Breakfast Links: Nathans, iPhone & Explosives Camp
So, for the first time since 1999, Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest was won by an american! Joey Chestnut (for real? What an awesome name for the american winning back the belt!) at 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes vs a measly 63 for Takeru Kobayashi! Kobayashi, despite having a wisdom tooth pulled and diagnosed with jaw arthritis kept up with Joey till the end, easily blowing away his showing of nearly 54 hotdogs last year (Joey, came in 2nd last year with 52). Exciting! 2008’s is going to be a real show down!
Here’s some iPhone/Apple roundup for you. Check out this report of Apple filing a patent for a multi-touch mouse that can sense finger positions and gestures! I don’t know how that’s going to work, but it’ll be interesting to see! What with the multitouch laptops and the iPhone, Apple seems to think it is the brand new thing. Also, it seems that as of now, AT&T is out of iPhones and only 2 Apple stores have stock remaining, although a shipment is rumored to be due on Friday. The new rumor is 1 million iPhones sold through the holiday. AT&T says the iPhone sold more in it’s first weekend than any other phone AT&T’s sold in a month. And if you don’t need the phone, DVD Jon figured out a way to activate your phone without a contract. Basically a fancy iPod with wi-fi. An expensive, fancy iPod with wi-fi. Oh, and Apple also posted an iPhone developers guide with tips on how to integrate with apps, how to optimize appearance for the iPhone, etc..
You know when I was a kid I liked to blow things up. The best was when I discovered that an m-80 was just about the size of the d-cell batteries that my crappy mini plastic arcade machine used. Putting two and two together, with a match and a lot of running ended with a satisfying explosion of tiny, tiny plastic bits. Howard was there for that one! If only there had been the Summer Explosives Camp back then! It’s a week long camp where professors of mining engineering work with kids to blow the crap out of stuff - dynamite and fireworks. Man, what could be better? Check out these quotes if you don’t think it’s awesome:
We try to give them an absolute smorgasbord of explosives
“So far, we haven’t had anybody lose any fingers or toes,†she [the camp administrator] said, “so we’re doing fine.â€
That is so what I’m talking about.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:55 am
I remember an exhaustive search for the remaining bulk of the detonated video game without result. I believe the word “incinerated” was thrown around that day.
We should be instructors at explosives camp. The Felix-bottle-rocket incident would be our cautionary tale.
July 6th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Yeah, that thing was just gone. Oh for the days of the not-yet-illegal m-80.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:54 am
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