Below is a fantastic animation by Rufus Blacklock showing the evolution of Formula 1 cars since 1950. The shape for each year is the design associated to the car that won that particular years championship. I love that you can see the engine move from the front of the car to the rear of the car and the number of cylinders changing across time as the regulations have changed.
Eating Vegemite By The Spoonful
Watching this movie I was laughing so hard I snorted out loud and had tears running down my cheeks! I’m not sure what was more funny, the fact that an American was eating the Vegemite knowing full well that they don’t like it or that the notion of eating Vegemite by the spoonful is hard for me to deal with and I love the stuff.
Amazing Flair Bartending
I’ve seen some fairly basic flair bartending in person and some advanced flair bartending examples online but the following video of Alexander Shtifanov showing off his skills on Ukraine’s Got Talent is something to behold!
Let There Be Light
Since Claire & I moved into our house a couple years ago, we’ve had a constant battle with the lights throughout the house.
Like most modern houses, it has a mixture of standard light bulbs and the small halogen lights. Neither one of those types of lights have been particularly long lasting, however the small halogen down lights have been particularly flaky.
In the last few months, we’ve had a collection of different light globes blow throughout the house and after replacing the blown light bulbs – no banana. We tried switching different bulbs from other light sockets, different brand lights and different types/styles of lights but to no avail. Claire and I were at the point where we thought the light socket had some how died because no matter what we tried, we couldn’t get the lights to work.
Today we tried again and were able to get them to work with a lot of wiggling & jiggling of the light bulb in the socket. I’m not really sure how that works but even when screwed in tight to the socket, the light bulbs won’t shine but after unscrewing them a little, wiggling this way, jiggle that way – they seem to come good. You’d assume that if it works less than 1/4 of a turn from tight, that it’d definitely work when tight but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Despite the annoyance of them not working for so long, its good to have all the lights in the house working again.
Man Vs Metro
Bear Grylls is the face and host of Man Vs Wild, a massively popular TV show where Bear is dropped into some of the most inhabitable, remove locations on the planet and demonstrates first hand how to survive.
Having a black belt in Karate, Bear spent three years with the British Special Air Service (21 SAS) division where he specialised as a combat survival instructor, trained in evasive driving, parachuting, demolitions, trauma medic, unarmed combat and jungle warfare.
Elliot Loney on the other hand is not trained in any of those things but does a mean Bear Grylls impersonation, first seen when Bear got lost in a camping store and now as he manages to navigate his way to safety from the treacherous urban jungle!