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What do you get when you take a guy who knows his moves, a catchy tune and a black-and-white video shooting…INSTANT happiness, awesome!! 🙂

PS. The song is ‘All Night’ by Parov Stelar.

William Shakespeare: “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.”

Wally Lamb: “Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”

Ha, there is not so much evil in me after all 😉 (actually, the first question gave that away LoL): I am somewhere between a Wizard and an Elf (have to admit, I took the test twice; once early this morning (Wizard) and the second time just now (Elf)…a close call apparently).

So, Which Magical Tolkien Creature Are You?? Take the test!

An interesting combination with The Flash, my Superhero Personality Test result! 😉

Vaclav Havel: “Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”

Wow!! I am not sure if this is a real stunt or some fancy trick, but it doesn’t really matter; this heart-stopping knife/table tennis trick by  Swedish stunt troupe Tumba Ping Pong Show is absolutely worth a view so check it out and be your own judge! 😉

Okakura Kakuzo: “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”

The following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona chemistry mid term, and an actual answer turned in by a student. The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Uhhh, ‘an actual question/answer’?? Well, as there are multiple versions of the story and apparently the professor has said that an ex-student added fact to fantasy to create the problem about hell (?!) my guess is that the question and answer are not so ‘actual’ at all. Still, it is a great great answer to a real question! 😉

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Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

“First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely.. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, ‘It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,’ and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct…..leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting ‘Oh my God.’ ”

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

Plato: “Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

You might have seen Jean-Claude Van Damme carrying out his famous split between two reversing Volvo trucks as a demonstration the precision and directional stability of Volvo Dynamic Steering (so, it is basically an advertisement duh 😉 ).

It has never been done before, the video was shot in one take (!) and JCVD says it’s the most epic of splits. Check it out below, and then…read on to find out if that statement is actually true……

Chuck Norris disagrees with JCVD’s statement…Epic? Epic?? I’ll show you EPIC!! 😉

Happy New Year and dream on JCVD…LoL

Booker T. Washington: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

Louis Armstrong: “What we play is life.”

Happy New Year y’all!

After a year in which I was able to nurture my daddy skills 😉 , enjoy quality time of really BEing with Misha, exploring the world (from sunny beaches, magical city(/ies) filled with fantastic culture and amazing nature) and preparing for the next step in my professional career, I am ready to make 2014 a success, so let’s get started!

Oh, I am no guy for New Years resolutions so don’t expect them here. 😉 I believe more in New Day resolutions…in the end, January 1 is ‘just’ another new day, eh? (especially when you consider that half the world population (China and India) celebrate New Year on a different date!)