Good anecdote here.
Via Kim.
Archive for the ‘Fun Stuff’ Category
The cat, however, was a raging psycho
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Jackass – The Wildlife Documentary
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Found via Maggie’s Farm. They had another version of the video, but I like this one better. Mine got removed by YouTube, so I replaced the embed code with the one from Maggie’s Farm.
I think I agree
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Fireball throwing robotic catapult is the best post title so far this year.
Some days, you just can’t win
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Music hath charms …
Monday, January 14th, 2008
But this band doesn’t. Despite the peaceful image on the cover, Tusk plays loud, violent, atonal, and profane screeds. It’s hard to make out the lyrics, which are screamed by an adenoidal teenager with a grammar impediment, but the theme of the album appears to be “Environment good, technology bad,” which seems incongruous, given the amount of amplification they use.
I know people who enjoy “death metal” music, and even they think this album has no merit other than volume.
Recommendation: don’t buy it.
What a long, strange trip it’s been
Sunday, January 13th, 2008I got the idea here.
Monstrous
Friday, January 11th, 2008Information on the folk monsters of Japan.
I don’t know if it’s a good resolution, but I think it’s a *great* resolution
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Phil Plait’s New Year’s resolution.
I wonder if I can match it?
A gallimaufry of links and things
Friday, December 14th, 2007I’ve been busy, and haven’t kept up with posting recently. I have, however, marked a few things of interest:
Via Coyote Blog, we have the World’s Hardest Easy Geometry Problem.
Via Jed, we have some cookies that sound absolutely delicious. I think my daughter will try these, actually.
Via a Yahoo Group to which I belong, we have a delightful a cappella holiday music performance by Straight No Chaser:
If that performance inspires you, perhaps you will wish to make your own motivational poster.
I happen to meet the Programmer’s Dress Code. I do occasionally wear suspenders, though, and the only pair I saw there was in part 2. It wasn’t even worn by a programmer.
A few days ago, Slashdot noted that Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to finish the late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I have most, if not all of them, but I’ll freely admit that I haven’t read all of them, and I kind of lost interest around book 5 or 6. The best comment in the thread is this one:
Hansel and Gretel, outlined in the style of Robert Jordan:
Book 1: Hansel and Gretel live happily with their mother and father. Their mother falls ill and dies. The family mourns her loss. The father starts courting another woman in the village, to the dismay of Hansel and Gretel. At the end of the book, she wins over the hearts and minds of the two children and marries her father. They live happily ever after.
Book 2: Oh, wait, they don’t live happily after all. The stepmother turns out to be hateful and cruel. Ultimately, Hansel and Gretel resolve to run away from home. Gretel expresses fears about the wicked witch who is rumored to live in the Forest, but Hansel insists nothing could be worse than living at home with their stepmother. After much bickering, they depart.
Book 3: Hansel and Gretel cross the boundary between Village and Forest. Gretel reprises her misgivings about the dangers of the forest. Hansel reiterates his arguments in favor of running away. After much bickering, they agree to continue, using bread crumbs to mark their trail. They get lost. Gretel blames Hansel. Hansel stubbornly refuses to admit his mistake.
Book 4: Hansel and Gretel wander through the woods, lost and disoriented. Gretel continues to complain about the foolishness of running away from home. Hansel continues to insist it’s the right thing to do. Gretel continues to berate him about the bread crumbs fiasco. Hansel persists in his mule-headed self-righteousness. They meet a Wise Owl, who warns them about the Wicked Witch of the Forest.
Book 5: Hansel and Gretel wander through the woods, lost and disoriented. Gretel continues to complain about the foolishness of running away from home. Hansel continues to insist it’s the right thing to do. Gretel continues to berate him about the bread crumbs fiasco. Hansel persists in his mule-headed self-righteousness. They meet a Cunning Fox, who encourages them to visit the Wise Woman of the Forest.
Book 6: Hansel and Gretel wander through the woods, lost and disoriented. Gretel continues to complain about the foolishness of running away from home. Hansel continues to insist it’s the right thing to do. Gretel continues to berate him about the bread crumbs fiasco. Hansel persists in his mule-headed self-righteousness. They meet a Cryptic Raven, who warns them about the Wicked Witch of the Forest.
Book 7: Hansel and Gretel wander through the woods, lost and disoriented. Gretel continues to complain about the foolishness of running away from home. Hansel continues to insist it’s the right thing to do. Gretel continues to berate him about the bread crumbs fiasco. Hansel persists in his mule-headed self-righteousness. They meet a Devious Serpent, who encourages them to visit the Wise Woman of the Forest. … and that’s about the point where the Faithful Reader finally realizes that this hack has stretched a simple fairy tale into seven giant novels in which nothing actually happens.
And finally, Don Surber points us to to wacky warnings. Hie thee hence, and find out who won a copy of Remove Child Before Folding, and with what.
Tomfoolishness
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I have a copy of the book, “Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer,” but that doesn’t have the annotations. I also got to see a performance of the musical, “Tomfoolery” sometime in the 80s. That was a lot of fun – it was staged in a commercial greenhouse, so there wasn’t a lot of stage area. About the only clear memory I have of it is the performance of “Smut” by one of the female cast members, who was dressed in a very “little-girl” dress and carrying a teddy bear during the song. I wouldn’t mind seeing it again.
That reminds me … I need to get my Tom Lehrer CD back from my daughter.