Some A--hole

I work in news, and I've been saying we need to do this for years. Rish saw it and sent it my way, because I've said just this to him already before.

Sadly, I'm certain we never will. The downfall of society is much more profitable than peace and prosperity.

Girl, I Been Watchin' You

The grocery store by my house plays a Muzak station that is 100% relatively obscure '80s songs. For those younger than me, they'll be completely unknown, but for someone like me who lived through the '80s, they're terrible earworms. I went shopping, and now I can't get this friggin' song out of my head.

Backdrop

I've been steadily building up my study into something I think looks cool. Mostly just to have something cool, but also party because I'd like to use it as a backdrop for a video version of the Dunesteef. Would you be interested in that? Would that be something you'd watch?

Volunteer

We had a birdfeeder on the side of our house, as a result we have this giant sunflower that grew from one of the seeds the birds spilled. Also a bunch of corn growing from the kernels they spilled.

Cost Efficient?

So, I'm trying to clean up a peanut butter jar so I can recycle it. I'm wondering if it's even beneficial to the environment. I think I used twice as many resources to clean it up that we conserve by recycling it. Is this something I should be doing? Or does the recycling place have the facilities to clean it up better? Anyone know?

Pixar Mashup

Saw this at the Chevron, and it creeped me out a bit. It's like Monsters Inc. and Cars mated in some sort of unholy union.

Driving Aggression

When I was a kid, I only liked heavy metal. Nothing else would do. I suppose, as a teenager, I was full of testosterone, and rage, and aggression, so it was the only stuff that spoke to me. I got old, and don't listen to metal as much. Every now and then I come across a song that is a completely different genre, but still has that driving aggression that I found so awesome in heavy metal. This is one of those songs. It's really great. Listen, and tell me if you agree. And do you have any examples of songs like this of your own.

That Gets My Goat 162: FlaShield Season Wrap-ups

Another TGMG up available!

Since Rish and I are (ostensibly) writing novels this summer, here's another sorely-out-of-date episode. Having watched all of "The Flash"'s first season, and all of "Agents of SHIELD"'s second, they talk about both of them, especially the season finales. Spoilers overflow.

Find it on the feed or right-click HERE to download. Or just click the play button below, that's even easier.

Sunflower Power

Sunflowers are kinda going crazy right now.

 

Earworm

I need to change my wife's ringtone. Apparently "Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson is too much of an earworm. I get it stuck in my head for the rest of the day every time she calls.

That Gets My Goat 161: (R)Ant Men

It's another That Gets My Goat. Check it out!

Again, a little too late to do anyone any good, Rish and I talk about Marvel's latest release, Ant-Man. Even though the movie wasn't (technically) a sequel to Avengers 2...this episode is.

Find it on the podcast feed, or you can right-click HERE to download the episode. Or, you can just click the play button below if you prefer.

Shiny

Yay! Reinforcements have arrived.

 

Irrational?

Today, I opened up a soda bottle at work, and the lid slipped from my hand and fell in the garbage disposal in the sink (garberator for my Canadian friends). 

My hand was too big to fit in there to retrieve it, so I found some others with smaller hands, and asked for their help. Nobody would put their hands in there, citing fears of having their hands chopped up by the blades. 

They said I should just turn it on and let the blades shred the lid. I assumed that would be bad for the blades, and possibly ruin the disposal. 

Eventually, we got it out with a pair of salad tongs. So, my question is, am I right to call these fears irrational? Would you grab a lid out of the disposal if your hand fit? Or would you just blend it up? Have horror movies given you a fear of garbage disposals? Do British people have their own completely separate word for garbage disposals? Or do you call them disposals or garberators? Can I ask more stupid questions in one post? Or is this the limit? Well, is it?

Yea Or Nay?

I hung my spaceships up from the ceiling in my den. I want get more and hang them up too, but I can't decide if it's cool or lame though. What do you think?

A Clean Garage!

