Time Traveler Gets Caught!

Wow!

I can't say anything else. Wow. Just read it. Please. You will lose your socks.

Article Regarding Salam

I found this article to be pretty good regarding "Salam Pax", the Iraqi blogger. It's quite in-depth and gives a great deal of background on his past posts, etc.

I'm still totally addicted to The Command Post. It really is the most comprehensive news coverageand their coverage of both the news of the war and the opinions regarding it are expansive beyond the imagination.

I also keep my handy-dandy "AutoRefresh for IE" running on this page and check it on-and-off throughout the day and night while I'm doing other stuff... I also keep FeedReader, my RSS news aggregator running constantly. (If you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, read Dave Winer's informative peice "What is a News Aggregator?" I'm relatively new to RSS myself, but I have found it to be - hands down - the coolest Internet feature I've discovered in years.

I'm a reader more than a watcher of news... Some people can spend hours watching CNN or FoxNews. I prefer the web for its (usually) "unfiltered" and customizable style. I get emotionally worn down watching CNN, especially thinking about the people that I know and love who are currently in the Persian Gulf, but my mind gets cranking instead of my heart when I'm reading well-written stuff.

(And of course, in addition to my Command Post, FeedReader, Daypop, and Popdex addictions, I check Daypop and Popdex throughout the day for the most linked to and the most looked at news and blog articles.) At least I can't be faulted for not being "up" on current events, right?

And speaking of Daypop... through a link there came this article. My response: Is this guy on crack or what?

Ryan = 2 Late 2 B Rad

Poor Ry... He had a great idea. He was going to sell Rad T-Shirts... but somebody beat him to it with a similar design. But don't worry, loyal fans, Ryan reports that he has pre-sold 8 shirts and, Ryan added quickly, he "knows other people who will buy them." Plus, he registered a web site! It's not up yet, but it's going to be the best!! Woo! RADTSHIRTS.com is on its way, world! And the world will soon be knocking down Ryan's door for these Amazing Rad T-Shirts, which are way better than these other guys. One of his competitor's T-Shirts is kind of cute, though, in a dorky sort of way. Ryan wishes his competition only the best of luck. "I'm going to beat the holy stinking living crap out of those guys," Ryan said in a recent interview. "ebay? Ha! I'm taking these straight RETAIL!" He also added, "they best be not stepping up on these shirts, dog." Here is Ryan's shirt along with its (fierce) competition. Please excuse the horrible grammar and confusion of this post as I was laughing so hard while writing it that I now have the hiccups.

Competitor #1

Competitor #2

Ryan's Cute Girly Version

GW2 articles regarding Al-Jazeera TV

Analysis: How allies are winning on ground, Iraqis on TV Close to something that Newsweek predicted before the war.

Images of death, violence shock Arabs: "Fifteen-year-old Mohammed Abbas, said that if he will ever see an American in Bahrain, he will personally attack him. 'It is my right to do so. If they can attack Iraqis and kill them for no reason, then I can do the same.'" --- Yikes! Score one for the camp that argues this war will equip and not disarm terrorists of the future.

As a side note, do not visit Al-Jazeera's site. You will be mortified and sickened. I was going there through a partial arabic translation service to get additional news coverage... until this morning, when I stumbled upon the most horrific images I've ever seen in my life. My take on showing the horror of war on TV? Don't. Everyone in the world knows that war is horrible. Everyone knows that innocent people are killed in war. Everyone knows that this war - just like all wars - should end as soon as possible, whether the war is "wrong" or "right". Why would we need to see the kinds of things that traumatize soldiers for years? Yes, it's free speech... but free speech should be combined with responsible journalism and photographers should give the victims the dignity they deserve.

Snausage Links

The Command Post says it "makes CNN look like the school newspaper." (Not sure about that tag-line, but it's still a pretty good war news site very regularly updated). So is The Agonist.

A lot like Daypop, only it's Popdex -- not as fully-featured as Daypop, but I think it has a more complete listing of popular links and it has a bit better layout. Or check out their war-only site.

