College Football Programs as South Park characters

Found this while surfing the blogosphere today. I got a kick out of it - you should too, if you're a College football and South Park fan, like I am.

Clemson = the Marklars?....classic...

An Adult's Conversation, seen from a Child's Point of View

I found this entertaining article on The New Yorker while reading FARK earlier today. The author relates what kids might imagine grown-ups are talking about during dinner parties...Gave me a good chuckle - hope you enjoy.

I. A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table

MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.
DAD: O.K.
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.
MOM: Let’s talk about which kid I like the best.
DAD: (laughing) You know, but you won’t tell.
MOM: If they ask me again, I might tell.
FRIEND FROM WORK: Hey, guess what! My voice is pretty loud!
DAD: (laughing) There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.
MOM: I’m angry! I’m angry all of a sudden!
DAD: I’m angry, too! We’re angry at each other!
MOM: Now everything is fine.
DAD: We just saw the PG-13 movie. It was so good.
MOM: There was a big sex.
FRIEND FROM WORK: I am the loudest! I am the loudest!
(Everybody laughs.)
MOM: I had a lot of wine, and now I’m crazy!
GRANDFATHER: Hey, do you guys know what God looks like?
ALL: Yes.
GRANDFATHER: Don’t tell the kids.

-Simon Rich

Chick-Fil-A cows???

HAHAHAHA!

This has to be read to believed. I Just thought this was pretty darned funny.

Thanks Neal Boortz for finding this gem...

Chicken eating cow?

Humor of the day

So I have been reading this guy's blog for a while now - and I find his particular brand of humor very entertaining. He seems to have a pretty big mean streak and he frequently states how he 'hates people'. This is all so ironic, because he is a Game Master for an online video game called Final Fantasy XI. Basically his job is to deal with player complaints and to deal with them (read: Cutomer Service). How he deals with them, is, well, hilarious.

Let the Hilarity ensue...

OK, OK, so I don't get all the terms he uses either, but its still pretty funny. Just thought I'd share, you know, 'cause I'm like that.

Freaky Animation

Check this out - I don't know exactly what it means or if it's supposed to mean anything at all. Either way it's cool.

Kinda reminds me of Civ or Age of Empires or something...

Enjoy

Thanks to Boortz

Blip - Blip

I am still here! Don't have much to say at the moment that wouldnt just make me rant, so here's a public service announcement from my daughter.

Fun with Google Earth - Name that place I

Just for kicks, here are two images from Google Earth of relatively well known locations in the world. Can you name them?

First Category - U.S. Cities:

1.)


2.)


First to answer correctly is the Honorary MapGeek of the week. yeah, you know you wanna be that cool.

I admit, I have an addiction.... *sob*

Hello, my name is Pat, and I am Buffalo wing addict. I crave them almost all the time (the only time I'm not craving them is when I just finished eating sixteen of them). The particular wings I crave are found at Wild Wing Cafe (Shameless plug), the hands-down best hot wings I have ever sloppily devoured in my life.

In particular I crave the heavenly crispy, yet juicy, spiciness of the little pieces of poultry parts slathered with 'Chernobyl' sauce provided by the various Wild Wing locations. Their Chernobyl sauce has achieved the perfect balance of spiciness, garlicity (is that a word?), and flavor that make all other wing sauces pale in comparison. If I'm feeling realy bold, I go for the next level of heat, 'China Syndrome'. Mmmmm..*drool*

My admission of addiction may come as no surprise to some of you, so I shall continue no further. But, in my zeal for wings, I stumbled across a paper written on the culture and history of the Buffalo wing, complete with distribution maps of wing dealers...errr...restaurants.

Yes, I finally did find the perfect match of Geography and hot wings. I have reached the proverbial Halls of Valahalla, as they say in Scandinavia.

Click and enjoy blue cheese gooeyed goodness.

Man I'm hungry.

Oh this is such FUN!

