Mumford & Sons – Babel

I should start out by mentioning that I don't buy music. I don't pirate music either.
Most of my music listening is either listening to the radio, or streaming from spotify or pandora.

But! This morning Mumford & Sons' new album "Babel" was released, and I bought it right away… well, it took an hour to decide between the mp3 album and a physical cd.

You can listen to it for free on spotify (Babel – spotify) or purchase it on Amazon (Babel or Babel: Deluxe Edition)

I totally recommend giving it a listen. :)

I think "I will wait" is the best song on the album.

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Slush Service

Yesterday someone submitted this comment on my Subway post:
"Subway is very clean and their sandwiches are always good. Their cherry slushes are very good and very friendly when they wait on you."

I want to find this magical Subway where the employees have been replaced with cherry slush – FRIENDLY cherry slush!

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Butterfly or Parking Ticket?

I found something interesting using Google Translate just now – the french word for "butterfly" ("papillon") also means "parking ticket".

WHOAT?!

I'm just imagining someone that knows limited French wandering into a traffic court in France and wondering why people are mad about being given butterflies.

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Slinky on a treadmill

The eternal struggle:

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The Easter Bunny

From wikipedia: "The Easter Bunny or Easter Rabbit (sometimes Spring Bunny in the U.S.[1][2][3]) is a character depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs, who sometimes is depicted with clothes. In legend, the creature brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Father Christmas, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holiday."

The Easter Bunny – a simple rabbit that performs almost the same duties as Santa Claus… but without the support staff. No flying reindeers, no sleigh, no elves to build toys. No, the Easter Bunny has to do it all on his own. Can you imagine a little rabbit hauling just a bunch of candy? Imagine the eggs, not just having to carry them around, but also having to hardboil them all! And then hide them! AHHHH! Santa has all kinds of magic (and Elves) to get his duties done, what does this bunny have? Nothing!

And what's the deal with the eggs? Why is a rabbit hiding eggs laid by a chicken?

So….

I started to wonder how much weight this magic bunny has to carry around just in eggs. I have no idea the number of kids who have eggs hidden for them, so I'll just use some obviously low numbers.

1 egg is about 2oz. If we assume each city has 100 kids that have to find eggs, and that each one has to find 8 eggs (just to make an even pound per kid), and pretend that there are only 1,000 cities that need to be visited – that comes out to 100,000lbs of eggs (1lb x 100kids * 1,000cities = 100,000). Crazy!

What about the volume? In the above example we have  800,000 eggs at 2oz each, there are 128fl oz in a gallon, so that gives us 64 eggs per gallon (ignore the switch from oz to fl oz please :) ), or 12,500 gallons of eggs.

So even using extremely conservative numbers, and sloppy math, we can see the insanity that this bunny has to deal with. My suggestion to the Easter Bunny: form an army of monkeys and send out the Easter Monkeys to do the leg work.

Yep, I said it. Easter Monkeys.

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Free $2 Amazon MP3 Credit

Want to grab a couple dollars worth of music from Amazon's MP3 store?
Follow this link and enter the code HITUMBLR to get a $2 credit.

But do it quickly – You must redeem the credit by 11:59 p.m. PST on April 1, 2012.

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TellTheBell.com – Win a free iPad 2 from Taco Bell?

The last time I visited Taco Bell I was given a flyer to take their survey and win an iPad 2.

There are 2 things that jumped out at me:

  1. tellthebell.com is a great domain name. It's short (relatively) and to the point, it rhymes(!), and it's super easy to remember. They could have gone with "telltacobell" which still has all the characteristics I just listed, but "tellthebell" has a better rhythm to it – it's obvious that someone on Taco Bell's advertising team can actually think outside the box (or bun, in this case). (much better than walgreen's tellwag.com)
  2. an iPad 2? Didn't Apple just release the New iPad? The prize, while still cool, seems a bit dated. Is the second place prize a 1990 Honda Accord?

What do you think? Leave your comments below.

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