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my life does not require popcorn
Jan 13th
I read this article about Avatar making people depressed, and I can say I’m one of them. Â Not because I won’t ever go to Pandora, but because if they had spent 1/100th of their budget on a script it would have been even better.
Cards on the table, I really liked this movie, and thought it was very good. Â One of the best movies I’ve ever seen? No. Â To me, one of the qualities I like in a good movie is how every day after you’ve seen it, it makes you think about it more, and your appreciation for it grows. Â Avatar More >
dorm room music studio
Jan 9th
Back my freshman year of college, I had several friends that were really good musicians. Â I am a drummer, but that’s a pretty hard instrument to play in a dorm room, so my friends who played way more portable instruments got way more of a chance to practice than I.
Jordan was one of the best guitarists I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing with. Â Al was a fantastic singer and a pretty good bassist, if he could remember the song that we were playing. Â Lucy played a mean viola and could belt it out. Â Joe is the best singer I’ve More >
circus tiger
Dec 2nd
I don’t much read the tabloids or entertainment section, but I’m starting to think that I should more. My belief is that it will rot your brain even more than watching television, and watching TMZ on television is akin to giving yourself a lobotomy.
However, when all the major news networks cited TMZ in regards to the Tiger Woods story, I thought I might have to adjust my view on this. And now that the police have stopped their investigation, we’re stuck with TMZ to find out the truth.
You have no idea how incredibly sad this makes me feel. Woodward and More >
gilbert? is that you?
Oct 23rd
I just took a call from a user that had me at a loss for words. The entire time I was on the phone with her, there was an incredibly loud and annoying bird squaking in the background. In fact, it was so irritating, I have to assume that it was actually on the shoulder of the person I was talking to.
There are only three reasons this is acceptable:
1. She has never talked on a phone before
2. She is a pirate.
3. She is Jaffar, and Iago is trying to sell me Aflac insurance.
Using the process of More >
still searching for the right word
Oct 14th
Back in college, I was sitting near a busy sidewalk having a quick lunch at a little sidewalk cafe type thing. I didn’t often eat there, mainly because they sold bubble tea and I didn’t know what bubble tea was so it kind of scared me away most times. But this particular day I was feeling adventurous, and the universe gave me something in return.
I was just kind of zoning out people watching, and I noticed a sight-impaired gentleman with a seeing eye dog walk across the crosswalk and head down the sidewalk towards me. Out of the corner of More >
pseudofake advertising
Oct 5th
I watched a lot of football on Sunday as I’m fighting off a cold and after reinsulating the attic all Saturday, all I wanted to do was sit on the couch and sleep/watch football. After coming to the conclusion that all NFL head coaches are wimps who won’t go for it on FOURTH AND 1 FROM THE 5 YARD LINE (looking at you, Broncos, you could have won the game much earlier) I turned my attention to the advertising.
Cars, beer, electronics. The holy trifecta of gameday advertising, but these days even pharmaceuticals are making a push (if you want to More >
dirte
Sep 17th
It’s now after Labor Day, and you’re not supposed to wear white anymore, so I gave the ol’ webpage a new look.
Unfortunately, I know one of my shortcomings is any sort of artistic design, and my sense of style is….nonexistent….I need your commentary on if you approve or not.
One of the reasons I got married is because now I have someone in my life who can make this kind of decision for me, but she’s much better at paint and fabric than at html and xml.
And now, for no reason at all, are the best wallpaper backgrounds that we’ve seen More >
the interblags has strange people
Aug 28th
I promised myself that they day I hit twenty followers (today!) I would write about this. Since you twenty are open about your following of my little slice of crazy, I thought I’d expose the links, searches, and routes that other people have followed to arrive here.
Per Google Webmaster, here are the top search queries for people arriving at my site:
“worst side effectsâ€
OK, this one is understandable, since I did make an entire post with this title. However, this site is probably not what people had in mind when they typed that in. Unless Google is trying to tell people that More >
regional differences
Jul 16th
I’m in Milwaukee currently, and have lived in the north my whole life. There are a number of phrases that I’ve heard that apparently have southern origins that just don’t make sense to me. I know some of the readers here are bilingual in English and Southern, so any help is appreciated
1. “I’ve been mashin’ the ‘OK’ button, but nothin is happenin’.”I’ve heard the word “mash” replace “click” on several occasions. Every time I want to tell them that mashing is not necessary, just click the button with one finger. When someone says this, in my head, I see them More >
more information has come to light
Mar 26th
After crying for awhile, I decided to see if I could figure out any more of this story. In a compassionate moment, I thought “Clearly there is something else going on here, and the rest of the story needs to be told.” So I go back onto Facebook, which at this point is a little like going back into the water after a great white started eating tourists in your New England town.
Her was the Facebook status right before:First of all, among all the intriguing and interesting words here, it might get lost that “Cassie” is the one who the status More >
