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Although
sticky notes are called sticky notes, they don’t always stick that
well. They tend to curl up, and fall to the floor after a while
But there is a solution in the way you peel off the sticky note.
The traditional way is:
But
when you do it this way, the sticky note will curl up and disappear
from your wall after a little while. With the risk of ending up in the
dustbin. There goes your splendid idea or “must not forget” thingy for
that important presentation. The better way is to peel if off from left to right:
When you stick this sticky note to the wall, you’ll notice that it doesn’t curl up, and thus will stick many times longer. This picture shows the difference:
A lesser known feature of Windows 7/8 called GodMode enables you to create a folder which contains all the settings and features. The folder simply contains all the links of the settings. It is akin to the Control Panel, but with a lot more features.
Create a new folder by right clicking on Desktop, selecting New, and then choosing Folder. ( Can be created anywhere though )
Rename this folder to "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}".
When you press Enter, the folder icon changes to a kind of Settings Icon.
Open
the folder and you have direct access to hundreds of Settings. These
are further categorized as Action Center, Administrative Tools,
Auto-play, Font, Sound, etc.
This feature can be very
useful when you do not know how to access certain settings of your
Windows PC. This feature lists all the settings so that you can modify
them from a single place and save time.
When
we do any IM chat we easily know whether or not the receiver has seen
the message. But what about emails ?? We can just send the mail and wait
for the reply. Now comes an extension called Streak for Gmail.
Along with many other features, it allows us to find out correctly
whether the recipient has seen the mail and at what time and also at
which location (but the correctness of this location information should
be taken with a grain of salt)Benefits- For
the cases where the recipient gets mass mailings we can find if he/she
has seen the mail, like mailing any customer care/helpdesk service or
an HR of a company.
It is best for mailing the professors of
foreign universities for applying for an internship or any other purpose
to have an idea of his receipt of mail. This extension also allows to
schedule emails to send later at a particular time so that one can send
at the relevant time i.e. the time when any general professor will check
his/her mail in his/her (foreign) time zone. This allows to have a
better chance of having our mail seen by him/her.
Email
tracking works by embedding an invisible pixel into the email. When the
recipient reads the email, their client makes a request to the servers
of streak so they know that it's been read, along with some other
information (city, device) and give this information to the sender
PS -1. This extension is actually for personal CRM (Customer relationship management) 2. Users of Firefox can use Yesware - yesware.comYesware | Sell Smarter.
Mobile Tripod: Use your laptop charger(or any other) plug to stabilize your mobile camera. Fit it just between the pair of line pins and one earth pin. Like this:
1. Press volume down button in your camera app to take picture if your phone doesn't have dedicated camera key. 2.
For thin/slim phones either you can put something in between like a
handkerchief, or use a plug which has adjustable earth pin (this may
help).
The
most commom virus menace for Windows users is the shortcut virus
changing all your files and folders in pendrive to shortcuts. It's a
familiar problem among most college students. We have all tried to use
the ineffective shortcut virus remover, a third party software, to solve
the problem. But it is very simple to deal with.
Delete
all the shortcuts from the pendrive. They can be identified by the arrow
symbol in icons and having a size of less than 4kB usually.
Now open command prompt.
Go to the pendrive by typing <alphabet assigned to drive>:
Now enter the magic line attrib -s -h /S /D
Wait for some time... It's done! All your files and folders are back.
The secret behind this:
The
virus only changes the folders' system attributes, makes it hidden and
creates shortcuts. So by removing the shortcuts, and removing the hidden
and system attributes from all files and folders, you have terminated the virus without trace!
Facts which are related to History and Facts of Indian Cricket
First Cricket tournament in India was played as The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936)
First Cricket Club in India is the Oriental Cricket Club,1848
First Cricket Test Match that India Played was Against England at Lord's June,25, 1932
First ODI Match that India Played was Against England at Leeds July 13, 1974
First T20 Match that India Played was Against South Africa 1st December, 2006
First Test Captain of India CK Nayudu, 1932 tour of England
First ODI Captain of India Ajit Wadekar, 1974
First ODI Won by India 1975
against East Africa under captaincy of S Venkataraghavan (This was the
only ODI won by India in world cup before wining the 1983 world cup)
First Test Won by India was Against England in Madras, 1951-52
First Test Series Victory was Against Pakistan, 1952
First Test Series Victory outside Indian Subcontinent was Against New Zealand, 1967-68
First Indian Bowler to take wicket was Mohammad Nissar
First Indian Cricketer to score a half century was Amar Singh
First Indian Cricketer to score a century was Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay
First Indian Cricketer to score a double century in Test was Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
First Indian Cricketer to score a triple century in Test was Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.
