It’s a Spanish Harlem Phenomenon!

If you've walked around Spanish Harlem, you probably noticed a lot of random exercising outbursts by Hispanic men. For instance, the guy that's (working) inside your corner grocery store, although you can't tell what he does, well this guy breaks into push-ups while you're at the register zoning out on a $7 fruit cup. Right in front of you, he plops down, belly to tile, nose to fruit stand, push-ups in mind. These random outbursts aren't limited to push-ups. The rail around a tree doubles as a tricep dip bar. Dumbbells are disguised as grimy wash buckets.

But besides watching older Hispanic men use trees as pull-up bars, there are other fun ways to pass time. Playing dominos with hardcore domino veterans is fun. Unfortunately, Jorge apparently doesn't understand what "Man! take it easy, it's only like my second time playing this  game" means. 

Why sleep is important

YouTube Video

Enjoy, this is a clip of a guy getting the first question wrong on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". A professional at no sleep. heh.

Is my mailman drinking a 40oz?

What's a story about New York without a mailman drinking a 40 oz.? Yes, on a hot, New York day, my mailman needed a cool, refreshing, Bud light 40 oz. I've been meaning to write about my adventures in NYC, but there's so much happening I don't know where to begin.

Right now I'm on my roof. "Who wants some reggae music? Make some noise!!!" Off in the distance I can hear a voice singing. The sound is clear. It's a reggae & hip-hop concert. The music is great.

Last night, while waiting for the subway, I saw an older couple arguing. The woman stormed away screaming. Minutes later, as I was helping the older guy with a light, the angry woman came back, saw me conversing with her enemy and proceeded to hit me in the back of the head with her super-sized purse.

"Hey, hey hey! Make some noise!!" As, the bass hits my chest, the concert continues.

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How stars are conceived

Cold gas and dust are the ingredients necessary to birth a new star. Pictured on the left is a column of dust and gas rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. How tall is this column of dust? The column is about 57 trillion miles high. Scientist sometimes call these towering columns of cold hydrogen gas, giant incubators for new stars. The beautiful colors around the column are produced by distant stars casting their light through the hydrogen cloud that envelopes the incubator. The blue light at the top of the tower is produced by glowing oxygen.
                                                                                                                                                                                  
Jupiters Atmosphere
Gravity is a tremendous force within the mixture of cold gas and dust. Towards the top of the tower, gas becomes extremely dense. Once in a while, this dense gas will collapse under the pressure of gravity and form a new star. Once the star is formed, the star continues to grow by feeding off of the surrounding gas cloud. As the star gains intensity it creates shock waves of pressure that help to form new stars.

Image courtesy of Google Earth.

Tomatos