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Nomnomnom

This gives you a clue to my diet recently.

This is so cool!

XKCD's timeline graphs of some popular films. Click to see them big enough to read the very cool details.



Original on XKCD

This is too funny

It's pretty impressive, too! Be patient, the funny part starts about a minute in.

Go ahead

I discovered a new Web site from the people who brought you LOL Cats and the Fail Blog. It's called It Made My Day (IMMD).

Two fun samples:

Me and my 9 year old cousin were watching old footage of John and Yoko performing today. During Yoko’s singing she turned to me and asked ‘What’s wrong with that guy?’ IMMD.

I was eating a donut with a friend’s 15 month old daughter. She asked what the hole was for and I asked “What do you think?” she said ” That’s where you put the bacon”. IMMD

Hard to argue with that

They got a lot of nice girls

Here is our first attempt at posting a Greybeards video to YouTube. We're still learning, so please bear with weird sizing and less than ideal image quality. Videos 1 through 19 and 20+ are TBD.

Without further ado, here are the Greybeards and their Hot Backup Chicks performing Zed-Zed Top's "La Grange" at the Good Vibrations Unschooling Conference.



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Angry (feet)

Warning: This video is not for everyone. It contains explicit language and conjures violent images. Laughter-induced injury may also occur.



Tim Minchin poem "Angry (feet)"

Inspiration

A caliber of performance The Greybeards can only hope to aspire to.



Whose Line Song Styles

I love this site

Thanks to Kevin Fuller for bringing this one to my attention:

Overheard Everywhere

Verity's Night Before Christmas

This is a coworker's daughter. She's 3.


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Forgotten cover

OMG! MJ reminded me of one of my all-time favorite covers, which I somehow managed to leave off of my Thursday 13.

#0. One
Original artist: Harry Nilsson then Three Dog Night
Cover artist: Filter
Why: It is so cool. Eerie, sad, and then edgy and angry.

Check it out:

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More Spearhead

Sad to say this one is going on two years old and still relevant. :-(

Time To Go Home

Musical smiles

Thanks, Jorene!

Fry expression

Yes, We Can

I have so much to say about Non-Con North, it'll probably take me days to finish writing my post. In the meantime, here's this:

Juno

Go see this movie.

Enough said.

But wait - I also have to say, "Ohmigod, where did Ellen Page come from?" She is amazing. She's beautiful. She's astonishingly talented. And she'll be 20 in a month, despite my having just proclaimed to Frank that she couldn't be more than Juno's 16.

Happy Birthday, Ellen! Thanks for our present!

Far, far away

A coworker just showed me this. Pretty, isn't it?
(click the picture for the amazing details)

Eaters of the Dead

Perhaps inspired by my Movie Project and today's Thursday 13, I picked up Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead on CD. I've been listening to it during my commutes and have made a couple of discoveries. (Mild spoilers follow.)

* The first part of the story is based on the real Ibn Fadlan's journal about his experiences with and of "the Norsemen."

* The footnotes about the translation of the journal and about the social context behind some of Ibn Fadlan's comments, which I found mildly distracting at first, are now some of my favorite parts. They are rich with details and tie in nicely with the reading Chloe has been doing lately about the Norse gods (said research having been inspired by an anime series called "Mythical Detective Loki Ragnorak").

* Some of the best dialog in the film The 13th Warrior is not from the book and should probably be credited to screenwriters William Wisher and Warren Lewis (although Crichton did have some involvement in the film).

* Some of the best moments in the film come from the book, such as the way the warriors snore while awake before the first attack and the scene where Ibn's cheerful friend, Herger, convinces the king's son that they are not to be trifled with.

I arrived at work and had to turn off the CD this morning just as the glow worm was attacking. This has not done a great deal for my concentration today.

Back peddling

I was searching for a new quote and came across this entertaining little set:

"I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns."

"I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be."

Both by Walter Mondale