Internet Memes

Feel like you've been missing out on the memes that people refer to on the internet.

Check this out, a timeline of internet memes

http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes

Enjoy, and keep on talking like a pirate today.

YARRRRRRR!!!!!

I'm still here,
Pearce

Avast!

Me hearties... it be Talk like a Pirate day.

You know what to do.

If you don't, well then look it up, and have fun.

I'm still here,
Pearce

Make with the Ha Ha already!

Allrighty folks, get your bookmark

Little Becky - Prank Phone Calls.
The sweetest girl you've heard, makes prank phone calls. My favorite is Becky calling the demolition company... to blow up her school.

http://www.johntedwards.com/2006/10/15/little-irish-girl-prank-calls/
http://www.johntedwards.com/2006/11/03/more-becky-the-prank-caller/

As for work... feeling a lot better now that I don't have to do this sort of thing... anymore. Found this off of a link from Fark.com, read for the war stories, then go rent Clerks.
http://www.customerssuck.com/
http://www.customerssuck.com/strip/index.php?date=2006-04-16

And geek reading to keep me distracted from the cravings... in no particular order.
http://www.leasticoulddo.com/
NSFW? They recently had an open casting call for the voice of the main character, I recorded off a quick demo and sent it off. No word as of yet, who they cast... Not keeping my fingers crossed, but how cool would that be?

http://www.sluggy.com
Sluggy freelance has been around quite a while now, huge readership, take a week off and start from the first strip.

http://www.pvponline.com
This strip keeps improving, wish my writing style would have such an acceleration curve.

http://xkcd.com/
is sometimes obscure, other times it really is laugh out loud... then get ready to explain it to people who just don't get it.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/
For all your video gaming comic needs, definitely NSFW

http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/index.htm
For all your D20 gaming comic needs

I'm still here,
Pike

P.S. I know it's a bunch of links for the post, but I look at it this way... If I can help someone distract themselves from their cravings by getting them to read humor, the world will be a little better place, one chuckle at a time.

Meter Flash!
I have not smoked for two months, one week, four days, 13 hours, 27 minutes and 48 seconds. That's 870 cigarettes not smoked, saving $383.12, which will be spent on my geek stuff. As well, 3 days, 30 minutes of my Life saved so I can catch up on movie watching.

Short and to the point

"We're saving it for posterity."
"Someone get on the phone and call Posterity. Tell him to bring a truck so he can pick his crap up."

-Myself, on news that we were holding onto old electronics for future reference that no one will look at ever again and not disposing of them.

How to Survive a Horror Movie and How to be an effective Evil Overlord

The following is not my list at all, just culled up from the internet. I do think that one day I can do up a british style comedy/farce using the information from these lists. If I ever get the time to do one up.

The following links are for entertainment, (aka they should make you laugh, grin or smile) and if you are like me, would probably like to get some of these put onto a t-shirt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Overlord_List
http://www.globalguardians.com/eviloverlordwiki.html
http://www.eviloverlord.com/
http://www.sff.net/paradise/overlord.html

Just to give you a taste of what's in store... here's how to survive a horror movie.
http://forums.timesdaily.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7341022675/m/2551074877/r/4801005877

17. When it appears that you have killed the monster, *never* check to see if it's really dead.

16. If your companions suddenly begin to exhibit uncharacteristic behavior such as hissing, fascination for blood, glowing eyes, increasing hairiness, and so on, get away from them as fast as possible.

15. Do not search the basement, especially if the power has just gone out.

14. Beware of strangers bearing tools such as chainsaws, staple guns, hedge trimmers, electric carving knives, combines, lawnmowers, butane torches, soldering irons, band saws, or any device made from deceased companions.

13. If appliances start operating by themselves, move out.

12. Stay away from certain geographical locations, some of which are listed here: Amityville, Elm Street, Transylvania, Nilbog (you're in trouble if you recognize this one), the Bermuda Triangle, or any small town in Maine.

11. If your children speak to you in Latin or any other language which they should not know or if they speak to you using a voice which is other than their own, shoot them immediately. It will save you a lot of grief in the long run. NOTE: It will probably take several hundred rounds to kill them, so be prepared!

10. If you're running from the monster, expect to trip or fall down at least twice, more if you are of the female persuasion. Also note that, despite the fact that you are running and the monster is merely shambling along, it's still moving fast enough to catch up with you.

9. When you have the benefit of numbers, *never* pair off and go it alone.

8. Do not take *anything* from the dead.

7. As a general rule, don't solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.

6. Don't fool with recombinant DNA technology unless you're sure you know what you are doing.
5. Never stand in, on, above, below, beside, or anywhere near a grave, tomb, crypt, mausoleum, or other house of the dead.

4. Never read a book of demon summoning aloud, even as a joke.

3. If your car runs out of gas at night, do not go to the nearby deserted-looking house to phone for help.

2. If you're searching for something which caused a noise and find out that it's just the cat, *leave the room immediately if you value your life.*

and last but not least...

1. If you find a town which looks deserted, it's probably for a reason. Take the hint and stay away!

Musing thoughts for a Friday

Random Thought #1 - Pants is singular. To have more than one pair, it's still called pants, not pantii, or pantses. When referring to the legs, it's pant leg. When referring to pockets, it's pants pockets. There is no reference or phrase to describe the zipper, it's not the pants zipper, it's the zipper or fly. Even when they are buttons, it's a button fly. Perhaps I should be wearing a kilt.You know what's worn under a kilt? Nothing.

Nothings worn, it's all in good working condition.



