Finding my goddess, in the form of a Poinzi scheme

There's a lot of clatter going around the internet at the moment about this guy:



Looks harmless enough, if a little creepy (oh and... Note: In the photos my teeth are yellowish, but I recently got them whitened by my dentist. I will do another photo shoot soon)

Nice (although more than a passing resemblance to the father in Arrested Development).

Anyways, this enterprising young man has set up a website to find his Goddess:

Smart, Sexy, Spiritual Goddess Desired for Awesome Relationship with Extraordinary Man

As one blogger put it, "This has to be the most extensive, detailed order form for a Real Doll I've ever seen in my life."

He's no loser though. In his own words, "I am on the brink of a large-scale financial success that many people believe will escalate me, over the next decade, from member of the middle class—to billionaire."

He goes on to explain that he'll be turning computing and science into light. Or something. I can almost feel the computing world shaking under the brilliance of his revolutionary thinking. And here it is:

http://angelbase.com/main/home/home.php

A Ponzi scheme. The likes of which Mr Madoff would have been proud. So all you budding Goddesses out there, grow your hair to just the right length, give this nutter 540 bucks and your guaranteed to be a mug.

Be Cool to the Turtle

Try to ride on my back, I think your tripping fool
Take yourself to Sea World, and play with Shamoo

Genius

YouTube - Hawaii Sea Turtle Rap

I reckon the bikini clad backing singers might have a shot at the next x factor.

Poker proved in court to be a game of skill

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation are clearly bored. Very bored. However, some good has come of the work their idle hands have done. After a "sting" operation (or maybe more of a flick than a sting) they arrested some guys for playing poker in a bar. Pulse quickening stuff. The Poker Players Association got behind the defendants and forked out for an expert witness to state that poker is skill, not luck. Full article below. And maybe now Party Poker shares can stop scraping the floor.

9NEWS.com | Colorado's Online News Leader | Definition clears man of gambling charges

Doing something absurd? Map it!

Motion X is an application for the I-Phone that allows you to map your routes, be it shopping, going to the ballet or climbing the third highest peak in North America.

Motion X and Orizaba

We would have used it in Belize but battery power and tree cover thwarted that idea. Still, the summit pic made it to the above website. Good work Dan!

Bot Fly Madness

Things to do in Belize:

1. Have a car crash on the journey there.
2. Climb the highest Peak in the country.
3. Bring back three passengers - mis hijos.

When I was in Ecuador I gave a talk to the new volunteers about the diseases etc you could get in the jungle. It was called the Tropical Health lecture, but was often referred to as the Tropical Death lecture as most things you could catch usually lead to "severe health risks or even death". One thing that I found particularly interesting was Bot Flies.

The bot fly is a crafty beast and lays its eggs on the proboscis of a mosquitoes. When said mosquito bites you the eggs are implanted under your skin where they hatch into larvae. The larvae then have a merry old time living off you until they are ready to flee their (not so willing) host and become big, grown up bot flies.

As luck would have it I got not one but three whilst climbing Victoria Peak in Belize. These guys have been living in my back since the end of May, a good 7 weeks now. I went to the doc's three times to be told I had abscessed bites and she wouldn't hear any of it when I mentioned the possibility of bot flies. We had an attempted removal last night but it failed (although definitely a positive sighting).

So today my back is covered in duct tape to starve mis hijos of air. This apparently weakens them making them easier to remove. Until tonight here's something for your viewing pleasure. This guy picked his up in Panama:

YouTube - Bot Fly