DUB step
The city is DETERMINED to have the Stampede, despite the fact that it runs into the timetable of getting the water main fixed. I’m sure they’re going to do everything possible to get it fixed prior to the start of Stampede.
Anyway.
I was digging through my “Favorites” playlist on YouTube – which contains the maximum number of videos allowed for a playlist, by the way, because I’m a madman – and I came across this re-upload of a Jaboody Dub that I’d completely forgotten about.
Which of course led me down the Jaboody rabbit hole to all the old dubs I used to watch all the time. I’ve posted a lot of these before, but here they all are again!
“HOLY FUCK SOMEONE CALL 911!”
“I don’t know who lives here but it’s time to wake uuuuuup!”
That building screech/laugh at 1:14 is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
“BUH-DUDUH!”
SEGMENT YO LIFE
This is awesome.
That’s all I got today, sorry.
So I’m an idiot
(Obvious title is obvious)
Thanks to SolarBalls, I’ve been reading up on the planets, their moons, and all sorts of other space fun. I was reading about the shepherd moons of Saturn and Uranus and kept thinking “where have I heard that phrase before?” and it took me until today to realize it: Enya.
DUH.
We listened to this album a lot in Art Camp. Brings back immediate nostalgia and really makes me want to mess around with some clay.
Anyway.
This is the last time I’ll mention it, I swear
Okay, so I’m finally caught up on the old SolarBalls videos to get to the Moon Revolution (which they have conveniently uploaded as a full movie-length video, splicing all the relevant smaller videos together) and OH MY GOD THIS IS GOOD STORYTELLING.
Like, I’m not even kidding when I say that the plot, character development, and pacing is better than like 90% of modern movies and TV shows (especially TV shows). They also do a really good job of taking a crap ton of characters and splitting them up so that we follow smaller numbers of them at a time before they all get together again at some point (this was my favorite aspect of movies like Civil War and Infinity War – I loved how they dealt with so many characters). And like I’ve said before, the animation and voice acting are incredible.
So I’ll just mention it one more time and then shut up about it: watch SolarBalls, y’all.
Can’t Figure Out the Door? It Might Not Be Your Fault!
Haha.
So today I found out about the term Norman door, which refers to any door that is confusing to use. Or, in a broader context, it refers to any item/product that has a design element that does not make it clear how that item/product should be used.
It is named after Don Norman, who states in his book The Design of Everyday Things that:
“The design of the door should indicate how to work it without any need for signs, certainly without any need for trial and error.”
A vid:
The doors in the math building fall under the term “Norman doors.” Some of them have “push” or “pull” on them, but half of them don’t and it is definitely not clear what you should do with those. I still screw it up sometimes, haha.
I feel like I knew there was a name for this kind of thing, but didn’t know the name itself. Interesting!
Also:
(Not really a Norman door with that handle, but this is what came to mind when I was reading about this, haha.)
One Snarky Mountain
Today is the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.
I wasn’t born yet, but I of course have seen videos of it. My dad has (had?) a little thingy that showed the different coarseness/fineness of the ash at like 10, 20, 50, etc. miles away from the eruption.
I actually think I captioned a video about the eruption back when I was working at Pima Community College (which was like a lifetime ago now, haha).
Anyway, I happened upon the Twitter account for the mountain, and whoever is running it has a great snarky sense of humor.
Nothing beats the Big Ben Twitter account, though:
Why didn’t anyone tell me…
…about this ABSOLUTE BANGER?
This has been around for seven years. Clearly I have been slacking when it comes to searching for music.
Also, this is literally the only good thing that’s come out of Trump’s involvement in politics.
This is old news now, I guess, but…
Achievement Hunter, the group of hilarious let’s play nerds who basically kept me virtual company throughout my math degree at the U of I, is disbanding/shutting down.
I originally discovered them through Tumblr; or, more specifically, I discovered Michael Jones/Rage Quit through this video while working at Pima (I watched a lot of videos via Tumblr on that job, haha):
I didn’t know what Rooster Teeth or Achievement Hunter were for a while after that, but after watching enough Rage Quit vids on YouTube, another one of their Let’s Plays with more than just Michael in it got recommended to me. I think this was the first video I saw with Geoff, Ray, and Gavin:
Then I was hooked. I got my mom hooked on them too, haha.
Anyway in honor of the tons of laughs I got from them over the years, here are some of my favorite videos of theirs:
And all the Rage Quits I listed here.
Houston, We Have a Big Bird
This is exactly the type of video that YouTube is for.
Sounds click-baity, but isn’t at all. Contains some weird facts about history plus info about a disaster. What more could you want?
(You know I love disasters.)
(Especially space disasters.)
Also, the comments are a mix of serious reactions from people who saw the explosion live and reactions of people speculating how much weirder it would have been if the recovery operation involved pulling a massacred Big Bird out of the wreckage. With some overlap between those two things, too.
Oh my GOD
I am vehemently opposed to the use of artificial intelligence, at least in the casual capacity it’s been used as of late. What’s that quote? “There’s no AI, just other people’s data.” I refuse to willingly give my data over to AI to make it “smarter” and I refuse to willingly take advantage of other people’s data by producing things via AI said people probably didn’t give consent to the use of their data in that form. ChatGPT, art-generating stuff…nope.
So I’m a bit conflicted on this, because while I didn’t produce it myself, it is AI and I’m willingly consuming it while knowing it’s AI. But I didn’t seek it out on purpose. But I am listening to it.
And I like it. It is the catchiest goddamn thing I’ve heard in a while and I cannot get it out of my head.
“Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice, shame on glue”
I mean. Come on.
Ugh, the BASS
I love the original* so much, and anything that adds more bass to it gets a pass from me.
