I'm sure you saw or heard about the devastation in Oklahoma City.
If you didn't, a huge tornado at least a half-mile wide and with winds up to 200 miles per hour hit the town of Moore, Oklahoma, yesterday (May 20th), killing at least 51 people as it leveled whole neighborhoods and flattened an elementary school in the Oklahoma City suburb.
The death toll is expected to rise, with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office saying the number of dead could rise to as much as 91.
The National Weather Service issued an initial finding that the tornado was an EF-4, the second most-powerful type.
Search efforts in Moore continued overnight. President Obama declared a major disaster and ordered federal aid to help pay for recovery efforts.
Obviously our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Oklahoma City.
How many Powerball tickets have you purchased lately?
I've bought a bunch, so like you I was VERY SAD when someone in Zephyrhills, Florida won the $590 MILLION Powerball jackpot.
Well there's a woman that is even more sad then we are!
Three nights earlier, when the Powerball jackpot was worth $360 million. A woman named Margit bought five tickets at a Shell station in California. And one of them matched ALL five numbers and the Powerball!
For a moment, Margit thought she'd just become SUPER RICH. So she was surprised when she heard there were NO winning tickets for the drawing.
Turns out Margit didn't win because.... she bought the ticket 52 minutes too late.
The Powerball drawing was at 8:00 P.M., and Margit bought her tickets at 8:52 P.M.
And if you look at her ticket, it clearly shows it's for the Saturday drawing, NOT the Wednesday drawing. And on Saturday she lost, of course.
Margit described her emotions as going from SHOCKED when she thought she'd won, to DISAPPOINTED when she found out she hadn't.
I think it's fair to say that she's way more bummed about the Powerball than we are!
Well like many of you, I play the Powerball everytime it gets to a ridiculous amount like it is now, so yesterday when I bought my almost $4 a gallon gas, I also bought some Powerball tickets, sad to say I wasn't a big winner.
Well if you bought tickets too, there was no winner in yesterday's (May 15th) $360 million Powerball drawing, so the jackpot has now grown to $475 million, which is the second largest in Powerball history and third biggest overall!
The next drawing will be held on Saturday (May 18th), how many tickets are you gonna buy?
If I'm being honest Victoria's Secret is sexy to me... which is why I have to stare at the floor when I'm walking with my wife in the mall, because when we get near the store I swear she stares at me to see if I'm looking at the models!
Well, Victoria's Secret has released its annual What Is Sexy list, which is supposedly chosen by the Victoria's Secret models themselves. See if you agree with them!
Sexiest Actress: Jessica Chastain
Sexiest Style: Nina Dobrev
Sexiest Legs: Blake Lively
Sexiest Bikini Body: Rihanna
Sexiest Hair: Amanda Seyfried
Sexiest Smile: Zoe Saldana
Sexiest Eyes: Zooey Deschanel
Sexiest Lips: Kerry Washington
Sexiest Sense of Humor: Jennifer Lawrence
Sexiest Mom: Giuliana Rancic
Sexiest Songstress: Beyoncé
Sexiest International Import: Emilia Clarke from "Game of Thrones"
I am, but usually not in daylight hours. Well it looks like Taco Bell might be trying it's hand at breakfast!
In Orange County, California which is the home of the Taco Bell headquarters there have been sightings of a new BREAKFAST TACO at various Taco Bell locations. And instead of a regular shell, it's wrapped in a WAFFLE shell.
The Waffle Taco has eggs and sausage wrapped in a waffle, covered in maple syrup. They're selling for 89 cents.
There's no word on if or when these could go nationwide or when they're going to take it even further and make a waffle taco covered in Doritos nacho cheese.
In case you didn't know, or it slipped your mind, Mother's Day is this Sunday!
I already sent my card and gift card to my mom, what about you, what are you planning?
If you don't know yet, here are five random facts about Moms to get you thinking...
1. The most popular brand among mothers in the U.S. is . . . Craftsman tools, believe it or not. They beat out Amazon, M&Ms, Dawn, Black & Decker, Johnson & Johnson, Cheerios, Discovery Channel, Google, and Pillsbury. This is surprising to me!
2. 40% of adults say they still get their mom's advice before a major decision. And 45% of moms get advice from their adult children before THEY make a big decision. I don't do this, but I really never have gone to mom about major decisions, I'm a go to dad guy.
3. Over the course of 18 years, the average mom spends 8,212 hours on cooking and dishes . . . 5,867 hours on laundry . . . and 11,038 hours cleaning the house. That's a total of 1,047 days . . . or almost three entire years. Seeing this is a reminder why we just can't do enough to say thank-you to our Mom!
4. 71% of adult women say their mom is one of their best friends. Awwww!
5. I'm not sure if your mom will go for this . . . but HOOTERS is offering a free entrée on Sunday to any mothers who come in with at least one of their kids. I've always felt awkward about the families dinning at Hooters!
Maybe it's just me, but I thought Hooters was a place young guys went, or older fella's looking to mingle with some young ladies during their lunch hour. So it feels real weird to look over and see parents, and a bunch of kids. Really?!? It's not like the food is that good!
I don't know about you, but I feel like there's 2 types of people at work... those who have work to do and those who don't!
I'm sure you're less socially awkward than I am, but I'm the guy at work that's asking people (like my co-worker Wes) to please stop talking, at least to me because I have to work, and everytime I get interrupted I have to try and figure out what I was just doing!
Now I've got scientific proof that coworkers are making you DUMBER!
According to a study, every time your coworkers talk to you and distract you, you immediately become 20% STUPIDER.