As you are probably aware, the esteemed (*chuckle*) Congresswoman (*choke*) from Georgia, Cynthia McKinney, is back in the news because of another display of her self centered idiocy. I've been following this story since it broke because it hits pretty close to home, seeing as how she's from an Atlanta district and all, and I knew that there would be some extreme entertainment value out of this one. Well, I don't want to get too much into how little I think of her, but I just wanted to point you all to a couple of stories regarding this incident.

Boortz is the King of Snark today with his Nuze - Check out the first four items. He makes his point succinctly and, did I say, beautifully snarkily?

Seems as though it's so bad for McKinney, that even the Democrap..errr Democrats don't want to deal with her! And here all along I thought she was just their litle darling!

D'OH!

Stay tuned, and maybe she'll get more support from anti-American idiots like Harry Belafonte (he's an anti semite too! wow, a double doozy!), Danny Glover, Hamas, other terrorist supporters...oh wait, never mind, she's already gotten all their support!

Silly me, haven't I been paying attention?

Calling all Geographers!

You really can sell ANYTHING on E-Bay nowadays. Check this out, the interstate overlay is PRICELESS. (GIS, Tortilla style)

Georgia Tortilla Chip

Thanks to Boortz for the link...

I wonder with my knowledge of geography if I can sell a piece of bread as a 'Colorado shaped slice of bread'?

Wonders never cease...

I'm BACK!

Howdy intrepid Blog readers!

I've been away for a while as lots of interesting things have happened in our lives over the past month. If you've kept up with War Eagle Girl's Blog, you'll know that we took a trip to Vegas and to Charlotte, so you know we've been busy. I have also been going through a job transition and am just starting to get settled at my new job. They keep me pretty busy around here, so I haven't had a heck of alot of time to post on my blog. This new job has been a big change for me, and I am finding that most changes (especially this one) are for the better. Some of the pros of my new job include:

1) They gave me a nice big office (my own!)
2) I have a big and fast PC to do my mapping and programming on
3) The morning commute is better
4) They pay me more
5) Better opportunity for promotion and career growth
6) I'm a regional employee now, so I work with a larger variety of people in different offices
7) Less stressful - not near as many hurried requests for projects due in an hour
8) (this is for Seannibal) The vending machine in the breakroom is free!

As great as this new job is, there are some drawbacks:

1) I no longer work with War Eagle Girl
2) the afternoon commute is worse than before
3) I miss talking with my BC friends. I'm located with the Regional VPs, and they travel alot so its usually pretty quiet around here.
4) I no longer have a supportive GIS community here to work with. I guess I will have to build my own.

Who am I working for, you might ask? Pulte Homes, America's largest home builder. I am still making maps, but in support of strategic planning for residential development. It's a different world over here, different from environmental consulting, that's for sure.

Just wanted to fill you all in, I'll try to keep up with my blog when I find amusing links and the like.

Have any questions for the new Southeast Area Senior GIS/Data Analyst? Ask away...

Hasta Luego, Amigos!

Ads and such

If you've been following my blog at all (there may be four of you out there..) you might have noticed that I have added an advertising bar across the top of my page. A couple reasons for this:

1) I'm trying to increase traffic to my blog, well just because....
2) and they will pay me for every time that one of my blog readers clicks on an ad.

Hey, why the heck not have the ads up there then? Hope yall don't mind too much.

Funny thing is, they have some sort of computerized deal that scans through your blog and picks ads according to your page content - kind of like how Amazon tracks your favorite items. Well when I logged in this morning there was an ad up there that said "Replace Bush"?

Wow, I didn't realize that one post questioning President Bush's motives puts me in the lefty blog category. I better take my post back.

Forget I ever said anything bad about President Bush...OK? *wink wink*

I think I'm going to start posting more about beer and gaming and see what happens.

Oh, and don't forget to click on the ads for me!

Howdy, Yall

Hey everyone, just checking in. I'm in the midst of a transition here at work since I've accepted a new job with another company and we are really excited about it. I'll get you some more details later on it, but I just couldn't ignore the fact that I've been neglecting my Blog for this long.

So here's a link to enjoy while I go back to work and finish up this stuff. Yuck.

Live Action D&D Nerds

If you've never heard of LARPing (you may have seen a bit in my last D&D related video post) people really DO this. in the woods. for like four days at a time. here in Georgia and in other places near you. go figure.

