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Explaining things:

10 May, 2010 (09:29) | UK, humor, politics, silly, video, weird, youtube | By: jrittenhouse

Re the UK election: Excellent brief explanation on what a hung parliament means Probably the funniest political video of the UK 2010 season (Labour candidate)

Would you trust this face?

6 May, 2010 (02:49) | family, meredith, photography, roller-skating, silly, sports | By: jrittenhouse

Meredith in one of her skating outfits from April, 2010, with a very typical impish expression on her face.

They had a lot of fun with this:

23 January, 2010 (08:09) | I'm-not-making-this-up-you-know, cool, humor, movies, silly, tech, weird | By: jrittenhouse

Couple makes ‘wedding trailer’ as an announcement of their upcoming wedding for family and friends: it’s VERY funny.  Helps if you’re some kind of film buff….watch for 2012, Matrix, Bruce Lee and other references in the video. Look for the Vietnamese subtitles…

…and his sister is a thespian:

11 January, 2010 (08:56) | I'm-not-making-this-up-you-know, communism, delusions, endless-snark, government, hacks, health, health_care, idiots, j-c-on-a-pogo-stick, obama, peeve, peeves, political_science, politics, racism, sep_reality, silly, weird, wretched-excess | By: jrittenhouse

The local Sioux Falls paper notes that the voting percentage in the most recent school board election was 3.55% in an editorial asking for voting to be made easier by eliminating precinct voting in favor of at-large polling places scattered around the city. Personally, I think that’s more likely to confuse the heck out of [...]

Daanger Man!

8 January, 2010 (18:00) | I'm-not-making-this-up-you-know, bolivia, cartoons, computers, cool, fandom, humor, malware, propaganda, security, shoppies!, silly, tech, urban_legends, weird | By: jrittenhouse

The Bruce Schneier Action Figure!  At $100, it’s a steal!  Be the first on your block! Now, i’m just waiting for the RJ Johnson and Bill Roper Auctioneer Action figures…

New Location for the Two Gentlemen of Lebowski:

8 January, 2010 (14:26) | I'm-not-making-this-up-you-know, humor, marmots, silly, susan, weird | By: jrittenhouse

…because the first one overloaded the account with all the hits from people wanting to read it: http://rorr.im/digg.com/movies/two_gentlemen_of_lebowski/ Marmotaged drollery, to be sure.  Prithee.

Who cares a fig for th’accursed marmot?

7 January, 2010 (23:59) | Groundhog Day, I'm-not-making-this-up-you-know, culture, humor, j-c-on-a-pogo-stick, marmots, movies, silly, susan, weird | By: jrittenhouse

“Two Gentlemen of Lebowski” – a Shakespearian version of THE BIG LEBOWSKI, just as odd.   It talks about Johnsons and marmots, so it can’t be all bad. [Alarums. Enter OLIVER and the two NIHILISTS, bearing a marmot] Forsooth! This be a place Of residence, and much a private place.— O excellent marmot! WALTER Nihilists! I [...]

Reasonable Accommodations:

25 December, 2009 (04:48) | I'm-not-making-this-up-you-know, computers, daoffice, endless-snark, government, hacks, idiots, j-c-on-a-pogo-stick, peeve, peeves, secrecy, security, sep_reality, silly, tech | By: jrittenhouse

As some of you may have sussed out, since November of 2007, I’ve been working 99% of the time out of my basement office…with a huge long line of doctor’s excuses, bases on either my non-healing foot wound, or my weak response to infections casing raging problems on and off.  The office finally said that [...]

I know how the man feels:

13 July, 2009 (20:19) | captions, comics, obama, silly | By: jrittenhouse

Why can’t I get hotel service like this?

13 July, 2009 (13:43) | photography, silly | By: jrittenhouse

All-singing, all-dancing bellboys.  Never see those in hotels anymore.

Well, then:

12 July, 2009 (02:57) | captions, cartoons, middle_earth, silly, tolkien | By: jrittenhouse

The Ultimate Cracker Jack prize for 2012:

25 June, 2009 (20:30) | I'm-not-making-this-up-you-know, advertising, hacks, humor, idiots, politics, shoppies!, silly, south-carolina, wretched-excess | By: jrittenhouse

(Buy it now here!) What do you get, When you open the top, And look inside, And smack your lips, And turn it over, And spill it out? What do you get? Lip-smacking’ Whipcrackin’ Paddywhackin’ Olagazackin’ Infolackin’ Alliganackin’ Crackerjackin’ Cracker Jack! Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts, and a prize… That’s what you get in Cracker Jack!

Stop! Hammertime!

10 June, 2009 (06:45) | humor, music, silly, video, weird | By: jrittenhouse

Best operative use of Operation Mindfsck that I’ve seen in a while. I generally don’t embed stuff, but this is too good: Thanks to kyburg for the tip.

No Balls

8 June, 2009 (22:19) | UK, humor, politics, sex, silly | By: jrittenhouse

“So, Gordon, he says – sweetheart?  Wake up, I need to talk.  An’ the missus, she says – ahmf, an’ she rools over.  Gordon keeps at her, he says Should I sack Darling for Balls?  Noo Anser.  Darling? he keeps on – Darling?  Balls?  Ah, it’s too late for tha’ she says and goes back [...]

Ah, sweet mystery of life, at last I’ve found youuuu…

25 April, 2009 (16:31) | movies, nature, photography, silly | By: jrittenhouse

Boy meets girl, swamp creature eats boy, girl runs off with swamp creature.  It’s an old story.