Life of Buraian

For all of you who love muscles...

Say what?  My sister works for a gaming company and sent me this video for a Japanese game for the Nintendo Wii.  As she describes it:

"It’s a downloadable game for the Wii. Hilarious!!! What happens is these muscle men bust through walls in different formations and you have to follow them and mimic the formation to get through the wall as well. Check out their bums, they made them shake with the walking. Awesome I tell you. Awesome. Please tell Rika I love her country."

I couldn't agree more.  Here's the trailer for the game.  It starts of with the following line: "For all of you who love muscles..."  The rest is self-explanatory...

The future of beatboxing?

Say what?  This video is really trippy, but very cool.  Hope you like it.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Craziest goal I've ever seen

I can't believe I haven't posted anything for two months.  This blog is really slackin'.  Okay, I'm slackin'.  I'll get back to it soon, but in the meantime, here's the craziest goal I think I've ever seen.  I did something like this in practice once, except it was on accident, the ball hit me in the back of the head and the goalie got it.  Almost the same thing.

Quote of the day

My sister, Jesse, to her 8-year old daughter: "Samantha, here's the deal.  Clean up time is getting to be too much of a pain.  Either you are going to have a better attitude about cleaning up or I'm just going to have to get rid of some of these toys."

Samantha (scowling): "That's not a deal.  That's a threat."

Lesson: parenting is fun!

Conjuring Slydini

I've never tried to be a magician, but when done well, it's the most amazing thing I can think of.  Here's an article by Dick Cavett at the NY Times with a video of Slydini performing his close-up tricks.  I actually clapped once myself.  It's incredible.

Old Ultimate Warrior interviews...say what?

I was reading a blog post by Brian Sell about the best wrestler ever...he chose Ravishing Rick Rude, which is just unbelievable if you ask me...and a guy named Nick linked this video.  Wow.

I was a big fan of WWF when I was a kid, and Ultimate Warrior was my favorite.  He was pure intensity.  And pure wacko.  Check this video out.  It's hilarious.

Calloway: the band that time forgot...but YouTube didn't

Say what?  I didn't even remember them being black...

In honor of Ashley's stinky doodle today.  It doesn't get much better, or much worse.

Pee Yoo! These doodles stink.

My sister and I have embarked on a new project called Pee Yoo!.  Essentially, she tries to get me fired by drawing ridiculous doodles to me on Yahoo IM, and I help her to set up a website to share those pictures with the world.  And now, the site is up and running:  http://www.stinkydoodles.com

I hope you'll stop by and check out my sister's quirky sense of humor.  You can get a little taste by viewing the Pee Yoo! widget I made and installed on this site (at the right).  And if you like what you see, you can get the widget here and embed it on your blog, Facebook or MySpace page.  I hope you like 'em and spread the word!

Love's got him under seige

I was sure it was fake.  Then I thought it was a cameo.  Now I'm just flabbergasted.

Thank you Ash.

The Chameleon

I borrowed a copy of The New Yorker magazine from a friend to read an article called Running to Beijing about Ryan Hall, America's top marathoner who recently finished 10th in Beijing.  After finishing that article--which is good, but primarily a rehash of all the same stories that are always told about Hall, with some interesting history of running science mixed in--I started reading the next one.

It's titled The Chameleon, and it's about a Frenchman named Frederic Bourdin.  He impersonates children.  By that I mean he comes up with an identity and gets himself placed into protective custody, or in one case, the missing child's actual family!  Say what?  It's a surreal article, and will no doubt spawn a movie script someday.  If you've any interest in human psychology (abnormal, highly abnormal) or in random crime stories, you'll probably enjoy it.