A Bad Lip Reading of the NFL

So, on Sunday, Super Bowl XLVIII will be played between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. That is number 48 for anyone who doesn't know how to count in Roman numerals (which should be about 99% of the US population, and yet for some weird reason that is exactly how they write it every year).

How interesting. Two historyless teams companies franchises, which can relocate at a moment's notice if they smell profit (we've seen it happening in the NBA with teams such as the Oklahoma City Thunder and New Orleans Hornets Pelicans ^{thanks for proving my point} appearing out of nowhere) will battle it out for who will be the winner of this year's four month long season (yes, four month long, September to December, with only a few teams continuing in January, playing a maximum of three games in that month, before two play at the Super Bowl in February). When I asked a colleague why the season is so short, I got the reply that the game takes its toll on players so they can't play more than that. Yes. They play 16 games in 4 months the poor little millionaires. Their fancy helmets and shoulder pads are just decorative it seems.

What's even stupider is that many people can't wait for this spectacle to begin so that they can watch... the advertisements. Each 30-second clip costs 4 million dollars this year.  

I don't really care about this crap.

Regardless, Bad Lip Reading came out of its hibernation recently with a new clip inspired by the NFL. Their previous clip had come out around this time last year. Here they are both. Enjoy.

Apparently, stupid and crappy beards (many of the Amish type) are in fashion with these players. Too many knocks on the head obviously. I'm beginning to believe that it really does take a toll.

GIF Compilation #2 (20 GIFs)

15 was good, but 20 is better.

Be patient. 
Let them load.


1. ...

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 2. ...

3. ...

4. Nightmare fuel.

5. ... 

6. Jeremy cares.

7. ...

8. ...

9. ...

10. ...

11. "Don't worry", they said. "There are plenty of fish in the sea", they said...

12. ...

13. ...

14. ...

(video)

15. White men can't... dunk?!

  

16. ...

(video)

17. Parenting level 5000 

18. For science!

(video)

(bonus)
 (I was sure someone would have done this)

19. And I don't even remember what I ate for lunch yesterday...

  (video)

20. Cirque du Soleil 

(video)

(source) (for most of these)



Also, check out GIF Compilation #1

The Ice Balls of Lake Michigan

It is a particularly cold night here and I thought I'd post something related.

Just a couple of weeks ago, during the previous appearance of the polar vortex, someone posted these ice balls that had appeared in lake Michigan.




Apparently, they are created when "small fragments of floating ice act like seeds, with layers upon layers of supercooled lake water freezing around them as the balls churn in the waves. Wind then pushes the ice concretions onshore."

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How To Deal With Slow Walkers

This post has nothing to do with the "Walking Dead".  :p

This is how you should deal with uninfected slow walkers if you're ever in Japan.





Should work pretty well in the Netherlands too.

Look At This Very Clever Dog

I just needs to have the chicken nuggets.

From the poster:

"Lucy is always getting into trouble. Everyday when we got home the chair is moved and little foot prints are on the counter. Sometimes food would be missing. I always wondered how she moved the chair. A few weeks before we had company over. I had made a filet roast. We were in the other room. I was looking at my friend his jaw was wide open. He says dude your dog is in the oven. I ran into the kitchen. Lucy was on the large oven door, chowing down on our dinner. So a few weeks later I was cleaning out the freezer found some old chicken nuggets. I had decided to set up Lucy. I set up the camera on a tripod pointing at the small toaster oven. Put the chicken nuggets in the oven turned the oven on for 12 minutes and left for the grocery store. 40 minutes later, I came home with pan on the floor. Gotcha !!!!!" 

Of course there's a slight chance she might have caused a fire, but... she's so smart that she would have put it out. Right???

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What Condition 1 Weather in Antarctica Looks Like

We're expecting some pretty bad weather for the next two days here where I am.
Temperatures are going to drop significantly, falling to -25oC at some point.
In Minnesota it's going to reach -50oC, but -25oC is already too much for someone not used to it.

At least the situation isn't going to be like what they face in Antarctica during condition 1 weather.

Condition 1 weather, as I've learnt from Wikipedia, means:

Windspeed over 55 knots (60 mph / 96kmh)

Visibility less than 100 feet (30 meters)

Wind chill below −100 °F (−73 °C)

Description: Dangerous conditions; outside travel is not permitted.

And this is what it looks like. Filmed at McMurdo station, Antarctica.




I'm surprised they're separated from the outside environment by just two pretty normal-looking doors.

2013 Vine Compilation

Happy new year!

Vines.
Idiotic? Egotistic? Works of genius?
Who cares? Some are downright hilarious.

