Transformers 2 - Preview Leaked on the Internet

The Mother of all Telephotos

From B&H Website: The Canon 1200/5.6L USM (priced at $120,000... and if you live out of state we don't need to charge you tax!) has been built on a special-order basis since 1993, and the ‘official word’ is there are "more than twelve, less than twenty" of them in existence. With a price tag equivalent to a pair of his-and-her sports coupes, they were produced at the rate of about 2-per-year and a delivery time of about 18 months. National Geographic magazine, Sports Illustrated, Canon Professional Services, and a few well-heeled enthusiasts are counted among the fortunate few who own these unique optics. A box of donuts says the Feds probably have a few squirreled away somewhere, but this is something we can neither confirm nor deny. What you get for your money is a monster lens with an angle of view of about 2° on a full-frame 35 mm camera.

Traveling soon? You need someone to make you a list for your luggage!

This website will allow you to create a list of items you need to take on vacation. Sounds easy enough...but they also ask you a few questions...are you going to a hot or cold climate...are you a male or female....how are you traveling....these questions help the site create a default list of items you need to take on vacation. Very novel but interesting site.

I suggest you check it out for you

Source of Swine Flu

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Interesting Keg Information

I know some of my friends are always asking how much beer is in an American Keg so here is the answer.

Keg Volume and Pressure for Standard US Kegs

½ Keg
Holds 15.5 gallons or about 165 12-ounce bottles
Weighs 161-pounds, full
12-13" high with a 16" diameter

¼ Keg
Holds 7.75 gallons or about 82 12-ounce bottles
Weighs 87-pounds, full
24" high with a 16" diameter

1/6 Keg
Holds 5 gallons or about 54 12-ounce bottles
Weighs 55-pounds, full
24" high with an 11" diameter

Note: US keg dimensions may vary slightly by keg manufacturer and brewery. European kegs vary in size, but are similar to US sizes.

--Information from Kegworks.com

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311 New Album - 6/2

Track Listing

1. Hey You
2. It's Alright
3. Mix It Up
4. Golden Sunlight
5. India Ink
6. Daisy Cutter
7. Too Much Too Fast
8. Never Ending Summer
9. Two Drops in the Ocean
10. --Unknown--
    
11. Jackpot
12. My Heart Sings
13. BONUS TRACK: I Like the Way (on Deluxe Edition only)
14. BONUS TRACK: Get Down (on Deluxe Edition only)

--This information was from Nick Hexum's Twitter Account.

Pac Man Runs Amok Video

PAC MAN (REMI GAILLARD)
by nqtv

Great Beer Commercials

Interesting facts about the Verizon Center in DC

Here are some interesting facts about the Verizon Center in Washington, DC...home of the Washington Capitals and some other basketball team who ALWAYS sucks. I highlighted some I thought were interesting. This story is from Ben Shlesinger who is a reporter for the Examiner.

• In the Top 25 highest attended events with single or multiple show days in the 11 ½ year history of Verizon Center, Disney on Ice appears nine times, and Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey circus appears 10 times. The highest attended single and multiple day event in building history is the 2003 World Figure Skating Championships. The only concerts to appear on the list are Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel & Elton John.
• The highest attended individual event in building history is held by one of three Bruce Springsteen shows during his 1999 tour. The Top 5 on this list includes only two artists: Bruce Springsteen and U2, with U2 nabbing three of the top five spots between their 2001 and 2005 tours.
• The highest grossing individual event in building history is held by Barbra Streisand when she performed at Verizon Center for the first time in 2006. The remaining top five include the Rolling Stones – twice, The Three Tenors and the Mike Tyson vs. Kevin McBride fight.
• The highest grossing event between individual and multiple day events in building history is held by the Billy Joel & Elton John tour back in 2002 with three sold out shows. The remaining top five include the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball Division I Tournament First and Second Rounds, the Rolling Stones 1999 tour, U2’s 2005 tour and Barbra Streisand’s 2006 tour.
• The highest attended country show in building history is held by the Dixie Chicks.
• The most sellouts in the history of the building by an artist is held by Bruce Springsteen at seven. He sold out three shows in 1999, one in 2002, two in 2007 and one next month in 2009. The next closest number of sellouts is five, held between the Dixie Chicks, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, American Idols Live and Trans Siberian Orchestra.
• The record for the most number of consecutive shows by an artist is three, tied between Prince, Janet Jackson and Cirque du Soleil’s Delirium Tour.
• The highest grossing and highest attendance for an individual comedy show is held by Dane Cook from his 2007 tour, which was also his first appearance at the arena.
• The number of sold out games and concerts in the history of the building as of today, sits at 487.
• There are seven cars located throughout the building: four on the main concourse, two on the suite level and one on the upper concourse.
• The longest tenured events for the building are the Harlem Globetrotters (1973) and the Washington International Horse Show (1975), both of which date back to the days of the Capital Centre.
• In 2005, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and U2 all performed within two weeks of each other marking the highest grossing month in the history of the building for concerts/events.
• In 2000, the Three Tenors: Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras performed one of only four U.S. concerts at Verizon Center.
• The first concert played at Verizon Center was by Barry Manilow on December 10, 1997.
• The Washington Capitals go through 3,000 pucks during practices over the course of a season.
• Eight other businesses get their mail delivered to Verizon Center: McDonald’s, The Green Turtle, and Chipotle are only a few.
• The Washington Mystics receive 8-10 deliveries per day during the season ranging from one box to 10-12 pallets of giveaway items.
• There are 300 televisions within Verizon Center
• The Washington Wizards receive 15-20 deliveries per day during the season ranging from one box to 15-20 pallets of giveaway items.
• There are 285 trash cans in the building
• Ice floor is situated 24 feet below street level
• At its closest point, Verizon Center is six inches from a Metro tunnel.
• The parking garage access tunnel is three feet below center court.
• The urban site of Verizon Center did not provide for an outside staging area so 80,000 square feet of internal marshalling was required on the event floor inside the building for the unloading and loading of performers' buses and tractor trailers. The arena itself is 1,050,000 square feet (an entire city block).
• Verizon Center houses three different, portable basketball courts for three different teams: the Washington Wizards, the Washington Mystics and the Georgetown Hoyas. Each basketball floor is designed by Robbins Sports Surfaces, designed to offer a double change situation, and stored in a humidity-controlled room on the event level.
• Pre-wired for television, telephones and radio signals to be transmitted, Verizon Center houses 55 z-panels. These panels allow media to "plug in" to the panel at numerous locations in the building and send their signal through fiber optic technology.
• There are no satellite up-link dishes on top of Verizon Center. Instead, the signals from the z-panel travel to the television head-end room or "zoo" which transmits the signal to the local telephone company Audio Visual Operations Center by fiber optics.

Filet-O-Fish

This is one of my favorite commercials of the year.