It’s been way too long since Missoula has had a good thunderstorm after dark. As soon as I saw lightning on the horizon I grabbed my camera and rushed out the door.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have my tripod ’cause I lent it out, so I had to make due with some rocks on the ground. I kinda like the perspective that it gave…
This was taken on 3rd St. in front of Bernice’s Bakery.
I reached the magic number on True Love Waits by Radiohead. The song technically doesn’t have a drum part… but I made one up. And it was fun. I’m sure Thom Yorke would glare disapprovingly.
The other night I spent a few hours watching cats playing theremins on YouTube.
I know — I live a very exciting life, full of adventure and intrigue.
For those who don’t know, a theremin is a musical instrument that you can play without touching. It detects the position of your hands using Science and emits a corresponding frequency.
As an added bonus, some of them have antennas that cats love to swat at. For those who don’t know, a cat is a small domesticated mammal of the feline order. They are oftentimes ridiculously adorable.
At the moment I am writing a new feature in OneStop that will make certain channels automatically refresh at set intervals. Since my blog has an RSS feed, this is a test post to see if my RSS feed gets updated in OneStop without me refreshing the page.
Babelfish, the famed online translator, can take any paragraph of text and turn it into a laugh riot. Simply take the text, translate it from English to German to French to Dutch to Japanese and back to English. The result? Comedy gold. For example, take the first few paragraphs of this lovely prose by Bill O’Reilly and run it through the laugh machine. Here’s what you end up with:
In first class of the school of Long Island St. Brigid, the Catholic church is established and is high in either one he “the stone” being to be, including me in 60 boys, sisters which is made is praying to St. Peter. I me was 6 years old, but being the recall to do, liking St. Peter who the naturally, makes good sisters happy greatly it cannot remember many from that. Now, 50 years or more after the praying my first class, in the St. Peter’s successor America there is here, I possess complicated frame of mind concerning that. Like the American of some 1000000 Catholic follower, I was disappointed deeply with the Vatican to the scandal of pedophilia of the priest response. It was overturned with respect to the crime whose slow pope two world really is large due to the new England priest, fact of the easy work of Rome that almost was inexcusable it gave remuneration to the basic law of Bernard.
Duganz (of duganzat23.blogspot.com), Karf and I had many-a-chuckle over this. We just may be easily amused.
There is absolutely no reason that this clip from the Daily Show should be so fantastically hilarious. Actually, there is. Pure, unadulterated immaturity. This is, by far, one of the most stupid, immature sketches that TDS has ever done, but it’s also one of the funniest.