Need a Harvey?

Since yesterday I had a post with dogs in Halloween costumes, I thought why not have another dog related post. Just watch the video and think about whether you need a Harvey?

Dogs Hate Halloween?

Hahahahahaha!!!

I just wanted to begin with a huge laugh!!!

Please enjoy these pictures and I think they explain themselves in regard to the title of the blog!

Fishing Race

This morning I read about a race to catch marlin off the pacific coast of Mexico. Below is a picture of the boats all leaving at the same time and shows some of the intensity of the competition. I recommend that you read the article in the link above as it is much more detailed and explains the competition as well as the giant catch that didn't count in the competition as they arrived just minutes past the deadline.

Hoover Dam Bypass

The Hoover Dam Bypass was completed last week and there were a number of articles about this accomplishment. Here is one of the articles. The real name of the bridge is the Mike O'Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. This is the second highest bridge in the US, only Royal Gorge Bridge is higher but Royal Gorge bridge is a pedestrian only bridge. The completion of this bridge shortens the time it takes traffic to travel between Southern Nevada and Arizona greatly as the original road was 2-lanes very winding and crossed the top of Hoover Dam. There was additional security put into place for the roadway across the dam after 9/11 and this slowed traffic as well.

100th Post - Digital Day

For today, the 100th post for No-Profundity I thought I would do a relatively abstract posting and in fact this is about something in the past so it is even less profound. I kept thinking over he weekend how cool the date was 10/10/10 and how digital that was. In fact, there was a "Digital Day" that was celebrated as a holiday that day. There are three videos about life before digital, one is about getting directions, one is about using the library and the third was about passing notes in class. All three videos on that site are hilarious, especially the one about passing notes.

One person posted on their website that 10/11/10 was also a binary day, which I thought was funny (and accurate).

100 is binary and this is the 100th post to No Profundity so there you go, it is a post about digital day!

Big Red Wagon!

I am sure there are people out there that are not familiar with the red Radio Flyer wagons but those are few and far between. I read about this couple from Wasilla Alaska earlier this week and how they have converted a 70s Mazda truck into a driveable Radio Flyer wagon. This morning I had a news article and video sent to me so it was a sign that I needed to post about this
 
If you are in Alaska and attending a parade in the summer, you may just see this big "little red wagon" driving by.

Bottle Opening Robot T-shirt

What could be better than having a robot open beer bottles for you? Having that robot with you all the time when you wear this BeerBot Bottle Opening Shirt! This is from one of my favorite websites, thinkgeek.com and I have to admit I was tempted but in the end I have a bottle opening key-chain so this robot shirt wasn't quite necessary for me.
I wavered over whether to post this on No Profundity or my newest blog, The Beer Man but in the end this was the right place for the BeerBot.

300

It is appropriate that the 300th post between all 5 of my blogs is here on No Profundity, the blog that started it all! It seems like just yesterday I made my first posting here at No Profundity but it was nearly 8 months ago.

In order of blogs, No Profundity started it all for me as a light hearted but sometimes informative place to share about some of the random things of the world that interest me.

Then followed The Mullet of Blogs, where awesomeness in all it's forms was to be shared!

In late April I came to the realization that I actually read a lot about environmental and sustainability issues so I decided to more formally share pieces of information about these topics on Enviro-Sustain.

Early in the summer I was inspired to start a new blog specifically about the human aspect of our world. This includes ridiculous, inspiring, saddening and all other sorts of human stories under the title of The Human Show.

Finally, the newest creation from Slightly Smarter than a Monkey (my silly pen name), is The Beer Man as some of the people who know me best know, this is a passion of mine and I am excited to share about the beers I have tried from all over the world over the last 10+ years.

Now that I have finished sharing the history of my 5 blogs I hope you explore them and enjoy at least some of them.

Hot Pepper!

What is a hot pepper? No really, what is a HOT pepper? Anyone who likes hot sauces or watches Man v. Food on the Travel Channel will know that peppers are rated in "hotness" by Scoville Heat Units. So what do these mean and what is a HOT pepper?
Chiliworld.com has a great list of peppers, sauces and extracts along with their corresponding scoville unit measures. The pepper pictured above is a Naga Jolokia (ghost chile) pepper found in Bangladesh and it can be rated at just over 1,000,000 scoville units. The link below has more chili links and sites!

For those spice lightweights out there, a jalapeno pepper is about 2500-5000 scoville units and a habanero pepper is 100000-350000 units and those are puny compared to the ghost chile. Here is a little intellectual rationale for avoiding criminal activity, police strength pepper spray is made at 5,000,000 scoville unit strength (for number crunchers that is over 1000 times hotter than the hottest jalapeno), that just sounds like ridiculous pain, it would almost make getting tazered sound fun! BTW, I just had a funny mental image of getting literally hit with 1000 jalapenos rather than the pepper spray, it doesn't sound fun either.

Top Hats

Top hats are head coverings that first appeared in the early 1800s. Below is a picture of Abraham Lincoln in a "stovepipe" version of the top hat. Top hats were primarily made of beaver felt until the middle of the 19th century, when silk top hats became the standard. I have had many types of hats but I have yet to own or wear a top hat, maybe someday I will find the occasion. Another famous top hat is pictured below!

Largest Islands

Last week I was reading about disappearing islands, mostly small, low-lying atolls in the Pacific and Indian oceans. This just literally popped into my head today and somehow I turned it around and decided to post abou the largest islands in the world, none of which are remotely in danger of being submerged! Don't ask me how or why that idea became what it is, it just did!

So here is the list:

#1 - Greenland (highlighted in the map above)

#2 - New Guinea

#3 - Borneo

#4 - Madagascar

#5 - Baffin Island

#6 - Sumatra

#7 - Honshu

#8 - Victoria Island

#9 - Great Britain

#10 - Ellesmere Island

I have only been to one of these islands, Great Britain, and I have been there a few times. The next largest island I have been to is Tasmania off the southern coast of Australia. Tasmania comes in as the 26th largest island.

It may be important to note that I didn't count continents, such as Australia or Antarctica, though those would both be much larger than Greenland. I chose not to include them as this dictionary definition excludes them.