Archive for 'Odd' Category
You’ve Been Infected – A Halloween Zombie Meme
Sorry to tell you in this manner, but you’ve been infected and now you’re a zombie. You only have your friends to blame. For the rest of the day all of your status updates and tweets must include the phrase “BRAINSSS!!!”. You can infect other people by tagging them in a note on Facebook or […]
David Cross and H Jon Benjamin, at “The Room” NYC April 24th
For those of you who have seen “The Room” including a Q&A with Tommy Wiseau…as I did with several people at Alamo Drafthouse tonight.
Miscellaneous Foodstuffs – Summer 2008
On the way out from State College I made a stop at a vending machine — it beckoned to me as the siren call of all vending machines, particularly ones in unfamiliar places, do. The Mallo Cup was good, but it was only a couple weeks ago that I tried it so it definitely passes […]
Meet Close Call
Several of us had a near-death experience Sunday, but I wanted you all to know that we’re just fine and explain what happened. Becky, Sandy and I decided to go see the new Batman movie — awesowe, btw — and we got a call from Mike and Kelly that they were going to the same […]
Overbearing Signage
Supposedly due to drag racing and several major accidents on Route 220 as you head out to Black Moshannon State Park the signage is very “in-your-face” about safety. You can see the signs coming a ways off. Almost didn’t catch this one at all “Slow Down. Save A Life” “Don’t Tailgate” “Buckle Up It’s The […]
Sheetz
One of my favorite pastimes is perusing the fast food offerings of foriegn locales. In the exotic world of State College, Sheetz is the dominant convenience store and I had a chance to slip inside and grab these snapshots. Bugles Sweet & Salty Caramel Doritos®: The Quest Mint 3 Musketeers is nothing new, but giving […]
The Breakfast Becky Smoothie
Breakfast Becky is known for extolling the importance and beneficial nature of breakfast. While we’ve been in State College she hasn’t been enjoying her favorite breakfast, so I’m sure that when we return one of the first sounds I’ll get to hear is our blender blending. This is how it starts (bottom-to-top): beets, mangoes, ice, […]
Hail Storm 2008
Due to some weird bug with the SDHC card interfacing to my new camera, I thought this footage was lost but I fiddled some more and it suddenly appeared yesterday. This is unedited (and way dark — it was 12:25am) footage I took on May 15th while the storm was raging. You can’t really see […]
Didgeridoo Park
There were several “only in New York” moments (like the tiny trained cat and dog show off Times Square) but the only one I caught on video was this dude in a suit playing his didgeridoo sitting in a barred park.
We Cheer
I know this is targeted at tween girls, but I know more than a few rhythm game lovin’ people who would want try this out. …and I’m probably fey enough to want to play it, too. Then again my wife accuses me of being a tween girl at heart.
Sorry, Brian, Free Is Not Always Better
Consider this a public (in so many ways) bookmark. I heard the tail end of this story on NPR a while back. I was suddenly reminded to go look it up by today’s Dilbert. The interesting thing is that many times, free things are good but the question is, what happens when free actually has […]
Women: Your Country’s Achilles Heel
So …. uh …. apparently, in 1973, Chairman Mao offered 10 million of his country’s women to Kissinger. They were a problem, see, because they were having too many babies, making China poor. Damn kids kept taking up all the resources. Kissinger: “we’ll think about it.”
Austin Best City To Live and Make Movies…Shreveport #3
Thanks to the Austinist for pointing out that MovieMaker Magazine named Austin as the #1 place to “live, work and make movies”. Initially, I think “Oh, that’s great! We’re almost done with our latest film project, contributing to the coolnes.” Then I think “But wait, we still haven’t made our own film, unprodded by the […]
Lions Were Just Nicer In The 70′s
I received this bulk mail from a co-worker earlier this week. It is awesome on so many levels. These 2 guys bought this cub from the zoo when it was newly born…after sometime the cub became big and hard to handle at home… so they decided to send him to his motherland Africa… a year […]