First Indian Cricketer to score a century in ODI was Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
First Indian Cricketer to score a double century in ODI was Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010.
First Hat-trick in Test match was taken by Harbhajan Singh against Austrlia in March 2001
First Hat-trick in ODI match was taken by Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987
First Indian Cricketer World Cup Championship Win At the 1983 Cricket World Cup
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket was Sunil Gavaskar (He was the in the world to achieve this feat.)
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket was Sachin Tendulkar (He was the in the world to achieve this feat.)
First Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined was Sachin Tendulkar
Indian Bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings was Anil Kumble, 10/74 against Pakistan in Delhi,1999
First Batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket was Sachin Tendulkar
Highest Test Score by India was 726/9 against Sri Lanka in Mumbai,2009
Lowest Test Score by India was 42 against England in 1974
Highest ODI Score by India was 418/5 against West Indies,2011 at Indore
Lowest ODI Score by India was 54 against Sri Lanka in Sharjah, 2001
Highest Winning margin in ODI for India 257 against Bermuda in West Indies,2007
Highest Winning margin in Test Match for India was Innings and 239 runs against Bangladesh, Mirpur 2007
Highest Score run by WicketKeeper in ODI was Mahendra Singh Dhoni , 183 againt Sri Lanka, 2005
Most Wicket taker in Test Match Anil Kumble,619 in 132 matches
Most Wicket taker in ODI Anil Kumble,334 in 269 matches
Highest Individual Score in Test Match Virender Sehwag, 319 against South Africa, Chennai, 2008
Highest Individual Score in ODI Match Virender Sehwag, 219 against West Indies, Indore 2011
Most dismissals in Test career by wicketkeeper MS Dhoni
Most catches in Test career (non-wicketkeeper) Rahul Dravid, 209 in 163 matches
Highest wicket partnerships in Test Match Vinoo Mankad & Pankaj Roy, 413 aginst New Zeleand in 1956
First Indian Cricketer to awarded Arjuna Award Salim Durani
Most number of Man of the Match Awards In ODI 62 by Sachin Tendulkar
Most Consecutive Man of the Match Award In ODI 4 by Sourav Ganguly
Most number of Man of the Series Awards In ODI 16 by Sachin Tendulkar
First Indian Batsman to score two centuries in same test match Vijay Hazare against Autralia in Adelaid, 1947-48
First Batsman to score pair of ducks in same test match Vijay Hazare against England in Kanpur, 1951-52
First Bastsman to Score 1000 Runs Vijay Hazare
First Indian player to score a century in three successive Test matches Vijay Hazare
Only Player to achieve 4000 test run and 400 test Wickets Kapil Dev
India's first ever foreign coach is John Wright
First stadium to host a Test match in India is Gymkhana Ground in Bombay, 1933
Wicket Taken on the first bowl of career in Test Match is Nilesh Kulkarni, against Sri Lanka, Colmbo, 1997
Wicket Taken on the first bowl of career in ODI S Ramesh, against West Indies,1999
Fastest Century in ODI V Shewag, 60 Balls against New Zeland, 2009
Fastest Half Century in ODI Ajit Agarkar, 21 balls againt Zimbabwe, 2000
Fastest Century in Test Match Kapil Dev and M Azharuddin, 74 balls
First Batsman to Score Three Triple Centuries in First Class Match Ravindra Jadeja
Fastest 50 Wicket taker in Test Match R Ashwin
Fastest Test Century on debut Shikhar Dhawan, against Australia, 85 balls
6 sixes in an over Yuvraj Singh, against England 2007
Fastest Half Century in T20 Yuvraj Singh, against England 2007 in 12 balls
Cricket is a 165 years old sport in India, it was first played in India in 1848
Indian cricket team is the only team to be dismissed twice in a single day of a test match.
