No, is actually time to get up and go to school. You will miss the bus if you don't get up now. And you will get up now.
It is a speech familiar to many parents. Thanks to Jamie Dixon, you won't have to give it often. He invented the Eject-A-Bed. It gently (but not too gently!) moves the child from the comfort of the warm bed to the cold, hard floor.
We've previously seen a bed like this that uses an air compressor. Dixon's is a modified hospital bed that uses a built-in electric motor to accomplish the same feat. You can find his specifications here so that you can make your own.
This photo shows Dennis Kimetto at great moment of victory. As the 30-year old Kenyan runner crossed the finish line at a marathon in Berlin, he set a new world record for that event.
The new record, which is 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 57 seconds, is 26 seconds faster than previous record established by Wilson Kipsang last year.
The race was tight to the end, when Kimetto broke away from fellow Kenyan champion marathoner Emmanuel Mutai:
Kimetto was running more smoothly but Mutai kept challenging, reminding the Chicago marathon champion that he was still there.
Kimetto put a couple of seconds on his training partner with an injection of pace in the 39th kilometer, and he used it as the springboard for the seventh world record to be set on Berlin's flat course, the 10th including women's races.
Honestly, I had never heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic book franchise before Marvel Studios turned it into a movie that has earned more than half a billion dollars.
I'm a DC man, but I'll admit the obvious truth: Marvel knows how to make movies that bring in money--lots of money. The X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Avengers movies have been hugely successful.
Chris Pratt, one of the stars of Guardians of the Galaxy, hosted this weekend's new episode of Saturday Night Live. In one video sequence, SNL arrives at a reasonable conclusion: Marvel cannot fail. Every movie that Marvel can make, no matter how weirdly conceived, will draw in audiences and their money.
Do you remember Operation? I had a lot of fun playing that game when I was a child. It's an electrical game from the company Milton Bradley that debuted in the 1960s. It's been popular ever since.
The object of the game is to remove mythical body parts (e.g. Butterflies in the Stomach) using tweezers. If you touch the sizes of the holes with the tweezers, an alarm buzzer sounds. Cavity Sam's red nose lights up and you have lost that turn.
The game has inspired people to create alternate versions or fun crafts. Let's look at 10 of them.
YouTube user FlippyCat, a domino artist in Winnipeg, made this version with thousands of carefully arranged dominoes. Doctor, you must be careful during the surgery. If you slip, you'll trigger a domino collapse.
Virgil Dodson made this costume that is a functional version of the game. When you touch the electrical clamp to the aluminum foil, it activates the buzzer. As you can see from the blood stains, although Dodson is an excellent craftsman, his surgical skills need some work.
Botto Bistro is an Italian restaurant in Richmond, California. If you use the review website Yelp to preview restaurants before eating, then you probably won't visit it. Its average rating is only 1 star out of 5. But that's exactly what the owner, David Cerretini, wants.
Cerretini explains to Adweek that his plan is a response to what he sees as blackmail by Yelp:
Cerretini claims Yelp called him 20 times a week asking him to advertise. He did, to the tune of $270 for six months. But when he stopped advertising, he claims his reviews turned negative and one of his best reviews even vanished. That, according to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, is something Yelp is legally entitled to do.
So, Cerretini hatched his 1-star plan. Next to a sassy sign explaining how much it charges for extra marinara sauce ($3 for just a splash, $4 if you want some to smell), Botto Bistro lists its various offenses—from charging for bread to lacking ranch dressing—and suggests patrons give it a 1-star Yelp review in return for 25 percent off a pizza.
Beyond press, it has generated some of the best Amazon-esque reviews on Yelp. The site sent Botto Bistro a threatening little letter, but Cerretini refuses to back down, claiming he's attracting higher-paying customers who are quite loyal. Not to mention, damn funny.
In his site's delightfully sassy FAQ section, Cerretini explains that he's trying to negate the power of Yelp over businesses. So far, his plan appears to be working.
You can transport beer by hand, horse cart, or truck. Or, even better, in your belly. But these are not efficient means of transporting large quantities of beer.
