Best Old Spice Spoof. Ever.

I work in a library, so maybe I'm biased, but I think this is pretty darn awesome:




"I'm on a cart." Love it.

Follow-up: AT-AT Day Afternoon

Back in June, I posted AT-AT Day Afternoon. Patrick Boivin has now posted a making-of video. It's pretty cool, even though my first thought was "Gasp! He took it apart?!?"



via Distracted By Star Wars

Wed Pic: Double Rainbow Lightning

My reward after an hour of battening down the hatches this evening, was this shot:

Ninja vs Pirate vs Old Spice Guy...who would win?

The Old Spice Guy is responding to questions from Twitter users:



More of his responses here

California Dorks [awesome geeky Katy Perry spoof]

This is so cute!




via Star Wars Blog

(Yes, this seems to be turning into a link/video blog, but I swear some longer posts are coming - I just seem to be having a very "Oooh, shiny!" summer...er, year)

New lows of geekiness...but I like it

I spent a good chunk of Monday keeping an eye on the streaming video of TWiT.tv's studio revamp as they set up a new lighting grid. Riveting, I know. Yes, I'm kind of pathetic. You can now watch the entire process in the much faster time-lapse version.



If you're not familiar with TWiT (named for This Week in Tech, their original show), they're kind of like CNN For Geeks, complete with live coverage of geeky events. I discovered TWiT just a few months ago, when I had a bout of nostalgia about TechTV and started poking around in Google. I found that TechTV didn't really die, it just changed forms! There was Leo Laporte! There was Patrick Norton! There was John C. Dvorak (gosh, I used to read his PC Magazine column in high school)! And the longer I watch, the more TechTV alums keep showing up. It's geek heaven.

TWiT has a lot of shows, but I think my favorite is This Week in Google - you should check it out.

Maybe I think I need to look into getting one of those things...what do you call them?...you know....oh yeah, a life!

Nah....I'm off to watch TWiT live!

Kids Reenact The American Revolution

Happy Independence Day!



via Mashable

John Cleese rants: Soccer vs Football

It's funny because I don't really care about either sport ;-) (I'm preparing for grumpy comments from Hubby, though)



(via Travelin' Librarian)

Friday Fun: A Lovely Story About Me

A Lovely Story About Me:

One day, long, long ago, there lived a woman who
did not whine, nag or bitch.  
(That would be me...)

But that was a long time ago and it was just that one day. 
The End

(Thanks to sis-in-law who e-mailed this to me)

Embrace the Fail!

I lurve Felicia Day - she's a geeky girl after my own heart. She posted this interview to her blog yesterday. Near the end of the video Felicia gives her younger self (and us) some good advice:



via Felicia's blog

Sure it's cute when it's little, but I've seen how big those things get!

The video's creator, Patrick Boivin, says "When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got... A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker."



via Distracted by Star Wars

The Boy Your Man Could Smell Like

I loved the Old Spice commercial from the Super Bowl and blogged about the making of it here. Hubby recently pointed me toward this spoof:



So adorkable! (and very creative! I love the little clouds that fall down)

Friday Fun: Uh....videos!

Why spelling is important

This commercial made me LOL this morning!

Humor is built on juxtaposition...

Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!

Found this quite awhile ago, but never got around to posting it:

Wed Pic: My dogs are fired

This rabbit has my dogs figured out. He knows that if he sits still in the shade or a brownish area, my dogs can look straight at him from a few feet away and won't see him. Today, after both dogs looked directly at him and went on their way, he decided to relax and enjoy the day.



"OMG my carrots!" is fighting with "Ooooh, he's so cuuuute!" Those poor carrots...he'll enjoy them...*sigh*

------
UPDATE:

Not five minutes after I posted this, I looked outside and saw this:



Think you're king of the hill, Mr. Rabbit? Oh, it is on!

But, awwww, he's so cuuuute....

Wed Pic: My Poor Peony

I planted this peony two years ago and two weeks later, we had the "not a tornado (yeah, right)" storm. My peony was chopped off about an inch from the ground and I was sure it was dead. Last year, much to my surprise, it grew back but it never got around to blooming. I was so excited when it bloomed last weekend, but then yesterday came.

The largest bloom, Sunday...



...and after yesterday's storm:


Oh, well, I guess we'll see what it does next year, and you know the instant it blooms, I'll be out there with my camera. The top picture is the only good one I got with my cell phone. *sigh*

We've had some interesting BBQ sauce before, but this might win in the "weird" category

We've had some interesting BBQ sauce before, but this might win in the "weird" category
Originally uploaded by mdesive

Friday Fun: But nobody expects the...oh, nevermind

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Yes, it's not much, and at the last minute, but most of my Friday Fun was In Real Life today. It was the first day in months I got to take a day off because I wanted to and not just because life happened. LilGirl and I went to the library, took a walk by a lake, went to the bookstore, then met hubby for lunch and had a super lazy afternoon. It was a goood day :)