Humor

The Immaculate Consumption

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Came across this blog, The Immaculate Consumption. The tagline: “the amazing products and lifestyles that would be at your fingertips if you had a time machine and a magazine subscription.”

Lots of fun stuff to see.

My waistline

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Mom is visiting.

She arrives at the house. Talking ensues. Hugs. Warm welcomes.

Eventually she goes to put an arm around my waist. Of course I’ve got my Batman utility belt on. Mom’s hand immediately impacts steel objects. I brace myself for the debate that will ensue (remember: this is the first time since obtaining my concealed handgun license that I’ve been around my mother, who’s not a big fan of firearms having been born into and growing up in war-torn and Japanese-occupied Korea). Mom’s hand starts to feel around my waist. Bracing for it….  But where does she end up? Squarely in the front of my waist, on my little pouch of belly fat. All the odd objects on my waist matter not. All I got a lecture about was the little paunch. 😆

Man. All my years growing up and she lectured me to gain weight (tall skinny kid growing up). Now that I’ve gained the weight, now she wants me to take it off. Can my mother ever be satisfied?  😉

(Yes, a discussion on the guns did happen at a later time. She’s still not happy with it… blames my moving to Texas over 15 years ago. Kept discussion calm and rational. She seems to understand but still doesn’t like it.)

Reading this post from Tam reminded me to post this.

Ori-gun-i

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A Colt 1911… made out of paper

I found lots of other similar videos to make things like AK-47’s, Beretta 92s’s, Desert Eagle, M16’s, generic paper guns that can shoot paper bullets, Glock 26’s, MP5, shotgun, and the list goes on. All out of paper.

I didn’t watch all of them. Just linking because it’s…. well… interesting. 🙂

Yakety Sax – Good For the Soul

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Wife gave me some excellent advice the other day.

When things are going in some sort of negative way — bad, ugly, frustrating, infuriating, irritating, annoying, whatever — just give it a soundtrack of “Yakety Sax“.

I’ve been doing just that, and yes, it makes me smile and doesn’t get old. It sure helps you get through the crap. 🙂

Don’t know what “Yakety Sax” is? Some of you may know it as the “Benny Hill” theme song.

Or better yet, just listen to it:

Here’s a saxaphone quintet @ Disney playing it

Here’s a guy playing it on a tuba (tuba’s are instant comedy):

Here it is in Mario Paint Composer

The thing is, any sort of video becomes instantly funny when you put this as the soundtrack.

Try it yourself by using The Benny Hillifier!

Yes yes… and I’ll keep on laughing and laughing… until they sedate me. It’s been a long couple of months, Jim, with at least one more to go.

It’s all about curves

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Curves.

Am I talking about women? great roads for motorcycling? No (well maybe, but not right now).

I’m talking about how if you can make curves on an Etch-A-Sketch you can make some pretty cool artwork.

The plutil command obeys no one’s rules but its own.

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I love stumbling across little bits of programmer humor.

I just looked at the man page for plutil (“man 1 plutil“):

STANDARDS

The plutil command obeys no one’s rules but its own.

Heh heh.

So THAT’S how you say it

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I’ve shot a bunch of their ammo (a lot if their .308 Winchester 168 grain match stuff, especially), and I’ve always wondered how you pronounce Prvi Partizan. Now I know.

And knowing is half the battle!