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The hug, long reserved for women, celebrating sports victories, and men from other countries, is muscling its way into everyday American Guydom.
Stoic machismo still thrives, but at its heels yaps a touchier, Dr. Phil version of virility. Boundaries are eroding. Defenses are being scaled.
The male hug is complicating everything. Men accustomed to the automatic hand clasp accompanied with a brisk up-and-down pump at dinner parties and college reunions, now must preface their greetings or goodbyes with intricate and split-second calculations based on body language, length of friendship and other factors.
Do I shake or do I hug? Making the right choice matters. If one guy goes for the hug, but the other decides upon a handshake, they might collide. An excruciating dance will follow, as the poor lads work feverishly to determine what to do with their hands, their arms, their bodies.
Memories of the previous disaster will haunt all following encounters. It’s possible the fellows will even dread socializing, for fear of the paralyzing hug decision.
Whether to hug or hit sounds straightforward, but it’s tricky, says Jason Tesauro, the author of “The Modern Gentleman,” a guide to the protocols of maleness.
Absent any formal rules about the matter, Tesauro says that “if you are in a casual scenario and you are greeting someone, I don’t think a hug is out of place. It says you are an extroverted, demonstrative person.”
He hugs most of his male friends, he says, although he usually does not hug men upon meeting them for the first time. After that initial handshake, though, the hug could happen any time.
“Saying goodbye is always safer,” he says. “You’ve built up fellowship. It’s the difference between a hello kiss on a first date and a good-night kiss.”
There’s more to the hug decision, however, than an embrace. The next question is: which hug?
A popular option is the ubiquitous handshake that has grown a back pat. Other men opt for the embrace, with one arm around the waist, and the other draped over a shoulder: back-clapping tends to accompany this hug.
Whether, and how, to hug or not falls along cultural lines. One of them involves a handshake, a mutual tug inward, and a shoulder-bump.
When Duke University professor of black popular culture Mark Anthony Neal is with men, he’ll go right in for a certain kind of hug — as long as the other guy also is African American. “If I was greeting a white guy, I would probably never go for the hug, it would always immediately be the handshake,” says Neal, the author of the just-released book “New Black Man,” about black masculinity in the 21st century. “In the case of black males, particularly around my age, 40, it’s the hip-hop hug: a handshake, you pull yourselves together, and you bump.”
The alternating approach — a handshake for a white guy, a hug for a black guy — is cultural, he says.
“There are shared assumptions when I am greeting an African American man … there is a shared experience that connects us,” he says.
Hugging between African American men, though common now, wasn’t always so, Neal says.
“For older African American men, I would be more apt to handshake,” he says. “I cannot imagine hugging my father.”
At least two professors — Kory Floyd at Arizona State University and Mark Morman at Baylor University in Waco, Texas — have dedicated part of their careers to studying the male hug. The two often collaborate on research.
Floyd, for example, has studied the forms and duration of hugs between men. Rarely do they last much longer than one second. As hugs extend to two seconds or more, men watching the huggers quickly begin assuming the embraces are romantic, instead of just friendly.
Only men engage in the combination handshake-hug, says Floyd.
“It follows what we call an ‘A-frame’ configuration; the only body contact is the shoulders,” he says. “Men often do it with their handshake in between them, so there is a physical barrier. The third thing is the aggressive patting on the back that comes along with it, which is a very combative gesture. It’s a way for men to say, ‘I have positive feelings for you, but let’s show them in a way that is masculine and gender validating.’ All of those things — distance, a barrier, the combative movement — are all stereotypically masculine ways of behaving.”
Morman says male fear of hugging other men revolves around homophobia and family.
Some straight guys worry that if they are seen hugging other men, they will be viewed as gay, he says.
And for most men, he says, “fathers are the first role models we have for how to be men, and if Dad isn’t hugging and kissing, chances are we aren’t either.”
While Morman agrees that hugging among American men is spreading, he says it always has occurred in certain contexts. The more “emotionally charged” the environment, he says, the more freedom men feel to hug one another.
“If you are in the office, generally there is not a lot of emotion there,” he says, and hugging remains taboo. But at a wedding or a funeral, or on a battlefield or basketball court, men for a long time have hugged without much hesitation.
Watch ESPN for a few hours, and there’s a fair chance you’ll encounter lots of big men embracing, especially after a big play or a victory.
Hugging is OK in sports, Floyd says, because a sporting event is “a very gender-validating environment.”
America qualifies as a “medium-touch” culture, Floyd says, with some northern European and Asian cultures — in Japan, for example, where people bow to one another instead of touching — registering as “low touch.” In some places, everybody hugs, or everybody bows. In America, it’s mixed. The handshake remains the standard greeting, but some guys hug with relish. Others recoil from outstretched male arms. Most men probably sit somewhere in between. If guys are OK with male hugging but still tentative, for fear of embarrassment, they should bury their worries, writes Michael Flocker, author of “The Metrosexual Guide to Style,” in an e-mail.
“If, however, you do get caught going in for the hug and have second thoughts, don’t panic,” he says. “Just follow through, go for a quick pat on the back, and move on.”
DOUGLAS BROWN, THE DENVER POST

Now the Boss can say “Rollin On Floor L… Hmmm… Um… Shit.”

