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Weekly Cool Links #10 – 07.10.09 – Rowlf the Dog

By DanGarion on July 10, 2009

So I’ve been away for two weeks… I’d ask if you missed me, but no one reads this anyway (just kidding). We had a party at our house for the 4th of July and had a ton of fun. I hope everyone that attended had a good time. It was cool seeing so many people and showing them our house. Can’t wait for the next one! Well except for all the work getting ready for it. We got a dog on Monday! His name was Buster, but since we already had a Buster the Cat, his name is now officially Rowlf, as in Rowlf the Dog from The Muppets Show! He’s really sweet, and already fully trained, and quickly becoming a part of our family, as long as he doesn’t eat one of the cats! Nothing else happened that last two weeks, at least nothing I can think of…. Oh wait Michael Jackson Died… Of course I actually felt worse about Billy Mays dying, especially after enjoying watching the show Pitchmen, very sad to see him go, he seemed like a stand up guy. And now on to the links, because there are lots…

Sports
The USC Football 2009 Media Guide is OUT! And you can go and print out your own copy for freeeeeeeee! I expect everyone that I know personally to carry their copy with them at all times and to show me it when I ask for it.

Music
I don’t know how current these album covers are from Russia, but wow those are quality with a capital T. Is that Pete Townshend?

Movies
For those of you closely following my blog you may remember me mentioning RunPee about a month ago. Well RunPee has created the #1 reason why anyone should get an iPhone, the RunPee application! Now you can quickly check when is the best time to pee while out at the movies!

TV
Tonight (July 10th) one of my favorite TV Shows returns, with the final 10 episodes of Eureka on the newly renamed SyFy (SciFi Channel). If you haven’t checked it out, you really need to, the show is quirky and fun. Or if that is too mellow for you, how about purchasing some of the newest porn from Hustler (link is safe for work)? TV shows remade into Porn movies! Such as This Ain’t Star Trek XXX and Not Three’s Company XXX. I’ve purchased a box set of all volumes… Ok I haven’t really, but it’s still funny.

Fun
The internet was made for fun, but before the internet there were other fun things (many of which still exist) such as Dungeons and Dragons, Satan’s game! Oh wait, no it’s not Satan’s game, it’s just a freaking board game with imagination, but anyway, did you know that playing Dungeon’s and Dragons actually is a great tool for learning things about business? I have to agree, just as I agree with those articles that say playing Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games get people ready for real world scenarios. And let’s continue with the theme of lists of 10 with a top 10 list of things NOT to buy with your credit card. Credit card companies don’t just deal with numbers, they also write up psychological profiles based upon the purchased you make, and these items bring up the red flags (don’t worry I boought my boxed set via Paypal!). I see you a top 10 list and raise you to the 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads of All Time (I’ve included my favorite to the right).

Tech
This is usually my favorite section, since I’m a big tech geek. The biggest tech news of the week has to be Google’s official announcement that they are working on a Google Chrome Operating System, it’s about time they actually just came out an admitted to it, after a couple years of speculation. For those of you tech support people, the guys at Support Details might help your job be a little easier, with their website attempts to auto detects settings on a customer’s computer. Some of you might have noticed that I have a Twitter account (and you can follow me and the posts here there!) well I present to you the Twitter 10 Commandements. Yeah I know I do 1 or 2 of those (such as Auto-Tweet). Oh and last but not least Google Voice now lets users change their phone number that they originally got randomly from Grand Central, you even get to try and make a customer #, I was able to get us a phone number close to our home number. We are going to start using the Google Voice number when we give out our number to people.

And lastly I present some of the best videos I’ve found on the Internet the past 2 weeks.

Very neat video by a Japanese band that must a been a bitch to produce and direct.

Can you flush a whole roll of toilet paper down a airplane toilet?

What watch he does to get the top button of his shirt snapped, that’s awesome!

Which to you prefer, the A Hole or the B Hole?

Weekly Cool Links #8 – 06.12.2009 – Analog TV is Dead Edition!

By DanGarion on June 12, 2009

: Cover of Forrest Gump [Region 2]

So analog TV is dead, long live digital TV! Not much new this week for us. I’ve started going for walks at night, up to 6 miles so far this week, hoping for 10 by the end of the week. I haven’t started the 100 pushup challenge since no one told me to. But maybe I’ll start it this week. Our friends Sean and Amber came over with their baby Jade, we had a really great time watching the Laker game. I cooked chicken and steak kabobs with red onion, green bell peppers, and some of our tomatoes. The kabobs tasted great thanks to my olive oil and garlic mix that I baste them with while I’m cooking (along with some salt and pepper). The bathroom is coming along, the huge tub is in and all the walls are up, tile should be getting done next week. I’ll post some pictures this weekend of how things are coming along.

And now it’s time for my weekly cool links, 3 WEEKS IN A ROW! I’m on a roll!

