For the first GGotD in a while I thought that I would share something that I thought particularly interesting. Some girl went to the beach to sunbathe and while she was there, she decided that it would be a good time to start reading up on Unix… Wait, what? I am a geek and even *I* wouldn’t bring a Unix manual to the beach. You have to see it to believe it.
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I know, that was a really descriptive title, was it not? Well, let’s get started on the so called “good stuff,” shall we? Personally I am all about anything that makes me smile. It’s kind of a limited list sometimes, but today… today is a different story. I have so much stuff to share that I could almost have a head asplosion. (Need explaining on asplosions? Dig [not digg although you can do that too,] yesterday’s post.) Anyway, what could make me so happy? Well, for one, badgers. Yes, those angry little rugrats of the woods. They never get to be very tall and they could probably rip my leg off, but they make me happy. Ok, one wouldn’t make me happy, but how about 22 of them in your back yard? Ok, it wouldn’t be so cute if they showed up in my yard, but it amuses the hell out of me that they showed up in someone else’s back yard. Check it out: (BTW, does anyone know what the source of this is?)
Let’s see what else I have in my bag of tricks… Ah! How about the MMORPG Forum answer die? That pretty much rocks my socks! It has answers like “OMG WTF BBQ?” and “Use the search, noobsauce.” How can you go wrong with a wonder like that? Surely you can’t, and I promise not to call you Shirley…
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I think it’s time for a flowchart. No, really, it is. I promise this is a good one. I really don’t have much more to say other than look already!
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Something that I found which should really be posted in EVERY IT/IS department. If you wanted some idea of where all of the people go that are online, simply take a look at this map. The landmass is roughly proportional to the number of people that hit the sites. As a matter of fact, I might print this out and post it in my office. I just think it’s kinda cool. Now, if I could secure myself a spot on this map… Sadly, I haven’t produced anything yet that is going to put me squarely on the map, in the center… Perhaps when I find that thing which defines Web 3.x…
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Finally, There is a touching story to be told with the last picture. No, it’s not funny and yes it is true. Definitely interesting. A girl died at a young age. Her mother, knowing that her daughter was afraid of lightning, asked that the tomb be made in such a way that she could go and comfort her daughter during storms. With that request, they dug the tomb, but left a window at the head so that the woman could visit. When the woman died, they bricked up the glass to protect the grave from vandals. Though the window is gone, the door and stairs are still there and can be seen in the following picture. There, now, isn’t that a touching way to end this blog?
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Ok, I don’t quite know why, but I have developed this weird Zombie fetish… perhaps I just long for a scourge of the undead. Anyway, that being said, I did a search for zombies and came up with brainsplurge, grues and some other interesting stuff that I NEED to share. Oh yes, this is a need, not a want. I might have a brain asplosion if I don’t get it out… So lets get started, yes?
Grues. They lurk in the dark. They are mean. They are from Zork. They will f’ing eat you. Bearing this in mind, it makes sense that you wouldn’t wat to meet one in the dark and heaven forbid your lantern goes out while walking through a dark room. There are shirts that are dedicated to grues and moreover, the whole thing is pretty damn funny to me. That all being said, both Wikipedia and the Uncyclopedia have a definition for what a grue is. Which one is funnier, do you think? So, which one, do you suppose, I would post here?
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Now, of course that image sports NOT an image of a grue, but rather Domo-Kun. How do I know all this? Well, if I told you my secrets then you would be as smart as me, and we can’t have that can we? No, I didn’t think so. All the same, I’ll tell you a little piece that you can work on for yourself. My knowledge of all of this silliness is rooted in the interweb and the almighty thing that starts with a G. Well, that and a lot of “stumbling” if you catch my drift… Anyway, Domo-Kun. Yeah. Umm, big plush thing. It’s not undead and it won’t eat you. Thus I am not overly interested. Just a clarification, Domo-Kun (flat pack toy):
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Yes, both of these things came from my search for zombies. So, what of Zombies? Well, there is a zombie “How Stuff Works” page. I am really amused by this. Aside from the novelty of such a page, I would like to say that there is some really cool information about zombies and some of the roots that the lore has in Haiti. Very interesting… Take a look:
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Aside from that, I also discovered something that I probably should have already known. There was a group in the 60’s called “The Zombies.” How cool is this??!!?!1 Haven’t heard of them? S’ok. Neither had I, really, until this morning. Now, you poor, lost soul, you can redeem yourself. Read all about them:
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Aside from the page about the 60’s band, the grue and Domo-kun, I found one last thing based on my wanderings regarding zombies. Brainsplurge. Brainsplurge is bad. Bransplurge can only happen once to most people. Bransplurge is often fatal. Why, you might ask, do I particularly care about brainsplurge? Well, it’s kinda, sorta related to head explodey, only different. Take a look and see for yourself:
C’mon! What’s doomier than zombies? I mean, that whole coming of the end of mankind in the form of irradiated flesh-eaters or some other sort of rotting, walking, corpse… thing… it’s too perfect. So, today’s theme is Zombies. Personally, I wasn’t always a fan of zombie flicks and the like, but it has been growing on me. I think that my current infatuation with zombies started with 28 days later and my “Happy Zombie Jew Day” easter cards that I made, although after watching the original Romero “Night of the Living Dead” I was pretty pleased. So, anyway, enough babble about general zombie stuff, let’s get down to the specific zombie stuff. What, you might ask, do I have hiding in my vault that I could share? Well…
Sacrilege! You know that famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci where Jesus is sitting with his 12 apostles at the last supper? Yeah, I think that someone got a good idea for how Jesus really rose from the dead. I mean, how can he be a zombie Jew if he wasn’t ever bitten by zombies?? There was a Deicide album cover that featured the shroud of Turin on the front and an interpretation of Jesus, disemboweled on the inside cover… This all leads into the photo I have found in my wanderings:
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Ok, enough zombies… Ha! Fooled you! There is no way I would leave this topic at just a single post and yet call it the “theme of the day!” There is more. Much more! I found a different image that is just kind of cool and sets a great mood. You like zombie movies, yes? Then you like this picture, yes? Fend off your own damn zombies!