Office Chair Long Jump
Introduction
This is the event you’ve all been training for. Your chance to show off your chair sitting muscules, muscules you’ve been training since your first day at school. All you have to do is to sit down in an office chair and propell yourself forward.
The Concept
You know the long jump. You’ve seen it on TV while watching the (other) Olympics. The people run really fast down a long runway, propel themselves into the sky and land (hopefully) feet-first into a big sand pit. Well, this is the CSAIL Lab and we like to do things a bit differently here. There aren’t any sand pits in the building, but there are large flat open areas. We can’t jump very well, but we sure do get around on our office chairs. Hence, the CSAIL Lab version of the long jump is the Office Chair Long Jump.
Competitors will propel themselves down a runway using their feet or whatever other appendages or powers they possess. Before they get to the end of the runway, they will stop propelling themselves and coast to a stop. The distance of their “jump” will be their score.
The Rules
* Each competitor will be allowed two “jumps” with the longer distance counting for the final rankings.
* Each competitor must have his or her rear (both cheeks!) firmly planted in the seat of the chair during the “jump.” Not having both cheeks on the chair before crossing the line is a fault (see below). Locomotion may be provided in (more-or-less) any manner so long as this rule is observed.
* Distance is measured as the shortest distance from the line to the nearest part of the chair.
* Each competitor is allowed a single “fault.” Two faults ends a competitor’s turn with no further scores for that competitor being allowed. Faults include: touching the ground once the chair has passed the line, tipping over the chair on the runway, or hitting a wall on the runway.
* The chairs will be selected by the commissioner, and will hopefully be of the same five-legged variety we’ve used in the past few years.
* Helmets are optional.
* In the event of broken chairs, bad timing, reckless behavior, or natural disasters caused, the judgment of the commissioner will prevail.
Scoring
Each competitor will receive a score equal to the distance of his/her best “jump.” Each team will be given a score equal to the sum of all the scores received by team members. Upper and lower bounds will be placed on individual competitor scores in order to encourage participation (for example, 1 foot=10 points, 2247 feet=30 points). Hence, a team can rack up a large score simply by having many team members participate.

It claims to be the world’s fastest, highest, longest, steepest zip line. The specs are in the video. It was a lot of fun and not too scary. Except when you are looking down from the top of the mountain.

How to make a Zip line
danger level - high
materials
* Nylon or poly rope
* Ski rope handle
* Pully (appropriately rated)
tools
* Utility knife
how-to
1. After scoping out where you want your zip line to go, cut the rope to length, leaving plenty of extra for tying knots. Melting the cut ends with a flame keeps the rope from unraveling. Make sure that both the rope and the pulley are rated to handle the type of loads you will put on them.
2. Attach the handle to the pulley. This is the trickiest part because of the varying designs of pulleys. You may be able to just tie both ends of the ski handle to the pulley, or you may have to devise something using some extra hardware.
3. Loop the pulley onto the rope and tie up the rope at the start and finish, making it as taunt as possible. Tie your knots well but make sure you can adjust one end because the rope may stretch out with use.
4. Tie a scrap piece of rope to the handle bar for the purpose of pulling it from the end of the line to the beginning.
5. Once you’re confident in the integrity of your setup, hang on tight and give it a try. Make sure you plan the ending; you don’t want to be going too fast when you come to that second tree.
[Source: Dangerously Fun]

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Paper Shredder
The new employee stood before the paper shredder looking confused.
“Need some help?” a secretary asked.
“Yes,” he replied. “How does this thing work?”
“Simple,” she said, taking the fat report from his hand and feeding it into the shredder.
“Thanks, but where do the copies come out?”

Facts About Segway HT
The Segway HT’s top speed is 12.5 mph — two to three times faster than the average walking speed.

Charging the Segway HT’s batteries for one hour provides two hours of operation and costs about 5 cents’ worth of electricity.
Traveling downhill or decelerating generates electricity, recharging the Segway HT’s batteries.
In addition to the operator, the i Series Segway HT can accommodate 10 pounds of cargo.
The Segway HT does not have an engine, brakes or a steering wheel — it accelerates and decelerates by responding to a person’s center of gravity, and turns with a mere flick of the wrist.
The Segway HT takes up about as much space on a sidewalk as a person — its width is similar to an average person’s shoulder width.
People who buy the Segway HT participate in special orientation classes offered around the country, but operating the Segway HT is actually very easy because its gyroscopes sense subtle body movements and use them as cues for moving forward and backward.
The Segway HT has three performance settings:
1. Beginner — slowest turning rate and a top speed of 6 mph
2. Sidewalk Operation — medium turning rate and top speed of 8 mph
3. Open Environment — most sensitive turning rate and a top speed of 12.5 mph.
The Segway HT can operate on a variety of terrain surfaces.
The Segway HT has many safety features that assist in ensuring safe use and performance.
The non-balancing Power Assist Mode allows users to walk their Segway HTs over slippery surfaces, up and down stairs, across steep slopes or wherever riding is not safe and appropriate.
Source: Progressive

Maybe all is paid by Microsoft?

Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the gang would have only one reason to pull off their most ambitious and riskiest casino heist—to defend one of their own. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) double-crosses one of the original Ocean’s eleven - Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) - Danny and the gang team up one more time to see if they can break “the Bank.”

He’s not Japanese guy, but in this case Origami let him make money.

He must get an £2, but he gets £7 every time!

Amazing!

The Real Hustle

The Real Hustle is a BBC television series made by Objective Productions demonstrating confidence and magic tricks and distraction scams performed on members of the public by presenters, Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica-Jane Clement. At the end of each show: “If it sounds too good to be true… it probably is” Source: Wikipedia