Not permanently, of course, but as long as you're distracted, you're dumber.
A separate study found the average officer worker only gets 11 minutes of work done between interruptions . . . and it can take almost half an hour to fully focus again after you're interrupted.
Based on that math, you may NEVER be able to get back to a place of full productivity. At least I think that's the math. I'm at least 20% dumber right now.
The researchers did come up with a good takeaway for us though! If you tell yourself you're DEFINITELY going to be interrupted at any moment, it actually helps you focus and improves your productivity.
Personally I would divide the workplace in to 2 parts.
1. The outside ring of individual offices on the upper level - for people who have task oriented jobs like me. Meaning no matter what you have a list of things that has to get done, once they're done you can leave, but until then you're stuck.
2. The inner open area below the upper ring - for people who have a time oriented job (like my coworker Wes who I referred to above) these people have to be at work from ___ to ___, meaning even if they have nothing to do they can't leave. These are the people that tend to annoy me at work the most! When you're in a meeting they just want to shoot the breeze because they have to be at work for another 5 hours so they don't care what they're doing, so long as it's not sitting at their desk!
Like many of you, I went to the Carrie Underwood concert last weekend at the Bradley Center.
For those of you that missed it, it was great (not bragging, just saying) Carrie did sound a little horse, but she was still good, looked amazing and her and Hunter Hayes was gracious and fun as usual! (Country artists are usually the nicest of the formats)
If you didn't hear me say it on the air, I stuck my foot in my mouth when I met Hunter saying something like, "Your music is for women..." I know, I'm an idiot!
I also got to meet Carrie for the 2nd time, if you didn't know she's my big time celebrity crush!
The 1st time I got to meet her, I said something really awkward out of nervousness, this time went a little better, so I think I'm making some headway... I just need about 100 more meet n greets and I'll be gettin' somewhere with her haha!
Well I am, I know it's not the healthiest thing in the world, but I'm the guy that has to get a refill on salsa when I go out to a Mexican restaurant because I eat so many chips and salsa... before the meal!
So it's no surprise that I'm so into this study on how to dips chips without breaking them!
According to a structural engineer, the way most of us dip chips is structurally unsound.
Here are four steps to avoid breaking chips in the dip . . .
1. Most tortilla chips are triangular, and we hold the chip by one point, and dip the LONG edge of the triangle, like a shovel. THAT'S WRONG.
2. We do it so we can scoop up more dip . . . naturally. But it ends up putting too much weight on the point of the chip where you're holding it, and it snaps.
3. Instead, you should hold the chip along the edge of the triangle, and just dip one POINT . . . in other words, the exact opposite of what we all usually do. And you can get JUST AS MUCH DIP, without the breakage.
4. Finally, use chips that are harder to break. Go through the bowl and find ones that are CURLED . . . or as the engineers put it, quote, a "bent, undulating chip". That creates an arch, which is the strongest support structure.
I don't know about you, but it's worth trying it, I'm gonna go get my dip on!
I did, since I always make a point to go see my celebrity crush Carrie. The show was awesome, and even better I got to go backstage and meet both throughout the evening.
Carrie was beautiful and sweet as always, I barely remember any of it, since she makes me feel as shy as a little boy, but I'll post the photo once I get it.
Then there was my meeting with Hunter Hayes... he too was very cool. The problem was I had one of those moments where nothing came out of my mouth right!
I said something like, "Yeah, my wife turned me on to your music since it's for women... I mean your lyrics aren't for guys... I mean your music mostly targets girls..." (What?!?) At that point I think my face just turned red because I realized that everyone in the room was looking at me like "What the heck are you saying?!?"
He was pretty quiet after that, and I had dug too deep of a hole to get out so I remember shaking his hand, congratulating him on his success and waking away feeling like a huge idiot!
Oh well, if nothing else it gave me a story to tell ya!
"Iron Man 3" hits theaters today, are you going to see it?
The returning cast includes Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, Don Cheadle as Rhodey,Jon Favreau as Happy, and Paul Bettany as the voice of Jarvis.
After the events of "The Avengers", Tony Stark is still struggling with the aftermath of that alien invasion. He's become withdrawn and obsessed with getting ready for the next big threat, so he's been doing nothing but building new suits.
This movie starts with him having FORTY-TWO variations. And the latest version, the Mark XLII, allows him to summon the suit to himself by using sub-dermal implants.
That new model also lets him direct his armor to another person, which is how Pepper gets it when he protects her from the Mandarin's choppers. You'll see a lot of his suits destroyed in that attack, and Downey spends a lot of the film without the Iron Man suit.
Ben Kingsley plays the Mandarin, who comic fans know to be one of Iron Man's greatest enemies. In "Iron Man 3" he initially comes across as a modern-day terrorist.
He's the movie's main villain, but Tony also has to fight some super-powered humans who've been genetically enhanced by some bio-technology called Extremis that, among other things, gives them to power to heal themselves.
And finally, this will be the first of the Marvel movies where Samuel L. Jackson doesn't make a cameo as Nick Fury. Instead, the post-credit scene that we've all come to expect will feature Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk's alter-ego, Dr. Bruce Banner.
Either way, I'm pumped, here's what you're in for!
Well than I guess if you buy into the idea that your Zodiac sign determines EVERYTHING that happens in your life, that would include how often you talk yourself into spending time beating yourself up at the gym.
A new survey ranked how likely you are to regularly WORK OUT based on your astrological sign.
Here are all 12 Zodiac signs in order from most to least fit!
