Such A Cry Baby...

You're cutting up an onion for tonights dinner and you're crying like a baby. No matter how much you try and fight it you can't keep from crying. Don't feel too much like a baby because once you hear why you won't feel like such a wuss.

When you cut an onion you release the amino acid sulfoxides from the cells . Those mix with the sulfenic acids to produce propanethiol S-oxide, a volatile sulfur that mixes with the air and enters your eyes. This reacts with the water in your eyes to form sulfuric acid. The burning sulfuric acid causes tears that create more sulfuric acid.

My solution is I put a plastic bag over my head and pull down over my eyes. Other wise some ski goggles will work if you got them.

MUSE MUSE MUSE MUSE MUSE....

Since I am going to see MUSE for the 8th time I think today I figured I'd share a fun fact about my favorite band.

After coming up with their name Muse the band came up with the title for their first song "Muscle Museum" by looking up the word Muse in the dictionary and taking the first word to come before and after and combining them.

Lead singer/lead guitarist/and pianist Matthew Belamy, holds the world record for smashing the most guitars in a single tour. 140 of them in total for the Absolution tour.

Kenny G..G..G.... G.. G.. G... G-Unittttt!

Kenny G.....Back in my middle school and high school days of playing sax I couldn't get enough of this guy. Love him or hate him (you really have no reason to hate him because the man is damn talented) you gotta just dig on that hair.  That ish is signature and so glad he has kept it and I don't see him getting rid of it ever. UNLIKE his last name.

Brace yourself. His real last name is Gorelick. Kenny Gorelick. Not quite the same ring as Kenny G. So don't blame him for shortening it.

On a side note did you know that he is Adam Levine's older brother.  Check out a side by side below and picture Adam with his hair. It's uncanny. I know you agree with me on this. (okay maybe not really brothers at all but nothings impossible)

Yipeeeeee Kai Yay Mothaaa Effers

Since Die Hard 5 "A Good Day To Die Hard" is coming out soon I thought I would share a little fact that many Die Hard fans don't know. I sure didn't. Normally I write out my facts but this time I thought I would just quote the man who wrote the article where I read it. Daniel O'Brien wrote this for www.cracked.com Click the link to read his fun thoughts on how to not screw up the latest movie.

"A Good Day to Die Hard is the first script that was written just to be a Die Hard movie. Ever. The first Die Hard was originally written as a sequel to Commando (or a sequel to The Detective, depending on which source you consult), but when Arnold dropped out, they changed it at the last minute into a Die Hard. Die Hard 2: Die Harder was originally a book called 58 Minutes about a cop named Frank Malone who probably never even Die Harded a little bit. Die Hard With a Vengeance was originally supposed to be Lethal Weapon 4, but that also changed at the last minute, probably because turning Danny Glover's "too old for this shit" good cop into a "too racist for this shit" lunatic upset the buddy cop dynamic established in the first three. Finally, Live Free or Die Hard was originally called WW3.com, and it was based on a Wired article. About hacking. No one has ever started a movie with the intention of writing a Die Hard. Good Die Hard scripts are like McClane himself; they're the right script in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Bored?? Why not just hold your breath as long as you can.

Got 22 minutes to spare and want to kill some time? Try holding your breath. If you can do it for 22 minutes and 01 seconds then you have officially beaten the world record for holding ones breath under water. That's right. I am not making this up... TWENTY TWOOOOOO FRICKING MINUTES!!!!!

Stig Severninsen of Denmark broke his last record  of 20 minutes 10 seconds by dropping his heart rate down to 30bpm while submerged in 30 degree water.

Canis Majoris- A Star Bigger Than Tom Cruise

So you think the post about what you had for lunch at McDonalds is important enough for the world to care about do you? Or perhaps you think someone as famous as Tom Cruise really matters. Well lets put something into perspective shall we in terms of the universe.

When we boil it down we are just are not even a single atom on a speck of dust in the existence the Red Hypergiant star known as VY Canis Majoris in the constellation Canis Major which is 4,900 light years away. Or 28,812,000,000,000,000 miles away if you care to fly there.

Canis Majoris is almost 2 BILLION miles in diameter.  Just to put that into perspective a little our own sun which is the biggest object in our solar system is only 864,327 miles in diameter. I included a photo of what the sun would look like in comparison next to Canis Majoris

Now Canis Majoris was as compared to the largest thing on Earth it would be the height of Mt. Everest which is 6 miles tall and the Earth would be a mere golf ball next to it.  You could fit 7 QUADRILLION earths inside Canis Majoris. That is equivalent to the state of Texas covered in golf balls 22 inches deep.


How significant do you feel now?

RUN FOREST RUN!!!!

Todays FFF is dedicated to my friend Greg Hamblock who started his run across America today to raise money so 2 kids can go to private school.

So on the topic of running there is a tribe of 50,000 people called Rarámuri, or Tarahumara, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of NW Mexico who essentially do nothing but run. Rarámuri means "runner on foot" which is exactly what they do. And I mean they run EVERYWHERE. They run to communicate, they run to hunt, they run to travel, they run just for the fun of it.  They have races where some will run 200-300 miles in a single session and cover over 500 miles in a single week. They also do a relay race where they kick a wooden ball as they run from runner to runner which can last several days without a break.

If you want to help out please donate a couple bucks to Greg's cause.
http://www.indiegogo.com/perspiration4education