Random Thought #2 - I've had a song stuck in my head for the past couple of days. In my head, I hear ' One for the ro-oh-oh-oad.' So that's what I've been looking for... do you know how many songs have that in their lyrics? I knew it was from the 70's but couldn't put my finger on it, sounded so generically 70's that no one part of what I had stuck in my head was identifying the artist. So, do a search with it in for chorus... sure enough.... Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle.

Lido, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh....He said, "one more job oughta get it""One last shot, we quit it""One more for the road"

Is this another sign of getting older? Definitely have to regularly taking my gingko biloba. My brain maybe a gun, and my words are bullets, but it really doesn't help if the gun gets rusty.


Random Thought #3 - I miss drive in theaters.


Random Thought #4 - Found this on a site, Billy Connoly (master humorist) had this handed to him as well, I've altered it a bit, but one day this will be on my business card. I may change the header in my blog to read the following.
Seeker Of The Peace. Part Time Chandelier Cleaner. A Legend In His Own Time. Oppressor Of Champions. Soldier of Fortune. World Traveller. All Round Good Guy. Progressive Time Traveller. International Lover. Casual Hero. Philosopher. Wars Fought, Bears Wrestled, Equations Solved, Virgins Enlightened, Revolutions Quelled, Tigers Castrated, Orgies Organized, Bars Quaffed Dry, Governments Overrun, Test Rockets Flown, Wives Tamed. Part time member of the Liquitarian Society of Saskatoon. (For proof of any of the listed abilities, please send 10 dollars to my paypal account, you may not get the proof, but I could use the money.) Life is a waste of time.
Time is a waste of life.
Get wasted all the time.
And you'll have the time of your life.


Random Thought #5 - Computer social networking... The AS3 network of recovering non-smokers have helped me out a lot, I probably would still be smoking if it wasn't for the fact that they were there. But somehow I got sucked into facebook, found a whole lot of people I have drifted away from. Not on purpose, but it does happen regardless of how much you put ties down. Families drift apart, friends have to move away, intrests change. Scariest part is... I'm seeing people now from my hometown, that I remember were in Kindergarten. Yep, another liver spot just burst out from the back of my hands, and another hair just went grey. How long will facebook last? I don't know, seems that everyone was MySpace'ing it a year ago. Another fad? Maybe... it might end up becoming like ICQ, or Powwow. I miss using Powwow, it was better than ICQ as you could send people sound files, and when you played them on your computer, it would play on theirs. Also had a smaller footprint for memory consumption.Hopefully it will stick around, but in the meantime, I'm up there. And for those people who are wondering were I am...

I'm still here,
Pike

My smober meter reads... One month, two weeks, one day, 6 hours, 12 minutes and 7 seconds. 555 cigarettes not smoked, saving $266.45. Life saved: 1 day, 22 hours, 15 minutes.

Strange things to do on a Tuesday night...

Removing about a pound of lint from the clothes dryer and exhaust hose.

Living in a condo, does not allow for much space. The apartment that myself, wife and kidlet are in, doesn't have a laundry room, so much as... laundry closet. Standard sized dryer and washer have about an away from each other and another 2 inches away from the walls. So in order for me to get to the back of the dryer, I have to pull the dryer out of it's spot, thus dividing the laundry closet into quarters. I have to crawl across the top of the washer, then contort my body so I don't slam my head and/or scrape the top two layers of skin off my face or chest. If I were Jackie Chan, I could do a forward diving flip and land neatly into that spot.

Once I'm back there, it's one of those kind of jobs once you start it, you want to finish it. So got the tools out, and I'm elbow deep into the dryer, like some obscene proctologist digging for remnants of washings past. Hmm... look at the color of that... this feels a little sticky, could that be the final bit of the gobstopper.... This seems to be containing some small fragment of paper, is there a secret code, or perhaps this small blob of ink indicates something on a to do list... like remove lint from the dryer.

So after I got it all out, and coordinated tool retrieval with wife, I managed to vacuum out a small nerf sized ball of lint from the exhaust port.

So with all that lint.... what the hell are my clothes made of? Do the manufacturers include a micro-miniature 'lint' layer that slowly erodes away and produces lint. Does this layer secretely transmit information about what you watch on television to major league baseball? Did that one infamous missing grey sock reach critical mass and explode, providing a constant rate of fibers? Or....checking that small piece of paper, yeah, this is one of those jobs that I've been putting off for a while.

Who knows what lint lies within the hearts of dryers... only the maytag man knows.

I'm still here,
Pike

Musing thoughts

In 40 years... there is going to be a bunch of old ladies with tattoos and nipple rings, listening to Britney Spears on the Golden Oldies radio station... for some reason this makes me giggle and be disturbed at the same time.

Wonder how they are going to mosh pit at the seniors home.

I'm still here,
Pearce

Yay, three weeks. I'll celebrate with some sleep tonight, and hopefully something with a noir theme for dreams as opposed to fibonnaci sequences and dramatic chipmunks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw

And yes, I know that it's not a chipmunk but a common prairie dog, or gopher. But as a flatlander hailing from the paris of the prairies, I know exactly what destruction those lil buggers can wrath.

About the same as me without my coffee on a monday morning...

I'm still here,
Pearce

Three weeks, 3 hours, 17 minutes and 6 seconds. 253 cigarettes not smoked, saving $106.53. Life saved: 21 hours, 5 minutes.

Late night, time to get to bed.

Well, the medication is finally working, not feeling so weak, tomorrow I go back to work.

So, the drama continues