Now that NASA is out of the space shuttle business, they are hoping the private sector will step up and fill the cargo transport needs.  SpaceX (located in Hawthorne, CA) has been preparing for some time, and has now successfully delivered a cargo capsule to the International Space Station.  This is the first private company to have delivered a cargo capsule to a space-bound destination.

http://www.latimes.com/videogallery/70134054/News/Raw-Video–Dragon-arrives-at-space-station#pl-66238212

Click Here for the full story from LA Times.

Here’s an oldie but a goodie.  Some friends and I were talking about various novelty songs, and this one came up.  I had no idea they had a video for it!  This one should get some kind of award for the highest number of bad puns per minute.

Not only is Brian very talented with his guitar, he’s very funny too.  This is a classic:

Water sales has become a huge business these days.  There are stores that specialize and sell ONLY water.  That seems amusing to me, like the old Saturday Night Live “Scotch Boutique”, where they specialized in selling just tape.

I don’t drink water.  You probably shouldn’t either.  Think about it for a few minutes: fish swim around in water and pee in it.  That’s nothing I want to drink.  And, it’s even worse than that!  They drink it too, then pee it out again!  Horrors!

Once it’s boiled and flavored with something like coffee beans, it becomes somewhat palatable.  Unfortunately the cafeteria downstairs at work hasn’t yet mastered this art.  “somewhat” would be a large stretch in their case.

The other thing I find inane with water is the recommendations on how MUCH you should drink per day.  I tell you, if I drank as much (of any liquid) as doctors recommend, I’d be in the bathroom all day.  Chugging down 3 liters of water per day like clockwork just seems ridiculous to me.  You see, our bodies have this neat mechanism built in.  It’s called “thirst”.  When your body needs liquid, this “thirst” mechanism is triggered and you find you want to drink something.  It’s very clever.  Here's what I do:  When I get thirsty, I drink something (well, not water. I mean … come ON!  Fish pee?).  When I’m not thirsty, I don’t drink anything.  It’s a great system.

In addition to not having to run to the bathroom all the time, I don’t have to carry around water bottles, or have big 64oz cups of soda on my desk for constant imbibing. I save money, effort, and it’s quite convenient to utilize this built-in liquid “fuel gage” type system.

Hot off the press:

http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/12889142

This is one of our more up-beat and less suicidal numbers 😉

Enjoy!  You can also play it with the player widget on the right hand side on this website.

This cracked me up when it aired many years ago.  I’m glad somebody found it and posted it!

I ran across these two videos by Peter Sellers, doing Beatles songs in a “different” way than they do!

Here’s one where he does “A Hard Day’s Night” Shakespearian style:

And this one is “She Loves You” as Dr Strangelove would have done it:

Here’s a fun thing you can play with – Google insights for Search

You can put in a search term, and optionally some filters, and then the system will show you how much (over time, since 2004) that particular thing was searched for.

For example, I put in “Field Camera”.  Here is the result I got:

This shows some query activity over the years, but that interest has peaked starting in 2011

Put in your own favorite thing and see how often people are searching for it.  In fact, put your own name in!