Human Dunk!

Human Dunk! That is all I have to say!

Odd News Indeed

OK, the final bit of news in this video is what really got this to be posted here at the Human Show. Enjoy!

Great Story - Great Voice!

Here is a great story that I read the other day and I was so pleased to see the follow-up that I decided to share it here at The Human Show.

Ridiculous!

This video is Ridiculous with a capital R! Yes, it is the second post for The Human Show in the same day - a rare occasion but it had to be done. I first saw this video a week or so ago but it struck me again today and needed to be shared.

Surfin' Bird Christmas No.1 2010 starring Matt Whistler from Convict Films on Vimeo.

Underwater

What is deep under water? I think that the bottom of the deep end of the neighborhood swimming pool is pretty deep under water - 12 feet. I read this article yesterday about a guy who set a record for free diving over 100 meters deep on one breath of air!!! What is that he did? Yes, that is what my reaction was.
I just thought that this was a pretty amazing feat and worthy of being shared here at the Human Show.

61-year old Holiday Card

A pair of sisters have been sending the same holiday card back and forth each year for 61 years. This is a great story and a short video worth watching, just check the link above.

Birth to Age 10

This is a really great video, from birth to age 10 this girl's father took a picture of her and made this time-lapse video.

Natalie time-lapse video: From birth to 10 years old @ Yahoo! Video

Avoidance

This is probably the most original post I have made to any of my blogs this year!

Yesterday afternoon, I was walking up a stairway and came across a little orange cone with a wet paint sign on it. I saw no places where paint looked wet and couldn't smell any wet paint, hmmm.

I looked at the stairs and there was a bunch of spilled spaghetti and meatballs all around the sign and on the stairs above and below it, hmmm.

I then thought for a moment and realized that there was no wet paint, but rather there was a spill and instead of cleaning it up...someone got a "wet paint" cone/sign. What...Why...Huh...

My best guess is that they got this sign because they couldn't find a "wet floor" sign but think about this for a moment. How many "wet paint" signs do you ever have just lying around? It probably took more time and energy to find that sign and leave the mess to be cleaned by the janitorial service than it would have taken to get some paper towels from the nearest restroom and clean it up! AVOIDANCE

Here is the picture I took of the situation - enjoy! Just a side note "Pintura fresca" sounds like it should be a happy greeting so maybe now I will use this to greet friends - don't worry, only the ones who speak spanish will be confused.

Ryanair = Ridiculous

So you go to the airport, your flight is delayed, your flight takes off - where do you expect to end up?

Apparently for Ryanair, a European low-cost airline, it doesn't really matter. There is no way that the airline didn't know the length of the flight time and that taking off at the time they did that their destination airport would be closed! But, that is what they did anyway!

OK, so that is pretty strange/weird/stupid of Ryanair right? What else could they do to botch this? It wouldn't seem like much more but that is when the incredible Ryanair flight crew sprung into action - or rather inaction! They apparently didn't notify passengers during the flight that the destination airport closed for the night so they just stopped flying and landed at a different airport - in a different country even!

What? You might be asking what is going on, is this some crazy story he is making up? NO, I am not making it up and it gets even better! Upon landing at the new airport (not the destination) the flight crew left the plane but the passengers protested and didn't leave because they weren't notified of this change of events or what else was going to happen. The passengers stayed on the plane for 4 hours until the middle of the night after the crew left the plane and turned off the power and lights. Way to go Ryanair! That is customer service! So the toilets were locked and there was no food or water for the passengers, another win - or collossal fail for Ryanair!

OK, I didn't make this up but here is the article I read about it and Ryanair didn't have a comment (surprise) but hopefully they will be in true form when they do comment and have something so idiotic that it rivals this story of repetitive failures. I love to write about stupid people (in this case an entire company and their employees).

Pop-A-Shot

Prepare to be impressed! Here is the piece I red about the video below and it is true footage, not sped up!

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Kardashian Kard

So from the land of ridiculous, now apparently a hybrid of Wall Street and Hollywood, comes one fo the silliest products EVER! I read an article today about this and thought how incredibly silly anyone who gets one of these is and how savvy the Kardashian agent who set this up is. Yes, even the spelling in the blog title is correct, yet makes me shake my head at its level of WTF factor.

Here is the website for the Kardashian Kard. Even with The Human Show being amenable to editorializing, I try to just present the silliness that is in the world without my own opinions but I can do nothing but state emphatically that this is insane. Oh well, maybe I will be in the majority on this one, or more likely, I will be proven to be out of touch with what the masses want to waste money on.

Dreamhome?

