“The TV Show”

December 8th, 2009

Completely awesome animation, great job!

Drop of Water

November 16th, 2009

An amazing slow-motion look at water drops interacting with water.

Just think about all those tiny rain drops sub-dividing this many times before finally winding up in the puddle outside your door.

Health Industry

November 3rd, 2009

I really loved the two episodes This American Life just did on the health care system! It was profound, informative, entertaining and really served to highlight the problems with the system in easy to understand terms. Of course, it really gives you a sense of how very hard it is to fix everything, but it’s definitely worth checking out!

Part 1: More Is Less

Part 2: Someone Else’s Money

Wow

September 15th, 2009

So awesome!

Conan

May 28th, 2009

I’m quite excited to see what happens when Conan O’Brien takes over the Tonight Show Monday. He has always been my favorite late night talk show host, he is more absurd and out there than anybody else, very affable and hilarious.

But I really wanted to share this article because it helped me empathize with what he is going through. He has my full support, here’s rooting for you, Cons!

Zach Galifianakis

April 14th, 2009

I just saw the new trailer for The Hangover and I gotta say it looks pretty funny! I’m so glad Zach Galifianakis is getting to do more crazy stuff, hopefully stuff he enjoys. I know from listening to interviews with him he’ll take a lot of work, and not always stuff he’s going to proud of afterward. But his stand up is really amazing, it’s definitely where he is most comfortable. If you haven’t seen his DVD Live at the Purple Onion you really should! It is a joy to behold!

Update: To celebrate The Hangover’s release June 5th, the most awkward talk show ever (yes, much more awkward than Late World) Between Two Ferns has Bradley Cooper on.

Crazy Quotes #4 & 5

February 23rd, 2009

Wow, this single awesome video gave me a two-for-one deal. I insisted Andrew and Richard watch what would be the best Rock Band song ever. Difficult across the board and a guaranteed smile on your face the whole time!

It is Focus - Hocus Pocus, that is to say it is the 70’s band Focus, also known for their song Sylvia. The drummer fills faster than YouTube can keep up, the guitarist races through some intense solos, all the while the bass steamrolls through, and that keyboardist/vocalist is an animal! Lyrics are completely unnecessary when you have this guy’s range!

Yeah, that’s right! Yodeling! Whistling! Flut-ing around! “Vocalist” is too quaint a description for the man with the crazy hair and/or eyes!

Check out that flute solo!

Of course the video lends itself toward arguments, like whether or not the yodeling sounds like the Price is Right yodel song. My position:

Yes, I agree there’s yodeling involved

But just because one yodel enters the popular consciousness does not make all yodels like it.

Crazy Quote #3

February 10th, 2009

Heard out of context this quote could be quite embaressing:

Oh, he’s got a loincloth on underneath that!

But all makes sense once you realize, we were at that point (for some unexplainable reason) watching:

Keyboards are a thing of the past!

January 6th, 2009

I love Apple, but I also have a sense of humor about it. The Onion people are geniuses.

Crazy Quote #2

December 23rd, 2008

In the course of conversation, one co-worker let another know that she looks like the Fraggle Rock character Mokey. You know, the homeless one…

Mokey

Offended by this, she noted that this thing is bald on the top of her head. To which I responded:

“Muppets have different hairstyles.”

And of course there’s the fact that she isn’t purple.