Might as well JUMP....erm, I mean....Parkour?

Ever think about jumping from your third story balcony to the parking garage below? Sure, we all have. But have you actually ever tried it? Unless you're reading this from your hospital bed, probably not.

A phenomenon known as "parkour" has swept our athletically gifted, and often intellectually challenged youth into trying grandiose feats of jumping and flipping off of things (I'm not sure how else to describe it, until you watch the videos).

For those who excel at this new "sport", I tip my hat. Some of the acrobatics involved are quite amazing. I sometimes have the thought of attempting some of these outrageous tricks, but then remember I am a thirty-something not-in-quite-as-good-of-shape-as-I-used-to-be manager-type person, and the thought expires.

I first came across a video of some guys jumping around a set of staircases about a year ago. But from what I remember, there was no tag or name associated with the behavior. Now it seem these videos are everywhere.

I doubt this will ever make it into the legitimate sporting world. But maybe one day we will see an X Games version.

You never know.

I will leave you will a few videos on the subject, as well as a special parody video called Pour Quoi. That parody is spot on, I've watched it several times.

Sit back and enjoy!

parkour


Parkour and FreeRunning


Parkour - David Belle - Yamakasi


Extreme Parkour Ahhhhh!!


Parkour


Crash Parkour 2



Laterz
AH

To geek or not to geek.....

Heading out today for a LAN party. Not sure if the word "party" is appropriate, as all of the participants are well past puberty, but a fun time will be had none the less.

This event, for myself, will be easier to achieve simply because of my new monitor. Flat screen LCD monitors are much easier to cart around than CRT monitors. Yay me!

Maybe I will have some interesting story to write about afterwards. Maybe not. We will see.

And here's a video I found very amusing, I hope you do to.



Laterz
AH

New Everything!

I had a great last few days in terms of getting what I wanted:

- Client Services Manager bowed down to my superior arguments
- Approved for car loan and picked up the car today (2002 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24)
- Pre-approved for Gold Mastercard, and loan officer at credit union sent off the application today.
- Initial number crunching from loan officer at credit union produced an "all systems go" for a mortgage to purchase a new house.
- Purchased a new 19" LCD Widescreen Monitor.

I almost purchased a recordable dvd player for my living room tonight as well, but thought a widescreen monitor and recordable dvd player would be too much excitement for one night. I will spread it out over the next couple of weeks, and prolong my happiness.

Coca Cola Happiness Factory


Shirley Temple "Come And Get Your Happiness"



Laterz
AH

Life is good

Sometimes you just end of having a fantastic day!

Yup, just had one.

Started off not very good though, with me getting extremely upset and agitated about an issue at work. My direct reports were getting shafted with a certain something, and I was taking it personally. Likely because I care about them, but I won't admit that very often. Well, that's not true, I would readily admit that. So never mind.

But, later this afternoon, I spoke to the loan's officer at my credit union. Good things come in three's they say, so here's to "they" being correct.
The loans officer approved my car loan, pre-approved me for a credit card over the phone, and did some initial number crunching and let me know my new mortgage (a combined mortgage of my existing house and a new house I want to buy) should be no problem to accomplish.

Wow! Now that's what I call a good phone call!

Anybody want to try beating that? (And I will not accept "seeing the birth of my first born", or "my wedding day" as ammunition. Not any of those usual examples).

I hope all of you have a great day as well!



Laterz
AH

The Office

I recently started browsing the internet trying to find tv shows and movies to watch through streaming video. They are out there, but you often have to look pretty hard, and get varying results when you do find them.
One of my friends had passed along a URL to me a few months ago, to a web site which was said to have tv, movie, cartoons, anime, music videos, and funny commercials available to watch online.

The above information seems to be true.

I swung by there a while back, and gave it a cursory glance. It looked to good to be true. All sorts of links to streaming video, and quite a good selection to choose from.

So 2 days ago I went back to the site, and started watching The Office, the British version. Funny stuff. I am now spending my waking hours trying to find the rest of the episodes (the web site didn't have them all unfortunately).

I suppose the reason then for this post is to extol the virtues of this web site. I like it a lot, and you should too.

With that, I will end abruptly.

Laterz.
AH