Seein as this be Talk Like A Pirate Day and there seems to be a bit of interest in Pirates-I thought I would make a little list of the Top Pirate Name Generators. So here they be in no particular order. Get a Pirate Name-from here thee be callin me by my true and proper name-Pirate Clive the Staggering Drunk. What’s Your Pirate Name?–By this site’s reconnin my name be Bloody Coby Beard and my ship be The Lady Vita Sea Gold. The Pirate Name Generator Game-Here me name be the fairly simple Gerald Gruda. Your Pirate Name-This here site…
Category: silly stuff
3.14 Pi Day Of Course
Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are two holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi)-WikipediaPie are round, Cornbread are square-Redneck Joke As any fan of sci fi knows pi is the best way to cause a super intelligent machine to fall into an endless logic loop and give you time to unplug it. Pi can be taken out as far as you want, the Pi Song is Pi taken out to the 30 decimal places-(3.141592653589793238462643383279) It’s the kind of thing that makes you proud to be an America. Since my own less than stellar math prowess is limited…
Time Sinks
Timesink-a term used to describe activities that consume a lot of time. Wikipedia Before the age of Red Bull and Quad processors, people would sit around and read a book, or maybe talk to another human beings, for, oh, more than ten minutes. Now we never have enough time, and yet, we do manage to squeeze in a few things-like the national obsession with Solitaire once it was found on Windows. Games, Blogs, Social Networks, YouTube, and Image Warehouses are all great Time Sinks. But you already know about them, don’t you? So how about one or two things you…
Puffin -It’s Not Just For Breakfast Anymore
This is the single worst thing I have ever put in my mouth-Anthony Bourdain on fermented shark eaten in Iceland. Anthony Bourdain is my favorite celebrity chef. For one thing, he doesn’t have to bother with actually cooking stuff anymore. And his tv shows are not about cooking, they are about traveling the world and eating great food, not so great food, and just plain weird food. I was watching a re-run of the Iceland show on the Travel Channel and here was our hero eating Puffin, fermented shark, and head cheese. Worst meal ever-coming from Tony that has to…
Chuck Norris A Legend in His Own Mind
A few million years ago there was a Martial Arts Living Legend named Bruce Lee. In Way of the Dragon Bruce Lee kills a bad guy played by Chuck Norris. That was the first time I ever heard of Chuck Norris. It’s been a few years since the rather silly Walker:Texas Ranger was on, and with its passing I kind of felt like Chuck Norris was moving into the Has Been Phase of his illustrious career.But hey, if Sylvester Stallone can still crank out Rocky and Rambo movies, then by God, Chuck Norris can whip out a couple more Delta…
Right, Talk Like A Pirate Day, It Be
September 19th be Talk Like A Pirate Day, as was set down by the Almighty Programmers of The Sims. Arrh some such silly persons as be lost to the mists of time.A Pirate walks into a bar. He has a ship’s wheel where his belt buckle should be. The Bartender looks at him and asks, “What’s with the wheel?”“Arrgh,” The Pirate says, “That drives me nuts.”Talk Like A Pirate Day-start on the right and righteous path.Double up on all your adjectives and you’ll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of “a big ship”, they call it a…
The Mild Obsession
You start a blog and jot down your thoughts. You tell the world what you had for lunch, accompanied by a nifty little photo of the food-filled plate sitting on a white tablecloth. You talk about how it sucks to be you, or how it is so wonderful to be you. You write reviews of movies and tv shows and books. And for a while, you are happy.Then you start flipping around the blog sphere and notice that other bloggers write and receive comments. They link to each other. And they have all this way cool stuff all over their…
Staircase-being gay was never like this, was it?
TCM is a very cool network, which more often than not, plays movies you liked the first, oh forty or fifty times you saw them. But every once in a while they play something a little different. I think Staircase falls into that category. I like Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady is one of my all time favorites. I never liked Richard Burton. John Wayne was famous for playing himself in all of his movies and I always got the same feeling from Burton. The difference, of course, is that I liked John Wayne. Robert Osborne, the omnipresent host on…