Goodbye iPod, your 13 yrs on Earth were appreciated!!!

The Washington Post reminds us today that the iPod as we knew it, is no more.

It came in with a simple promise, a hefty price tag and a man with something white sticking in his ears bopping around his apartment. Soon, it would transform music as we know it, inspire a business model built around pocket change and turn a struggling computer maker into the most valuable company in the world.

Yet the death Tuesday of the iconic iPod just before its 13th birthday went unacknowledged by that company and by a Silicon Valley crowd that wildly applauded the unveiling of a new phone and a smartwatch — products that stood on the slim, metal shoulders of its predecessor. Instead of an announcement, there was only the sad implication of a redirected online page, sending visitors not to information about the iPod Classic but rather to Apple’s home page.

I verified this, and it's true. Not even here in the Australian store, you can find an iPod.

For the divise that took Apple out of dire straits, this is a very unceremoniously farewell.

Well, long live the iPod, the gadget that got me hooked to everything Apple, as it was meant to do.

A new, sick way to get drunk. Through your butt

Guess what? In order to get drunk faster, people are not taking it through the mouth, but through their butts!! The Washington Post reports.

Early Saturday morning, an unresponsive University of Tennessee student was dropped off at a medical center with a blood alcohol content that local police say was “well over .40,” the point at which death can occur. How did the 20-year-old student get that dangerously drunk?
Campus police went to the student’s fraternity house, Pi Kappa Alpha (aka Pike), to find out. They found at least three males passed out — and this scene, as described by a Knoxville police spokesman in a Monday statement that was obtained by The Post: “Upon extensive questioning it is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol as the abundance of capillaries and blood vessels present greatly heightens the level and speed of the alcohol entering the blood stream as it bypasses the filtering by the liver.”

A new way of getting drunk? Wait and see a lot of people dying out of this new, and sick way of getting drunk.

And what's the name of this new way of getting wasted?

The act of getting wasted in that way is also referred to as “butt chugging,” “alcohol enema” and, well, “completely idiotic.” 

And to top it all, the father is mad, not at his son for almost getting killed by doing such a stupid thing, but he is mad a the reporting of the incident:

The student’s father is irate that news of his son’s trip to the hospital has made headlines and told the student newspaper, the Daily Beacon, that there “are significant errors that have been reported and we will correct them.” The father did not elaborate on what those errors were, but told the paper that his son is back in class and “livid with the defamation of his character.” 

So he is more worried about his character, than his life. Total crazy dad.

Buying the blood of a past president. Weirdest news today.

I have heard of pigs fly, but never of someone selling a person's blood!!!!

The Washington Post tells us about this weird news item:

How much is a drop of presidential blood worth?An on-line auction site is hoping to find out by selling a vial that it claims was used to draw President Ronald Reagan’s blood while he was recovering from the gunshot wound that nearly killed him in 1981. To top it off, the auction site says, “dried blood residue” is clearly visible inside the vial.

I wonder why they call it "presidential blood", as if would be a different blood type from the rest of us.

The auction drew the immediate scorn of doctors who treated the president, and the director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation threatened legal action to stop the sale, calling the auction a “craven act.” 

I wouldn't call it a "craven act", more like, "macabre act".

So far, the auction has garnered bids that have topped about $8,000 and ends Thursday. The site, PFC Auctions, is based on the island of Guernsey, an autonomous British protectorate, in the English Channel.

Hopefully they don't get much more than that, but there are always weirdos spending their money on stupid things, while millions go hungry every night.