Moving Tip #45
Posted on July 28, 2005
Apropos of Something Moving Tip #45: Always lift heavy furniture and boxes using your back. As one of the largest muscles in your body, your lower back is also among the most capable of sustaining heavy loads.
Moving across town = not much time to blog. I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled irregularity next week.
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Red Chinese murder Goofy, Pluto
Posted on July 25, 2005
“Dozens of stray dogs roaming around the new Walt Disney theme park in Hong Kong have been rounded up and put down as the company prepares to open the park in September.” Bad news about the 101 Dalmations ride, kids…
The show still isn’t that funny
Posted on July 25, 2005
I’m not what you’d call a Family Guy fan, but this clip featuring Chris stumbling into the pencil-sketched world of a-ha’s classic “Take On Me” music video made me spit Diet Dr. Pepper all over my monitor. [via]
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The first time you tried pineapple
Posted on July 23, 2005
Types of Stories My Mother Tells. I wish I had written this. [via]
Gundam Granny
Posted on July 23, 2005
Japanese engineers develop robot exoskeletons for the elderly. If you think senior citizens are scary behind the wheel of a Buick, wait until they crawl into the cockpit of a 65-ton BattleMech.
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Reason #92 why World of Warcraft is better than real life
Posted on July 21, 2005
What’s great about games like World of Warcraft is that there’s an incentive structure built into literally everything you do. Kill a bad guy, get a reward. Finish a quest, get a reward. Discover a new area, get a reward. Sadly, real life doesn’t measure up. In fact, there’s not much incentive to do anything in real life.
For instance, my wife and I are moving into a new townhouse next weekend. In real life, all we’ll come away with from the experience are a couple of sore backs and the satisfaction of having all of our junk piled in a different place than it was the day before. Big whoop.
If this were World of Warcraft, however, we’d be charged with escorting our precious cargo to New Townhouseshire and probably slaying any undead we encountered along the way. Oh, and the future of the Alliance would of course depend on the cargo’s safe delivery. If we successfully completed the quest, we’d both get like 5,800 experience points and an enchanted broadsword with +7 Agility.
As it stands, I don’t even have a sword in real life — much less an enchanted one.
That’s Reason #92 why World of Warcraft is better than real life.
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James Doohan, 1920-2005
Posted on July 20, 2005
Thanks for giving her all she’s got, Jimmy.
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911 is a joke in my town
Posted on July 19, 2005
I’ve written about the laziness of the local police force before, but I witnessed the phenomenon at a whole new level this afternoon. A couple of cops had parked their cruiser downtown and were enforcing the law via loudspeaker. They just sat there, waiting for someone to break a law and then admonishing them with their car’s PA system.
“You in the white van — you need to put money in the meter.”
“Please don’t pull up past the white line into the intersection, red Tercel.”
“Man in the pink shirt — please don’t cross against the light.”
Honestly, is this what law enforcement is coming to these days? Oh, and I’ll have you know that my shirt isn’t pink. It’s salmon.
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Now the ultimate power in the universe
Posted on July 19, 2005
“In my bachelor days, I decided I needed a subwoofer for my lounge. It seemed to me that the Death Star, ignoring the weakness that ultimately lead to its complete destruction, was a pretty good design…so I made my own.” Thanks, Richard!
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Where’s the full-motion video?
Posted on July 19, 2005
“These fun pictures are created when the subject of a photo shakes their head really fast while the picture is taken.” Probably the most important website ever. [via]
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Harry Potter “spoilers”
Posted on July 18, 2005
Harry ended up choosing Ron Weasley as his date for the Hogwarts prom? Wow — I didn’t see that coming.
Feel free to post your own Half-Blood Prince “spoilers” in the comments.
Posted by Jess | Filed Under Pop Culture | 13 Comments
Something Awful attacks ‘Attack of the Show’
Posted on July 18, 2005
Hilarious Something Awful interview from G4’s Attack of the Show. Background from the SA forum: “Seriously, make sure everything you say is 100% wrong. Don’t answer any questions legitamately. I want people who never heard of SA before the interview to think it’s a horrible site and never want to visit.” [via]
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Christopher Walken = Crazy?
Posted on July 18, 2005
Christopher Walken believes the world of show business would be a better place if actors were cats. “A tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell if they’re annoyed. You can tell whether they are scared. They bush their tail. If I was an actor and I had to play scared in a movie all I’d have to do is bush my tail. I think that if actors had tails it would change everything.”
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Don’t phunk with the Black Eyed Peas
Posted on July 13, 2005
One of our local radio stations plays an edited version of the Black Eyed Peas’ recent single “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” that changes the lyrics to “Don’t Mess With My Heart.” Did the word “phunk” suddenly become too offensive for young listeners while I wasn’t paying attention?
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These criminals must be brought to justice
Posted on July 13, 2005
Breast implant bandits strike in Brazil!
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