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Distractions
happy fun stuff that occupies time
The Stadium is Much More Impressive Than the Team
Feb 9th
How ’bout them SeaHawks? meh. How ’bout their stadium and their awesome control room for the lighting? This is a fabulously entertaining video.
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Loading ...Monster Jam
Jan 28th
Monster Jam, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr.
I took the boy to see Monster Trucks up close and personal at the Verizon Center in DC. It was all fine and fun until the trucks really started revving their engines. The noise was too much and too scary for the lad and we had to leave early without seeing what we actually paid to go see. **SIGH** maybe in a couple of more years….
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...X Games Crash: Colton Moore Bites It
Jan 26th
I saw this while I was out tonight at (shocker!) a pub with friends. I’m gonna watch the reruns later on ESPN 3D.
Reminds me of Jake Brown biting it on the skateboard.
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Nightmare Fuel: Beavis and Butthead in Real Life
Jan 20th
A makeup artist created lifelike busts of what Beavis and Butthead would look like if they were real people, and all I can say is these guys would have trouble getting anyone to pump their gas much less a table at a restaurant.
You can see the rest here, including the very frightening closeup of Beavis.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Star Wars 5-O
Jan 12th
Saw this yesterday and thought it was awesome. Book ‘em 3PO!
And the original for comparison:
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Cracker Barrel Worried About an All-White Image?
Jan 10th
I like Cracker Barrel. The food isn’t always the best, but if you travel often on the road, you can always count on consistent, home-cooking style of food, and the place is a great restaurant to bring a large family. Our family sometimes goes out of our way to eat at a Cracker Barrel, and the nearest one to us is in Manassas. We even have a Cracker Barrel Christmas Tree Ornament, and we get stocking stuffers, candy, and other goodies from the Country Store. Hell, if I had room for a good rocking chair, I’d get one from them. But I think the food chain worries that they don’t seem to appeal so much to minorities. I tweeted this morning:
The sign I spoke of is this one below:
You know, some stores have had quite a few problems with the way they handle minorities- Denny’s for instance, who have paid class action lawsuits because they treated blacks disrespectfully. Now blacks throw chairs at their restaurants, so I guess they fixed whatever problem they had, but that’s a different story in a post here. But I could see a sign like that at a Denny’s, and in fact, I think they have something similar on their menu in fine print.
So why would Cracker Barrel need a sign like this? Perhaps it is because they hang signs of Octoroon women who weren’t allowed to vote?
This is a photo I took in a Williamsburg Cracker Barrel of a popular tobacco label, but an Octoroon is a one-eighth black person. So why couldn’t this woman vote? Because she’s a woman and it is the year 1890, and she’s stuck on a tobacco label, that’s why.
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Bizarre Changes in My Hometown
Jan 8th
I moved away from Hampton Roads years ago and only visit occasionally to see family. Parts of Hampton are still quite charming, and even an improvement over what I left behind when I moved away- The new Peninsula Town Center, for instance, is a wonderful replacement for the decrepit Coliseum Mall, and revitalized downtown Hampton and the Queen Street strip is a welcome new addition, and the Saturday Night street parties in the summer are a big incentive to get me to come home to visit. Yet for every improvement, there are also bizarre declinations as well. Take the case of the old Ryan’s Grill and Buffet on Todd’s Lane.
Now this former restaurant has closed. Out of business. But they are still cooking stuff in this building, because now its called the Berceuse Funeral & Cremation center. A “berceuse” is a type of music in 6/8 time similar to a lullaby, and while I suppose that is a fine name for someone taking an eternal dirtnap, it is still shocking to see a corner lot former restaurant that is now a crematorium. And this is a residential neighborhood too; a bit on the low-income urban side (black), but a residential neighborhood nonetheless.
I have seen many funeral homes, and they come in all shapes and sizes. I’ve seen converted Victorian mansions as a funeral home, solemn brickfront buildings, and even a converted schoolhouse- but I have yet to see a funeral home that uses a cruddy buffet-style restaurant until now. And being Hampton, it is both saddening and unsurprising.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...James Dawson, You Think We’d Forget?
Jan 7th
Oh the centurian shame on this one. Ol’ Jimmy here was collared by a Bobby for indecent exposure- probably for taking a wiz outside a pub. The year was 1902, and I bet Jimmy thought the world would forget that he had his dickout, but Flickr had to go and dig up his photo and put it out there (no pun intended) for everyone to see. And by the way, all the criminals in 1902 South Shields, England dressed this way and had moustaches.
James Dawson, a photo by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on Flickr.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Icy Investigations
Jan 6th
Today was really mild in the NOVA area and we had a great opportunity to explore the neighborhood after Cartney’s daycare. We encountered what is turning into a swamp- an area that is no longer properly draining, causing the soccer field to flood pretty badly. Water has slowly receded over the past few days exposing thick sheets of ice laying atop the ground. So we did what boys do when you encounter ice, sticks and mud.
I also took the opportunity to teach Cartney about not walking on ice covered bogs, and how to recognize the sound of thin cracking ice.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Someone Got Legos For Christmas?
Jan 2nd
This is a pretty amazing machine built out of legos, and it even employs electronic sorters to separate the types of little balls. But I agree with the commenters on YouTube that say the only thing this guy has really engineered is a way to be forever alone.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Ice at the Gaylord
Dec 30th
The family took a few hours to remember why the National Harbor is always a disappointment by plunking down a hundred bucks to go see some ice carved by Chicoms and setup in a frigid tent outside the Gaylord hotel.
