Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category

As I recover from my written comps…

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

…here’s a really cool remix of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos with an autotuner (featuring guest artist Stephen Hawking).

I’ll be back to my usual erudite and brilliant self sometime in the next few days, hopefully.

Two cool videos

Monday, June 29th, 2009

One real, one fake.

This one is real… a guy on a Japanese TV show using a samurai sword to slice a baseball.

That reminded me of this second video, which is fake, but would have been the most awesome thing ever if it were real… Bruce Lee playing ping-pong with nunchucks (and then lighting matches with them).

The funniest thing I’ve seen all day

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

If you haven’t seen Jon Hodgman’s nerd roast of Barack Obama at the Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner, you really need to… if for no other reason than to see the President throw up the Vulcan hand sign.

A Quick Note

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The Coen Brothers’ first movie, shot with their 8mm camera when they were children, was entitled Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go.

Is there a title any more rife with possibilities?

Trailer for Rock Band: The Beatles

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Wow. This trailer is incredible. At about the 1:30 mark, it blows your mind.

Makes me want to get an X-Box…

It’s confirmed: Chipotle is coming to Columbia Heights!

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

…or so says Prince of Petworth.

In 3-4 months, I’m going to have a Chipotle four blocks away from me. There goes the whole “getting in shape” thing.

Now all I need is a Skyline in DC… then I’ll have no reason to go outside the Beltway ever again.

The Future of DDR?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Just make the keyboard a bit smaller – maybe 6′ wide, which might mean only two octaves in order to have keys that are still big enough to fit the average foot (each white key would be about 4.8″ wide) – and I think you’ve got the next DDR or Rock Band on your hands…