Bruce Campbell is awesome, Bruce Campbell’s character Sam poking a bit of humor at CSI: Miami is epic. Check out this video from last nights’ Burn Notice (the best show on TV!)
Posts Tagged ‘funny stuff’
Hey it’s that time again! The links of the world, link or rama, link a dink a ding dong. Yeah that wasn’t really funny. So the last couple weeks were pretty busy. On February 14th, my parents celebrates their 40th wedding anniversary, and impressive accomplishment in todays world. Both Kelly’s parents and mine, are great role models to have. Talking about Kelly and I, we celebrated Valentine’s day with dinner at Mr. Stox in Anaheim and then a night time trip to Disneyland. Dinner was really good, I had their blue crab cakes and Kelly had the filet of steak. This weekend we are going to our friend Sean and Amber’s for their daughters 1st birthday party, we haven’t seen them for awhile so that should be fun. So that’s the update, now on to the links! Oh wait one last thing, CONGRATS TO DREW BREES!
Food Stuff
For Super Bowl we had a small party with our parents coming over to watch the game with us, I wanted to try and cook buffalo wings, but wasn’t at all in the mood for frying them up, I found this awesome recipe two days before the game for cooking up crunchy buffalo like wings in the oven from Serious Eats, you owe it to yourself to cook them this way! I also found this cool site that reviews all the interesting snack foods out there called Taquitos.net, they have everything from national brands to regional favorites. Lastly if you are the type of person that is interested in trying your hand at brewing your own beer check out this quick blurb on Lifehacker about two free open source programs that will help you with your goal.
Music Stuff
I haven’t had much music stuff lately, but I had to share this awesome project that Michael Deal is working on that is a graphical exploration into the Beatles and the creation of their music. This is a project and any true Beatles fan will want to check out.
Sad Stuff
For those that don’t know the Mars rover Spirit is stuck and can no longer move, so they have pretty much pulled the plug on the project, xkcd has a sad comic to show us that rovers have feelings too.
Funny Stuff
If you are a friend of mine on Facebook you might have already seen this, but if not, check out this graphic on How to Suck at Facebook. I’m proud to say I don’t do any of those things listed, so I must not suck. If you saw the Google commercial during the Super Bowl (which was my favorite ad) you saw a clever use of their auto complete feature, the site Autocomplete Me turns the auto complete feature into a interesting look at what people search for on Google.
The Lego Millennium Falcon!
Cool Stuff
I just found this today but I wanted to pass it on, someone has taken the initiative to educate today’s men on what they need in their wardrobe, with Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown Men. It really is a good group of tips and suggestions on how to look your best. Wardrobe Oxygen takes it a step further, but I have to disagree with some their what to remove from your wardrobe section. I’ve been wanting to get some Lego sets recently to put together for fun and I was checking out the online Lego store, they have a $499 Star Wars Millennium Falcon, a little more than I want to spend (it is 5000+ pieces though)… I’ve seen a couple places recently selling recycled bottles that have had their tops cut off so you can use them as glasses, here is someone that decided they could just make them instead. Check out this great article on the 19 Most Complex and Dangerous road in the world, I’ve seen some of these on Top Gear, the Road of Death in Bolivia looks like a bitch. If you know me you know that Kelly and I met online, so I find the research that OkCupid is doing on their dating site is extraordinary, they recently wrote an article about profile pictures, and I highly suggest anyone that is doing any sort of online dating read their articles, they will help you make a better personal ad. Example, Men: don’t make eye contact and don’t smile, Women: make eye contact and a flirty face. And the last of the cool stuff, this blog post regarding the changes to the Crayola color spectrum throughout the years.
Not Cool Sports Stuff
The Chicago Cubs have thought up an complete asshole plan, they are going to charge a 20% premium on those that purchase tickets the 1st week they are on sale, and then after that they will be the normal face value. Talk about scalping your customers. I hope we don’t see this become a trend. (edit, this is nothing new they have been doing it for 8 years.)
Cool Videos
Some geeks have figured out an awesome use for Microsoft’s surface, Dungeons and Dragons!
D&D on the Microsoft Surface from CrunchGear on Vimeo.
