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Hermann the Malevolent is happy to announce the arrival of his very first goddaughter - Brooklyn Morgan Carratt.
Congratulations to the proud parents - Darrick and Amanda. She's beautiful, guys.
Posted by Mert at 05:23 PM | Comments (0)
Interesting piece of trivia for you today...
On this date in 1374, residents of the Prussian town of Aix-la-Chapelle were stricken by an unusual ailment known as "St. John's Dance". Victims suffered from hallucinations and an involuntary tendency to twitch and jump around until they collapsed from exhaustion.
Awesome! I gotta' get me some o' that!
Posted by Mert at 03:59 PM | Comments (0)
This technology is awesome! I can't wait until we can set these systems up to remote-controlled, fully-functional cybernetic copies of ourselves sitting at our desks at work. That would be great! We could have a perpetual live feed to a mobile, palm-sized monitor we'd have with us somewhere on the golf course. Anything that requires attention at work? No prob - just turn on the "brain-feed" and have Robo-You get it done!
Posted by Mert at 02:26 PM | Comments (0)
Just wanted to send some belated props to one of the greatest clutch shotmakers in the NBA - Robert "Big Shot Bob" Horry. Horry had over 20 points - including a game-winning three-pointer - in Sunday's dramatic road win over the defending world champion Detroit Pistons. Almost all of Horry's points came in the fourth quarter and overtime.
Way to go, Bob.
Posted by Mert at 04:53 PM | Comments (0)
Formula One head honcho Bernie Ecclestone had this to say about media sensation Danica Patrick's incredible performance in this year's Indianapolis 500:
"She did a good job, didn't she? Super. Didn't think she'd be able to make it like that. You know, I've got one of these wonderful ideas that women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances."
Domestic appliances? Yikes!
Go Danica.
Posted by Mert at 06:43 PM | Comments (0)
On this date in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall as the very first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. Marshall was instrumental in the dismantling of mandatory racial segregation, and will forever be acknowledged as a champion of Civil Rights.
Posted by Mert at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)
Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke? Ok, if you say so. Works for me. I like Jessica. She seems very nice.
Posted by Mert at 10:55 AM | Comments (0)
Well, she didn't quite give us the storybook finish we were hoping for, but hometown hero Danica Patrick nonetheless put on a fantastic show last Sunday, to say the least. After surviving a couple of potentially race-ending rookie mistakes, Patrick thrilled the 300,000+ on hand at the Indianapolis 500 by actually leading the field with only a few laps to go. Unfortunately for Patrick, she was forced to conserve her fuel, making it impossible to pull out all the stops and sprint to the finish line. Still, Patrick managed an impressive fourth place finish, and made history by becoming the very first woman to ever lead a lap in the Indianapolis 500.
By the way, you know you're doing something right when people start looking for excuses to explain your success. Robby Gordon made a jackass of himself this weekend when he suggested Patrick had an unfair advantage due to her diminutive size. Whatever, dude. If driver size was the real issue, team owners would have been hiring horse jockeys years ago.
Good job, Danica. Way to represent.
Posted by Mert at 08:50 AM | Comments (0)