This has become a problem for the De Halve Maan brewery in Bruges, Belgium. For five hundred years, it has produced beer at its brewery in the center of town. It uses a fleet of trucks to move its beer 3 miles to a distribution facility. That's a problem because the trucks clog up traffic on the city's cobblestone streets.
In response, De Halve Maan has acquired permission to build a 1.8-mile underground pipeline that will move the beer quickly and efficiently. When complete, the plastic pipeline will move about 1,585 gallons of beer per hour.
If any of you can show just cause why they may not lawfully be married, speak now; or else for ever hold your peace.
Well, the bull had something to say. Rachel Deane of Finishing Image Photography shot a wedding in Tamworth, Australia. A bull wandered into the scene and charged at the couple.
Marion Sessions of Derbyshire, UK, and her husband wanted to visit the seaside Portuguese town of Faro for a relaxing weekend. She tried to purchase two tickets online, so she did a Google search for cheap aline tickets. That took her to eDreams, an online third-party ticket seller with a shady reputation.
Sessions went through the steps of buying the tickets and was about to confirm her purchase when she noticed the price. That's always a good thing to check before making any sort of purchase. But it was especially helpful to Sessions because the price was £23,659,382,125.95. That's about $38,435,849,190.56 USD.
Sessions decided that the price was a bit too much, so she declined to complete the transaction. Sky News reports:
"I shudder to think what may have happened had I agreed... I tried to contact them but there was an out-of-hours message."
A spokeswoman for Spain-based eDreams told Sky News: "eDreams would like to apologise to Mrs Sessions for any inconvenience caused.
"We are continuing to investigate, however it appears to be an isolated incident that we have been unable to replicate. If it is a bug, we will find it and make every effort to fix it immediately.
The supervillain known as The Troll is now locked up and unable to harm anyone. But there's always one more person succumbing to the allure of internet courage and anonymity, as illustrated by Farley Kitz in The New Yorker.
Web Commenter Man didn't start out bad. He was just an average person who, to his shock, found someone wrong on the internet. He responded. Then he kept arguing with this mysterious enemy. Thus belong a long, dark slide into textual depravity.
Who do you see on Facebook? Mom is there, liking everything you post. She loves you, you know. There's also that exciting couple that lives an amazingly fortunate life. They're so irritating, what with their happiness and such.
The person that you don't see is the Lurker. But she's there, watching carefully. Maybe even taking screenshots.
I don't see myself in particular on this chart, so I'll just assume that I'm "That Guy." I think that's how people refer to me anyway, usually while rolling their eyes.
This is the RipSurfer X, an exercise machine made by SurfSET Fitness. It's a strength training machine that simulates the movements of a surfer out on the waves.
Nick Hartwick, a professional hockey player, invented it after he retired from the NHL. He enjoyed surfing while off-season, but found that he lost his surfing physique while he was occupied with hockey for several months. Men's Fitness quotes him:
“I would quickly bulk up and lose the lean and toned physique that surfing gave me—no other workout could compare. Then it hit me,” says Hartwick. “I’ll design a machine to mimic the workout that I got while surfing. It might not be as awesome as hitting waves but it will keep me in peak physical condition and I will still see all of the benefits to my body.”
The result of his efforts was this unique piece of exercise equipment.
Singaporean mother Li Ming is a master artist in the kitchen. She started developing her craft to entertain her sons. Now she makes wonders that are no doubt tasty--if you can bring yourself to bite into one of these works of art.
The Yarn Bus is a custom van owned and operated by Flying Fingers, a crafting supply store in Tarrytown, New York. The Yarn Bus is a shuttle that ferries people from New York City to the store and back. If you'd like to visit but don't own a car, this is a great option. Prototype Source, a California-based maker of custom promotional vehicles ("More Than Just Weiners"), built it.
If there's a traffic jam, then break out the steel drums because it's time for traffic jamming!
Justin Berk is a TV meteorologist. On September 20, he got stuck in a horrendous traffic jam on Interstate 76 outside of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. All of the eastbound vehicles were at a dead stop as first responders addressed a bus accident ahead of him.
After half an hour, some people go out of their cars to chat. Berk did, too. He met two musicians: David Gettes and Paul Downie, who perform with Trinidad North Steel Drums. Berk persuaded them to get out their instruments and play them for the travelers.
