Category: Fun

Interesting explanation. I’ve definitely seen this illusion in real life.

Kids loved the pilot, hopefully more good stuff to come. (For preschool-aged children) - The adventures of best friends and unlikely heroes, Stinky the garbage truck and Dirty the backhoe loader, a …

In depth analysis of the game that never ends quickly enough Source: Hacking “Chutes and Ladders” using R | Ethan R. Markowitz

If you don’t think about your problems for one hour, then I did my job. Source: Interview: Jimmy Fallon, Author Of ‘Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada’ : NPR

Ironically, the word comulent itself is not cromulent. Source: Urban Dictionary: Cromulent

Yeah, Conversations with my 4 year old is still a riot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnGIakNY7lk

I know some folks that would love these… https://twitter.com/aloria/status/594149651487563778

The Starbucks mermaid playfully disguised as film characters | DesignFaves.

can we get a little more of this? http://reasonsmykidissmiling.tumblr.com/post/104590635615/she-started-an-impromptu-dance-party-at-a-new

Phew, can’t stop giggling.

Phew, haven’t laughed that much in a while. http://cheezburger.com/64137473

Can’t unsee….

Indeed.

Oh yeah, I’m totally filled with holiday spirit now. Brighten up your own Christmas with some thrash metal.

Good stuff!

Distracting the kiddos with a sleigh ride on the old carousel at Carousel Mall Destiny USA. Both were itching to get on some horses, but didn’t think that was a good idea with only Dad to reign them …

Ah, why was I not made aware of this? Looks awesome.

Think we’re gonna double dip on Halloween this year. Today was the indoor trick or treat at Shoppingtown Mall. Tomorrow, might get ’em up and down the street if the weather cooperates.

IKEA or Death. Pop quiz, hot shot: is an IKEA product or a death metal band? I was only 9/20. Give it a shot.

woot! via

Recently, the Dewitt Community variable message sign had details about an upcoming ‘Cornhole Tournament’ with double elimination. If the ‘cornhole’ part wasn’t intriguing enough, it went on to say it …

Man, that’s a lot of work. I need to find me some of this ‘free time’ stuff that all these folks are always talking about.

Bartending school in Baldwinsville to hold classes in a real bar | syracuse.com. Jeff knows his stuff!

Revenge of the completely useless machine.

Beardheads by Snorgtees, pure awesome. I need one of these.

Hmm. Pumpkin pie… Popcorn? Habanera

With t-minus a week until the Simpsons Movie, I’ve got a few fun tidbits to share… Giant Homer. An over the top movie kick off stunt. Beer and Doughnut Ice Cream? You betcha! Ben and Jerry are …

Heard about a guy who tests his hard core kitchen blenders by blending items that you normally wouldn’t on one of the Twit podcasts a while ago. Finally saw a link to the site go flying by on digg. …

Slickr, by cellar door software gives you a photo screen saver that scrolls through your (or everybody’s) flickr photos. Cool pan/zoom/fade effects kinda like the similar screen saver on OSX. Bonus, …

Last night, Sandy and I headed out to the Landmark Theater for the 2006 Ghost Hunt. Its basically just a spook themed fund raiser. The CNY Ghost Hunters crew was out in full force. Not quite what I …

Here’s a talented street perfomer and his skeleton puppet. Props to Karen for sending it on.

Haven’t seen this one on TV yet, but here’s an Apple dealer who used $60,000 worth of iPods as dominos in a recent commercial. Via.

Saw this (via My Journey to Macintosh) a while ago and it cracked me up. Add an alarm to your MacBook Pro. Turn it on and off remotely with your Apple remote. I really hope it doesn’t catch on, I hear …

Volksbloggin had a pointer to this cool video of new beetle transformer. Ah, Autobots and Decepticons…

Nothing beats a 3d racing game where you have three ways to win: Beat all the opponent cars. Nothing special here. Destroy all the opponent cars. Crash ’em, smash ’em, push ’em off cliffs, push them …

Larry pointed me at www.theraconteurs.com… Ah, found memories of banging away on a Commodore Pet back in grade school. Cool site, and their music is pretty good too.

Here’s an interesting spoof video from Microsoft about what happens on the other side of their automatic error reporting system. Ah, if only it was for real, maybe explorer wouldn’t spazz out every …

Geez, how much fun can you have with flash game that uses only 1 button? Check out Leo Steel to find out. Great way to kill a few minutes or hours. Good thing I didn’t find that at work.

Ah, harkening back to the days of my youth, I remember the Nintendo Entertainment System had a ton of cool alternative controllers like the PowerPad (kinda the grand daddy of the Dance Dance …

Here’s a cool link (via Slashdot): Transparent Screen Backgrounds. Take a digital picture of the area behind your monitor, crop and resize it until lies up visually with the area of your computer …

Here’s a great video from NYT with David Pogue talking about how he produces his own weekly video updates. I wish I had more time to play around with this kind of stuff.

In my last blog, I brought you up to date on the hell that is dealing with Time Warner Cable for service. In the comments, my pal Sean was surprised that I didn’t just dump the Time Warner DVR and buy …

Was listening to All Things Considered on the way home and they had an article about the Westminister Kennel Club Dog show (includes audio), and one of the judges had this to say about the Best in …

Nancies.org reports that Ben and Jerry’s is rolling out another Dave Matthews Band themed flavor, Dave Matthes Band Magic Brownies. Hmm, the name is a little suspect considering usually tries to down …

A cool story on wired about Delicious Monster, a software company that just sits in a coffee shop all day rather than getting a real office. Sounds like a cool idea, but I don’t think I’d get anything …

What’s the latest craze in custom made PC cases? How about Legos? Here’s a gallery of PC cases made out of Legos. Hmm, maybe I’ll take a trip over to my Mom’s house and see if can find my old bag of …

Turns out that fella who used X10 gear to let web users turn his christmas lights on and off was just pulling our collective leg, here’s the skinny. An interesting read, how clever and elaborate his …

Was watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent on Saturday night, Detective Alex Eames strolls over to a PC and googled some random factoid in the Mozilla Firefox browser. True to TV silliness, she typed …

Saw the Flybar Model 1200 on amazon.com; the pogo stick, evolved. So what’s so special about this $299 toy? Thrusters! Activate all 12 of the independent rubber thrusters and you’re capable of …

This crafty fellow put together his own Sony Playstation 2 portable using the guts of a one of the new low profile PS2 consoles, a PSONE LCD screen, and portable DVD player battery. It also has one …

Check this out, some one using a radiator from a Toyota Corolla in his liquid CPU cooler rig: http://www.winbeta.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6594 Nice!

For all you Super Mario Brothers fans out there, here’s a step by step guide for carving your own 1up mushroom on a pumpkin: http://infinitesnake.com/1upkin.php[ Where do these people find the …

Ok. Its not just me. Everybody is rediscovering the magic of vintage video gaming. Pong, Pac-Man, Dig Dug. Atari 2600, Sega Master System, NES! Ah, the fond memories of youth! NYT Article - Revenge of …

when signing up for a free computerworld subscription, I found an interesting email list called “shark tank”. its a daily IT related story told from the developer/system admin’s perspective. most of …