Bhagwat Chandrashekhar
is the only cricketer to have scored fewer runs in his test career than
the number of wickets he took. (242 wickets and 177 runs). Chris Martin of New Zealand has 123 runs and 233 wickets!
Mohammed Azharuddin(India) is the only batsman to have scored three centuries in his first three test matches.
Bhausahib Nimbalkar(India)
was on 443*, with one day to go in a first-class match, just 9 short of
the then world record 452* held by Bradman, but was unable to play on
the final day, because he had to go and get married.Nimbalkar
was denied the record by the opposing captain. At 443, he was within
striking distance of Don Bradman's then world record score of 452, made
19 years earlier when the Kathiawar captain, Thakore Sahib of Rajkot,
decided to concede the match with the Maharashtra score 826 for 4.
In 1952, versus England at Leeds, India were reduced to 0 for 4.
Only 4 Indian batsmen - Gundappa Vishwanath, Mohammed Azharuddin and Saurav Ganguly, Sehwag have scored centuries on debut for India, and then scored centuries again in their careers.
Wilfred Rhodes (England) has batted at all 11 positions in test cricket. His feat was emulated by Vinoo Mankad (INDIA).
Against
England, at Lord's in 1990, India needed 24 runs to avoid the
follow-on, with 1-wicket in hand. After playing the first 2 balls of the
over defensively Kapil Dev hit off-spinner Eddie Hemmings for 4 consecutive sixes
(the only time this has ever been done), to avoid the follow-on. Next
ball number 11 batsman Narendra Hirwani was dismissed by Angus Fraser.
The
best test bowling figures on debut are those of Narendra
Hirwani(India). He took 16 for 136 versus the West Indies. He broke Bob
Massie's record of 16 for 137.
When India hosted Sri Lanka,
and Kapil Dev was nearing Sir Richard Hadlee's world record 431 wickets
in test cricket, the Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin asked Kumble to
intentionally bowl outside the off stump so as to avoid taking too many
wickets, and thus allowing Kapil Dev the shot at the record in that
match. Eventually Kapil succeeded in having Hashan Tilekratne(Sri Lanka)
caught at forward short leg by Sanjay Manjrekar to secure his 432nd
test victim.
The only wicket keeper to have stumped Sir Donald Bradman (Australia) was Prabir Sen of INDIA
MS Dhoni holds the world record for 6 dismissals by a wicket keeper in a one-dayer. V/s England at leeds in 2007
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (INDIA), the 2nd youngest ever test captain, and a very fine batsman played for a long time with a glass eye.
Guess what's Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife's name, it is -- Navjot Sidhu-- yes, this is her name!!
The 1984-85 seasons, 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot- India were 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned.
That match was abandoned after hearing the news of Indira Gandhi being killed
The only cricketer to have played for England and India is The Nawab Of Pataudi (Senior)
On
the day that Sunil Gavaskar was born, his uncle, Mr Masurekar had come
to his hospital to see him. The uncle noticed a small hole near the top
of his left ear lobe. But the next day, when he came to see Sunny, he
did not find the hole ! A search was made and Sunny was found sleeping
blissfully beside a fisher-woman. The little master had been switched at
birth but luckily been restored. One often wonders how different
India's cricketing history would have been had Gavaskar's uncle not been
so observant!
Nothing can escape gravity. Not a moon, not a planet and not even light. That’s what Black holes are a spot where gravity’s pull is huge, ending up being dangerous for anything that accidentally strays by.
But
how did black holes come to be, and why are they important? Below are 9
facts about black holes just a few tidbits about these fascinating
objects.
Fact 1: You can’t directly see a black hole.
Because
a black hole is indeed “black” — no light can escape from it — it’s
impossible for us to sense the hole directly through our instruments, no
matter what kind of electromagnetic radiation you use (light, X-rays,
whatever.) The key is to look at the hole’s effects on the nearby environment, points out NASA.
Say a star happens to get too close to the black hole, for example. The
black hole naturally pulls on the star and rips it to shreds. When the
matter from the star begins to bleed toward the black hole, it gets
faster, gets hotter and glows brightly in X-rays. Fact 2: Look out! Our Milky Way likely has a black hole.
