Tie-dyed undies help you hide ?hippie inside?

Are you hiding a hippie? Is that hippie you? You might be interested in a product from California-based Hippie Skivvies, which makes tie-dyed underwear for those times “?when ya gotta hide the hippie inside.” JJ Wells in Boulder is the only retailer in Boulder County that carries the rainbow-hued undergarments, though all of the company’s products are available to order at its Web site, www.hippieskivvies.com.

If you are someone who is concerned about being at the leading edge of every trend and movement, now is the time to act. Hippie Skivvies currently is attempting to get placement of its tie-dyed buttock-hugging products on several popular TV shows, including “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Public,” and MTV’s sexually charged “Undressed.”

Imagine how proud you’ll be when you are able to brag to jealous friends that you were wearing tie-dyed underpants months before cameras ever caught Calista Flockhart strutting around in a pair. They may have been laughed at and picked on as kids, and they may have been dateless in high school, but adult nerds are having more sex than the average American.

This is according to results of a survey released by an online job site dedicated exclusively to information technology professionals. According to Men’s Health Magazine, the average American male has sex 79 times per year. But males responding to a survey of registered job seekers on JustTechJobs.com, whose slogan is “Nerds Wanted,” reported having sex a whopping 108 times per year ? 37 percent more than the average male.

“We were putting together a survey so we could get a better idea of who was using our site,´ said Russ Curtis, chief executive officer of JustTechJobs.com. “We put in a question about sex habits as a joke. But the response was definitely surprising to us.”

According to Curtis, almost 10,000 people responded to the survey. More than 75 percent of the respondents were male, and most were willing to identify themselves as nerds. “When we call the job seekers on our site ?nerds,’ we mean it as a badge of honor. Nerds make the industry go and are the movers and shakers of the New Economy.” And, apparently, they get lucky more often then the average non-nerd. The Eye gives the kid a 21-paintball salute. Tom Kutrubes, a 17-year-old Niwot High School student, has invented a way to shoot a paintball gun more rapidly and has successfully procured a patent for his efforts. Actually, a paintball gun is referred to as a paintball marker, in the lexicon of the sport where people shoot dye packets at each other.

Kutrubes, who has been playing paintball for about 5 years, has increased the firing speed of a paintball marker to about eight or nine paintballs per second with his new invention, which is essentially an enclosed ring trigger. So far, he has pocketed $25,000 for his invention and about 20 different companies have contracted to sell it.

The high schooler is principal owner of K&K Performance Paintball LLC. And watch out because Kutrubes is working on making a better barrel for the marker. What’s next? Talking paintballs?The Eye is suggesting that you to get off your duff and then get right back on it for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s Chairity Art Auction.

No, that’s not a misprint. It’s called a chairity because there will be more than 200 chairs or pieces of chair art up for auction, covering every conceivable style and genre. The event will be held Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m. at the museum, 1750 13th St. in Boulder. Proceeds go to the museum.

This live and silent auction will feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and light gourmet cuisine by Redstone Catering. There also will be an opportunity to sit back and enjoy exotic jazz by Bamboo and Black Light Puppet Mayhem by the Puppetrators. Tickets cost $50 and can be purchased by calling (303) 443-2122.While the University Hill couch issue continues to fill countless hours of debate at Boulder city council meetings, officials can rest easy knowing that the streets of downtown will be debris free.

A new superhero has swept in to prey on the dirt and grim that lurk in business districts and other public areas downtown. No, it’s not a bird, nor a plane, it’s the Litter Hawk! Toss that broom aside, this fierce fowl has the power to clean 88,000 square feet of sidewalk space in just one hour.

The Litter Hawk is a rider sweeper developed by the Tennant Co. It landed in front of Rhumba in a special dedication ceremony on April 24. Receiving the Litter Hawk, which was given to the Downtown Boulder Business Improvement District, were BID Executive Director Jane Jenkins, Boulder Mayor Will Toor, Deputy Mayor Don Knox and Councilman Rich Lopez..

Molly Winter, director of the Downtown and University Hill Management Division, won the quick cleaning bird in a drawing at the International Downtown Association Conference last fall. One of the newest agents at Keller Williams Boulder Market Center Realty Group is a guy who epitomizes the idea of taking the road less traveled.

In his previous life, Mark Hernandez helped design restaurants in Russia and eastern European countries. To boost his real estate clientele, Hernandez took what he learned developing concept restaurants and started a hot dog cart.

With every hot dog came a flyer announcing Hernandez’s main job ? and before long, he had established a healthy client base.

“Business is about creating relationships,” Hernandez said in a press release. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s selling hot dogs or homes, if you establish a rapport with people and have a valuable product or service, then it’s hard not to be successful.”Look for Walnut Street to get a bit more cultural and colorful. This summer, muralist Florian Lopez from Manté, Mexico will be creating and installing a mural at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St. Lopez recently visited Boulder to determine the appropriate mural technique, fresco or tile, for Boulder’s climate. Manté is located about 280 miles south of Brownsville, Texas and has been a Mexican sister city to Boulder for the last decade.Business is so good at Lyons-based non-profit Extras! for Education that the organization needs its own truck to collect supplies from businesses for schools.

Western Disposal stepped up to pledge up to $15,000 towards the truck and is challenging the community to make up the difference. For each dollar donated, Western Disposal will match it up to $15,000.

The Adopt a School Program’s Extras! for Education project collects computers, art supplies, science lab materials and other items that would ordinarily go out with the trash and sends the still-in-good-shape items to area schools. All donations to the group are tax deductible. Donate whatever cash you didn’t send to Uncle Sam to Extras! for Education, P.O. Box 4385, Boulder 80306, or call (303) 823-9460.The Eye has learned of a mysterious dark energy floating through the universe, and in this case, it’s not Richard Simmons’ befuddling ability to still command an audience and be taken seriously.

No, the Eye has learned that the universe may be expanding faster than it has in the past, and that Einstein’s notion of a dark energy in the universe shoving galaxies away from each other at an ever increasing speed might not be hogwash, after all.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a burst of light from an exploding star, called a supernova, located much farther from Earth than any previously seen. Credit for this discovery goes to Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., located right here in Boulder.

Ball manufactured the instrument that detected the cosmic blast. What this means is that the expansion of the universe may have started to speed up recently. The stellar explosion occurred an incredible 10 billion light-years from Earth, suggesting that gravity began to slow down the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang, but that later the repulsive forces of dark energy began to overwhelm gravity’s grip.

It gets more complicated and scientists will continue to debate the full implications of the discovery. As for the Eye, we’ll wait to find out. Meanwhile, we’re going to slip in our exciting videocassette of Simmons’ “Sweatin’ to the Oldies – Volume 455” and drop a few pounds.

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