Occasionally Wright

When You Gotta Go...

Sometimes nature calls. And when nature calls and you're in a strange city, it's good to know there are clean, hospitable facilities nearby. Enter The Bathroom Diaries. If you have a favorite restroom (the one by the old arcade in the Charlottetown Mall- is it still roomy and clean?) feel free to add it.

If you're in Atlanta I strongly recommend the facilities at the Omni hotel and convention complex.

No Tricks- Just Straight Up Amazing

This is not a trick. It's just a flat chalk drawing on a sidewalk.

Same for this one...

The stuff that this guy can do is incredible. His name is Julian Beever, and he's a British artist that has traveled the world drawing on sidewalks, among other things. Here's what the globe drawing looks like from another angle:

Magic Castle

This is just really cool. Just go to the site and do what it says. No, you don't have to have your headphones on, and no, nothing is going to jump out an scream at you. It's just really cool.

Baby Names

My sister Sarah recently had a baby that I'll see for the first time next week and Meg's cousin just had a son, which is a bit of surprise seeing as Meg's family is made up almost entirely of women (and their spouses of course). They aren't known for having baby boys.

So, in honour of the new babies I present you with the Social Security Administrations list of the most popular baby names in the US in 2004. For bonus fun you can check any year since 1879 for the most popular names of that year by gender. Ida was number seven for baby girls in 1881.

Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day folks. Feel free to take the Dominion Institute's annual Canada Day Quiz. The national average is 40%. I got 17 out of 20 right (85%) without too much difficulty. I probably should have had 18- the other two I got wrong were pure guesses. Apparently I'm in line for the Order of Canada and 'wit, charm and deep knowledge of this country’s history will entertain everyone at your Canada Day barbecue!'

As if I needed a quiz to tell me that.

Floating Hot Dogs

Someday I'm going to Pennsylvania, renting a tube, floating down the Delaware River and buying a hot dog from this guy. Are you in Alan? The best part is the people who are saying he's disrupting their lifestyles when he's been selling his hot dogs on the riber for 20 years whereas they've lived in the neighbourhood for 2-3 years.

Video Fun

It's Saturday afternoon, you're bored and you need soemthing amusing to watch online, right? Well, you've come to the right place.

For the three people that still haven't seen it- Store Wars.

For the disc golf enthusiasts or just plain curious- The Hyzernauts, a group of incredibly good and somewhat odd European disc golfers. I recomend Andrei on fire and Buddy Hyzer.

Finally, some Canadians pulling a fast one on an American sports reporter by telling them that they're part of the Canadian Olympic Hide and Seek team. I don't know how old this is but if I get bored enough I'll do some digging in football schedules to see where and when this was. Funny stuff. Think Talking to Americans by the people. Download canadian_hideandseek.wmv

UPDATE

I got an email from one of the guys in the video. The game was between Tulane and Louisville and took lace on December 4, 2004 in New Orleans. Louisville won 55-7. Cox Sports broadcasted the game so I presume it was their coverage.

Still Haven't Found What I'm Searching For

Once again I give you bizarre and entertaining search engine queries that led people to this site:

acting opportunities in porn
the breakdown of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to death by chapter - It's really not that dense of a book. Read it yourself
"canadians have no clue" and "war on iraq"
clinto and bin laden - Good ol' Clinto
70's song about two people who meet at a grocery store and drink beer- nice and specific, eh?
wich hockey team won the most stanley cups in canada- clearly not from a Canadiens fan
wrestlers who belive in god- I'm not sure which post this led them too. Believe it or not Ted Dibiase has a wrestling ministry though. The number of wrestlers who claim to be born again Christians is suprisingly high.
brooke hogan is ugly- Who am I to argue?
what happened in the news in 1964- Many, many things my friend.
EXAMPLES OF IVY LEAGUE COLLGE ESSAY- I don't have any, but I bet most of them aren't written in all caps with the word college misspelled. At least they're aiming high.
comic strip rejections
canada stalking news
how many breast augmentations were done in new zealand 2003- I really have no idea.
free Nickelback,3 Doors Down,and Linkin Park base music - No Nickelback on this site, EVER.

"This is not a soccer mom's vehicle."

I saw some pictures of the International CXT a couple of weeks ago but then I forgot about it. Now it's turning some heads and rightly so.

What is it? It's a new pickup from International Truck and Engine Corp, the makers of 18-wheelers, big rigs, semis, tractor trailers, transfer trucks or whatever else you want to call them. And it looks the part. It's 21 1/2 feet long, 9 feet high and 8 feet wide. It weighs over 14,000 lbs. It's basically a luxury semi with a pickup truck flatbed (which can recline like a dumptruck). And it costs just $93,000 for the base model.

It's huge, it's horrible on gas, it's ridiculously expensive- sounds like a hit to me. From the look of it Arnold could get one and put his hummers on the back of it. It's simply the coolest looking truck I've ever seen. Canyonero anyone?

"Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!

Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
[Krusty:] Hey Hey

The Federal Highway comission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.

Canyonero!

12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!

Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!

Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)

She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!

Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)

Drive Canyonero!

Woah Canyonero!

Woah!"

Random Links

Those wacky New Zealanders. It's good to know that government incompetence is universal.

Traffic Violation

In other news you can bid on a DeLorean on EBay for just $23,000 US although the reserve bid hasn't been met yet. Only 8 days left to bid!