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February 18, 2008
The Grape Lady
Some of Carl's astro buddies showed me this YouTube clip this weekend, and it's so hilarious that I just had to share it. Mind you, I do feel kinda bad about laughing so hard at this poor woman, but it's gotta be one of the funniest videos I've ever seen on YouTube. Take a look:
A music video has even been made about this incident, which is also so funny and so so wrong.
Now this one is just absolutely bizarre (I was also shown this one up at Cornell). There's really no other way to describe it. Japan is so weird (right, Josh?)...
And then this video from the Onion News Network could help give me some ideas how to communicate my research to the public, since some of my dispersion predictions with SCIPUFF can look somewhat similar, with many dangerous colored bands. ;-)
Tonight I went to see the movie "The Kite Runner" down at the State Theatre. It's an indie film about friendship, betrayal and making things right. (Don't worry, I'm not gonna give away any major plot spoilers.) It follows the story of a boy who grew up in Afghanistan prior to the Soviet takeover in 1979, fled to Pakistan and the United States with his father, and then returned to Afghanistan during the height of brutal Taliban rule. I thought the movie was quite excellent, and one of the best that I've ever seen, actually. It was really well done in my opinion, and fairly emotional; large parts of it made me smile and laugh, while others made me sad and others very tense and uncomfortable (such as the Taliban scenes, for instance). Almost the entire movie's dialog is in Dari Persian with English subtitles, and the movie's based on the best-selling book of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. I think I'll be looking to get the book in the near future, I've heard from people that it's very well written. At any rate, if you have a chance to see this film, go! I highly recommend it!
Posted by Jared at February 18, 2008 11:55 PM
Comments
I was the movie on Saturday; I agree, it is fantastic. Bobe said it was one of the best books he has read in a long time.
Posted by: Jeff at February 19, 2008 10:15 AM
The grape lady broke her collarbone on that fall from what I heard, I saw that video awhile back.
Posted by: Mike Mathison at February 19, 2008 11:32 AM
I guess I wouldn't be surprised by that, as she did fall pretty hard and awkwardly. Does it make me a bad person that I laughed at that video?
Posted by: Jared at February 19, 2008 02:11 PM