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This is the last official “zombie” thing for this post, but probably one of the most important if you want to know how to survive a zombie attack. It’s the zombie attack simulator. On top of having the zombie attack survival guide, you need to be able to predict how the zombies would move based upon where they enter the city, how things are laid out and where you plan on hiding. If you didn’t have this attack simulator, you couldn’t have all of the data necessary for a last stand against the undead. You’ll just have to take a look and check it out:
Now, from zombies to the just kinda creepy, I like this picture of a house. It’s pretty darn cool. (I actually kind of liked the zombie thing. I might make that a regular thing on my blog.) This house definitely has “roots” where was built. ; )
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Finally a couple of things that will probably just put you in a zombie-like state. First off, the highway condom test. I was amused. You will be too, dagnabbit! MrrrrRRRrrrr…. must watch again…..
Lastly, something that everyone should love, and will definitely be hypnotizing if not zombifying… a bubble wrap simulator! I want one of these sooo badly, but I don’t know where I can buy them. I was expecting Think Geek to have them, but to no avail. Damn. Must find. Must buy!
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Ok, there is more than just that stuff, but those are probably the best pieces of the day. I think I’ll start off with the Clowns VS The Klan. This seems most interesting to me. First off I would like to say that I found several comments left by Klan supporters that said they had their right to free speech impinged upon. I call bullshit. So, here’s the deal, a bunch of Klan members showed up Knoxville, TN to demonstrate and they were met by a bunch of people that were dressed as clowns, ready to mock them. Every time that the Klan members said “white power,” they were answered with things like “white flour,” “white flowers,” “tight shower” and “wife power.” Needless to say, this made things a little difficult for the Klan protest. Now, nobody from law enforcement told them they had to leave, and they were allowed to demonstrate. The opposing crowd simply exercised their right to free speech as well. I see nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, it appears that one of the Klan supporters got a little unruly by the looks of this picture. When you check out the source, please keep in mind that the writer was not aware of how popular this article would become. With that in mind, the writing is not top notch, but the point is still made.
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This next thing that I found is so geeky it’s cool! Nesting byte dolls. Made in the traditional Russian way, these nesting dolls would be great for people that are just learning about memory and relative sizes. Check it out:
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Now, I am generally not a wallpaper kind of guy. I like making wallpaper for my desktop out of photos that I have taken, but bearing that in mind, every so often I find something that I just can’t resist. I LOVE photos of abandoned and condemned places. These people specialize in those precise kinds of photos. Check it out:
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Now, with every release, Ubuntu comes up with some new, cute name. For instance, right now I am running Feisty Fawn on my home machine. The next release will be called Gutsy Gibbon. They go in alphabetical order if you hadn’t guessed. Well, after Gibbon, the next letter is ‘H.’ So, what animal goes with ‘H?’ Hmmm… Oh!! How about a Hippo? Heh…
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I SO want them to call release 9 ‘hungry hippo.’ That would be fricken rad! Anyway, now for the moment that you have all been waiting for, ‘Shining.’ It’s a movie trailer… reworked… yeah. Take a creepy-ass movie and sell it as a family togetherness movie. That’s what we should do! This is fantastic!
