Funny Pictures

Browsing around the internet recently, I happened upon a couple of funny pictures that I thought I'd share -


Words to live by :)



Hmmm, I think PC might be a little disgruntled.



Creepy...



Looks like Darth Vader has fallen on hard times.



YIKES!!!

It Lives!

Well, the whole fridge debacle ended up getting fixed. We actually got it looked at a week ago on Friday, but I haven't been able to write anything here about because I have been a very busy, busy boy. Anywho... The fridge apparently had a bad heater (now doesn't THAT seem weird? Refridgerators need a heater - it's what keeps them from frosting up) and that problem caused the whole fridge to stop cooling properly. So 230 some-odd dollars later, it's all better. Yippie skippy. Now I just need to fix the lawnmower, and the laptop, and the PC monitor...

No new news on the job front - I applied for a few things Thursday, and have to call a guy back about one of them on Monday, so we'll see how that goes. Fingers crossed, as always.

Things are just falling apart...

Maybe I'm just unlucky. I really don't know. It's been a bad couple of weeks on the home front - our lawn mower is acting up, our garage door broke (but we were able to jury-rig it into semi-health again, good enough to not need to call a repairman), and now the refrigerator is broken. At the very least we'll have to call in a repairman, and at the worst it could be new refrigerator time. It really sucks because the current one is only 4 years old! That, plus I think my home desktop PC monitor is dying, and my laptop has a dead battery - yeah, not a good couple of weeks. Maybe this means something really good is about to happen, right? Like maybe I'll get a great new job, or my wife will get a great new job - or something, right?

All your Snakes are belong to us!

Here's an inspired idea - mash together the 'All Your Base' video with elements of Snakes On A Plane and you come up with -



Now THAT'S funny!

Next 'Amazing Race' starts September 17th

The next season of The Amazing Race is all set to start on September 17th, and the CBS website has been updated with the new cast info. My wife has already decided that Peter and Sarah are her favorite team. I haven't decided yet, still need to read through all the bios. Dustin and Kandice, the reigning Miss California and Miss New York, seem to be likely candidates for 'First team Philiminated', but teams have surprised me before by either sucking just a little less than the last place team on a few legs, or by actually being GOOD, so we'll see what happens. Should be a good season - because it's not another crap-tastic Family Edition (god, that SUCKED).

I think David Copperfield has lost his ever loving mind...

Seems Mr. Copperfield has found something very special in the Bahamas. He recently bought four islands in the Bahamas (they're called the Exuma chain, and cost him $50 million), and now has proclaimed to the world that they contain the 'Fountain of Youth'. Seriously - read the article for yourself here. I don't know, I think he's losing it - or trying to pull some kind of big hoax or something. Maybe he's been getting too much sun down in the Bahamas...

Alright Mister, that's it - You're On Notice!!

See honey - I told you Stephen put Jon Stewart 'On Notice' -



Jon had better watch out - he might get moved to 'Dead to Me' if he's not careful...



OK, I actually made that 'On Notice' board up - and you can make your own too! Just use this link. It's fun for the whole family!

'Mac and PC' spoofs

Some freakin' GENIUSES have come up with fake ads spoofing the current Apple 'Mac and PC' ad series. There's six of them (so far) - here are the first 3, and here are the next 3. God, these are funny - I'm sitting here at work laughing out loud watching the 'Networking' and 'Portability' clips. The guy playing 'Linux' makes me lose it too, he's hilarious!!

P.S. - Oh man, I ran a spellcheck on this post, and Blogger's spellchecker wanted to replace the word 'freakin' with... 'foreskin'! Hee - and yes, yes I am 8 years old.

The most frightening picture I've even seen

Really - no kidding. It's just that scary.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Cause I TOTALLY did - this is frightening.

Not gross, not vile and disgusting - like pictures of mangled corpses or something like that.

But frightening nonetheless.




Really! You're going to look at it and be all, "Yikes! He wasn't kidding!"




But, you know what??





My sister is going to think it's AWESOME.


I can just tell.



Anyway....



Here you go -



Last chance...












This is it!




SEE?!?! I told you!

The Daily Show : Jon Stewart and John Hodgman discuss Net Neutrality

I totally love this clip - I've watched it several times just for the part where Jon gets him to say "I'm a PC". They totally should have had Justin Long come on and say "And I'm a Mac!" - that would have been hilarious!!

Nice, I've always wanted to be a potentate...

I'd heard of this game before, but never actually played it. It's a logic game - you use five dice to play the game, and it's name is Petals Around the Rose (and the name is significant). However, once I found this site, Petals Around The Rose and played a few rolls I figured it out. So now I'm a Potentate of the Rose. NICE!

