Inane World

Kip Addotta – Wet Dream

tim — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:00:29 +0000

Here’s an oldie but a goodie. Some friends and I were talking about various novelty songs, and this one came up. I had no idea they had a video for it! This one should get some kind of award for the highest number of bad puns per minute.

Brian Haner (Papa Gates) – Guitar Hero

tim — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:07:43 +0000

Not only is Brian very talented with his guitar, he’s very funny too. This is a classic:

Don’t Drink Water

tim — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:12:33 +0000

Water sales has become a huge business these days. There are stores that specialize and sell ONLY water. That seems amusing to me, like the old Saturday Night Live “Scotch Boutique”, where they specialized in selling just tape.

I don’t drink water. You probably shouldn’t either. Think about it for a few minutes: fish swim around in water and pee in it. That’s nothing I want to drink. And, it’s even worse than that! They drink it too, then pee it out again! Horrors!

Once it’s boiled and flavored with something like coffee beans, it becomes somewhat palatable. Unfortunately the cafeteria downstairs at work hasn’t yet mastered this art. “somewhat” would be a large stretch in their case.

The other thing I find inane with water is the recommendations on how MUCH you should drink per day. I tell you, if I drank as much (of any liquid) as doctors recommend, I’d be in the bathroom all day. Chugging down 3 liters of water per day like clockwork just seems ridiculous to me. You see, our bodies have this neat mechanism built in. It’s called “thirst”. When your body needs liquid, this “thirst” mechanism is triggered and you find you want to drink something. It’s very clever. Here's what I do: When I get thirsty, I drink something (well, not water. I mean … come ON! Fish pee?). When I’m not thirsty, I don’t drink anything. It’s a great system.

In addition to not having to run to the bathroom all the time, I don’t have to carry around water bottles, or have big 64oz cups of soda on my desk for constant imbibing. I save money, effort, and it’s quite convenient to utilize this built-in liquid “fuel gage” type system.

Giant Vortex Cannon – waaaay cool!

tim — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:10:06 +0000

Out Of The Blue – new song from The Strange Game

tim — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:38:22 +0000

Hot off the press:

http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/12889142

This is one of our more up-beat and less suicidal numbers

Enjoy! You can also play it with the player widget on the right hand side on this website.

Lee Majors – IBM Commercial

tim — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:40:24 +0000

This cracked me up when it aired many years ago. I’m glad somebody found it and posted it!

For Peter Sellers fans…

tim — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:51:39 +0000

I ran across these two videos by Peter Sellers, doing Beatles songs in a “different” way than they do!

Here’s one where he does “A Hard Day’s Night” Shakespearian style:

And this one is “She Loves You” as Dr Strangelove would have done it:

Google Insights

tim — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:38:27 +0000

Here’s a fun thing you can play with – Google insights for Search

You can put in a search term, and optionally some filters, and then the system will show you how much (over time, since 2004) that particular thing was searched for.

For example, I put in “Field Camera”. Here is the result I got:

This shows some query activity over the years, but that interest has peaked starting in 2011

Put in your own favorite thing and see how often people are searching for it. In fact, put your own name in!

The Strange Game – TWO new songs

tim — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:05:43 +0000

Last night was quite productive! We put the finishing touches on “The Imposter” and “Tome Corazon”. You can listen on the music players to the right, or visit our website “The Strange Game”

Outsourcing Leadership

tim — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:34:12 +0000

Ok, so here’s a pretty inane concept for you, and there are companies who do this. To me, this is beyond nutty. I can see outsourcing the grunt processes in your company. I can also see outsourcing various functions such as timecards, service desk, printer maintenance, network maintenance, etc. However, when it comes to Leadership… the leadership of a company IS the company. Outsourcing that is like a ship’s captain turning the rudder over to somebody else then going down to the saloon for drinks, hoping that all will go well.