17 October 2006
Mythbusters World Record
Sometimes I lose track of time. This happened to me yesterday. I went to lunch with my wife and got back to work at around 1:40. I sat down and felt like I was getting a ton of work done when I looked up and it was 5:03. Oh well, Here is the blog I was working on, I wonder if you can surf in your sleep...
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This time of year you can find great collections of Halloween Music. Today I came across the 'Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music'.
When you click the record cover you can listen to or download the music.
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I while ago I blogged about a game called 'Line Rider'. Today I came across this cool video on YouTube of someone's course. I thought I would share,
'Line Rider Dies at the slopes'.
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While I was reading some news I came across this link to 'Reuters THE STATE OF THE WORLD'
This is a gallery of the best pictures from Reuters. This collection tell the tale of our times.
You should check it out too!
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One of the shows that I love to watch is called 'Mythbusters'.
Today I came across this blog that listed the 'Top 5 Mythbusters Segments'.
5. Silver Paint causes original actor to back out of The Wizard of Oz.
4. A cd-rom could be shattered at 40x+ speed.
3. Does "killer" quicksand really exists.
2. "Unbreakable" biometric lock.
1. Falling through multiple awnings will prevent death when falling from a high place.
I love this show and have always learned something while watching it.
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Check out these great photos of 'Heavy dew on spider web'.
This looks man made like some kind of jewelry.
Luckily, for this spider, water does not damage silk.
I had to include the spider!!!
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I found this great site called 'Flash Games by TonyPa'
Try the 'Gear Taker' game.
This is harder than it looks!
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I wanted to post something about my friend 'Bad' Brad Wheeler and his World Record attempting Harmonica Army.
About 1,200 Top of Utah saints marched into Lindquist Field on Saturday, smiles and harmonicas in tow. They came to support local bluesman "Bad" Brad Wheeler, who was trying to make Guinness World Records by organizing more than 1,707 harmonica players to play "The Saints Go Marching In," all at once. [Standard Examiner]
World-class harmonizing
Brad Wheeler, himself a harmonica player in the Ogden Blues band the "Legendary Porch Pounders" gives the go ahead signal for over 1,200 harmonica players to start playing "When the Saints Come Marching In" at Linquist Field on Saturday. Over 1,200 folks showed up, practiced and all played together to try and break the world record for most people playing harmonicas at a time. They came up several hundred short to break the old record of 1,800. (Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune )
I look up to my friend and congratulate him for following his dreams.
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One last thing, I did pretty poorly with my picks last week.
I will post the new games and my picks in tomorrows blog. Congrats to Kelly who picked all 8 games correctly!!
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That's it for today.
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This time of year you can find great collections of Halloween Music. Today I came across the 'Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music'.
When you click the record cover you can listen to or download the music.
-----------------
I while ago I blogged about a game called 'Line Rider'. Today I came across this cool video on YouTube of someone's course. I thought I would share,
'Line Rider Dies at the slopes'.
------------------
While I was reading some news I came across this link to 'Reuters THE STATE OF THE WORLD'
This is a gallery of the best pictures from Reuters. This collection tell the tale of our times.
You should check it out too!
------------------
One of the shows that I love to watch is called 'Mythbusters'.
Today I came across this blog that listed the 'Top 5 Mythbusters Segments'.
5. Silver Paint causes original actor to back out of The Wizard of Oz.
4. A cd-rom could be shattered at 40x+ speed.
3. Does "killer" quicksand really exists.
2. "Unbreakable" biometric lock.
1. Falling through multiple awnings will prevent death when falling from a high place.
I love this show and have always learned something while watching it.
--------------------
Check out these great photos of 'Heavy dew on spider web'.
This looks man made like some kind of jewelry.
Luckily, for this spider, water does not damage silk.
I had to include the spider!!!
---------------------
I found this great site called 'Flash Games by TonyPa'
Try the 'Gear Taker' game.
This is harder than it looks!
------------------
I wanted to post something about my friend 'Bad' Brad Wheeler and his World Record attempting Harmonica Army.
