March 15, 2008

T-shirt Tag!

I got tagged by my newest blogpal Mathman from When Will I Use This?.

Let's see...this is what you are supposed to do:

1. Link back to the original post.

2. Describe two t-shirts that you own.

3. If you design your own vanity t-shirt what would it say?

4. Where would you wear your vanity t-shirt?

5. Tag three of your best blogging buds.


Well here goes:

1. check

2. Here are my 2 T-shirts:

This first t-shirt is a shirt I got free for attending a Microsoft Vista Launch Tour. I attended because the instructor of the computer class I was attending at the time made it a class assignment. At the Microsoft event, I picked a seminar to attend and mine was related to some Vista utility add-ons (I think) . It was kinda funny looking around at the crowd who attended this seminar and the people who were milling about at the hotel where it was held. Lots of people who looked like they might be computer geeks. I guess that goes without saying, being at a Microsoft event, and I don't mean to pigeon hole people, but there was a certain look in abundance that day!

Another thing that was funny is that they had all these laptops up front ready to present different tools, scenarios to demo, a huge screen, all these cords and stuff, and the presenters were smooth and did a pretty good job, but I swear at least 3 or four times in the presentation I attended, the screen went blank or some kind of error popped up! All of us geeks were laughing our geeky heads off at the irony! I sat through a Microsoft seminar that had a buncha Blue Screens of Death and all I got was this lousy t-shirt that doesn't fit because...uhhm... I think it shrunk or something!


My other t-shirt is one I got from when I was a classroom teacher at the elementary school (I am a itinerant special ed teacher presently). It is a Character Counts t-shirt that the school administration wanted staff and students to wear on Fridays to show school spirit and to model good behavior. Mine shrunk (funny how all my t-shirts keep doing that!) and got deoderant stains so I never wore it again after a while! (hey! being a teacher-especially a preschool special needs teacher is a sweaty job!)



When I was in high school, and just after graduating, I had a bunch of metal concert t-shirts-the Scorpions, Iron Maiden, AC-DC, etc, but I wore them out, or I got rid of them. I wish I hadn't gotten rid of some of them, although I could no longer wear that Scorpions shirt (it's the Blackout one with the guy with forks in his eyes!) or the Iron Maiden one with all that gross, axe-killer stuff. Needless to say, my parents were not amused with those kinds shirts!


3. My t-shirt would say: Glenn Beck: The asshole who's a real pain with an asshole in real pain.

I know-it's kinda dumb! I couldn't think of anything else!
4. I would wear it on a walk on the nature trail. No, really-this would be a good one to wear to the latest war protest.

5. I am gonna tag 3 unsuspecting blogmates: here they are and I can just bet they'll have some good t-shirts!!






March 12, 2008

Dischord in the newsroom, troublesome humor, and napkin music

Gee whiz I'm glad I get along-(generally) with my co-workers! These guys will probably beat the crap out of each other in the parking garage after work!



I have always loved Troubletown! The way Lloyd Dangle draws his characters with their constant scowls is funny enough, but he also seems to often have some insightful takes on today's politics! Here is his observation of how the news media deals with Obama vs McCain:



On the Troubletown site there are some kinda cool little things you can do-like ask Alberto Gonzalez a question, see who will fill the great Reagan mold, and some funny drawings from his sketchbook, and the Troubletown blog: Welcome to Troubletown.com


We all need a little break from our super serious world every now and then. Some of us will read...some listen to a good comedian...some listen to music. Yeah, music- sweet, sweet music. How it can soothe the soul! This is just cool. A musical about an available napkin! I have posted some of Improv Everywhere's skits before-I really like them! I think the reaction on people's faces is great when the actors begin doing their stuff! The people eating and doing whatever they were doing at the food court seem to enjoy this kind of musical theater!




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March 9, 2008

Some stuff

George Carlin talks about stuff. We have a whole hell of a lot of "stuff" in our house. In fact, we probably need to do a little spring cleaning to get rid of a lot of that stuff! I always liked the way Carlin could develop a theme and draw it out, adding other funny stuff (ha ha) along the way!



Ohh boy, isn't this ironic! I just had to post this!









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March 5, 2008

Why work when you can %&*$# around?!

