Mood:  accident prone

 Recently I thought I had received an official movie poster of the Sony Classic recently released film Coco Avant Chanel

alas I must have missed my morning cafe this morning as the poster I have is for a different film 

 Chanel and the Nazis

a very much different story from

" fell in love at a very bad moment historically ".....yah?

This because

Chanel in court for allegedly stealing artisan's design

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Limited edition Fleur of England collection

View mens buying guides, how to shop for a corset (Corset gift guide for men) and other tips

Lingerie Demystified

The global lingerie market in 2003 was estimated at $29 billion.

Bras accounted for 56 per cent while briefs represented 29 per cent of the lingerie market in 2005.

The worldâ’s largest lingerie manufacturer, Victoria’s Secret, operates almost exclusively in North America.

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Posted by mach1231 at 11:45 AM PST

Updated: Monday, 9 November 2009 8:41 PM PST

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Mood:  caffeinated

A new study in the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in a task in which information-integration strategies are optimal can lead to potentially devastating errors when quick and accurate categorization is fundamental to survival.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091101132535.htm

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So....how about those air pilots who merely made the news (which news btw?) by the mere equivalant of sneezing (in comparison to the bloated headlines from wanna be/wanna be reality tv stars spinning and making up sordid runaway balloon tales)

Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course

I also found on story that suggests covering up their actions with a laptop tale because maybe they were sleeping.

So now No box cutters on flights . no aerols or hair gels...and for you pilots who need to be alert like hawks while flying a coupla gagillion tons of tin and fuel in the air...no laptops.

Posted by mach1231 at 4:34 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, 6 November 2009 11:42 AM PST

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Mood:  rushed

 http://www.icehotel.com/Winter/Adventure/Saab/

http://www.cntraveller.com/Special_Features/Great_Winter_Sports/

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Saab Ice Driving with Per Eklund & Kenneth Backlund

Posted by mach1231 at 12:42 PM PDT

Updated: Friday, 30 October 2009 12:46 PM PDT

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Mood:  special

I am self - deluded , and the only needed proof-positive I needed of that (just imagine finding proof-positive of self-delusion:)...was to turn on the late evening news....bombings in Pakistan? explosions in Kabul? By chance a rumbling or stirring or war with uncoverings of bombs at ready in Lebanon?

 Last night, riding on a high tide of pent up emotion at the very thought in anticipation of one of my most favorite all time world hero/rock stars in town...

..even with no ticket to get in, I went downtown to hang around the venue, pick up the vibes, enjoy the crowd, and even catch a glimpse of the pyrotechnic light display and awe inspiring retro-disco glamour (alas no glimpse of the band, obviously someone thought of everything!) and listen to the muffled tones of the awesone sounds of what must be the present worlds most distinguished band: U2, which indeed could still be heard two-three blocks away (we're lucky, imagine how far the sounds of bombs carry!) before I went soliloquy like in to the misty rainy fog-like ether of night.......

...happy, satisfied.....but hungry.

I knew I'd missed the greatest band in the world...but there was something inherent that the lesson and message of the music was not lost on me...I got to see a man crying and bawling, his face a contortion of angst and grief, wailing as only men know how to do without sacrificing thier last vestiges of masculinity, how someone had sold him a 'bad ticket' and he had spent all his money on it and the gatekeeper would not let him in...(I did get to see him go in...apparently in the blink of an eye some kind person in a gesture of magnificent beneficence, gave him a ticket and he sheepishly wandered in from the slimy wetness of Vancouver)...and so it was as the ticket usher to me remarked: "Just goes to show you there are real angels out tonight as well as a@#--oles"...

So I went home; and the late night news was headlining U2 and again I  was able to catch slices and cutaway shots and glimpses of the greatness on stage; all that I had missed..in glorious 16 inches of screen...

but imagine my surprise at seeing the one shot that set the tone for this blog entry and later my gentle acceptance of the reality of what I'd missed.........indeed the wheel of time turns in time for us all, etching in stone our experiences, our laughter, our tears and our hard times as well as smiles..

 I would have to go to

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to see them

this year....for the free concert to commemorate the fall of the wall. Till next time then...

 Thanks for visiting.

Posted by mach1231 at 12:46 PM PDT

Updated: Thursday, 29 October 2009 1:13 PM PDT

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Mood:  flirty

Julianne Hough!

Ooops this is not Facebook! (I Dont Even Think mach1231 is even on Facebook)...but the good news is..

