Day: July 26, 2007

I’m heading to Jason’s bachelor party this weekend which seems like it will be a good time. I guess I can’t go into details right now as he may actually be reading this and doesn’t know what’s going on.

Thinking about bachelor parties, it reminded me of this excellent bachelor party story that I think Rob told me. Or someone near Paisley, Ontario.

So the story goes that a bunch of guys get onto a bus from Paisley (or around there) and have a good time while heading down to London Ontario for the night.

After a night of debauchery and fun, everyone is in fine form when they load back onto the bus and head home continuing the party.

When they arrive at the destination point (some parking lot of sorts), the wife-to-be is there to greet her drunken fiancée after the bachelor party.

Unfortunately, everyone is so drunk that they never realized that the guy never made it onto the bus!

Turns out that the cops threw him in the slammer for the night (at this point, my memory evades me and I don’t know for what reasons) and the next day he has to get a cab from London to Paisley which would be a good 200 kms at least.

I always laugh when I hear that story. I am now wondering if that actually happened or if it’s an urban legend.

Oh, here’s another great story I heard from Mike…actually, if you have a good bachelor party story, share it in the comments section!

So, this guy’s bachelor party occurs fairly close to his wedding day…maybe even the night before. As all good bachelor parties work, the groom is beyond comprehension of reality. While in this drunken state, his buddy’s get a cast put over his entire leg.

When he awakes the next morning, his buddies tell him that he fell and broke his leg and had to get a cast on his entire leg. This, of course, sucks as he has to get in a tuxedo and go to his own wedding with a broken leg.

Now, I am a fan of the practical joke (what makes it practical anyhow?) and these guys went all out. They let the guy go through his wedding with the thing on AND they let him go on his honeymoon with it on! In fact, according to Mike, I don’t think the guy even knows that it was never broken TO THIS DAY.

Incroyable.

This post is dedicated to Jason, the bachelor for one week longer. Who knows what will happen to him this weekend? (evil laugh)

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/crowdfarm-0725.html

MIT Rules. This article is an interesting read about how two students developed a model to capture energy expended from people walking, or sitting on a stool.

The concept is that in large public spaces where there are hundreds of people walking through it (like a shopping mall), the floor would depress with each step which would somehow generate electricity to power the building. Fascinating.

They also go into other uses, like how it could measure the amount of energy of the crowd at a rock concert, depending on how much shuffling around there is on the floor. I can just imagine it being the equivalent to the audio meter you see where people yell as loud as they can and the meter rises. Do those things even work? Or is there just someone who brings up it slowly and on the final yell he cranks it?

Give it a read. Very interesting.

iplaying: Make this Go on Forever – Snow Patrol (Eyes Open)