Well, crap.

Found this while poking around the Intarwebs. Guess I wasn't so original after all:

Really wishing I understood Japanese

Thanks to Siftin' superfan and pal Dorf, I have encountered yet another awesome Japanese program. And because I'm all kinds of magnanimous, here are a few samples.







And from the "That's how you get pink eye" department:

It's not what you think...

It's not often you'll find me posting a picture of a girl playing with herself at work, but here you go:



OK, it's my pal Karyne rocking out with her Guitar Hero shirt, but that's probably as racy as it gets here.

Huzzah!

Just a brief shout-out to my little brother, who is now proud papa to a baby boy. Way to go, Scrote!

In honor of the momentous occasion, here is one of my favorite kid-related videos, which my wife tells me is old, but that's OK, because it's funny, dammit.

Things they don't tell you in broadcast journalism classes...

There is a chance, however slim, that you will be called to report a story that involves repeated use of the words "Jesus, wieners, and poopie."



Wiener poopie sounds like failures in the Wienerschnitzel test kitchen if you ask me.

Another brick in the wall...

Who doesn't like Tetris? People who suck at it, that's who.

My wife and I, back in the days of spare time before children, used to wage Tetris war till the wee hours of the night, cursing at each other complimenting on each other's skills. Sometimes a little Tetris makes your day better.

With that in mind, here's a variety of Tetrisness:

Japanese Tetris comedy sketch

I wish I spoke Japanese, but even with the language barrier, I found myself chuckling at this clip, especially toward the end.


Human Tetris

I think when they get a big enough auditorium, they'll do Doom.


Marching band Tetris

Sure, there are other video games in there, but there is Tetris. So there.


Human Tetris II

I love Japanese TV. How else would you see something like this?



And because bikinis make everything better:



Clearly, they've missed the opportunity to rename that game more appropriately given its participants...

God bless the Japanese again. This has nothing to do with Tetris, but you gotta love a country that has a game show with this as its goal:

Here's something I never thought I'd say...

Check out this cool Tesla video:




(via Kotaku)

Here's a handy tip

Because sometimes it seems that no one knows.

In this great Hall of Justice...

This is still one of my favorite toys. I've got one waiting for Brody should he be interested in superhero stuff. The Hall of Justice is just the coolest. I remember waiting and waiting when the second or third wave of Super Powers figures came out, and I saw the Tower of Darkness, which was basically a Hall of Justice for Darkseid and the bad guys.

The reason we could never find it was that it was shelved. I wouldn't see it in person for years, when someone had a prototype on display at a comic convention. That was also when I was *this* close to a Cyborg figure--the only one in the whole collection that I never found.

At some point, I'll probably babble more about these toys in depth. But for now, check out this rad commercial:

You have died of dysentery...

It appears that I caught something while playing Oregon Trail on Facebook today, so in lieu of an actual post, I give you another LOLRamona:

What can I say, I'm easily amused...

I am a sucker for funny pictures. I've been known to laugh myself to tears over some, which in retrospect, really weren't that funny.

Here is an assortment of pictures I came across recently that made me chuckle:

Could've been worse, I guess

What song was No. 1 the day you were born?

On the U.S. chart: "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," Bachman-Turner Overdrive


On the U.K. chart: "Everything I Own," Ken Boothe:


On the Australian chart: "The Night Chicago Died," Paper Lace:



Do you have better songs? Worse? Share your misery in the comments.

Unless you were born on April 4, 1964, in which case the top 5 songs were all by the Beatles, and I don't want to hear about it.

Not for the kids...

I usually try to stay PG-13 around here, and I'm not quite sure if this makes that rating. Nonetheless, I laughed my ass off, so I figured I'd share.

Also, I saw this at the awesome blog List of the Day, which has a cornucopia of hilarity, so go check it out.

I really don't have much more to say about this, except watch:

Enter here for what?

You'll often find Brody in his Lightning McQueen garage tent that he got for Christmas. He loves it; it is quite cool. But looking at it today, something caught my eye.



Looks like someone forgot to run spell check...

The Force is strong with this one

Last month, I thought I'd start a Christmas tradition by watching The Star Wars Holiday Special with my son.

