This flight attendant is terrific here.
She delivers the typical hum-drum public service announcements in a whole new way–now (maybe) you’ll actually pay attention.
Smart cookie and fun sense of humor.
Happy Friday and enjoy!
(Thank you to Itzchak Ochayon for sharing this with me)
These folks make some beautiful music together.
Sit back and enjoy!
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
The title sounds ominous, but I mean it differently.
People like to play games–the type you have fun at.
We learn to play when we are kids.
We get the attention of our parents and friends–and we have fun just being together, acting silly or even competing with each other.
Whether it’s over a game of Life, Monopoly, Risk, or Connect Four, or even these days going online with a game of Minecraft or Crush.
Sports is another type of game–great to play and others like to watch and cheer for their favorite teams or athletes.
This week at work, someone said to come to his meeting because:
“…everyone would have fun.”
Have you ever heard that at work–a fun meeting or for that matter anything being fun in an office setting?
The guy is a genius–people actually showed up in droves at the meeting.
They had to choose between various meetings going on at that time–and low and behold, people chose this one that was going to be fun!
In the meeting, there was a big bowl of candy and chocolate in the center of the conference table.
And the mood was relaxed as we got down to some business.
While we did the business, people felt free to be a little silly and laugh with each other too.
The tone had been set for some fun.
The person who hosted the meeting explained that he wanted people to have a good time coming to the meeting (and to work).
He called it “gamification.”
The idea is why not make things into a type of game and have some fun with it instead of everything being so stuck up and nasty all the time.
Listen, it was still a meeting and work had to get done, but it was nice to see a different lighter perspective put on it.
People want to enjoy what they do–whether it’s time with their family, friends, or why not even their work.
If we can make more things in life into a game of sorts and put “fun” into the equation of what we do–people smile, laugh, and let down their guards a little.
Why shouldn’t adult play games and have fun too? 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Shiver my timbers!
That really is a chocolate eye patch.
And a frosting with sprinkles head scarf.
This pirate’s brain is vanilla cake!
What a Monday morning treat.
I’m smiling and hope you are too. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
While Dossy was getting a haircut today, Minna and I went into the Hobby Store.
We wound up Larry The Lobster here and let him go wild.
You can enjoy his crazy dancing and waving.
It was nice to have a day off together and fun for us to take this short video.
(Video By The Blumenthals)
Couldn’t believe that Safeway sells such gorgeous flowers…
With blues, pinks, purples, oranges, greens, and yellows.
What an amazing bouquet this makes!
Thank you Hashem for all the beautiful things you have created for us to enjoy.
Blessed be He! 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So apparently data mining can be used for all sorts of research…
In the New York Times today, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tries his hand with google search results to better understand people’s feelings about sex.
Though Stephens-Davidowitz doesn’t explain how he gets these google statistics…here are some standouts:
As you might have guessed, the biggest complaint from men–and women–is that they don’t get/have enough sex.
For both (as you might imagine in a primarily–95%–heterosexual world), traditional surveys show that it’s about once a week.
However, the author says this is exaggerated (yeah, is it surprising that people exaggerate about this?) and it’s actually only about 30 times a year–or once every 12 days.
So there are a lot of search on “sexless” or “won’t have sex with me.”
Observing that “sex can be quite fun,” he questions, “why do we have so little of it?”
And he concludes that it’s because we have “enormous anxiety” and insecurity about our bodies and sexuality.
Again, you probably wouldn’t need data mining to guess the results, but men’s biggest worry is about their penis size, and one of women’s most toxic worries–a “strikingly common concern”–is about the smell of their vagina.
For men, they actually google questions about genital size more often than they have questions about any other body part; in fact, more than “about their lungs, liver, feet, ears, nose, throat, and brain combined.”
So much for health consciousness versus machismo pride.
The funny thing is apparently women don’t seem to care so much about this with only about 1 search on this topic for every 170 searches that men do on this.
Surprising to most men, about 40% of the searches women do conduct on this topic is “complaints” that it is too big!
Not that size doesn’t matter to women, but for them it’s about the size of their breasts and butts–and again, bigger being generally considered better.
In this case, most men seem to agree.
Another issue men are concerned about is premature ejaculation and how to make the experience last longer.
However, here women seem to be looking for information about half and half on how to make men climax more quickly on one hand, and more slowly on the other.
Overall, men are from Mars and women from Venus, with lot’s of misunderstanding between the sexes.
The conclusion from this big data study…everyone calm down and just try to enjoy each other more.
Amazing the insights we can get from data mining! 😉
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Daniel)
It’s Friday.
You worked hard all week.
And you deserve a little break.
Relax, sit down, read a good book, be a bit of a pig (but not too much).
Enjoy…the weekend is starting.
Also, thank G-d for helping you make it through.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
For the New Year, wanted to share this humorous picture of a greeting card.
Oh baby, it’s hot outside, and this lady needs to cool off.
So she decides to just air things out a little and enjoy the breeze.
On what occasion would you give someone this card?
Enjoy! 😉
(Source Photo: Minna Blumenthal)
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