Amusing

Just enough truth to be funny.

In Fair Glendale, the Bard's Super Bowl Play

Oh my, was this an amusing way to wake up in the morning:

In Fair Glendale, the Bard's Super Bowl Play

Listen to the audio. The transcribed version doesn't do Sylvia Poggioli's performance justice.

TRP, for some reason this made me think of you. My apologies. ;-)

Two thoughts

This past weekend prompted two thoughts:

1. Flying in at oh-dark-thirty on Saturday, attending multiple family events (including a wake with 100+ people), and flying out late Sunday night produces a Monday morning feeling remarkably similar to an all-weekend party binge. One gets to pay the price without having the fun that would have gone with it.


2. California still sucks. If anything it sucks more now than it did 20 years ago.

Fair warning

Should anyone I know decide this is a good idea, prepare to be shunned after being mocked mercilessly:


Click through on the image and you can see the whole book. It's fascinating in a train-wreck sort of way.

Yes, it really is a real product from Microsoft. And yes, I might just have go all Gordon Freeman on it with a crowbar should I lay eyes upon it in your home.

As if there's any doubt ...

... why the US is hated by so much of the world.

(EDIT: apologies to any of you that saw an offensive pornographic image instead of the one above. Apparently the source of the image was replaced after I posted it here. Thanks to TRP for letting me know about it.)

Geekitude

98% Geek

Apple web site humor

Go to apple.com and enter "virus" in the search box. The little dynamic search popup is rather amusing:



Yes, that is a real screen snap from my own desktop.

Archaeological humor

Proof even academics have a sense of humor:

Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis
by Renée Friedman

Weighing the evidence for and dating of Solanum virus outbreaks in early Egypt

flickArr!

Ahoy! flickr.com's been impressed, mateys!


You can do it, too! Just go to flickr.com and click on the "Arr!" language link at the bottom of the page.

EmpowerMint!

Featured drink at the Portland Women's Crisis Line Gala next Friday is the EmpowerMint - vodka, lemonade and fresh mint. For each one sold the PWCL receives $3 (total cost is $7).

Mmmm ... sounds yummy. I've also heard a rumor that some of the Rose City Rollers will be present delivering drinks on skates(?!).

I am so there.


Ticket price: $25 in advance, $35 at the door
21 years & over, full bar
6:30pm-11pm
The Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St Portland OR 97212