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Mika 6:57 pm on January 23, 2009

Hilarious!
Pictures: Raising Sunken US Airways Plane

Mika 1:46 pm on January 23, 2009

Here’s some photos that I got in email from my buddy Rusty of the sunken US Airways plane being raised out of the Hudson river. What an amazingly successful event this turned out to be, and considering the other end in the spectrum of possibilities. Incredible.

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Terrible Word Plays

Mika 5:13 pm on January 22, 2009
Some of these are terrible, and most are bad but a few still made me chuckle a bit. Try not to cringe too much.
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, ‘You stay here, I’ll go on a head.’
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass’
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, ‘No change yet.’
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. It’s not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn’t have the balls to do it.
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes inverse.
22. In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
24. Don’t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!
My Mouth Is Watering for King Crab

Mika 10:23 am on January 19, 2009

I’ve been looking through my Dad’s Alaskan Harvest Seafood web site for a few days now, and it’s really got my taste buds watering for some Alaskan king crab soaked in butter.

King crab legs are hands down my favorite seafood, followed closely by some Ahi Tuna. I didn’t know this for the longest time, but Yellowfin (which my Dad sells) is actually the same as Ahi. According to Wikipedia, Ahi is just a name for 2 different species of tuna, and not it’s own species.

I think once my Kitchen back splash is done, I need to head into the office to go pick up some tuna and king crab to break in the new kitchen properly.

UPDATE: Well, I went and grabbed some Alaskan Scallops and Alaskan Shrimp the other day for a dinner, and they were awesome! The jumbo scallops are incredibly huge, many bigger than golf balls and the shrimp is just a little sweet and has such a great flavor. Thanks Dad!
Working On The Kitchen Backsplash

Mika 11:05 am on January 18, 2009
Tags: house, kitchen, remodel

I spent yesterday working on the kitchen back splash and hanging the hood with Greg. It brought back old memories of our brief foray into house flipping a few years back. I had a ton of fun working with Greg and working on making messed up houses into something cool, but it just wasn’t the right timing in life I guess.

So anyway, I am trying to decide whether I should leave the back splash just to the bottom of the hood, or if I should tile behind the hood all the way to the ceiling. I kind of like it both ways, but I’m not sure which way would look better.

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Any thoughts?
50 Billion Dollar Bill: Wish It Was Mine

Mika 1:31 pm on January 16, 2009

Check out this $50 Billion Dollar note. Would be great to have one of these in my hand if just to stare at all those zeros. Even though it’s not worth anywhere near face value in USD, it’s still around $2845 USD. I don’t personally know any countries that have notes that are singularly worth that much, do you?

Thanks to Mike at First Plan for sending me the image.