Our plans for the weekend fell through, so we had an unexpectedly free Saturday. We'd been meaning to work on the garage for a long time, so we decided to go after it.

First of all, was to clear out all the mess. That took quite a while, but once we got there, we really started to get going.

My wife had acquired some leftover peg board from her work, and had big plans to finally put all our tools somewhere they could be found quickly and easily. We mounted them on the wall, and she started putting all the tools on...

...but she had other plans for me. She wanted a workbench to go on the wall right under the peg boards. Now, we've built a great deal of wooden furniture in our days. Back when we first got married, it was kind of our thing. We'd build bookshelves or a changing table ourselves rather than try to buy them. But, one thing I learned through all that is that it never quite works out how I want. There's always issues. The table is always a little wobbly. I always do something stupid that leaves an unsightly mark on it. So, when my wife asked me to make this workbench, I frowned quite deeply in anticipation of how I'd screw it up.

There was a tiny setback when my frame got knocked on the ground, and the screws ripped out of the wood. But I got back to it, re-attached the screws, and forged forward, and strangely, everything worked out. The workbench came together without any real problems. And it was level, and sturdy, and good. There's that saying that every dog has his day, and I guess it was just my day today.

I think it turned out really well.

After finishing that, it was time to get the canoe out of the way. My wife had bought a pulley system that we could use to hang it from the ceiling. It was a bit of a pain to put up, and the instructions were pretty unclear, so the ropes may not actually be threaded through there correctly, but I got the canoe hung up.

I just hope it never decided to fall and smash our cars or something. After all, it was me that tied the knots, so there surely not very good.

But there it is. When we were done, we had a space that we could use. my wife can park her car inside, and once summer's over and the bikes go back to the basement, I'll be able to park my car there too. It's been a while since we could do that.

Thumbdrive Names

My thumb drive. "Laserbeak eject!"

CG

I think this guy might have listened to some of our TGMGs and had enough. I think he's completely right. CG isn't ruining movies (except it is). CG is ruining movies because it's making movie makers really lazy. Instead of putting together something solid, that would work with or without CG, they just add some explosions and expect it to make up for the issues. That's what people are complaining about the most, I think.

I know what he means when he talks about a CG artist working his ass off and when he's done his job right, nobody notices. That's exactly my job too. People only notice me if I screw up. No one ever says "good job", just "what happened?"

Random Or Not?

If you're MP3 player is set on random shuffle, and it plays the same song twice in a row, is it still being random? Is it being extra random? Or is it just broken?

Flowers?

Any guesses as to what this flower is?

These are onions. Cool, huh?

Achieving

A lot of people talk about their accomplishments like running a marathon, seeing a game in every MLB stadium, writing a novel, earning a PhD. But how many of you can say that you've eaten an entire large pizza in one sitting? Oh wait, I probably shouldn't have admitted to that...

East Division Rivalry

I've heard a lot about the misogynists hating all over this movie because it stars women, but when I saw this article, I had an epiphany. I think I finally figured out why so many people are angry about it. It's that damned Boston vs. New York thing. They're filming in Boston, so surely New Yorkers are mad. But the film is set in New York, so Boston is actually supposed to pass for New York on film. So, I'm sure Bostonians are outraged. 

And as anyone who lives anywhere else in the country other than Texas or California knows, if Bostonians and New Yorkers want to talk, we all are required to listen.

All kidding aside, it's pretty cool of them to visit the kids in the hospital, amiright?

Stereotype

I'm a huge believer in nerd equality. I think all people have value, even if they're interested in nerdy things. Sadly, I really contributed to the stereotype today, when I spilled a huge glob of barbecue sauce all over the front of my shirt advertising the local comic book shop while on my lunch break.

If I wasn't such a stereotypical slobby nerd, I'd be like those guys that have a spare shirt in their car for occasions like this...but I'm not. *sigh*

Hey Biscuit

Here's a hibiscus. My wife tells me that's what it's called, anyway.

The flowers are becoming more plentiful. Here's some sunflowers.