January 25, 2008 • 9:56 am 6
Tanner and I now have a sweet Summer project lined up—we’re going to build this cardboard spaceship. There are simplified instructions free on the site, or more detailed plans and materials for $25. The site also offers advice on scoring free cardboard boxes, as well as tips for painting and detailing.
Now if we can only get the cold weather to disappear.
(ht: BoingBoing)
Filed under: Cardboard, Fun, Kids, Projects, Spaceships, Summer, Tanner
May 16, 2007 • 12:44 pm 3
Although it’s cool to have a secret source for great blog material, I simply can’t keep this one a secret any longer. Remember that David Blaine Parody I posted a couple weeks ago? Well that video was just the video of the day on one of my favorite new podcasts—www.bestofyoutube.com. Every day I get a new YouTube video downloaded into my itunes. I got a little backed up in watching them, so this morning I had a bunch of good stuff waiting for me. Here are some of the best…
Do You Speak English?
» I Wanna Love You Tender (Finnish Music Video)
» Irish Girl Calls Demolition Company
November 21, 2006 • 9:30 am 2
Today is the last day of work for me this week. Going to spend some quality down time at home, with the family, eating like a mad man. Of course this means I’ll be working the rest of the year, save Christmas day, but that’s fine with me. With that said, I am not scheduling any more new posts until Monday, but I figure I’d throw a post together with enough nuggets to last you through the holiday.
Is it coincidental that this week I am a big Notre Dame fan and just yesterday somebody said I looked like a leprechaun. Speaking of leprechauns, did you know there was an actual sighting in Mobile, AL recently? While we’re on the topic of sports, my favorite team has been busy during the off-season, picking up Alfonso Soriano for 8 years. What I would give for a Tigers / Cubs World Series. You know, there’s only a short time until Christmas is here. Have you received any Christmas cards yet? I know the music is out in full force. That doesn’t bother me so much, it’s relaxing. It’s just that it starts earlier every year. I fully expect it to begin in October soon. Speaking of Christmas, Walmart is bringing back the words ‘Merry Christmas’ to their advertising this year. Christmas is a time when people contemplate the world as a whole. I found a great video recently called Waiting for the World to Change. It’s made to the song by John Mayer. Great stuff. You know what’s funny, I used the term Christianese last week and yesterday I get an email from Church Marketing Sucks .com (great site) telling me about their new tshirts. Have I mentioned that Tanner is in school now? Crazy.
Alright, I’ll end with a hot new blog game. It’s called Soundtrack To Your Life. Here’s how it works:
1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press Play.
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the Next button.
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool.
7. Don’t skip songs.
There are currently 3833 songs in my iTunes. Without further ado, here is the Soundtrack To My Life:
1. Opening Credits: No Leaf Clover – Metallica
2. Waking Up: What’s Goin’ Down – Toby Mac
3. First Day at School: Mary’s Place – Bruce Springsteen
4. Fight Song: Enough – Passion Worship Band
5. Breaking Up: Awesome Is The Lord Most High – Chris Tomlin
6. Happiness: The Greatest – Planet Asia
7. Life’s OK: Hindu Times – Oasis
8. Mental Breakdown: Walk By Faith – Jeremy Camp
9. Driving: While You Were Sleeping – Casting Crowns
10. Flashback: So Much To Say – Dave Matthews Band
11. Getting Back Together: Sunshine of Your Love – Living Color
12. Wedding: The Impression That I Get – Mighty Mighty Bosstones
13. Birth of a Child: Don’t Be Cruel – Bobby Brown
14. Final Battle: Thinking About You – London Beat
15. Death Scene: You Never Can Tell – Chuck Berry
16. Funeral Song: Obscured – Smashing Pumpkins
17. End Credits: Both Sides of the Story – Phil Collins
Happy Thanksgiving!
Filed under: Baseball, Community, Fun, Games, Holidays, Music, News, Sports, Vacation, YouTube
August 29, 2006 • 8:04 am 4
BLAMESTORMING – Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER – A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS – The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY – The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
CUBE FARM – An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING – When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.
MOUSE POTATO – The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.
SITCOMs – Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
STRESS PUPPY – A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
SWIPEOUT – An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
XEROX SUBSIDY – Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
IRRITAINMENT – Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE – The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE – The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
404 – Someone who’s clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site could not be located.
GENERICA – Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.
OHNOSECOND – That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).
WOOFS – Well-Off Older Folks.
CROP DUSTING – Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.
*please excuse the crappy language*
Filed under: Fun, Workplace Humor
August 9, 2006 • 7:59 am 6
This site is too much fun not to share… www.netdisaster.com
(I can tell if you are entering this blog into the field!!)
May 16, 2006 • 3:40 pm 10
This is so worth six minutes of your life.
Filed under: Dance, Fun, Judson Laipply, Video
April 25, 2006 • 7:23 am 4
We’ve all seen the special edition monopoly boards. The fun ones like Star Wars or The Simpsons. They even have Michigan Monopoly. But now, for the first time since it’s inception in 1935, the original Monopoly board is getting a makeover. They are going to update all the landmarks around the board with landmarks from the Here and Now.
I have no idea why this got me all excited. I normally don’t play games, although I have a closet full. But now I want to scoop this up and have people over for a party. Maybe it’s because I can be involved in the decision making process. From now until May 12, fans can vote on monopoly.com for their favorite landmarks from 22 cities — including New York’s Times Square, Chicago’s Wrigley Field, Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach, Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
Maybe it’s just the thought of Wrigley Field being on the board. Whatever it is, I’m voting and I’m buying it as soon as it’s available and I’m having a party. Any takers?
Twitter Tumblr
The Original Mud Puppy is a 36 year old Christ follower. Father of an amazing son. Husband of a woman that makes me a better person every single day. Book, music, and movie junkie. Avid runner. Part-time cook.
Two creeds that I try to live by are: Stop Existing and Start Living & Love Wins. (more...)
Recent Comments