All Harry Potter movies summed up in one minute by kittens
There, just saved you a bunch of money in movie tickets. Now go read the books.
DOTAWESOME.com is .AWESOME
Several weeks ago, ICANN announced that beginning in 2012, anyone – with $185,000 for fees – can apply to ICANN to have a new domain name suffix created (think .MUSIC, .APPLE, or .BEER). It may become standard to navigate for health-related content within .HEALTH websites or shopping within .SHOP websites.
I began joking with my friends that I should start a KickStarter project and try and raise the $185,000 fees to get .AWESOME and, for everyone who chipped in $20 to the project, would receive in turn their own .AWESOME domain name. Think: tracy.awesome, or tim.awesome ... or even coke.awesome.
This morning my buddy Pat burst my bubble because in his job they actually had to look into this, and it turns out the $185,000 is just the beginning ... it would cost millions to get and maintain .AWESOME, and so would be a bit out my range.
Still, it's a .awesome idea, and I suddenly wondered if someone already had dotawesome.com? If not I was going to grab it and use it for a .awesome blog. Because it would be -- you know -- .awesome
Someone already has it: www.dotawesome.com
And whoever they are, they're definitely .awesome!
A Conversation with a Microsoft OS
This is clever and charming and I felt I must share it.
Laugh More, Be Healthier
I've known this for a while intuitively (I think most of us do) and I had it confirmed by passages in the book The Science of Happiness. But here it is in a video...
...which hopefully makes up for the fact that I've been a slacker about writing it up.
Bonus: John Cleese of Monty Python fame reports on the same thing...
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers
Communism, cold-war paranoia, and a missing high school (Morse Science High has disappeared!) add up to the strangest, funniest, and most bizarre comedy recording ever made.
“The Howl of the Wolf Movie! Presenting honest stories of working people portrayed by rich, Hollywood stars!”
It’s on UTV … “For YOU, the viewer!”
And don’t forget…
“…you can believe me, because I never lie … and I’m always right.”
What the hell does all this mean?
Well, your guess is as good as mine. But if you’re an intelligent person with a strong affinity for the bizarre, you’ll enjoy it. Immensely.
“Stop calling me Fred. My name’s Adolf!”
This tidbit from the legendary Newt X sums it up perfectly: “Don't Crush That Dwarf is unusual for comedy, in that, rather than focusing on live monologues or studio gags, it's a unified concept album that encompasses the full space of an album (both sides of the original vinyl) and comes together more like a novel than a joke. The story that unifies the piece features George Leroy Tirebiter, who is handed some food physically THROUGH his TV and finds himself involved in an unfolding story of a life in hell.”
To really try to explain the story and its ramifications is almost impossible. You simply have to listen to it. Better yet, listen to it with a bunch of friends. Then sit around for hours analyzing it like the best and more interesting deep piece of philosophical literature you’ve ever heard performed on tape. This is Shakespeare from the drug-addled 1970’s. This is Goethe’s Faust filtered through Thorton Wilder’s Skin of Our Teeth. This is, as mentioned in the album itself, “Parallel Hell.”
“I’m going to cut off the soles of my shoes, sit in a tree, and learn to play the flute!”
Here’s the strangest thing – and I would take advantage of it if I were you, quick, before it gets corrected: On Amazon.com they sell the album as a digital download for $9.99. Right? But it only has two tracks on it, both over 20 minutes long, and if you buy them singly you get the whole album for $1.98 (99 cents a track). Ooops, somebody goofed!
This is my favorite of the Firesign Theater Albums, closely followed by The Giant Rat of Sumatra.
Groovy Book of the Month
Knock Knock Books brings you the much needed, How To Procrastinate.
From their website: "Are you punctual, productive, and conscientious? Now there's help. Because work expands to fit the time available, it's never been easier to do the minimum amount of work in the maximum amount of time. Whether you're naturally organized, cursed with achievement, or simply obsessive-compulsive, we'll show you how to stop performing and start procrastinating today. Or tomorrow."
I wish I'd discovered this book sooner. It would have been on my Christmas wish list.
Chicken & Cheese Bachelor Starch Surprise
Serves three, or one bachelor for three days.
Ingredients:
- 4 cups water
- 1 TBS margarine
- 3/4 cup frozen onion/pepper mix
- Wal-Mart Great Value Chicken Stuffing Mix
- Wal-Mart Great Value Chicken Flavor Pasta & Sauce
- Idahoan Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Bring water and margarine to a boil in medium saucepan.
Add package of Chicken Flavor Pasta & Sauce.
Add the frozen onion/pepper mix because, oh, what the heck. Onions and peppers are good.
Continue boiling over medium heat for seven minutes, stirring occasionally and wondering if it is supported to look so soupy.
Realize you used a 2 cup measure instead of a 1 cup measure, which means there is twice the water that's supported to be in there.
Panic and search the cupboard for more pasta.
Finding none, throw in the stuffing mix, because -- what the heck -- it's been in the cupboard for at least two years now.
Determine that it still looks too soupy to eat, so search for something else you can throw in to soak up the water.
Discover the package of Idahoan Four Cheese Mashed Potatoes and wonder how long that's been up there.
Stir in the entire package.
Describe over the phone how disgusting it looks to your fiancée. Wince as she laughs hysterically at you.
Take it off the heat and let it congeal as you look up the phone number of the local pizza delivery place.
Right before you dial the pizza number, you take an experimental taste.
Surprise! It's delicious!
Wash it down with a bottle of Lagunitas Hairy Eyeball Ale.
Life is good.
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