Let's Ride - Fred Faulkner's Blog About the Road Called Life

Looks like Chicago will be a happening place tomorrow night over at Bar Chicago as the World Fipply Cup Championships will be taking place. Ah the memories of off-campus parties in college playing flippy cup. If you are not familiar with this game, imagine a bunch of drunk kids (maybe your college son or daughter right now) around a table with a full beer in front of them and one full beer in the middle of the table.

on your mark...get set...GO!!

Your kid starts to chug the beer attempting not to be the last person to finish. Once he or she is done they take the cup, flip it over and place it on the edge of the table. Then with one finger they try to flip the cup on its right side. Last one to complete the task...gets the full beer in the middle. You can image how this game goes after you've had a couple. It is an art as much as it is skill.

Maybe I'll have to play that game this summer as we break in the new house. hmmm.......

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Enough said: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzbOoJNC_TU

This pretty much explains the frustration that Web developers go through when trying to build cross browser Web sites. Firefox rules, and the rest...well, just watch the video.

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I love Dilbert. I know, I'm not the only one, but Scott Adams just hits the nail on the head so many times about life in Corporate America or in any organization for that matter. Well now Scott is blogging and now we get to see the mind behind the maddness in uncensored glory.

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Coop's Corner, a blog over at C|net news.com site posted a video from The Daily Show of John Stewart's take on the bloggers and mainstream media. With everything that has happened in the last year with mainstream media and political bloggers, and the disruption of journalism, this is classic John Stewart. (Requires Quicktime)

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Saw this on my way home to the train station tonight.

What makes this funny is that the truck driver apparently didn't know how high the exit ramp was to get off Lower Wacker Drive. The other thing that is funny is that there isn't a Wal-Mart in downtown...so what was he doing there, let alone trying to get off Lower Wacker Dr. to Upper Wacker Dr.? The top just cracks me up. Besides having the front end of the trailor get busted up, the top got ripped open like a sardine can. They had to back another trailor up behind it and start off-loading all the remaining good product to get to its final destination. Chicago sights never cease to amaze me.

As for the half invisible guy walking by...yes, he is real. My digital camera was just being funky when I took the picture.

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So if you are not sure on who to vote for in the upcoming presidential election, vote for Carrie...Carrie Bradshaw that is. Her platform covers all the pertinent topics, from the economy to civil rights to violence in tv and film. She even has a campaign blog.

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Pat Riley must be rolling in the dough, but then again, probably not. It is the headline that everyone couldn't resist around the entertainment world this weekend, and it was very evident in Chicago as well. More than a couple of newspapers' headlines read “Three-Peat” with a big picture of Jennifer Lopez on the cover. So of course I bought the Tribune's RedEye yesterday to see what they said about the third marriage of Ms. Lopez, J-Lo, LoLo (Marc Anthony's pet name for her), big booty, or whatever you call her.

Nothing really new in the paper's report. It just talked about her two previous marriages a little with a nod to Ben Affleck and P-Diddy as well. So now the fun begins....betting how long this one will last. The first one was two years. Marriage number 2 only lasted 9 months. So for marriage number 3, I give her 3 months. Why not just stick with the number 3 right. So the bet is on in Vegas. Place your bets now with your local bookie.

Update: I just picked up another RedEye this morning and here are the odds in Britain:

Some are offering 3-1 odds that J-Lo will be divorced by the end of the year. Yet another bookie is giving 10-1 odds that she will marry more than eight times in her life!

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So our mechanical friend on Mars has stopped talking back to NASA. Seems to me that this is the second robot we have sent to the red planet and that frickin' alien out there just keeps shutting us donw!! I guess we can't get a hint. Maybe when we put a human on Mars will we realize that they just want to be left alone!

"We have a very serious situation," said Pete Theisinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, project manager for Spirit and its twin, Opportunity.

Um, yeah I think so.

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I'm 25. What this next guy did is unreal, and he is 25. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do this even if I was 14, but I guess 25 isn't yet the age of "maturity." Meet Mr. McKinley. A 25 year old guy who decided to ship himself via Fed-Ex to his parents house in Texas. His departure location...New York. This guy boxed himself in a crate shipped himself across the COUNTRY!! I could see like the next town if I were to ever do it, but NY to TX?!?! Man talk about some guts.

Well after he freaked out the Fed-Ex dude when he popped out of the crate at his final destination, Fed man called the cops on him. I guess not all good ideas have happy endings.

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Scroll button one two, one two, and if you sing in my crib, then I can scroll wit you....

yeah, something like that. Well Monday was Labor Day. I took the liberty to not check my e-mail...or even turn on my computer for that fact. Instead, I slept in...sort of, and came home from the fiancee's house (by the way, fabulous Sweedish Pancakes sweetheart. Yes, you can continue to make those when we get married), and did some painting at home. Of course I also watched the American Chopper marathon on the Discovery Channel. There is something about that show that just...makes me want to own a motorcycle.

After that marathon was over, then it was the Biker Build Off...three hours worth...I love bikes. The guys and I have had a dream to all get motorcycles some day (not long after our Bar makes some money) and do a cross country trip. Ridin' the HOGS, or something, down old Route 66 heading West. Someday man...someday.

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