12 posts tagged “funny”
Listening to a recent audio interview Laura Ingraham had with Geraldo (!), two thoughts came to mind.
#1. Throwing a swipe at other news casters... Geraldo doesn't really come from a spotless background, and hearing him attacking other people for sensational coverage is Hi-Lar-I-Ous.
#2. I'd love to hear him get interviewed by Hugh Hewitt - one of the best interviewers working in the press today. Of course, Geraldo would never do it.
The audio is here.
I'm pretty sure that someone has already done something like this, but here's the idea I had after a rare nap.
I've been using twitter a lot lately (http://twitter.com/madpoet). And upon waking, I thought to myself "I never get a nap - I need to twitter this, but I need to make it fun". And because most of the people I twitter with are, well, a little geeky (with some notable exceptions), I came up with the idea to start twittering as though I was playing a CCG - a Collectible Card Game. CCGs include such games as Magic the Gathering, Pokemon CCG, and Yu-Gi-Oh. Most parents will be conversant with the idea, because their kids will keep begging them for cards.
So far, here's the cards I've come up with.
1) Nap. Status: Rare. Effect: roll 1d6=turns skipped. Add 1 happy token for each turn skipped. (I was really tired today).
2) Luby's. Draw and play 3 food cards. 2x penalty for dessert. +1 happy token.
3) Grump! Due to lack of sleep, you are easily annoyed. Happy token penalties are at +1. Countered by Sleep or Blow Stuff Up. (Both Sleep and Blow Stuff Up would also be cards I'd have in my imaginary game. Sleep is obvious, and ends the day's game, Blow Stuff Up would translate to the real world as a session of Supreme Commander - even though I REALLY need to upgrade my computer to get the most out of it).
Show us the one thing that unfailingly makes you smile, no matter what.
Submitted by Sourire
When my kid is being funny, she's hilarious.
Well, it's done. All done. Results are expected on May 4th. In the meantime, I need to sign up for the MPRE, and study for that. But not tonight.
I don't know that I mentioned it anywhere else, but I thought I'd take a minute and relate an interesting thing that happened to me last year.
It was the middle of the second day of the test, and I was sitting off to the side, eating my lunch when a man came up and started talking to me. I didn't know this guy from Adam, and he starts talking about issues and questions and all these things that happened in the Multistate that day. And I nodded and listened, and offered some commiseration. And I don't know how we got on the subject, but all of a sudden he started bad mouthing conservative judges in Texas, and conservative lawyers, and conservatives in general. Somehow, Alberto Gonzalez came up, and... well... I kept on nodding and listening. And he's joking with me about how he'll nod and agree with conservative bosses, keeping his true politics close to the vest.
And, well, the other day I started thinking about it. Now, I'm an Idaho farm boy. Growing up on a potato farm in Idaho around some very, VERY conservative people has left its mark. I'm pretty conservative. And a believer that America is a pretty special place. But for some reason, this guy was very comfortable spouting off a left-wing rant at me. So, do I give off some kind of crazy, liberal vibe? Or am I just a good listener?
Hmmm... I was even wearing my "Peace through Superior Firepower" shirt. Although to be fair, I was sitting with my back to a concrete pillar, so he probably didn't see it.
Just thought I'd throw this up here. In this quick 'cast, the geek is reminded that he should follow his own advice re: long grass and velociraptors.
Yeah, earlier this week someone called me a Nazi. Of course, it was in an online message board (everyone should listen to Jason Rennie's "The Sci Phi Show", and check the forums!). Which means that the guy who did it automatically loses the argument, right? Not that I expect that someone who would do that would know good internet message board ettiquite.
And then yesterday, I went to Parent Teacher Conference. And found out that my daughter wants to be a rock star, and a scientist. And the first thing that went through my head is...
Oh my heck, she wants to be Buckaroo Bonzai!
I'm still trying to figure out if her desire to be a scientist/rock star is more disturbing than the association I made.
So, sometime in the next 24 hours or so, I'll have a special mini-cast for GSG out, explaining the relationship between supervillains and overnight shipping services. Then, later this week, a regular episode of GSG explaining how to survive an attack from Giant Rubbery Japanese Monsters (or Kaijuu).
I have a new episode of LOR - Captain Blood recorded, and will be editing that and releasing it, also within the next 24 hours, with a follow up of LOR - Princess of Mars to follow quickly behind.
And then I'll be getting into a regular schedule. GSG has been pretty good so far, one episode every two weeks, short episodes, etc. LOR has faded, but will be brought back this week, and I'll start kicking that one along more regularly.
Meanwhile, the job search begins again, and I owe a certain raccoon a lot of bells. If you play Mario Kart DS, look for GSGuide out there on the tracks. I am HORRIBLE at this game, so if you want to rack up some fairly easy wins, contact me for a friend code and I'll see what I can do to accomodate you. Likewise if you might be interested in some AC:WW peaches.
If we did suspend the writ of habeus corpus, of course, the people who would complain loudest would be the newspaper reporters. And then they'd be sent to jail. And then what would they do? I mean, we suspended the writ of habeus corpus, right?
For some reason, that thought struck me as oddly funny this morning.
So, I took my daughter to see Monster House tonight. Which was a lot of fun. She just dropped this note off at my office door and ran to bed. And I just had to share. The sad thing is... I really am the pest dad.
Episode 3 of Geek Survival Guide is up. In this episode, we talk about how to survive the rampaging of a Homicidal Maniac, possibly masked, possibly knife-wielding, possibly immortal.
The file is here, and the 'cast is hosted at gsguide.blogspot.com. In two weeks, how to survive Vampires. I'm looking for ideas for topics and survival tips, so if you have any, send 'em my way!
