Poetry Wednesday: Mandalay

Christopher Hitchens reflected on the pleasure he got from poetry:Yet very often, late at night, when I am not tired enough for sleep but too tired to carry on with absorbing or apprehending anything "serious" or new, I will walk over to the appropriate shelf and pull out the tried and the true: the ones that never fail me. And then I will always stay up even later than I had intended. And sometimes, in the morning, I really can "do" the whole of "Spain 1937" or "The Road to Mandalay," and can appreciate that writing is not just done by hand.

Mandalay

By Rudyard Kipling

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:
"Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!"
         Come you back to Mandalay,
         Where the old Flotilla lay:
         Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?
         On the road to Mandalay,
         Where the flyin'-fishes play,
         An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green,
An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat -- jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen,
An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot,
An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot:
         Bloomin' idol made o'mud --
         Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd --
         Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud!
         On the road to Mandalay . . .

When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun was droppin' slow,
She'd git 'er little banjo an' she'd sing "Kulla-lo-lo!"
With 'er arm upon my shoulder an' 'er cheek agin' my cheek
We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak.
         Elephints a-pilin' teak
         In the sludgy, squdgy creek,
         Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
         On the road to Mandalay . . .

But that's all shove be'ind me -- long ago an' fur away,
An' there ain't no 'busses runnin' from the Bank to Mandalay;
An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells:
"If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else."
         No! you won't 'eed nothin' else
         But them spicy garlic smells,
         An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells;
         On the road to Mandalay . . .

I am sick o' wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
An' the blasted Henglish drizzle wakes the fever in my bones;
Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand,
An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?
         Beefy face an' grubby 'and --
         Law! wot do they understand?
         I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
         On the road to Mandalay . . .

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
For the temple-bells are callin', an' it's there that I would be --
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea;
         On the road to Mandalay,
         Where the old Flotilla lay,
         With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay!
         On the road to Mandalay,
         Where the flyin'-fishes play,
         An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

The Saviors of God (Askitiki)

 "Love responsibility. Say: It is my duty, and mine alone, to save the earth. If it is not saved, then I alone am to blame."

In these difficult times, when Greece is every day in the news, we take a look at the seminal work of Nikos Kazantzakis: Askitiki - The Saviors of God.

The original text is here:
http://www.diaplous.org/library/askitiki.php

An English translation of this short book is listed here:
http://www.angel.net/~nic/askitiki.html
It might lose some of the power of the language of the original but still a very vibrant text !

Written in 1922-23 and revised n 1944, he wrote this before his epic (and rather difficult, if not flawed) "Odyssey". It deals with the authors struggle to understand man, life and god. Subtitled "Spiritual Exercises",the author writes in a passionate and poetic style, yet in systematic fashion, trying to set down the philosophy embedded not only in the "Odyssey" but in everything he has written.... Worth reading , before attempting to read some of his other masterpieces.

The text strives to go beyond philosophy and metaphysics, and consists of several Parts. The first words summarize the undercurrent of The Saviors of God: "We came from an abyss of darkness; we end in an abyss of darkness: the interval of light between one and another we name life."

This short video  provides a few highlights accompanied by music:

Kazantzakis thought that there are two streams in life: the first one runs toward ascesis, synthesis, life and immortality, while the second one runs towards dissolution, matter, death. However, both streams are part of the universe, and being so, sacred. One of Kazantzakis' main concerns was what force drives the uncreated to the created. As opposition seems to be intrinsic to life and infinite, human beings should strive to ascend to a harmonic view of these oppositions, to be a guide for thought and action.

Why Exploring Space Still Matters

'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters

From NPR Report

After decades of global dominance, America's space shuttle program ended last summer while countries like Russia, China and India continue to advance their programs. But astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of the new book Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier, says America's space program is at a critical moment. He thinks it's time for America to invest heavily in space exploration and research.

"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival," Tyson tells NPR's David Greene. "Not only does that get people interested in sciences and all the related fields, [but] it transforms the culture into one that values science and technology, and that's the culture that innovates," Tyson says. "And in the 21st century, innovations in science and technology are the foundations of tomorrow's economy."

He sees this "force of nature" firsthand when he goes to student classrooms. "I could stand in front of eighth-graders and say, 'Who wants to be an aerospace engineer so you can design an airplane 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew?' " Tyson says. "That doesn't usually work. But if I say, 'Who wants to be an aerospace engineer to design the airplane that will navigate the rarefied atmosphere of Mars?' because that's where we're going next, I'm getting the best students in the class. I'm looking for life on Mars? I'm getting the best biologist. I want to study the rocks on Mars? I'm getting the best geologists."

