White is boring in most cases. There’s no color or uniqueness. Most people that purchase iPods use the boring white earbuds that come with the portable players. Most people only think to personalize their music experience through purchasing different cases for their iPods. Even then, most cases are black leather with not much varieties in style. A couple companies out there have decided to change that. Emotibles has created a product called Emotibuds which are flexible charms that grip onto your iPod earbuds to give them some personality and color. They will also work with many other brands and types of earphones. They have based their emotive characters fittingly on emoticons and have expanded their line by featuring them on baby tees and post-its.

In my opinion, Budclicks has more variety and their products are aimed at a larger demographic. At their website you can get everything from stars to skulls. You can even pick them up at Dillards Department stores around the country. Don’t be surprised if you see more teenagers and twenty-somethings rocking to their iPods with something colorful in their ears!

Let’s just say for scenario’s sake you had the free time to create, work, and reap the fruits and vegetables of a backyard garden. There are many benefits to this including having fresh veggies to cook with and make salads. Your diet would be healthier and you would save yourself some dough. However, if you’re vegetables grew into shapes of certain body parts or human figures, would you feel inclined to feast on such abominations?

In the spirit of Spain’s famous Running of the Bulls, the fun loving people of Alaska have started their own version of the event. Instead of using bulls, they used less dangerous critters called reindeer. At Anchorage’s annual Fur Rondy Festival, a group of 500 women went first, followed by a group of around 500 guys. Thankfully, no one got injured and everyone had a lot of fun. The Anchorage Daily News has an excellent article on the race here: Antlers Away. While you’re there, check out their audio slide show and crazy video. This event looks like a great way to promote tourism for winter activities in the fine state of Alaska.

This guy named Butch Brady has invented a tandem snowboard. To make the board, he cut the tips of two snowboard off and bolted them together. I can imagine that a lot of teamwork is needed to make something like this work. Both people must have great balance. It’s a little like a marriage were you have to give up half of the control to make the whole thing work. The person in the front is the front foot, which of course means the person in the back acts as the back foot. As they ride, they have to flex their feet. The person in the front has to go a little before the person in the back.

It sounds pretty tricky to me and probably takes a lot of practice. The board is still in the process of being patented and Butch is in the process of making a three person board. Check out the website at www.tandemboard.com. Wouldn’t this be fun to try?

Here’s a joke:

“We were dressed and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. we turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard. We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi.

The taxi arrived and we opened the front door to leave the house. The cat we put out in the yard, scoots back into the house. We didn’t want the cat shut in the house because she always tries to eat the bird.

I go out to the taxi while my husband went inside to get the cat. The cat runs upstairs with my husband in hot pursuit. Waiting in the cab, I don’t want the driver to know that the house will be empty for the night so I explain to the taxi driver that he will be out soon. “He’s just going upstairs to say goodbye to my mother.”

A few minutes later, he gets into the cab. “Sorry I took so long,” he said as we drove away. “That stupid bitch was hiding under the bed. I had to poke her with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off, so I grabbed her by the neck. Then I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching me. but it worked! I hauled her fat ass downstairs and threw her out into the back yard!”

The cab driver hit a parked car.”

Now this is a dedicated employee! Any HR department would exclaim, “This is the level of dedication we expect from all our staff!”. This reminds me of the recent movie called “RV” where the lead character played by Robin Williams can’t pull himself away from work, even on vacation. He spends a night in a men’s bathroom stall at a trailer park typing away on his laptop. Is anyone out there this dedicated to their work or have a similar story?

You would think that only the male gender of the human species had a habit of scratching their balls. It appears that a certain ungulate called an elk can do the same thing once his antlers reach a certain length. Don’t you wish you could grow long antlers too?