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The Best High School Yearbook Photo Ever

Now that someone has started a blog called Stuff White Trash People Like, may I suggest “Tacky High School Yearbook Photos” as an item for them to cover? Should they need an example, may I suggest the photo below, which says so much in a mere 406 by 604 pixels…

“Tasteful” yearbook photo of a topless couple hugging, complete with “soft focus” effect.
Bringing us closer to Idiocracy, one bad decision at a time. Next stop: a subprime loan!
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

(Yes, it’s quite possible that it’s not a high school yearbook photo, but that was the photo’s title, and gave me a good laugh. It could very well be an engagement photo, from that part of the country where marriage proposals go like this: “You’re what?“)

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Accordion, Instrument of the Gods

An Accordion Tune About Coffee’s Chemistry

Eva sent me a note about this video, which features an accordion performance about the chemistry behind the coffee experience:

Accordions, coffee and science — three things I love!

For the curious, here are the lyrics to the coffee song in the video (the tune used is from Where Do They Make Balloons? by They Might Be Giants):

Coffee is acidic, its acidic taste comes
From acids lending protons to receptors on the toungue.
Longer roasting, finer grind, and brewing much more hot
Usually brings out more of the acid coffee’s got.

Coffee has over 800 aromatic compounds
But only a few of them make the coffee smell, it’s found.
Compounds called the furans are the largest group, you see
They’re colourless, volatile, and smell quite caramely.

Coffee, coffee is fun to drink.
Coffee, there’s more to it than you think.

Compounds that contribute to bitterness include trigonelline,
Furfuryl alcohol, quinic acid, and caffeine.
Bitterness in coffee is associated with
More dissolved solids, and roasting for too long.

Caffeine’s formula is C8H10N4O2.
It is coffee’s stimulant, my favourite molecule.
It bonds to the adenosine receptors in the brain,
Blocking the adenosine and keeping you awake!

Coffee, coffee is fun to drink!
Coffee, there’s more to it than you think!

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The Current Situation

Charlton Heston Tribute, Part 3

One more tribute to Mister “Guns ‘N’ Moses” before bedtime. This one’s a little more serious than the previous two:

Charlton Heston at a civil rights protest
Photos courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Here’s some text that Miss Fipi Lele provided along with the photos:

With the conservative activism of his later years, let us not forget that Mr. Heston had been active in the civil rights movement. The first photo above was taken in 1961… when Heston walked a picket line outside a segregated movie theater in Oklahoma. He also attended the March on Washington in 1963, famously photographed alongside Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.

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Meanwhile, Over at VidKing…

Scene from the internet celebrity fight on “South Park”
Tay Zonday gives Chris Crocker some chocolate pain.

… you can catch up on celebrity videos including this scene — from the latest South Park — where internet celebrities duke it out.

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Charlton Heston Tribute, Part 2

Charlton Heston holding a rifle: “You can take his gun now.”

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Get Well Soon, Andrew!

Andrew McCallumYou might know him as Andrew McCallum of Tucows tech support (and he was recently promoted to a technical communications position) or as “Mental Floss”, DJ and composer of electronica. He’s a great guy, and when I joined Tucows back in 2003, he was one of the first people I got to know there.

His family reports that he was in a serious accident on the morning of Saturday, April 5th. He was rushed to the hospital with severe trauma and underwent extensive surgery. He is in critical condition and is now being stabilized. The doctors have said that the critical period for him runs from the time he was admitted to the hospital to around Tuesday evening.

Andrew’s brother reported this morning:

The staff at the ICU are regularly testing Andrew’s awareness. Andrew is apparently reacting to some stimulus, although I’m told that at this point it’s all involuntary. Nonetheless, this is a good sign, as I understand it. Keep the prayers coming.

Hang in there, Andrew, we’re all rooting for you.

(If you’d like to keep up with news about Andrew, the best place to do so in on the Facebook page titled “Andrew McCallum is in the Hospital”.

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funny The Current Situation

Charlton Heston Tribute, Part 1

Heston’s Own Organic Damn Dirty Grapes
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.