I don’t usually post video either (Sup, Bri). But this vid has been playing relentlessly on the channel we have on at work today. I don’t know what’s so amusing about it. Something about watching a viking sing Greensleeves
I guess ever since Matt introduced me to Amon Amarth, anything viking related has been funnier to me than usual.
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We use AIM at work for internal communications quite a bit. We do this not only for the sake of convenience, but because cut/pasting ticket or device information is a lot easier and more reliable than dictating it over the phone. I’ve noticed and interesting trend lately. A lot of the middle aged people talk on AIM as if they’re in highschool. I’ll get an IM from one of our engineers “Hi Ian, r u there?”. I want to slap them. I’m guessing it’s because “aim-speak” has been popularized along with the advent of the instant messenger itself (and text messaging as well in my opinion). So to someone for whom this is a relatively new innovation, they must think “this is just how people talk on IM”… Completely forgetting this is a workplace, and they are an adult speaking with another adult. It’s not really irritating as much as intriguing since these people are usually very professional when speaking or writing emails. it’s only on IM that they talk that way.
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Love internet radio. A good friend of mine lives in Calgary. We’ll both be doing our own things in our own way, and randomly one of us will IM the other “dude, I love this track”, and the other replies “I know, man”. Then we’ll talk for a few minutes about it, and go on about our business. At X:YZ time of night we’re both usually listening to afterhours radio (ah.fm). Various flavors of trance. It’s good lovin. Another favorite of mine is the synthpop stream over at di.fm . Either way, I love internet radio and can’t wait till they devise some scheme to get it into cars or portable music players of some flavor. I’ve seen what satellite radio has to offer and I’m not impressed. But get me di.fm and ah.fm in some portable form and we’ll talk.
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I was in an airport yesterday and, despite my best efforts, overheard a clip of a speech Obama was giving somewhere. He was rebutting against some sort of rumor that he was a Muslim, and stating he was brought up as a good and proper Christian of some flavor. At which point the audience cheers. If you’re a politician, have any faith you want. Faith isn’t a bad thing. But it has no place in a political setting. I shouldn’t know what faith a politician follows unless I do some digging and look it up. It’s a firm opinion of mine that faith and religion should not be allowed to be mentioned during a political campaign. Decisions that affect everyone in a city/state/country should never ever ever be brought about with influence from one’s faith or the faith of those it will affect. So electing someone should not have anything to do with their faith or yours. Yelling “Christianity!” in the deep south is like a rock band yelling “Boston!” when playing at the Garden (or whatever bank it is that owns it nowadays). You’re looking to buy votes with your faith. And that’s not cool. It degrades your platform, and (in my humble opinion) makes the voter’s ballot worthless.
I’m going to keep writing people in on my ballots until a candidate comes along who declares he’s an atheist, or never mentions religion at all. I want the decision maker I elect to make decisions based on what is best for the people, as decided by logic. This year my vote is split between Feynman (don’t care if he’s dead, I’d still pick him) or Cthulhu. I really can’t pick. Any feedback on this is appreciated.
PS – I know I’ll get some flak for not picking a real candidate, but I can’t pick among any of them in good conscience. Please do “bring it” though, it should be talked about imo.
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Korean scientists have apparently cloned glow-in-the-dark cats. linky:
They were showing vids of RedCat all day on CNN, and he does indeed glow red under UV light. His nose, eyelids, and parts of his ears specifically. GreenCat seems to glow all over.
First: What the mother fuck?
Second: Where can I get one?!
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So there’s this house near me. It steals holidays. 2 years ago around this time they put up a nativity scene in the barn they had connected to the house. Basically it was lifesize scarecrow-esque straw dolls all arranged in the proper fashion. They have it in the basement of this barn with the storm doors open so it’s visible to the road. It was pretty cool for a season I guess, but they left it up. All year. For 2 years now. The dolls are all faded and whatever dyes they used are running from moisture. Moisture has gotten to the straw too… the dolls are all hunched over and saggy. Honestly, it looks like a family of zombies about to feast on a baby Jesus. It’s looked like that for a solid year now.
They didn’t stop there though. Last year they put up electric candles in the windows. Pretty typical, except of course that they never took them down. This spring I noticed that they hung easter eggs in the dead tree out front, dangling them from strings. It’s almost terrifying. This halloween they put electric lit plastic pumpkins in the windows, right next to the electric candles. There’s no consistency to their placement with respect to the candles, they were just kind of tossed in the windows.
This family is collecting holidays and violating them. I half expect them to steal a turkey from the turkey farm down the street and crucify it in the front yard next thanksgiving. Maybe steal a baby, dress it up like a Leprechaun, and hang it from the barn roof for St.Patty’s day.
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I found this on the internets. Slightly more careful word placement and perhaps a comma would have saved Target some flak:
The product has since been renamed. A little proofreading goes a long way, Target.
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Matt and I went to see the Hitman movie last night. I gotta say… it delivered. We went there expecting action, blood, and action. And it delivered. It was entertaining from start to finish as long as you go with your “action movie” face and toss out the occasional absurdity. I won’t write much about it to avoid posting spoilers… but if you can enjoy movies like Aliens and Predator, you’re golden. Go see it.
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They need to invent a species of chicken that lays eggs with cheese already in them. I don’t think I really need to clarify or expand on this. It just needs to happen.
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They were just showing clips of someplace presumably north and/or east of here where it was snowing. Not gonna lie. I’m looking forward to winter. I’m one of those sadistic types that really likes it, it’s my favorite season. Don’t ask why. I have no idea.
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