But spending for space programs isn't where Tyson would like it to be. In just one year, Tyson says, the expenditure of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to NASA's entire 50-year running budget.

"I think if you double [the budget], to a penny on the dollar, that's enough to take us in bold visions in a shorter time scale to Mars, visit asteroids, to study the status of all the planets," he says. On Venus, for example, scientists have observed a "runaway greenhouse effect," Tyson says. "I kind of want to know what happened there, because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it."

Today, Mars is bone-dry; it once had running water. "Something bad happened there as well," he says. "Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughing stock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case."

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says valuing space exploration "transforms the culture into one that values science and technology."

The possibility of asteroids hitting Earth is actually a reasonably serious problem that does need a solution, Tyson contends. The asteroid Apophis, named for the Egyptian god of death and darkness, has a very slim chance of striking Earth in 2036. Tyson says some researchers have advocated for blowing up the football stadium-sized object.

That could create a bigger problem, though: "If you blow it up and it becomes two pieces, and now one is aimed for each coast of the United States, it's just doubled the emergency status of that call," he says.

Another option is what he calls a "gravitational tractor beam." A space probe would be parked a fixed distance away from the asteroid. Gravity would tend to pull the objects together, but by firing rockets on the probe, the asteroid would actually be "towed" away.

Tyson admits that such a space tow truck would be a tough sell for a president asking for more money for NASA.

He proposes this tack: "What [the president] needs to say is, 'We need to double NASA's budget because not only is it the grandest epic adventure a human being can undertake, not only would the people who led this adventure be the ones we end up building statues to and naming high schools after and becoming the next generation's Mercury 7 as role models, not only will there be spinoff products from these discoveries, but what's more important than all of those, what's more practical than all of those, is that he will transform the economy into one that will lead the world once again rather than trail the world as we are inevitably going to be doing over the next decade.' "

Oscars 2012 - The Best Picture Nominees As Infographics

It's Oscar Night and we list here some crazy infographics describing the highlights of the nominated Best Picture Movies, found at Vulture.com.

The Best Picture Nominees As Infographics

The Billy Crystal–hosted Academy Awards go down this Sunday night, with nine movies vying for Best Picture. The nominees this year aren't all that flashy. The front-runner, The Artist, is a totally delightful ... black-and-white, silent film; the most popular is the oft-criticized The Help; filling out the field are a few movies some people really love (Tree of Life and, inexplicably, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) and a bunch of other movies more people liked quite a bit (Moneyball, Midnight in Paris, Hugo, The Descendants, and— we guess someone must have liked it—War Horse). To spiff up this field, and get you excited for Sunday's festivities, here are over twenty infographics — line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, shit-pie charts — breaking down the field.

Listing a few examples here.  To see all of these go to the source: Vulture.com

Definitely worth a look !!!

New Blog Structure

From today, I am introducing a new structure to this Blog:  A different theme each day of the week. 

This will not be very rigid, and might change in the future, but will give me the opportunity to focus, organize and expand certain themes that have been appearing here in the past.

The topics I plan  to have are:

1. Sunday: Movies, TV & Entertainment
2. Monday: New Research, Technology & Space Updates
3. Tuesday: Books & Literature Discussion
4. Wednesday: Poetry
5. Thursday: Visual Arts & Short Video Clips
6. Friday: Fun with Politics & Economics
7. Saturday: Fun with Odd Bits & Pieces

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

There are different ways to answer this question, the usual is defining whether you are an Optimist (half full) or a Pessimist (half empty).

My favorite reply is that as an Engineer, I simply see an inefficiently designed class for the appropriate amount of liquid.

I also like to say, I don't care if it is half-empty or half-full, provided it  contains Single Malt Whiskey !!!

Here are some other opinions on this, from different points of view:

Van Gogh's "Starry Night" Brought to Life

Van Gogh's "Starry Night", brought to life by Greek artist Petros Velios.

In this interactive video, you can visualize the flow of the famous painting.
The user can interact with the animation. Also, the sound responds to the flow.


Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Take a Glass Elevator to Space

Space Elevators: The Only Way To Travel To Space In 2050
It's time we reached beyond the fire escape in the sky

By Drew Bowlin (Webpronews)

Recall when Charlie and Willy Wonka traveled around Earth in a glass elevator in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator? Remember how fun that sounded? Your childhood dreams (or adulthood dreams, depend on when you read the book) of taking a stellar trip in an elevator might be a reality in the foreseeable future.