About 1,200 Top of Utah saints marched into Lindquist Field on Saturday, smiles and harmonicas in tow. They came to support local bluesman "Bad" Brad Wheeler, who was trying to make Guinness World Records by organizing more than 1,707 harmonica players to play "The Saints Go Marching In," all at once. [Standard Examiner]
World-class harmonizing
Brad Wheeler, himself a harmonica player in the Ogden Blues band the "Legendary Porch Pounders" gives the go ahead signal for over 1,200 harmonica players to start playing "When the Saints Come Marching In" at Linquist Field on Saturday. Over 1,200 folks showed up, practiced and all played together to try and break the world record for most people playing harmonicas at a time. They came up several hundred short to break the old record of 1,800. (Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune )
I look up to my friend and congratulate him for following his dreams.
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One last thing, I did pretty poorly with my picks last week.
I will post the new games and my picks in tomorrows blog. Congrats to Kelly who picked all 8 games correctly!!
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That's it for today.
04 October 2006
Typecast propaganda for 5000 years of pictures, games and lines.
Things are starting to pick up at work. We are in holiday rush mode, which is hard right now but will be sweet just before the holidays. I am working on a CD PR Kit for one of our clients. It should be easy but will take time. I have to burn 70 CD's, label them and get them ready to send out by Friday.
I had a little time to surf today....
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I saw this article called 'Roles Actors Will Never Live Down'. I liked the list because for two reasons. First, I love most of these actors and the roles they played and even if I don't like them I have to admit that I will always associate them with that character. Second, the article links to YoutTube video of each of the characters in action.
Every actor -- and waiter in L.A. -- dreams of landing that one role that lives on forever. Well, these actors have done it, and we bet some of them wish they hadn't.
Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite
Michael Richards as Kramer
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
Dennis Haskins as Mr. Belding
Macaulay Culkin as Kevin from Home Alone
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
Elijah Wood as Frodo
Christopher Reeve as Superman
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Every one and a while the site worth1000.com has a photoshop contest where the entries are really worth seeing. Today I came across this contest called 'Fun with Propaganda 7'.
The Theme is Propaganda posters put to humorous use.
[Zombies!!!! sweet]
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I saw this cool flash animation of all of '5000 years of history' of the Middle East on MapsOfWar.com.
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Apparently there is a website of lists which is maintained by a guy who calls himself the 'Keeper of Lists'. Today the keeper shared the 'Top 393 Greatest Lines From Television'. hmmmm??
Here are the top ten from the list.
1. "Doh!" - Homer
2. "What'll we do tonight, Brain?"
3. Meep Meep
4. Oh my God--they killed Kenny!
5. He's dead, Jim!
6. "[Name] has entered....the Twilight Zone!"
7. Live...from New York...it's Saturday Night!!
8. WELL, isn't that Special!!
9. And now for something completely different....
10. Heeerrreee'sss Johnny
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Blogging has benefited me in several ways one of which is that I now have a place to put those things I see on the web but previously could not find again. Another is that I have noticed the different things I look at on the web. It was not intentional that I started posting a string of images with my name in it, it just happened that way.
Today I present, my name in lightning.
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I found another game where you build a contraption to move a ball from one place to another. Todays game is called 'the contraption' - how fitting.
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Today I also found an image gallery of 'Spiral Pictures'.
I never realized how often the spiral appears in nature.
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Halloween is quickly approaching. I know you're already planning your costumes but what about your pumpkins? If you need any ideas you can check out the 'Pumpkin Way'.
---------------------
I found another game that almost lives up to its name - 'A Maze-ing'.
There are mazes, this is A Maze, I'm just not sure it is A Maze-ING.
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Here is a game with a Halloween theme called 'Haunted castle'.
I'm not sure what the goal of the game is.
But.....turn left here, in the next room move the left torch on the wall in front of you. Then walk into the room behind the wall. Open the casket and.........
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As you may know, during my freshman year in college I rushed a fraternity. One of my fellow pledges from class Alpha was Brad Wheeler. Brad is a great guy and someone I still consider a close friend. I don't want to bore you with all the details but after a while our paths parted but we have kept in touch in one way or another over the years. I remember one time Brad had told me about when he went to Burning Man. While he was there he had a far-out experience where he learned to play the harmonica. I didn't really know what to think of it but this guy has so much artistic talent he could make anything beautiful.