I found and read this article today and was interested in looking at the house because the initial picture looked very nice. There was also a catchy headline - $400000 house costs $6 million.

Apparently this couple really had their hearts set on what they wanted. They started with a $400000 budget and an architect and now over 7 years later and nearly (but not yet) completed they are over $6million spent and on architect #4. There are several parts of the article that made me laugh out loud, literally! Here is one of them, the house is set against a hill and at their insistence the windows open up toward the hill unlike nearly all other houses in similar environs. The owner maintains that this provides the best views of the forest!

How many microwaves would you like in your kitchen? You will have to read the article to see how many were requested and what the end result in the kitchen is.

Soon there will also be some very cool treehouses that will be solar powered as well.

Overall it looks like a pretty cool house even if the quirks came to be pretty darn expensive.

Snow Angel Celebration

On a lighter note today, here is a great goal celebration by youth hockey players. Here is the brief piece about the celebration and how the mini-game was played between periods at an NHL match.

If this doesn't make you smile then reading the piece in the link above about why they did it will definitely do the trick.

Political Silliness

It is a sad commentary on our society and the political landscape when a story such as this has made it to my attention and now to The Human Show. Apparently Barack Obama will not visit a Sikh temple when he visits India soon. This is a major tourism site and because all visitors must wear the Sikh head covering the political aides at the White House have deemed it bad politics to allow pictures of the president wearing the head covering. Here is an article about this.

It is unfortunate that people would attempt to exploit those types of completely benign photos and it is equally unfortunate that the president is not standing up to that, but rather caving and in effect shunning this opportunity to visit a prominent site in India related to a peaceful religion.

To the Surface...and Beyond!

Today the first of the Chilean Miners that were trapped after a mine collapse this summer will come to the surface. Here is the article about this important update. I preused a couple of articles yesterday about the order of who would come out first and how their families on the surface were squabbling with each other but this is the most important part, their return. The picture below is of the capsule they will be retrieved in, this was during a test.

Here are the previous posts here at The Human Show about this epic, months-long story of survival.

Super Human! - August 25.

More Miners - September 16.

It has been 68 days, which is impressive since early estimates said it could take 3-4 months to get them out. Just a great story about humans and still, for me the most impressive aspect is how they survived for 17 days before first contact with the surface and they did it on 2-days worth of food. Just incredible!

Banned in China

I never thought I would be able to get The Human Show to be blocked in China but it probably is now that this post is up. In a brief but truly humanity centered Human Show post, I am further sharing the ubiquitous news that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here is one of the many articles about this news but this one gives a good bit of background and has links to a picture slideshow.

No Bank? Big Fees!

This isn't necessarily the typical Human Show posting but I think it is appropriate for this blog anyway. Today I read an article about a journalist who spent one month living her life without a bank. I will let you read the article but if I haven't given you enough information, here is a little more. She suspended her direct deposit so she had to cash paper paychecks and did so at check cashing outlets. She didn't use her credit or debit cards and got prepaid cash cards at drugstores to use instead and she paid rent with money orders. She explains all of the different types of fees she incurred in this experience, it was quite a bit. Some of the fees and the amounts of the fees might make you think that money could have been better spent if it was used as in the picture above.

Stiletto Racing?

I saw this video about stiletto heel relay racing and there was nothing that could be done to keep me from posting it to The Human Show! Here is the link to the video. I thought it was pretty impressive how fast they were running and also that there were no broken heels or tragic falls while running (at least in the video piece). Here is another little article but the video is more informative!

Katy Perry Follow-up

This morning totally unexpected to me I saw an article link picture of Katy Perry in this Elmo shirt. Apparently it was on SNL over the weekend but I have to play the part of the disconnected "old guy" on this since I didn't watch it and in reality I know very little about Katy Perry as well. Oh well, I still enjoyed this piece I read this morning along with the funny pictures of her many crazy outfits.

Sesame Street & Katy Perry

This is one of the most ridiculous things I have read in a very long time so it had to be posted on the Human Show. Sesame Street has celebrity guests on all the time, this should be no surprise but when something like this that is so benign and silly it makes you just wonder about people and their common sensce.

The article I read is here and it is about a video of Katy Perry singing and running around in front of a cartoon city with Elmo that was posted on Youtube by Sesame Street as part of promoting the upcoming season. Parents who watched it then began to comment on Katy Perry's clothing. Shocking that people would get upset over practically nothing, right? I mean, like half of the muppets walk around without any clothes in all of their bare furry glory!

I have the video below and I only watched about half since it was so silly and half of the words and the context of the song were already changed to make it appropriate for the show anyway.