Happy New Year!

KabLOOEY!!!

Howdy all....

Just checking in after a busy busy busy holiday season. To Recap:

Shopping.
Shopping.
Dodge mall traffic.
Church on Xmas Eve.
Open presents with C family on Xmas Eve.
Xmas morning breakfast at our house with both families.
Xmas dinner at P family house.
work for a week (busy).
Watched Gamecocks lose bowl game.
Ate greasy onion rings and drank tasty beer.
Fretted.
New Years Party.
Saw Chronicles of Narnia on New Years Day.
Back to work. (booo!)

Stayed home for the holidays, and it was great, but man were we tired out from all the merrymaking. yeesh! Especially Babygirl. She was tired, but hung in there!

Anyways, hope y'all have a great year, and you find yourself further along the road to accomplishing your dreams, whatever they may be.

P.S. On the zymurgy front, I brewed an English Pale Ale, and it is now in secondary fermentation. The pale ale votes won in my little online 'poll'. Thanks for your support!

This War Sucks

A guest blogger appears on Iowahawk's blog to post about the War in Iraq. Ever wonder what the War on Terror looks like from the Al Qaeda point of view? Read on.

***WARNING - CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE****

The Zarkman on the Iraq War

I promise to keep my posts clean from now on, and most of my links will be to family friendly sites, but man, is this stuff FUNNY. I had to share.

Zymurgy Poll

Dear intrepid Spatial Dimension readers and beer fans alike, due to the recent opening of my carboy for another batch of home-brew, I am planning my next batch to brew probably sometime in early January or right before Christmas. The problem is, I have made all the beers that are my favorites already and I cannot decide what to make next.

So, being the democratic type guy that I am, I'd like to open this one up to you all to give me your favorite type of beer and a recommendation if they aren't the same. If you know me, just think, if you win the poll, you get to taste what you wanted when its done conditioning in January!

*ooooohhhhh....ahhhhhh*

First a couple of conditions:

1) Lagers are difficult to make and I do not have the proper equipment to do so yet. So please do not recommend any types of pilsners or mass produced Ameri-beers such as Budweiser or Miller.

2) I'm not too hip on trying to make another high gravity beer, such as a Belgian Abbey Ale or Barleywine or the like. My first high-grav has been conditioning for four months and it still hasn't carbonated. I'd rather not wait for the final product that long - oh and they're expensive to brew.

That's it. Post your favorite beer or beer style and I'll pick the most popular or the one that looks best!

Slainte!

Happy Thanksgiving, WebReaders!

Just wanted to post a 'shout out' to everyone and wish them the very best for Thanksgiving. I know that I have many, many things to be thankful for, and I hope you all stop and think about everything to be thankful for over this holiday.

Stay Safe and don't eat too much! -- well not enough to pop, that is.

Here is what I am most thankful for:

Geography Trivia Question O' the day IV

Keeping with my Quixotic quest to improve the world's knowledge of where stuff is, my valiant Blog readers, I give you another Geography trivia question.

Hmmm - this time a U.S. States Question...

Which U.S. State is known as the 'Natural State'?

Extra Credit...What is the name of the highest elevation in this state?

Geography Trivia Question O' the day Answer

The Capital of Mali in Western Africa is Bamako.

Thanks to a couple of intrepid folks (Deeziner and Curleygirl) for at least giving it a shot. The rest of you are looooosers. You're probably afraid I would mock your incorrect answers. Well you're right.

Oh and just a note: I'm pretty glad that Columbia isn't the capital of Mali.

I'll have another question for Y'all tomorrow.

Until then enjoy the latest FarkThread regarding the riots in France and an amusing blog reference to some futurologist's study of the roots of the problem in France.

What the hell is 'futurology' anyways? And why couldn't I major in it in school?

Geography Trivia Question O' the day III

Man have I forgotten to get back to basics! yall need some learnin' in the ways of Geography. Here's your handy-dandy Geography trivia question of the day:

What is the Capital of Mali?

Spelling counts... :)