Crisis averted; the bike works just fine...

Hey, it works!

Diagrammatical

There's a Visio diagram about a quarter of the way down for It Was a Good Day that was just too awesome.

Rap Represented in Mathematical Charts and Graphs

Deltalina

She's attractive, yes, but it's the "ding" of shiny teeth about 80% of the way in that cracks me up. And, the photography in this video is impressive. Great lighting, cool framing, and very relevant content. Almost makes me want to pay attention ;-)

(via Wired)

Woah.

I had to watch this one twice.

NSFW (Not Safe for Work)

It's Fancy Feast Time!

Holy poop, YouTube!

Fun at home before NYE... oh how those cats hate me.

Want.

Want.


Source: errorwear

Ninja Parade

Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again

So I'm a day late...

Happy Halloween? Yes, I was Boss Hogg one year for halloween. I haven't dressed up in a long, long time. Maybe next year :-)

Modern art masterpiece

10-05-07_0758.jpg
Originally uploaded by BernieC

Awesome graffiti near work.

ROCK!

Awesome. Thanks, Erin. You rock almost as hard as I do on Guitar Hero.

Thank you, Cleveland!

Yes, of course, this is hello.

This is funny. Long, but funny.

Bags

A coworker sent me this link.

"It's that bean bag game you see being played more and more in backyards, alleys, bars and the parking lot at U.S. Cellular Field."

I propose instead of calling it cornhole or bags, that we just call it fun bags. What a hilariously inappropriate name! Kinda like cornhole!

Sexual Intercourse Has Been Deleted

LOL...


And here's where I heard about Conservapedia:

This is how we do it in Ohio...

Yet another installment of Overheard In My Office:

"This is how we do it in Ohio. When it comes to Cornhole, we don't mess around."

I laugh EVERY SINGLE time I read emails like this, but alas, Cornhole is simply a game and not this.

Bob Dylan Wrote All Popular Music

God, I just couldn't stop laughing.

Busted!

A short while ago, I was caught air drumming by some of my coworkers.

The song I was air drumming to.

Wait for it...



"Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds.

Rad.

Overheard in the office...

Ok, not overheard - this came to me in an email from our HR department. Do these people NOT read Urban Dictionary?! I still chuckle to myself when I read the statement. Happy Friday!

"Come warm up your Cornhole skills today before the Cinco de Mayo tournament and have a beer too!"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cornhole

I gots me 2 quarts of WMD!

TSA searched my checked bag. I had two 1-quart bottles of maple syrup. I'm sure they thought they were bombs. This isn't the first time they've searched my bag, and they were nice enough to leave a note. How sweet.

Deliciously improvised explosive devices! Maple syrup - yum!

Driving in India

Awesome:

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=ef52ab75db44e40016a01b1f66556aee.598273

There was an intersection near my hotel that was very much like this intersection. We had to make the right turn, go through the intersection to get to the front of the hotel. It was amazing. The video is sped up quite a bit, but this is what it feels like.

Bottom

My compassion is broken now
my will is eroded now
desire is broken now
it makes me feel alive
i'm on my knees and burnin'
my piss and moans are the fuel that sets my head on fire
so smell my soul burn
i'm broken lookin' up to see the enemy
and i have swallowed the poison you feed me
but i survive on the poison you feed me
guilt fed, hatred fed, weakness fed
and it makes me feel ugly
on my knees and burnin'
my piss and moans are the fuel that sets my head on fire
i'm dead inside

shit adds up, shit adds up, shit adds up, shit adds up at the bottom

if i let you, you would make me destroy myself
in order to survive you, i must first survive myself
i can sink no further, and i cannot forgive you
there's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you
i've gone to great lenghts to expand my threshold of pain
i will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice
i'm shameless now, i'm nameless now, i'm nothing now, i'm no one now
but my soul must be iron 'cause my fear is naked
i'm naked and fearless
and my fear is naked

dead inside, dead inside, dead inside
nameless now, shameless now, nothing now, no one now
shit adds up (x4)
and you see me naked now
fearless now, naked now (x2)
shit adds up
it leaves me dead inside (x4)

hatred keeps me alive
angriness keeps me alive
weakness keeps me alive
guilt keeps me alive
at the bottom

Stare, gawk, laugh.

Being an American isn't just enough.

Being fat isn't just enough.

