I love the 80's

I ran across this spoof video from the TV Show 'How I Met Your Mother'. I've never watched it, but have heard it can be funny.
This clip is about a Canadian Teen Pop Star in the Nineties going to the mall. Since this is what life looked like in my High School and at the local mall, I'd say they were ten years behind US.

For those of you in your thirties, you'll understand.


I can't decide if she reminds me more of Debbie Gibson or Tiffany :)

Pun Intended!

Ok, so if you like fish related puns, you need to watch this:


For that matter, even if you don't like fish related puns, you ought to watch this...it may change your mind.

Here's a little more fishy work that I loved growing up (without the Naruto video!)


Dr. Demento Rocked!

It's the little things

Kim started a job a few weeks ago. She works for a lady who cleans houses. It's a good job and she enjoys the work, and I enjoy the fact that we have extra income.

However, since she's been doing this, she goes into work much earlier. She used to be able to take our youngest son to school around the block.
Now, that job falls to me.
I realized this morning how much I'm enjoying this little thing.

The thing about it that I enjoy so much is, when I drop him off, he runs to the front door. Even if he's not late, he runs. I love that. I don't know why, but something about it strikes me as wonderful.
Now, you've got to understand that he's my son. That means that he's, um, less than graceful when he runs. That doesn't matter. I love to watch him as he's running to get to the school.

It reminds me of a time several years ago when Kim had a job working at the school and I was unemployed, finishing my degree. The twins were just 5 or 6 years old and I think still in pre-school. I would get them going in the morning and to this day some of my fondest memories in life is eating breakfast with them back then.

Some things sound stupid when you are young but as you age they become much more meaningful. "It's the little things that mean a lot" is one of them.

More school girl giggling

Happy Easter

BTW, Lagomorph is a geeky word for Rabbit.

It just makes me giggle like a school girl!

So, a week or so ago, my wife started the torture. It was simple enough:
"I bought you something. It should arrive in the mail in a few days."

Ok, so, now I NEED to know what it is. "Um, that's nice honey...what is it?"

Then came those words I've hated since I was old enough to want: "You'll have to wait and see!"

"wait and see?" "WAIT AND SEE!!!"
Seriously? Seriously.

So, yesterday, in the mail box, was a bubbly belemblelope with my cool whatever hidden inside.
She tossed to me as I quickly approached the door. I snatched out of mid-air, hurried in the house and ripped open the envelope like I was 10 and it was Christmas.

Inside was the coooooooolest T-Shirt you've ever seen! I actually asked for it for my birthday, but it was out of stock. My GREAT wife, waited till it came back around and got if for me. (collective AWWWEEE please)

(note to bloggers...this embedded picture is done using a new website called imgred.com. If you've ever wanted to embed pictures into your website/blog/myspace but were too polite to rip off thier bandwidth, you should check it out.)

They Might Be Giants

I'm not really into Geek Rock, but there are a couple of songs by the Geek Rock Band, They Might Be Giants that I like.

This one, like sunshine, always makes me smile.

Talkin' Baseball

For, lo, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth;
The time of the singing of birds is come,
And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

WooooHoooo!!! Today's the day. BASEBALL BASEBALL BASEBALL!!!
Opening Day. The biggest sports day in Detroit (followed closely by the NFL draft)!


Baseball is here again. It's spring, and summer is around the corner.
That means: golf, softball, golf, walks around the court, golf, bike rides and golf.

If you can't tell, I'm excited about Opening Day! The bible says "This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."
." Well, he made 365 1/4 of these a year, but only a few did he spend extra time on: Opening Day, June 29th and November 10th.

Last year, the Tigs did awesome. They won the American League Pennant, and made it to the World Series only to lose to a good Cardnial team (blech, yuck, eesh...excuse me while I go wash out my mouth).
I was so very sad to see that the Cards lost on thier opening day. Boo hoo. [insert evil laugh here]

Anyway, I'm not so sure the rain is over and gone, but flowers are appearing, birds are a singing and the words "PLAY BALL" are heard throughout the land today.
Go TIGERS

Scruffy Looking, Nerf Herding Playa' Hata

The family watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back tonight, and it sent me, as usual, down memory lane.

When I first started working at FoMoCo, I worked with a bunch of Star Wars fans. It was here that I was introduced to websites like Newgrounds, FlashRing and AtomFilms.
This was just after FLASH programming started to really catch on and tons of programmers spent countless hours coming up with unbelievably useless games and videos.
A lot of these videos were used by coders to sharpen their skills, and I'd bet many of these guys used their Flash Animations to help them get jobs.
Some of them were lame. Some were filthy. Some were just wrong.

However, some of them ended up being classics.

I don't remember which one of us found this video first*, but we watched it every chance we got. I've since passed it on to my kids, (not the website!!! It's been years since if surfed the site. It's SFW for the most part, but not really appropriate for kids**) who know the entire rap.

Enjoy:


Not only did budding coders create these to sharpen their Flash coding skills, but Photoshop skills too. Probably the biggest of the early COMBO vids was called All Ur Base R Belong 2 Us. This is an example of one of things that just caught on in the Nerd community. Both of these would probably be considered Viral Videos of their day.


*Young Chadwick probably found it first. A cool thing about Chad is that he's the ONLY person I've ever seen with a Tattoo of The New Republic Insignia. How cool is that!?!

**Whether or not it's appropriate for adults can be debated too!!!