Category: Cool

Screw employee of the year, this guy’s employee of the millennium

OK, Jose Racasa is a stud. He was recently named employee of the year of the hotel he works at (scroll down the page), but this guy deserves way more. Read on…

Jose is a twenty-two year employee with the hotel. He possesses a near perfect attendance record for his years of service. One example of Jose’s service involves a customer at Trellisses Restaurant. In February 2002, the ailing gentleman told Jose about his medical problem. Jose, who was so moved by the customer’s plight, he immediately offered to help. But this was no ordinary offer of help. It was an act of caring and generosity that exemplifies the kind of individual Jose is. The gentleman was in need of a kidney transplant. He had told Jose that he had a rare blood type and this made it highly unlikely that a matching donor would be found in time.

Amazingly, Jose was a match. Despite the health risks to himself, and the extensive physical and psychological testing he was required to undergo, Jose held firm to his commitment and never wavered in his decision to help his long time customer. Jose is truly a server that became a savior.

Link via Dave Barry.

Thanks to a roll of the dice, my cousin’s not going to Iraq

My cousin is an Air Force pilot, flying mostly the larger cargo planes and such (as his vision’s not sharp enough for the smaller fighter jets). I had no idea if he was going to be shipped off or not. I guess he’s not, but because of luck more than anything else. The clipped letter from my aunt:

A lot of you have been asking about Mike lately. And I’ve been telling everyone that he is safe in Oklahoma. Well, he called today and said he was “almost deployed”. Rick talked to him and he said 4 guys were called in and they all were going to be deployed, but when they got there, they found out only 2 were needed. They couldn’t decide who should go. So they rolled dice. Mike is staying in Oklahoma! […] We thought Mike was safe from being deployed until December, but maybe not.

Regardless, he’s safe…for now.

Can you still figure out the volume of a cone?

If you’ve forgotting all the little formulas from your math-class days (and I’ve forgotten all but the basic ones, despite my high-level math background), this site will help you figure them out again, as well as a bunch more complicated/fancy stuff like calculating the inverse hyperbolic cotangent. Note: There is no error checking on the site. So if you’re looking for the perimeter of the triangle (why you couldn’t remember that equation, I don’t know), you could plug in your sides as 90, 10, and 15, and it’ll give you a perimeter of 115, even though that’s an impossible triangle.

International Eat an animal for PETA day

This is what happens when I get busy is that I miss important events like this.

UCLA beats Arizona in Overtime

Final Score: 96-89. It’s pretty much common knowledge that UCLA’s coach won’t have a job after this season, but he proved he’s not done yet by upsetting the number-one-ranked Wildcats.

Here’s what I’d like to see: UCLA win the Pac-10 tournament, and qualify for the big dance. Granted, it won’t save Lavin’s job unless they win the entire thing, but it would still be pretty funny.

Now if I just didn’t have to work, I’d be watching the Ducks and the Sun Devils. Maybe “work on the servers” for a bit longer. I love march madness.

Study claims coffee combats diabetes

Right on! I may have to start drinking the stuff (I prefer my caffeine via other methods).

Laser/Needle-less Turntable

OK, my parents have a bunch of old records and record-player that has impossible-to-find needles. If I had the extra $9,500 (plus shipping) I’d buy them this. Or not.

Porn music collection

In case you ever wanted to make a home-made nudie flick, make sure you have the right music.

Orchestra dons Kiss makeup for concert

Why don’t we get to do cool stuff like this in the groups I play in? Hell, if I dance around a bit while playing my less-than-fun parts, I get in trouble. Of course, we never play with Kiss, either.

Cool flash clock

My favorite little hoser sent me this nifty flash clock (I think I’ll see if I can get this as a wallpaper or something). I still really like the human clock because of the human element behind it, and most of the pictures were taking here in Oregon.