Category: Linkage

  • Thank you, Mother Nature…

    Oh, goody. Because there’s nothing I want more to be doing on my birthday (and the days immediately following) than dealing with possible snow, possible hail, possible lightning & thunder, probable high winds and a definite downpour. If I was (still) the kind of guy who looked for signs in everything, I’d say the universe in general was trying to tell me something.

    Apparently, that something would include the phrase “don’t forget your inversion-resistant umbrella.”

    Geeky side note: I know some “blog” authors like to use the feature of their chosen software that turns the entry title into part of a unique URL instead of just using the index number, but it doesn’t really work out very well in most cases. The “easier to remember” idea is bunk, ’cause the entry address tends to include things like date information, and who’s going to remember that, eh? Another problem is that the URL tends to be insanely long. The most amusing failing of this technique, however, is the way that longer entry titles get truncated arbitrarily. For instance, “Storm on the Horizon” becomes “storm_on_the_ho.html”.

    Methinks it shall storm on the ho and the non-ho alike.

  • I now know what I want for my birthday this year.

    Forget the Amazon wishlist (to which, I almost briefly hesitate to point out, the link is over there on the left), this Real Life comic is not only damned funny but it also gives me a great idea for what you guys can get me for my birthday, which is only two days away…

    What do you mean, “Spectacularly unrealistic”? Bah! It’s so hard to find good minions these days, I swear.

  • Insert Tired Weather-Based Cliche Here

    Just when you thought 2006 couldn’t be more utterly annoying and frustrating and generally dreadful, you get a note on your door.

    March is going to be a very entertaining month. “It never rains but it pours,” indeed.

  • The Simpsomaker

    This is all Sarah’s fault.

    There aren’t really very many options to choose from, so this is the best I could do. You’re welcome to make your own, of course. And how amusing is it that the site is called DevilDucky, eh?

    Bear in mind that there’s no option (that I could find, anyway) to save the image other than printing it, so be prepared to use whatever screen capture method works best for you. (When in doubt, for Windows users: Alt+PrintScrn, then open whatever image editor you have on hand and Ctrl+V to paste. Crop as needed, then save.)

  • Pruned: Helltown USA

    I quote from the entry titled Helltown USA at a blog named Pruned…

    Since the summer of 1962, a fire, fueled by rich anthracite coal deposits, has been burning beneath the mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania.

    Nonstop.

    File this under, “Why have I not heard about something this incredibly freaky before now?” Check out the pictures. They’re both freakish and fascinating.

  • Not that I was going to see BloodRayne anyway, but.

    Some guy over on Livejournal by name of Howard Tayler (okay, so he’s got a webcomic) really, really didn’t like the film rendition of “BloodRayne.” And I quote:

    I’m serious. If I find out that you went and saw this film after I told you not to, I’ll phone your friends up and tell them to go to your house and pour ants in your bed. And when you wake up screaming, covered in ants, you’ll think “at least I’m not still watching BloodRayne.”

    […]

    I’m not trying to tear this movie a new anal orifice. I assure you, the film already has SEVERAL, and it defecates simultaneously through all of them. You don’t want to get any of this on you.

    His review is a fun read, if only to see how a writer of decent talent can thoroughly eviscerate a movie.