A Japanese company has announced plans to construct an elevator capable of traveling all the way up to space that would peak at a terminal station where, even more incredibly, people live. The company, Obayashi Corporation, aims to complete a space elevator by 2050 thanks to the engineering wonder that is carbon nanotubes, which are said to be 20 times stronger than steel.

As you could probably imagine, the amount of carbon nanotubes needed to construct such a colossal elevator is a barely fathomable. Obayashi didn’t state exactly how much of the material would be needed, but the plan calls for a cable to be stretched into space about 96,000 kilometers (or 59,651.63 miles). To put that into context, that’s a quarter of the distance between earth and the moon. Have a gander at the diagram offered up by Obayashi that illustrates how this elevator might look.

Since I know you’re wondering how long the trek would be to take this great elevator through the sky, travelers can expect to spend about 7-1/2 days traveling up to the station.

The idea for space elevators has been around for several years and has been discussed by companies before. Have a look at the video below that, in addition to other things, features a space elevator-building competition hosted by NASA a few years ago. Going back even further, the USSR was even discussing plans for a space elevator all the way back in 1982, which generated much inspiration among sci-fi luminaries like Arthur C. Clarke.

The idea of a space elevator might seem counter-intuitive to some but, in practice, it makes more sense than any current means of space travel because commuting via space elevator would cost a lot less than launching space shuttles. And, as you can probably intuit, less cost for space trips means more trips into space. Michio Kaku, your friendly neighborhood physicist and futurist superstar, explains in the video below why this method of space travel would greatly benefit any exploration of outer space.

Sometimes, we humans really are an exquisitely imaginative and fun species.

Cows in Art Class

Introducing "Poetry Wednesday":

Cows In Art Class

by Charles Bukowski

good weather
is like
good women-
it doesn't always happen
and when it does
it doesn't
always last.
man is
more stable:
if he's bad
there's more chance
he'll stay that way,
or if he's good
he might hang
on,
but a woman
is changed
by
children
age
diet
conversation
sex
the moon
the absence or
presence of sun
or good times.
a woman must be nursed
into subsistence
by love
where a man can become
stronger
by being hated.
I am drinking tonight in Spangler's Bar
and I remember the cows
I once painted in Art class
and they looked good
they looked better than anything
in here. I am drinking in Spangler's Bar
wondering which to love and which
to hate, but the rules are gone:
I love and hate only
myself-
they stand outside me
like an orange dropped from the table
and rolling away; it's what I've got to
decide:
kill myself or
love myself?
which is the treason?
where's the information
coming from?
books…like broken glass:
I wouldn't wipe my ass with 'em
yet, it's getting
darker, see?
(we drink here and speak to
each other and
seem knowing.)
buy the cow with the biggest
tits
buy the cow with the biggest
rump.
present arms.
the bartender slides me a beer
it runs down the bar
like an Olympic sprinter
and the pair of pliers that is my hand
stops it, lifts it,
golden piss of dull temptation,
I drink and
stand there
the weather bad for cows
but my brush is ready
to stroke up
the green grass straw eye
sadness takes me all over
and I drink the beer straight down
order a shot
fast
to give me the guts and the love to
go
on.

The Love Competition

"The Love Competition" follows seven contestants as they are placed in an fMRI to have activity in their brains measured as they try to love someone as hard as they can for five minutes. ... It turns out — based on the levels of activity in the dopamine, serotonin and ocytocin/vasopressin pathways — it is possible for one person to exhibit that they can love someone more deeply than another person can. But what’s amazing about The Love Competition is seeing the participants talk about their loves and the effects the fMRI tests had on them. Many come out almost giddy when the test is complete, and one woman tearily explains that she just feels lucky for the love she’s had in her life.

The Love Competition from Brent Hoff on Vimeo.

Temporal Distortion

What you see is real, but you can't see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of thousands of 20-30 second exposures, edited together to produce the timelapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phenomena, in a way you wouldn't normally see them.  Featuring an original score by Bear McCreary.

There is a 23 minute extended cut, available for digital download here dakotalapse.com/?p=877 The feature is 23+ minutes of Milky Way, Aurora and other night timelapse.

Temporal Distortion from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

Everything is a Remix - Part 4

Part 4 of the very interesting series "Everything is a Remix".

Parts 1-3 can be seen in my older post:
http://drgalactic.blogspot.com/2012/01/everything-is-remix.html

Our system of law doesn't acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren't so tidy. They're layered, they’re interwoven, they're tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality... the system starts to fail.


Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Uncreative Writing

Uncreative Writing (From The Daily Dish):

Kenneth Goldsmith teaches a class at the University of Pennsylvania called "Uncreative Writing":

In it, students are penalized for showing any shred of originality and creativity. Instead they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patchwriting, sampling, plundering, and stealing. Not surprisingly, they thrive. Suddenly what they've surreptitiously become expert at is brought out into the open and explored in a safe environment, reframed in terms of responsibility instead of recklessness. ...

"After a semester of my forcibly suppressing a student's "creativity" by making her plagiarize and transcribe, she will tell me how disappointed she was because, in fact, what we had accomplished was not uncreative at all; by not being "creative," she had produced the most creative body of work in her life. By taking an opposite approach to creativity—the most trite, overused, and ill-defined concept in a writer's training—she had emerged renewed and rejuvenated, on fire and in love again with writing."

Goldsmith is the founder of Ubuweb.com, a collection of sounds, texts and videos that has been called the WikiLeaks of the avant-garde. As he told Tank Magazine:

"Everyone is frightened of copyright. Ubuweb simply acts like copyright doesn’t exist: we just ignore it. Everything on Ubu is free. We don’t touch money. The site is run by students and volunteers, and our server space and bandwidth is donated by universities. Ubu has discovered an economic gray zone by hosting out-of-print and hard-to-find items that aren’t valuable, economically speaking. It’s mostly artists’ ephemera and although it might not be worth a lot of money, intellectually and historically it’s priceless."

The new Facebook Generation

I am not sure if this is serious, or spoof....

You can react any way you like:  Laugh, Cry, or Vomit without stop....

Is this the new Facebook Generation?

A Visual Perspective on the Cost of War

United States, Britain and the UN-Member nations all went into Afghanistan and Iraq to help save the world. This is how much it cost them to "Ensure safety for the World".

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/cost_of_war/cost_of_war.html

You can fail even if you are technically correct...

Sometimes you can fail even if you are technically correct...

Like the student here, whose answers are literally correct.

On an additional note, if you are taking a Physics test,  the answer to the question "What is the greatest force in the Universe? " is NOT "Love".

Valentine's Day: Signs he loves his gadgets more than you....

10 Facts about you

Does Language affect ability to save?

 Why Greeks Haven't Saved For A Rainy Day... It's the Language !!!!

From The Daily Dish:

In a new paper  (read it here), M Keith Chen explores the interplay between language and fiscal responsibility:

Languages differ in whether or not they require speakers to grammatically mark the futurity of events. For example, a German speaker predicting precipitation can naturally do so in the present tense, saying: Morgen regnet es, which translates to ‘It rains tomorrow’. In contrast, English would require the use of a future marker ‘will’ or ‘be going to’, as in ‘It will rain tomorrow’. In this way, English encodes a distinction between present and future events that German does not.

 "Future Time Reference" (FTR):

His analysis suggests that if your language's syntax blurs the difference between today and tomorrow (as do, say, Chinese and German) then you are more likely to save money, quit smoking, exercise and otherwise prepare for times to come.

On the other hand, if you have three dollars in your IRA and a big credit-card balance, it's a safer bet you speak English or Hausa or Greek or some other language that forces speakers to distinguish present from future.  Weak-FTR language-speakers have piled up an average of 170,000 more euros per person for their retirement than  strong-FTR speakers, and are 24 percent less likely to have smoked heavily, 29 percent more likely to exercise regularly, and 13 percent less likely to be obese.

Greek Debt Crisis

European Debt Crisis: Who Loaned Greece the Money?

Excellent Visualization of  Greek debt per lender stacked in $100 bills, and trucks carrying them !!!


http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_greek.html

A Poem for the Day

GRAPHS ABOUT CHARTS AND CHARTS ABOUT GRAPHS-Part I

 While Ben Greenman was writing a novel that featured a character who is a chart artist, he found himself needing to both conduct research and to kill time. So he began making charts and meta-charts. Some have been featured elsewhere online. These are featured here.

American World View

The Hormone Guide (...for Men)

The Hormon Guide (...for Men).... Read carefully.

Super Bowl 2012 Ads

Here they are....  Fresh from last night Super Bowl , the best of the 2012 Adverts...

Short Prayer for SUPER BOWL Advertising

A Short Prayer for Advertising - Please bring back great commercials 

By Stephen Marche

Published in the February 2012 issue of Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/super-bowl-ads-2012-0212 

Top Ten Super Bowl Commercials from 2011

The most valuable time in the world flows through the drab beginning of February. Every second that interrupts what's typically a pretty boring football game [fig. 1] is worth $116,666.67. If you follow the money and influence, the Super Bowl commercials ritual is by far the most important cultural event of the year, even if — along with the parade, the military flybys, the gyrating gristle of Madonna's body — the whole spectacle amounts to a grand nostalgia-fest. What could be more old-fashioned than actual ads? Everywhere else, advertising has become life and life has become advertising. 

