Wednesday, December 11, 2013

za-zen \ZAH-ZEN\, noun:

• meditation in a prescribed, cross-legged posture.

Za-zen comes from the Japanese word za meaning "seat, seated" and zen, which originally comes from the Sanskrit word meaning "thought, meditation." 

Rosterbating

• Being so content with your fantasy football roster that you feel the urge to masturbate to it.

Jake: Hey Jeff, what were you doing in the bathroom alone with your fantasy football roster?
Jeff: Um, nothing...
Jake: ...Were you rosterbating?
Jeff: Maybe. How can you blame me? My quaterbacks are Aaron Rodgers, Phillip Riv---
Jake: Shut up you weird fuck.

Trivia
What was the first consumer product manufactured by Sony?

• An electric rice cooker, in 1945.

History

• Indiana: the Hoosier State became America's 19th state (1816)
• Edward VIII: king of Great Britain and Ireland became the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily; he did it for love (1936)
• UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965, was founded (1946)
• Chechnya: Moscow sent in troops to restore control over the region (1994)
• Madoff scandal: Bernie Madoff: the former NASDAQ chairman was arrested for perpetrating what may be the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history; he was sentenced to 150 years in prison (2008)

Birthdays

• Fiorello La Guardia 1882
• Carlo Ponti 1913
• Perez Prado 1918
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918
• Betsy Blair 1923
• Willie Mae Thornton 1926
• Jean-Louis Trintignant 1930
• Rita Moreno 1931
• Ron Carey 1935
• J. Frank Wilson 1941
• David Gates (Bread) 1941
• Donna Mills 1943
• Brenda Lee 1944
• Tony Brown 1946
• Lynda Day George 1946
• Teri Garr 1949
• Susan Seidelman 1952
• Bess Armstrong 1953
• Jermaine Jackson 1954
• Mike Mesaros (Smithereens) 1957
• Nikki Sixx 1958 - "Musician" (Motley Crue)
• David Schools (Widespread Panic) 1964
• Mo'Nique 1968
• Rider Strong 1979