Squirrel Catapult

A fine solution to squirrels on your deck!

DRAGO!!!

So I saw this after Bill Simmons was talking about it. I'd call it a safe bet, fake Rocky got taken care of by fake Apollo.

Straight, No Chaser--12 Days of Christmas

Awesome Medley, with a nod to an 80s favorite. Enjoy. And Happy Holidays.

Garth DeFelice: Umpire, Amateur UFC Fighter

Why couldn't it have been T.O. going over the middle? Maybe he's trying to prove he's tougher then Ed Hocculi. Either way, this guy better be reffing in the playoffs. Here's the link to the original article. Enjoy.

Really?

Three Words You May Not Know

1. Calacanis
2. Fisking
3. Tesla (Motors)

Jason Calacanis takes apart a column written by NYT's Randall Stross. In this column Randall initially reported that Tesla wanted part of the auto-maker bailout money. After this post by Calacanis the column was corrected to reflect the truth of the loan that Tesla is seeking. Either way, Calacanis' post does an excellent job of explaining why Tesla is on the right path to putting a whirring car in every garage.

http://calacanis.com/2008/12/01/on-bailouts-and-sports-car/


*I personally am interested/excited about Tesla Motors. Tesla is a California-based car company that makes all electric automobiles. Currently their only production model is a tire-burning 0-60mph in under 4 seconds $110K sports car. They aim for a $50K family-sedan next and a $30K midsize in the future. To me this is exactly where we should be looking and what we should be excited about while American is still involved in wars that are more than a little influenced by oil. Top Gear gave a less than stellar review of the car's practicality but an electric car that can compete with a Porsche 911 is pretty exciting to me. Here's what one of these cars can do.

Machete

This could be the greatest movie ever. From the Grindhouse movie that came out last year.

YAEH! Sticking it to the man!!!

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Excop_Barry_Cooper_launches_Kop_Busters_1206.html

Bear Suit

Many of you have heard me talk about the "Guy in the Bear Suit" in the past. I found a clip of some of his greatest experiments. Background: He wants to build a suit that is safe from a Grizzly Bear attack. I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure how the bear will be driving a van with a mattress attached to it either... Enjoy.

Whaaaaa?

There is a whole article in the Washington post about this, but all you need to know:

In Montgomery county, it is illegal to sell Christmas trees before December 5th. Violators can be fined $500.

True story.

Art for payment of an account.

Here's the rundown.
1.Man doesn't have money to (or just doesn't want to) pay overdue account.
2.Provides drawing of spider as a suggested payment.
3.Hilarity Ensues.

Full Story

Seriously...wtf?

So some woman sat on a toilet seat for two years. That puts Whitey's marathon bathroom breaks into perspective, eh?

It's time to celebrate!

The blog celebrated it's first birthday today. After an initial surge in posts, followed by a small decline we've settled in to a comfortable 10 per month. Keep on posting that crazy information, and I'll see what I can do to improve the blogging experience for everyone.

I realize that this post is pretty pointless, so I promise to post something of limited informational value later today. Until then...

See you at the party, Richter!

Macy's Parade Wardrobe Malfunction

woman and guns

Proof that some people are obsessed with Guitar Hero... and have way too much time on their hands... still pretty cool though!



and I can't even finish easy... using the plastic guitar!!!

I Don't Know What's Going On Here...Except That It's Awesome

The All-Bear Hockey Team - Watch more Animal Videos

Free TV...on the Internet

So if you're like me and don't have a DVR or premium channels, you miss a lot of television that the rest of you talk about. Well, there's a site out there that I read about in the post that has links to a bunch of free (and some pay to download) TV content on the net.

Note that I totally disagree with their message of cancelling cable (unless you guys are willing to listen to the radio more that is.)

2nd post today

Apparently I need more work to do.

But I couldn't let this one go by: 100 movie spoilers in 5 minutes! Told by some pretty dorky guys.

New Online Dating Site

Lonely? Need a date?


Created by Mingle2.com (Dating for non-zombies)

Politi-owned

While perusing the Digg comments for this article, I ran across this exchange which cracked me up:

Click the thumbnail to see a larger version

That's some good ownage right thur.

As for the article itself, I thought it was in ridiculously poor taste. Also, hilarious. What say you?

One Tough Lady

Kudos to all of you runners out there, but how about next time you lace up those running shoes, you try going a mile with a rabid fox hanging onto your arm? Damn.

