I don’t post links or videos that often, but I had to throw this one up. This is the first in a series of Microsoft commercials featuring Jerry Seinfeld, and while not as good as the “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” ones from Apple, it’s pretty funny. Bill Gates actually does a pretty decent job, and his Platinum Shoe Circus Clown Club card is hilarious.
Some actual searches that reached my blog in the last month:
Geez… I wrote one article on circumcision, and searches are still hitting it over two years later. It is also the current cutthechatter.com record-holder for comments, with twelve. I guess it was on the cutting edge (har).
As a comparison, an article on the circus that I wrote the same month has zero comments, and I’ve never seen a single search hit that one. I guess penises are big on the internet! Wait, that’s not what I meant…
Here is a link to an anagram server, where you enter some phrase and it will give you English anagrams for that phrase. I tried my name and got some good ones:
Then I tried “Cut The Chatter” and got these:
My favourite anagram of all time (I remember seeing Johnny Carson interviewing Dick Cavett a zillion years ago; they were talking about anagrams and mentioned this one): Spiro Agnew → Grow a penis
There’s a lot of talk around the world, especially at Christmas time, about the baby Jesus. We know about his parents, when and where he was born (though the “when” is a subject of some debate), and who his early friends were (cows, sheep, drummer boy, wise men). We also know a lot about the adult Jesus — his teachings, miracles, and of course his death (and beyond). But there’s twenty-odd years in between that we don’t hear much about.
Jesus must have been a toddler as one point, and he likely had tantrums like any other toddler, though my kids’ tantrums never caused plagues or rivers to turn to blood or anything. How do you give him a bath when he can walk on the bathwater? Gail and I have enough trouble with Nicholas thinking the world revolves around him; what if everyone else believed it did too? I’m guessing he’d win every game of “my dad is better than your dad”.
Here’s a scary thought — what about the teenager Jesus? Turning water into wine would make him popular at high school parties. Did he ever say “I don’t have to listen to you Joseph, you’re not even my real father”?
On the other hand, it would make grocery shopping a lot easier: “We’re out of loaves and fishes. Jesus honey, would you mind… that’s great, thanks.”
Thank you, thank you very much. You’ve been great. I’m here all week.
This is just too funny. What’s the best way to show people what happens when they become Christian and take Jesus into their heart? Why, you electrocute a pickle, of course! Just try to watch this without laughing out loud. I certainly couldn’t.
Here is a slashdot article about an internet-enabled coffee machine that has software vulnerabilities in it. And I love the title of the article.
Whose brilliant idea was it to add networking to a coffee machine? Is that really necessary? OK, so X10 is a pretty neat idea, but then there was the internet fridge, now this. What’s next, the internet-enabled stapler?
Running out in the rain to turn the sprinkler off.
I’m watching an episode of CSI: New York. On the show, someone is blogging, and the police are trying to find out where he’s blogging from. One of them comes up with the following bit of brilliance:
I’ll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. It might give us an IP address.
Gail and I both literally laughed out loud. Even better, a few minutes later the same person is seen manipulating a smoothly scrolling 3-D detailed map of NYC. Sure, you can throw one of those together in minutes with VB.
Speaking as someone who doesn’t “get” techno music, this is just perfect.
I took some pictures of the lunar eclipse back in February, and I’m just now posting them to flickr. I’m kinda new to this digital photography thing.
That was the night of the spaghetti dinner and silent auction at my kids’ school, which Gail and other members of the school council spent weeks organizing. During the evening, I was talking to the father of one of Ryan’s friends, and he mentioned the eclipse that was happening that night. I had no knowledge of this at all, so I was glad he told me. When we got home and I got the boys to bed, I grabbed the camera and tripod and set it up in the kitchen. We also have a little trigger thing that attaches to the camera so you can take a picture without touching the camera itself — I figured this was a good idea since I turned the flash off, so the exposure time might be longer, and if I was holding the camera it would be shaky. I centered the camera on the moon, zoomed in as far as I could (200mm lens), and took a couple. With the tripod, the camera already centered on the moon, and the trigger, I was all set. All I had to do was go into the kitchen every five minutes or so, hit the trigger, and that’s it.
Five minutes after I took the first picture, I went back into the kitchen and looked through the viewfinder, just to make sure I was still centered on the moon. I wasn’t, so I re-centered and took another picture.
Five minutes after that, I did the same thing, found that, again, I was not centered, so I re-centered and took another one. I figured that I must have bumped the camera or tripod without noticing, so I was extra careful this time.
Another five minutes passed, and I went to take another picture. Sure enough, the camera was no longer centered. I scratched my head and re-adjusted again and then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
The moon moves.
I had to re-adjust the camera and tripod before every picture, of course, and eventually the moon got high enough in the sky that I was getting reflections off of the kitchen windows, so I moved the tripod out to the deck. Luckily there were only patches of snow at the time, so I could go outside in my socks every few minutes without getting wet. As we moved towards totality, the exposure time kept increasing; between 9:32 and 9:55, exposure time went from 0.4 seconds to 4 seconds, and by 10:18 it was at 15 seconds. At 10:52 it was still 13 seconds, but at 11:15, it was back down to 2.
There are nicer and clearer pictures of the eclipse out there, but I’m pretty happy with mine. Here is a very cool video made up of a series of excellent pictures of the eclipse, though this guy is a much better photographer than I am, since he managed to keep the moon centered the whole time. Maybe the moon doesn’t move where he is.
Cut The Chatter, Red Two 