Old man kills Leopard with bare hands

This is just crazy. I hope that I have this much chuzpah when i'm 73...

From the AP Wire:

A 73-year-old Kenyan reached into the mouth of an attacking leopard and tore out its tongue to kill it.

Farmer Daniel M’Mburugu was tending to his potato and bean crops near Mount Kenya when the leopard charged out of the grass and leapt on him. M’Mburugu had a machete in one hand but dropped that to thrust his fist down the leopard’s mouth. He gradually managed to pull out the animal’s tongue, leaving it dead.

“It let out a blood-curdling snarl that made the birds stop chirping,” he said. The leopard sank its teeth into the farmer’s wrist and mauled him with its claws. “A voice, which must have come from God, whispered to me to drop the panga (machete) and thrust my hand in its wide-open mouth. I obeyed,” M’Mburugu said.

As the leopard was dying, a neighbor heard the screams and arrived to finish it off with a machete. M’Mburugu was toasted as a hero in his village afterwards. He was also given free hospital treatment by astonished local authorities.

“This guy is very lucky to be alive,” a Kenya Wildlife Service official told Reuters, confirming the incident.

A touch of MENSA

Apparently this is an IQ test given to job applicants in Japan, read the instructions as the games in Japanese. Enjoy!

"Everybody has to cross the river"

To start click on the big blue circle on the right.

The following rules apply:

• Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
  
  
• The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence.
  
  
• The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father's presence.
  
  
• The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there.
  
  
• Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
  
  
• To move the people click on them. To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.

Formula One Flop

In a move that speaks volumes for one of the most presumptuous racing bodies on earth, 14 of 20 cars pulled out of the US Grand Prix at the hollowed walls of the Indianopolis Motor Speedway this weekend. Due to a safty concern over poor tires, the owners and drivers tried to come to a 11th hour concession of adding a chicane to slow drivers on the corner in question, but the blokes in the Ferrari pits joyfully abstained, crushing any chance of a good showing.

Fans booed, and threw water bottles onto the track, this was Indianapolis - not Philadelphia right?

After reading around a bit this morning I have found an editorial that sums it up here. I have been to the track for the 500 nearly every year since 1990, and I know the true feel of Indy. That said, having gone to the inagural US Grand Prix several years ago, it was one of the most bland, cold, unwelcoming events that I have ever attended, and looks like it will struggle to right itself on this debacle.

Star Wars TV Show revealed

Check out the latest about our favorite sci-fi saga of all times here:

http://cinematical.com/2005/06/17/star-wars-tv-show-details-revealed

looks like about 100, 1 hour episodes chronicalling how the characters get from EP3 to EP4. Hope that we have some Solo...

"Stop hatin' and start participatin'"

Things you won't see at disney world

Ok, so here's the latest crazyness to hit cyberspace these days, but then again does anything suprise you anymore...? I have actually heard of sweat shops in Malaysia full of 8 year olds being used to amass hundreds of "virtual weapons" for someone else's profit. It's a brave new world. Que Cera Cera.

From a trusted site:

"For the over 800,000 subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest II game, life in a virtual world follows a familiar pattern: Take your character around massive landscapes, kill stuff, loot bodies for useful new items, use said items to improve your virtual character, repeat. Starting in late June, however, Sony will allow players to replace swords and other virtual booty by using their credit cards through the game's new Station Exchange service. The Exchange is an official intermediary for transactions between players: real-life cash for in-game items, characters, and currency—plus a small Sony service charge.

If you don't have time to spend hours playing the game, you can buy other players' items and currency to boost your character, or simply buy a preplayed powerful character to begin with. Sony estimates that the market for such virtual goods—typically sold on eBay-style auction sites or by game-playing corporate entities like IGE—has reached $200 million in yearly sales."

Slowly getting caught back up

Was it a wise man that once said, "too much vacation makes one crazy?" If not then you can accredit that line to me. My bum has barely touched a chair over the last 2 months and I can say that it is truly a negative impact on the flow of life. It's just so hard to get back into a rythm...

Anyway, Here's my top blogworthy things I should have blogged the last week or two:

Construction of Simulated Brain Begins
This is some crazy stuff. Deli thin mouse brain parts, CPU's, and batteries. "It's what we do every night Pinky - Take over the world!"

Google Map Hacks
More cool shit. This'll help significantly against the populance of sick child abusing freaks out there. Too bad It's taken this long to develop...

Our Key West Trip & the Life Aquatic
What a nice relaxing weekend. It was just right length wise, and Key West really impressed me. It's not a place to take in the beach as we were under the impression at all, but a place to go to experience. with the only living coral reef in North America, it is a place to go diving and snorkling. We decided on the latter, and went snorkling on sunday. WOW! That's all I can say. I've snorkled in clearer water, but the sealife was brimming with beauty. Schools of jellyfish, angel fish, barracuda, parrot fish, tarpon, snapper, yellowfin, sharks, coral, rock lobster - you name it and we saw it. Pictures to come when I get the film back.

Miss me?

Been taking a hiatus from the blogosphere for a few weeks now. Catching up on work and travelling the world. But now I'm back, from outerspace... so to speak, and am ready to get blogging again. More to come...