I posted this last year, but mortuus reminded me again of its awesomeness. For those that don’t see the embedding, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA9NbPAK8o .
So what are we going to do? What else. Email (post) it for all of our friends.
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You better get them to sign it in the next couple of days…
Written By: cahwyguy
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Fri Jul 03, 2009 @ 12:13 pm PDT
In honor of the upcoming holiday…
Narrator: The trouble continued to brew. It was a time for action, a time for words. On a hot July night in 1776, Benjamin Franklin was aroused from his work by the call of destiny.
חג פסח שמח
Written By: cahwyguy
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Wed Apr 08, 2009 @ 4:38 pm PDT
As Pesach gets closer (just finished making the charoset… and the table is set…. next is filling out the seder plate….), I wish you all a happy Passover.
In the spirit of the day:
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The matzah, the farfel, the charoset I ate,
After both the Sedarim, had gone to my waist.
When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked over to shul (less a walk than a lumber),
I remembered the marvelous meals I’d prepared;
The turkey with gravy, the beef nicely rared,
The wine and the matzo balls, the Migdal pareve cheese
The way I’d never said, “I’ve had enough; no more, if you please.”
As I tied myself into my apron again
I spied my reflection and disgustedly, then
I said to myself, “you’re such a weak wimp”,
“You can’t show up at shul resembling a blimp!”
So-away with the last of the meatballs so sweet,
Get rid of the turkey, chopped liver and meat.
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
“Till all the additional ounces have vanished.
I won’t have any more macaroons from the box,
I can’t wait til next week. (Ah, the bagels and lox.)
I won’t have any luchen, farfel or pt’chah,
I’ll munch on a carrot or wire shut my own jaw.
It’s a three day yom tov and shabbas is still
Ahead of me with another fleshiks meal to fulfill.
If I have to cook one more chicken, I think I will riot.
So a zisn pesach to you all and to all a good diet!
P.S.: For another great Passover picture, see this.
The Truth Will Out
Written By: cahwyguy
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Wed Apr 01, 2009 @ 8:35 pm PDT
Boy, some folks are gullible:
- No, I’m not shaving my beard. My wife would kill me.
- No, A-B InBev isn’t losing a factory to foreclosure. However, they are having a furniture clearance sale.
- No, if you get laid off you still have to return that Porn DVD. You can, however, keep your GM car for a few extra months.
Alas, all of the other stories were true. There will be a musical about Herbert Hoover that isn’t “Annie”. April is National Grilled Cheese month. A company in Japan is introducing loinclothes for women… and the Presidio will soon be home to a Walt Disney Museum.
Chum Chowder, Because It Is Friday
Written By: cahwyguy
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Fri Mar 20, 2009 @ 8:01 pm PDT
Yes, I’m back home from Colorado Springs. Bad headache this morning, but once that was knocked down… so far, so good. So here’s some chum for your late Friday dinner:
- From the “Every Day is Special” Department: Today is National Corndog Day. Aren’t you glad I bring you the information you need?
- From the “Don’t Do It In New Jersey” Department: First, you can’t pump your own gas in New Jersey. Now you soon may not be able to get a Brazialian Bikini Wax. Where are the protests about freedom in New Jersey?
- From the “It’s Back” Department: Sugar is replacing HFCS in more and more beverages. About time.
C’mon, you know you want a piece… and it’s cheaper than Du-Pars
Written By: cahwyguy
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Sat Mar 14, 2009 @ 8:58 am PDT
3.1415926535 And There’s More
Three and Three Meme – Response to fauxklore
Written By: cahwyguy
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Sat Jan 31, 2009 @ 6:48 am PDT
The Meme: “Make a comment in this entry. I’ll go to your profile, pick 3 userpics and interests , and then you explain them in your journal.”
