Excited about the World Cup and Miss. Melissa Theutiau

Excited! Four years of waiting... is almost over!

I am finally going to get cable or satelite TV for the first time (I only watch about 3 to 5 hours of TV a Week), just for this... FIFA World Cup Football!!

Need more info to keep up with the biggest addiction the world around?

Check out:

1. FIFA : On national teams and registered club news.
2. BBC FIFA World Cup 2006 coverage: One of the most up to date, rabid coverage in the internet. The British are really passionate about their football.
3. ESPN World Cup 2006 Good commercial sourse... sometime calling Football, as Football, but other times calling them Soccer...
and finally,
4. Official World Cup 2006 site. The source... not as fast when updating their news but they do have an official Countdown Clock up to the seconds, on the site. As I am typing it is 70days 23hrs 54 mins 03secs... to kick off!!

And one of the best reason to follow the World Cup this year... especially if you are French... is Melissa Theutiau. For, she will be reporting about the World Cup in France... in French... may be I should learn to speak French in... 69 days.


I envy all the of France and all the French speakers of the world...

The greatest marketing gig ever pulled

It’s a rainy day here in Houston. So the traffic was bad. Going to and back from a 1 hour meeting took 3 hours… driving at about 4 miles an hour (that’s how fast human walk). While in the snail paste traffic, and the sun weaving in and out of the dark clouds, I learnt a new American saying, “When it is raining and the sun shine at the same time, the devil is beating his wife”.

Another cool saying I learnt today that I will surely use often is, “His only taste is on his mouth”. Isn’t it cool? To describe someone tasteless?

If you are tasteless and want to get on TV… Click here.

Another thought in my slightly used brain. Sales, marketing.

Microsoft is the biggest software company in the world not because they have the best software out there… but as Bill Gates told us that, it’s because they have the best marketing department. They certainly pull very impressive and successful marketing strategies to become No.1 in the world.

However, to me the best marketing gig that anyone or any group have achieved got to be the introduction of chopsticks. I mean think about it… Chinese had tool to eat with since the beginning of time. Spoons, forks… and who knows what else.

But one day… some guy came along and told every one… “Dude!” he said, “Look at this!”, and in his hand he held out two sticks. Everyone looked at him suspiciously and then at the two little sticks.

“I call these chopsticks… it’s for eating and stuffs…”

Ever since that day, half the Asia continent decided that they need to spend months to learn how to use chopsticks… and the next few years to perfect the skill… in order to eat.

Tell me guys… if that’s not the best marketing gig ever pulled?


Well, I am a chopsticks user here in America... and I bet you are too.

Happy St. Patrick's day

Two amazing photographs. Above is the scene of the St. Patrick's Day celebration in Chicago when the Chicago River is dyed green (see how they dye the river here). Every year the Green Chicago River took my breath away... I do not know why. I would love to drink some green beer and green egg and ham right about... now.
and
Beannachtam na Femle Padraig!!

This image is not as cool as the Chicago River on St. Patrick's Day... and it's not from Star Wars.
This is Encelados, one of Saturn's many moons. NASA found water there... may be it should be dyed Green as well.
Want to know more about the Cassini program click here.

Oh yeah! This Saturn is not bad either... Saturn Sky!

Window to the soul and animals at war

Click the red letters for pictures.

Yesterday, I was celebreting Pie Day... 3.14? Okay it's not that funny... but well, I am not a comedian.

And yes, Cherl the girl in school was you... Hey can I take a picture of your eye next time I see you? (emmm... no particular reason)

Anyway, here's another soul...

This is a collegue of mine. The color is so interesting, there's a shade of every color other than blue and purple in there, and if you look closely, you can see some random artifacts inbed in the rim of the eye.

If you get head over hills over this soul you better be liking dude. He is about 30 and he is a South American. He think he is a funny guy.

Well, now to something serious that I read today. Read the article here.

The article is about animals and insects being use as alternative weapons... Human is such wonderful creature. We are equiped with both brains and hands so we can do more things than all other creatures. We are good at herding, we are good at making stuffs out of the things that we made... we are also the only creature that made sex a fun thing to do. All other living things do it when their biological clock sounded an alarm... or that they are going to die... i.e. Salmon to spiders.

But the one thing that we human do best is... finding a way... a reason to hate one another. First of all, we hate people that look at our wifes differently. Then we create terms like Kingdom and Country, so we can hate the OTHER Kingdoms and Countries. And we see color, we hate people with different color... then we create religion, no... that won't do... people with different religion just won't do. How about their sexual preference? How about creating something call politics and hate people with different ideology... Hate people with different IDEAS? How about Coke vs. Pepsi?

We are so good at finding reason to hate people that we have learned to create the best weapon to kill one another too. We are the only creature that uses tools to kill other creature. We go so good at it that at this moment, we can destroy all of us on earth, a few times over... with all the thermo war heads that we have.

I hate people who hate. (see... I have found a reason to hate too)

By the way, why do we have to dislike other people? What so bad about living. Who cares who they make love to... I like Coke but not Pepsi... but did I really offended anyone (other than Pepsi Co.) If I were to bow and meditate to my God and you decided to bow to a tree, or a direction... why should that affect me... or you?

Now, back to the article. Why can't we keep our animals out of our war?

Things that humans have done to try to get our animals to fight for us... discounting horses that carries knights to war, or that donkey with Don Quixote.

Animals in Warfare
WWII
Attach a bomb to a cat and drop it from a dive-bomber on to Nazi ships. The cat, hating water, will "wrangle" itself on to enemy ship's deck. In tests cats became unconscious in mid-air.

WWII
Attach incendiaries to bats. Induce hibernation and drop them from planes. They wake up, fly into factories etc and blow up. Failed to wake from hibernation and fell to death.

Vietnam War
Dolphins trained to tear off diving gear of Vietcong divers and drag them to interrogation. Later syringes placed on dolphin flippers to inject carbon dioxide into divers, who explode. About 40 divers thought to have been killed.

Hmmm... I wonder what ever happended to these dolphines... are they still in lingering in our vast ocean looking for the next divers?

Any how... here's a tribute to our arm forces. The army of the future!!

Lieutenant Puss the Sniper Cat

Captain MiawMiaw of the 199th "Flee Platoon"

Corporal Percy... still missing in action (MIA)

Seriously. I hope you laugh a little reading this... and I hope you will smile a little more... and hate a little less.

Window to the soul and a random thoughts... hatcher

It's friday and I think I will share another soul with you. J is one of the most understanding people on earth. She is an interior designer but could have easily being a psychologist. And yes, you can drool over her beautiful blue eye and she is 23 years of age.

This is a picture I took while doing a site visit. Yeah! another shameless self portrait.

Anyway... random thoughts, word Teri Hatcher and word Superman!

Ever Wonder?

Received this (from my boss) in the e-mail this morning, so I guess I’ll share.

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?

Why is it that to stop Windows, you have to click on "Start"?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquidis made with ! real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite ofprogress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?