February 10, 2012
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Lukewarm Links 2/9
Well here it is Thursday already so that means another round of links. It was an uneventful night here in Lake Woebegone, I took my cats to the vet and they were little devils, biting and scratching and hissing and growling. Then when I get them home it was more biting, scratching, hissing, and growling. They have finally settled down and the old Norwegian Lutherans were preparing for the annual lutefisk dinner.
1. A company released a Mitt Romney condom this week. I can't make many good jokes because they are all taken by the company. My best is either..."They are really slippery" or "Even though Romney's in the 1% these are regular sized to fit 99% of men." Yeah...not good...next.
2. And while I'm on the subject of politics, I found this fun little quiz over at Mother Jones...yeah yeah say what you will...it's a quiz testing your knowledge of Dwight Schrute and Newt Gingrich. See a couple weeks ago I posted a photo of Newt from back in the day and he looks exactly like Dwight Schrute from The Office. I only got 6 out of 10. It's quite a difficult quiz.
3. This is for the DIY crowd out there. It's a guide on how to upgrade your wall outlets to include USB connections. Dang, if I was more handy I'd try doing that.
4. I've been sharing celebrity Tumblr accounts here the past couple of weeks so I have three more. First we have John Hodgman. This guy is hilarious and I can guarantee all of you have seen him at least once. He's the PC guy in the Mac vs. PC commercials.
5. This is the Tumblr account for Donald Glover, the guy who is on Community and raps under the name Childish Gambino.
6. This Tumblr account is Anthony Bourdain. This guy doesn't do much with Tumblr but I'm half expecting him to one day just go off and rip Rachael Ray and Paula Deen new ones.
7. I thought this was good for Valentine's Day. It's called 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt. It's like a health meter from a video game on a chest. The shirts are sold in pairs and when you come in contact with the other person wearing the other shirt your health recharges. Yeah it's sort of lame but the nerd in me is saying "AWWW".
8. A local news station posted some Super Bowl myths. Yeah I'm a little late with that but you should be thankful because I was early on the Valentine's one above.
9. I didn't really care for the Super Bowl halftime show but you'll probably hear more about that in a post tomorrow. Anyway, I found this site that broke down Madonna's performance and deemed it to be a Satanic ritual. Yeah, they don't really think that, it's pretty funny. I can guarantee there are people that think it's real, just like the Louisiana representative that posted a story from The Onion as fact this week.
10. Now while that last site was humor, this site about why Harry Potter sucks is serious. Hey, what do you know, it's written by a Twilight fan.
11. And because I sometimes have the humor of a 14 year old, here's a collection of dirty sounding team names. When I was in high school I had two hats that I probably wore to school. One was of Fordham University and it simply said FU on the hat. The other hat was for the University of South Carolina and it said Cocks. In retrospect, I don't know why I wore that second one.
12. I think I've posted this before but it's so cool that it needs reposting. It's called LEGO albums. The concept is simple, they take LEGOs and use them as the artwork to music albums. I think my favorite is the one of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
And if you don't like links, here's some stuff to possibly laugh at.
Ummm...why are we good matches? Who am I kidding? She'd never date me.
Verily
The Australian national women's basketball team needs to invest in some different uniforms.
Run, forest, run!
Hey, an intersection named after me.
How's that for breastfeeding in public?
I never would've graduated if I went to UW. I went there for a visit in high school to see if I would matriculate and I never set foot in a classroom. I drank the entire time.
And rightly so.
I love how Wisconsin has taken such a huge set back in democracy when Walker is being investigated for illegal campaigning and also Republican senators signed confidentiality agreements not to PUBLICLY discuss plans for redistricting. SO THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WILL NOT DISCUSS WHAT THEY ARE DOING?!?!?!?! I FUCKING LOVE POLITICS!
Boba Fonzarelli needs to round them all up and drop them in a sarlacc pit.