fauxklore picked the following:
| Don Martin. How appropos that fauxklore would pick this image on this day, of all days? I say this because this userpic is a picture of a character drawn by Don Martin, the artist from Mad Magazine. January 31st is a day that, for the longest time, honored Mr. Martin’s creation. In the 1963 Signet paperback original, DON MARTIN BOUNCES BACK!, there is a story starring Fester Bestertester and his pal Karbuncle, called, fittingly enough, “National Gorilla Suit Day”. To celebrate National Gorilla Suit Day, the tradition is to dress up in a gorilla suit and make a door-to-door trek around the neighborhood. But as Fester Bestertester noted, “Everybody knows it’s just a ploy by the gorilla suit companies to sell their products!”
In any case, National Gorilla Suit Day was championed by mark_evanier… but in November 2007, Mark reported that Don Martin’s widow had requested the day no longer be celebrated. Further, our leading “monkey in a suit” has left office. So, this userpic remains to honor Don Martin, National Gorilla Suit Day, and all the Fester Bestertesters of the world.
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| Tombstones. This picture was adapted from a picture of Civil War Tombstones, and is used for posts where I am either discussing recent obituaries or death. I find obituaries interesting, primarily because the human mind tends to detect patterns in death, and seems to group them in threes. Thus, the death trifecta is born… building a strong of three related deaths. | |
| Edward-Littlehazy. Edward is a representative of a series of cartoons I drew in high school and college called “The Droopouts”. Edward was a professor at Droopouts University. He is a more generic icon (and one I don’t use all that often, as I should really redraw him or use a scan instead). I think he sorta looks like me. |
Now, on to the interests. All three were picked the last time I did this meme:
- bell-lapadula. This refers to the classic paper by David Bell (a really neat fellow) and Len LaPadula about the policy for multilevel security. It defined the basic lattice model for confidentiality of labels, as well as the simple security property and the *-property. A fundamental of computer security.
- shep cooke. Shep Cooke is a folk singer who sang many years ago with Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys. A biography states:
As a member of the legendary “Stone Poneys,” Shep Cooke performed with Linda Ronstadt for several years – from high school days thru network appearances on Joey Bishop and Johnny Carson (he played bass). Shep has done guitar and vocal work on major album releases by Tom Waits, the Floating House Band and Linda Ronstadt, as well as featured solo act appearances in concerts with Roger Miller, Marty Robbins, Tanya Tucker, Tom Waits, John David Souther and others.
I saw Shep many many years ago at McCabes, and I still love his albums. He hasn’t done anything in years.
- zen driving. Have you ever gotten in a car and driven, just for the fun of it. Just to see where the road takes you. That’s zen driving, and its just wild fun to do. Pick a street near you, and drive it end to end. Make a right, and keep going. Take that side road… you’ll never know what you might find.
Finding the Right Words
Written By: cahwyguy
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Fri Jan 16, 2009 @ 11:21 am PDT
- From the “Rogets” Department: Thanks to fauxklore, I know that today is Thesaurus Day, celebrating the birthday of the author of Roget’s Thesaurus. Peter Roget was born on this day in 1779. How do I feel about the day? I’m having trouble picking the right word to describe it. (Ooops. It’s really 1/18.)
- From the “Passings, Part I” Department: In this economy, Fridays seem to bring more and more news about corporate passings. Today’s news include the powering off of all Circuit City locations (I must remember to look for a good digital camera); the charring of Black Angus Restaurants, the express-lane-checkout of the Citigroup Financial Supermarket idea, the “30” coming closer at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, staff clearance at Saks and Neiman Marcus, and Hertz is kicking more than 4,000 people to the side of the road. Need I go on?
- From the “Passings, Part II” Department: On the human side, there are also notable passings. Trammel Crow (and earlier, Harold Ellis of Grubb and Ellis) are no longer developing. The creative spark has left Andrew Wyeth, the painter and John Mortimer, creater of The Rumpole. Yup, two more incomplete trifectas, two trilogies that are short their last book.