No more mice or keyboards...

Okay, this is really, really exciting...this morning, Microsoft unveiled one of its top secret innovations, a computer that you interact with using your hands rather than a keyboard and mouse. The very idea of using a computer the way you would a pair of scissors and some glue, absolutely changes the user's approach to computing! I can't wait to see where this next step gets us. Check it out:



Watch the story, so cool!

Walmart launching new wine label

>Wal-Mart announced that, on January 1, 2008, it will begin offering
>customers a new discount item - Wal-Mart's own brand of wine.
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>The world's largest Retail chain is teaming up with Ernest & Julio
>Gallo Winery of California to produce the spirits at an affordable
>price, in the $2- $5 range.
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>Wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a bottle of Wal-Mart
>brand into their shopping carts, but "there is a market for inexpensive
>wine," said Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at University of
>Arkansas,Bentonville. She said, "But the right name is important."
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>Customer surveys were conducted to determine the most attractive name
>for the Wal-Mart wine brand. The top surveyed names in order of
>popularity were:
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>10. Chateau Traileur Parc
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>9. White Trashfindel
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>8. Big Red Gulp
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>7 World Championship Riesling
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>6. NASCARbernet
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>5. Chef Boyardeaux
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>4. Peanut Noir
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>3. I Can't Believe it's not Vinegar
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>2. Grape Expectations
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>1. Nasti Spumante

Yo quiero Taco Bell!

Woo hoo!! After introducing the "fourth meal" concept (genius, love it), Taco Bell is now going to start testing breakfast items!

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From Chicago Tribune

"In addition to Burger King, McDonald's soon could be facing increased competition from Subway, Taco Bell and Wendy's, all of which are testing breakfast products...

Wendy's has said that its breakfast test, at 160 restaurants, is to be expanded to 20 percent to 30 percent of its 6,600 restaurants by the end of the year.

Subway is testing a toasted breakfast sandwich at 7,000 outlets that offer breakfast, while Taco Bell is testing a breakfast program in four markets. No date has been set for either to expand nationally.

Taco Bell spokesman Rob Poetsch said the chain, which is offering breakfast burritos and soft tacos, wants to "distinguish ourselves from the biscuit and muffin crowd.""

Cat eats at table with a FORK

This is just unbelievable...she washes the cat's paws, ties a napkin around her neck, and puts gourmet cat food on fancy china, give the cat a fork...and they're off to the races. Video has audio:

Forking Cat

Great deal...

Check this out, cute Jansport fleeces that are about 70% off. Originally, they were $39.95, and now they're $11.99.


JanSport Pursuit Fleece Crew - Men's


JanSport Pursuit Fleece Crew - Women's

ABC News

Sent to me by a friend...I think I would have assigned the story to a different anchor :)

"Am I the only one who sees a similarity here?"

Chocolate Party?

Chocolate & Coffee Tasting
Originally uploaded by SiFu Renka.

wow!

Manish was right...

I'll be darned. Manish was right. He used to always say, "Brady, you tell us you're in Thailand, but we KNOW you're in Chinatown." They said they were in San Francisco taking engagement pictures. But this sure looks like the Chinatown el stop in Chicago...

WOW!!!

OH MY GOD!!! I placed 16th in my age division (female 30-34), out of 75, at the Wrigley Start Early Run!

Chicago - Anais Birthday - Scaring the Cat

Chicago - Anais Birthday - Scaring the Cat
Originally uploaded by brady frequent traveler and eater.

Harry Potter 5 in Imax 3D....at least part of it

From Imax Website....

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, from Warner Bros. Pictures, will be digitally converted into An IMAX 3D Experience®. Using proprietary 2D to 3D conversion technology, the finale of the movie (approximately 20 minutes) will be converted into IMAX® 3D.

WTF!!!!!!!

Local News being outsourced to India.
May 11, 2007

When is local journalism not really local? When it's about Pasadena and written by someone in India.

James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will be paid $12,000 a year. The other will work in Bangalore for $7,200. FULL STORY

A virtual tour of my hometown

I've always wanted to take you guys to Mexico City. But since that won't be happening anytine soon I found these wonderful photo sites (uploaded by a local helicopter pilot) with mostly aerial photos of just about every inch of the city, rich, poor and in between. Most of the photos on both sites are the same, but also quite a few differences. I think if in any way I can try to convey the massive crazy place I grew up in this is it....Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

http://mexicocity.fotopic.net/

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html

Crazy Japanese Spa

So if you thought the red wine pool was nuts, wait till you see the green tea, the sake and the coffee pools!!! Check it out...

http://www.yunessun.com/english/yunessun.html

My nephew Diego

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlc0AtlJo1w

The Red Sea

Visitors bathe in a spa pool filled with wine in Hakone, Japan. The intoxicating spa was installed in 2005 and is said to be a rejuvenation treatment for the body. Red wine is poured into it multiple times a day.

Cat too scary for Canadian mail carriers

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) -- Canada's postal system has stopped delivering mail to a home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after a mail carrier was scared away by a "very threatening cat," the Winnipeg Free Press said Friday.

A Canada Post spokeswoman said the agency was concerned about the safety of its carriers, although it hoped for an amicable solution to its dispute with cat-owner John Samborski.

"The letter carrier who delivers mail there ... was brought up on a farm, she is very comfortable with animals," spokeswoman Kathi Neal told the newspaper. "Apparently this is a very threatening cat."

Samborski told the paper that his 8-year-old, declawed, black cat Shadow is docile, and it was "ridiculous" for Canada Post to make him to pick up his mail from a post office instead of delivering it to his door.

Shadow "likes to eat and sleep and cuddle. You could drop a bomb and he'd just open one eye, take a look, then close them and go back to sleep," Samborski, 41, told the newspaper.

Monsters!!!

IMG_3071
Originally uploaded by carolyn8.

Culinary Boot Camp

Click the banner to learn more, looks cool

Confused by your neighbors? Then Ask a Mexican!

something about the bolded sentence below makes me laugh and laugh, lolll!!!!

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Why do Mexicans use their car horns as a doorbell? Why is Mexican television so obsessed with dwarfs and transvestites? Why do they park their cars on the front lawn?

Do Mexican children get tamales at Christmas so that they have something to unwrap? What is it about the word "illegal" that Mexicans don't understand?

The chances are that you will know the answers to some of these questions if you live in the United States and read the wickedly funny "Ask a Mexican!" column syndicated in more than a score of weekly newspapers across the country.

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