A Petty Blog

Funny.

I have nothing to add to this video.  You’ll love it or just scratch your head.

The video is … amazing.  I fear to even glance at the comments.

I’m guessing  NextGenHacker is wishing the internet had an undo button.

via Larry Osterman’s WebLog

“I have dual citizenship. With the United States and Florida.”

OK. This is not very timely, but I still laugh out loud every time I watch.

This is from a Saturday Night Live skit, via Flowing Data.

 I like this advertisement, mostly for the psychology.

I like this video because I’ve always liked the old “got any grapes” joke on which this is based.

A bald, wizened little man was rocking in a chair on his porch, smiling happily. A passerby, charmed by his smile, came up to him and said, “I couldn’t help noticing how happy you look. What’s your secret for a long happy life?”

“I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day,” he said with a toothless grin. “I drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fast food, and never exercise.”

“No way! How old are you?”

“Twenty-six.”
via Mikey’s Funnies…daily Christian humor email list

DO NOT DESTROY.  DO NOT BEND.

URGENT

DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED.

Yes, this is petty,  but it grabbed my ire today and shook it.

By no stretch of anyone’s imagination is a sale flyer from Dish Networks URGENT.  It strains our language to call this “DOCUMENTS”

Harumph.

Dear Postmaster.  Please do not destroy this letter, as I assume you do to those not otherwise marked.

A ball and bat together cost $1.10.  The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball.

How much does the ball cost?

(more…)

This is a silly presentation (often the best kind), but he’s absolutely right - for any “it”, if it worked, somebody would be making money with it (and not just by selling plans on the internet.)

Happy day!  This FoxTrot strip, added to some others I have bookmarked make a small collection worthy of a small post.  Some are Christmasy and geeky and some are just geeky.

Next up is a guest post on xkcd by FoxTrot’s Bill Amend.

(Hover over the xkcd strips for additional comments - “Guest comic by Bill Amend of FoxTrot, an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists, of which there are an oddly large number.”)

Ok.  That was mostly just geeky, but it’s a great segue to these.

This one mentions Santa:

This one is just funny (since my dad has a GPS…)

And finally, for my son, who always wants to know the difference between “geek” and “nerd”.