Category: fun
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A million kinds of awesome
Wil Wheaton is living the grown-up geek life. Since growing up geeky in LA, kickin’ butt as a writer in Stand By Me, then being the butt of countless jokes in Star Trek: TNG, Wil got to writing. Specifically, blogging. He’s got the gift, as a writer and a performer, not only to transport his…
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Shabbat shalom and happy bageling!
Despite the name of the practice, bageling is a very appropriate Pesach activity. I was introduced to this charmingly named entertainment by a friend of my dad’s, who forwarded me the column below today. Happily, unlike in the case of many such forwards, this one still had the author’s byline, and a little Googling turned…
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If Rube Goldberg were working today…
He’d be proud of the Dutch company HEMA: http://producten.hema.nl/ Thanks to MH
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Fun on Monday
end of the day, just saw this link on Fark.com (in a completely unrelated thread): Raiders of the Lost Ark as an animated GIF in 2:20 min.:
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Friday hilarity
First, thanks to my silly brother-in-law Dave for this collection of important advice about taking care of babies. Some highlights: Next, thanks to my always-reliable father for sacrificing the copious amounts of free time on his hands precious moments in between looking for work to pass along these fantastic finds from Youtube: First, from the…
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Inspired tribute to two great bands at once
The Beatnix are an Australian Beatles tribute band, and back in the 90s they created this brilliant piece of work:
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Equal Time #12
A(wesome)-capella:
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Coincidence? Perhaps…
1. At a party over the weekend, I met Mark Christopher Lawrence, a prolific actor who’s currently appearing in NBC’s prime-time hit Chuck. I don’t usually drop names, but then, I don’t usually run into successful actors, either. I’d never watched Chuck, mostly because I haven’t been watching much TV at all, but I’d heard…
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Baby steps
No, not Hadarya’s.. she’s way beyond that. In terms of podcasting, I’m still a fetus. But I think I’m approaching my delivery date. Consider this a swift kick: my inspiration for getting myself into this beautiful mess, Adam Curry, played my audio comment on his last show (DSC #701, posted Dec. 17 at curry.com). My…
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The law of averages
It’s just a fact. When you make something like 800 over 1,000 movies a year, they’re not all going to be classics. And when you make music videos from the songs in some of those movies, some of them are going to be so laughably bad that they’ll provide untold oodles of entertainment (“untold oodles”?…