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- Paul and Storm bring the Squid to Birchmere.
Earlier this week while the usual suspects were at the Birchmere for Henry Rollins, I noticed that a couple of musicians that I wanted to hear, namely, Jonathan Coulton wi
- We're stuck.
Dangerous winter weather conditions have paralyzed the DC metroplex. In other news, this was Baltimore's weather forecast for last Friday. Enjoy. I'm off to take a shower.
- Comfortable, Shiro?
- Yet another silly energy drink.
It's not that great, though - we passed one of these around at a party a few weeks ago and agreed that it tastes like Kool-Aid made with Ringer's solution.
- Cephalopods rocking out!
Archie feeling the rock. Foregoing drumsticks, Bandit takes on the drum pads bare tentacled.
- Feeling silly tonight.
Here's a picture of a stuffed squid posting on the Eclipse Phase forums:
- Happy 44th birthday, Rick Astley!
Oh, come on.. there are far, far worse things I could have subjected you to.
- Chuck Norris, Mr. T, and Bruce Schneier have nothing on Neil Gaiman.
20 facts about Neil Gaiman that you probably didn't know. (Just kidding, Bruce.)
- We've finally named our new hamster.
After much deliberation we've decided to name him Pigpen, after the Peanuts character. Pigpen seems to enjoy making quite a mess in his cage, from throwing everything that
- Hammerpants invasion!
Thanks, Pegritz.
- The nice thing about metrics is that there are so many to choose from.
One of the many buzzwords that you hear in the discipline of software engineering is metrics. They're supposed to be a measure of how effectively your coders are functioni
- Uh-oh...
I've updated my .plan file again. As always, there is not-safe-for-work content, so use discretion if you click on that link.
- An assortment of photographs.
Does anyone else find it amusing that a cast metal and plastic drum is manufactured by a company called Touch the Earth? This is about as far away from their ideal as you
- Old school phreaking meets X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
You only need three people to make a blue box if you're standing around bored - two whistling at the proper pitches to make DTMF tones and a third to whistle in-band signa
- "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I can't help but wonder if Keith Olberman really knows what 'teabagging' is. (note: vaguely not safe for work.)
- Shmoocon 2009: ...duck!!
It's been six hours since I got back from Shmoocon, and I'm still readjusting to a low information density environment. Shmoocon is DC's premiere hacker con, held early ev
- Cartoon Network rickrolled the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!
Rick Astley: the final boss of the Internet.
- "Don't bury me! I'm not dead!" (take two)
For unknown reasons, I just lost the previous draft of this post, and so have had to start over. That includes a number of edits that made the text more coherent to read.
- Presenting your vulgarity for the day.
I've updated my .plan file.
- The Last HOPE.
I arrived in New York City somewhen around 1400 EST5EDT, after getting turned around in Penn Station (what kind of adventure would it be without my getting lost, after all
- Title restored - so how did I spent my weekend, anyway?
Unfortunately, I spent much of last Friday asleep, recovering after a routine filling went south and turned into an emergency root canal. I don't know what does it about t
- I see now how the Vorlons infiltrated Earth: Perfume!
There's a new perfume for women on the market called Alien, as photographed a few weeks ago at Tyson's Corner Mall. Fan of the science fiction series Babylon-5 will notice
- I have no idea what you're talking about...
...so here's a .
- Of time travelers, web forums, and n00bs.
Presenting the short story Wikihistory, by Desmond Warzel.
- William Gibson has hurt me badly.
As the topic line suggests, this causes me great mental anguish this morning. Warning: Do not read while drinking anything. You will probably spray your beverage through y
- New releases from Steampunk Magazine.
The staff over at Steampunk Magazine have a pair of new releases for the edification and amusement of everyone out there. First off, issue number three of their 'zine has
- At last, the post you've all been waiting for...