A good rebate/sale blog with some good deals at More Stuff 4 Less! ... If only they wouldn't turn numbers into words.

Wow! I can draw! And it's not even in Paint!

And... holy stinking crap! It's Zelda... in Flash!

Salam is back!

For those of you who have noticed that Salam disappeared the morning of the start of the "Shock and Awe" bombing campaign, he's back! Check it out here.

Seriously Dumb Captions

"Q: How do you turn 3 elephants into 6 upside-down elephants? A: I don't know. Ask the palm trees."

"The palm tree family decides to trade their three new elephants in for some older models."

"Mike, Bob, and Larry showed up only to discover that the party had started without them. So, they took their palm trees and went home."

"The center throws a vicious lead block, allowing the palm tree to cleanly split through the secondary."

"The six 'cool' elephants were rolling on the ground laughing when the geeks showed up with their OWN palm trees. One was overheard saying between laughs, 'Guys! They actually thought that you were supposed to BRING your own palm trees! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'"

"The changing of the guard at the elephant napping grounds."

"The elephant squadron pretends to be asleep in order to attempt to avoid detection by the armored palm tree unit."

"This is what happens when you try to sneak palm trees into the elephants-only club. Twice."

Okay, that's all I got for now... yeah.

mathcaddy.com email, anyone?

Anyone want a sweet @mathcaddy.com email address? It will forward it to your current email address. You can keep it *forever* ... or until I forget to pay for the site. I've got 4 left. Who wants one? Email me and be the first second to have a sweet "mathcaddy.com" email.

Optimus Prime in the National Guard??

No, really. He is. Look.

"Uh... Elephants? Are you okay, elephants?"

Here it is: mathcaddy.com's first "Funny Caption" contest. (With apologies/thanks to Dan for the idea.) I need a caption. Someone gimme a funny caption!

I have two so far...

Elementary Math Teacher: "Children, what do you get when you have three elephants and two palm trees and you add an arrow? Yes, Bobby?"
Bobby: "Um, six dead elephants?"
Teacher: "No, stupid. That's wrong. But it makes for a nice picture, doesn't it?"

"This is 22nd Elephant Infantry: We have six down elephants. Repeat: six down... requesting MedEvac unit and, um, other special military wordsies and thingsies."

Where is Raed?

If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, you should peek at "Where is Raed?" It's been climbing on Daypop.com's links for the last few days... It's much more interesting to hear the perspective of a guy waiting for the sky to rain bombs on the city he lives than to watch CNN's random crap cameras showing unintelligible explosions. If it's for real (and it sure seems to be), it's pretty darn interesting. If it's a (quite elaborate) hoax, they sure did a good job. The guy at least chose a clever name for an Iraqi citizen under siege... Salam Pax. (As most of you probably know, "Salaam" or "Salam" is Peace, in Arabic and "Pax" is Peace in Latin.) He does keep the posts coming ... and there is actually quite a bit of detail in some of them. But forget "Where is Raed?", I still can't figure out Who is Raed!?

Also up there in interest is Kevin Sites' site. I don't think the pun is intended, as his name really is Kevin Sites and he is a CNN correspondent who I believe I happened to see on the news a day or so ago.

Checks and Unbalances

So I had Adam order our last batch of checks (big mistake). When we got them, I flipped out like a Turkey doing the Duck Walk. The names on the upper left read:

Adam Brault
Dr. Kristi Brault
Master Batman Brault

Thats not all. They have the cougar logo on them (so they cost extra). He could not find the slogan "Go Cougs!", so he used a slogan called "Ramblin' Wreck."

To make matters worse, even though we are planning on moving in the next few months and our address is going to change, he ordered 4 boxes of these checks. That's like 500 checks! I'm going to have to use these things forever!

So, if we ever have to write any of you a check, DON'T LAUGH, I've gotten enough wierd looks.

I'm not really mad at him, I thought it was kind of funny (after I got over the initial shock).

Adam's note: Check out the checks here.

