Memnison Journal

Possibly the most annoying and rude commercial I’ve seen in a while; it doesn’t sink in as to what’s going on until the end.  Aaaaargh.  (NSFW, really mostly crass as heck, and it sure helps if you know the slang reference to the anatomy.)

A novel way for a penguin to escape from a hungry killer whale.    Props to beldar.

OMG.  The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade just got Rickrolled.  By Astley himself.   Totally SFW, and hilarious if you get the whole rickroll joke.

No, really.  This is.  A web friend who adopted a young girl from China who is deaf (but has cochlear implants) posted this on her blog, and it took my breath away.    It’s the story of a deaf girl who wants to learn how to play the violin…watch it.  it is about four minutes long, [...]

Youtube video: very very weird, and not for the animal lovers in the audience. Nothing gross, as such, but…seriously twisted sense of humor.  Yes, the subtitles are in Spanish.  ‘Perro’ means dog, and ‘pata’ means duck.  I think you can figure out the rest.

This is just sick.  There’s been all this stuff about Teddy Kennedy (who is probably on a very short fuse with a brain tumor) in the news, and Hillary uses (in a video’ed discussion with the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader) Bobby Kennedy’s assassination in June of 1968 as a part of [...]

We have the Comcast bundle (phone, internet and cable TV), and its worked very well, with a couple of exceptions:
(1) if the line’s screwed, everything and everyone is screwed.  I’m a telecommuter, and work a lot out of my home office and I Must Have Good Phone And Internet.  If there’s a line problem, it’s [...]

Youtube: Mere and Mer attacked by vicious, milk-deranged lambs at the Kentucky Down Under shearing shed.  (Mere in red shirt, Mer in white shirt.)  Rated XC for Xtreme Cuteness.

Last Friday was a ’snow day’ - AKA a day off from school due to a huge amount of snow (around a foot) in the area. Here’s a video of Mere’s reaction to this…and yes, those are our terriers Dot and Dash.

It was very nice to have Kurt and John out here visiting; I just wish it could have been longer.
There were plenty of screwups in the way, however.  Friday - that you already read about.  Saturday we got a late start, and ended up spending the vast majority of it on the road into Chicago…we [...]

kilt?  (mildly NSFW, video)  (what is a haka)

As my regular readers know, I’m something of a video/moviephile.   I’m always looking for new stuff, and I’ll give you an idea of where my tastes are below, but I’m curious to hear what you might recommend to me to check out.
My general tastes go to the art and foreign films, with a strong run [...]

“The original Apollo moon film archive is being scanned and made available online for free right here.”
Hat tip to Bill Roper.

The most man-killing beast in Africa - snuggling dogs, drinking coffee and having snacks in the kitchen.  Wouldn’t you want one for Christmas? (videos are linked on both)

Alberto, the Personal Blimp.  “I like to park it on a tree…”
Harry, I am your father… (alternate idea for the final HP book, spoilers inside) - this would have sent teams of fans as dementors going to Scotland to find and kill someone.
Gefonten!  Gesundheit!