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Science is Beautiful

Brian A. Thomas — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:20:01 +0000

A Cappella Tribute to John Williams

Brian A. Thomas — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:02:52 +0000

Time to geek out, perhaps one of the greatest things ever.

hat tip: Twenty Sided.
EDIT: The guy is doing a lip sync of the song originally done by Moosebutter, with their permission.

Your Moment of Humor: Usain Bolt Celebrates Early…Very Early

Brian A. Thomas — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:39:03 +0000

A moment of humor for everyone:

Odd Firefox 3 Bug on This Site

Brian A. Thomas — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:46:38 +0000

If you are using Firefox 3, such as we are, some parts of this site ~~are~~ may not rendering properly. None of the videos are showing up. They show up with Internet Explorer or if you use IE Tab on Firefox. Hopefully a fix will be found… Not sure if it is a WordPress issue or a Firefox issue, or a plugin issue yet.

Geocaching in the Presence of Muggels

Brian A. Thomas — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:51:08 +0000

As I noted before, I am getting interested in going geocaching. While most people know the term Muggle to refer to a non-magical person in the world of Harry Potter, but in geocaching parlance it refers to anyone not aware of geocaching who might endanger the cache, become suspicious of your activities while you are wondering around looking at your GPS or otherwise looking for the cache, or might find the cache by accident. (Some cache’s have been destroyed by bomb squads after somebody accidentally found it and feared it was a bomb, sometimes it may not go that far but the find may cause problems.)
Anyhow, here is a humor video I found on geocaching in the presence of Muggels.

The video is apparently also a hint to finding geocache GC18WM8.

This Guy Loves Tea

Brian A. Thomas — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:15:00 +0000

Cup of Brown Joy by Elemental, a pretty cool video actually.

When Sports Commentators Don’t Know the Game They are Commenting on

Brian A. Thomas — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:06:27 +0000

Got to love... "The pitch! And that happened. Apparently it was an S according to the board..." and many other great moments:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrrx5CgdZaA[/youtube]
To be fair, the English commentator is doing a direct translation of the Japanese commentator... of course with how popular Baseball is there, I have to wonder how the Japanese commentator got his job. It appears that it was a singer/comedian, named John Mayer making fun of a Japanese broadcast, not doing a direct translation. The whole thing would be like me trying to do commentating for a Cricket match or something.

YAMVM

Brian A. Thomas — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:59:35 +0000

Yet Another Music Video of the Moment.
Blood of Eden by Peter Gabriel, accompanied by Sinead O'Connor:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_lmSTqet0[/youtube]

Viral Video of the Moment

Brian A. Thomas — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:48:25 +0000

From the Department of Misunderstood Lyrics that You Didn't Know Were Misunderstood comes a contestant hopeful on Bulgaria's, Music Idol (think Pop Idol or American Idol in Bulgaria) singing Mariah Carey's "Without You", but she has a curious misunderstanding of the lyrics. Here is her tryout (complete with subtitles):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI[/youtube]
After that she was invited back to sing it again, where she seems to have gotten a better understanding of the lyrics, but still sings "Ken Lee" at the critical moment... and a few other fun moments:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT18LZItBLA[/youtube]
Valentina Hasan, the singer above, came from the second season, but just because it is cool, here is the winner of the first season, Nevena, singing a traditional Bulgarian folk song, Izlel e delio haidutin:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWPTqdT79Rs[/youtube]
FYI: The bagpipe is a Kaba Bagpipe, and the song itself, not Nevena's rendtion, is on the Voyager 1 spacecraft.

Humorous Music Video of the Moment

Brian A. Thomas — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:15:16 +0000

From Saturday Night Live comes another SNL Digital Short: Iran So Far, making fun of Ahmadinejad's (President of Iran) statement that there are no gays in Iran (given that many homosexual men from Iran have attempted to get asylum in various countries based on being homosexual and fear of being put to death there because of it, proves his statement was false, incandescently this reason is often rejected even in gay friendly countries, and so if they don't commit suicide as is sometimes the case, they are deported back to Iran where in all likelihood they were put to death... okay enough sad serious stuff onto the humor):