This is a chart showing the current delegate count amongst the GOP candidates, after last night’s Michigan primary.

Tongue very much in cheek, but very funny.

1: Online gaming is serious business:
So, you finally got your game hooked up and are ready to play. Now, you may be forgiven for thinking that online gaming is about having fun. You are very wrong and you will learn this in due time. Because we gamers are too physically weak to pick random fights in bars, we must assert our alpha male dominance another way — by twiddling our fingers around on buttons until virtual representations of people we don’t know simulate death.

This is your life now, and you are connected, physically and emotionally, to your in-game avatar. When they frag you, do you not bleed? Well, no you don’t but that’s not the point. You will mourn him for every second of that respawn countdown. His digital death just killed a little piece of you, and you will avenge with the fury of a thousand angry Gods.

In team games, if you are losing, remember to berate your teammates and tell them how much they suck. You won’t be making a fool out of yourself for ordering them around and reminding them that your side is losing and nobody’s helping you win. Also, you must use words like “alpha,” all the time, just like you’re a real army man!
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Know this: “You’ll be able to comfortably work out longer and harder if you’re cool,” says Len Kravitz, PhD, coordinator of exercise science at the University of New Mexico. “Being too hot stresses your body out, so you don’t perform as well.” Translation: You burn less fat.

Do this: When exercising at home, put a fan in front of your workout area. Hitting the gym? Wait to use the treadmill that has a fan built into the console.
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Newsweek has a fascinating article up about Alcides Moreno, an Ecuadorian native who survived a 500-foot fall off of a Manhattan building. Most people don’t survive a 4-story fall. It’s a great article that I encourage you to read. But I was interested in summing up the physics and the lessons of surviving such a fall, based on the details of the story.

How To Survive A 500-Foot Fall:

1. Find a way to increase the air drag on your body. In Moreno’s case, he clung to his window-washer’s platform as he fell. The flat plank increased his surface area and could have slowed his descent somewhat. Anything you can do to increase your surface area and slow you down is a plus. Also, (more…)

Step 1. Visualize

Where have you been in your life? How did you get to where you are today? How will you get where you want to be tomorrow?

It is important to understand where we’ve come from and how we are going to get to the next step in our lives. By visualizing where you want to be, you start helping your mind formulate ways to achieve that next goal in your life. It’s a powerful tool and one that many successful people have used to find their own happiness in life.

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Myth #1: “I can’t afford to have kids”

It’s true that a baby brings with it an assortment of expenses you once would have never considered. The funny thing is, though, you will find a way to make things work. You have to.

Now that I am a parent I am more motivated to succeed than I once could have ever imagined. This motivation has led me to sort out my finances, simplify my life, attain a higher paying job and, perhaps most importantly, establish multiple streams of income. Expenses will inevitably rise when you have kids, but use this as motivation to increase your income and simplify your life.

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1. Less worry, less fatigue
A lot of flight fatigue comes from unconsciously (and often consciously) worrying about things that might occur during flight - where your passport is, can you get your connecting flight and so forth. Much of this worry can be alleviated by keeping all flight essentials in one place so you know where they are at all times. One tip which helps is to keep a special over-the-shoulder bag which only gets worn on flights - your mind automatically comes to associate this storage place with flying, and you easily form the habit of returning your passport or tickets there every time they are handed back to you.

2. Arrive in plenty of time.
Those looking to make the most of every moment might try to time arriving with minutes to spare, but with experience, you soon come to know that the aggravation and worry that comes from standing in a check-in queue wondering if you will get there before it closes just isn’t worth it. You can easily think of something productive to do once you are safely relaxing in the departure lounge.

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#10 - HELPLESS AND IRRESPONSIBLE
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine and a whole multicolored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers . . . Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon . . .”
—Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971
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