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William “The Fridge” Perry: Sad but true

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

For those who remember the 85′ Chicago Bears, they didn’t just win the Superbowl, they made football exciting. Recently an article appeared in ESPN about the long history after football of one of the team’s most colorful figures, William “The Refrigerator” Perry and his battles with Guillain-BarrĂ© syndrome as well as alcohol. One thing that stands out in this article is former Bears coach Mike Ditka still working to help him after so many years. It says alot about Ditka and coaching in general that once you are someone’s coach, the bound is there for life.

The Fridge

[ ESPN]

The 1,000 Mph Car is Here

Friday, February 11th, 2011

And after breaking the land speed record the next logical move would be to hit the drive through. “Ah yeah I’d like a cheeseburger, large fries, and are you guys still selling those chicken poppers?”

[Bloodhound SSC]

Comcast: WTF? Really?

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Sure they may ice your cable signal, throttle your bandwidth back and drop your VOIP calls every now and then, but never let it be said they don’t have a sense of humor.

[WTF Comcast]

Coming Soon: Helix Innovative Online Training

Friday, February 11th, 2011

The people have spoke and most fortunately not with pitch forks and torches. Over here in Helix Innovative land we are gearing up to create user friendly online training sessions for various aspects of technology related to our services and products. ‘Bout damned time if you ask me. Stay tuned we will be filling you in as we go forward and how to sign up and get your hands on these fine online courses.

P.S. The jury is still out on those donut men on the temp site so don’t hold it against us.

Note to Self: Never mess with a Mongoose.

Friday, February 11th, 2011

I knew these little guys were fast, but wow!

Read about more stuff that can kill you at [National Geographic]

X Men First Class Trailer

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Weird choice of a movie title, what I am upgrading from X Men Coach? I know its a dumb joke, still anything with Professor X in it is worth watching in my book.

[Xmen Movies]

The Oatmeal: So funny you will pee your pants.

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

The Oatmeal Web Work

This is Mathew Inman’s site dedicated to his insanely funny sarcastic humor about all sorts of subjects with technology being one of them. This stuff is so close to home. Like reading about Eddie Van Halen watching Spinal Tap for the first time and saying “hey that wasn’t funny at all, that crap actually happened to me.”Ahh the long hard road of rock and roll.

With no further commercial interruptions tumble down the rabbit hole and click below. I am definitely buying the book when its out!

[The Oatmeal]