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1April2008

My Favorite April Fools Day.

Posted by Toner under: Nerd Culture.

A few years ago I wrote some freelance articles for a Web site called Charged.com. It was a content site that described itself as being dedicated to the coverage of “Extreme Leisure.”

To give you an example of what, exactly, that is it had articles about such varied topics as “building your own catapult” and “keeping camels as pets” as well as features on all the usual extreme sports such as mountain biking, surfing etc.

In this particular instance I was assigned to write an article on Tree Climbing. It was actually kind of interesting, I found out there was this whole subculture of people who are REALLY into tree climbing. There’s loads of special gear, you can even sleep in a tree tent.

Who knew?

My article had gone out March 31st 19-sometime before the dot com crash. On April 1st, the site decided to pull an April Fools joke and pretended that it had turned into a Porn site. There really wasn’t any porn, it was just things like “Kitty Porn” (with pictures of kittens rolling in string, etc.). However the design was really dead-on as to what Porn sites looked like back then, complete with pop-ups and animated gifs.

Well, one of my sources for the article, a super nice granola-type from out West who apparently did a lot of climbing with his son and their friends from church, went to check out the article and didn’t really read the headlines close enough to tell it was a joke. I’m sure there’s some saying about how “there’s nothing like a Christian scorned” (or if there’s not there should be), but this guy unloaded on me with both barrels. I mean, the cursing was truly epic. Quentin Tarantino could not have written better dialogue.

I felt really awful, the guy had been super helpful, but, also, ya know, this was really a non-issue, so I sent him an e-mail like “hey, did you really READ what was there… It’s all pictures of kittens and stuff…”

No reply…

Maybe you had to be there… But, it still makes me chuckle a little. In a really uncomfortable, icky way…

Technorati Tags: Charged.com, Extreme Leisure, Tree Climbing, April Fools

31March2008

Rush joins Foo Fighters on stage in Toronto.

Posted by Toner under: music.

Heard about this on the radio on the drive-in today. Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee from Rush interrupt Foo Fighter’s drummer Taylor Hawkins in mid drum solo for a little rendition of YYZ. Even if you don’t like prog rock, the crowd reaction alone is worth a listen. It’s a little like that Hindenburg announcer but, ya know, without all the destruction and burning helium.

Technorati Tags: Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Rush interrupt, Foo Fighter’s, Taylor Hawkins, YYZ, prog rock

26March2008

Monkey’s Thoughts Move Robot On Other Side of World

Posted by Toner under: Nerd Culture.

I can’t think of anything that would make this better. Maybe a bacon loaded donut burger… But really not much else.
YouTube - Monkey’s Thoughts Move Robot On Other Side of World

25March2008

How To Properly Walk A Goat

Posted by Toner under: Nerd Culture.

This is important… How To Properly Walk A Goat. What more really needs to be said?

11March2008

Just some blogs I like.

Posted by Toner under: Nerd Culture.

From Melissa, Stuff White People Like..
This made me rethink everything I hold sacred. I mean sure, some of them are obvious (like, say, “Asian Girls“– I’m mean, duh…) but some of the more mundane ones like, “The Sunday New York Times” and “expensive sandwiches” are just brilliant.

Speaking of expensive sandwhiches. Check out “Paula Dean Is Trying to Kill Us,” which gives us not only the “donut burger” (a burger wedged between two glazed donuts) but also the BACON donut burger (with egg.). Thanks to Bonnie for this one. I’d give her a link back, but, she’s recently broken up with the Internet.

Technorati Tags: Stuff White People Like, expensive sandwiches, Paula Dean, donut burger, BACON