"Knights of the Round Table" as sung by the cast of Star Trek

Oh man, this is a good one! Somebody synched up scenes from Star Trek (the original series, of course) with the song 'Knights of the Round Table' from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Great job - check it out here.

The 11 Best Chappelle's Show sketches of all time

Found this site while browsing around this morning, and it's pretty cool to be able to watch a clip of each sketch. Check out the list here - Top 11 Chappelle's Show Skits.
I kinda see their point regarding why the made their pick for number one, although I'd probably make their number 4 pick number 1.

Fun with Windows Vista

I've had a copy of Windows Vista Beta 2 for a couple of weeks now, and last night I finally got around to installing it on my PC (a lovely Dell Optiplex GX260 I picked up off of Retrobox.com for a good price). I need to add more memory, a bigger hard drive, and a AGP video card - so that took some time to secure the funds to buy the parts. I also wanted to clone my existing hard drive onto the new one, so I wouldn't have to reinstall everything. Got that taken care of thanks to a driver cloning freeware program I found, and then I was all set. Finally got around to actually doing the install last night, and it didn't take too long, about 42 minutes. Not bad really. Got user accounts setup for myself and the wife, went to ATI (for my video card) and got their drivers for Windows Vista installed. Didn't get too much time to play around last night, but I did check out the Widgets... whoops, 'Gadgets' a little bit. But even with limited time on the system, I'm already annoyed with the User Account Control popping up all time, locking down the desktop till you tell it that the program or applet or Control Panel you just launched is OK to run. That's getting tired VERY quickly. One weird thing - the display was acting a little strange. Hard to describe exactly, but it kind of hiccups. It's really the only description I can think of - and it's very odd. Perhaps the new Aero Glass display mode doesn't like my old Sony Trinitron monitor (well, it is about 6 years old - and in computer time, that's ancient). Perhaps something else is goofy. I'll have to play around with it. So, I'll be popping in with further thoughts as I get to spend more time playing around with Windows Vista - stay tuned...

Bad news for lovers of Winternals/Sysinternals utilites

Winternals and Sysinternals are well known for making great freeware (like Process Explorer) and commercial utilites (like their Administrator's Pak, which includes the best Windows recovery utility of all time - ERD Commander 2005). But now they've been acquired by Microsoft, and who knows what will happen next. One of their founders/lead developers, Mark Russinovich, posted on his blog that the Sysinternals site will remain up 'for the time being' (whatever that means). So go get copies of their freeware utilites soon - who knows if they'll still be there next time you go looking for them, right?

Rocky... Rocky... ROCKY!!

In case you're interested, here's the 'trailer' for the new Rocky movie (it's titled Rocky Balboa) due out this Christmas.



Apparently, the studio leaked this out, but says that a better quality trailer is forthcoming.

Natalie Portman to play Indiana Jones's daughter in next Indy film

There's a rumor floating around that Natalie Portman will be in the next Indiana Jones film, as Indy's daughter. The working title for the new movie is Indiana Jones and the Ravages of Time, Harrison Ford is definitely back as Indiana Jones (of course, like they'd try and get someone else...) and Sean Connery is also expected to return as Indy's father Henry Jones Sr. Rumors also are floating around that Jake Gyllenhaal might be joining the cast as well. Now, if they would just start filming the darn thing, that'd be great - Harrison Ford's not getting any younger, you know...

Funny clip from the David Letterman show - Bill Gates leaves Microsoft

Here's a quick clip from The Late Show With David Letterman, a little something they came up with to commemorate Bill Gates and his decision to step down at Microsoft.



And, just cause it's REALLY funny - the classic video of Bill and another MS staffer demonstrating Windows 98 well before it came out... and having it Blue Screen on them.

Funny - Darth Vader takes on Japanese policemen

I got a good laugh out of this clip -

Man trades a red paperclip - for a house

God bless the internet, and people who continue to find many interesting uses for it. (Yes, it's true - you can use the internet for things other than porn - I swear!)
Take, for instance, the story of one Kyle MacDonald of Montreal, Canada. He started his quest on July 12th, 2005 with a blog site and one red paperclip, available to anyone wishing to trade something bigger or better for it. The goal was to end up trading for a house - and that goal has been reached. The series of trades made to accomplish this is well worth the read - and there's even some video clips to go along with some of them. Congratulations to Kyle and his girlfriend, who will fly to the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan to see the house on Wednesday. Way to go, Kyle - way to go!