A few years later I saw Brad on the news. He was working at Brewskies down on 25th street and was commenting about the Olympics. A while later I saw Brad and he said he was giving away Harmonicas in the local schools and teaching the kids how to play them. A few years later my oldest son came home from school with a Harmonica and a story about Brad. A few days later there was a story in the paper about him giving out something like his 10,000th harmonica to a student in Ogden. I spoke to him after that and he told me he was playing in 'South by Southwest' or SXSW in a few weeks in his band 'The Legendary Porch Pounders'.
Brad has really made a name of himself just by being Brad.
I tell you all of this because my friend Brad is organizing a 'Harmonica Army'. Brad has given out so many harmonicas that he want all of the student and any other players to gather at Lindquist Field (where the Raptors play) in Ogden to set a World Record for the most harmonica players playing at the same time.
Here are the details
So I think we should all go. Brad made a little tutorial about how to play 'When the Saints go Marching In'. You have time to learn so you had better get to it!
[That is Brad's Voice]
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That's all I have for today.
I had a little time to surf today....
-----------------
I saw this article called 'Roles Actors Will Never Live Down'. I liked the list because for two reasons. First, I love most of these actors and the roles they played and even if I don't like them I have to admit that I will always associate them with that character. Second, the article links to YoutTube video of each of the characters in action.
Every actor -- and waiter in L.A. -- dreams of landing that one role that lives on forever. Well, these actors have done it, and we bet some of them wish they hadn't.
Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite
Michael Richards as Kramer
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
Dennis Haskins as Mr. Belding
Macaulay Culkin as Kevin from Home Alone
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
Elijah Wood as Frodo
Christopher Reeve as Superman
--------------------
Every one and a while the site worth1000.com has a photoshop contest where the entries are really worth seeing. Today I came across this contest called 'Fun with Propaganda 7'.
The Theme is Propaganda posters put to humorous use.
[Zombies!!!! sweet]
-------------------------
I saw this cool flash animation of all of '5000 years of history' of the Middle East on MapsOfWar.com.
------------------
Apparently there is a website of lists which is maintained by a guy who calls himself the 'Keeper of Lists'. Today the keeper shared the 'Top 393 Greatest Lines From Television'. hmmmm??
Here are the top ten from the list.
1. "Doh!" - Homer
2. "What'll we do tonight, Brain?"
3. Meep Meep
4. Oh my God--they killed Kenny!
5. He's dead, Jim!
6. "[Name] has entered....the Twilight Zone!"
7. Live...from New York...it's Saturday Night!!
8. WELL, isn't that Special!!
9. And now for something completely different....
10. Heeerrreee'sss Johnny
----------------
Blogging has benefited me in several ways one of which is that I now have a place to put those things I see on the web but previously could not find again. Another is that I have noticed the different things I look at on the web. It was not intentional that I started posting a string of images with my name in it, it just happened that way.
Today I present, my name in lightning.
-------------------------------
I found another game where you build a contraption to move a ball from one place to another. Todays game is called 'the contraption' - how fitting.
--------------------
Today I also found an image gallery of 'Spiral Pictures'.
I never realized how often the spiral appears in nature.
---------------------
Halloween is quickly approaching. I know you're already planning your costumes but what about your pumpkins? If you need any ideas you can check out the 'Pumpkin Way'.
---------------------
I found another game that almost lives up to its name - 'A Maze-ing'.
There are mazes, this is A Maze, I'm just not sure it is A Maze-ING.
-----------------------
Here is a game with a Halloween theme called 'Haunted castle'.
I'm not sure what the goal of the game is.
But.....turn left here, in the next room move the left torch on the wall in front of you. Then walk into the room behind the wall. Open the casket and.........
---------------------
As you may know, during my freshman year in college I rushed a fraternity. One of my fellow pledges from class Alpha was Brad Wheeler. Brad is a great guy and someone I still consider a close friend. I don't want to bore you with all the details but after a while our paths parted but we have kept in touch in one way or another over the years. I remember one time Brad had told me about when he went to Burning Man. While he was there he had a far-out experience where he learned to play the harmonica. I didn't really know what to think of it but this guy has so much artistic talent he could make anything beautiful.