Philly Pumpkin

The Dark Knight

Still on a Dark Knight kick? I am. Here's another movie poster.

Don't climb a light pole in Philly!

They won?

Holy crap...a major Philadelphia sports team won a championship for the first time in over 100 combined seasons. That dry spell is only slightly longer than what Brant is going through now. Zing! :)

Anyway, congratulations to all the Philly Phans. Try not to burn your city/house down in celebration.

Is this why I didn't like the Gobots?

The US Tax System Described With Beer Analogy

The US Tax System Described With Beer Analogy The US Tax System Described With Beer Analogy Friday, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:47:52 pm This is brilliant: Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59. So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.”Drinks for the ten now cost just $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share? They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings). Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got a dollar out of the $20,”declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,” but he got $10!” “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!” “That’s true!!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!” “Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!” The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill! And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier. http://forums.techguy.org/civilized-debate/697617-us-tax-system-described-beer.html

Obama and McCain 'roasts'

So there's obviously a lot of political coverage going on now, and we're hearing a lot of the same things from the candidates, whether it be stump speeches or 90-second monologues during the debates. So I was glad to see Obama and McCain roasting each other (and the election in general) at an exclusive charity dinner in New York. They're both pretty funny in these (unsurprisingly, MSNBC showed the full Obama clip, while FOX News showed the full McCain clip):

Oh, and here's Hayden Panettiere - the cheerleader from Heroes - dropping f-bombs. Don't worry, it's about politics, so it's allowed here (the entire first part is really a ruse just so I can post this)

See more Hayden Panettiere videos at Funny or Die

Final Countdown

This? This is better than a whole orchestra doing it.

No kitty, that's a bad kitty!

This is what it's like at Adam Gluck's house, but with 3 times the cat.

See more funny videos and Funny Videos at Today's Big Thing.

I'm One Pissed Off Ranga

Alright, so I got a little carried away on a blog post for work about a promotion for free entrance to the zoo for redheads, and some morons who complained and got the campaign pulled. Anyway, I thought I'd share it and shamelessly promote myself in the process.

Here's the link:

http://adagencyconfessional.blogspot.com/

Yeah, but his feet came apart on the landing.

I know politics is a touchy subject with freinds...

So here it is. Open for debate!

Monkey Suit!!!

Image stabilized version of that famous Bigfoot video.
There is also one of the JFK assassination, but watching it ruined my afternoon so if you want your stomach turned you'll have to find it on your own.

Classic Movies with Plot Holes

Some of these are pretty obvious but since I saw the movie when I was very young I never noticed them.

8 Classic Movies That Got Away With Gaping Plot Holes

Some light rrrrrr-eading

Say What?

A coworker brought this to my attention: A "Rap-Off" which is translated into proper English. Hang on long enough to see the rebuttal, it's worth it.

Happy Friday!

Some Shorts from Seth

The dude that created Family Guy is releasing some short clips on youtube. It's your typical Family Guy/American Dad humor. Enjoy.

Remember when...

My boss stumbled across this while looking for a little "inspiration." I think it's awesome, although Bonds head still looks a little small if you ask me.

In a world without that voiceover guy...

Don LaFontaine died this weekend.



No one else made a movie preview, or anything he read, sound quite so awesome.

Sequels are never as good...

Stephen Hawking vs Pudding

This song was one of the challenges for Song Fu. This particular song had to feature a conflict between two elements given to the challengers on a list. Jeff Macdougall chose Stephen Hawking vs Pudding. It's called A Brief History of Pudding.

This takes me back!

The breakdancing revival takes another blow, literally

Show Off Gets Knocked Out Cold - Watch more free videos

You gotta love it when the show off loses and the other guy just walks away. Although, I would have preferred no celebration at all, myself. It's that much more embarassing for the loser.

Cash for grades?

Some DC public schools are paying middle school kids up to $100 every 2 weeks if they get good grades and good attendance. I think it's pretty cool.

What do you guys think? Money well spent?

Because we have to get them ready for baseball.

For all you parents or soon-to-be parents, a helpful new product that will "... kick your baby's ass into gear."
For everyone else, a hilarious Onion piece that made me laugh so hard *I* was crying.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/johnson_johnson_introduces_nothing

Gene Upshaw, N.F.L. Union Chief, Dies

From the NYTimes:
Gene Upshaw, the longtime head of the N.F.L. players association and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 63.

