From the UNR road trip, 1998:
- We don’t blow.
- We know how to use our sticks.
- It’s good to be right… always.
- We don’t lick our wood or tongue our holes.
- We have good hands.
- It’s all about tempo control.
- We like it loud, fast, and hard.
- We can perform without lube.
- We get head daily.
- Our sticks come in pairs.
Tags: drums, funny, mustang band, top 10
Step 1: park your 1993 BMW in a snow bank.
Step 2: allow snowfall to accumulate for approx. 1.5 weeks.
Step 3: when ambient temperature is 15°F, brush snow off car. Observe the quarter-inch coating of ice under the snow.
Step 4: observe how the quarter-inch coating of ice laughs at your ice scraper.
Step 5a: the best way to increase visibility when the windshield is obstructed is to roll down your window.
Step 5b: attempt to roll down your window for increased visibility. Remember the car has the coveted “express-down” feature.
Step 6: observe loud scraping, popping, and crunching noises emanating from door. Observe smoke emanating from door.
Step 7: observe that window has not moved.
Step 8 (optional): drive car south until ambient temperature rises to 45°F. Observe how window falls into door.
Step 9 (optional): part with $329.
Update: By “park in a snow bank”, I really mean “leave in snow bank once car becomes stuck”.
I took a break from blogging for a while, mostly to keep my head from exploding during the election. I’m sure my thousands (dozens? anyone?) of readers were sorely disappointed. Or maybe not. I’ve even considered taking my blog offline once the current domain registration expires. However, I’ve decided to renew, and will start blogging again.
There’s going to be some changes. First, I’ve switched to the Blue Grace/Amazing Grace theme by Vladimir Prelovac. It’s attractive without being overly-garish, so we’ll see how it goes. Second, I’m going to go through old posts, and I fully expect to send some of them down the memory hole. Even I say something stupid occasionally. Third, I expect to simplify categories and tags, as I currently have a lot of overlap between the two. Fourth, I’m not sure, but I’ll probably think of something.
Tags: Website
Okay, I’ve become annoyed enough that it’s time to simplify this blog.
The first to go: WPG2. I hardly knew you, but while I did, you were nothing but a pain in the ass. Good bye.
I haven’t decided about the K2 theme yet. There’s potential here — if it’s ever finished. Moreover, changing something as simple as the headline font requires hacking around in CSS. While some people love that stuff, I can think of other things I’d rather do, like stick my hand in a fan.
But what would I replace K2 with? I thought about going back to blog.txt, but it doesn’t render tag clouds correctly. And, 95% of all other themes out either have garish colors, cutesy graphics, or are just plain ugly. So, my search continues.
Here’s a serious story with an unfortunate headline:
France plans revolution in space
By Matt McGrath
BBC science correspondent
I’m sorry, but I just can’t help but imagine zero-G guillotines.
Tags: funny
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- 2Fort dispenser
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- Dustbowl vista
Fortunately, switching out of TF2 long enough to save the screenshot seemed to resolve the problem, at least temporarily — the break gave the video card a chance to cool down.
Tags: TF2 glitch
Anti-Obama blogs locked on Blogger:
I spoke to several of the bloggers who had accounts locked and every single one was convinced that it was Obama supporters who had flagged the blogs in some kind of concerted effort to silence them. But when I asked for specific evidence of this, most simply pointed out that only anti-Obama blogs were targeted — a fact that is certainly suspicious but not especially conclusive.
Not all members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy are exactly unimpeachable, but this kind of chicanery seems more prevalent among the Left.
Tags: censorship, Politics, stupidity