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Robotic Astronaut will tweet from space

Platanopower — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:48:15 +0000

I Swim with Marcos

Platanopower — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:36:40 +0000

ONE MAN FIVE CONTINENTS MANY CHOICES

In the summer of 2010, one man will swim across all continents raising the voices of the world to show that, after all, we are not that far apart… To inspire us to view all countries as one, to stand up and act, to make a difference and demand real changes to humanity.

For more info: http://www.yonadoconmarcos.com/

Help Haiti…. Donate

Platanopower — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:45:13 +0000

Feel free to click on any of the links below for donations for Haiti, you will be directed to the pages beloging to the corresponding organization.

American Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/

Food for the Poor: http://www.foodforthepoor.org/

Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org

The Greater Miami Jewish Federation: https://action.jewishmiami.org/gift/haitiquake

Martino Tire: Contact service sales manager at crodriguez@martinotire.com

Haitian Relief Efforts by Operation Green Leaves Inc.: http://www.oglhaiti.com/

Operation Hope for Haiti and World Vision Earthquake Relief: http://www.worldvision.org/

La Historia sin fin

Platanopower — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:06:24 +0000

R.I.P. M.J.

Platanopower — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:19:33 +0000

Funeral Home Cuts Off Tall Corpse’s Legs

Platanopower — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:28:36 +0000

Columbia, South Carolina.- Authorities have revoked the licenses of a South Carolina funeral home and its director after he admitted one of his employees cut off the legs of a 6-foot-7 man without the family’s permission so the corpse would fit in a casket.

The state Board of Funeral Service voted unamimously to close Cave Funeral Home in Allendale. The board also fined funeral director Michael Cave $500 and ordered him to pay $1,500 for the investigation.

In an agreement with the board, Cave said employees never told James Hines’ family that this body might not fit in a standard casket. An unlicensed worker, Charles G. Cave, cut the legs with an electric saw without consulting relatives.

As published by: The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009.

First touchscreen golf gps

Platanopower — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:21:33 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi32QAMGTHU

Did You Know?

Platanopower — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:22 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmwZ96_Gos

More info @ http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/

Why are conventional golf clubs different lengths?

Platanopower — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:52:41 +0000

As was related by a golf club designer who worked for MacGregor Golf in Dayton, Ohio during the 1920′s and 1930′s:
All sets of golf clubs were custom built to the same club lengths prior to the introduction of steel shafts (invented in 1910 and legalized in 1926). Prior to that time hickory shafts were the norm and golf clubs were custom fitted/built to one single club length within a set based upon the static measurements of the individual golfer (wrist-to-floor measurement). The production and tuning of hickory shafts as well as the rest of the club making process was very time consuming and demanded the skills of highly experienced club makers. Obviously, this was an expensive process and could only be afforded by the wealthy which is why golf originally got the reputation as being strictly a sport for the rich.

The advent of the steel shaft changed all of this since this type of shaft could be produced by the thousands very cheaply in factories using unskilled workers. Large sporting goods manufacturers, lured by the huge untapped market for inexpensive sets of golf clubs, jumped in to bring golf to the masses. Their only stumbling block was that they could not provide single-length custom fitting in their mass production model. The solution came when it was suggested that these mass produced sets incorporate a 1/2 inch incremental step progression between successive irons and woods so that at least a few of the clubs within a set would come close to fitting any customer. In other words the incremental lengths in a set of conventional golf clubs today are the result of a miss-guided manufacturing decision made in the 1930s and not based upon any golfing performance criteria whatsoever.

True Friend

Platanopower — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:48:03 +0000

Friend: Will never ask you for food.

True Friend: Will eat half you’re food.

Friend: Will call your parents “Sir/Mam”

True Friend:Will call your parents: “mom”, “dad”, “aunty” or “uncle”

Friend: Will get you out of jail and then he will lecture you.

True Friend: Will sit next to you and tell you: “Dude we have a problem”

Friend: Have never see you cry.

True Friend: Will tell you “You sissy, I’m tired of seen you crying”. Then he sits next to you and start crying.

Friend: Will borrow something from you and give back a couple of days later.

True Friend: Will borrow it and never give it back, and used it in front of you.

Friend: Knows a couple of secrets from you.

True Friend: Knows enough about you to write a book and sell it.

Friend: Will leave you by yourself if everybody does.

True Friend: Will get pissed and say “Everybody can go to hell” and stay with you.

Friend: Will knock on your door.

True Friend: Will open your door and say: “I’m here where is my food”

Friend: Will take you out to drink and then stop you and tell you is enough.

True Friend: Will get drunk with you and then make fun of you acting stupid.

Friend: Will argue with somebody that has spoken bad about you.

True Friend: Will kick the leaving crap out of a person that speaks bad about you.

Friend: Is a friend for a period of time.

True Friend: Will be your friend for ever.