You're a King, BUT

This is brilliant.  The idea.  The execution.  Perfect.  (And a great marketing ploy for the ad agency itself, Leo Burnett.)

Apparently, being a guitar tech for a band has its frustrations

Train snow plow

There are oodles of videos like these on youtube. I might watch them all.

New fav commercial

Love the sock puppet and the robot doing the robot!

GUIs of 1990

Work today took me in search of information about graphical user interfaces circa 1990.  I came across this time capsule:



Search YouTube for "Computer Chronicles" if you want to shake your head some more at how things have changed.

Plaid

I have kind of a thing for plaid. Here's a plaid generator: www.tartanmaker.com

You can add bands and select colors for the bands. The slide bars for each color affect the relative size of the stripes. Then you can download a .png of one repeat of your plaid (that you can "tile" in graphics software to make a bigger sheet of your plaid, say, for example, for a desktop background).

I'm doing this rather than reading David Brooks for a second time to figure out what he's saying.

Update to show examples:

"Put it down!"

Update: The rest of the story is just as funny. I guess this has been around the tubes a while but it's new to me.

Is anyone else wondering

if Michael Jackson's (and I use that apostrophe in the legal, not biological, sense) kids were spawned from Lisa Marie's eggs? I see Elvis in them. They have otherworldly bone structure. And when it comes to MJ, no hypothesis is too whacky.

Another blow to productivity

First Chapters of books.

Extreme Shepherding

One of these days I'll figure out how to post these deals.

Behold, from youtube, I give you extreme shepherding. Even if faked it's pretty cool.

Eagle Cam

I can't stop watching this. Nest is on a lake in Oklahoma.

Re: ManU

Just in case LJ picks up BBC America, he can join the dozens of fans of Footballer's Wives.

Kind of a Dallas meets Dynasty meets Desperate Housewives on crack.

Embarrassing Update: I've watched too many of the episodes. The women are exceedingly, er, uh, hot. Our friend Cin watches, too.