Happy Independence Day, Malaysia

Tomorrow is our independence day. We've been a free country for 5o whole years, whopee. I'd like to say that we're much better off but personally I think we've gone a few steps backward. But that's my humble and personal opinion. That said and done, it's good to be a Malaysian!

It'll be a nice long weekend for us here, since tomorrow is a public holiday and all that. From my place tonight I'll be able to see some spectacular fireworks show in collaboration with the independence day celebrations and some urmm, international fireworks competition going on at the same time, so the skies are gonna be alight with brilliance :) Just the kind of skies a Spaceman like me is gonna love (not forgetting my kids).

I'd actually love to take the kids and wife and drive to the actual venue of the fireworks display but some of the major roads are closed for the national day parade tomorrow and I am not gonna stress myself out in horrendous traffic jams out there so I'll just stay in with the family and watch from afar. I'm sure it will be just as fun as being there ... LOL!

I'm definitely gonna be up early tomorrow to catch the national day parade on TV. And don't get me wrong, I'm not really interested in watching the parade, I'm just interested in catching the floats that are being paraded out of professional interest only. Two years ago, my company was called upon to do a float for one of the Ministries here and everything that could go wrong went wrong! It was also the first time I did a parade float project so it was kinda fun, not to mention bloody stressful. I'm just curious to see what that particular ministry is gonna come up with this year, seeing as how we didn't get the contract to do their float this year.

Besides that, I'm not really gonna do anything much tomorrow except laze around. Oh drat, I forgot, I have my cousins sons birthday party to go to. Damn, there goes my morning cos the party is at 11.30am in McDonald's. My kids are so looking forward to it. So much for lazing around the house.

So, to all my Malaysian blog buddies out there, here's wishing you a Happy Merdeka Day to you.

ps. 'Merdeka' loosely translated means 'Freedom'

My First Tag!

I was just blog hopping and I discovered Nessa of Mumblings has just tagged me for the 10 Questions tag, one that was already done by my doofussy alter-ego Nick of Anything Goes! ... hehehe ... Well, as the super highly intelligent Spiff, The Spaceman, I shall endevour to do that tag from Nessa. Seeing as how it's the first tag ever for this blog! But being a jet setting spaceman, I'll do the tag later tonite ... LOL! Thanx once again Nessa for the tag :)

Some Pretty Useless But Interesting Facts

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound enegry to heat one cup of coffee.
Not worth the trouble I'd say ...

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Now, that's more like it :)

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
I'd seriously like to know how they figured this one out ...

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
There goes the need to exercise ...

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
No wonder Flipper was always smiling :)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Hmmmmmmmmm........

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
Thank the lord I'm right handed ...

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Were taxpayers money used for this research?

Polar bears are left handed.
Who knew....? Who cares? How did they find out, did they ask them?

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
30 minutes...can you imagine?? And why pigs?

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
remind me to stomp 'em silly the next time ...

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
I know a couple of people like that

Starfish don't have brains.
I know a few people like that too

Spiff's Log, Stardate 313864.284878

I haven't posted anything on this blog in awhile, not because I'm lazy or don't have the time but simply because I have no inspiration to post anything yet. The past couple of postings haven't really been original at all. Just some stuff I found while surfing on the net, then copying, pasting and giving credit to the original source. How creative can that be right :) I have a couple of stuff running through my head that I could post but then I'd normally end up posting it on my primary blog instead.

Sometimes I wonder how people can maintain more than one blog? I have two blogs including this one and just keeping it updated is already a huge thing for me. I'm normally swamped with work and when I do squeeze some free time between my work, I'd normally try and post something on my other blog, so this one is kinda neglected most of the time but I will when I get the inspiration and the time try and update this blog as best as I can.

In fact, up to about 10 minutes ago I had 3 blogs, but I deleted that blog after it became dormant for way too long. I'm hoping I don't get fed up of this blog and delete it too, but then I do like the name, Spiff, The Spaceman so this blog is gonna stay around for a bit :)

Strange Things That You Likely Didn't Know ...

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
discovered this??)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which
stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot
sink into quicksand.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman
to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

Eggs, The Perfect Food!

I love eating eggs, in fact sometimes I think I eat too much eggs, to the point the wife has asked me to cut down on it (yes, Spiff, the spaceman has a wife ... LOL!). I can eat eggs in any form (except raw, though I did try it once) and after seeing this billboard pix, I'm thinking twice about ever eating eggs again ... LOL! I don't remember where I got the pix from so if it belongs to you, please let me know and I'll give you credits for the pix.

Famously Wrong Predictions ...

Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility--a development which we should waste little time dreaming about.
- Lee de Forest, 1926, inventor of the cathode ray tube

It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.
- Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.
- Margaret Thatcher, 1974

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
- Western Union internal memo, 1876

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Bill Gates, 1981

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.
- Hewlett-Packard's rejection of Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computers

An English astronomy professor said in the early 19th century that air travel at high speed would be impossible because passengers would suffocate.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value.
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1911ber 16, 1929.

Credit for this post goes to: Thatsweird.net

Quality Control It Sure Is ...

This product is under strict quality contril ......

How I Wish!

I found this pretty cool pix in Tammy Lenski's blog and I just had to post it here. It would sure be nice if we all had this in our pc's, rite? I especially love the 'Enhance Salary' and 'Find Better Clients' bit ... LOL.

Spiff's Log Stardate 84473.284878

Yesterday I wanted to work on my blog, titled 'The Launch Pad' and get it active again but it started to act a little buggy so I decided I'm going to delete that blog. Besides I really didn't like the name The Launch Pad anyway. I'll keep the blog online for two weeks or so before I completely delete it (not that there's anything interesting at all there at the moment though).

So I decided to create a new blog. I just wanted a blog where I can post anything interesting I see or read out there on the internet, no specific rules, no specific categories whatsoever. As long as it catches my fancy I'll post it here. I do have another blog which I spend more of my time on, a more personal blog called Anything Goes!

Since I'm such a fan of Calvin & Hobbes, not to mention a science fiction fanatic as well (with a little bit of psychopathic tendencies thrown in), what better name for a blog title than Spiff, The Spaceman (someone else already beat me to Spaceman Spiff ... drat, dangnabbit, phooeeyy, arggghh!!!)

Well, hopefully I'll at least get some people visiting this site. I'll still be experimenting with this blog so expect to see some pretty goofy things happening around here ... Ok, that's all for now. I'll try and post something more exciting that this dreary post a little later when I can dig up some juicy interesting story :)