Here I am

This wasn't the aformentioned picture so while that gets developed, here is one which was taken at the show by the TSG webmaster of which includes me standing right in the middle, or slightly off right of the drummers head. Anyone who knows me can tell Im the tall dude with the big head on the right not the left.

something quite wrong

Want to hear some good things check out The Music, especially "The Dance". Muy Bueno.

English Sans French

Look here for a rather interesting commentary on the whole "freedom toast" issue.

Making us feel safer

It may just be that I find this cripplingly funny because it's my in-law's dog. Or perhaps it has some authentic humor. You decide. Meanwhile I'll be sewing my gut back together.

Yo Post-It Notes! I sucks at joeks.

So, AD... post the picture... give us the living stinking smelling truth in full color!

Ah, Daypop. There's always a couple of the top 40 links that are pretty darn funny.

Ha

I just met Pat Wilson, singer/guitarist for The Special goodness, drummer for Weezer, at a TSG show, and I got a picture! Jealous much? By the way who is the Master Batman Brault?

Congress: "French + Suck = Freedom Toast" = ??

Um, the House is using food to show their distaste with the French? Is this classified as a "naming" embargo?

Uh... is it?

Random thoughts

"Play Yars' Revenge until dawn"?? Hmm... good idea!!

Mr. E: I know you "HAVE" a TabletPC... but I think those quotes say a whole lot about the "truth" of that statement--- since I've never "seen" it. I'm going to "stop" now. Anyway I'm a fan of apple... because I've seen the power of an apple running iMovie (Anyone ever try to edit an hour television program on Adobe Premiere? Hack, cough, hack. I have. Premiere is cool, but iMovie is Coolio. with the weird dreadlocks.)

And who wouldn't want a laptop with a 17" screen, a DVD-R, plus built-in wireless and bluetooth -- all one-inch thick with a battery life of 5 hours? It's a mobile commando. I'd throw it in my backpack and work anywhere... and pirate anywhere... and go warchalking anywhere. Plus, OS X practically never crashes (something I can even get XP to do) and it's about the most beautiful OS... ever. I was helped along in my attraction to apple by my 10-gig iPod, which is unbelievably simpile, sweet, and did I mention, "sweet?"

So does this mean I want to replace my PC with a Mac? Ha ha ha! No. I just want to supplement my arsenal. But alas, I don't think there will come a day when Kristi will be convinced of a PowerBook's (or a TabletPC's) value. Dang.

Oh yeah. Hey, E-Route, Yo-Yo Ma tells me you're locked in for 5? (And 3 with good behaviour?) <-- Check dat wack British, yo.

Sleepy = Dreamy = Weird?

Dude, I HAVE a Tablet PC. However, no powerbook. I'm not what you would call a "fan" of apple. However, I am definitely a "fan" of "pyramid scams". Sign me up.

Wasting Away in a Van

Dear Sirs:

I have discovered a child's car seat filled with Cheerios. I may have extended my life for a few more weeks. Enclosed is my payment for an Ab-Roller.

Sincerely,
Guy Wasting Away in a Van

Sleepy = dreamy

When I sleep, I dream of PowerBooks and TabletPCs. I want a TabletPowerBook!! For six dollars, if that's at all possible.

Pyramid scam, anybody? (I got dibs on top bunk!)

Pat Boone?

You guys seriously need to check this site out. It's a place where people submit songs and they get rated by other users. I suggest listening to the ones that get rated very low, such as this one!

Riddle me this.

Why is the "Gamer's Dream Machine" advertised with a 1998 game that could run pretty well on a Pentium II 266 with a decent 3D card and 128 MB of RAM? (read: Dale's)

Don't get me wrong. I mean, it is a great game, but it doesn't really say much about the superior high-end performance of a Pentium 4 three fricking point-oh-six gigahertz!!

Crap.

It was fun while it lasted.

Aww, shucks! Who'm I kidding? Sue me! Sue me! Aaaaa!

Name of a Chinese Restaurant : JUNK Food!

