Archive for the ‘Obscurity’ Category

Magic Genie

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

I found a fun little game on the internet the other day that is a fun waste of time. http://us.akinator.com/ asks series of questions to find out who you’re thinking about. Just pick someone famous, real or fictional, and in a few questions, it will give you a guess as to who it is. The database must be pretty intensive because it has picked out every character that I’ve tried on it so far.

Have fun

Meatloaf pie chart

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Get it! Meatloaf. Pie. Chart. Heh heh.

Anyway, below is a chart representing all of the things that Meatloaf would do for love.

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In addition…

Subsets of what Meatloaf would do for love:
- Run right into hell
- And back
- Never lie to you (that’s a fact)
- Never forget the way you feel right now (no way)
- Be there ’til the final act
- Take a vow
- Seal a pact
- Hold you sacred
- Hold you tight
- Colorize your life
- Make it all a little less old
- Make you some magic
- Build an emerald city
- Give you something you can take home
- Cater to every fantasy you got
- Hose you down with holy water
- Take you places you’ve never known

Offer to do the above for love is valid as long as:
- The planets are turning
- The stars are burning
- Your dreams are coming true
- Wheels are turning
- Fires are burning
- Your prayers are coming true

Still won’t do:
- That

Amazing Pumpkins, Batman!

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

I am constantly amazed and delighted by the continual variety and talent displayed this time of year by all of the pumpkin carving that occurs just in time for Halloween. I’ve always been curious what customs we would have developed if other fruits or vegetable had become more associated with Halloween. Would we be as amazed by the amazingly decorated kumquat, or carved slivers of vanilla beans? Enjoy the fully operational Death Pumpkin!
dspumpkin

We’ve been baconized

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Bacon has been expanding its domain and influence to the far reaches of the world and the net. Its touch is felt across time and space and bits and bytes. From bacon bowls to bacon pizza, there are all sorts of bacon ideas and recipes out there.

It has now arrived here.

Bacon has splatted itself onto ovrnite.com.

When will it end?

Wwwwhhhhheeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnn?

One Tree Heart

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

In the category of absolutely ridiculous and moving fully into the redonculous. A recent episode of ‘One Tree Hill’ featured a dramatic hospital moment.

Now, I have never actually watched ‘One Tree Hill’ and never plan on watching it, but with material like this, I hope that Conan starts showing random clips when he comes back like he did with ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’.

Back to the clip.

Picture it. A man sits anxiously inside a hospital waiting room. He needs a new heart. He may only have days or hours left to live. Suddenly, someone bursts into the hospital carrying a Styrofoam box. His heart has arrived. But to everyone’s surprise. The man carrying the heart trips over the leash of a dog that is waiting at the hospital. The heart slides across the floor. The man awaiting the transplant is stunned. His eyes widen in horror as the dog gulps down the heart in one doggie bite.

Who writes this stuff, honestly.

Rubix-pent

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Okay, now this is absolutely going over into the ree-donculous. For those out there in the world where the Rubik’s cube is just too easy for their brains to get around. Someone has developed a puzzle cube where each face is a pentagon with a pentagram inside. There are a thousand moving parts and takes days just to create and assemble. Currently it appears to be a one-of-a-kind with the ebay auction taking place soon.

Hopefully, the buyer wants it for it’s beauty and not to open the gates of hell.

Super cool illusion

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

If I could go back in time this would seriously be one of the coolest things ever to invent. Especially if I invented it like 2000 years ago. I’d be like a wizard or something that could make objects appear and move as if my magic. I’d probably be quickly arrested and put to the fire and burned as a witch, but it would be so worth it.

Check out the illusion.

More Feuds

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Another Family Feud clip sent me right over the edge. Instead of the one weird and funny answer from the last post, you get five or six strange or just plain wrong answers.

Alligator, seriously. Really. Wow.

Family Feud leads to crying

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

No, I was not involved in a domestic dispute.

Family Feud is a classic game show going back over 30 years now. This morning I watched an old clip from the show that had me clutching my gut and wiping tears from my eyes. Or for you txt messagers, CMGAWTFME.

Richard Dawson is usually a consummate professional when it comes the the ‘Fast Money’ portion of the show. He could read those questions faster than most and would move on to the next question no matter what your answer for the previous one was. There was one woman whose answer was so funny that he couldn’t hold it together even for the second round of questions with the next person.

Stamp and McDowell

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

My wife recently noticed something that should be obvious to us all.

Malcolm McDowell and Terence Stamp are gradually becoming more and more alike. They are converging.

If you go back and look at McDowell in “A Clockwork Orange” or Terence Stamp in “Superman 2″ you wouldn’t think that they looked at all similar. But fast forward to today and they could have been separated at birth.

I think that eventually they will merge into the same person.

Young Stamp
Young McDowell
Old Stamp
Old McDowell

DM of the Ring

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Now that I’ve spent the better part of the last two hours reading through a thoroughly funny comic strip about trying to DM the classic Lord of the Rings, I think that I’ve come across one of the funniest pages in the extremely long series.

I recommend starting at the beginning.

But this one is really funny.

True, so very true.

Monty Python reference (one of many).

Mario reference.

Best Quiz Ever

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

And while we’re on the topic of online quizzes. Here is the best online quiz absolutely ever.

Troy McClure Film or Actual Terrible Movie

“You may remember him from such hits as Christmas Ape and Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp, but how well do you remember Troy McClure’s other projects? Can you tell which of the following titles come from the filmography of Springfield’s favorite screen icon and which are the real-life dregs of IMDb?”