If you cook like we do and you like a variety of sauces and condiments, you might want to check out the Table of Condiments, it shows you when it’s best to throw out things that have been sitting in your fridge. Talking about food check out these pictures of school lunches around the world. Talking about lunch I “brown bag” it 4 out of the 5 days of the week when I’m going ot work, so I’m going to take some of these tips at Lifehacker on ways to make it more appealing (I already have been doing some of them). I find that cooking more meals for dinner help make lunches for appealing since you get more variety instead of just a sandwich. In addition I want to get some nice lunchbox ware to take my lunches in so I’m going to look around the To-Go Ware website and find something that fits my needs, probably something like a tiffen.

There is lots of new tech coming out, iPhone 3GS, Windows 7, Google Wave, etc, and Lifehacker has put together a article explaining it all.

Wow that’s it, that’s all I have this week that probably interests anyone, I have some other links I kept for myself but nothing really that I think is that interesting.

But before you go, FlickChart has opened up their beta to the public and I’ve been rating movies (over 700 so far). Here is my All-Time Top 20 according to the rankings (it’s pretty close but not perfect IMO).

Your Top 20
Of All Time

Some of them are there just because they haven’t gone up against movies I like a lot more yet, so the rankings are a bit of luck, even if you’ve ranked movies over 900 times.

And then lastly I leave you with an infomercial gone wrong…

What are these advantages of being a big guy that the big guy speaks of?

Weekly Cool Links #7 – 06.05.09 Edition

By DanGarion on June 5, 2009

Another week in the can, and I’m actually doing my weekly cool links two Fridays in a ROW!!!! Not much new on the personal front, was busy at work this week doing a new class, was enjoyable the first run but because of the content was a bit monotonous the second time through it, oh well that’s the nature of the beast when you are a trainer. The bathroom is coming along, most of the drywall is up and the plumbing is all in, next week should see some real visible work completed and I’ll post more pictures. The tomatoes are starting to ripen, so that’s progress! Now on to the links!

This week I’m starting with all the technical stuff. Windows 7 launch looks to be happening on Oct. 23rd. Really looking forward to 7 especially now that they appear to be doing an upgrade program, according to this article on Engadget you will be able to get upgrade copies of Windows 7 for $50-100 bucks! Now just to decide if I want to go to 64bit or stay with 32bit! How about a search engine just for software and games? That’s what Wakoopa is. They can even recommend the best apps by looking at your daily usage and you can share your application usage with friends! Do you use WordPress, just like me? Well CSSJockey has came out with some new free themes that look to be more then just another theme, imagination. Are you the type of person that wants to try to fix your tech gadgets or even take them apart and see what makes them tick? Then iFixit’s Gadget Teardowns just migth be what you are looking for to figure it all out.

Ok on to the less technical, if you’d like to install some of the best free software out there onto your computer, take a look at the Lifehacker Pack 2009, which is a pretty good guide of free Windows downloads for both you and family members. I have a close knit 7 or 8 websites I look at daily but sometimes I’m looking for more of what I already like, that’s when something like SimilarSites can prove to be very useful, unfortunately DanGarion.com and EatinOC.com aren’t popular enough to have sites they could recommend as similar, but Lifehacker does. Another specific search engine to check out is BMLet.com which is a bookmarklet directory, fills a need I suppose.

I got another link for us movie lovers, Flickchart lets you rank the best movies of all time, I’m waiting for my invite to check it out, but it looks promising, basically it make you have to choose between movies instead of just giving them ranks.

Don’t really have much in the “fun” department this week when it comes to links, but I’m sure the Tiny Toons episode below will entertain you. This episode actually was on TV at least once because I remember seeing it, but probably not the best way to teach kids not to drink, especially considering the broad audience of this show at the time.

Here is another awesome video that was shown at E3 of the soon to be released Rock Band: Beatles, looks like I’ll be playing and singing a bunch of Beatle’s once it’s released!

Here is a pretty cool and funny one, Will Ferrell has come out with a sun screen line, that 100% of the proceeds go to Cancer for College charity.

You Can Look This Good!

But in order to really look that good you got to be in good shape, and as of right now I’m in a shape, but it’s the shape of round, so I’m contemplating trying one of those goofy challenges that have been so popular on the Internet. The One Hundred Push Ups challenge… Then maybe I’ll do the 5k/3Mile challenge, I don’t know, whatever I’m going to do I need to track it somewhere and I need some encouragement to get my fat ass in shape. So post here and tell me to get my fat ass in shape!

And last, but definitely not least, I’d like to share with you my lovely readers Coed Magazines 52 Best Natural Breasts of All-Time, you heard that right one for every week of the year. Personally I feel that #4 got short changed and should be #1, and #40, but that’s just me. Tell me who you think got short changed!

Weekly Cool Links #6 – 05.29.09 edition

By DanGarion on May 29, 2009

: Image via Wikipedia

This is the “I no longer have strep throat” edition! Man last week sucked, I came down with strep on Tuesday the 19th and that basically ruined the week and my holiday weekend. But I’m feeling better now. Our master bathroom is going through renovations which started on Tuesday the 26th we are using a contractor that Kelly knows through her business really nice guy and I highly recommend him, TL Dunnam Construction. Other then that not much happened the past two weeks, so on to the very light cool links!