Well, the cat is obviously giving the goat a hand. I'm surprised the goat was able to get into a suit. Coats for goats, coats for goats. What bothers me is that the man appears to be a willing participant. If I awoke in that predicament, I'd beat the cat to a pulp and make that goat eat his needle. Nah, just joking, I'd bawl like a little girl.

More of the same: I think you'll all appreciate this. My favorite is the microsoft keyboard, with the "file copy" image coming in a close second.

The Original Wall is coming down...

Kristi is in my bedroom (my original bedroom) taking down the "original" Wall, which is really five walls... It's sad, but it will give me a little more material. The best stuff to come off of the wall so far are the "Illustrated Deep Thoughts." Most of the illustrations are only funny because they are so poorly drawn... just wait until you see the one with the horse wearing a muzzle. It's a little bizarre. The following are just a sampling! I think there's about 35 total. Check out "snowman," "pie heaven," "ambition," "flippy," and "batman."

And speaking of Batman, Kristi just about killed me when the new checks I ordered showed up... but in the middle of yelling at me, she started laughing and then couldn't stop. Chalk one up for "Ramblin' Wreck." If I hadn't pointed that part out to her, I might be without major organs.

I still think they're pretty close to "Campbell, Cadwell, Eakins, Brault, & Associates -- We're official!"

Lobster Liberation Front wants YOU!

I'm getting a T-shirt made using their logo.

Because we have a lot of young children and parents frequently tuning in (Hi mom!), I can't post this picture directly. Check out my new keyboard.

snarf snaaaarf.

Tomfoolery and Nonesuch... and nun chuks!

Whew -- I just got back from a weekend away at Winter Camp... I'm tired. But here's a few quick notes.

Eric: Your request from 3/6 is complete. The search forms all open new windows now. (This is how I prefer it as well.)

A2 D2: Waaaay too many exclamation points. Let's not assault the world with punctuation, okay? It hurts the beautiful justified layout. And it hurts my head. In my mind, exclamation points do not demonstrate additional enthusiasm, but exponentially increasing levels of enthusiasm, which places your last post far beyond the world of appropriate. Anything over two exclamation points is practically obscene. And we try to keep the flava kid-safe.

Which brings me to Mesmer. Not kid safe. But it certainly startled me into a shocked (and mortified) laughter. Ow. What's the cat doing, though? And is the goat also surprised? Why else are his eyes so wide? Maybe he has a glass eye.

Disco Sauna!!! LOLOLOL ROFL ROFL?

Since no one has posted anything in the past couple of days, I thought I'd throw in a little bit of pointless humor to help brighten everyone's day! Is is funny? I think so, but the jury's still out.......

Monster Cheeto Update!

For those of you who were wondering "what ever happened to that monster cheeto thing?" , this story is for you.

Also, Adam, maybe for those searches that posted on the right, it might be better if they opened a new window when you searched, rather than taking over this existing window. I don't know if that's possible or notk, but jusstu a poyssiboillityyyy........

Attencion

Any fans of Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman and the immortal This is Spinal Tap should take a serious gander at this! [punctuation obscenity deleted] - adam.b

By Crackies

Are you sure this doesn't come in a pill?

I really hurt myself when I saw this one.

I know there's a story behind this somewhere (oops, bad pun)...but I'm not that curious. This should seriously be the subject of a caption contest.

...ow...

Search-Mania!

I got a great idea from tech guru Chris Pirillo's blog. He put his favorite search engines on the right side of his page... so, recognizing a cool idea, I followed suit, just altering what he did somewhat. You'll note the Daypop.com search -- a powerful tool for getting recent and entertaining stuff from weblogs all over the net... and for getting very up to date news. This is the quickest updated search engine -- and it's only meant to get quickly updated information from news sites and weblogs. Try it. Let me know if you run into any difficulties so I can fix them.

February site update

Okay, each month, I'll share some site statistics with you... Boring, but in a kind of exciting way. Here they are for this month:

4,652 hits in the month of February, 166 hits per day, and 6 hits per hour.

