Chance Bliss

You people laugh at me when I came up with meat cologne, but look who is laughing now. The Burger King that’s who. Here’s the article about Flame, the burger scented cologne, which can be purchased at Ricky’s in NYC.

I heard on the radio about how Christmas is celebrated in Norway. Two gnomes show up. One with presents and one to eat your porridge. I decided to investigate some other countries to see what they are up to these days. Freakin’ nutty holiday.

• Norway has two gnomes or elfs. Nisse guards farm animals and plays tricks on childern if they don’t leave him a bowl of porridge. Julebukk is a goat-like creature who brings the gifts (Goat eyes creep me out).
• Germany has a guy called Weihnachtsmann (Christmas man) who is similar to Santa Claus.
• Holland has the traditional Saint Nicholas but he journeys in a boat with a guy named Black Peter who dresses in Spanish clothes (Nice. Get the Mexican guy to drive you).
• The Swiss have Christkindli, the Christ child, who brings gift in a sleigh pulled by reindeer (How the heck does a baby carry all those presents?)
• The Czech Republic has Svaty Mikalas who climbs down on a golden rope from heaven with an angel and a devil carrying a whip (The pleasure and the pain).
• In Italy, the childern wait for Befana, an ugly witch on a boomstick, to bring presents. Supposedly she missed going with the 3 kings to see baby Jesus so she is forever flying around lost (Women cannot read maps).
• The Austrians have Heiliger Nikolaus who give the kids candy, nuts and fruit (What? No Wii Fit! I got ripped off)
  

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Since my kids take over most of the fun stuff in my house (TV, computer, Wii…), my iPhone has become my only backup device for gaming. At first most of the iPhone game were rehashes or hacks of stuff you can find online for free, but then I found Fieldrunners from Subatomic Studios.

Basically you have to stop wave after wave of enemy soliders and vehicles from getting into you fort. To stop them, you have 4 types of towers (gun, goo, missile and electricity) you must place in their path. The game play is not original, but the design is fantastic and completely addictive.  I’ve beat the first map, but the second one on difficulty “hard” is really, really difficult.  Definitely worth the money.

Thanks to Erez for finding this tantalizing bacon recipe.

A blog devoted to failure. Kind of like my career.

Here’s my personal favorite.

Statestats takes Google search queries by state and correlates them with basic state demographics. Meth and cocaine are interesting comparisons. Cocaine has higher correlation with those who voted for Obama. Meth is more strongly correlated with those who voted for Bush. As is always the disclaimer with stats, correlation does not mean causation.