CHINA - Instead of struggling to stick on a condom in the heat of the moment, the Chinese will soon be pulling out their liquid condom-in-a-can. The country's first liquid condom recently went on sale after being approved by the health and drugs administration. Named the Nanometer-silver Cryptomorphic Condom (NCC), it is made for females rather than males. The manufacturer claims the antiseptic foam spray forms a physical membrane inside the vagina to protect from infection and pregnancy, and also provides a lubricating effect.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Saturday, November 26, 2005
turkey?
aww man. wat's the best tactile thing about thanksgiving? turkey! and cranberry sauce. duh. but thing year all i got was hotpot. that's right. chinese hotpot. and no, we didn't put turkey in. not even chicken or goose or duck or any other kind of bird. beef. that's it. and i love beef, so me complaining about getting beef over turkey is kind of a big deal. romrow or maybe late tonight? imma go to like boston market, or dennys if need be, and get me my thanksgiving turkey fix. yum...
after i die...
Ms. Eleanor Ritchey, the unmarried granddaughter of the founder of Quaker State Oil, died in 1968 with an estate worth around $12 million. According to Scott Bieber in Trusts and Estates magazine: "Under her will, she left over 1,700 pairs of shoes and 1,200 boxes of stationery to the Salvation Army. The rest of the estate went to the dogs." Real dogs, he means - a pack of 150 strays that Ritchey had adopted as pets.
When American patriot Patrick Henry died, everything he owned was left to his wife - as long as she never married again. If she did, he forfeited the whole thing. "It would make me unhappy," he explained, "to feel I have worked all my life only to support another man's wife!" She remarried anyway.
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, tried to leave his birthday. He willed it to a good friend who'd complained that since she was born on Christmas, she never got to have a real birthday celebration.
An attorney in France left $10,000 to "a local madhouse." The gentleman declared that "it was simply an act of restitution to his clients."
An Australian named Francis R. Lord left one shilling to his wife "for tram fare so she can go somewhere and drown herself." The inheritance was never claimed.
Sandra West, a wealthy 37-year-old Beverly Hills socialite, left most of her $3 million estate to her brother - provided he made sure she was buried "in my lace nightgown and my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." That's how she was buried. The Ferrari was surrounded with concrete so no one would be tempted to dig it up and drive away.
A woman in Cherokee County, North Carolina left her entire estate to God. The court instructed the county sheriff to find the beneficiary. A few days later, the sheriff returned and submitted his report: "After due and diligent search, God
cannot be found in this county."
Edgar Bergen, famed ventriloquist, left $10,000 to the Actor's Fund of America - so they could take care of his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and put him in a show once a year. They went along with it.
When American patriot Patrick Henry died, everything he owned was left to his wife - as long as she never married again. If she did, he forfeited the whole thing. "It would make me unhappy," he explained, "to feel I have worked all my life only to support another man's wife!" She remarried anyway.
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, tried to leave his birthday. He willed it to a good friend who'd complained that since she was born on Christmas, she never got to have a real birthday celebration.
An attorney in France left $10,000 to "a local madhouse." The gentleman declared that "it was simply an act of restitution to his clients."
An Australian named Francis R. Lord left one shilling to his wife "for tram fare so she can go somewhere and drown herself." The inheritance was never claimed.
Sandra West, a wealthy 37-year-old Beverly Hills socialite, left most of her $3 million estate to her brother - provided he made sure she was buried "in my lace nightgown and my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." That's how she was buried. The Ferrari was surrounded with concrete so no one would be tempted to dig it up and drive away.
A woman in Cherokee County, North Carolina left her entire estate to God. The court instructed the county sheriff to find the beneficiary. A few days later, the sheriff returned and submitted his report: "After due and diligent search, God
cannot be found in this county."
Edgar Bergen, famed ventriloquist, left $10,000 to the Actor's Fund of America - so they could take care of his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and put him in a show once a year. They went along with it.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
uh huh..
***The Keys to Your Heart***
You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.
but i don't like horses...
In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved.
You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.
stylish and alluring huh? i don't think i've ever thought to myself 'oh man... why didn't reepal say i was stylish today?'
You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic.
i can definitely put up wit ruthless and cold-blooded. but sarcastic? no way!
Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.
wait, i won't cheat on someone because i care about.. society? oh that makes sense.
You think of marriage something you've always wanted... though you haven't really thought about it.
aw man, this is the worst one yet. while yes marriage isn't something i've really thought about it. it definitely isn't something i've always wanted!
In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.
me? do anything for love? you gotta be kidding me...
turkeys!
Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.
Turkeys heads change colors when they become excited.
Turkeys can see movement almost a hundred yards away.
Gobbling turkeys can be heard a mile away on a quiet day.
Turkeys don't really have ears like ours, but they have very good hearing.
Turkeys have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead from heart attacks.
Wild turkeys spend the night in trees. They especially like oak trees.
In England, 200 years ago, turkeys were walked to market in herds. They wore booties to protect their feet.
Turkeys have a long, red, fleshy area called a snood that grows from the forehead over the bill.
Thomas Jefferson thought the concept of Thanksgiving was "the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard."
Contrary to popular belief, Native Americans did not eat cranberries. They did, however, find them extremely useful for dying fabric and decorating pottery.
The first meal eaten on the moon by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was roasted turkey and all the trimmings.
Columbus thought that the land he discovered was connected to India, where peacocks are found in considerable number. And he believed turkeys were a type of peacock (they're actually a type of pheasant). So he named them tuka, which is "peacock" in the Tamil language of India.
In the last twenty years, Americans' love of turkey has soared, with per capita consumption up from 8.3 pounds in 1975 to 18.5 pounds in 1995.
Ben Franklin, in a letter to his daughter, proposed the turkey as the official United States bird.
The heaviest turkey ever raised was 86 pounds, about the size of a large dog.
Wild turkeyscan fly for short distances up to 55 miles per hour.
Tom turkeys have beards. This is black, hairlike feathers on their breast. Hens sometimes have beards, too.
leshan
so on our trip to chengdu we went to leshan and then ermeishan. these pictures are from leshan, home of the largest stone carved buddha in the world. we took a ferry to see it properly but ultimately a game of rock.paper.scissors decided that we would not climb it.
picture one is of the great buddha and the stair leading up to him. picture two is of the great buddha himself. picture three is of the buddha and a 'mini' guy. picture four is of the mountainsides. in the second er... protrusion? you can see the stairs leading up to the carvings.
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