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February 28, 2006
But where's the princess?
Smoke & Mirrors - an unreleased Penn and Teller Sega video game.
Includes a level where you have to drive a bus sixteen hours real-time across the desert to win one point.
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Some guy trying to get one billion page views to win a bet.
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We are sinking (video - via Chris)
February 26, 2006
Movie view problems
Some Windows users seem to have problems watching the movies on my site. I got it to work fine with Firefox and the latest version of Quicktime. Anyone else have trouble but find a fix?
February 20, 2006
One person's trash...
As I was at *BLEEP* today working the cash register, doing a return on a 3-month ago purchased iTrip that I probably shouldn't have done (I just can't say no to about-to-yell-at-you-even-though-I'm-wrong customers), as a teenage girl hands me a small black Spencer's bag.
Girl: I found this over there.
Me: Thanks.
I put the bag on the counter behind me.
After the return, I talk things over with the assistant manager and another employee: The A.M. tells me he probably done the return differently, but oh well. Then he takes a look at the bag on the counter.
AM: What's this?
Me: Found item. I just stuck it there.
AM (looks in bag): Looks like garbage. (puts it in the pull-out garbage bin)
He goes in back room. Moments later.
Tween girl walks up.
Girl: Have you seen a Spencer's bag anywhere?
I look at the other employee still at the registers with me. He has to turn away to stop from busting out laughing..
Me: Uh... yeah....
I pull open the trash (she's not tall enough to see in).
Me (pulling it out of the trash): I think we've got it in our lost and found here....(hand it to her)
Girl: Thanks. (walks off)
Other employee and I burst into the back laughing our heads off.
All in a day's work.
D'oh!
Looks like NBC made YouTube take down all their Conan videos. Hope you got a chance to watch before they did.
February 19, 2006
Webb slinger
Check out this insane dunk by Nate Robinson over Spudd Webb. Second shortest ever slam dunk champion jumping over the shortest ever slam dunk champion.
February 17, 2006
Bandwagon <-- Jumped on (UHF movie trailer)
What I've been doing the past couple days (video).
Special thanks to Siskow, creative consultant.
Title: UHF movie trailer
February 15, 2006
fhqwhgads!
You can now subscribe to Strongbad emails (well, some older ones anyway) via iTunes. Open up iTunes,
go to Advanced ----> Subscribe to podcast
and paste this in:
http://podstar.homestarrunner.com/podcast.xml
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In other news, some more 1800 Seconds videos are now online.
February 13, 2006
How to make Garfield funny....
...remove his thought bubbles. (via Waxy)
February 10, 2006
Lucky's website
My pal Lucky Bird has taken up the new iLife '06 app iWeb and has created a new website with it. Check it out. Lucky likes the program a lot although he has to borrow my .Mac account to publish it. That's ok, though. He doesn't have much monetary income to subscribe to .Mac although he does have some good savings and a nice nest egg (boom ching).
February 08, 2006
Conanriffic
I've been tooling around YouTube today and wanted to share some of the best Conan O'Brien clips I've found (you've probably seen at least some of these)
Conan's First Show (Sept. 13, 1993)
Lookwell - a pilot made by Conan & Robert Smigel that never made it
Other fun links:
Ray Guy - Punting legend. 74-yard punt in junior high. 88-yard punt in high school. 93-yard punt in college. 619 NFL punts without a block (#2 to Tecmo Super Bowl player Chris Gardocki, currently of the Steelers) 61-yard field goal in college (in snow) 18 interceptions (college). Hit the scoreboard in the Superdome on a punt. Wow. (thanks to Siskow)
Really cool helicopter photos from Mexico City (and shows us that a .Mac homepage can survive a digg-ing)
February 02, 2006
When truth is funnier than fiction
Some faithful readers may have watched the 1800 Seconds clips I recently put online. Some of my favorite are the "Woodsie's Weather" segments. I was looking through the old tapes for more stuff to put online and came across the Woodsie's Weather where he falls in a swimming pool. Don't remember it on any of the clips? Yeah, it wasn't all that funny so I left it out. The idea was that he was at a pool doing a report and falls in. Then he sort of tries to do the report from the water. It looked good on paper but wasn't one of the funniest things we'd ever done.
Anyway, I kind of remembered Woodsie having some water in his ear or something so I emailed him:
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Langager
To: John (Woodsie) Woods
Sent: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:06:32 -0600
when you fell in the pool for woodsie's weather didn't you have water in your ear for a long time?
And his reply:
oh yes.
which caused a wax build-up...
which caused me to lose 90% hearing...
which caused a visit to student health where they filled my ears with a wax-softening solution that i had to keep in overnight.
fun fact: the morning i went back to student health to get my ears flushed was 9/11/01. i thought the entire morning was a dream. woke up in a daze, couldn't hear AT ALL, walked to student health, watched WTC go down on tv in the waiting room, had ears flushed, still couldn't hear, walked back to campus ave with cotton balls in ears, still basically deaf...
and when i walk up campus ave, there are 30 students and a teacher sitting in our lawn, drawing pictures of our house. not kidding.
"quite the lucid dream" thinks woodsie. "wonder how this one will end."