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Random Thoughts from 25-35 Year Olds

February 11th, 2010 by Josh

This is blatantly ripped off from somewhere else. I don’t know the original source. Someone on Yelp claimed she got it in an email forward, so I can’t attribute this to its author. Also, this is not to say that I am or am not in the age range mentioned, I just found I could relate to many of these. With no further ado, the list:

  • More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
  • Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
  • I don’t understand the purpose of the line, “I don’t need to drink to have fun.” Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they’ve invented the lighter?
  • Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
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This one’s for the ladies

November 17th, 2009 by Josh

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101 Muppets of Sesame Street

July 15th, 2009 by Josh

101 Muppets of Sesame Street | National Post.

This brings me back to my childhood. Which wasn’t that long ago…

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Poetry

June 23rd, 2009 by Josh

More funny from Savage Chickens.

Savage Chicken cartoon with Poet-Bot reciting Roses are Red in its own special way

It’s good because it appeals to multiple kinds of geeks.

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Here Piggy Piggy!

May 7th, 2009 by Josh

I found these boxes in the back of a local Mexican restaurant. I can only assume they are boxes of swine flu.

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Obama vs. Pirates

April 16th, 2009 by Josh

Basically, it seems that President Obama is kicking ass in the pirate department.

Presidential Pirate Kills
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Ripped off from here, possibly ripped off from here before that.

Yarrr!

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Briefly

March 12th, 2009 by Josh

No, this isn’t a post about underwear… I’m too lazy to write full-blown blog entries, so I’m just posting some brief snippets of things that I find interesting right now.

  • Tomorrow is Friday the 13th, the second one in a row.
  • The day after is Pi Day! I plan to celebrate by eating pie. Maybe I’ll even calculate the circumference and area of the pie before I eat it! What are your plans?
  • I haven’t really seen Peanut Butter Twix–which was one of my favorites–in a long time. Apparently they were discontinued for awhile, but were brought back briefly and then were discontinued again. Anyway, I was excited to see a commercial for Twix PB. This candy is like Peanut Butter Twix, but with a chocolate cookie part instead of the vanilla cookie in the original. It appears that Twix PB was introduced in 2007, yet I don’t remember ever seeing one. What’s up with that? Of course this “new” candy is getting mixed reviews, so I’ll have to try to find one to taste it for myself.
  • The Sears Tower is going to be renamed. The fuck? Hell no, we won’t go (along with that bullshit)! OK so Sears hasn’t had any offices in the building for a long time, and lost naming rights a few years ago. I don’t care. I don’t even associate the Tower with the stupid stores. The Sears Tower is an icon. You don’t rename a mother-fucking icon (nor paint it silver)! I will not call it by its new name, Willis Tower. The name was given away to a British insurance company who will be occupying a relatively small amount of space in the building (though it will be the largest new tenant since 2001). I guess management really is desperate for tenants.
  • I’m sick of fucking winter weather!

Thank you, that is all.

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Zombies make everything better!

February 2nd, 2009 by Josh

Coming soon to a bookstore near you, a new and improved literary classic. . .

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action.

By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

I think I’ll have to suggest this for my book club as soon as it’s available (after April 15th).

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We come in peace, shoot to kill

January 25th, 2009 by Josh

Here’s an oldie-but-goodie (though I don’t recall having seen the video before) that came up at game night, while playing Mag Blast. I’m sharing it here so you all can get it stuck in your head too.

Or go to the youtube page for a larger video.

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Patching Democracy

January 22nd, 2009 by Josh

In part 2 of my 1461 part series, I will address… nothing. There isn’t really a series. That was a joke, carried over from yesterday.

Speaking of jokes, here is a set of fake patch notes for the US Democracy Server, a play on World of Warcraft patch notes. Being the WoW geek that I am, I found this rather amusing.

The whole thing is worth a read, but here are a couple favorites:

President

  • Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence was not being properly applied.
  • A bug has been fixed that allowed the President to ignore the effects of debuffs applied by the Legislative classes.

Vice President

  • The Vice President has been correctly reclassified as a pet.
  • The Vice President will no longer aggro on friendly targets. This bug was identified with Ranged Attacks and the Head Shot ability.
  • A rendering bug was affecting the Vice President’s visibility, making him virtually invisible to the rest of the server. This has been addressed.

Homeland Security

  • Homeland Security Advisory System: We have identified a bug in this system that prevents the threat level from dropping below Elevated (Yellow). The code for Guarded (Blue) and Low (Green) has been commented out. We are testing the fix and hope to have it in by the next patch.
  • Item: Large Bottle of Water is incorrectly generating threat with TSA Agents when held in inventory. We are looking into the issue.

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