Showing posts with label Amusement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amusement. Show all posts
Videos: Symphony of Science
Previously, a Symphony of Science video inspired me to make this comparison between Carl Sagan and Saw III. A few more of my favorites from Symphony of Science:
Stewart vs. O'Reilly live this Saturday -- clips to hold you over
Stewart vs. O'Reilly this Saturday! Here are the details: $4.95 for streaming, 8pm at Rumble2012. The live event has sold out and tickets are being scalped away for as much as $1,200. Click "read more" at the end of the post to see the videos.
Move over Guinness -- this site is better in every way!
If you aren't familiar with Record Setter, it's worth a look. Like Guinness Book of World Records, it's a place where records can be established, challenged, and broken, but unlike Guinness, it's done primarily through video. Videos are elaborate and unique and all types of characters surface. Here are some of my recent favorites:
1. Farthest Distance To Throw A Hat Backwards And Pin It To Wall With Knife
2. Longest Office Chair Train Pulled By A Motorcycle
3. Fastest Time To Run Down An Up Escalator While Wearing An Indian Costume And Holding A Red Balloon
4. Most Questions Asked During A Drive-Thru Visit
Amusement: Threw it on the Ground
I know this video is old and many of you have already seen it, but I can't stop watching it! Again, Again!
Amusement: All types of dancing!
Dubstep Dance: Dreamer
Dubstep Dance 2 (If you liked the First): Pumped Up Kicks
Goths Dancing
Hardcore Dancing Montage
What to watch on Netflix? Four sites that recommend movies
"It may seem strange, but it's actually harder than you think to find
great movies on Netflix Instant Watch. There's a ton of great options,
both well known and hidden gems, but you may find you don't just stumble
upon them (The best of Netflix)."
My wife and I often spend too many minutes looking for a netflix movie before settling on something we only watch 35 minutes of. Here are some sites that help:
1. The Netflix Video Clerk -- Broken into fun categories like -- The Weirdest Movies To Watch On Netflix Instead Of "The Expendables 2" and The Most Insane Sci-Fi Movies On Netflix
2. Flicks to stream -- Weekly updates with top movies in multiple genres
3. The best of Netflix -- Top movies on Instant View
4. Netflix Movies That Don't Suck -- Name says it all. Blog about the author's favorites.
My wife and I often spend too many minutes looking for a netflix movie before settling on something we only watch 35 minutes of. Here are some sites that help:
1. The Netflix Video Clerk -- Broken into fun categories like -- The Weirdest Movies To Watch On Netflix Instead Of "The Expendables 2" and The Most Insane Sci-Fi Movies On Netflix
2. Flicks to stream -- Weekly updates with top movies in multiple genres
3. The best of Netflix -- Top movies on Instant View
4. Netflix Movies That Don't Suck -- Name says it all. Blog about the author's favorites.
Music: My sisters' Hanson obsession of the 90's
I found this picture in an old photo album and had to post it! Here are my sisters imitating their favorite band in the mid 90's.
Michal-Ann, remember the bet we made over whether Hanson would be your favorite band forever? You owe me $10!
Michal-Ann, remember the bet we made over whether Hanson would be your favorite band forever? You owe me $10!
Interesting: Humans are amazing
Type any combination of "amazing" or "awesome" and "humans" into YouTube and you'll have hours of amusement. Here are two of my favorites compilations of people doing amazing things:
Fun: A post in tribute to forts
There is something exciting about forts. While houses and other buildings do protect from outside dangers, they generally have other primary purposes. Forts exist only to defend and protect. They create a barrier between the outside and the inside allowing for a world within a world. They have selective membership. They use the environment to their advantage.
The forts we built as children had a similar purpose. They served to create the temporary fantasy of a house all our own where we were in charge, and the outside world could be forgotten. The process of building the fort was the building of the fantasy. Nothing had to be realistic or practical. Unlike military forts, childhood forts could be create and dismantled in a day.
This is a post in tribute to forts:
Top 10 Ancient Forts Around the World
Top 10 U.S. Forts
Awesome Collection of Crazy Forts
10 Amazing Tree Houses
From what I remember of childhood fort building, there were a number of types and styles. An improvised couch cushion fort on a rainy day was very different from the shed attic used as a permanent fort all summer.
Here are the forts I remember creating as a child--
Attic Fort
Crawl Space Fort
Above the Garage Fort
Under the Table Fort
Shed Fort
Tents
Camper in the Backyard Fort
Playground Fort
2. Nature Forts:
Snow Igloo
Tree Fort
Bush Fort
3. Forts by Design (These forts involved some construction):
Box Fort
Couch Cushion Fort
Mattress Fort
Umbrella Fort
Box Fan and Blanket Fort -- I thought I inventedthis idea but here is a link to instructions.
Clothesline Fort
Dad's Extra Lumber Fort
Kids ask: Why is the sky blue?
7) A whole bunch of Smurfs were flying in hot-air balloons when some rich jerk shooting rifles off his yacht hit them and the little blue guys disintegrated into the air (like all mythical figures do when shot) — and that made the sky blue.
8) Because God is a boy and boys like blue. Except for Uncle Steve – he likes pink. It’s a long story, go to your room.
It's Friday night
Online reaction time test. The average reaction time in an experiment like this is likely to be about 1/4 second (0.25 sec.)
What does your refrigerator say about you?
I came across these photographs of the contents of peoples' refrigerators by Mark Menjivar. They're more fascinating than they sound. What a person buys and consumes says a lot about them. In most cases, more than just how healthy he/she is. One of the freezers has a frozen rattlesnake in it!
After seeing the above link, just for fun, without cleaning or straightening anything, I took a picture of my fridge (then cleaned it!). No rattlesnake, but I can say I'm proud of the contents, my half anyway; the fruits and veggies, freshly made iced tea, live, active culture yogurt, top quality eggs. My roommate, Ben's, half had 3 containers of cream cheese. I couldn't decide if he'd just forgotten he already had cream cheese (two were open) or if he just really likes cream cheese.
Ben's side also had two really nasty, rotten oranges, but they weren't his. He thought they were mine, I thought they were his. A closer look revealed they were bought at a produce shop in NJ. Did someone leave oranges in my fridge in the bottom right drawer? You need to come get them, they smell. Thanks!
After seeing the above link, just for fun, without cleaning or straightening anything, I took a picture of my fridge (then cleaned it!). No rattlesnake, but I can say I'm proud of the contents, my half anyway; the fruits and veggies, freshly made iced tea, live, active culture yogurt, top quality eggs. My roommate, Ben's, half had 3 containers of cream cheese. I couldn't decide if he'd just forgotten he already had cream cheese (two were open) or if he just really likes cream cheese.
Ben's side also had two really nasty, rotten oranges, but they weren't his. He thought they were mine, I thought they were his. A closer look revealed they were bought at a produce shop in NJ. Did someone leave oranges in my fridge in the bottom right drawer? You need to come get them, they smell. Thanks!
What does your refrigerator say about you?
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