Category Archives: Random Musings

Video Of The Day

Ok, this is pretty awesome.  It’s a commercial for a company that mails feminine hygiene products to women at the right time every month.  It’s both positive and funny.  Not something that’s easy to pull of when talking about menstruation.  Watch:

Back In Bidness

After a week of actual work and another week of no internet, I’m back!

Me.  Myself.  I.  I put in an honest week’s work for the first time in a long time.  It was actually kind of nice.

The “no internet” problem has been solved by the purchase of a sleek new Samsung Galaxy S4 which I will be using as a mobile hotspot.  It is blazing fast.  No more worrying about The Man nosing into what I’m doing!  Take that, The Man!  Now it’s just the NSA.

I’ve missed so much these past few weeks.  All sorts of Supreme Court decisions, the whole NSA spying thing, and now a coup in Egypt (suck it, democracy!).  And I’ve also got two movie review and a book review to catch up on.

Oh, look, and it’s the 4th of July.  Oh well!  Blogging will have to wait for another day.

Bears!

I have no idea how this guy is able to stay silent throughout this.  I’m pretty sure I would be actively dissuading the bear from getting up close and personal.  Guess that’s why I’m not a hunter.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIJGb8mLyOE&feature=youtube_gdata_player]

The Majesty Of Nature And The Stupidity Of Man

Volcanoes are awesome.  Why are they awesome?  Because this:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ATDHCtaMBs&feature=youtube_gdata_player]

Men are stupid.  Why are they stupid?  Because this:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPagbZ3LmkU&feature=youtube_gdata_player]

I’m somewhat proud of randomly happening to run into two volcano videos on the same date when not even looking for volcano videos.  My web surfing > your web surfing.

Dan Savage And Andrew Sullivan Talk

Here is a beautiful discussion between two married gay men (not to each other) about marriage and sex.  This is Dan Savage so obviously it’s pretty NSFW.  Also, it’s Dan Savage so it’s pretty funny as well.  It is both honest and refreshing and it’s worth watching or at least listening to in full.

Bye Bye Bachmann

(Sung to the tune of “Bye Bye Birdie”)

Bye-bye Bachmann. No one's gonna miss you, go.
Bye-bye Bachmann. Your mind is awful slow.
Still more crazies. I hope they'll follow you away.
I'll cry Bachmann, if you decide to stay.
I hate the way you rile,
inflicting religious misery.
Gay marriage gave you a fright,
While the rest of us scream, "Whoopie!"
Bye-bye Bachmann. It's awful nice to hear.
Bye-bye Bachmann. Don't let the door hit your rear!
Don't let it hit your reeeaaaar!
Don't let it hit your rear!


For you uncultured fools who do not get the reference:

Pointless Milestone: Achieved!

Here’s some news that is of value to absolutely no one.  For the first time ever, this blog had over 100 hits.  114 hits yesterday, to be exact.  So, yay?

I’m Related To Charlemagne!

The blood of kings flows through my veins!  I’m pretty sure that this means I get to have a completely superfulous sex scene with Melisandre before she sacrifices me to her red god. (Game of Thrones reference.)

Don’t worry, you get to have sex with Melisandre too.  It turns out that we’re all related to Charlemagne.  If you can claim European heritage at least.  If you go back a little farther than Charlemagne to 1000 BC, we’re all family!  Not just Europeans.  Everyone.  The Native American hunting the Great Plains in 1000 BC?  He’s family.  The African migrating across the Serengeti in 1000 BC?  She’s family.  Every person that was alive in 1000 BC and managed to sprout a family tree that is still growing today is related to you.  Every.  Single.  One.  That is amazing!

And before you start worrying about how much incest you’re having, fear not, you share none of the same genes from those ancestors.  You have no more in common (genetically) with those ancestors than you do that random stranger you saw on the train.  In fact, you only have to go 14 generations back to have a statistical zero percent chance of sharing any genes at all with an ancestor.  So much for leaving behind a lasting legacy.

I could never come up with a better closing paragraph than the one in the above linked article so I’ll just quote it here:

But while genetics doesn’t reflect much of our imagined genealogical uniqueness, it’s shown that we’re more closely tied to our species as a whole than we might have realized. We’re all part of this enormous human fabric, full of fascinating tendencies and bizarre biochemistry. And research is revealing more and more about humanity as a whole and our incredibly beautiful, incredibly unlikely perch in the universe. That’s a tradition to be proud of.