A snail can sleep for three years.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.

In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.

It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.

Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.

McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.

The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.

One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.

Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.

The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.

Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.

25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.

26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.

The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.

US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.

22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.

Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.

The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.

The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.

American adults have been educated for the longest time.

The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.

72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.

The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.

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Walking in NYC - pt.3


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Walking in NYC, 2007


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By Joel Stein:

 YOU CAN argue about whether it's better to live here or New York or San Francisco, but one thing is for sure: Los Angeles is the best place to die.

The rest of the country is still stuck in the somber, generic, sterile, 20th century funeral mind-set, the kind that's all focused on death. In the L.A. mortuary community, on the other hand, it's not even cool to use the word "funeral." Now it's an End of Life Celebration. And, at 35 years old, I was already a little late in planning mine.

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, author of "Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death," told me that if I wanted to have a decent video — a basic staple for any End of Life Celebration — I should start shooting now. When I asked Cullen if making my mourners watch a movie about me would come off as a little self-absorbed, she told me that I had wisdom to pass down and that I was stuck in a pre-YouTube mentality. "Nobody would find it strange if they went to your funeral and saw your giant face on a screen talking incessantly about yourself," she said. "In fact, they'd expect it."

To plan my party, Cullen sent me to Lynn Isenberg, who turned her novel, "The Funeral Planner," into Lights Out Enterprises — a kind of party planning service for dead people. Isenberg, who charges $1,000 per fiesta, has planned some sweet end-of-lifers. One includes a $75,000 video complete with animation and underwater photography; another established a fund so a guy could force his family to see the Detroit Red Wings every year. Though that was clever, I figured I could up the ante by making my family see every new Kevin Smith movie.

Isenberg sent me two long forms to fill out: one for me and one for my wife. After reviewing them, Isenberg impressed me with her can-do attitude. Regarding a question about whom I'd like to speak at my funeral, she wrote back: "As for Thomas Pynchon, I would try to contact now and see if there's something he'd like to write about you or say about you on audio/video so that you have it to show, assuming he precedes you in death."

We agreed on an end-of-life dinner at the sixth-highest Zagat-rated restaurant in L.A. I'd have a very small guest list because I don't care who gets mad for being left out, me being dead and all. They'll show my movie, and I'll pick four people to speak for four minutes each. Three if Pynchon comes through.

Like every event in L.A., I'd need a gift bag. Lash Fary, who runs the gift bag company Distinctive Assets, thought he could hook me up with two bags: one for any celebrities in attendance — which might be a problem because my one celebrity friend is Robert Goulet — and one for everyone else. Fary was pretty sure he could get chocolate-covered Altoids and some copies of the L.A. Times. And, if I mention the products in a posthumous column, probably Solstice sunglasses and a T-shirt with the Star of David in Swarovski crystals. Done and done.

For my cemetery, I decided on Hollywood Forever, right next to Paramount Studios. Not only do they show movies there in the summer, house lots of celebs and a tremendous amount of headstones with Russian faces etched in that '80s county-fair, computer-drawn T-shirt style, but they have a hot receptionist, road signs written in that "Addams Family" font and a general ironic-cool vibe that says: Sure I'm dead, but I get it.

I was leaning toward being cremated (everyone's doing it, Cullen assured me) and put into a compartment in these adorable, tiled, 5-foot-tall Thai stupas in the Buddhist garden. Then, on a tour, Jay Gianukos — who, for prices starting at $2,500, directs bio movies for the cemetery — told me about a new virtual plot up in Fernwood. They'll wrap your body in cloth, let you biodegrade into the ground and mark your body only by a GPS machine that will show your video when visitors arrive on the correct patch of land. Even more than a huge statue of myself, like Johnny Ramone has, an eco-burial seemed like the most effective way of telling everyone that I'm better than them.

Finally, because my wife, Cassandra, who is always looking to embarrass me, told Isenberg that before we go to sleep I say "Good night my sweet girl. Sweet dreams," Isenberg suggested that I record that so she can hear it for a little while after I'm gone. Because what could help you fall asleep better than a dead guy talking about your dreams? I might even put on a brown Читать далее...

