wonder why he doesn’t do that anymore.
- I don’t read often, but when I do, I feel that everyone should be reading the same book and same chapters as I do at the same time. I’m not sure why I think that, but I do, and it would make for some great conversation.
- When people tell me to name a favorite author, I’m always tempted, and I’m serious about this, to name Beverly Cleary.
- She’s still kickin’ at 93 btw.
- Dear Mr Henshaw was just very endearing, and Ralph S. Mouse had a main character that used the name Keith, which was the first time I ever heard of someone else having that name.
- The Jonas Brothers will be performing the during the Saddleback Church Easter service. Link
- I love staying up late, sleeping late, and waking up early to get a head start on things. Too bad I can’t have it all.
- Dakota Fanning is dressing all grown up in her new music video.
- Speaking of music, I think Ke$ha is the current version of Vanilla Ice.
- Here’s another interesting read from that atheist’s blog that I follow – if I understand this correctly, he asked for a refund for the tithes he paid to a church and is getting the refund in $500 monthly installments.
- Creative ballet advert
- Peel and Win Prank
- There’s only one Johnny Carson
THIS KISS – North Texas Version
Notable North Texas athletes, mayors, and personalities offered their singing talents (or at least singing efforts!) to recreate Faith Hill’s hit single “This Kiss.” This must-see video debuted before Faith Hill’s concert at Bass Hall in Fort Worth for the opening concert of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s Kick-off Concert Series.
How did Scott Murray sneak onto the set?
Breast Milk Cheese
Chef Daniel Angerer is letting diners at Klee Brasserie munch on cheese made from his wife’s breast milk.
“It tastes like cow’s-milk cheese, kind of sweet,” he told The Post.
The flavor depends on what the cheese is served with — Angerer recommends a Riesling — and “what the mother eats,” said Angerer, who once bested Bobby Flay on TV’s “Iron Chef.”
Breast milk doesn’t curdle well due to its low protein content, so a little moo juice has to be added to round out the texture, Angerer said.
After blogging about his efforts with the human cheese, customers started demanding a sample, he said.
“The phone was ringing off the hook,” the chef said. “So I prepared a little canapé of breast-milk cheese with figs and Hungarian pepper.”
The response has been generally positive from those who’ve tried the cheese, although many customers are too squeamish to attempt it.
Hen that thinks it’s a dog adopts litter of puppies
You’d be forgiven for thinking that chickens and dogs were not natural bed fellows.
But a one-year-old hen that thinks it’s a dog has adopted a litter of puppies much to the bemusement of their canine mother.
Mabel has taken to keeping the small dogs warm by snuggling up to them while their mother, Nettle, sits out in the yard at a farm in Shrewsbury.
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