This is already sad, but reading a little further down the article:
Jeffrey Kessler, the union’s outside counsel, said Upshaw did not learn the diagnosis until late Sunday or early Monday morning, when he entered the hospital.

This is incredible. I mean, this guy learned he had cancer on Sunday and died 4 days later? Holy crap. And I work in this field!

I don't understand much about what this means for the NFL, but I know it can't be good.

Weightlifter turns elbow inside out.

Janos Baranyai, the Hungarian weightlifter who turned his elbow inside out in a horrific display in Beijing Wednesday. Pics and Videos (No Blood, but disturbing.)

Maybe the most disgusting sports injury video I have seen since Clint Malarchuk

Don't worry, it's just bread.

Licensed to Roll

Well... I guess I'll never go to another Skins game again...

Because it might be my last!!! New NFL Fan Code of Conduct

Whitey look at the fine print... you no longer allowed to leave your friend to babysit your drunk girlfriend!!!

I must get one!

The perfect gift to get that special person! Hmm... just need to decide who is special enough.

Is this Punisher brutal enough for you?

Is this the reason we started drinking?

ah, good ole marketing!

New Motivation Posters

Editor with sense of humor?

Unscientific?

I think I remember Stine and Gluck having this conversation once, but without zombies.

nonessential beer?!?!?!

Survival of the Sudsiest

By George F. Will

Washington Post Thursday, July 10, 2008; Page A15

Perhaps, like many sensible citizens, you read Investor’s Business Daily for its sturdy common sense in defending free markets and other rational arrangements. If so, you too may have been startled recently by an astonishing statement on that newspaper’s front page. It was in a report on the intention of the world’s second-largest brewer, Belgium’s InBev, to buy control of the third-largest, Anheuser-Busch, for $46.3 billion. The story asserted: “The alcoholic beverage industry’s continued growth, however slight, has been a surprise to those who figured that when the economy turned south, consumers would cut back on nonessential items like beer.”

“Non what”? Do not try to peddle that proposition in the bleachers or at the beaches in July. It is closer to the truth to say: No beer, no civilization.

The development of civilization depended on urbanization, which depended on beer. To understand why, consult Steven Johnson’s marvelous 2006 book, “The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.” It is a great scientific detective story about how a horrific cholera outbreak was traced to a particular neighborhood pump for drinking water. And Johnson begins a mind-opening excursion into a related topic this way:

“The search for unpolluted drinking water is as old as civilization itself. As soon as there were mass human settlements, waterborne diseases like dysentery became a crucial population bottleneck. For much of human history, the solution to this chronic public-health issue was not purifying the water supply. The solution was to drink alcohol.”

Often the most pure fluid available was alcohol—in beer and, later, wine—which has antibacterial properties. Sure, alcohol has its hazards, but as Johnson breezily observes, “Dying of cirrhosis of the liver in your forties was better than dying of dysentery in your twenties.” Besides, alcohol, although it is a poison, and an addictive one, became, especially in beer, a driver of a species-strengthening selection process.

Johnson notes that historians interested in genetics believe that the roughly simultaneous emergence of urban living and the manufacturing of alcohol set the stage for a survival-of-the-fittest sorting-out among the people who abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and, literally and figuratively speaking, went to town.

To avoid dangerous water, people had to drink large quantities of, say, beer. But to digest that beer, individuals needed a genetic advantage that not everyone had—what Johnson describes as the body’s ability to respond to the intake of alcohol by increasing the production of particular enzymes called alcohol dehydrogenases. This ability is controlled by certain genes on chromosome four in human DNA, genes not evenly distributed to everyone. Those who lacked this trait could not, as the saying goes, “hold their liquor.” So, many died early and childless, either of alcohol’s toxicity or from waterborne diseases.

The gene pools of human settlements became progressively dominated by the survivors—by those genetically disposed to, well, drink beer. “Most of the world’s population today,” Johnson writes, “is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol.”

Johnson suggests, not unreasonably, that this explains why certain of the world’s population groups, such as Native Americans and Australian Aborigines, have had disproportionately high levels of alcoholism: These groups never endured the cruel culling of the genetically unfortunate that town dwellers endured. If so, the high alcoholism rates among Native Americans are not, or at least not entirely, ascribable to the humiliations and deprivations of the reservation system. Rather, the explanation is that not enough of their ancestors lived in towns.