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I love having sex with him! I like everything new with him! And I'm still in love with him his way of life. We are so bitchy alike, bitchy the same.

I'm absolutely healthy (that means that I can walk and drive, but no heels at all).
So, how was your weekend?? Mine was rather ok, actually boring, cuz nothing happened.
To Kat_Davis: Kat, pics from that party are awesome!! Wanna see more! Have you got pics from Halloween (the old one), that Jonathan photographed? They were really funny.

OMG! That was the hardest night ever. I can't feel my feet anymore ('specially the left one). The reason is a party in Ultra Suede (West Hollywood), and after dancing we (me & Steve) took a taxi to Pasadena, and then decided to walk a little (ok, to walk a lot) to my house. And I grazed my feet so bad that had to call emergency and they even gave me some pills. Very nice evening.
N.B.: NO MORE WALKING IN NEW BOOTS!

Giles: We have to talk.
Buffy: I don't suppose this is about happy squirrels?
Giles: Vampires.
Buffy: That was my next guess.

Xander: I laugh in the face of danger. Then run and hide until it goes away.

Willow: Happy hunting.
Buffy: Wish me monsters.

Xander: [to Buffy] Can I have you? Duh... heh-heh... can I help you?

Buffy: Who are you?
Angel: Let's just say ... I'm a friend.
Buffy: Yeah, well, maybe I don't want a friend.
Angel: I didn't say I was yours.

Buffy: Angel?
Angel: Hmm?
Buffy: Do you snore?
Angel: I don't know. It's been a long time since anybody's been in a position to let me know.

Xander: Now I'm sayin' something. You saw him naked?

Buffy: I invited you into my home and you attacked my family. Why?
Angel: Why not? I killed mine. I killed their friends. And their friends' children. For a hundred years I offered an ugly death to everyone I met, and I did it with a song in my heart.

The Master: A dream is a wish your heart makes.

Principal Snyder: There're some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense.
Giles: No, actually that would be one of the five.

Buffy: Sorry, but I'm an old fashioned gal. I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and the women have the babies.

Buffy: I wasn't gonna use violence. I don't always use violence. Do I?
Xander: The important thing is you believe that.

[Angel tracks Buffy to the graveyard where she's patrolling.]
Angel: What are you saying, you want to have a date?
Buffy: No.
Angel: You don't want to have a date?
Buffy: Who said "date?" I ... I, I never said "date."
Angel: Right. You just want to have coffee or something.
Buffy: Coffee?
Angel: I knew this was going to happen.
Buffy: What? What do you think is happening?
Angel: You're sixteen years old. I'm two hundred and forty-one ...
Buffy: I've done the math.
Angel: You don't know what you're doing, you don't know what you want ...
Buffy: Oh. No, I ... I think I do. I want out of this conversation. [starts to stalk off]
Angel: Listen, if we date, you and I both know one thing's going to lead to another.
Buffy: One thing already has led to another. You think it's a little late to be reading me a warning label?
Angel: I'm just trying to protect you. This could get out of control.
Buffy: Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?
Angel: [grabs her roughly] This isn't some fairy tale. When I kiss you, you don't wake up from a deep sleep and live happily ever after.
Buffy: No. When you kiss me I want to die.

Drusilla: Do you love my insides? The parts you can't see?
Spike: Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet.

Ah, the famous meme. If you're on my friends list, respond! Pretty please?