Hot Tub Time Machine will be the movie event of the year!
Someone has edited all the violence from the 2010 Super Bowl commercials into one epic Youtube video.
And last but not least does this sound familiar?
Something I found funny and want to share…
I recently took advice, and was able to learn from the advice, and this is excellent advice. I gave over 50 other advices using similar methods over the course of the last four months, and have continued to do it for the next two months. The keys:
- Ensure your first sentence is bolded. There is nothing more annoying than having to read a whole paragraph, we could simply read the first sentence. Making it bold makes it stickier in your brain, and will increase the adviceiness of your advice. When in doubt, also use italics.
- Be sure to use a numbered list. If you give a list in paragraph form, it carries far less authority. People like numbers when they are receiving advice. Numbers mean accuracy. Numbers mean conciseness. Be sure to give things in numbers.
- Make one short. At least one of your pieces of advice should be one sentence.
- MAKE ONE IN CAPITALS. Make at least one piece of your advice in capital letters. However, do not fall into the trap of making this piece of advice your one sentence piece of advice, because no one likes a piece of advice, which is both short and capitalized. There should be more than one sentence.
- Adding a colon: is an invitation to have the reader jumping to your list further. Though it is nice to have things in bold, coupled with the trailing colon makes you wonder just what exactly might be after that colon.
- End on a feel-good. The ideal feel-good is elusive: you want something that is attainable, but is also a bit of a reprimand. Try things like “you can do this: but you will need to try very hard.” Or, “this will work for you-though at first I didn’t think it would work, it ended up working for me. Believe in yourself.”
Here is my pick for the Super Bowl.
GO DREW BREES! GO SAINTS!
Peyton has nothing even close to as good as this.
- Anne Hathaway via last.fm
Ok, this one is really short, since I’m just tying up loose ends and finishing on the cool links.
Chicks Stuff
What is a blog post without me commenting on the current crop of hotties in the AskMen.com Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2010? You don’t need to answer that question, but here are my thoughts.
#97 Sasha Grey one of the best looking adult stars around.
#96 Diora Baird something looks wrong with her face…
#89 Denise Milani hello whoever you are.
#88 Angelina Jolie still don’t think she’s that great looking.
#86 Kristen Wiig Really? She’s pretty, but really?
#82 Jessica Simpson *scratches head*
#81 Whitnet Port who and why?
#79 Anna Paquin more please!
#76 Kristen Bell has such a pretty face.
#74 Eva Longoria one of my favorite “Latinas”.
#71 Sophie Monk looks like plastic face.
#70 Tricia Helfer it’s amazing the range of looks she has, she always looks different.
#61 Anne Hathaway she should be higher!
#58 Christina Hendricks and her golden globes (sorry I had to do the joke again…)
#53 Emily BluntJohn Krasinski has good taste.
#51 Taylor Swift she’s cute but there is something weird-looking about her.
#44 Emily Scott are those real?
#42 Kim Kardashian say whatever you want, but you can’t say she’s not hot.
#40 Zooey Deschanel super cute.
#37 Giada De Laurentiis I’m just including this one for Kelly.
#34 Salma Hayek still reins in my top 10!
#28 Heidi Klum there is something about Heidi that always makes me smile when I see her. She’s just an all around cool woman.
#27 Jessica Biel taking place of my Julia Roberts obsession of women with big mouths.
#24 Adriana Lima I know she’s pretty, but she doesn’t do much for me.
#23 Scarlett Johansson Scarlett, my lovely Scarlett…
#22 Keeley Hazell not really known stateside, but she’s the looker.
#21 Kristen Stewart WHY? She always looks like a drugged out whore…
#18 January Jones she’s only the 3rd of 4th best looking woman on Mad Men…
#17 Natalie Portman she’s starting to lose it to me.
#16 Kelly Brook another UK girl, that’s not really known in the states. She’s sort of losing it too.
#15 Erin Andrews eh.
#12 Gisele Bundchen another beautiful woman who just doesn’t do it for me.
#11 Megan Fox she isn’t as hot as the Interwebs thinks she is.
#10 Miranda Kerr I say yes.
#9 Eva Mendes still a gem.