221 Uniquely IP-identified visitors.

Top time of the day to visit the site? During 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (Lunch break?)
Second most popular time of the day to visit: 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

So apparently, there are some people eating and viewing the site simultaneously. (Maybe they're just turning it on for "background noise"?)

February 20 came in at second for most hits at 795, while February 27 brought home more than a quarter of the month's hits with 1415.

I was a little surprised at the number one "Wall" picture in February

Top 10 Search Strings
01 - "coldplay politik mp3 download"
02 - " download chopin funeral march quicktime"
03 - "johnny cash and hurt and mp3"
04 - "johnny cash hurt quicktime video"
05 - "lyrics blonde on blonde nada surf"
06 - "nada surf lets go mp3 download"
07 - "nice weather for ducks mp3"
08 - "schubert impromptu op. 142 number 2 theory"
09 - "special goodness-life goes by"
10 - "the flaming lips flight test lyrics"

The life of the Inuit Eskimo...

Check out this mpeg video. [2 mb] -- Right-click, "Save Target As..."

Dog Toss

This is funny stuff, I thought...

kleenex

it correctly guessed kleenex but it took over 30 questions to doit, mickagh

Telemousketeers

Okay... I made myself laugh today! Maybe I've got it back! Or maybe, as the big D. pointed out, it's just a big booger.

I have had a song stuck in my head all day -- and I have no idea how it got there or who put it there.

Suddenly, as I this song was playing in my head, the phone rang... immediately I thought it was a telemarketer (because, arr, it usually is). Well, someone else got the phone -- and it wasn't a telemarketer, but in that split second, I realized that I knew exactly what I am going to do the next time a telemarketer calls. I'm going to immediately begin singing:

My hat, it has three corners.
Three corners has my hat.
If it did not have three corners,
It would not be my hat!

Check out Daypop.com: It's a very cool site... They have a really interesting idea.

Ether-knot

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20 Questions:

That's a pretty creepy program. Made me look over my shoulder a couple of times.

Correctly guessed:
-celery
-grasshopper
-violin

Incorrect:
-cheese fondue
-ether-knot
-false teeth
-cat scan

Don't feel bad Adam, Lee doesn't share my humor either. Sometimes she'll give me a look that makes me feel like I have a booger on my face. And damn it, it's a big booger.

Flashtastic??

Star Wars Gangsta Rap: "Yoda, Why ya gotta be a playa hater?"

A kitten singing "I love you" in a way that will make you laugh. No, really!

And this? Funny? Weird? You decide.

The Horror of Blimps / Also: Me = Not Funny

I don't know why I found this so funny, but I did. Man... it makes me wish I could write funny stuff still. I used to be able to (uh, I think?), but I think being married deflated my ability to convey my sense of humor through communication. Or maybe I'm out of practice. Every now and again, I try to write something funny or make a funny little cartoon, but it doesn't ever work. The funny things sound like rip-offs or not funny at all... and the cartoons look like this one:

Whew. That was not funny. At all.

At least I'm good at finding things funny. Like, for example, I can laugh. I can smirk. And that's it.

Oh well. Maybe I'll... umm... uh... sit here and read or something.

Let Me explain

Let me just take a moment to explain how good the song "Killian's Red" by Nada Surf is. It starts out with this 5 beat bass drum beat that is accompanied by a slight melody on the guitar and it rises throughout with ample portions of acoustic and electric guitar. If you heard the end of the song and the beginning you couldn't tell they were the same song. If you have Kazaa you need to check it out. Its an addictive song. Fir realz.

20 Questions????

Hey, this is kinda fun, but it's creepy how accurate it is. The program is very good at guessing. Post what you found that the program was able to guess, as well as the stuff that the computer wasn't able to guess (funnier).
For me, it guessed correctly:
-squirrel
-speaker
-sock
-ear wax.

It was not able to guess:
-Chuck E. Cheese

It was especially creepy when it guessed ear wax correctly, because it didn't even ask me if it was found on/in the body, etc. Weird...

Dan, I definitely think that you should do number 5, 6, and possibly 7. Maybe. Aside from that.........up to you.