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Happy Purim! 1

Mar

18

2008

I have no Hamentashen on hand, so instead, enjoy “Jewno”: [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQE045CkDpY&hl=en] I already knew J.K. Simmons (the dad) was awesome, but the fact that he actually appeared in this raises my opinion of him even higher. Courtesy Defamer.

Why I Wish I Was A Cartoon Voice-Over Artist

Feb

13

2008

Because then I’d get to participate in unbelievably awesome stuff like this, from the voices behind Spongebob Squarepants: via Dave Barry’s blog and BoingBoing.

For A Guy With No Legs, He Kicks A Lot Of Ass

Jan

24

2008

An aside huzzah: I now have a replacement replacement computer. Let’s see if this one works for more than a day. I was catching up with Fark links for the last day when I came across a fascinating story about a man with no legs who surreptitiously took pictures of everyone who stared at him ...

A Distressingly Close Approximation Of My Office At The Moment

Dec

11

2007

Is shown in this video from the kids at Late Night With Conan O’Brien. You can’t hear the buzz of the overhead fluorescent lights as loudly as you can in my office right now, but the level of deadness is pretty comparable.

Sarcastic British Geeks = Hilarity 1

Nov

23

2007

My cousin Mark, who enjoys the Halo series very much, sent me the following video, which he said captured his feelings about Halo 3 very well. I’m not a gamer much beyond Tetris and desperately trying to find a Wii (and then finding it at the one point I couldn’t afford it) for the last ...

On A Lighter, More Baseball-Related Note… 1

Oct

31

2007

Two bits of post-World Series amusement, firstly from The Onion’s Sports department: Colorado Rockies: ‘What The Fuck Just Happened?’ .onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline;}.onion_embed a.img {float: left !important;margin: 0 5px 0 ...

He Ate WHAT?!

Oct

26

2007

I listen to the BBC Global News Podcast in the car while I’m schlepping various things around Los Angeles, because it’s an easy way for me to maintain my goal of being reasonably informed about the rest of the world. It’s normally fairly straightforward and British and reserved, but with one rather odd story to ...

A Call For Koreans

Sep

18

2007

Because I would love a translation and/or explanation for the following video of Korean baseball teams fighting: glumbert – Hold your feet! Korean baseball gets strange Although I have to admit, I think I would enjoy it very much if the next time Barry Bonds gets hit by a pitch, he just started hopping out ...

Odd Jobs

Aug

26

2007

I am not the only member of my family with a job that is a bit unusual. My stepbrother Rob does PR for Chik-Fil-A, which is how he ended up doing the weather in a cow costume on the local Fox morning show in Atlanta.

That Is The Question 3

Jul

10

2007

Will It Blend? is a hysterically awesome series of two-minute-ish videos produced by a company that makes industrial-strength blenders for the home. They take all sorts of shit (everything from a fruit smoothie to a rake to a bunch of old cellphones), toss it in one of their blenders, then ask the simple question, “Will ...