There is no outside the ad anymore. Among certain fringe leftists, there are fantasies of an escape from consumerism, but grown-ups know that Adbusters [fig. 2] is a brand. Naomi Klein is a brand, or at least she was when people still listened to her. Socially as well as personally, advertising is going to dominate public life with ever-greater ferocity. The integration of advertising into life is already nearly absolute. It is perfectly normal for Staples to buy plotlines on The Office rather than commercials. And when was the last time you heard a sports commentator on American television make a critical remark about the league he reports on? Howard Cosell would have a very brief career if he were coming up today. Everyone is a part of the promotional machinery, and we are submitting to this machinery in every aspect of our existence. The new self-driving Google car? A blast of ads as you are chauffeured. Musicians in the back of vans? Their albums are ads for their forty-city tours and forty-dollar T-shirts. The Huffington Post? The single most destructive force for intellectuals since the first Emperor of China because it convinces writers that their writing is really advertising for themselves. Poets and playwrights and sculptors now talk about brand dissemination via Twitter — that's the level of deluded advertisement obsession we've attained. 

You don't have to occupy Wall Street to understand that this development is toxic. Advertising works: Why do you think Americans are so fat and in debt? A world of hyperadvertising in which advertising dominates the basic functions of living will obviously be a world of hyperconsumption. We've blamed the bankers and the government for the inability of Americans to keep within sustainable limits, but everything ordinary people do, from walking down the street to sending an e-mail, tells them either overtly or clandestinely to spend more. Open culture — the information-wants-to-be-free utopia of Web 2.0 — is not some grand achievement of intellectual or artistic freedom. It's merely the apotheosis of advertisement. 

Ironically, as advertising intrudes more and more surreptitiously into every aspect of life, it loses its once-essential glamour. The triumphal march of advertising is also its squalid little funeral. There are people in advertising as brilliant as any who have ever been, but their visions have to be funneled into increasingly boring and diffuse modes that are cheaper and stupider. The campaign for Old Spice [fig. 3] was a flash of genius, but it also required hundreds of iterations on YouTube with the quality of gonzo pornography. 

Ads have always been a bastard art form, looked down on by their proper artistic cousins. But as social-media companies dream of a world in which the persuasion is so subtle and insidious and constant and perfectly pitched that the distinction between a brand and an identity dissolves entirely, advertising has become too essential to life to treat so casually or contemptuously. Clemenceau purportedly said that war is too important to be left to the generals. Advertising has become too important to be left to Google and Twitter and Foursquare. It is now every bit as vital to the general quality of life as architecture, possibly more so. For its own sake and for everybody else's, it has to come out of the shadows. 

The Super Bowl offers the possibility of a new relationship with advertising, one that's different from the game of hide-and-seek we usually play. It runs against the tendency for naked pleas to become grainy and peripheral. It puts advertising at the center and asks: Which are the good ads and products and which are the bad ads and products? And thus it serves the same function today as the great medieval trade festivals and the World's Fairs of the early twentieth century: providing chances for the marketplace to indulge in fantasies of industrial possibility. 

But much more than that, it's a chance to develop taste. It's a chance to see ourselves as we are and to confront our cravings and habits for what they are. Advertising can be magnificent as surely as it can be annoying. In the name of beer and candy, every February we receive a Hieronymus Bosch panorama of our time: middle-class grade-school Darth Vaders, nacho ninjas, smooth redheaded teachers in metanarrative car chases, gang-tackled octogenarian celebrities, pasty guys with potbellies in need of pants, washed-up rappers contemplating the fate of the postindustrial American empire, Gothic kids with eyebrows that dance along to eighties music, babies who discuss market volatility. Is there a more accurate portrait of the inner life of the United States in 2012 [fig. 4]? And all for the price of watching.

Signal To Noise

Signal To Noise by Douglas Koke Time-lapse footage taken at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico; one of the largest Radio Astronomy Observatories in the world. The VLA really is a legitimately amazing thing to see in person. If you've ever considered making a visit, you should. It's an awe-inspiring feat of human engineering, and the surroundings are gorgeous. Unbelievable skies in New Mexico.

Signal To Noise from Douglas Koke on Vimeo.

Irritable Bowl Syndrome

A short essay animated from the audio recording of 'The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass'. It was originally performed on 'Real Time with Bill Maher'.

Bill Maher - Irritable Bowl Syndrome from Fraser Davidson on Vimeo.

Marriage Vs Ph.D compared

Signs you are working on a fake Apple product