Friday Detritus

Starting your weekend off with some items of Awesome and Not-So-Much:

• Awesome: Krista’s blog, Margaritas On Friday. If you know Krista, it’s exactly what you’d expect. I highly recommend reading the first post.
• Not-So-Much: Dawgs collapse, finish great season one win short.
• Awesome: I finally got a new phone: The Nokia 5310 (in Bulldog Black and Red, natch). No longer do I have to worry about my camera taking pictures of the insides of my pants! Huzzah!
• Not-So-Much: Scratching your head all the way down to your brain.
• Awesome: If the weather holds, looks like two rounds of golf this weekend. Double-huzzah!
• Not-So-Much: The aftertaste that comes from drinking ginger ale after brushing your teeth.
• Awesome: Bloons, and all of its offspring.
• Awesome and/or Not-So-Much: I just realized that as of one month ago, I’m officially closer to retirement age than my birth.

Update: I just couldn’t let the weekend arrive without dropping one more bit of Awesome.

Huh.

Um… yay?

Monstas

(via my new Monstas Set on Flickr)

Bad, Bad Idea, Myspace

Whoever decided that incorporating a karaoke feature into Myspace obviously didn’t count on me abusing it for all it’s worth. I know I can’t sing - does that stop me? No. I know I make a fool of myself - does that stop me? No. Besides, it’s ultimately about the feeling, and this rendition of Joe Cocker’s cover of “With A Little Help From My Friends” has got feeling out the yin-yang. So much, in fact, I might have blown out the microphone. Do not crank this one. In fact, don’t even listen to it. Just skip this post altogether.

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The Greatest Workplace Safety Training Video Of All Time And Don’t Even Try To Argue With Me That’s It’s Not Because You’re Wrong and That’s Final.

Without further ado, then, I present to you, dear readers, “Forklift Driver Klaus” (German with English subtitles - may not be appropriate for those who are easily squeamish)…

OK, yes, it’s not real. Whatever. “Gabelstapler” is a great word.

Dennis Eats It

I’m only reposting this to show that Flickr now allows for video!! Wooooo doggiee!

Dennis Eats It

Originally uploaded by DAveA

WAY Too Much Honesty From A Fortune Cookie

Thanks a ton, Lucky Key.

The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

Where have I seen this before?

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Easter Fun With The Akins Family

Mom had a bunch of old records she was getting rid of, and I figured we could put ‘em to good use.

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Quizzes, A Smattering Of

I invite you to post any/all of your own scores in the comments. (Via justsayhi.com)

94%DRUNKARD

Frankly, I’m a bit offended that an extensive knowledge of the makeup of alcoholic beverages automatically makes me a drunkard when in fact it’s my case of Miller Lite every day after work that makes me one.

46%

Disappointed in this one - I thought I had this one pretty well figured out.

20

Thinking about putting this one on my resume’.

55

Tougher than it seems - I’m curious to see if my hypothesis is true; most, if not all, people would name more countries in the time allotted if they didn’t know they were being timed.

64%

I’m making it a point to lose weight, so unfortunately this one will go down as we move through the spring and summer.

32

Got hung up on this one several times where I’d draw a complete blank. Spent 30 seconds arguing with my screen for not accepting “vermillion”. Little did I know that I was spelling it wrong (FWIW, only one “L” in “vermilion” - who knew).

42%

I’ve seen enough movies. I’d be fine.

56% Geek

Not sure if I should be proud or disappointed. OK I admit it - I’m disappointed.

Ditto.