A
natural next question is given how dangerous a black hole is, is Earth
in any imminent danger of getting swallowed? The answer is no,
astronomers say, although there is probably a huge supermassive black
hole lurking in the middle of our galaxy. Luckily, we’re nowhere near
this monster — we are about two-thirds of the way out from the center,
relative to the rest of our galaxy — but we can certainly observe its
effects from afar. For example: the European Space Agency says it’s four million times more massive than our Sun, and that it’s surrounded by surprisingly hot gas.
Sagittarius
A in infrared (red and yellow, from the Hubble Space Telescope) and
X-ray (blue, from the Chandra space telescope). Credit: X-ray:
NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al., IR: NASA/STScI
Fact 3: Dying stars create stellar black holes.
Say
you have a star that’s about 20 times more massive than the Sun. Our
Sun is going to end its life quietly; when its nuclear fuel burns out,
it’ll slowly fade into a white dwarf. That’s not the case for far more
massive stars. When those monsters run out of fuel, gravity will
overwhelm the natural pressure the star maintains to keep its shape
stable. When the pressure from nuclear reactions collapses, according to the Space Telescope Science Institute,
gravity violently overwhelms and collapses the core and other layers
are flung into space. This is called a supernova. The remaining core
collapses into a singularity — a spot of infinite density and almost no
volume. That’s another name for a black hole. Fact 4: Black holes come in a range of sizes.
There are at least three types of black holes,NASA
says, ranging from relative squeakers to those that dominate a galaxy’s
center. Primordial black holes are the smallest kinds, and range in
size from one atom’s size to a mountain’s mass. Stellar black holes, the
most common type, are up to 20 times more massive than our own Sun and
are likely sprinkled in the dozens within the Milky Way. And then there
are the gargantuan ones in the centers of galaxies, called “supermassive
black holes.” They’re each more than one million times more massive
than the Sun. How these beasts formed is still being examined.
Fact 5: Weird time stuff happens around black holes.
This
is best illustrated by one person (call them Unlucky) falling into a
black hole while another person (call them Lucky) watches. From Lucky’s
perspective, Unlucky’s time clock appears to be ticking slower and slower. This is in accordance with Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which (simply put) says that time is affected by how fast you go,
when you’re at extreme speeds close to light. The black hole warps time
and space so much that Unlucky’s time appears to be running slower.
From Unlucky’s perspective, however, their clock is running normally and
Lucky’s is running fast. Fact 6: The first black hole wasn’t discovered until X-ray astronomy was used.
Cygnus
X-1 was first found during balloon flights in the 1960s, but wasn’t
identified as a black hole for about another decade. According to NASA,
the black hole is 10 times more massive to the Sun. Nearby is a blue
supergiant star that is about 20 times more massive than the Sun, which
is bleeding due to the black hole and creating X-ray emissions.
Illustration of Cygnus X-1, another stellar-mass black hole located 6070 ly away. (NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)
Fact 7: The nearest black hole is likely not 1,600 light-years away.
An
erroneous measurement of V4641 Sagitarii led to a slew of news reports a
few years back saying that the nearest black hole to Earth is
astoundingly close, just 1,600 light-years away. Not close enough to be
considered dangerous, but way closer than thought. Further research,
however, shows that the black hole is likely further away than that.
Looking at the rotation of its companion star, among other factors,
yielded a 2014 result of more than 20,000 light years. Fact 8: We aren’t sure if wormholes exist.
A
popular science-fiction topic concerns what happens if somebody falls
into a black hole. Some people believe these objects are a sort of
wormhole to other parts of the Universe, making faster-than-light travel
possible. But as this Smithsonian Magazine article points out,
anything is possible since we still have a lot to figure out about
physics. “Since we do not yet have a theory that reliably unifies
general relativity with quantum mechanics, we do not know of the entire
zoo of possible spacetime structures that could accommodate wormholes,”
said Abi Loeb, who is with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics.
Diagram of a wormhole, or theoretical shortcut path between two locations in the universe. Credit: Wikipedia
Fact 9: Black holes are only dangerous if you get too close.