But that is a potential stew of racial or ethnic sensitivities that we need not stir in this correction of Investor’s Business Daily. Suffice it to say that the good news is really good: Beer is a health food. And you do not need to buy it from those wan, unhealthy-looking people who, peering disapprovingly at you through rimless Trotsky-style spectacles, seem to run all the health food stores.

So let there be no more loose talk—especially not now, with summer arriving—about beer not being essential. Benjamin Franklin was, as usual, on to something when he said, “Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Or, less judgmentally, and for secular people who favor a wall of separation between church and tavern, beer is evidence that nature wants us to be.

New Terminator Movie

There's now a trailer for the new Terminator Movie starring Christian Bale. It's the first in a new trilogy set post-Judgement day, and it's called "Terminator: Salvation". You can view the trailer here.

Ah, only in Jeresy

Could there be so much material for this website!

48 Hour Film Freakin' Finally

So our short film is finally up on the web.

You can check it out at my company's blog.
http://adagencyconfessional.blogspot.com/2008/07/under-influence-48-hour-film-project.html

Enjoy. Or not.

Please leave comments and spread around...unless you think it sucks.

-George

More Batman stuff

For those of you who want to delve deep into the new Batman universe, there's this official website:

http://gothamcablenews.com/

Garter Snakes. & Belts

Enjoy

Low Success Rate

So, I was reading an article on CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/30/guns.suicides.ap/index.html
about the DC handgun ban that got rejected, and it was talking about how most gun deaths are suicides. And it goes on to say how very effective guns are in actually committing suicide (90% success rate.) And that other methods are... less successful. Such as jumping off of stuff, which only results in actual death 34% of the time.

Dude.

That means that 2 of 3 suicide jumpers actually live?! And just get what, insanely badly injured? Is anyone else finding this as disturbing as me? Like, there is a better than even chance of saying "Goodbye cruel world!" and ending up as so much human Jell-O... that is still alive and now really wants to die? Awful. This ray of sunshine to brighten your day is brought to you by Pat. Have a lovely week.

Seven Words: Don't play while @ Work!!!!

Pat makes his big screen debut

Tom Cruise played volleyball for the Navy. Pat played football for the Army.

Now, he's ready to be a star.

In case that endorsement deal with Subway doesn't pan out.*

(*All pictures stolen from Pat's blog.)

You probably already got this email, but I didn't want to miss anyone.

Some people asked me about this on Saturday. But yeah, my company did another short film this year for the 48 Hour Film Project. We had 2 days to make a 4-7 minute film based on genre, character, prop and line of dialogue provided. This year, they're showing at the Charles, a real theater, which is pretty awesome, this Wednesday (June 18). Anyway, if you'd like to check it out, you can see Neil and me in another film, along with special guest, Pat Hoffman, in his big screen debut!

Pat is on screen for like half the film and has 2 lines, one of which he added himself. I was not in charge of casting. But you already saw me do one of these, so my marketing plan=Pat. Anyway, here's the info.

Our group goes at 9:30, but for $8 you get to see about 10 short films, some of which are good, some of which aren't. I'll let you decide where ours falls.

You can buy tickets at the door or order ahead of time. The Charles isn't huge, so if you're definitely planning on going, you might want to order tickets ahead of time here

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/35694

The Charles Theatre is located in midtown Baltimore at 1711 North Charles Street, just a block and a half north of Penn Station. There is $2 parking for theatre patrons in the covered lot just across the street, as well as metered street parking all around the theatre.

http://www.thecharles.com/

If you can make it, awesome. If not, I understand, it's short notice and 9:30 is kind of late for the middle of the week.

Oh, and in case you never saw it. Here's our movie from last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkSzky8uRx4

-George

These are the people I work with....

First Email

There are reports of a new email-based phishing attack directed at the Hopkins email systems. The subject of the message is: "VERIFY YOUR JHMI.EDU WEBMAIL ACCOUNT" and specific information is requested including password and secret question/answer. Please disregard this message.

The subject line of the message is: "VERIFY YOUR JHMI.EDU WEBMAIL ACCOUNT

The text of the message is as follows:

"This email is to inform all our {www.jhmi.edu} users that we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a user of our site, you are required send us your Email account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your email box. Further be informed that we will be deleting all email account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user. So you are to send us your email account details which are as follows:

User name in full :.........................
Email in full :.........................
Password:.......................................
Date of birth: ...............................
Security question :.........................
Security answer:...........................