It's when you're on your way towards your ride back to the hotel when you slip off the curb, trip, and land on your hands and knees in the process, in front of the people on MG Road in Bangalore. That's just good entertainment, folks.

I was quite the show today. Even before the tripping incident on MG Road (in front of the Spencer's Super (formerly Food World)), I had plenty of people staring, gawking, and laughing at just me. I'm a freak here, I know. It's fun at first, but like Japan, it gets old after a while. I had to, somewhat angrily, turn down the group of guys at the botanical gardens that wanted to take a picture with me. Argh.

The whole day out and about started with me needing to find a battery charger for my NiMH AA batteries. I brought a 240v-110v converter so that I'd be able to use my Energizer compact charger. So I plugged it in, and about 5 minutes later, pop and a poof of smoke comes from the charger. Not gonna mess with that pile anymore. The new charger supports 110-240v 50/60Hz so I'm set now. And I'll be able to buy the right type of plug when I get back to the states (or just use a converter).

370HSSV-0773H

Programming note: tomorrow I leave for India. I'll be there until March 3rd.

Osama contacts Bush

After numerous rounds of "We don't know if Osama is still alive," or "I
really don't think about him much anymore," Osama himself decided to
send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was
still in the game.

Bush opened the letter an it appeared to contain a single line of coded
message:

370HSSV-0773H

Bush was baffled, so he E-mailed it to Condi Rice. Condi and her aides
had no clue either, so they sent it to the FBI. No one could solve it at
the FBI so it went to the CIA, then to the NSA.

With no clue as to its meaning they eventually asked Britain's MI-6 for
help. Within a minute MI-6 cabled the White House with this reply:

"Tell the President he's holding the message upside down."

WHAT

WHAT

Favorite ads, old/new job stuff

Alaska Airlines has the BEST commercials on the TV right now. Evar! Check them out!

My favorite is Banjo, with Voucher and Polite-a-Prompter close behind.

Now if I could only find the Citibank "Girl Robot" commercial somewhere on the web. That's ha-larious!!!

In other news, this week is my last at my current employer. My boss called me last Wednesday to let me know that I have to work swing shift this week... he told me I was scheduled for it. Wonderful... it would've been nice if I'd been shown that schedule at least a week beforehand. Everybody else in the main office (in Minnesota) knew the schedule. Why didn't I?!?! Argh!

4 more days left (I have Monday off; floating holiday). Hooray.

Oh yeah, my new employer sent me a gift basket and stuff for me to sign before I start. First time I've ever had a gift basket delivered to my house. Pretty damn sweet if you ask me.

nocked off the network? explannation mark on anti-norton?

havening problems?try george ,he'll help you

http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/

I love The Onion.

I Have An iPod -- In My Mind

Funny stuff.

Woof?

It's always great to find a funny picture like this one. Poor Bush - after screwing over the world for the past 2 1/2 years, now it looks like you're beginning to go to town on your poor dog.

Yar! Thar be brats on the field, matey!

Pirate fined for assaulting sausage

My favorite line: "...Simon took a half swing at the Italian sausage character, hitting her from behind and causing her to tumble. When she fell, she knocked over the woman dressed as the hot dog."

Good thing I'm going to be making a couple stops in Milwaukee at the end of the month during Nicole's and my trip to Connecticut. This could get interesting.

The Matrix Revieweded.

From the review of the Matrix Reloaded:

Even if you disagree with everything bad I've said about this movie, there's one point I think everyone can agree on: Keanu Reeves' ass does not need to be seen, ever.

Funny stuff.

Europe at its finest...

My coworker tipped me off to Eurovision. A cultural lesson awaits you all! Be sure to watch the videos, they're entertaining.

My favorites:
Austria
Estonia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Russia (purely for the lesbian schoolgirl thing going on)

I wish we did this here in the states... I'd love to see the different songs that would be written from Maine, to Georgia, to California, to Hawaii, and my own state Washington.

GORBY

Coworker says, "I wonder if there's a random band name generator."

Google says, "GORBY."

My favorite so far: dueling castrati

Klingon Translator Needed; Leave Bat'leth at home...

According to this Seattle Times story, Multnomah county in Oregon needs some Klingon-English translators for their mental health program. If I knew Klingon a bit better, I might apply ;-)

Who Knew?

Britney's really really smart! Like, wow!