Like
creatures behind a cage, it’s okay to observe a black hole if you stay
away from its event horizon think of it like the gravitational field
of a planet. This zone is the point of no return, when you’re too close
for any hope of rescue. But you can safely observe the black hole from
outside of this arena. By extension, this means it’s likely impossible
for a black hole to swallow up everything in the Universe (barring some
sort of major revision to physics or understanding of our Cosmos, of
course.)
1. The ratio of an average person's height to the height of his/her navel is 1.618(the Golden Ratio) 2. 50% of human DNA is same as in banana. 3. Our fingers don't have any muscles. The muscles which move our finger joints are located in the palm and up in the forearm. 4. The tips of your fingers have enough strength to support the weight of your whole body. 5.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 miles per hour.When a sneeze
leaves your body ,it is at such a high speed that you should avoid
suppressing it. 6.The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting. 7. Babies are born with pink lungs but they darken in color as we breathe in polluted air. 8.You burn more calories while sleeping than watching TV 9. Hair
is made of protein and keratin & has no blood supply.And common
belief that shaving facial hair makes them grow faster or thicker is
actually not true. 10. Glabella' - It is the space between your eyebrows! 11. Do you know that if human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels. 12. An adult human being is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms. 13. Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long. 14. We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes. 15. Having excessive body hair is linked to higher intellect. 16. Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print. 17. When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small lightbulb. 18. All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds. 19. Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to. 20. There's more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world. 21. Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km). 22. The human body can function without a brain. 23.
A man's testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day –
enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months! 24. By the time a woman has reached her 60s, she will have released around 450 baby making eggs.
Did you know that in Google Analytics,
when the program calculates the average time on a page for your website,
that it does not take into account the last page in the session? So for example, say I go to http://www.hindufaqs.com.
I start on the home page, then go to the SEO page and eventually end up
on the social media page. The time I spent on that social media page is
not counted in the average time on page. So why would Google do this?
The main reason, in so many cases, the person leaves their browser open
and that last page, and then walks away from their computer to do
something else. Or maybe they just start doing something else on their
computer and leave that page open. Either way, Google Analytic’s does
not count the time on page for the last page in the session.
2. ISSUES WITH FAKE TRAFFIC
The
normal fairly educated analytics user is now just starting to
understand that not all the traffic to their website is correct. In some
cases, bots can inflate traffic significantly. You can usually see when
this happens because one IP address will send a significant amount of
visits. Outside of this, and the fact that there are now thousands of
these bots on all levels online, there are just general issues with
looking at traffic data. For example, maybe multiple people use one
computer or one person uses multiple devices. If you site is accessed
more than one time in each of these situations, it can throw your
numbers. Also, don’t forget to block traffic numbers from all the people
you work with, right?
3. SERVER VS TAGS VS THIRD PARTY
Most
people don’t really realize how analytics tools work. There are four
main ways. The first is a server side analytics tool. Most hosting
companies offer a basic program like this, but they are not advanced
enough in almost all cases to make any marketing decisions. Third party
analytics program, such as SEM Rush, Alexa, Quantcast, etc, look at
certain metrics regarding how the Internet interacts with your website.
Some of these third-party analytic tools can be fairly accurate.
However, they are usually not precise.
Tags, or code that is placed
on your actual website, allows the analytics program to capture
information following a page load. Google Analytics is actually a hybrid
of a tag and Server based analytic program, and therefore the fourth
option. This generally thought to be the most accurate. But this may all
change with the new Universal analytics.
4. THE ISSUE WITH JAVASCRIPT
One
of the main reason why analytics tools do not count hits from robots is
because robots do not execute Javascript. This allows them to not
report on this data. However, it should be known that in the United
States, 2 to 3% of web browsers also do not have Javascript enabled.
Therefore, that traffic is never accounted for.
5. ANALYTICS TRACKING CODE NOT INSTALLED
One
issue with a tag or website based analytics tracking program, such as
Google Analytics, is that if you do not have the analytics code
installed on the page, that page will not be tracked. This is especially
an issue with larger websites, who are predicted to be missing website
tracking code on as much as 20% of their pages. Think of how much
traffic is not being accounted for! This is a huge issue, and it speaks
lengths about having an analytics person or using an agency if you have a
large web presence. We recently had 2 large clients discover that
tracking code was not on large sections of the website, so it happens
often.
