I had coffee with a good friend of mine this morning and the topic of conversation fell to the people of the Old Testament and how normal and sinful they were. God chose and used them for His glory for no other reason than He wanted to.
Have you ever talked to God about those men and women of old? Read through some of the OT and remember that when you pray, you’re talking to the same God who told Noah to build an ark before rain and who told Moses to confront the king of Egypt.
God never changes. He’s the same now as He was then and bridging back to God’s interaction with His people several thousand years ago is intriguing and refreshing.
After complaining that lifting metal weights was boring and not especially motivating, members of Gymbox gym in central London will be able to lift people wearing lycra catsuits labeled with their weight. They will sit on specialized machines and if you want them to, shout encouragement like ‘Come on, lift me harder and faster’ and ‘You’re doing great. Look at those muscles building’.
If you want to lift a lot you can get Matt who weighs 24 stones. If you want to lift a little, you can get Arti the dwarf (only 8 stones).
Just a couple of comments to Gymbox:
1. You want to pay people to come to the gym wearing spandex?
2. What if the spandex splits? Will I get some kind of discount on my membership or counseling classes or something?
3. If I pay extra, can they yell discouraging comments at me like my coaches used to do in high school? “Come on, whitey! You can do more than 1!”
4. “Stones” and “Lycra Catsuits” should not go together in your marketing materials.
I think you’re insane if you want to jump out of an airplane or off a cliff for fun. I don’t even like really tall ladders. But this is amazing… (it really gets crazy about 1 minute in)
Sometimes when I’m walking around a hardware supply store, I come across the section that has axes. Not large axes for cutting down trees, but small hatchets that you might use to hack someone’s leg or scalp or something. I have never actually had a need or use for an ax, but for some reason I always want one. They look awesome and the man inside of me screams “I will be even manlier if I have you.”
This one (The Gerber Kick Axe) lets me conceal my manliness until just the right time. Wait…
When I started working for a utility, there were two people I considered to be hardcore badass. One was the T-man that had to snap an ostrich’s neck with his bare hands (for safety’s sake of course). The other was the man (or woman) who works on high voltage lines from a helicopter.
The guy in this vid is actually wearing a suit that keeps him from catching on fire and from getting zapped to high heaven. The stainless steel in his suit essentially produces a faraday cage around him, which means there’s a good 500,000 volts of electricity flowing around him all the time.
Would you take $105,000 to spend 6 months on an Australian island, do every touristy thing you can imagine and then blog about it every day? Lemme think… YES!