It's 23 minutes long, but trust me, there are quite a few good ones in there.

Ship Cook Rescued After Spending 60 Hours Inside Sunk Capsized Tugboat

Story from Reuters:

"After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die. Then a torch light pierced the darkness.

Ship's cook Okene, 29, was on board the Jascon-4 tugboat when it capsized on May 26 due to heavy Atlantic ocean swells around 30 km (20 miles) off the coast of Nigeria, while stabilising an oil tanker filling up at a Chevron platform. Of the 12 people on board, divers recovered 10 dead bodies while a remaining crew member has not been found.

Somehow Okene survived, breathing inside a four foot high bubble of air as it shrunk in the waters slowly rising from the ceiling of the tiny toilet and adjoining bedroom where he sought refuge, until two South African divers eventually rescued him."

The actual depth at which the upside down tugboat settled was only 30m, but still that would have been enough to cause him decompression sickness if he came right up.

It's an amazing story. The ordeal this guy went through. For more than two days, he was in total darkness, partially immersed in cold ocean water, without food or water, inside an air pocket he had no idea how long would last, not knowing if anyone was looking for him. The things that must have gone through his mind...

Here is the amazing video of his discovery and rescue. It's worth watching from the beginning. Apparently, the diver's squeaky voice is due to the fact that they breath a mix of oxygen and helium.

(source)

Amazing Beatboxing Baby

Wow!
If she can do that now that she's only one-year-old, imagine what she'll be able to do in the future.





(source)

2013 News Bloopers Compilation

It's that time of the year again.

Enjoy.





Well, since we're on the subject, might as well remind ourselves of 2012...






...and 2011 (although some of the clips are definitely a few years decades older).

Bethlehem (time-lapse)

Merry Christmas to all!

Helicopter-Assisted Christmas Tree Harvest In Oregon

I had no idea.

From the "about" section of the video:

"Christmas Tree harvesting at Noble Mountain Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon. Pilot Dan Clark flying a Northwest Helicopters, LLC 206B3 Jetranger November of 2008. 

Oregon is the nation's biggest producer and exporter of Christmas trees, selling about 7.3 million trees a year, more than twice that of No. 2 North Carolina. The holiday trees represent a $101 million industry in Oregon."


As many commenters on Youtube mention, he's probably paid by the quantity of trees he transports and not by the hour.





Also, many mention that it's not as grueling (inertia-wise) as it looks.

Here's another video (probably not of the same pilot, obviously) from a... more sunny day, showing the cockpit view.





Still pretty impressive.


(source and source)

Cars of San Diego

We've seen the work by Cy Kuckenbaker before on this blog.

Back then, he had put together all the landings and departures from San Diego airport in two short videos.

His newest piece of work involved taking 4 minutes of raw footage from a San Diego highway (California State Route 163) and organizing the cars that passed by based on colour.

From the creator:

"The source footage for this video is a 4-minute shot from the Washington Street bridge above State Route 163 in San Diego captured at 2:39pm Oct 1, 2013. My aim is to reveal the color palette and color preferences of contemporary San Diego drivers in addition to traffic patterns and volumes. There are no CG elements, these are all real cars that have been removed from one sample and reorganized."

First, here's the raw footage:



Raw Footage San Diego Study #3 from Cy Kuckenbaker on Vimeo.



And here's what he did with it:



Midday Traffic Time Collapsed and Reorganized by Color: San Diego Study #3 from Cy Kuckenbaker on Vimeo.

 
Very impressive.


(source, source)

Dogs Too Scared of Cats To Pass By Them

Here at KappaD, we know what the internet wants.

Cats.
And dogs.

So we provide.





Cats are evil.


(source)

A Unique Truck Ad

The following commercial by Volvo, featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, was posted on Youtube about a month ago and it soon went viral.




From the "about" section of the video:

"This live test was set up to demonstrate the precision and directional stability of Volvo Dynamic Steering -- a world first technology that makes the new Volvo FM easier to drive.

Filmed in Spain on a closed-off landing field at sunrise in one take."

In one take... IN ONE TAKE? Are you kidding me?
And surely there must have been some safety equipment. A net? A rope?
I can't believe the 53-year old (although he looks older in this in my opinion) Jean-Claude Van Damme would do this type of split without making sure that all necessary safety precautions had been taken. Even at these speeds, a fall would have been nasty.

In any case, never one to be outdone, Chuck Norris (or maybe "Chuck Norris") chose to use his annual Christmas message to respond to Jean-Claude Van Damme's provocation.




I wonder how long it will take the real Chuck Norris to claim copyright infringement...