While
nobody has yet gone ‘full Heisenberg’, Vince Gilligan’s message about
the perils of meth production and distribution apparently failed to
reach a handful of hard-up educators. William Duncan, a chemistry
teacher from Texas, was arrested for selling home-cooked meth within
school grounds; in 2011, 74-year-old mathematics professor Irina Kristy
was caught running a meth lab from her Boston home; North Carolina
teacher’s assistant and meth chef Marc Hodges was arrested earlier this
year after suspiciously purchasing 1,000 cases of matches; and Stephen
Doran, a Boston teacher with stage 3 cancer, was found dealing meth and
arrested in May. But perhaps the most striking case of life imitating
art occurred before Breaking Bad was even on TV. In 2008, an
Alabama man (main photo, above) earned a place on the state’s Most
Wanted list thanks to his thriving meth business. Admittedly, he was
neither a teacher nor a cancer sufferer. But his name? Walter White.
2. And so is Heisenberg.
The
name Walt gives to his alter ego, “Heisenberg”, is a tip of the hat to
Werner Heisenberg, one of the most important physicists of the 20th
century. He won the Nobel Prize for developing the theory of quantum
mechanics.
3. The cast is full of comedians.
"If you
can do comedy you can do drama," Vince Gilligan said recently of his
approach to casting. "It doesn’t necessarily flow the other way."
Consequently, Breaking Bad is packed with funny men – even if they’re
not always given the chance to show it. Bob Odenkirk (Saul) is well
known as the co-creator of US TV’s last great sketch series, Mr Show;
Bill Burr (Kuby) is a stand-up comic, as are Lavell Crawford (Huell),
Steven Michael Quezada (poor Gomie), and Javier Grajeda (Gus Fring’s
boss at the cartel, and the man who put a severed head on a tortoise).
And before he was a struggling actor, Bryan Cranston spent several
months as a floundering comedian
4. Gus Fring ended his life as a zombie.
For
the aptly titled season 4 finale, Face Off, Vince Gilligan sought help
from the prosthetic-effects team behind AMC’s zombie series The WalkingDead.
Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger made a model of Gustavo Fring’s
exploded Evil-Dead-meets-Two-Face head, which was then digitally blended
with actor Giancarlo Esposito’s real noggin. According to Gilligan, “it
took months”.
5. Wendy the hooker is much healthier than she looks.
She
was certainly perky when Jesse was around, but the show’s standout meth
addict was never exactly a picture of good health. However, Julia
Minesci, the actress who played the role of “Wendy S” from 2008-2010,
has run the Hawaii Ironman six times, the Germany Ironman once and“countless marathons”.
6. Gale’s complete karaoke video – with Thai subtitles – is on YouTube.
7. And so is the Jesse Pinkman-directed video for Twaughthammer’s "Fallacies".
8. The White family home is an actual family home.
Far
from being a drug baron’s digs or even a building dreamt up by Vince
Gilligan, Walter White’s house in Breaking Bad has been the real-life
homeof a woman called Fran since 1973. She admits that “a lot of
artistic licence” was taken with the property’s interior by the
production designer and that Gilligan originally wanted to cover the
pool up. And she doesn't mind the hundreds of cars that slow down in
front of her house every month.
9. Skinny Pete practiced very hard for his piano solo.
Jesse’s
wastrel sidekick gave a virtuoso performance of Bach’s Solfeggietto in
the music shop at the beginning of season five. Charles Baker, a decent
pianist and the actor who plays Pete, practiced the piece for three
hours every day for a month before filming. Much to Baker’s chagrin,
only the intro made the cut.
10. The DEA's ‘Mustache man’ got the part by playing golf with Dean Norris.
One
extra has consistently stolen the show in Breaking Bad – the man with
the enormous mustache often seen in the background at the DEA offices.
Robert Sanchez, the man behind the novelty facial hair, knows actor
Steven Michael Quezada (Agent Gomez) through softball and has admitted
he got the part after playing golf with Quezada and Dean Norris. The
retired fireman also competes in mustache competitions in his free time.