Any email user that refuses to send his/her details within the next two (7) days of receipt this mail, his/her mail account will be deleted from the site."

Second Email- Sent 24 hours later..

The message I sent yesterday concerning an Email Phishing attack was NOT a request for anyone to send me usernames and passwords. It was a reminder not to disclose account information, and had an example of the current attempt to collect this information.

Sharing account information is never a good idea and can be a violation of University and HIPAA policies.

Zod in 08

What's My Anti-Drug?

Not getting plowed over by a drunk guy while riding my 10-speed.

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A car plowed into a weekend bike race along a highway near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one and injuring 10 others, police said.

Police apprehend Juan Campos, who is charged with killing one of the cyclists.

The 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into the race, said police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez.
A photograph taken by a city official showed bicyclists and equipment being hurled high into the air by the collision.
Rodriguez said Juan Campos was charged with killing Alejandro Alvarez, 37, of Monterrey.
Authorities said the wreck happened 15 minutes into the 34-kilometer (21 mile) race Sunday along a highway between Playa Bagdad and Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
Campos said he is an American citizen living in Brownsville. The U.S. Consulate could not immediately confirm that.
"We are looking into the incident in terms of whether American citizens were involved,"

And the cop on the scene totally looks like Parkman from Heroes.

What's My Anti-Drug?

Not getting mauled by tigers at the zoo.

"SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Medical Examiner says a teenager who was killed by an escaped zoo tiger six months ago had marijuana and alcohol in his system.

The toxicology report was released Monday. It is included with an autopsy that concluded 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. was killed by "blunt force injuries of the head and neck."

Sousa's two friends also were seriously injured when a 250-pound Siberian tiger escaped its enclosure at San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day.

Michael Cardoza, a lawyer for the Sousa family, says it's irrelevant whether the teen was drinking or smoking pot before he was mauled. The family is suing the city.

The wall surrounding the tiger's enclosure was found to be 4 feet lower than recommended industry standards."

You're Fat and No One Likes You

Sir, where are you going with the evidence?

Unintentionally funny report about a drug bust.

Sexy

Punch-Out

Since that website did not have that:

Punch Out game

MD Seafood Festivals

If you're looking for some local seafood, or specifically local seafood festivals and crab feasts, here's a link for you:

http://www.marylandseafood.org/festivals/

You didn't want to work anyway

You can find any number of old Nintendo games here.

Transformers Go Hollywood

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor

Rickroll Baltimore

A coworker forwarded this to me. The Info is below. If I didn't have plans, I'd so be there. For those not playing kickball, feel free to take part. If I get any video, I'll post it on Monday.

Name:
Let's Rickroll Baltimore

Tagline:
A Rick Astley Flash Mob

Host:
The Inner Harbor

Type:
Other - Ceremony

Time and Place

Date:
Saturday, May 3, 2008

Time:
1:00pm - 1:05pm

Location:
On the bridge between the Aquarium and the Hard Rock Cafe

Street:
Baltimore's Inner Harbor

City/Town:
Baltimore, MD

Description
http://rickrollbaltimore.com/

The idea:
Be a part of Maryland's biggest "flash mob", as we Rickroll visitors of Baltimore's Inner Harbor

The plan:
I'll bring the boombox and the loud speaker. You get ready to dance and sing your hearts out for one round of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".

After the 3.5 minute song is over, you leave and pretend like nothing ever happened.

The attire:
80s (or whatever)

The date/time:
May 3, 1:00 PM on the button

What to do now:
Invite all of your friends who live in and around Baltimore to join this group (even if you're not planning on attending).

Watch other flash mobs here:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=flash+mob&search_type=

To learn about "Rickrolling", go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

The event was inspired by:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9590099508

Redskins Draft The Next Dylon

Malcolm Kelly (WR from Oklahoma, pick 51) freestyles after OU wins the Big 12 championship. This guy spits hot fyiah!

Lock it up! Championship!

In all seriousness, this isn't half bad. Hopefully he'll reprise this after the Skins win a division title in the next year or so.

Note: The Dylon reference.

Scoop You Steve!

First of May

If you are tired of winter and wish that it were spring, then this is the song for you. (F-bombs so make your own decision about work safeness.)

The studio mp3.
(Right click and save if you want your own copy.)

I Scooped Pat

I just think this looks awesome

The real Philly!

Must be a new species

They never taught me that one in kindergarten...