Ok, I have found several pages over the past several weeks detailing why people should switch away from Microsoft Windows and turn to an Open Source OS. Many of the reasons that I see listed often are either untrue or simply a bunch of rhetoric by Linux zealots. Now, to make this whole thing very clear, I prefer to use Linux a good portion of the time, however I do still use both Linux and Windows. No, I am not an OS traitor, I just understand the benefits and downfalls of each OS and choose to utilize the best of each. It would make me a very happy boy if I could, one day, get all of the benefits in just one package. I doubt this will happen any time soon. So, without further ado, here is my list of the benefits of switching to Linux:
So, there you have it, my list of reasons to consider Linux. I have other, informatin freedom-related, reasons for liking Linux, but that is for another day and another blog.
So let’s do this thing out of order. It’s the only way that I work in general anyway… out of order. ; ) Car Cookies! No, these are not cookies that are cut into the shape of a car, but rather, these are cookies that were actually baked in a car! That’s right, cookies. baked. in. a. car. Right on the dashboard as a matter of fact. You know how it has been so impossibly hot in several areas of the US, well someone decided to actually take advantage of it and make cookies… out of… lemons… or something. The thing that scares me is that they don’t brown this way, they just get kind of… well… done.
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Ok, this is something that I would want… if I had an extra cigarette lighter outlet in my car… yeah. Seriously though, it looks kinda cool. All you do is plug it in and you always have a working flashlight in your car. That would be really helpful sometimes. Especially when I drop my cell phone under the seat for the 5th time today… Grrr… now where is that stupid thing? It would help if I had a flashlight…
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Ok, so I can be kind of a cynical jerk. I suspect that this comes from the fact that I am kind of a skeptic and I generally think that people will lie, cheat and steal their way out of just about anything if they can get away with it. What can I say? I’m just a special kind of guy when it comes down to it. Well, now there is something that I can aspire to. I have found the cynic hall of fame. Take a look:
Ok, now there is this annoying urban legend that has been going around, and I want it to stop! Right now! You cannot blow up a toilet by putting something flammable in it and then throwing a cigarette into the mix. It just won’t happen. 1. The cigarette isn’t hot enough to ignite most flammable liquids and 2. Mythbusters actually took this one on and found that the best way to blow up a toilet is to put an ungodly amount of explosives in it and then set them on fire. That’s kind of it, folks, so can we stop with the kind of thing shown below??
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Now, for those of you that know me, you know that I have a degree in math. That being said, this photo expresses perfectly what I felt like in the middle of my tests. Mind you, this looks like it is actually a physics test, but the same kind of thing can happen to you in a good, messed up numerical analysis test.
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Finally, I think that we should end today’s posts with a Queen cover. This is weird and kind of cool. You just have to watch it.
Ok, so I haven’t posted anything in a week. WTF is up with that? I have a real job that requires me to do real work?? Dear GOD, what is this world coming to? Ok, seriously though, I have been a little to busy to take the time to add the stuff that I have found over the past while here, but I am ready to make it up to you today. I might have to split everything that I have found into multiple posts just because I have so darn much of it. So, lets get started.
First of all, if you have ever worked in IT or IS before then you know this feeling quite well. Right now I am feeling particularly lucky since my coworkers tend to understand enough of the technology that they work with that they can answer some of their questions on their own. Personally I think that I drive the IT department more nuts that my coworkers do as I tend to fix and hack things myself. Sorry guys, I’m just a do-it-yourself kind of guy. Anyway, enough chatter, more comics!
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So, after seeing someone burning for saying something stupid, I thought I would start tying things into the title. So, sinkholes. Yeah, there was a big one in Guatamala not too long ago. It was actually rather amazing, unfortunately people died and homes were lost. The astounding thing is that the sinkhole is something like 300 feet deep! Where did all of the eath go? For all intents and purposes, that’s a bottomless pit. Nobody is going to be able to a) fill it in a reasonable time or b) want to try to climb down in it… It’s just a big, circular (which is interesting) hole in the ground…
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Cthulhu! Nothing trumps the Great Old Ones! If worst comes to worst, they will eat your family and then eat you, sending your soul straight to the afterlife, which is probably something awful, like rotting in the bowels of hell or something along those lines. Good ol’ Howard never really made us privy to the insanity associated with the afterlife. He only told us of the madness that was certain to destroy us… Yeah. Anyway, here is the amusing end of a multi-image comic that someone posted. Click through and be instructed as to how to ensure that you are eaten by Cthulhu first. It’s best to be first, trust me.
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Apparently God is not the only one that hates Goths, so does Ikea. (BTW God Hates Goths is a page dedicated to hate speech against the Gothic community. If I ever meet that guy I’ll give him what for.) Anyway, this has been a source of amusement and irritation in the Gothic community so I thought I would bring this little slice of bad writing in advertising to the rest of the world so they can all laugh at the weirdness that is Ikea advertising…
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Ok, I think that is enough for this post. I have more waiting in the wings, but I really don’t want to put you on amazing link and photo overload. It’s just all sooo goood and so much!