A few years later I saw Brad on the news. He was working at Brewskies down on 25th street and was commenting about the Olympics. A while later I saw Brad and he said he was giving away Harmonicas in the local schools and teaching the kids how to play them. A few years later my oldest son came home from school with a Harmonica and a story about Brad. A few days later there was a story in the paper about him giving out something like his 10,000th harmonica to a student in Ogden. I spoke to him after that and he told me he was playing in 'South by Southwest' or SXSW in a few weeks in his band 'The Legendary Porch Pounders'.
Brad has really made a name of himself just by being Brad.
I tell you all of this because my friend Brad is organizing a 'Harmonica Army'. Brad has given out so many harmonicas that he want all of the student and any other players to gather at Lindquist Field (where the Raptors play) in Ogden to set a World Record for the most harmonica players playing at the same time.
Here are the details
So I think we should all go. Brad made a little tutorial about how to play 'When the Saints go Marching In'. You have time to learn so you had better get to it!
[That is Brad's Voice]
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That's all I have for today.
17 January 2007
Give a hoot
Well I'm headed off for a meeting with a personel trainer at the gym. I'm not looking forward to this. Every time I go in there I feel out of place. I'm not sure what's going to happen but I hope since I am now paying for my membership I will have even more motivation to attend.
Yesterday I exchanged email with an old friend of mine from 'the old neighborhood'. He was one of my best friends when that really meant something. It was great to hear from him but as good as it was to remember the good times he also reminded me of some of my worst times. I will always cherish his friendship and the role it played in my life. I'm glad that I have had 20 years to let other things that happened at that time go by the wayside. It's amazing how the feelings and emotions came right back when names and places are mentioned. He and I had also exchanged thoughts about Murray O'Dell and his passing.
My oldest daughter ran into my friend Brad Wheeler at school yesterday. Brad is the guy who organized the harmonica army. Brad was visiting the school to pass out harmonicas to the kids in my daughters class. She introduced herself and he told he to say hello to me. I think it is interesting that some of my friends still influence my kids even though we are as close as we used to be. It makes me wonder what other connections there are out there.
Enough about me, I had time to surf today....
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I haven't done this in a while so here is 'This date in history'.
In 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, is born in Boston.
In 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States, dies
In 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster, is born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In 1929 - Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Comic Strip Thimble Theatre.
In 1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor and voice of Darth Vader, is born.
In 1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer, is born
In 1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
In 1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian, is born
In 1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian, is born
In 1977 - Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on the death penalty in the United States.
In 1991 - 'Mother of all Battles' begins - Operation Desert Storm begins as Gulf War Allies send hundreds of planes on bombing raids into Iraq.
In 1997 - A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.
In 1998 - President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones.
In 2001 - Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people.
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Since Mac World last week, the Internet has been all a buzz about the release of the new iPhone. I have to admit it seems pretty cool. I would like to get my hands on one but the $500 price tag scares me off. If you are wanting to check them out you may want to visit the 'iPhone countdown'.
This site is dedicated to letting you know just how long it will be before you can have an iPhone of your own.
It this is not enough for you try downloading this pdf file you can fold into the shape and size on an iPhone.
------------
Since I was walking down memory lane recently, I think this next site jumped out at me. It's time for us all to say 'Good-bye to old Woodsy'. This link takes you to a page that describes the guidelines for destroying old Woodsy Owl costumes.
Why destroy Woodsy you say?
Well apparently Woodsy is now in version 2.0.
[weird]
I'm not sure what to think of the change. I hate it when stars get plastic surgery like this. In four years he'll have man-cheeks and his hooter will be able to poke someone's eye out. Besides everyone knows beauty is in the eyes and I don't think you can beat old Woodsy's eyes.
[Hey Woodsy, your 'hat' is looking smaller too. I guess age effects everyone differently.]
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I thought my readers would enjoy this 90's flowchart I came across [especially my wife].
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My wife loves to watch the award shows on TV. It has become a tradition where we spend time together making fun of celebrities and making lists of movies or tv shows we need to catch up on. Anyway, during the Golden Globes on Monday there was a new ad for Orville Redenbacher Popcorn that featured Orville himself -- Back from the dead.
