Friggin' telemarketers

Hello sir or ma'am my name is state your name and I am calling today to see if you are happy with your long distance plan because right now we are offering a two for one deal on all extended warranties with purchase of a new timeshare in beautiful Laughlin Nevada which comes free with a twenty year subscription on many of your least favorite magazines so I will put you down for an order of thirty ok?

-iRob

Super Mario Guitar

Found on YouTube.

-iRob

April Fools

Happy April Fools Day!

Traditionally on this day there are spoof news articles or web pages on many mainstream and alternative sites. My favorite this year:

Starwars.com was pretending it was April 1 1979. Time to catch up on all your Empire Strikes Back spoilers and news!

A close second this year is Google's permanent settlement on Mars. (Take the Survey)

Previous fun attempts by Google to befuddle you include Google TiSP and Gmail Paper.

-iRob

update: You know, I would totally buy a shrinter.

Awesome Performance Art

Frozen people. Very cool.

glumbert - Time Freezes in Grand Central

-iRob

Damn Inescapable Logic

This wiggs me right out.

-iRob

Gnarly dude.

From xkcd. Reproduced under the Creative Commons 2.5 license.

-iRob

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor

The Injured Stormtrooper

found on YouTube.

iRob

Uncultured Swine

WARNING - The below contains spoilers for The Golden Compass. and the Lord of the Rings movies. You have been warned.

I went to see this last night with friends. Being the uncultured swine that I am, I hadn't read, nay, had not heard of this story until I first saw the previews some time ago.

Similarly, several years ago I knew of the existence of 'Lord of the Rings' but I was not familiar with the story, or that the three books were one continuous story arc, etc. So you can imagine the understanding slowly creeping into my brain when I had been in the theater nearly three hours and Sam and Mr. Frodo were getting ready to enter the mountains. And Sam and Mr. Frodo (Sir) discuss all they have left to do and the trials ahead.

I don't want to ruin anything for you but I will tell you at the end of this movie you do experience a "Mr. Frodo Situation" as I have taken to calling it.

Someday I would like to see a movie and wonder if they might make a sequel.

-Rob

P.S. I did like it, but let me make sure I have this straight - Russians and the Catholic Church are bad, Gypsies and the British are good?

Fruit!

I ate an orange yesterday. It's the first one I've ever eaten. I liked it.

I'm not really a fruit fan. Or a vegetable fan. O.K I don't really like much of anything. But this was good. I had another today.

-iRob

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."
-Steven Wright

A serious conversation.

-iRob

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"
-Matt Frewer