football, etc;, clerihews, freeze and frozen.

In brief, Johnny Football, last year's Heisman winner and current student at my alma mater, is a typical male sophomore undergrad who happens to have the national spotlight. Unfortunately, this is a ton of pressure (sad and understandable), and it's finally come to this absolutely shocking report. Best line? " This incident will prove rocky for Manziel to traverse, as he is already in hot water for going to bed without brushing his teeth last Wednesday night ". That blog is a pretty funny Onion-esque commentary on sports. Speaking of football, i thought this clip (regarding the differences in coaching American football and soccer) was perfectly hilarious.

This is an interesting discussion regarding the benefits of prayer/mediation for even atheists, backtracked from this article about being addicted to prayer.

i was looking up mountain bikes yesterday (it's a long story, i'm looking to rent one for tomorrow and was curious what i'm getting myself into), and came upon this article regarding a journalist/friend of Lance Armstrong, and that journalist's reflection on how hard Lance's confession impacted him. Somewhere within the body of the article is a reference to the poetry term 'clerihew', a 4-line, AABB rhyme about a famous person, popularly written by children. A few are posted on the wiki page, including one for James Dewar (who invented thermos flasks, one of which is commonly used in labs to hold liquid nitrogen), attributed to Richard Rhodes:

Sir James Dewar
Is smarter than you are
None of you asses
can liquify gasses.


In brief, i saw that Disney has an upcoming movie called 'Frozen', and was curious about the content. Not remembering the exact title and googling 'Freeze' yielded search topics regarding Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen (and possibly stored under the Pirates of the Caribbean ride). Snopes reports that there's evidence that Disney specified that he did not want a funeral, and that there is evidence that he was cremated. Anyhow, the upcoming movie is purportedly loosely based on Hans Christan Andersen's The Snow Queen, and main character looks startlingly like the main charcter from Tangled in certain screenshots. Tangled is a favorite of my sis-in-law, and i mention all of this to my labmate Ryan. He sends me this comic a few days later.

me: (raises an eyebrow)

And how'd she get her hair that long, anyway? Ryan: I could ask YOU the same question! me: mine gets to mid-back and starts falling out Ryan: L’Oreal is my guess, because she’s worth it me: is she? is someone who traps knights in their isolated tower worth it?        i guess, means to an end