Movie Stinger will tell you if you might want to stay after the credits of a movie, they notify you of post credit scenes! Didn’t know there was a end scene in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, too bad the movie sucked. Talking about movies this one is perfect for both my friend Sean and Mike, Run Pee tells you when the best time is to go run and pee during a movie, such as during the awesome Star Trek, there is a 3 minute window 50 minutes into the movie that they suggest as a good pee break and it even tells you what you’ll miss! ShowRSS will help you get your TV Torrent fix, since it will help automate your torrent download process.

Here are a couple food links, with summer coming around I’m sure everyone is interested in ways to help them grill better, I know I sure am! The first one I have is from Lifehacker, Top 10 Skills to Master your Grill, then to follow that up how about 9 Affordable Cuts of Steak and how Grill Them! Maybe you are more into grilling a whole chicken well then make sure you know the about twisting the leg and pressing the breast to check doneness. And if you’d rather do your cooking inside check out the Simple Dollars tips on the Flexible Casserole Recipe, who knew it was that simple!

And then lastly from Amazon for the person that has everything, I bet you they don’t have a JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank!

Have a great weekend. Please comment if you are enjoying this and also send me your links!

The New Star Trek Film Was Awesome!

By DanGarion on May 14, 2009

But some people disagree. Here is the ONN with a special report!

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’

Weekly Cool Links #4 – 05.01.09 edition

By DanGarion on May 1, 2009

Wow, talk about a cool links week. I got so much stuff to share it’s going to take me all night to write this post! First off let’s start with my picture of the week.

Space Shuttle - 747 Mount

So it was a really busy week for links I added a new tool to assist me in collecting everything I want to share. Hopefully someone is reading this and finding something worthwhile, other then my wife Kelly (hi sweetie).

They have found what was killing off honey bees! Very cool that they have found the cause and the cure for the honey bee population, this is a very big deal. Bees might scare people but they are very important to our lives and the ecosystem. I haven’t used this yet since I haven’t gone on a trip recently but if you need help packing you might want to check out Packwhiz, which helps you figure out what to take for the type and length of trip.

If you use Netflix to get your movie fix like we do then check out FeedFlix which will aggregate all your NetFlix data and tell you how much you really are paying for that 3 movie subscription that you only use 2-3 times a month! Just check out mine, we slacked for a number of months because of our move so now it’s time to play catch up. I found out about Feedflix via Leo Leporte at TWiT.

If you are into Twitter, then check out Tweeting Too Hard, a website all about people that appear to be trying to hard on their Twittering (hopefully I’m not on there!), I suggest you check out the All-time Top. I found this link courtesy of Net@Night one of my favorite podcasts to listen to.

Let’s check out some sports stuff from around the internet. The tennis community is all a buzz about a girl that might end up being the next Anna Kournikova, her name is Simona Halep and you can be the judge if she might be the next big bust in tennis. As my close friends can tell you I’ve never really thought Anna was all that the majority of the sports community (read: men) tried to push. There are two new baseball games to check out from the internet, first one is the Massive Multiplayer Online – MMobsaeball, you can play it right through your browser and basically all you do is train your player and the website does the rest. It’s gone through some major growing pains since it’s beta launch 2 days ago, so expect more until they work those out. The next baseball game is Perfect Game 2009, brought to you from the home of text baseball Germany! I don’t know what it is but those Germans love to make baseball simulation games. Lastly if you didn’t get the press release the Lingerie Football League is a GO and kickoff is slated for 09.04.09! Now to just figure out what team I like the most…

Lingerie Football League

A couple tech things I read this week. Windows 7 will have a Virtual Windows XP mode, there was some talk that users would have to have a copy of XP for it to work but that has been denied. This will be a big push to get companies to move up to 7 I think, looking forward to the release (although I have been a big fan of Vista, haven’t had any issues). Talking about Windows, ReactOS which is a operating system built from the ground up to be like Windows but also be open source has reached a milestone with the .3.9 release.

I also have a question to anyone that is still out there reading this, what recent PC game should I buy? I see that Steam has Left 4 Dead priced at only $24 bucks this week and I’m wondering if I should get that or something else like Demigod (the Maximum PC guys have been talking about that on their podcast).

And lastly, videos of the week! I have three to share but only one I will actually post here on the site. The Hunt for Gollum is a Tolkien fan production that looks like it might be pretty good once completed. Check out how huge memory was back in the 50′s with this video of Mercury Delay Line Memory. And lastly I leave you with the funniest thing I’ve watched all week from the Fine Brothers it’s a Lost parody that they make with action figures!

Have a great weekend! I’m on vacation next week so I’m not sure if I will have much to share, but I’ll see what I come up with!

Have a Great Weekend

By DanGarion on December 12, 2008

Nice little edit of some of the best movie speeches of all time.

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