I’ve seen this type of thing before (and I have a screenshot of that incident somewhere), but it always digusts me when I see this really annoying form of online advertising reappear.
Note To Self: Do Not Call Anybody In Britain
Why? Because nearly half of them regularly use the phone naked. And we all know that most people (especially Brits) don’t look like the half-naked woman whose photo is on that story. So have fun getting that ugly mental image out of your head.
Merry Return All Your Presents Day
OK, I said I’d post something on Christmas day, but I lied. Sue me.
Anyway, the weekend’s events were fun, if not a bit crazy. Per our usual family tradition, we spent Christmas Eve with my in-laws, and Christmas Day with my family. We hosted the in-laws at our house, along with the neices and nephews. It was utter chaos with a bunch of kids screaming and yelling about what each kid got, etc… . It was tiring madness, but a whole lot of fun.
We then spent Christmas Day with my family, opening yet more presents, eating more food, getting more exhausted (and my poor wife had a cold, so it was even harder on her). But all in all, it was a bunch of fun. The kids got spoiled rotten with tons of toys for each of them, to the point where we probably need to add an extra room to the house to accomodate it all (OK,that was a slight exhargeration).
The wife and I got a bunch of fun stuff. The wife got a nice set of kitchen knives, a bunch of clothes, some sheet music, some books, and a few other things that escape me off the top of my head. I got a bunch of stuff as well, including clothes, a new coat, some gift certificates, some DVDs, a shower radio/CD player (so I won’t ever leave the shower in the morning). My wife and I also got a Nintendo DS Lite, which we were both stupidly excited about, along with Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart, and Nintendogs for it. Now understand, neither of us have had our own game system since the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) back when we were both in grade school, but I can see this getting played with a bunch. But man, this thing is far fancier than anything I’ve played with (and if anybody has a good place for hacks/tips/whatever on these things, I’m all ears). I can see myself playing a ton of SMB, as I love those classic kinds of games, but I have a feeling I’d be doing a lot better if I had this or this PDF guide (if anybody has a copy I can .. uh … borrow, you know how to get ahold of me).
I hope everbody had a great holiday, and I want to hear about all the toys everybody else got.
Happy Holidays To Everyone
I’ll undoubtedly post something on Christmas day, discussing the day’s events (and the day before, as we always have something going on the day before as well). Meanwhile, I’ve got a four day weekend, and I’m going to be spending as much of it as possible with my family. So enjoy your weekend, be safe, and feel free to post here what kinds of toys you all got.
Happy Holidays to everybody!
Real Life Leeroy Jenkins
Getting rid of all the various YouTube videos I have bookmarked (actually, I’ve got a ton more, but that’s all for today at least), here’s one that’s only funny if you know who Leeroy Jenkins was. After reading up, watch these…
Scary Poppins
My guess is the target audience for Mary Poppins might be a little different if their trailer looked like this:
Star Wars, The Silent Movie
What if Star Wars was done in silent movie style? It might look something like this …
Central Oregon Barbie Dolls
I posted a version of this joke a while back, but this version has more of a Central Oregon focus (and you’ll only really get the last one if you live or work in the Sunriver area). I’ve made some edits of the version that was sent to me, and you can find the dolls below.
Great Way To Start The Morning
The icy rain we got last night has already caused some chaos, and it’s already bruised me up pretty bad, too.
I woke up this morning and went outside to get some firewood. Our woodstove is our primary source of heat this time of year (our furnace just sucks up too much electricity for how effective it is), so I went outside to get some firewood. I generally load a bunch of wood into a back storage hallway that’s just off our backyard patio into our house. The icy rain made our concrete patio pretty dangerous, so I walked carefully as I went across it to get to our wood pile. I grabbed a few rounds to put in the hallway, and made the attempt to walk gingerly across the patio. I took two steps, with an armload of wood, slipped, and went flying. I flew down forward, onto my knees, with the firewood coming down on top of me. I bruised the living bejeebers out of both knees, scraped up one of them, and bruise my elbow as well.
I couldn’t walk for a few minutes, so as I’m laying there in pain on the patio, my six year old daughter — who’s the only one up with me at this time of the morning — is looking out the window with a look like “Oh my is he dead?” I looked back at her to make sure she knew I was OK, and would come back in the house when I could get up again.
The problem was we still needed firewood as it was dang cold outside, so I had to get some more wood chopped and into the hallway. Needless to say, once I got back on my feet, I didn’t cross the patio unless I had to — I threw the wood into the hallway from a distance. I got the wood inside, got a fire started, and then just plopped down on the floor with some ice on my knees.
I eventually made it to work this morning (and was greeted with four inches of snow) after trying to loosen up my knee. It still hurts like a bugger (not like it did this morning). Once my Advil kicks in I’ll be OK.
In the grand scheme of things, however, I’m just glad I’m not in Colorado right now. My brother’s in Fort Collins right now, and getting beat up as well.
Cats Are Dumb
Only a cat would try to cram himself in a goldfish bowl.