Humor
Nikola Tesla Day
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
Scientist and Inventor
The Genius Who Lit the World
Happy Nikola Tesla Day!
Check out this comic at The Oatmeal for a little humorous background information. Fair warning that it contains some colorful language references… mainly in reference to Thomas Edison.
If you prefer a little more scholarly reference from the Tesla Society, try this.
Nikola Tesla discovered or invented many of the things that make modern life possible including AC (Alternating Current), Radio Waves, Hydro-electric power and held many of the patents that went in to transistors… all of which contribute to your ability to read my ramblings in this post on your computer. The life accomplishments of an 86-year-old virgin! Sheesh!
Culver’s Second Lake
Anyone that doesn’t think the proposed stormwater project on the west side of Culver is required should talk to this guy stranded in the middle of Lake Shore Drive. Granted, plowing through a flooded street with water that tops the sidewalk on either side could be worthy of a Darwin Award, but generally this isn’t what you expect in town.
Zombie Run
Katy, Sarina and Samantha post run
As discussed previously here, we went to the Run For Your Lives event in Knightstown last weekend to watch our nieces Sarina and Samantha do the 5k zombie obstacle course with Sarina’s sister-in-law, Katy. They had a good time running and we had a good time watching. Aside from 5 kilometers of running through fields, woods and creeks, there were various obstacles such as a smoke filled room with electric shocks, monkey bars over slime pits, ladders, slides and, Oh by the way… ZOMBIES!
Run for Your Lives!
I have two nieces that will be participating in the Knightstown Run For Your Lives 5K run this Saturday. Sounds like it should be pretty cool! Both of them are Walking Dead fans and we have a txt’d episode discussion after each new episode airs. That along with a running joke where we rate tools, yard implements and kitchen utensils for their value and undead killing potential when the Zombie Apocalypse comes. (Did you know you could buy Zombie Survival Kits on Amazon.com?)
We’ve also had a running discussion of what their team should wear and they were considering custom t-shirts, so we’ll see what they come up with. “We taste like Broccoli” was a contender as well as “Tasty brains are Hard to Catch!” There are sites full of ready made zombie t-shirts too such as zazzle.com and and cafepress.com
An example of a Zombie T-Shirt from Zazzle.com
It should be fun to watch and there’s supposed to be a big Apocalypse party associated with it. The website promises bands, food and games. Apparently there are enough people participating that they will be doing waves of runners and associated zombies to attack them. Becky and I will be going down to cheer them on and document the carnage! If I get any good pictures, I’ll try and put them up next week.