Comments (30)
I like ole Bourdain, but he can definitely get cranky.
those Lego albums are great... i really like the Fleetwood Mac one, the Frou Frou one, the George Michael one, the De La Soul one, the Genesis one, the Bjork one, the Delgados one... i'm sure i'm forgetting some... but, yeah, really cool...
It seems like you put a lot of time into these. Thank you.
I love those shirts!!!! LOL At the run forest run and then breast feeding hat.
And the comments in that Harry Potter Sucks post are hilarious too!
wtf, 94% match? dude. you'd better strike while the coat hanger is hot.
@roscoes_farm - yeah and that is when he can be at his best
@Peridot21 - glad you like that one. I used to love my LEGOs. I only had military ones, mostly olive green, brown, and black pieces. I re-enacted episodes of MASH.
@sleekpeek - thanks, sometimes i wonder why I do these but as long as two people get enjoyment out of them then I'll keep posting them
@spinner_mom - you should totally make hats like that
@complicatedlight - I actually am afraid I'll end up in a jar
The breast feeding picture reminded me that I heard on the radio that a couple of women (one from canada) had gone to facebook headquarters to protest their stand on breast feeding pictures on their sites. I'm not sure what they do if they take them down when posted or not.
@LadyofWaters - it's pretty interesting how nudity is starting to creep into Facebook. I remember a year or so ago a guy from my high school decided to upload an album of photos of his penis. Well they got taken down within a couple days. Well he decides he's going to upload them again around Christmas time. They are still up. I also had someone in my feed post porn and well it's still up. Facebook is getting weird. They allow porn but not breastfeeding.
awww. 8 bit dynamic lifeshirts. heh.
Speaking of dirty funny names, I recently came upon (okay, perhaps poor choice of words) a tomato called Dana's Dusky Rose. Apparently this name doesn't make any of the tomato forum people giggle. I worry for the tomato forum people.
@distractedbyzombies - you know you are going to get those shirts
That reminds me, I should repost something I did about funny high school team names. That sounds like a town where I lived in MN that had a Chinese restaurant called Mei Dong Garden. I giggled every time I heard the name. People looked at me like I was insane.
I loved the irony in the Scott Walker pic.
@godfatherofgreenbay - BAHAHAHAHA! Mei Dong Garden. BAHAHAHAHA!
@godfatherofgreenbay - ...aaaand more chocolate, oh no! (tries to focus... )
MASH, huh? good idea... why'd you only have military LEGOs? just liked them the best-est?
@curiousdwk - yeah that one made me laugh pretty hard
@distractedbyzombies - The worst was when I was listening to people talk about it and of course they always dropped the "Garden". It was like I was living in an Abbott and Costello skit. "I love Mei Dong." "Yes, Mei Dong is quite delicious." "Oh I hear you talk about about Mei Dong, where is it located." "Downtown." "My mouth is watering for Mei Dong." The sad thing is, I've heard all of that.
@Peridot21 - Oh I have to quit teasing you. I hope you get your chocolate allotment this week.
Well I was pretty big into collecting military stuff and G.I. Joes when I was a kid so my parents got me LEGOs like that just to fit in with my motif. I also used my G.I. Joes to re-enact MASH and other war movies. Then as I got a little older I'd make my own "plays" and have them acted out by my toys. I was a weird kid.
I really liked the lego albums too
@TheGiantSlayer - it's so much fun and it's almost like anyone can make those
@godfatherofgreenbay - yeah, you really should!
Run, Forest, Run. hahahahahohohohohehehehehe. heh.
The USB thing is interesting . . . passing the link onto a friend.
@RestlessButterfly - glad you enjoyed
@Peridot21 - OK, I'll stop teasing you when the Grammy Awards are based on talent and not popularity.
@adventofreason - glad you liked those, I would totally do that if I knew how to work with electricity
@godfatherofgreenbay - ok, good...... heyyy, wait a minute...
@Peridot21 - well lucky for you last night the Grammys were won by Adele and that was based on her talent so I have a little restored faith in music and will cease the teasing.