Exoteric life being what it is, I've been waiting for the right time to post about Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day on 8 December 2007. The day is just what it sounds lik
- Here's looking at you, kids.
For unknown reasons, someone in northern Europe is leaving odd gifts for people all over the place - carved stone heads with rhymes taped to them. Each head (face, really)
- I leave them alone for one hour...
You know you're overclocking too much when...
- I see no C-walk here.
MC Frontalot is at it again, this time celebrating the release of his new nerdcore hip-hop album, Secrets From the Future. In fact, he's released his first music video, a
- It's been that kind of day.
This one's for you, Pegritz.
- Now this is what warfare should be.
Here's a cute animation that steampunks out there will get a kick out of. There are gentlemanly disagreements, there are duels, and then there's going toe-to-toe in steam
- I need a life.
Last night, I watched Nightwatch again with Jean and Lyssa, and this came to me:
- New York has fallen! DC is under seige!
I don't know how much time I have to write this.. I can hear them outside, pounding against the brick and steel. The staircase of my apartment building rings with shambing
- At last, a little R&R on a Friday.
Worth1000.com has done it again.. this time, the theme of their Photoshop contest is if h4>
- Ummmm....
Google Maps is a wonderful thing. But seriously, Google's added some interesting features to their mapping webapp, namely, the ability to draw and customize your own perso
- Denis Leary: Prophet of the 20th century?
In his standup show No Cure For Cancer, Denis Leary used to joke about all of the drugs that Keith Richards has done, and about how people would have to smoke his ashes be
- The first spam of the day.
Subject: anti-spammers are lamers subj regards, spammer. Cute. How very cute. Thank you, Shaw Cable.
- The Easter Invasion!
What better time to invade Earth then when everyone is pigging out on candy and ham? (note: safe for work)
- Captain Midnight goes porno early!
Last evening television viewers in Arizona were treated to an unexpected bonus cable show: Soundless hardcore porn in lieu of Tom Brokaw. It seems that someone zipped the
- Happy Pi Day, everyone.
3.14159... take a right at the decimal point, and bring your hiking boots.
- InSoc's first music video in fifteen years is out!
Early last year, InSoc put out an all-call for fans to submit footage of themselves doing the robot so they could assemble a net.roots music video of their first single, I
- Yeah, I missed Farpoint, but this makes up for it.
Due to the ice storm, Lyssa and I weren't able to get to the Farpoint sci-fi convention this weekend passed. As much as we would have liked to, the road conditions and ext
- It's not too cold to headslap, though.
I really did find these at Whole Paycheque last night. I know that DC's a liberal kind of place, but this is something else entirely.
- 24 takes on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
I didn't cover the abortive Aqua Teen Hunger Force ad campaign that went horribly wrong in Boston and Philadelphia because, quite frankly, the asshattery involved nearly g
- An excerpt from CdC issue #100.
Taken from CdC issue #100, and is reasonably famous in the underground. popup
- You got Time Lord in my chainsaw! You got a chainsaw stuck in my... huh?
The first pressing of the DVD boxed set of Doctor Who, season 28/2 has a strange glitch in it: Footage from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre It seems that the master tapes were
- You might be a CLAMP character if...
Capes and cloaks are practical fashion accessories. They always hang properly, always have stiff collars that never fall over or flop around, and always conveniently trai
- You might be a technopagan if...
You write computer viruses that contain copies of your memories. You're going to live forever, dammit! An antiviral software company has to release updates as a result. Y
- The Doctor's weblog drinking game.
Take one drink... whenever I bitch about work. whenever I mention hating my lives, being depressed, or hating my family. for every piece of electronic equipment I mention
- Hackers: The Drinking Game
Take one drink: ...every time Dade grins. ...every time Dade yells "Sh-hit!!" ...every time someone is called "elite." ...every time Dade is shut down by Kate. ...every ti
- Wired strikes again.
This Wired article reads like Scott Sigler decided to write an Unknown Armies module.
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