This is Chris Bryan's latest video. This, more than other slow motion surfing videos shot on a Phantom, scared the shit out of me. There's something so menacing about waves so big moving so slowly. Good use of M83 on the soundtrack.
This day at Teahupoo- Aug 27th 2011 during the Billabong Pro waiting period is what many are calling the biggest and gnarliest Teahupoo ever ridden. Chris Bryan was fortunate enough to be there working for Billabong on a day that will go down in the history of big wave surfing. The French Navy labeled this day a double code red prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone that entered the water. Kelly Slater described the day by saying "witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people's lives all day long, it's life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life."
Family Matters is an American sitcom about a middle-class African-American family living in Chicago, Illinois, which ran on national television for nine full seasons. The series was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
I really had no idea Family Matters was a Perfect Strangers spin off. Consider my mind blown.
Also, Family Matters is the second-longest running sitcom with a mostly black cast. Family Matters had 215 episodes, The Jerffersons had 253. The Cosby Show had only 197, yet somehow 201 are in syndication.
Well, I'd watch this twice. Sounds like Chuck Klosterman doing the interviewing.
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with NEW YORK magazine calling the event 'a marvel of pure craft" and TIME magazine lamenting "we may never dance again.' SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.
This is kind of nutso and reminds me of the 'Craziest possible mountain biking video Kottke posted a couple a couple weeks ago...except this is in the SNOW. There's only a few of the harrowing cliffs, but still.
Filmed at the end of November 2010 somewhere in Bavaria. Riders are Max Schumann and Maxi Dickerhoff. Snow cover was about 50 or 60cm. With hikers trampling down the snow and making a trail then some good riding is still possible. Took us 2hrs of pushing and carrying to get to the trail head but, once again, the up hill grunt was well worth it. Considering these guys were running with normal downhill tyres (without spikes) then this is some of the fastest mountain trail snow riding I have seen. Some sections of the trail are pretty exposed too, kiss your ass good bye if you fuck up.
You've seen, by now, the Shit Girls Say video that has spawned countless other videos of common/stereotypical things people of one group say to people of another group. Maybe you thought to yourself, "Hey, I'd really like to make one of these videos." NOW YOU CAN. With the "Shit 'So and Sos' Say to 'So and Sos' Video Random Idea Generator" you are mere moments away from your very own video idea. Click the button below to get your own idea TODAY!
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Some examples from the most highly rated answer are train rail distances, modern plumbing, and more surprisingly to me television remotes and the positions of windows in homes. I say surprisingly because I've heard train rail distances and modern plumbing described as based on old systems, while the other 2 I hadn't thought about before.
There are obvious, but interesting, well reasoned thoughts on education, media distribution, and American health care (based on when people worked for one company for life).
If instead, we had a keyboard structure that was truly black/white chromatic (with perhaps another color indicator for all the C's on the keyboard to enable judgment of where you are within an octave), the student's problem of having to learn 12 patterns (roughly) for each structure would be reduced six-fold. There would only ever be two patterns to learn for any given structure.
I couldn't find a post on MetaFilter on the same topic, but I bet there is one. Here are all posts tagged 'Obsolete'. Also, in a quick search couldn't find one on Reddit, but I think this question is perfect for both of those communities...
The shrinking middle class needs to be convinced that there’s a point to all of this — other than banal hassles and meaningless toil and a death prolonged by for-profit hospitals, insurers and the medical/pharmaceutical industry — and Obama’s recess appointment today is intended to show these depressed, overworked people that he cares about their Sisyphean plight.
Earlier in the season, I noticed that it seemed like the Patriots were always kicking off to start games. I didn't think a lot about it until a Boston Globe article this weekend made it clear how often they do this. I only noticed because when I used to play Madden, I'd kick off to start every game, too. Since 9/7/08 (opening day of the 08 season (the day Brady got hurt)), the Patriots have played 65 games and won the coin toss 43% of the time. In each of those 28 games, they've kicked off in the 1st quarter and received the ball to start the 2nd half.
If you talk to Bill Belichick, he'll tell you they talk about it before every game, “We discuss that every week. If we win the toss, if we lose the toss, what the wind is going to be, whatever the conditions are. We talk about it before every game.’’ I don't believe that at all, actually, but so far, only one team has made the Patriots receive to start the game.
Incidentally, a study from earlier in the year said that the team that won the coin flip won the football game 52.6% of the time.
A friend was telling me about this idea a couple weeks ago, but I forgot to follow up or track it down, or look it up or whatever, and then I saw a Tweet from @kolbisneat reminding me about it. I'd always thought that the American accent had evolved out of the British accent, but it seems more likely that the British accent is what evolved after the upperclass started dropping their Rs.
First, let’s be clear: the terms “British accent” and “American accent” are oversimplifications; there were, and still are, innumerable constantly-evolving regional British and American accents. What most Americans think of as “the British accent” is the standardized Received Pronunciation, also known as “BBC English.”
While there are many differences between today’s British accents and today’s American accents, perhaps the most noticeable difference is rhotacism. While most American accents are rhotic, the standard British accent is non-rhotic. (Rhotic speakers pronounce the ‘R’ sound in the word “hard.” Non-rhotic speakers do not.)
So, what happened?
In 1776, both American accents and British accents were largely rhotic. It was around this time that non-rhotic speech took off in southern England, especially among the upper class. This “prestige” non-rhotic speech was standardized, and has been spreading in Britain ever since.
UPDATE:
Cripes, just realized I never linked to the article. That was really dumb. I added a link above and here it is here. Click on it several times. Poor form.
In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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