YouTube - Mac Vs PC -20 - Tech Support

So there is a lot of love/hate going on with the "Get a Mac" commercials in the blogosphere, but I fall into the camp that I think both PC & Mac's are good and I get a good laugh at the commercials.

One of my favorites is:




YouTube - Mac Vs PC -20 - Tech Support





Somewhat related is the funny clip from the Daily Show that has John Hodgman (I'm a PC).


Hodgman's actually somewhat of a mac afficionado, check out his interview.

NFL Rants and Raves | Bringing American Football to the World!

I have only started listening to this podcast about 3/4 through this past season, but I have to say it is a very fun listen about the NFL. NFL Rants and Raves | Bringing American Football to the World!

Origami Swan for Beginners

Found this link in wikihow... will get that link later...Origami Swan for Beginners

Kid Plays Super Mario Theme Song on Acoustic with Help

OK this came from site I was following about a tech issue, but further down I found his post with the Super Mario video.

Kid Plays Super Mario Theme Song on Acoustic with Help

BBspot Videos - White and Nerdy

To go along with my White and Nerdy Score... Here's a link to the Weird Al video...

BBspot Videos - White and Nerdy

BBspot Videos - Calvin and Hobbes

Ok this looks more like a spoof from Robot Chicken, but since I loved the old Calvin and Hobbes books I had to post a link once I found it.

I think that the characters are portrayed pretty accurately , but the story line ends up being a little to dark.

BBspot Videos - Calvin and Hobbes

How Many of Me

Got this from Rocky Oliver's Blog @ http://www.lotusgeek.com/

With my given there are :

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 36 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Using Jim:

HowManyOfMe.com

There is: 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning by Antti Kemppainen

Pretty nice photograph...

Flickr Photo Download: Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning by Antti Kemppainen

English Story

Got this in an Email a while back. I pretty funny read:

Can you read these right the first time?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present .
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this.

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is i t UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir
UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, an d think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP .

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

We could go on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP, so... Time to shut UP.!

Oh... one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P (Just read the letters individually.)

Best Way to Post Video Clips to Share Publicly?

If I finally get the notion to post the video clips from the sonograms, I will do it via one of the free video posting sites below. (Just not sure when)

Best Way to Post Video Clips to Share Publicly?: "www.revver.com

www.youtube.com

www.veoh.com

www.dailymotion.com

www.vsocial.com

www.vidilife.com

www.boltfolio.com

www.archive.org

www.sharkle.com

www.castpost.com

www.clipshack.com"

Mysterious Universe

Big Foot, Giants, Ancient Civilizations, UFOs, Ghosts, Shadow People... These are some of the types of stories that Benjamin Grundy reads about on the Mysterious Universe podcast. While I don't view this podcast as an overly skeptical one, which is not a bad thing in my book, I really like the format. The background music makes for a very high quality production. Ben has a great voice that really adds to the atmosphere of the stories. The combination of his talent, the production quality, and shows variety of content on the "extremities" of science make for great listen. Check it out at Mysterious Universe.

This Week in Science

One of the best science news podcasts out there. OK, I like the format of the caffeine pumped up morning shows on the radio, but until I found TWIS I really did not enjoy most of the content out there. Now I can fill some of my morning commute with this intelligent, funny, and always lively content from This Week in Science. Justin & Kirsten deliver an excellent show.

Subscribe to their podcast via itunes or at their site: www.TWIS.org

Planet TV Show

Planet TV Show is a very good video podcast for those who like robots, explosions, and cool tech gadgets. Unfortunately it hasn't had an update in almost 4 months. Check the archives here:

Planet TV Show

Bohemian Rhapsody Parody

Great impersonation of 25 singers doing Queen's hit:

Hilarious Bohemian Rhapsody

Programming Metaphor

This is a great video metaphor for what tech developers do.

If Programmers Had To Build Planes

Space Flight Animation

A mellow rock space music animation

Flixxy.com - Space Flight Animation

Jingle Cats

I love funny cat videos... Here is a nice holiday one:

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas by Cats

The Best Quarterback in the League

Peyton Manning's skill at directing traffic on the field is what is the greatest part of his game. Tom Brady is also a great quarterback, but Peyton will always be first in my book!!! Go to the Colts "action photos" for more.

Rex Grossman's 07 Year

Every game I saw of the Bears, Rex Grossman was lousy. I completely sided with the detractors to have him removed, except for the fact that I am Peyton Manning & Colts fan I am glad he had the day he did as shown in the picture:

Super Bowl XLI champions

Indianapolis Colts are the Super Bowl champions!!!!

My favorite Super Bowl Commercial: How To Use A Mouse

2007 had mostly lame commercials during the Super Bowl (not to mention the controversy with snickers that I won't go into). While I like the one's from career builder, I don't think they topped their Monkey's from last year.


Blockbuster Super Bowl: How To Use A Mouse

Previous Super Bowl Favorite Commerical Cat Herders

I think that this was from the Super Bowl in 2005, but was definitely my favorite from that year.

Cat Herders