Giving him the Business

Ron Cherry, a notoriously awful ACC football official made a hilarious call in Saturday's Maryland game when he explained the personal foul:



Apparently, this phrase was first used by another official a while back:

HD

I was sitting in my kitchen watching t.v. on our 22-inch CRT tube. Then it occured to me: I always watch tv in my kitchen. Whenever we have company, we watch tv in our kitchen. So, we did something about it. We bought a new 26" LCD 720p HDTV and mounted it on our kitchen wall!!!

Man, is it beautiful. I lament watching shows in "low definition" now. I bought an antenna and pick up CBS, FOX and NBC all in HD now. AND, if I go to www.abc.com, I can watch any TV show in HD as well! I love watching even crappy shows if it means I can view it in high def. Football weekends are the best. I'm an addict, an HD junkie.

Theremin

I was inspired by amillionmonkey's latest post on a robotic Gnarles Barkley cover of Crazy and searched out all of these youtube videos done with the theremin instrument:

Don't Tase Me, Bro!

Well, noone else posted this:



Shame on you, University of Florida and shame on you, John Kerry, for allowing these rent-a-cops with tasers to violate this student.

One More Time

Heard this cover on Sirius radio. Found it on youtube:

Freestyle Food Order

A friend of mine sent this to me. Absolutely awesome!

U.S. Maps

Thank you, Miss South Carolina, for making us proud!

supercentarian

The world's oldest woman, Yone Minagawa, passed away at the ripe old age of 114. I have to agree- it seems that title is cursed!

My 98-year old great grandmother is waiting in the shadows...

The Price is Drew!

Well, it seems they've decided to finally bury that corpse Bob Barker once and for all. Will the "spade & neuter" phrase be retired as well, I wonder?

Twisted Misters

Well, the World Series of Pop Culture Season 2 is upon us!

Right now, I'm pulling for "Twisted Misters".

Get Your Hot Dogs!

Congratulations to Joey Chestnut for defeating Kobyashi! Having an American bring it home on Independence Day brings a tear to my eye.

"Normally, I wouldn't play into it at all," Chestnut said of the nationalist thump. "But on the Fourth of July - anything you do on the Fourth of July you feel patriotic about."

For Kids By Kids

Man, I am loving theOnion's new video segments:


Gap Unveils New 'For Kids By Kids' Clothing Line

Prolific Bob

Sent by a good friend of mine, this video clip is definitive proof of how Bob Dylan is responsible for every hit song in the past 35 years:

No Direction, Period

Scones

One of the great pleasures in life.

Ohio State Uses T-Shirt Blaster To Pass Out Diplomas

[from TheOnion: http://www.theonion.com/content/from_print/ohio_state_uses_t_shirt]

Paris Hil-JUN!

Violat-JUN Of Probat-JUN for intoxicat-JUN. Not good for heiress of large fort-JUN. Paris says she'll pay more attent-JUN. 45 days in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass pris-JUN!

Meet Susana

Since I decided to join the MySpace community, you'd never believe the number of slutty new women friends I have! In fact, they have all asked to be my friend, can you believe that? Take Susan, for example. She happens to live in Clemson, too, and "[likes] people who like to try new things and who can bring that side of [her]". What are the odds of finding such a gem?

Strangely, though, she has some sort of fetish with new MySpace layouts, available at freemyspacelayouts.org. Weird huh?

Ted's Band

Ted's Band is one the best parts of watching the T.V. series Scrubs. He's the local hospital lawyer, who's too timid and clumbsy to win any case, but he has a secret life in his a cappella band. Here is a compilation of his songs:

Easter Weekend

It's not very "Easter-y", but this is what my nephew's arm looked like Friday night after he went running down the stairs. He couldn't really remember (or didn't want to) what actually happened. Needless to say, his hand was attached to the rest of his arm by skin and tendons. My wife had to leave the room before she got sick and I was so awestruck, I didn't know what to do. And I thought I had parenting down..

Other than that, it was great to see all of my new nephews and nieces. Even at 3 months, our little Olivia was still not the youngest.

What do Utah, Brains and the Goo Goo Dolls Have in Common?

I've spent all week at brainshare, a Novell technology conference. It's well known for nerdy commercial spoofs (SuSE), free food and spifs, and a Thursday night tradition called "Meet the Experts" (a.k.a "beat the geeks") in which customers who have consumed one too many beers asks all sorts of questions to the techies about why things were done the way they were done in our software products. Each year on Wednesday night, they have a band and a comedian perform. This year it was the Goo Goo Dolls. Turns out, they sing a whole lot more than I thought I remembered.

Oh, and I got to try a $65 bone-aged filet mignon at Spencer's. Yummmmmmy!