Day: April 15, 2011

  • Lukewarm Links 4/14

    The weather here is insane.  I know I've been saying this repeatedly but it deserves repetition.  Sunday it was 80 degrees and then Monday and Tuesday it was around 50.  Wednesday it was 70.  Today...barely made it to 40.  I sprinted out of the house this morning without a coat.  I got to my destination and sprinted in so I never really noticed the cold.  Then at noon time I sauntered back to my car and the cold hit me.  I was shivering and I think people could tell through my shirt that I was cold.  I had an exciting lunch hour.  I bought a fishing license, got the mail, had a guy at the post office tell me I had a burnt out brake light, went to the city hall to reserve a city park, went to church to drop off some materials I've been working on, and then I ate.  I came home, stayed out of the cold, and played video games.  I rock.  I've built Iowa State into a football dynasty.  I saw The Office this evening.  I've been apprehensive to Will Ferrell joining the show but I have to say...I LOVED IT!  Anyway you don't read these little paragraphs so here are the links.

    1.  I posted this one a long time ago before it was affiliated with tumblr.  It's one of the best Garfield comic strips ever.  It's called Garfield Minus Garfield.  They take Garfield out of the comic strip and somehow it's even better.  I can now totally relate to John Arbuckle.

    2.  When I was in college and I was debating something I used to draw charts while I spoke.  I have this weird habit of making charts.  It just calms me and helps me organize.  Now imagine the boner I got when I saw this site called I Love Charts.  Welcome to my madness.  I wish I still had my folder of rap songs represented through charts.

    3.  I enjoy this art site that is just a collection of random art submitted by random artists.  It's called eatsleepdraw.  You know, I'm giving credit to all these tumblrs but I never do that for Xangans.  I feel bad sometimes for doing that but I figure that if I didn't give credit to a certain Xangan they'd write horrible things about me anonymously.

    4.  I think living in a free market has its disadvantages.  You have to put up with crap like this.  Seriously, who buys these things?

    5.  Have you ever wondered when you'll die?  Well click here and you'll find out.  2/24/2031...damn, I'm going to get old.

    6.  OK, I can't figure out if this site is real or not.  I want to say it's real but it probably started off as a joke.  As you may know, certain Christian groups have been caught up with the belief in the rapture despite this not being a Biblical event.  It was simply created by a failed Christian sex therapist.  Anyway businesses have been popping up for after rapture businesses.  I remember one that was for Christians who are taken away and a group would give messages written by the raptured to those who weren't taken to heaven.  Anyway, this one I found blew my mind.  It's After the Rapture Pet Care.  And people tell me that the church isn't a money-making scheme.  Can't people just believe?  But this goes against what St. Disney said with the movie "All Dogs Go to Heaven".

    7.  Dustin Diamond played Screech on Saved by the Bell and he has had such a rough career after those shows were canceled.  Well to antagonize Diamond, someone set up a series of websites about Diamond being homosexual and how the authors had gay fantasies about Screech.  Well here is one of those sites.  It's probably not safe for work.

    8.  OK, I have to admit two things here.  First, this evening I did some measurements and found out something on my body is 1 inch above the average length.  Second, I love women and I love superheros.  Now, combine the two and I am very happy.  Here's a collection of girls dressed as Spiderman.  Oh and that measurement wasn't what you think.  It was the distance from the tip of my pinky to the tip of my thumb.

    9.  I remember when I was a kid and I saw this old pirate movie and the main character had a peg leg and then the next movie had the same actor but he was now a gangster and he had two legs.  I asked my dad if he cut his leg off for the movie.  My dad laughed and said I was stupid.  Love.  Anyway, here's a list of prosthetic limbs used in movies.  Personally I thought Steve Martin's was real.

    10.  Something something something S'Mores fashioned to be a keyboard blah blah blah so hungry.

    11.  A while back I made a pulse about how Eric Holder was harassing my family.  People asked and I pointed them to CNN.com.  I don't know if people read the article.  It was about a huge mob bust in New York.  Here's a collection of some of the nicknames of guys who were busted.  I really can't wait to see Baby Fat Larry and Vinny Carwash and Cheeks and Johnny Cash be exonerated of all charges because we all know there is no such thing as the mafia.

    12.  If you have ever thought of putting one of your pets in a bikini, you ought to be locked up. Animals get embarrassed when they are dressed that way.  Just look at these embarrassed animals wearing bikinis.

    13.  Did you wish Nattata a happy birthday?


    I mentioned this on my Twitter and thank god I'm not the only one that sees a resemblance.

    Hey everybody, look, it's Mowen Wilson.

    And guess which had sold more copies...

    Yeah haters gonna hate but I'd also hate looking like a gigantic paper sack.

    You know this whole Xanga Secrets fiasco means shit to her.  You should have seen what Delores did back in the day when Mabel stole her boyfriend.

    Remember the good old days when gas was $2 a gallon?