Sigh, intolerance and bigotry really make me sad.

Oh, shut up, you yobbo.

Ah, I love donating blood. It’s like a free medical diagnostic plus cookies.

Hilarity is almost getting kicked back for a) body temperature too low and them b) hemoglobin too HIGH. But on the bright side, BP has gone down and cholesterol levels have dropped significantly in the past four months.

Being healthy rules!

All right, is there a rule on what order IMDB lists cast members? By total screentime, whoever has the most lines?

2fer

Why would someone want to eat a bull’s testicle?

Following Gary Whitta on twitter is a ton of fun
I highly recommend it. For example: garywhitta: Dinner tonight consists of New York strip steak and creamed spinach!

How good is that?

Naming kittens Mephisto, Diablo, and Baal: good idea, or awesome idea?

Why didn’t anyone tell me stunt kites were so much fun?

We’re out in the Outer Banks this week, and today we bought kites and went out to the dunes at Jockey’s Ridge to fly them. We got a basic kite shaped like a fish to amuse our kid, and a beginner’s two-line stunt kite for me to experiment with.

Took me a while to figure out how to do something with it other than crash it into the dune at high speed, but once I did I was completely hooked. Holy crap is that fun.

I have not been able to get this Lady Gaga/Judas Priest mashup out of my head. I’m considering trepannation with a letter opener.

I accidentally faxed a “unsubscribe” form to their voice sales number instead of the unsubscribe fax line. I was a bit busy but I kept hearing an exasperated voice pickup and say “hello hello” each time it dialed.

I think this may be my new modus operandi, it’s not like they’ll actually unsubscribe me off their fax spam.

Why do they call it a “meteoric rise”? Meteors do quite the opposite.

It’s a reference to how meteors flashing across the sky suddenly brighten up (and then dim out) as they skip through the atmosphere. So a “meteoric rise” is used to indicated a sudden, very quick rise to prominence.

Like many such phrases, it isn’t really being used correctly from a grammer standpoint, but that’s how language evolves.

I don’t know what’s more responsible for my headache: The cider, the new optical prescription, or this appalling mid-90s Euro Dance-pop playlist.

What happened to Fun Factory, anyway? And when the hell did their name get so not safe to Google?

This is the most awesomely sauced idea I have seen in recent years.

I lost both my grammers a while back, though, they did both live into their 80s.

Why the fuck do people insist on buying huge lawn tractors for small (<1 acre) suburban lots? Is it that hard to push a regular lawn mower?

OK, the state of Ohio definitely shows up on World’s Dumbest more than most other states. I don’t know if it is the MOST common state, but it appears once or more per show, on average. It’s amazing how accurate that is, actually. My wife and I watch it a lot, and almost every episode has at least one Ohio incident. Many have two or more. Perhaps it’s just a high population state. After all, Texas is on there a good bit, and Florida and CA. Or maybe we have more cameras around, or our police are more willing to share footage with television. I don’t know, but it’s gotten pretty funny.

Florida does seem to show up on those rather frequently.

Saw in my RSS reader that Steam has a new game called “Engine Driver: Drive a Steam Train”. I kinda thought the title was funny until I saw this pic:

That fucker is SERIOUS about trains, yo, and will cut you if you don’t drive it right, son.