Photo Caption Contest! A bit early this week!

Due to the overwhelming popularity of the last caption contest, EVERYONE WINS!! Or something like that. Anyhoo, let's see how you like this one:

BYU Thinks Its Engineers are Socially Awkward.

Honest to goodness, I got this e-mail from the School of Technology Advisement the other day.

From: SoT Advisement- BYU

Mailed-By: byu.edu

To: sot_Advisement@byu.edu

Date: Feb 24, 2006 10:03 AM

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Come Roller Skate at Classic Skating in Orem
with the College of Nursing
and College of Engineering and Technology

Saturday, Feb. 25
10:00am- 12:00 noon

It's FREE! And Refreshments are provided. Invite anyone!
*Rollerskate rental are FREE too. Roller blades are $3-5.

Divine Comdedy=50% Hilarious+50%Crap

I usually feel like the stuff I've seen from Divine Comedy is at best blasphemous. Every once in a while though they do come up with some gems.

It's coming! Soon!

And look closely -- that's a black suit, not a black and white photo. Curiouser and curiouser...

Congratulations, Jon!

Our favorite Canasian got an Orca Grant! Take a minute to congratulate him! And then take a minute to ask for some money.

Photo Caption Contest!

Each week I'll post a crazy/random picture (well, more random than usual). This is where you folks shine through with your captions -- the more creative and funny, the better. Let's see what you've got! This week's photo:

And you thought building with legos was fun...

I recommend checking out the SodaZoo

Daily Show: Vice President Dick Cheney Shoots 78 Year Old Man in the Face

When a man becomes 'peppered' it usually is attributed to his hair color, but in this case, it was birdshot. From a shot-gun. From Vice President Dick Cheney's shot-gun. No one could better report this than our friends down at the Daily Show with John Stewart. Probably the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

Who says little chinese women don't have soul?

Make sure to download her samples. You'll wonder why she hasn't broken the Top 40 yet.

"Hi, I am Wing! I immigrated to New Zealand with my family about ten years ago from Hong Kong. I have been learning singing in New Zealand and I do performances in Rest Homes and Hospitals and occasionally promotional concerts as I go along.

I released my first CD Phantom Of The Opera and got a grant from the Manukau City Council for promotion. Then I released I Could Have Danced All Night and The Sound Of Music.

My latest CDs are called "Wing Sings AC/DC", "Dancing Queen by Wing" and "Beatles Classics by Wing".

I have worked hard and I hope you have all found I am improving.

Thank you for all who supports me helping me very much as I go along.

Thank you!"

~Wing

Happy Valentine's Day!

Ditka. How we love thee. Let us count the ways.

One Grabowski. Two Grabowski. Three Grabowski...

I'm having a bad month.

I think that anger is completely underrated. Well, perhaps not underrated, but pooh-poohed far more than its fair share. I used to be one of those pooh-poohers. I used to avoid and rationalize away my anger to the point of non-sensical absurdity. I think that anger can be part of a completely healthy individual. Never mind that it raises blood pressure, disturbs sleep patterns, and furthers a more unhealthy physical being in general. It’s only physical. The body will die eventually anyway, who cares how it gets there.

Needless to say, I haven’t been having the most pleasant of months. Then there is sickness, all of the ensuing chaos that ensues with missing school, work, church, etc, due to sickness, and then the random happenstance of being cosmically screwed at any available opportunity.

Let me just say that it is incredibly easy to become fantastically pissed off after two straight weeks of feeling like Star Jones’ recliner cushion. (Yeah yeah, it’s only physical, blah blah blah). Angry at what, you ask? I don’t know. I don’t think it even matters. It’s beside the point. What matters is that I am justifying my inability to control my emotions and allowing myself to be entertained by the ensuing ensuingness. Bottom line, being pissed off is kind of fun.

Now having fun while pissed off is only socially admissible under certain circumstances. Having no outwardly visible reason for being so is not one of them. There has to be some sort of fantastic cause to the emotional distress. Then anyone, clergy, anyone, will let you call them scores of epithets and assault their pets, praising you with harmonic strains of mercy. “Oh the poor dear, he heard that George Lucas is going to make another movie.”

The general public (well, at least the general public that I know) has a tendency to be compassionate and merciful. It is just one of those innate spiritual traits which all of us have managed to inherit. This is so that society in its entirety does not collapse when one of us becomes fantastically pissed off. They are there to assuage and nurture back to emotional health. This is the biggest obstacle to a life of anger-induced happiness. (“Stop being nice to me! Don’t you want me to be happy?!”) You see, anger-induced happiness is augmented when the individual manages to gently coerce another into completely losing it as well. They say that misery loves company, and that goes the same for those who become happy via being crotchety. Nothing is more fun that seeing someone go from “straight-laced easy-going individual” to “rabid spider-monkey with a bad case of hemorrhoids”. The success of the Tom Green show wasn’t a fluke (and you should all be ashamed of yourselves. You know who you are.).

As for being cosmically screwed, you really can’t fight that. Sometimes it comes in time to add more fuel to the fire, and the other times it comes it only…adds more fuel to the fire. It is my own personal belief that someone is handing us cues to become more “humble” and “teachable”. Either way, I’m still cosmically screwed. Honestly, who gets sick, then audited, then a fifty-dollar parking ticket, all in the course of an hour and a half on a Sunday? Throw in a good kick to the groin, and you’ve got yourself a stew goin’.

Well, that’s about the end of my ramblings today. All this venting has made me more calm and serene; and there are plenty of things wrong with that.

Star Wars Valentines....

Happy Valentines Day!

I made Valentine's Day cards for everyone! They're Honor Code themed! Enjoy!

Fluid? What fluid?

So, as many of you may know, I've been having a bout with good ol' father sickness for the last week or two; coughing and hacking and all kinds of no goodness. Any way, many of you have stopped by or called to make sure that I was okay and bless you all for it. So the doctor thought that I may have had pneumonia. Wasn't too excited at that prospect. But I went in today for a follow up exam and baby, there are no fluids in these lungs. As far as we can tell. But I'm banking on it. Here's to wellness!

Actually, THIS is the mother of all pictures.

I think this is just a Despair rip-off (albeit a sweet one!). Anyone know?

I thought midgets were cute and non-creepy before I saw this...

Heidenreich: Mein Kampf

Clicky clicky.

Foxwood 108: A Retrospectacular

So as many of you know, I used to live in Foxwood condo #108. Well, as they are brothers to me, I helped them to put together a little 'get-to-know-you' so that they could introduce themselves to the rest of the ward. I have to say that this is pretty much the funniest thing that I've ever done, so you should check it on out.

It's kind of a larger file 'cause it's 13 minutes long, but baby, it's worth it.
Foxwood 108: A Retrospectacular - Windows Media (108 MB - Hee hee ironic)

A Second Chance

So I got pulled onto a production to help write and direct a 3 minute short film on the theme of 'Mercy'. So, for 24 straight hours we wrote, shot and edited, and this is what we came up with. It's probably one of the more serious things that I've done. It played at the 24 Hour Filmmaking Competition at the LDS Film Festival this last month. Props to Jesseca and Shark and Adam for the acting in this one.

A Second Chance - Quicktime (24MB)