Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

Two words for Larry: TOTAL DOMINATION. Last week, that is. Let's see how you do this week. (And the contest is open to non-Larries, too)

Bemusing Site of the Moment: Cute Overload

Your roomate bringing over a girl he's trying to impress? Did he leave his laptop laying out in the front room. Why not make him a screensaver to accentuate his more sensitive side? Yep. Guarenteed to win her over. If she doesn't puke first.

Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

Whew! Last week was a blast! Give megarella a high-five for her winning caption about that random anonymous guy that nobody knows who apparently wet his pants. Here's this week's photo for you to dissect:

The Banana: an athiest nightmare!

All of Berkley's course audio now on iTunes for Free! Free College?

So... anyone want free college? I think I'll be pulling a Kanye and turn into a College Dropout right now.

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Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

Great job last week, and an A+ to Polk Daddy for his funniness. Have a go at this week's photo, and keep in mind that we have no idea who this guy is. At all.

Winter X Games Pictures!

So finally for everyone to see, the SIIICK pictures from the Aspen X Games trip. Hope you like it.

Switch: Director's Cut

Okay, this is so that I can get the word out that yes, the directors cut is done and it is encoding for the web as we speak. The premiere went well which we got to do in conjunction with Jono Decker and Alan Seawright's 29 series. We had over 900 people in attendance. Pretty dang hot if you ask me. As soon as the film is ready for the web, it'll go up here.

Invisible Children - If you are a moral person, give this a look.

Okay, so the picture makes this look like a cheese-ball-type post, but it's not. I just saw a short film, a documentary chronicling what has now become referred to as "the Invisible Children"; an ongoing travesty in Uganda in which a large group of rebels "conscript" (abduct) children from the ages of 5 to 12 to fight against the Ugandan government. It's harrowing and very affecting. These children are subjugated via torture and brutal violence and then forced to carry it out upon other children.

Well, this is an issue which I feel needs more mainstream exposure, so hence, the post. Hundreds of thousands of children have been abducted over the past few years and there is an American movement to help educate these children and as far as I understand to ask the US Government to put pressure onto the Ugandan government to put an end to the conflict.

Either way, it's a good cause and it's definately worth the view. Here's a link to the trailer and we're working to get the full film up onto YouTube or something.

The Official Invisible Children Site
The Invisible Children Myspace Site

Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

Congratulations for last week's victory, Larry! Hope everyone has fun with this week's photo!

Whale blubber tastes like crisco....

and it the taste doesn't leave your mouth for days.

Check it

What do you do with YOUR Dell?

German Coastguard

From U-Boats to useless. How the mighty have fallen...

Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

Great job last week, everyone (especially Polk Daddy)! Let's see what you've got here.

Sometimes I amaze myself....

Two things:

-I like to send do April Fool's business early, so that I can actually catch people.

-I stay up late.

Combine those two things, and you get this email:

SUBJECT: I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE, I HAVE TO TELL YOU MY REAL FEELINGS

PLEASE.

Just read this. I dont care if you never want to speak to me again, just read this and understand!

This is very difficult for me...I'm sorry if this weirds you out....we've known eachother for so long....

....I've been waiting almost a year now....I have to tell you....I take it....it hurt so bad seeing you before....

Of recent events certain things have come to light...I recently moved out...because my mom found my stash....she came home from work early and...I'm usually pretty quick about this...but she caught me in the act. Well needless to say and my mom got scared and said "you're moving with your aunt and uncle in bel-air". I begged and pleaded with her the other day but she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way. She gave me a kissin' and she gave me my ticket. I put my walkman on and said I might as well kick it. I whistled for a cab and when it came near the licence plate said "fresh" and had a dice in the mirror if anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby "Yo, home, smell you later". Looked at my kingdom I was finally there to settle my throne as the prince of bel-air.

I thought it was hilarious when I sent it to about ten different girls. Only in retrospect I do wonder what I was thinking.

Well, needless to say this didn't turn out well. I got about 4 sincere letters of concern, 4 girls avoiding me completely, and 2 left unaccounted for. I've heard a lot of comedians say that to become a succesul in that line of work, all one has to do is create bizzare situations that humiliate ones self and everyone around him, and then recount everything for his audience. I dont know though.

Weekly Photo Caption Contest! A bit late this week!

If you see trent, be sure to congratulate him on his extensive knowledge of all things Magic: The Gathering. Have fun with this week's photo!

Award Winning Baltimore Commercial!

So as many of you know, I was in Baltmore for a week. Doing what, you ask? I was competing with other Universities across the nation in a communications (make us a lame commercial about the technology in the Baltimore Inner Harbor) competition. Well, we totally got robbed, but we still took second. Not a bad weekend overall with the iOscars and such, eh? Well, we won with a butchered :30 cut, so I did an extended version and a blooper reel which are here for all of you to enjoy. Written, shot and cut in 24 hours. That's skills, baby.

:30 Baltimore Commercial (4MB Quicktime)
Extended Directors Cut (8MB Quicktime)
Blooper Reel (9.9MB Quicktime)

Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

A big thumbs-up to everyone ballsy enough to post last week. I found an easy one for you this week, so have at it!