..not that few people know 'who Julianne Hough is'...but the even even fewer who care who or what mach1231 is a fan of.:)

Posted by mach1231 at 4:22 PM PDT

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Mood:  a-ok

 WHAT B.C. COULD LEARN FROM ZURICH IS: " a culture of personal responsibility. People are encouraged to do what they want as long as they manage themselves. There are fewer guardrails and warning signs, and you can take a bottle of wine to the park for a picnic." Cameron Walls, Prince George Canada native on loan to Deloitte & Touche LLP Zurich, Switzerland

Bienenschreinerei mit der Bienenkästen begonnen -lol

Man, what I wouldnt do to GET VANCOUVER looking and feeling and acting a lot more like Switzerland. What shall I do?

http://www.bradt-travelguides.com/details.asp?prodid=79#reviews

Click here.

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I just love libraries!

http://www.biene-fenster.ch/

http://www.werbeteam.ch/Galerie_Biene_Fenster.html

~These R!***!S~N~OWflakes***

Posted by mach1231 at 3:37 PM PDT

Updated: Sunday, 25 October 2009 3:53 PM PDT

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Mood:  cheeky

Dint ch'ya?

This has got to be the most stupidest story ever to mind boggling/ly snap peoples minds from a far distant alternate reality back to tv-land since a news journalist laden spacepod called CNN landed in Baghdad in 91

you know the one: the infamous notorious: "balloon hoax"!

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I think the sherrif who is the real hero of the story(loL)  sums the entire episode up best.

Sheriff in balloon saga doesn't shy from soapbox

Posted by mach1231 at 3:35 PM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

 Context is everything and more...

This from a past president of the National Book Critics Circle..

" One of my favourite New Yorker cartoons—it was about a month ago—there’s a guy just going to bed and his wife is sleeping next to him, and the door to his bedroom is open and his boss is sitting there. He says, “Can you just do this one more thing before you turn down for the night?”

Because e-mail has gone portable, and because we have a hard time shutting it off, it has exploded all the boundaries that we worked very hard to create."

 

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After a professional development skill day was over, imagine my pleasant surprise to find in my email inbox basket the Subject line

How Email Rots Your Brain 

...but there it was. And here it is..voila! Poof!

 

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/22/how-e-mail-rots-your-brain/1/

But before you !@GO THERE!

Check out this FACT.

http://www.snec.com.sg/eye/myopia.asp#1

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That was your brain? You want a refund!

Posted by mach1231 at 5:15 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, 24 October 2009 5:32 PM PDT

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Mood:  flirty

This is interesting..:)

..

researchers from Villanova and Brandeis Universities recently discovered a new species of jumping spider...

but the captivating aspect of the story that propels the reader to learn more  about...

 ..the fascinating little creatures can leap up to 50 times their own body lengths , hydraulically with a rapid increase in the blood pressure in their legs..

is the name chosen for the arachnid

Bagheera kiplingi (after the friendly panther in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book)

...turns out, unlike all the other 8 legged creatues of its ilk, the anamlous thing about this one is its vegetarian lifestlye..

learn more @

http://tinylink.com/?CcXhocfJBp

Posted by mach1231 at 11:24 AM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

 October is National Women in Business Month

A 2006 study by the American Council on Education found that 58 percent of graduate students in the US last year were women — in other words, nearly double …

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...  women have consistently accounted for around 30 percent of all PhD students in economics.

 

Googling and skating around the big information \pool/\pond/ known as the Internet (Info-highway? Web? since when?:)

to confirm some "information"

...I was both taken aback and pleasant surprised to learn that , indeed, for the first time in its history, a Nobel Prize for economics has indeed been awarded to (gasp) a woman .

Turns out to be a shared award of distinction.

See also

Nobel Prize winner's theory shows where Boeing went wrong with its 787

Past winner's

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/11/world/AP-EU-Nobel-Economics-List.html

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But of three U.S. scientists who discovered key aspects of how cells and animals age and how cancer cells become immortal who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, two were women and one was Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco.

All three had received the proverbial call in the middle of the night informing them of their award win.

Blackburn joked at a news conference how she had gone through no fewer than five stages of happiness when the phone rang.

"I went through 'Where's the phone?'; to disbelief; to dazed; to 'I think it is sinking in now'; to 'I am just so happy.' "

The trio's discoveries "have added a new dimension to our understanding of the cell, shed light on disease mechanisms, and stimulated the development of potential new therapies," according to the Nobel citation.

PS Blackburn was fired in 2004 by President George W. Bush from his council on bioethics for her criticism of his restrictive policy on embryonic stem cell research.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-sci-nobel6-2009oct06,0,3987516.story

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Posted by mach1231 at 4:17 PM PDT

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