If the first of January comes on a Friday, the winter will be temperate, and the summer and autumn, dry. Grain will be cheap. There will be eye diseases, and many infants will die, and there will be movement of knights, and there will be much oil in some places.
Redditor GILDID offers this photo of a massive and, er, majestic horse. Really, he is usually an impressively dignified specimen. But at the moment, he's just mugging for the camera.
Rune Pettersen carefully walks over the frozen lake. He taps his knife on the ice to break the surface. Then he holds a lit match next to the hole. Boom!
Mothers at the Gelderse Vallei Hospital in the Netherlands can get a new type of bed for their newborn babies while recovering from childbirth. These cribs clip onto maternity beds easily to provide the mothers with easy access to their babies. They're especially helpful for breastfeeding mothers who want to have their infants close by, as well as cesarean section patients who may be immobilized as a result of surgical birth.
Pour hot chocolate or caramel sauce over the sphere. It melts quickly, revealing an ice cream treat inside. It's a luxurious and beautiful dessert that I want to eat right now.
Nikkole Paulun would like for her 6-year old son to learn how to treat women respectfully, particularly while dating. So once a month, the boy has take his mother on a date. He has to demonstrate formal manners, such as holding doors for her, as well as pay for dinner for both of them. Paulun writes:
Once a month my 6 year old son takes me out on a dinner date. He opens doors for me, pulls out my chair, talks about his day & asks me how mine was, pays the bill with money he earned by doing chores, and even tips the waiter/waitress. By doing this I am teaching him how to treat a lady & how to take her on a proper date. How to show that he respects the woman he loves (right now that would be mommy). We put our phone and iPad away (except to take this photo) and sit and talk to each other about our days, things we want to do, etc. I'm teaching him proper table manners and that it's rude to sit on your phone on a date with your mom or with anyone else. He learns the value of money and how to manage it. He learns how to do math as we add up what we want and make sure we have 15% of it to leave for a tip. Yes he is young but I believe this is something he should learn now. It's never too early to teach your child how to properly respect others, especially women. As a woman who has been abused & treated like crap in the past, it's extremely important to me that I teach my son how to show respect. Too many men these days have no idea how to treat women or how to take them on a nice date. It's nice to know my son won't be one of them.
But, like Tom Cruise, he's still short. So his human made him a set of stilts. Now he can take up much taller roles as well as have a better shot at stealing treats off high counters.
It's not like he needed the money. In the late 80s and early 90s, Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting career was already at its peak. Nonetheless, he did several Japanese-market commercials for Nissin's line of ramen. They are wonderfully weird.
Super Cut Online lines up a surprisingly common trope: falling out of a building and landing painfully (and often fatally) on a car. It's everywhere, from children's movies such as Garfield to action flicks like Fast and Furious 7.
Super Cut Online correctly concludes that it fits neatly with the finale to Tchaikovsky's The Year of 1812, a commemoration of Russia's successful defense against Napoleon Bonaparte.
Here's the complete list in order where all 56 movies these scenes came from:
YouTube user 10 Cats has 10 cats (I checked by counting because I'm a professional). By feeding them with carefully arranged bowls and appropriate angles, he can use their bodies to write letters and numbers. In this video, the herd wishes you a happy New Year.
A burglar breaks into your house. Even though the alarm has sounded and alerted police, he reasons that he has two minutes to grab your valuables and escape. Easy enough, right?
Wrong. The house he has targeted is now rapidly filling with fog. He can't see anything.
Fog Cannon is a South African company that manufactures unique home security devices. When one of its alarms is triggered, it sprays out a fog that doesn't hurt anyone or damage your furnishings, but it reduces visibility to nearly zero. Its most powerful system fills 2,700 cubic meters of space in just 60 seconds.
A hobby of my youth was to drive around to small towns and explore little public libraries. It was always fun to see what treasures could be found in these isolated little archives often run by a single librarian who had to get creative with limited resources. I saw many small town libraries this way, but never visited one on an island, such as this one.
Mantinicus Island is a community off the coast of Maine. The 51 people who live there are quite isolated, as they lack a high school or a doctor, among many other amenities of modern life. But they do, now, have a public library. It's housed inside an 8 by 20 foot utility shed. Eva Murray, a resident of the island, writes about this cute little library in the Penobscot Bay Pilot. When complete, the library will offer educational extension services that are otherwise inaccessible:
We hope to have our nascent library recognized by the Maine School and Library Network, and to eventually have our Internet through them. This was in fact the initial impetus for the whole library project. Last year Matinicus had no school-aged children on the island. In June of 2015, despite firm assertion on the part of our Superintendent of Schools that there would be enrolled students the following year (and indeed, there now are,) MSLN disconnected service to our school. Reconnection was, for some reason, an exceedingly drawn-out and laborious process. The connection provided by MSLN is much more than household subscriber Internet; it supports the school's Tandberg videoconferencing unit, useful for meetings such as fisheries and energy-related informational workshops organized by the Island Institute, University of Maine courses for professional development and adult continuing education, special services or counseling that may be required by community members including students, and routine inter-connectivity among all of Maine's one-room island schools. This level of service would not be affordable without MSLN.
In-N-Out Burger is a fast food restaurant chain famous for excellent hamburgers in towns where people don't have access to a Whataburger. Its loyal fanbase loves the chain's famously large burgers which are improved with a not-so-secret secret menu.
If you're in the mood for something a bit fancier than burgers for breakfast, than FoodBeast has you covered. In this video, FoodBeast chefs turned In-N-Out foods into a pie. After laying out a pie crust, they put down French fries, then sliced hamburgers, more fries, and special sauce. The only item they neglected to add was a chocolate milkshake. Presumably that will come in the next video.
A person with a heart ailment has gone into cardiac arrest! Where is the nearest defibrillator? In this case, the victim is wearing it.
The medical technology company ZOLL has developed LifeVest, a wearable defibrillator. It continuously monitors the user's heart activity. When the user goes into cardiac arrest, it squirts electrode gel onto the chest, then sends appropriate electrical shocks into the heart.
The LifeVest is designed for children who weigh at least 41 pounds and have a chest measurement of at least 26 inches. You can read more about it and watch a video at Damn Geeky.
Ah, George Costanza--a failure, layabout, and liar. In short, he's the everyman character of Seinfeld. When you want to live life to the fullest, you go the full Costanza. And now you can at a new bar in Melbourne, Australia. It's called George's Bar.
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