Easily Amusing

Life in David Byrne's head must be like one long, continuous acid trip

ben — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:48:34 GMT

here he interviews himself for a concert... or... something.

Test

ben — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:06:09 GMT

this is a test... let's see if they can do this

The Wall

ben — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:07:08 GMT

The concert was EVEN BETTER this time.

Anything Can Be a Touch Screen Thanks to Disney Research

elfie — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:27:09 GMT

Because you don't have enough Billy Idol in your life, and you know it.

ben — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:26:21 GMT

I always knew the song was, you know, about robbing the cradle... of love... with rock... but... wow. This really kind of turns the story around. Sting must have been pissed when this came out.

"Same sex couples should be allowed to get married" - President Obama, just now

ben — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:17:18 GMT

that's some good news

Coding practice

n0manarmy — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:08:38 GMT

Any suggestion on good sites to use to practice coding? I found some java sites but they contain a lot of lessons that increase in difficulty. This made me think. Would there be a market for a site that allowed the community to submit either code snippets or program requests that the community could work on? Obviously it could be abused by homework requests or business requests but there would be attempts at controlling this abuse. There could be a community leader board for points for completion and/or rating of quality of work. The thought would be that the site would be a place that programmers of all ilk could go to regularly to work on a coding problem that would not be overly complex and time consuming in order to practice.

ok, the joke is getting old

ben — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:21:20 GMT

i'm too lazy to change the size on Rich's post, but not too lazy to ask you all to write some posts (that please fit the current site widths without breaking the design) to move it down, ;). so do that, please.

RvB Season 10 Trailer

ben — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:09:06 GMT

who's that voicing the Meta? ;)

Because when you are this bad ass, no default table size can hold you

rich — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:36:49 GMT

isn't there ANYONE that's caught up on Fringe?

ben — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:51:11 GMT

Seriously, WTF. I need to have some discourse, and there's no one to talk to!

Time to dig out my bike helmet...

ben — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:25:01 GMT

TURNTABLE RIDER created by COGOO from COGOO on Vimeo.

Looper Trailer

ben — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:20:12 GMT

Has this come up on anyone else's radar? Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that since Bruce Willis said he'd stop making action movies, he's made some of his best action movies ever?

I'm the One That's Cool

elfie — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:12:11 GMT

Currently #1 in Rock on Amazon Currently #3 in Rock on iTunes

Back Me Up here...

ben — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:23:18 GMT

I just got a new 2TB external HDD after my iomega 1TB croaked, and I'm looking to back up all 3 of our home PCs. They're connected wirelessly to the network, but one is running XP and the others are running win7. One box (running 7) is always on, the other two periodically. The awesome IT guy at work recommended Acronis which would cost $80 (on their site... Invisible Hand says Amazon has it cheaper) - has anyone used this? Do you recommend something else? The reviews online are all 5 star that I've found. I just want to make sure that my topography won't screw it up. That is all.

Damn.... that's cool!

ben — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:47:35 GMT

Lego has an Architect and a Landmark series of products now including but not limited to: The Guggenheim: The White House: And the Brandenburg Gate:

Phrases that I hate that I have no control over how much they're completely being changed...

ben — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:33:47 GMT

People create language, I accept that, but when you argue that it grows organically, I say that means that it grows - that is, it shouldn't regress, or move laterally even, but expand and grow.

A picture is sometimes worth slightly less than 1000 words

ben — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:45:42 GMT

For anyone to whom I've told the story about how I spent my new year's of 1999-2000 sleeping in my friend's Ford Bronco, which he then sold, and it was used in Ocean's Eleven... here is the car

Why I like Neil Degrasse Tyson, and why I agree that we should fund NASA more

ben — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:10:00 GMT

He makes a VERY good argument as to why NASA is important and how space exploration is a Good Thing

Eat Out Tokens

elfie — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:59:00 GMT

Pie and I keep trying to set limits on how often we eat out, both for our health and to save money. The last declaration was that we could eat out no more than once a week, which we both immediately independently decided meant "no more than once a week together." And yesterday we ate out (together) for every meal. So clearly that didn't work. So we've come up with a new plan that we're starting today... Every morning we each earn 1 Token, but we can never have more than 5 Tokens in our possession at a time (again, that's 5 each). Normally, eating out costs 2 Tokens, but it only costs 1 Token if any of the following conditions is met:

Neither of us is paying for the meal
The meal costs a total of 6 or less Weight Watchers Points
We are eating out together (it still costs us 1 Token each)

I'll try to post occasional updates on whether or not we are actually capable of following this. We just started today and I'm already 1 Token in the hole, and I expect to still be at -1 at the end of the week, but I'll post a follow-up comment shortly with how that math works out.