43 posts tagged “entertain me!”
There now exists, no doubt as a direct consequence of the Lord of the Rings series, the site RunPee.com.
Say you'd like to go see a movie, but figure you may well have to hit the bathroom at some time. RunPee tells you when the best time during the movie to leave (briefly) will be, and (if you'd like) what will be going on.
Covers current movies as well as archived movies. (Movies are archived two months after release, according to the home page.)
It's a beta site, so presumably it's still a work in progress. Still...pretty cool. It's raw and gives you not only a good time when nothing's happening but also an idea of how much time you've got. I'm not sure when I'd actually use this (I don't want to miss a thing when I first watch movies), but still fun for the commentary at least. Check out Ghosts of Girlfriends Past for a good run-and-pee time to see what I mean.
Enjoy.
The word of the day is: gongoozler.
That is all.
I present to you Item 28 in a series of infinity of the phenomenon of Way Too Much Freetime.
Voici:
Over at boingboing was a video featuring a guy doing "Crazy Train", the classic Ozzy song, on Ellen DeGeneres' show.
And the guy is nine years old.
And he raaawks.
I had to watch this three times before the bigass goofy grin on my face started fading enough to compose actual thought.
Even if (may God himself heal your soul) you don't care for Ozzy and never heard of "Crazy Train" (you poor unfortunate empty shell of a human), it's amazing when this kid actually gets to meet his idol right after performing in front of a live audience a world away from home. And watching his idol lead applause for him.
Ozzy even looked like his old self, the one who actually knew where he was and what he was doing and not the one looking for this month's large-print Reader's Digest.
Even if this kid never does anything else ever, ever, ever...he's got enough story to last his lifetime.
Ozzy Osbourne: the other classical music.
Totally independent corroboration of something that wasn't that secret anyway.
Tone Loc is the best one-hit-wonder producer ever. But, you say, he had TWO big hits. He had Funky Cold Medina and Wild Thing.
Nuh-uh, I say. They're the same song.
(And Paul at Paul's Pond is absolutely right. It is even better with headphones. Follow the link and you'll see.)
Sure, there are some minor lyric changes, but every bit of both songs maps onto each other perfectly.
Aaaaand, as an added bonus, you'll have it in your head for a good hour after listening to them both side-to-side.
You're welcome.
Girlzilla wanted me to make a sweater for her and we decided on the tubey sweater from knitty. This was started around Valentine's Day and it's been a pretty fast knit. Really the hardest part has just been taking the time to actually be able to knit instead of the work-teach-clean-cook-drop dead cycle that has been my life lately. The yarns we chose aren't quite like the original, though. The shrug-like top part is Caron Simply Soft in a sort of brick red and the body is most like the Angel Hair super-soft fuzzy stuff (lost the band, so sue me) in all sorts of beautiful reds and purples. The shrug seemed to take forever and now that I've started the body it seems to be going fastfastfast.
Doesn't hurt that I was able to watch Jekyll and knit.
Jekyll is Exhibit J in a series of infinity of why British TV rocks. It's one of those productions where you hope evrybody involved makes boatloads of money. (Except maybe the sound guy. The music gets annoying sometimes and sometimes the ambient noise makes dialogue really hard to hear. There's so much dark humor and wordplay that you really need to catch every bit.)
You don't have to knit, but certainly...watch Jekyll.
That is all.
What with getting sucked into slightly warped and not doing things like laundry, I found these:
They're all knit, and I think I could actually figure out how to make these.
I'd be delighted to actually have a good purpose for all that damned pepto-pink baby yarn that goes on sale from now and then.
I already have lots of kinds of blood red yarns, and I'd just want to tweak the expressions a bit. More My Little Pony meets Jack Nicholson for the unicorn, and some more actual terror for the victims.
The little girl, for example, could look more like Sailor Moon.
The big anime eyes I think would work nicely with the giant stabbing scissors.
Heh heh heh.
Yet another reason to bow down in worship of the tubes. I present to you:
Don't forget snacks. Good timewasters always go better with snacks.
Over at NPR's Marketplace you'll find a cool little game.
"Budget Hero".
You, yes you, can give a go at setting up budgets and trying to please everyone without flushing away your grandkids' future.
Earn badges, feel moral superiority, and waste precious time all in one go.
You know what to do.