So I put it on, with Brody sitting next to me. He sat patiently and watched the opening credits, and the extended Chewbacca's family scene that has nearly no dialogue.

But just after the painful cooking show segment with Harvey Korman, Brody stood up, looked at me, and said (a touch patronizingly), "Dad, I think that's enough."

And he went to go play with his trains.

Oh well.

Hot Nuts?

Catchy little ditty, ain't it?

From the beating a dead horse department...

My pal Karyne (who has red hair, so I tease her and call her Ginger) and I got on the subject of the "Don't tase me, bro!" guy. Here's a nifty remix of the pertinent part, set to a snappy beat:



Somehow, it evolved into a contest to see who could come up with as many lame parodies as possible.

It started clever enough. For us, anyway. I asked her if at some point, she'd go to Walgreen's for a candy run. She said maybe, and I replied with "Don't tease me."

Ginger: don't tease me, bro

Jeff: I want to draw of a picture of a Klingon on his knees with his hands up, while Kirk and Spock are aiming their phasers at him. "Don't phase me, bro!"

Ginger: heh

Jeff: or a college freshman: "Don't haze me, bro!"

Ginger: or a cinnamon bun: don't glaze me, bro

Jeff: i've seen that with a donut

Jeff: Someone who works for a nonprofit: Don't pays me, bro!

Ginger: or a building: don't raize me, bro

Jeff: a flower

Jeff: don't vase me, bro

I should point out that this was over the course of the day--we were actually working as well. Honest.

Then at one point, it got goofy.

Jeff: Broken video game sign: Don't plays me, bro!

Ginger: jewelry: don't appraise me, bro

Jeff: Jennifer Grey: Don't Swayze me, bro! **artistic license**

Ginger: king kong: don't fay wrays me, bro

Jeff: Ballerina: don't plies me, bro!

Jeff: Crowd to cheerleader: Don't "Ready, OKs" me, bro!

Ginger: mom to teenager: don't "anyways" me, bro

Jeff: Joint to stoner: Don't blaze me, bro!

Ginger: agent to bruce willis: don't yippee-ki-yays me, bro

Jeff: Miss Piggy to Kermit: Don't yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays me, bro

Jeff: Dumb Donald to Fat Albert: Don't "Hey, hey, heys" me, bro!

Then somehow I managed to get all kinds of historical:

Jeff: Samuel Tilden: Don't Rutherford B. Hayes me, bro!

That's funnier if you look up Rutherford Hayes on Wikipedia or something.

Not much, but we passed funny long ago, didn't we?

After that, we got punchy.

Jeff: Edith to Archie Bunker: Don't "Those Were the Days" me, bro

Jeff: Kitten in cardboard box before being dumped in the middle of nowhere: Don't strays me, bro!

Jeff: HMS Titanic to engineers: Don't raise me, bro!

Jeff: Critic to Sandra Bullock: Don't "28 Days" me, bro

Ginger: metropolis to superman: don't up, up, and aways me, bro

How much sadder could we get?

Well, by the time I tried "Environmentalist to McDonald's in the late 1980s:
Don't Styrofoam trays me, bro!" we knew that we had officially stomped the life out of this particular meme.

Oh, except for the neat LOLcat I submitted to I Can Has Cheezburger?:


moar funny pictures

Click on it and vote the hell out of it, and I might make the main page. I should get something out of wasting this much brain power.

Guitar Hero side-effects

I've played a bunch of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and I've noticed a few things.

1) That weird vertigoey feeling you get when you've been playing for a while (say, a week or two, straight) and you look away from the screen. Everything seems to be moving away from you--almost like going into a wormhole or something.

2) Self-consciousness about rocking too hard. Sure, you want to do well, but at what point do you cross the line from keeping up with the notes to Pete Townshend windmills at the end of your song?

3) That brief feeling of apprehension you get when you hear a song from the game out in the real world. For just a second, your hands tense up, trying to make sure your fingers are in the right place.

Or maybe it's just me.

My commute...and welcome to it

This is what I hear in my head when I drive to BART every morning:

LOLRamona, part 2