Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-17

  • Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3… Check two… Check.. check #
  • Haiti PM: "Hundreds of thousands dead". 🙁 #
  • Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti! #
  • @wagnerofficial Happy Birthday, Jill! 🙂 #
  • Geaux Saints! #
  • HAHA! Kurt Warner sucks! #
  • Go Jackets! Way to beat UNC! #
  • You're still Cleveland and you still suck!!!! #
  • At the moment of my death… I hope there's bacon! #

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Cuteness Overload!

Here’s Au Revior Simone’s new video for “Another Likely Story”, one of my favorite songs from 2009:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MESdwdFY4iQ&feature=youtu.be

It’s not the best video I’ve ever seen, but the girls are super cute in it!

Enjoy!

Georgia Tech hires Groh

I think this is good news. Opinions may differ:

Al Groh says he’s heading to Georgia Tech to be the Yellow Jackets’ defensive coordinator.

The former Virginia coach told The Associated Press on Friday that he set out several criteria before deciding where he wanted to coach in 2010, and Georgia Tech meets them. The top priority was taking a job where there’s a chance to win championships.

The Yellow Jackets are coming off their first outright ACC title since 1990 and played in the Orange Bowl. But they struggled on defense, firing coordinator Dave Wommack shortly after the season.

via Groh heading to Georgia Tech to run defense.

Disaster News Dump

– First of all, let me just say that my thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti. I’ve been watching CNN all day, and it appears that the death toll will be in the hundreds of thousands (500,000 is not impossible here). It’s heartbreakingly sad, and I hope that rescue workers can get there as soon as possible.

– Speaking of disasters, a mystery object flew by Earth yesterday. The object, which was no larger than 50 feet across, came within 76,000 miles of our planet, or roughly a third of the way to the moon. That’s pretty close in planetary terms! Astronomers disagree about what it might have been. Italian scientists Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero think it’s space junk, but NASA is not so sure. Given the object’s trajectory, the space agency thinks that it’s unlikely to be space junk and is more likely to be a small asteroid.

– Fast food giant KFC is suing itself. Sort of. It’s complicated.

– A lost and hungry pig made her way to the drive-through at a Quizno’s in Lake of the Pines, California last week and attracted the attention of employees by oinking into the microphone. They fed her some Quizno’s while they waited for Animal Control to arrive. The pig was malnourished, but is now doing fine and should have no problems being adopted.

– I’m not a big fan of “emotional distress” in lawsuits, but I think I agree with this one: a family is suing two funeral homes… because they included a mother’s brain in the personal affects given to the family. The woman (named only as “M.F.R.” in the suit) died in a car accident in Utah. The body was prepared there, then returned to her home in New Mexico for the funeral service and burial. During the embalming of someone who died from trauma, organs in the damaged area are typically removed from the body and placed in plastic bags (which makes sense: if someone died from a bullet wound to the head, it would be kind of gross to have brains leaking out everywhere). Somewhere along the line, the bag containing the woman’s brain was mixed in with the bag of her personal items (clothes, purse, etc.). The two funeral homes blame each other, and the family is presumably having nightmares about the entire incident.

– Speaking of gross, I guess you’ve heard by now that a Mexican drug cartel killed an opponent, skinned his face, and then stitched it to a soccer ball.

– Lastly, in lighter news, fans of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia might like this pic from a local newscast, where the dreaded Dick Towel made an appearance:

Dick Towel

Yummy Cupcakes!

The Steelers season might be over, but that doesn’t mean that I can’t drool over the cupcakes at Coco’s Cupcake Café in Pittsburgh… specifically this cupcake:

Steelers Cupcake

That looks delicious! You should check out the other flavors of cupcakes this place makes – I’d kill for the recipes for the Banana Peanut Butter, Snickerdoodle and Chocolate Stout cupcakes!

FRIDAY FUN: Old and New Hotness

Not a whole lot going on here at the house – I’m in the midst of the Great MP3 Cleanup of 2010, and checking the artwork and dates on 14,000 files takes a surprising amount of time (sarcasm) – so I’ll just post two quick pics.

Dita von Teese posted this pic on her Twitpic account. It’s apparently a very young Dita in her “first corset”:

Old Dita von Teese pic

What do ya think? I like her hair! Sure black is good, but variety is good also.

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REVIEW: Flip Burger Boutique

I subscribe to a blog called A Hamberger Today, which discusses such eternal topics as “regular bun vs. ciabatta bun” or “mayo vs. no mayo”. They also review burger joints and link to other reviews of such places. So when I saw glowing reviews of a place called Flip Burger Boutique in my original hometown of Atlanta, I just knew I had to go there over the Christmas holidays. As luck would have it, Lisa wanted to meet an old friend (who now lives outside Chattanooga) at some point midway between Atlanta and that city… so I had the Sunday after Christmas free. My Dad offered to take me to Flip in exchange for some computer lessons. Score!

Flip Burger Boutique (exterior)

We got there around 1:30 or so on a Sunday afternoon. The place was swingin’ – so much so that the line was out the door! We faced around a half hour wait for a table, but thankfully two spots opened up at the bar, so we were able to sit immediately.

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