And no fair checking IMDb or any other database for the answers.

My personal score first time through the quiz was 11 of 15.

Test your cartoon IQ

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

And not just your general cartoon knowledge full of Spongebob and Pixar, but your true cartoon IQ, your 80′s cartoon IQ.

An 80′s Cartoons Quiz poses 15 questions from many of the most popular and awesome cartoons of all time. The Voltron question was pretty easy, and I’m a little embarrassed about being familiar enough with Care Bears and Rainbow Brite to make a good guess. (I had two sisters, okay!)

My score: 13 of 15. Beat that Sucka’s.

MANAMANA

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

The Muppets have always held a dear, dear place in my heart. Right next to, in fact, my Star Wars heart place. Once again the two have been joined for an amusing music video featuring Vader repeatedly singing, “MANAMANA.” It’s funnier than it sounds, and definitely better the second time watching it. Not as good the fourth time, but much funnier the fifth.

And yes, that was Spock. And yes, Artoo and Threepio do a great job as Statler and Waldorf. And no, I’m not ‘losing it’. And yes, the 14 second mark is the funniest thing ever.

“My Name is Bruce” preview

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

As a big fan of Bruce Campbell and all of his cheesy goodness, I heard about his new movie about a year ago. Well, time passed and their is finally a preview out for the new movie.

Bruce Campbell takes on his toughest role of all, himself.

A couple of small town kids and fans of His Bruceness track down the low budget star to recruit him against the evil force that threatens their town. Bruce agrees to come thinking that he is being recruited to star in yet another low budget film, only to find that the monster is real, and it’s up to him to save the day.

Can’t wait for this one.

Your very own time machine

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

News update!

You no longer need a Delorian to travel through time. Coming soon to a store near you are replica flux capacitors that will allow you to turn any vehicle from a Yugo to a Gremlin into a 4th dimensional automobile. Bat wing doors and flying cars not required.

The only question remaining is where to mount it in your ride.

Cool Gear Clock

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Sometimes the coolest stuff just kind of falls into your lap.

My brother stopped by the other day to drop off something that he thought I might like. It was a clock. My first thought was, “Not another clock.” I think we managed to get a dozen clocks from different people when I got married. Maybe all my friends and family think I don’t know what time it is.

However, this was no ordinary clock. A coworker of my brother didn’t want it anymore, gave it to my brother, who passed it along to me. It’s  a giant gear that turns around a stationary hand. There are other gears that serve only ornamental purposes, but it is still one pretty cool clock.

Tombs of the Blind Dead – Review

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The western just ain’t what it used to be, the big-budget Hollywood musical has fallen to remakes of Broadway musicals, and I can’t remember the last time that a Frankenstein movie was made. However, one specific genre of movie that will always be made, remade, and done over and over again is the zombie movie. There are a number of classics in the genre from “Night of the Living Dead” to “Shaun of the Dead”, the premise works because everyone is familiar with the premise going into the film.

One of the classics that I’ve read a lot about but never had the chance to actually see was “Tombs of the Blind Dead”, but thanks to the local used bookstore, I now own my very own VHS copy in a giant over-sized clamshell box.

The movie starts in the undefined past with some pretty weird-looking monks tying a hysterical woman to an X. After ripping open her shirt, a few monks (we later learn they are Knights Templar) take turns riding past her on horseback and slicing her arms and torso to shreds. During that process, a few of the monks give strange looks to the camera, kind of like they were thinking, “You know, I was fine with the kidnapping and bodice-ripping, but this whole stabbing thing is going a little too far.”

Fast forward to the present (or the present of 1970′s Spain) where a young women gets angry at her boyfriend and jumps from a moving train to walk the Spanish countryside. It eventually gets dark (or at least day-for-night), and she finds herself alone in a creepy deserted castle. A bell rings, tombs open, and she is eventually chased down and chewed on by skeletons in robes.

Strangely enough, these undead Knights Templar are the best part of the movie. The plot, characters, and dialogue often make very little sense, but the design and execution of these undead creatures is the most effective part of the movie. The monsters are blind but rely on their keen hearing to track their prey. The fear that they inspire in their victims allow them to track even the most clever of characters by heartbeat alone.

So why is this considered a zombie movie. Well, the monks are undead (more or less), they look cool, and one character that they bite comes back to life and attacks the living. It’s thin, but you can make the connection.

Clever girl

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

First of all: yes, that’s a vague reference to the scene in “Jurassic Park” right before the big game hunter gets eaten by the raptors. Second, this is a post about clever dogs, not clever dinosaurs.

There are no shortage of cool dog tricks out there in the world. Dogs have been taught to sit up, beg, roll over, shake, and even sing. But to find out if your dog is really smart or just imitating what it sees around him, you’ll need to get a Pooch IQ Kit for your dog.

The dog we had when I was a kid was definitely not a canine genius, but check out this pooch with an aversion to stinky shoes.

Super delegates

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Little did I know how un-democratic the Democratic party truly is.

At their convention this summer there will be 4,040 Democratic delegates voting to choose which member of their party will be on the 2008 presidential election. However, almost one out of five of those delegates will not have been chosen by any of the state primaries or caucuses. Instead they are various party members, congressmen, and other elected officials called superdelegates. These are assigned by the party to vote for whoever they want.

Hard to call the process Democratic when 20% of the votes don’t come from the people.