It is absolutely amazing what kind of things are found online. Anything from complete books, to random facts, to jokes, to porn…Google has become a household word, instead of reaching for the dictionary or encyclopedia people fire up their computers or smart phones and go straight to the google homepage. You can learn fascinating things from the internet, and one thing that I really appreciate about the internet is that many times you can find a simplified and quick way of gaining the knowledge you need or want at the moment.
You can also gain great trivia facts. Like some of the following that I wanted to share here:
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Death by Greg Ross on July 21st, 2010
Last words of executed murderers:
- George Appel (1928): “Well, folks, you’ll soon see a baked Appel.”
- James W. Rodgers (1960): (asked for a last request) “Why, yes — a bulletproof vest.”
- Frederick Wood (1963): “Gentlemen, you are about to see the effects of electricity upon Wood.”
- James French (1966): “I have a terrific headline for you in the morning: ‘French Fries’.”
- Jimmy Glass (1987): “I’d rather be fishing.”
In 1856, English murderer William Palmer stood on the gallows and asked, “Are you sure it’s safe?”
I thought that these quotes were pretty funny, I know tragic, but funny. I personally like the bulletproof vest one. That is one smart person there, had to try.
There are many many quotes on there and simply random facts like: That a female ferret will die if she can’t find a mate when she is in heat. That is a very interesting fact to me, and I thought it was horrible when I felt the urge and couldn’t get any release….how horrible would it be to actually die from it.
There are also games, poems, etc, it’s rather easy to see how people get addicted to technology and the internet, there are a lot of possibilities that can take up hours and hours of your time and you could do something different every five minutes. Chatrooms, forums, reading posts, things like facebook….the list just keeps going.
Does it ever feel like things happen without rhyme or reason, that there is no pattern to anything that happens in life? Even though at other times it feels like everything is linked together and you could never have the same day without every single tiny detail working perfectly….
Why is it that sometimes things come out of no where and hit us like a brick wall? Why is it that while many events throughout the day are predictable, there is always something that happens that you never would have seen coming, no matter what angle you looked at it before it happened.
Some things are so random in this life that the quote “crazy random happenstance” really stuck out to me from the movie “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog” I thought that it was cleverly used in the movie as a very ironic situation because the character is speaking of a very planned event. I have a friend who says that the most important part of spontaneity is careful planning. That phrase has always interested me.
Why is it that one of the first questions people always ask you when they meet you or feel they have to get to know you is where are you from? But it never ends with the questions….it’s like they have to make some type of connection with where ever you are from…”Oh I have a friend of my best friend’s cousin who once had a five hour lay over in the air port there”……
I think it’s pretty interesting the questions that people choose to get to know you through. What is your favorite color? Where did you go to college? I wonder why we ask such random questions that really don’t tell you much about a person…or at least don’t always tell you much about a person. It clues you in on some stereotypes and I guess gives the interviewer some type of sense that they have gained some type of knowledge of the person..as if knowing where a person is from combined with their favorite color, gives some type of deep insight into their psyche.
When did we first decide as a culture that we need details of everyone we come in contact with…and when did these questions become the standard? It just seems to me in all of the conferences and convention type things that I have gone to, very rarely does anyone ever ask me what I do that relates to why we are there working together in the first place…instead they think they need to ask some random questions because….society says so I guess.