11. Walt’s Lotto code isn’t a complete dead end.
The
coordinates that Walt hid on a Lotto ticket (N 34, 59′, 20″, W 106,
36′, 52), which sadly proved fatal for Hank, don’t actually lead to $80
million in cash, or even a few plastic barrels. Instead, they point
straight to Q Studios in Albuquerque, where Breaking Bad (plus Hollywood
films such as The Avengers) is shot.
12. Breaking Bad helps beat addiction.
An
Albuquerque clinic, the Sage Neuroscience Center, is using the show’s
popularity to help get New Mexicans off narcotics. (The state has the
highest rate of addiction in the US.) By sharing their stories of
addiction, entrants have the chance to win one of two “Breaking
Addiction” scholarships, which entitle them to 12 weeks of free
rehabilitation treatment worth thousands of dollars.
13. Bryan Cranston was once wanted for murder.
In an interview for Marc Maron’s
WTF
podcast in 2011, the actor reminisced about the time he and his brother
worked as waiters in a Florida restaurant where the chef was a tyrant
named Peter Wong. “No matter how nice you may have been to him, he hated
you,” said Cranston. “He screamed at you ... (with) a cleaver in his
hand.” When the chef was found murdered, the police visited the
restaurant and asked if anybody had ever expressed an interest in
killing Peter Wong. "Everybody talked about killing Peter Wong," came
the reply. "That's all
we talked about." Unfortunately,
the Cranston brothers had just resigned to ride cross-country on their
motorcycles. For a while, they were suspects.
14. The Salamanca Cousins even have terrifying eyelids.
Think
the mute assassins who almost got Hank are tough? You have no idea.
Daniel and Luis Moncado, the brothers who played the cousins, have both
been in gangs and served time in jail. But Luis goes one better. He has
the letters "F U" tattooed on his eyelids, etched there by placing a
spoon behind each one. "Your eyelid is so thin the needle will go
through and puncture your eye," he said. "You gotta put a spoon."
15. The first role Vince Gilligan wrote for Bryan Cranston was even more demented than Heisenberg.
Before
creating Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan was best known for his work as a
writer and producer on the sci-fi series, The X-Files It was there that
his and Bryan Cranston’s paths first crossed, on the Gilligan-written
episode Drive. Cranston plays a crazed racist roofer who must drive due
west at breakneck speed, or else his head will explode. Gilligan has
said he “needed a guy who could be scary and kind of loathsome but at
the same time had a deep, resounding humanity.” Sound familiar?
16. Blue meth really is more expensive.
Since
the first series of BB, in 2008, copycat drug producers around the US
have been adding blue food dye to their crystal meth in an attempt to
dupe their customers into thinking it is stronger, like Heisenberg’s
product. Possibly for that reason, the cost of blue crystal
methamphetamine has been reported to be higher than that of normal,
colorless “ice”.
17. ...but not necessarily better.
As many chemically minded pedants have pointed out, pure methamphetamine is not blue, but colorless.
18. Belize is actually a nice place to visit.
When Saul suggested to Walt that he send Hank “on a trip to Belize”
like he had done to Mike, everyone understood the euphemism – including
the Belize Tourism Board. So keen were they to show that Belize was, in
fact, a wonderful place, with “great music and friendly people”, that
they extended an open invitation to the cast and crew of the series to
take an all-expenses-paid holiday in the Central-American country.
19. Walt and Jesse’s cooking flashback in Ozymandias was the last Breaking Bad scene ever filmed.
Shortly
afterwards, the cast and crew spent a drunken night in a local bar;
Cranston ended up with a tattoo of the show’s logo on his finger, much
to his wife’s disgust.
20. Seinfeld was a Breaking Bad training school.
Several BB cast members had roles on Jerry Seinfeld’seponymous
sitcom. As stingy dentist Tom Whatley, Bryan Cranston helped popularise
the term ‘regifting’; Anna Gunn played Jerry’s supposedly cheating
girlfriend in one episode; Bob Odenkirk played Elaine’s sexually
frustrated boyfriend; and Jessica Hecht, aka Gray Matter’s Gretchen,
appeared twice in two different parts.
