Sunday, July 21, 2013

36 Things You Obviously Need In Your New Home

6 Things You Obviously Need In Your New Home

1. A Fire Pit IN THE POOL

2. A Door That Turns into a Ping-Pong Table

Shouldn’t every door be a secret Ping-Pong table?

3. Chilled Produce Drawers in the Kitchen

4. A Wine Cellar Trap Door

5. A Sleepover Room

6. A Door Handle That Automatically Turns Off Electricity and Gas When You Leave

7. A Swing-Set Dining Table

8. A Built-In TV for the Bathtub

9. A Glass-Encased Fireplace

10. A Loft Hammock

11. A Hot Tub That Flows from the Inside to Outside

12. A Huge Round Bedroom Window

13. A Stained-Glass Door

14. A Library Staircase/Slide

15. A Bone-Shaped Pool for Your Dog

This dog can hardly contain himself.

16. A Waterfall in the Bathtub

17. A Waterfall in the Hot Tub

18. A “Swimpond”

It’s a man-made swimming pool that self-cleans and doesn’t use bleach or chemicals.

19. A Two-Story Closet

20. A Bed That NEVER ENDS

Aptly named “The Eternity Bed” for sleepovers that last forever.

21. A Movable Balcony

22. A Fridge-Enveloping Pantry

23. A Staircase That Wraps Around an Aquarium

24. Stairs You Can Walk Under

25. A Glass-Encased Basement Pool

26. A Bar You Can Swim Up To

27. A Compartmentalized Bathtub

For couples that love to bathe together but hate the idea of cross-contamination.

28. Bathroom Lights That Resemble Stars

29. Sparkly Bathroom Tiles That Resemble a Beach

30. An Overflow Bathtub with Fireplace

31. A Creek That Runs Through Your Hallway

32. A Built-In Drying Rack

33. A Glitter Staircase

34. A Staircase That Lifts Up to Reveal a Secret Room

35. A Giant Twirly Stainless Steel Slide

36. A Slide Shortcut into the Pool

 

 

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Historical photos


 

 

A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897.

 


Albert Einstein looking fabulous.

 

 


Here's his report card!

 

 


Samurai taken between 1860 and 1880.

 

 


A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia in 1941

 

 


Roy O. and Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios.

 

 


Che Guevara.

 

 


The Microsoft staff in 1978. (Bill Gates lower left, Paul Allen lower right)

 

 


The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.

 

 


A different angle taken of "Tank Man," the man who stood against
a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square.
He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man.
You can see the tanks approaching from the right.

 

 


Winston Churchill out for a swim.

 

 


The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.

 

 


Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.

 

 


Google begins.

 

 


Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945.

 

 


A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad in 1868.

 

 


The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906.

 

 


A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.

 

 


The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!

 

 


Hitler in Paris.

 

 


Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001 awaiting orders.


British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa, January 18, 1943.

 

 


Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961.

 

 


The first McDonalds.

 

 


Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

 

 



California lumberjacks work on Redwoods.

 

 

 


Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914,
an event that helped spark World War I.

 

 


The 1912 World Series.

 

 


Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball in 1975.

 

 


Elvis in the Army.

 

 


The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.

 

 


Child laborers in 1880.

 

 


New York's Times Square in 1911.

 

 


Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil.

 

 


Steamboats on the Mississippi River in 1907.

 

 


Leo Tolstoy tells a story to his grandchildren in 1909.

 

 


The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali.

 

 


The construction of Disneyland.

 

 


Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship.

 

 


Fourteen year-old Osama bin Laden. He's second from the right.

 

 


Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884.