The line was long, the attraction was poorly managed and ultimately really not worth the price of admission.
Next we tried to have lunch at a Mexican restaurant which also winded up being a letdown. At least we got to enjoy some time with our friends.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Navy Women Finally Coming Home Without Being Pregnant
Dec 21st
Some chick that looks like Robin Scherbatsky from How I Met Your Mother arrived ashore with a golden ticket in her hand giving her the happy privilege of having the first kiss upon homecoming.
Supposedly this is controversial, but gays have been running down the gangplanks for centuries (if you know what I mean) upon returning from a voyage. Good for Petty Officer Gaeta. She strikes me as a fine seaman and an asset to the Navy. This wasn’t a stunt to push an agenda, either. I don’t object to women aboard ships, nor do I object to gays in the military if they serve with honor and distinction. But far too many women have returned from a voyage pregnant, and it is that kind of fraternization that I object to.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Jimmy Kimmel is a Child Abusing Cult Leader
Dec 13th
For laughs, Jimmy Kimmel tells his audience on TV to abuse their kids and the parents happily film their child abuse and posts it up on YouTube. Last time it was with Halloween Candy, and this time its giving really crappy presents.
That one fat kid is seriously emotionally unbalanced. Awesome that his adoptive Dad would film his breakdown for all the world to see. Next time Jimmy is going to ask parents to buy vicious pit bulls and ask parents to film their kids being mauled. That’s funny, right?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Just Put Some Gears On It
Dec 12th
There really is getting to be some pretty rotten steampunk jewelry and other items that are simply common junk with gears glued on it. And it is about time that someone wrote a Victorian-style Barber Shop Rap Song about it.
Thanks again to [GAS]
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...MythBusters Smash Suburban Home and Minivan with Cannonball
Dec 7th
Mythbusters trying to blow stuff up finally led to a pretty bad accident that put lives in danger and damaged property.
From the AP here:
A stunt gone awry met with an unhappy audience when an errant cannonball went shooting through a California family’s bedroom.
Sheriff’s deputies are still measuring how, exactly, the cannonball flew from a bomb range in the rolling hills flanking a suburban San Francisco Bay area neighborhood and rocketed into the front door of a home and through its master bedroom before landing in a neighbor’s parked minivan.
Hosts for the Discovery Channel show fired the cannonball Tuesday as they filmed an episode. Instead of hitting a string of water-filled garbage cans, however, the cannonball passed over the barrels, crashed straight through a protective cinderblock wall and careened off the hill behind it.
“It missed the target and took kind of an oddball bounce,” Nelson said. “It was almost like skipping a rock on a lake. Instead of burying it into the hill it just went skyward.” No one was injured, and the home’s residents didn’t even wake up until the broken drywall settled on top of them, Nelson said.
And TLC pulled down all the tweets about the Cannonball show leading up to yesterday’s accident. One showed Kari Byron sitting next to the big cannon with a big smile on her face. But now those tweets are down the memory hole.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Awesome Super Mario Opera
Dec 2nd
Its-a-Me!! Mario!
Its-a-Me!! Mario!
Thanks to GeeksAreSexy
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Burn Those Dolls With Fire!
Nov 20th
A scary-ass woman in Orlando wants to, in addition to burning shipments of plastic baby dolls, wants to initiate a letter-writing campaign to Beijing. All of this because crappy plastic baby dolls with no eyebrows or lashes calls people “crazy bitch.”
From ClickOrlando here:
Nationally sold baby dolls are causing a controversy because some say the toys utter a bad word.
The “You & Me Interactive Triplets,” which are being sold at Toys R Us stores in Orlando, are causing the uproar because one of the dolls can be heard saying what appears to be the phrase, “Hey, crazy bitch.”
A mother told Local 6 News that she’s worried her son might say the bad word.
“I think they should be burned, and I would like to write the (toy maker) a letter,” another woman said.
You gotta watch the video at Click Orlando and wait until you see the lashless unblinking woman describe how she wants to burn toys. She is frightening.
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Hitchcock’s Angry Birds
Oct 27th
Saw this over at Threadless, and it was pretty awesome. Didn’t get the tshirt, however.
I realized the other day when I picked up my kid from Pre-K that the most popular animated characters in the world in the eyes of a 4 year old is the Angry Birds. I had on an Angry Birds t-shirt and all of the kids in my kid’s class squealed when they saw it and had to tell me they loved the game on their Dad’s iPad and iPhones.
So I did what any responsible adult would do in a similar situation: I took credit for creating the game. Yep. Now all the kids in the school think Cartney is awesome because his Dad made Angry Birds. Little kids are so stupid.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Awesome Hot Wheels Racetrack
Oct 21st
This is an epic video. Notice, however, Mom is nowhere to be seen. If she is home, she is sitting in the corner, fuming, deeply disapproving of having this racetrack all over her house. And where can I get awesome track pieces like this? My brothers and I used to play with racetrack just like this as kids, but stopped once Mom discovered that racetrack parts are a valuable weapon with which you could beat a child.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Chick-fil-a’s Every Life Has a Story
Oct 10th
Found the link to this on twitter and it was described as a movie that is shown to each employee on the 2nd week on the job. Not sure if that is true, or if this is just a component among other videos for corporate training, but this simple and effective video really does help promote tolerance, kindness and respect for customers and team members alike.
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