I have to admit it weirded me out. The technology used here was not the same as was used in 'Lord of the Rings'. It looks like the took an actor wearing a flat paper mask of Orville with cgi over the top. This was so creepy it made my want to stop buying his popcorn. [Which is another one of my wife's favorite things]. I know it is his name and face that is associated with the brand but pay some respect to the dead people!
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I came across this site that boasts the winners of the 'Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2007'.
I have seen and posted a lot of the winners from this site before.
If you like photography this site is worth the visit.
-------------
It a completely unrelated site I saw a great picture of downtown Tokyo.
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That's it for today.
Yesterday I exchanged email with an old friend of mine from 'the old neighborhood'. He was one of my best friends when that really meant something. It was great to hear from him but as good as it was to remember the good times he also reminded me of some of my worst times. I will always cherish his friendship and the role it played in my life. I'm glad that I have had 20 years to let other things that happened at that time go by the wayside. It's amazing how the feelings and emotions came right back when names and places are mentioned. He and I had also exchanged thoughts about Murray O'Dell and his passing.
My oldest daughter ran into my friend Brad Wheeler at school yesterday. Brad is the guy who organized the harmonica army. Brad was visiting the school to pass out harmonicas to the kids in my daughters class. She introduced herself and he told he to say hello to me. I think it is interesting that some of my friends still influence my kids even though we are as close as we used to be. It makes me wonder what other connections there are out there.
Enough about me, I had time to surf today....
----------------
I haven't done this in a while so here is 'This date in history'.
In 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, is born in Boston.
In 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States, dies
In 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster, is born in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In 1929 - Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the Comic Strip Thimble Theatre.
In 1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor and voice of Darth Vader, is born.
In 1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer, is born
In 1945 - The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
In 1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian, is born
In 1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian, is born
In 1977 - Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on the death penalty in the United States.
In 1991 - 'Mother of all Battles' begins - Operation Desert Storm begins as Gulf War Allies send hundreds of planes on bombing raids into Iraq.
In 1997 - A court in Ireland granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country's history.
In 1998 - President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones.
In 2001 - Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people.
-------------
Since Mac World last week, the Internet has been all a buzz about the release of the new iPhone. I have to admit it seems pretty cool. I would like to get my hands on one but the $500 price tag scares me off. If you are wanting to check them out you may want to visit the 'iPhone countdown'.
This site is dedicated to letting you know just how long it will be before you can have an iPhone of your own.
It this is not enough for you try downloading this pdf file you can fold into the shape and size on an iPhone.
------------
Since I was walking down memory lane recently, I think this next site jumped out at me. It's time for us all to say 'Good-bye to old Woodsy'. This link takes you to a page that describes the guidelines for destroying old Woodsy Owl costumes.
Why destroy Woodsy you say?
Well apparently Woodsy is now in version 2.0.
[weird]
I'm not sure what to think of the change. I hate it when stars get plastic surgery like this. In four years he'll have man-cheeks and his hooter will be able to poke someone's eye out. Besides everyone knows beauty is in the eyes and I don't think you can beat old Woodsy's eyes.
[Hey Woodsy, your 'hat' is looking smaller too. I guess age effects everyone differently.]
-------------
I thought my readers would enjoy this 90's flowchart I came across [especially my wife].
---------------
My wife loves to watch the award shows on TV. It has become a tradition where we spend time together making fun of celebrities and making lists of movies or tv shows we need to catch up on. Anyway, during the Golden Globes on Monday there was a new ad for Orville Redenbacher Popcorn that featured Orville himself -- Back from the dead.
I have to admit it weirded me out. The technology used here was not the same as was used in 'Lord of the Rings'. It looks like the took an actor wearing a flat paper mask of Orville with cgi over the top. This was so creepy it made my want to stop buying his popcorn. [Which is another one of my wife's favorite things]. I know it is his name and face that is associated with the brand but pay some respect to the dead people!
-----------
I came across this site that boasts the winners of the 'Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2007'.
I have seen and posted a lot of the winners from this site before.
If you like photography this site is worth the visit.
-------------
It a completely unrelated site I saw a great picture of downtown Tokyo.
----------
That's it for today.
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