ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG
WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.
HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, “THAT’S ONE SMALL STEP
FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,” WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.

BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK
“GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY.”

MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME
RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN
EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS.

OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE “GOOD
LUCK, MR. GORSKY” STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.

ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS
FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG.

THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL
ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION.

IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING
BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL,

WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR’S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS.

HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS.GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK
UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY.
“SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU’LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!”

TRUE STORY.

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I Ali (Q) vowed to answer any question that anyone pretty much asks me. So far I don’t have a limit on what I can answer.

I started this new child blog of mine a week or so ago and so far it’s been great but I NEED more questions. You ask 3ali a question and he simply answers. But be sure to read the stuff in the footer first because I don’t want anyone hatin’ ya dig?

Seeing that it’s a 3alipedia, I will also post some “Need to know notes:”. Just random stuff that I feel you need to know because it’s cool and 3ali likes cool stuff. I’m sure you like cool stuff. Cool.

So get your fingers clicking and hit this —> link.  Type your question, your name or nickname and simply ask. No user name and no password required…nothing.

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I’ve just recently stumbled upon this film maker ( I don’t know if that’s what The Scout is but it is just amazing what they do) on Vimeo. The Scout on Vimeo documents the works or jobs of very unique and interesting people; people with something special to give to the community.

So far there are 3 videos up but it seems like The Scout is still doing scouty things. My favorite is the one about the Mast Brothers and their chocolate making and that’s the video I posted up there.

Keep an eye open on The Scout. Tell me what you think.

Update: Turns out that The Scout is  a mag. Click here.

Click here for the vimeo page.

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I know Kuwaitis love their mother’s cooking the most but ever wondered what people in Italy love to eat at home? I find it quite interesting to see what people everywhere eat. Sometimes the things they eat surprise me and I’m all like, “That is so not laayig!”. Anywho, I posted the pictures down there in the lovely picture viewer we so happily have been using since day one of our beloved Puddle (your welcome).

Thanks Tima.

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…vuvuzela. I know a billion other people complained before me but I can’t stand it any more! It’s like whenever there’s a moment of suspense I hear the blasted “BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ” and the moment is ruined.

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Yeah, the K in “old-skool” is very 80′s and so are these pocket sized gaming systems. Well they’re more like 2009-2010-ish but they got 80′s guts. These little babies are the GP2X Wiz MAME (top) and the a320 (bottom); both pocket size emulators. And what these little puppies do is pretty much send you back to when gaming was nothing but little boxes and beeps. I’m talking about the classic Super Mario games, Sonic the Hedgehog and that Ferrari game on the Sega Mega Drive where the girl sits next to the driver and waves about yelling when you make crazy a$$ moves on the road. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about.

Basically, what these little devices do is they simply play your old games but without all the blowing on the cartridges when they seize to function. All you do is simply download a ROM from anywhere. In fact I posted about the Roms on the Puddle back when it was a mere speck of red and click here to see all that. Then you plug one of these gizmos into your computer via USB and you simply drag and drop the game files into the system. Switch your retro gaming system on after a wee charge and you’re ready to hit them blocks with the Italian plumber we all seem to love.

One of these can be yours for a mere $180 for the GP2X or a even mere-er $100 for the a320. Here is a basic breakdown of the differences between the two and I’m going to keep it simple:

Click the jump to see all the info because I couldn’t really keep it simple and I left some link on there for you to click on to go to the pages where you can buy you one of these.

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I was buying books one day from the library we have on campus. The reason I go there is because they sell the randomest books — classics — for close to nothing. I end up leaving the little shop with ten or more books. One of the books I got just so happens to be a gigantic encyclopedia from 1950. I love encyclopedias because whatever you need to know most likely might be written somewhere in there. Now, I know it’s from 1950 but it’s cool to see what certain countries and other things were like back then and how people thought of certain things.

So I looked up Kuwait and this is what I got…(Notice the population)

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Here you go people. Something else to think about whilst you go on with your day. I guess this is another conspiracy theory but of the oh so weirdest sort. Supposedly the Illuminati and the Masonic peeps are behind the “Industry” or as we non-conspiring people like to call it, “The Media”. And allegedly, these Illuminati people use the media (music, music videos, news and even movies) to broadcast satanic messages. Now I know you might be thinking, “WTF?” and some of you might be like, “Yallah 3aad!” and thats what I immediately told my self when I was told about this on-going 10-minute per episode Youtube series.

How these people broadcast satanic messages you ask? Well, the creators of this series claim that they do it on a subconcious level. Now doing things on a subconcious level is what the media (advertising especially) does and it’s a known fact. But I find it difficult to believe that the music industry is doing the same. Maybe some artists but definitely not Soulja Boy.

They even attempt to link the deaths of such artists like Michael Jackson and James Brown back to the Illuminati. They also explain how if an artist somehow breaches “contract” with the Illuminati they are brought down by them and eventually they are killed. They even use DMX as an example.

I honestly think that some of the parts could be true and the other arguements seem to just be random over analyzed things. But hey, you never know with these things…I could be wrong.

Watch the videos and see for yourself. So far they’ve got 9 episodes and the 10th is coming out soon.

Thanks MJ!

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Picture this, scenario. You have a gorgeous Porsche 997 Turbo. Your kid decides to snuggle up in the driver’s seat and listen to some tunes on the radio. Why? You don’t know. All of a sudden you hear this loud crash coming from the garage. You then get on your knees and pray. Then you get up walk nervously to the garage door in your kitchen, push it open; low and behold, your $180,000 German stallion is half way out the garage door. But the garage door is still closed. The situation will look something like this…

This is just one of the worst things to ever happen to a parent. Look at the other s#!t kids do to their parents or their stuff here. S#!t My Kids Ruined.

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When the PS3 came out we thought that was it! That nothing can possibly beat the experience and the game play experience with the Six Axis controller. Then Nintendo concieved and gave birth to a gazillion Wiis and took game play to a whole nother level with their magic wand-like controller dubbed Wii-motes where you swung your hands around carelessly at nothing in your living room. We then thought, “Wow, this is it! Nothing can get better than this!”

Then Microsoft got to thinking and they thought, “To hell with controllers!” And the concocted the Kinect which would fit in perfectly with the new upcoming Xbox 360. Which eliminates the use of controllers. So now you won’t be swinging at invisible zombies in your living room with a fancy shmancy remote controller but instead you’ll be swinging at nothing in the air with nothing in your hand.

Despite how funny and awkward you’d look to the people surrounding you; it’s actually a pretty nifty idea and I love it. And we all know how much I love things when I say I love them. People are saying the Xbox Kinect is hitting stores on the 3rd of November. I’ve read a bunch of other dates here and there so lets just leave it at Novemeber.

You can tickle tigers with Kinect. See… Thanks MJ

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