#8 Cheryl Cole it’s another girl from the UK, bring them on!
#6 Beyonce no.
#5 Jessica Alba hell yeah.
#Alessandra Ambrosio one of the best looking VS models of all time.
#3 Kate Beckinsale now we are talking!
#2 Marisa Miller BUZZ! Wrong!
#1 Emmanuelle Chriqui she’s up there, but I’m not sure I would pick her #1.
Video Stuff
This one is for my wife.
Wow, here we are already nearly three weeks into the new year and I haven’t graced you all with the inaugural 2010 Weekly Cool Links. I’d like to apologize to you, my fans and ask for your forgiveness! But really, I had more important things to do the last couple weeks. Like celebrate my birthday and take a vacation from work. Kelly and I also celebrated our 5 year anniversary of meeting, last night. We were going to go to dinner but due to the weather we stayed in and ordered delivery from the Chinese restaurant around the corner from our house. After the weather cleared up we headed to the Starbucks at the circle in Orange (Orange Plaza) and had some coffee, just like we did 5 years ago when it was Diedrich Coffee. Let me see if I can remember what else has happened the past month.
My new bike.
We celebrated Christmas at home, having two family Christmas parties, you might have seen the pictures from my previous post. For Christmas Kelly got me and awesome bag for me to use for work, along with some cooking books I really wanted, a circular saw, and some clothing. It was a really awesome Christmas. For my birthday I got a new bike.
Raised vegetable bed.
Kelly and I used my new saw and build two raised beds for our vegetable garden this year. We’ve already planted some onions, and are waiting for March to add the tomatoes and peppers I get at the annual sale that Fullerton College has. That just about wraps up most of the things we have done the past month. So I guess it’s time for the Weekly Cool Links! Just an FYI, there is a lot of stuff to share this week, so I’m going to do something different and break this up into a couple posts the new couple days.
Cool Stuff
Lifehacker put together a kick ass table of when is the Best Time to Buy Anything, from Homes in the winter (hey that’s what we did!) to Jeans in October, it’s a great list for those that are looking for when the best deals normally are. You say you aren’t interested in buying anything, well how about these not so cool porn ideas (safe for work), don’t miss “The Making of You” staring Mommy and Daddy with special guest Uncle Bill… I was going to post a bunch of “best of 2009″ links, but this guy did all the work for me, so I’ll just link to him. I was hoping I would be on the 30 best blogs of 2009, but I guess I’ll have to wait for the 2010 list. Continuing with the theme of lists, Gizmodo posted their list of the worst gadgets from the past decade, a lot fo great ideas but they just ended up sucking.
Cool Advertising
I have some American Apparel shirts (well they are shirts from places that print their shirts on AAs) and I’ve always been fascinated with their unique marketing strategy, from using porn stars to having androgynous looking models, they cover it all, which is why this collection of their hottest ads (possibly not safe for work, but nothing graphic) is included here.
Cool Food
One of the books Kelly got me (and my brother in law Dominic) was the 1st volume of the Good Eats books, by Alton Brown, I’ve loved reading the book and wanted to share this great Good Eats fan site (it’s poorly designed but still a great resource). Talking about food, Lifehacker shared this article of Six Kitchen Skills You Can Pick Up This Weekend.
Cool TV
Chuck and 24 started up last week, Burn Notice starts tonight, and someone is selling a barely used late night show… By the way even though I don’t watch much late night, I with Coco.
Cool Sports
The Hall of Very Good has some great stuff about good baseball players, that aren’t quite Hall of Famers, or shouldn’t be Hall of Famers. I liked the guy, but Eric Karros should not have receive 2 votes for the Hall of Fame.
Cool Videos
I know he’s gone, but his trip to Seattle was delayed because of an annoying USC fan. (I’ll miss you Pete!).
The Unaired 1994 Pilot of 24!
This reminds me of calls I get sometimes when Kelly is having an issue with the computer at home… ;)
All these guys are trying to do is be Helpful!
Stay tuned for Weekly Cool Links #21.2 tomorrow!
Actress Christina Hendricks
Oh yeah the Golden Globes were the past weekend, and according to the Internet these were the only globes being talked about…