Woohoo! iOscars Domination!

Switch took 3rd place overall!! And if that wasn't enough, Jon also took home a judge's award for Best Cinematography! How many other movies got TWO awards? The answer is none, my friend. None. Now the people want to know: when will we get the 10 minute cut?

The best dang show Nickelodeon ever had, bar none

Did anyone ever watch "The Adventures of Pete and Pete?" If you did, you'll agree that it runs circles around any of the kid shows on nowadays.

So imaginitive and fresh! And sometimes so completely random (i.e. anything with Artie, the Strongest Man in the World)! Check out this cast of superstars:
Iggy Pop (musician and actor)
LL Cool J (rapper turned actor)
Bebe Neuwirth (Tony- and Emmy-award winning actress)
Chris Elliott (comedian and actor)
Adam West (actor and Batman)
Steve Buscemi (actor)
Michael Stipe (musician, REM)
Juliana Hatfield (musician)
Kate Pierson (musician, the B-52's)
Debbie Harry (musician, Blondie; actress)
Richard Edson (independent film actor)
Martin Donovan (independent film actor)
William Hickey (cool old guy actor)
Rick Gomez (actor)
Michelle Trachtenberg (actress)

Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

Sticking with an Asian theme (as much for Jon as for anyone else), here's this week's caption-puzzler:

Check out this STUD ! ! !

Just thought y'all would enjoy this little pic.

Switch - Trailer *Updated*

Okay, pretty much, this is the hottest most amazing film project that I have ever EVER embarked on. Action, guns, fights, backflips, cute women, explosions, stunts,etc etc all over the freaking place and here is the trailer. Such hotness. Enjoy.

Now there are high-res and full HD resolution versions!
Full HD Resolution 1280x720 (Quicktime 7 Required - H.264) 151MB
High Resolution 640x360 (Quicktime 7 Required- H.264) 52.5MB
Quicktime - 6MB
YouTube - Flash Video

Weekly Photo Caption Contest! A bit late this week!

A reflection of someone's home life? I'll stop there and let you make up the captions.

Castle II: The Castle-ing

So, one of my buddies made this game in two weeks. It's crazy cool and pretty much the best time waster since...blast-billiards, or dare I say it, any season of 24. It's that fun. Oh, and if you beat level 18, you deserve sick mad props.
Enjoy I say, enjoy!
P.S. The Hasselhoff post was #100. Congrats J-Rad!

Ribbons!

Good stuff

Read this

and then

Watch this

But you have to do it in that order, otherwise it doesnt count.

Really.

Weekly Photo Caption Contest!

If you missed last week's contest, be sure to check it out and congratulate Dustin on his decisive victory. Here's the main course this week:

More like "Hooked on Hasselhoff"

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

Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Add sender to Contacts list | Delete this message | Report phishing | Show original | Message text garbled?

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)

Ultimate Destiny!

Go see the Ultimate Showdown.

If you haven't seen this you must.

And catch Tobias in there too.

And now for the mother of all pictures.

Chuck's got some competition, Bauer-style

And you can also vote on the facts here.

*Thanks, Dave!

Band Names

As a thought exercise, and inspired by John Hodgman's 700 Hobo Names, I thought it would be cool if we finally wrote down all those cool band names we hear every day. That way we'll realize they really aren't cool.

Here's a few for starters:

My Primary Function is Destruction
No Baptisms for Girls
Flippancy
Wes Rockjaw and the Dentists’ Nightmares
Madam Curie Overdrive
Tesla vs. Edison
Some Kind of… Robot Monkey??
Vlad the Impala
Pearl Jam
Black-faced Lion Tamarin
Zombie Jury
The Groomsmaids

Jon, you're a Calgary fan, right?

I love missionaries!

If you ever feel like you can't...

I highly recommend the "Fashions" link. Anything labeled "GRRL." And make sure you have a puke bucket on hand.

DANGER -- EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN OPENING

Bonfire Pics!

College life is only as good as you make it. So we lit ours on fire. Twenty foot-fire to be exact. Here's some pics of our hot hot escapades.
(I suggest the 'view as slideshow' option. Top-right after the link)

Chuck Norris has feelings too you know....

Jon Howe.

You Jerk.

Other internet person.

Equally jerky.

Deion Sanders Cant Play Trumpet.

Some underground films for you all....

Animals is my favorite by far.










Intramural Marching Band










Afterschool America











Shop Guy











Animals

Want to know where Chuck gets all his energy?

Top 30 Chuck Norris Facts

Okay, there are many reasons why Chuck Norris is my hero. Besides the fact that his ability to grow mass amounts of facial hair on cue and out-tough my steak dinner last night, here are 30 reasons to stand in awe. Awe I say.

Is this legal?

I dont think they can do that...

Jon's (slightly) famous!

The perfect gift for Jon

Grill AND watch a movie at the same time?! It's a madhouse, I tells ya!

Sidewalk Art

His name is Julian Beever. Quite amazing.

Untitled #1 (Vaka)

This is a music video from Icelandic band Sigur Ros. I warn you, its deeply depressing, but also powerfully moving. I was floored by it.

Nixon has never looked happier...