Will It Blend?

Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec is a "product demo" site for their home blender. Of course videos of blending drinks and such are kind of boring so taking a page from the bass-o-matic they found more interesting things to show off their blenders.

830! 1320! 365! QUIXOTRY!

Yow! The 1993 record of 770 points is no more! Check out this article by Tile-head Stefan Fatsis: 830!

Cool "Mouse Trap" Japanese TV Ads

These videos are pretty cool "Rube Goldberg" contraptions advertising something Japanese. Lots of creative uses of unusual parts like soup spoons, magnets, and xylophone bars.

Chad Vader - Day Shift Manager

Okay, this is kinda funny.

Amateur Star Trek

As Spock would say, "fascinating". Looks like some guys decided to make their own Star Trek Episodes at New Voyages

Clinton on Fox News

This is the first 20 minutes of Bill Clinton’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. In this clip, Wallace asks Clinton why he didn’t do more to capture or kill Osama bin Laden while he was in office. Clinton clearly feels like he has been set up and doesn’t hold back in telling Wallace just how he feels.

...and your little dog too!

www.littledog2.com - ...and your little dog too!

I've revamped my website and put it on Google Domains and while doing that I had a chance to re-read my Ragath Campaign postings and got all nostalgic for a decent D&D game.

OK Go - Here It Goes Again - Google Video

OK Go - Here It Goes Again - Google Video is kind of cool-- definitely breaks the hospital rule [don't do anything you'd be embarassed to explain at the hospital].

William Shatner Sings Again

William Shatner Sings Again

On the subject of singing Star Trek actors, this might be of interest since it's William Shatner but this time it isn't bad! Janis and I bought this a while back -- "Has Been" is pretty good too.

Here's Common People.

My Milkshake...

Janis and I heard this song on the radio while in Las Vegas for her sister's wedding and for some reason it stuck in our heads. We always wondered what exactly the singer did to her milk shakes to bring all the boys to the yard. Now I know! She was talking about Hardee's Milk Shakes

some game blogs

Some interesting stuff here: http://mearls.livejournal.com/

And especially here: http://bankuei.blogspot.com/, including a link to this: http://fairgame-rpgs.com/comment.php?entry=78

The Graphing Calculator Story

The Graphing Calculator Story is a weird little story that you'd expect from 1970s Silicon Valley about two obsessed engineers that "worked" for Apple and were trying to get their creation shipped. I'd happy to say that one of them works at Google now.

Think Nimoy can't sing?

You forced me to do this.


Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Leonard Nimoy - Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

There are no words to describe the horror of this. If you listened to this just once as a kid--the kids that liked the Smurfs would beat you up.

Dragonlance Movie

Okay, the D&D movie was baaaad... now we have something new to look forward to: Dragonlance Movie Site | News: Kiefer Sutherland Headlines Final Movie Cast

EepyBird.com - Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment

I'm sure you've heard of the Mentos-Diet Coke thing. Well, imagine the fountains at the Bellagio done by mad scientists: EepyBird.com - Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment.

one red paperclip

This is an interesting and fun experiment with "relative value" in which Kyle MacDonald attempts to trade one red paperclip for a house within one year: one red paperclip

Victoria's Secret is anti-breast

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/cerabino/entries/2006/07/03/biting_the_hand.html

Senator Ted Stevens on the Internet

Okay I can understand having issues with the Net Neutrality laws that are being proposed (although I support them in general) but don't you think someone that is elected to the Senate and casts a vote should have a fraction of a clue. This is the same senator that wanted to build a $450 million dollar bridge to nowhere.

Here is the text of his reason for voting against some minor Net Neutrality amendments, I kid you not: Ted Stevens explains the Internet.

sumo tridecalogism

Not a true Googlewhack, since "tridecalogism" (a thirteen letter word - example: tridecalogism) isn't recognized by Google as a real word. Bah!

We all know Macs are cooler than PCs... now we know they're way more cooler!

isnoop.net blog » Blog Archive » MacSaber: Turn Your Mac Into A Jedi Weapon

Bloggerific

I feel just blogtastic now that I'm a member of the blogging class.

Blog on.

p.s. Charlie says "Hi".

McCain Goes to "Crazy-base World"

McCain Emphasizing His Conservative Bona Fides - New York Times

I don't know if anyone else happened to catch John McCain on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but it was a very sad show to watch as Jon Stewart, #1 fanboy of McCain, couldn't get McCain to "talk straight" about his plan to go to Liberty University (headed by Jerry Falwell) to speak.

While McCain "disassembled" about how how it wasn't pandoring to the extremists of the Republican party (he once called him an "agent of intolerance" along with Farakan and Sharpton) poor Jon kept handing him rope to either pull himself to shore, or as it turned out hang himself.

The sad part is, despite the fact I'd never vote for him because of his stand on a few issues I disagree with him on, I have some respect for the guy. Today I have a little less.

Carbunkle Rotoscope

Well, working at Google has inspired me to finally find a Googlewhack. The irony is, of course, that now that I am posting this it will no longer be one.

WotC Announces New RPG

WotC looks like they're finally addressing the RPG needs of a younger audience. I think we can get all the kids into this next Iowa trip finally!

--- From WotC Website: ---
For this edition of Design & Development, we wanted to move past the world of Eberron, past the world of the Forgotten Realms—all the way past the Hollow World of Mystara—to a mysterious land known as Butterfly Island.

That’s right. It’s time to discuss the My Little Pony Roleplaying Game.

If you haven’t read today’s press release, we’ve reprinted it below. Go ahead, take a look. We’ll wait right here for you…
---End Clip---

Blogginess

Hey, I'm a blogger! Whee!

One thing that might interest gamers here is www.websudoku.com. Sudoku are easy to learn and don't require any math other than counting. You can find some strategy tips at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku.

Magical Spells from British Museum

While in the British Museum in London with my wife and her parents I ran across this exhibit. I thought it was kind of cool in that D&D sort of way.

As an aside, if you're ever in London you really should spend some time in the British Museum. While they get hard knocks for pillaging their former empire of antiquities, they are all well preserved and displayed and many of these would have been looted or worse (Elgin Marbles come to mind).

This is probably the best one-stop museum in the world for the classical studies wannabes like me.

Keep in mind you can click on these images to get the full-sized version.

Welcome

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I intend to publish random thoughts, rants, and such including writeups of some of my D&D sessions, discussion of Indiana basketball (should it warrant), and the occasional political comment.

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