1. Can you cook? No, only pancakes
2. What was your dream growing up? To be a surfer
3. What talent do you wish you had? I wish I could fly, even if it's broomsick.
4. Favorite place? Angel Island near SF
5. Favorite vegetable? tomato
6. What was the last book you read? 'Free for all' by Don Borchert
7. What zodiac sign are you? Leo
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Only ears
9. Worst Habit? Sometimes I drink alone
10. Do we know each other outside of Livejournal? oh...Yeah, kindda))
11. What is your favorite sport? Volleyball, baseball
12. Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude? Optimistic
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Calling smb
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you? Car crash
15. Tell me one weird fact about you. I can sleep in my car sometimes
16. Do you have any pets? No
17. Do you know how to do the Macarena? Yes
18. What time is it where you are now? 12 am
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Scary
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? Lips
21. Would you be my partner in crime or my conscience? Anywhere
22. What color eyes do you have? Blue
23. Ever been arrested? No
24. Bottle or Draft? Bottle
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it? Have a party
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew? With fruits
27. What's your favorite bar to hang at? Viper room (LA) or  Twin Palms or Wetzels Pretzels in Pasadena
28. Do you believe in ghosts? Yes
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? Listening to music as loud as possible
30. Do you swear a lot? No
31. Biggest pet peeve? Rumors
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself? Noisy
33. In one word, how would you describe me? ---
34. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? (or should I fill it right now and here?)

Sometimes I just don't believe in reality!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous" : tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron : in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, with the exception of North America.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 byeliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
"Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No president of the United states was an only child.
And last and definitely most important :
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!

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Central FINRA office, 2.19 pm, LA, Ca
I'm sitting in my office. Actually it's dinner time, and I'm going to visit the nearest cafe and drink some coffee.
I was totally stressed yesterday, and have a strange desire of visiting my psychologist friend Katrina. Unfortunately, she's now offline, may be she's listening some patient and discovering the secrets of human soul.
Well, I gotta go. Sorry for the post with no information at all!)

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Slovakia (pt.1)

Sunday, 8.50 am, LA, USA.
So, hello there! I am back to Cali, so I'm back to you. Missed you a lot. I gotta say that wi-fi was absolutely awful in Slovakia, so and my laptop was showing me mistakes (meaning smth like 'fuck off', I guess).
Anyway that was amazing to say goodbye to LA for a week)) Ha-ha-ha. I guess, my boss believed in my 'illness'. We left LAX at 7 pm and after a few hours of terrible flight we were in Slovakia, then we got our bus tickets and moved to Jasna. That was so cool!!! Tasty food, nice people and snow (though we have snow in Ca)! Guys, you should visit this country!!
A huge thanx to Jesse and Susan who made that trip so awesome!

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OMG, my friends just asked me to join their weekend trip to Slovakia! Isn't that great?! We're gonna skiing there!!!
Wow!!!
*went to search my passport*

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"Does this town need a hug? What happened? 'No Country For Old Men,' 'Sweeney Todd,' 'There Will Be Blood'? All I can say is, thank God for teen pregnancy." -- Jon Stewart on the "psychopathic killer movies" nominated

"These past three and a half months have been very tough. The town was torn apart by a bitter writer's strike, but I'm happy to say that the fight is over. So tonight, welcome to the makeup sex." -- Jon Stewart

"Even 'Norbit' got a nomination, which I think is great. Too often, the Academy ignores movies that aren't good." -- Jon Stewart

"Tom Hanks has won two Academy Awards, although he was not nominated tonight. So if you ask me, he's got no place being here. He's got a lot of nerve, that guy." -- Jon Stewart, introducing presenter Hanks

"Mostly we just sit around making catty comments about the outfits you're all wearing at home." -- Jon Stewart on how the Kodak Theater audience spends the commercial breaks

"I happened to have taken Spanish in high school ... I believe he told his mother where the library is." -- Jon Stewart "translating" Javier Bardem's Spanish-language acceptance speech

Personal opinion: the worst ceremony ever! Jon Stewart's jokes (okay, some of them) were not funny. All my predictions about winners failed. Damn, I lost not only a couple of bucks, but a belief in Oscar ceremony. I do understand that those people who give there votes to some actor/movie etc. are qualified, but I think they should ask movie-goers about their opinion!! That will be fair!

 

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Oh, how I love movies! Wanna know a person, ask about his favorite movie. So, I've just watched Bedazzled with Liz Hurley & Brendan Fraser. How nice Elizabeth as a Devil. And how funny this comedy is.