I say it with every song I listen to, I know, but damn this sounds good on the Sennheisers.
*Technically the original song was called Valerie by Steve Winwood, but Eric Prydz sampled it and the result was so awesome that Winwood actually changed the chorus of his song to match Prydz’ version better.
IT’S A SONG, I’M SORRY
A good portion of my blogs are about music, huh? I mean, I guess everyone loves music (unless you’re a COMMIE), so maybe that’s fine.
It’s better than like half of the other crap I blather on about here.
ANYWAY.
I don’t remember how I found this song, but this was one of the very first songs I ever remember burning to a CD. So I must have discovered it sometime around…I dunno…10th grade? 9th grade? I actually don’t know when I had my first CD player.*
Regardless of where it came from and when I discovered it, it activates some weird part of my brain. It’s not triggering a memory or a feeling or a place. It’s…it’s like it’s reminding me of a different life if that makes any sense. Especially the way that “Vienna” is sung.
ANYWAY.
I figured I’d put it on here to see if this triggers any other sort of weird brain stuff in others or if that’s just me.
*I actually wasn’t really into music until high school, either, which is INSANE.
Ronn Lucas
This guy is insanely talented. The delay part is great.
Okay, this is cute.
[Edit: this was originally published as two videos, but now they’ve put out a single one with the whole story, so I’ve replaced the originals with that one]
Personified planets doing stuff together? I’m into it!
I saw a small clip of this on TikTok and was intrigued, so I looked it up on YouTube. Turns out this is the most recent video of a whole big series about the planets. I gotta check them all out now.
Edit 2: yeah, this is my new obsession now.
Goooooo Vandals! And…Yale?
Well this is awesome.
Marching band kids are the best, yo.
Edit:
Nice!
Flaaaaaaags!
Any video that combines legit flag critique and legit humor gets an A+ from me.
Nunavut’s flag is cool. But I actively hate BC’s flag. It…it bugs me.
Flashback (even further this time):
You know what I miss sometimes? Going down to visit my grandparents in California. Their house was huge and interesting and had all sorts of funky things in it and I always enjoyed exploring it (and the yard) every time I went down there with my dad.
My dad would sleep in his old room and I’d stay in my Aunt Vicky’s room, which was right next to his. She had the coolest little desk and windows and dresser in there and my grandma put a tiny little stereo/CD player in there for me so I could play some CDs when I slept.
Anyway, one of the CDs she had in there was this one:
I didn’t really know who Andrea Bocelli was when I was a kid, but I LOVED this CD. The first song on there always reminds me of that house.
Pretty much every song I have links to a certain memory, but this is one of the stronger ones.
Flashback:
So one of my favorite movies as a preteen was Mystery Men, as I’m sure some of you know. My mom, GE, his parents, and I went to see it in the theatre when it came out in 1999 and I watched it on like continuous repeat after I had my appendectomy during the summer of 2000 (my mom can vouch for this, haha).
We of course had a VHS copy of it back then, which has since been replaced by a DVD. However, the DVD does not have the little “extras” clips/interviews that were at the end of the VHS tape.
But fear not! The DVD may not have them, but the internet certainly does:
Anyone else freaking love this movie?
“Disco is NOT dead! Disco is LIFE!”
Hahaha, I remember these!
My mom? A PC person.
My dad? A Mac person.
I remember going to his office on campus and he’d have one or two of those original iMac computers (the ones with the big backs and transparent color cases) in there for his grad students to use. He also had one at his condo and we had a tangerine iBook clamshell.
Lotsa Mac, is what I’m saying.
Back in…junior high?…he gave me one of the old iMacs and I would set up a little cushion fort in the living room around the coffee table (where the iMac was) and just play and type and do random stuff on that computer.
One of the things I’d do was play with the MacInTalk voices because they were fun and I was 12.
Anyone else remember these?
That “Hey you! Yeah, you! Who do you think I’m talking to, the mouse?” whispered phrase still lives in my head today.
Hey, Chrome?
Can someone tell me the purpose of this? Why would anyone ever need this option?
“Man, I’m bored. I wish I knew which internet thingy to look at today. PFFT SCREW IT LET’S LOOK AT ‘EM ALL!”
What’s even worse is that it’s easier than it should be to accidentally click this option. You get to that drop-down menu by right-clicking on the “Bookmarks” button. So if you accidentally right click and then move your mouse down slightly while correcting your mistake to left click, you’re screwed.
At least I would be. 200+ suddenly opened tabs?
…
[intrusive thoughts intensify]
…
Okay, I guess there is an “oops, did you really mean to click that option, you stupid fart?” failsafe.
BUT STILL. WHY IS THIS A THING.
[Chrome just froze on me. It didn’t do anything else, haha.]
No One Nose
AYYYYYYYYYYY it’s Anosmia Awareness Day.
Go hug a non-smeller.
And watch this review of a really weird-ass water bottle.
This sounds absolutely horrible. Why are y’all with working noses so weird?
AI is Terrifying
This is frightening, y’all.
Is it perfect? No. But that’s because it’s really just beginning. It’ll get better and better and it’ll get harder and harder to distinguish this stuff from reality.
As I’ve said before, the future is bleak.
A Vehicle for Death
Important.
There was a Tweet I read not so long ago about a guy who got into a car accident in his big-ass SUV and was saying how grateful he was that he had a big-ass SUV to “protect himself and his family.” Never mind the other guy whose car got totally wasted by said big-ass SUV…or any pedestrians that may get caught up in its grill and chewed up and spit out because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ugh.
Regrets
Every day I think about this video and hate myself for not making it to a Coldplay concert that was literally in the neighboring province.
Next time, Chris Martin, I promise.
Eigenblogger 