21. Walt’s electrical wire trick (sort of) works.
It
turns out that burning through plastic restraints while tied to a
radiator isn't the only thing live wires are good for. According to
reports from Queensland, the technique popularized by Breaking Bad has
been used by Australian inmates to light illicit cigarettes in their
cells, causing the loss of some 425 television sets.
22. A 100-year-old cowboy almost starred in Season 3.
One
of many discarded Breaking Bad plot lines – among them, Walt opens a
pharmacy, Marie and Skyler go on a road trip – involved constant
flashbacks to a cowboy in frontier times, which would somehow relate to
the main story and star its own self-contained cast. Sadly, the writers
couldn't make it work
23. Warren Buffett would gladly do business with Walter White.
The
billionaire investor and Breaking Bad fan (above, with Aaron Paul)
recently described Walter as a “good businessman”, going on to say that
the drug lord “would be my guy if I ever have to go toe-to-toe with
anyone."
24. Jesse Plemons, aka baby-faced psychopath Todd, has a lovely singing voice.
25. Lydia was almost married to Nicholas Brody.
In the original pilot for Homeland,
Jessica Brody – pining wife of kidnapped Marine-turned-terrorist
Nicholas – was played by Scottish actress Laura Fraser. When the
producers had second thoughts, the pilot was reshot with the – in the
words of co-creator Alex Gansa – “more vibrant, more sexual” Morena
Baccarin. Fraser, meanwhile, went on to play Breaking Bad’s squeamish,
Louboutin-wearing drug-runner Lydia Rodarte-Quayle.
26. There was no need for Walt to rob that train.
Methylamine,
the chemical that incited the other Great Train Robbery of our time and
led to the killing of Drew Sharp, isn’t really that hard to make.
In fact, some chemists have suggested that it could be synthesised in a
kitchen sink without too much difficulty. But that would have made
terrible television.
27. Thanks to his father, Bryan Cranston will never run out of work.
A recent New Yorker profile of Cranston revealed that his estranged father Joe – a one-time actor/director/screenwriter
whose career failed to ignite – has written “several” film scripts
specifically for his son to star in, including an action caper called
G.R.A.B. But it wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing Cranston has
ever made. That would be The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
28. The science is flawed for a reason.
Because
of the fear that some of the series’ millions of viewers may try and
use the action as a step-by-step guide to making methamphetamine, the
real-life DEA advised Vince Gilligan and his team of writers on what
science to include, and what to omit. “If you just simply followed the
one synthesis as it's presented,” says the show’s science adviser Donna Nelson, “you wouldn't come out with methamphetamine.”
29. New Mexico is proud of Heisenberg.
Breaking
Bad was originally meant to be shot in California but the location was
ultimately changed to Albuquerque, NM. That change of setting has
certainly been a boon for the New Mexico tourism industry. Local
businesses have taken advantage of the hit show’s worldwide popularity
and cashed in by producing all manner of Breaking Bad-related products.
These include: blue-meth candy, blue-meth doughnuts, locally brewed
Heisenberg “dark” beer, custom-made Heisenberg Pez dispensers, as well
as more traditional trolley and Segway tours.
30. There will never be a bigger Breaking Bad super-fan than Kevin Cordasco.
Last
year, Vince Gilligan was contacted by the parents of 16-year-old Kevin
Cordasco, who was terminally ill with an aggressive form of cancer and
adored the show more than most. “There was something about the Walter
White character,” explained his father. “The way he took control of his
illness, and his life, that really resonated with Kevin.” Gilligan and
the cast visited Kevin at home and in hospital, and during one of these
visits he was asked by Gilligan what he felt was missing from the show.
“He said, ‘You know what, I want to know more about Gretchen and
Elliott,'” Gilligan said recently. “I want to know more about Walt’s
backstory with them. I want to know what happened.’” This is how
Walter’s former Gray Matter business partners ended up with a pivotal
role in the final series. Gilligan even offered to tell him how the show
would end; Kevin declined, saying he’d rather find out along with the
rest of the world. Kevin Cordasco died soon after, and the ninth episode
of season five is dedicated to him.
31.The Final Episode is titled "FELINA":
which means:
Fe-iron(a major component of blood)
Li-Lithium(a major component of Meth)
Na-sodium(a major component of tears)
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