In between (not procrastinating-honest!) doing reports for my job as a special needs itinerant teacher I decided to check out one of my newest blog pal's site Distributor Cap. From his great site, I saw one of his links to an interesting site called Mathman. Mathman had a cool little toy called the Advertising Slogan Generator http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan I tried it out and played around with some funny stuff. You can enter a word with some of those generators (nouns work best it seems) and what I like is that you can keep hitting "refresh" or "reload" or the "create" button to make your phrase/whatever and it just changes the quotation/phrase around your silly words! I guess he got these from http://thesurrealist.co.uk/, where there are some more cool time wasters. Stuff like where you can plug in a funny word and click the button and out comes a funny phrase or quote using your word. I really like stuff like this! I think its fun, and its some of what the "web 2.0" offers or was supposed to offer: fun interactive stuff where you can create funny shit like this:


William Shakespeare

Out, damned fart! Out, I say!

Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

Get your own quotes:



Or this:

They don't throw their garbage away. They make it into poop.

Which movie was this quote from?

Get your own quotes:


I know some might think this is infantile, stupid, and idiotic stuff, but I think its FUN infantile, stupid, and idiotic stuff! Hey, I am glad that I now have Distributor Cap as a blog mate, and I am glad he has such cool friends!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I am going to go back to writing those reports. Ahem!


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March 1, 2008

8 Things

Jen at Casual Slack tagged me with this meme about 8 Things etc. Well, here goes:



8 Things I am passionate about:

1. My political views (but I often keep them private)

2. my music

3. blogging/reading other's blogs

4. reading

5. watching basketball-(if its "my" team I sometimes get too into it!)

6. my son's (who has autism) success in school

7. Weekends-yeah, I know teachers are supposed to work on weekends too, but I try not to!

8. trying to keep our computer running in top shape/messing with software/tuning it up



8 Things I want to do before I die:

1. work in a different field than education-possibly in a computer-related field

2. travel -maybe NYC or Chicago- Or Spain to visit my cousin and his wife/family

3. win the lottery

4. lose weight and get into shape-(ironic for this heading!)

5. play in a rock and roll band-make a cd/play live somewhere(I have done it before, just informal jamming with friends)

6. write something-a book, something published somewhere (not just a letter to the editor)

7. learn to swim

8. go on a long hike somewhere in the mountains-maybe up north near Taos/Valdez NM.



8 Things I Say Often:

1. fuck!

2 capice!?

3. Oh, come on! (in traffic)

4. damn! or dammit!

5. what's with this guy!? (in traffic again)

6. Peww! You 'tinks! (I say it to our dog, ok!?)

7. oh crap!

8. oh, that sucks!



8 Books I Have Read Lately:

1. The Catcher in The Rye-(can you believe I had never read this!?)

2. The Chocolate War-(yes it's a trend with censored books-and again, can you believe I had never read this?!)

3. The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time-by Mark Haddon-I really loved this book!-I could visualize how possibly our son might be like Christopher when he's that age!

4. Blinded By The Right-David Brock

5. Tales From the Teacher's Lounge-Robert Wilder

6. What's The Matter With Kansas?-Thomas Frank

7. Armed Madhouse-Greg Palast

8. Blue Highways-William Least Heat Moon



8 songs I Could Listen to Over and Over:

1. Bop Till You Drop-Ramones

2. Naked As We Came-Iron and Wine

3. anything by Chris Whitley

4. anything by Elvis Costello

5. Wilco-Pot Kettle Black

6. Somerville-The Pernice Brothers

7. Rosie Thomas-I Play Music

8. The Trooper-Iron Maiden



8 Things That Attract Me to My Best Friends:

1. similar views on culture/life

2. commonalities-work in the educational field, music

3. don't always want to hang out together-getting together sometimes is fun, but not every other day!

4. same dry humor - they can enjoy a sick, dark joke without revulsion

5. they play guitar or music

*I really couldn't think of others-sorry!



8 people who should do this crazy 8 stuff:
1. Aye! small thoughts...
2. Anne Altman.
3. Wendy Brandes Jewelry
4. Jay's World
5. Monkey Muck
6. For Your Entertainment
7. Distributor Cap
8.Culture Kills...wait, i mean cutlery

February 27, 2008

Nascar: It's a sport.

With the ever popular Daytona 500 race over and done with and with the UAW Dodge 400 scheduled to begin soon, I thought we could take a serious look at the athleticism, and strategy involved in this sport. Yes, there is an entirely different kind of athleticism and strategy from other sports. Nascar athleticism involves repetitious and highly individualized movement of the participant's musculature, in such a manner as to cause the vehicle the participant is manuevering around the track to move real fast. Let's look at a clip of a Nascar coach describing the strategy, training and preparation involved in this sport. Wow! This kind of strategy and training is something to be admired in a sport!






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