Zombies (the Live Action Game of Tag)...pure fun or a proxy for society's ills?

This article in the Washington Post examines whether a game of Tag called Humans versus Zombies that started on Goucher College should be permissable given the shooting at Virginia Tech last year. And then it gives a 3 page play by play account of the last game. Awesome.

Two questions arise from this:

1) Whatever happened to the "Assassin" game?
2) Should we try and organize ourselves to play this, or are we all too geographically disparate?

Best Rick Roll Ever!

Westboro Baptist Church gets Rick Rolld - Watch more free videos

Oh, and if you don't know, the Westboro Baptist Church are the asshats who protest the funerals of American soldiers, saying God is killing American soldiers because America supports gay rights. Yeah, solid people.

Star Wars Rap

Speaks for itself.

This story is awful...

You should read it.

A gift real special, so take off the top

Usually? It is the second option.

My Kind Of Place

If only I had...

this before I submitted my NCAA tourney picks. Oh well, it's only available in Australia for now, so I guess I could only bet on Rugby.

6 of one...

Yeah, Daft Punk

I hated this kind of music at the time, but now I can appreciate some of these songs for their artistic value. Then again, some of them still suck.

This Got Over 3 Million Hits On Youtube

Okay, this one came up while reminiscing about electronica of the late 90s, like Daft Punk and Eifel 65. But I forgot just how many Jock Jams were considered eletronica.

Now maybe they were trying to update the Boehemiam Rhapsody scene in Wayne's World with really shitty music. So I can understand they may have had an artistic vision, which gives them a reason for attempting to record this. But then after looking at themselves, something in their headz said, this is great, we want the whole world to be able to see how hard we rock out to the Venga Boys. If I ever come to that conclusion in my life, somebody remove that part of my brain and replace it with Peeps.

That's Dr. T to You

Sure, Chuck Norris' tears can cure cancer, but that bastard won't shed even one for the millions of people who are suffering.

Mr. T, on the other hand, brings people out of comas:

"Former The A-Team star Mr. T once stunned a sick child's family by bringing him out of a coma - after doctors begged the actor for help.

The poorly kid fell unconscious in Detroit, Michigan in the mid-1980s - and the only physical movement he made was in response to hearing Mr. T's name.
And when the mohawked star was in town, he stopped by the hospital to visit the ill boy - with miraculous results.
He tells Empire magazine, 'His family put toys around him and one of them was a Mr. T doll. And whenever my name came up, the boy moved his arm.
'Somebody told the doctors I was in town, so they called me down there. I closed the curtains and prayed. Then, as I was walking down the hall, the kid suddenly came out of the coma and hollered out.
'That was my supernatural moment.' "

Kickball Battle Without Honor or Humanity

This week in our BSSC sporting lives, Adam's team goes up against Whitey's team in another epic kickball contest. Both teams come in undefeated at 1-0, but only one team can emerge victorious. Who will win this friendly rivalry game? Let's look at some history:

2007 Game:

Last year, it was pretty close most of the game, and then Whitey's team opened a Ginormous Can of Whoop-Ass and crushed all of Adam's hopes for victory. Oh well, at least both teams got to drink a lot.

2008 Roster Changes:

This year, the lineups have changed a little, so the game may be a little more balanced. For Whitey's team, they lost Tom, Heather, and I think Heather's sister Becky? Losing Tom and Becky hurts both in the field and at the plate. Heather's loss hurts too, but then again this year she won't constantly kick the ball to Albers and wonder why she always gets out. Addition by subtraction. No idea who else they lost or who they added to replace them.

For Adam's team, they lost Laura M. and Neil M, from last year. Losing Neil is huge, since he was one of the top all around athletes on the team. Losing Mayes...doesn't hurt as much. In their stead, they've added BSSC rookie Carrie Read and returning vet Pat "Not in the Face" Hoffman. They may also have a secret weapon in Adam's coworker, Courtney. While she claims to be horribly unathletic and admittedly smokes almost a pack a day, she's clearly a gamer. Or not. Let's Call it a wash in terms of ability, but an upgrade in the all important super fantastic fun category.


Final Predictions:

At least one person will fall down running to first base after they kick the ball.
Pat will foul out at least once.
Whitey's face will turn red by the 4th inning, either from too much sun or screaming "encouragement" at his team.

Whitey's team to win 6-4.

Man Vs. Girls Gone Wild

Subject: This might hurt