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September 9, 2010 

Feed Your Reader: Toothpaste For Dinner

I use Google Reader to keep track of loads of blogs, news sources, and ridiculous sites. To those that aren’t geek with it, Google Reader allows me to check my favorite sites without having to visit all 100+ of them. It’s handy. Here’s one of my favorite sites:

Drew Fairweather has been drawing and posting comics for Toothpaste For Dinner (http://www.toothpastefordinner.com) every single day for the past seven years. When’s the last time you’ve dedicated yourself to doing something every day for years aside from taking care of human basic needs? For free? The fact that Drew has created single-panel comics that will make most of you (especially those with geek tendencies) smile every day is impressive and worth checking out… although most of you with geek tendencies already know about this site, yeah?

September 9, 2010 

Feed Your Reader: Album Tacos

I use Google Reader to keep track of loads of blogs, news sources, and ridiculous sites. To those that aren’t geek with it, Google Reader allows me to check my favorite sites without having to visit all 100+ of them. It’s handy. Here’s one of my favorite sites:

Album Tacos (http://albumtacos.tumblr.com) is simple: take a well-known album cover and add a taco. I thought that maybe after a day or two, the novelty of it would wear off but nope, this site makes me chuckle every time.

August 24, 2010 

Feed Your Reader: I Love Charts

I use Google Reader to keep track of loads of blogs, news sources, and ridiculous sites. To those that aren’t geek with it, Google Reader allows me to check my favorite sites without having to visit all 100+ of them. It’s handy. Here’s one of my favorite sites:

I Love Charts (http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com) is a blog that is “By people who love charts for people who love charts”. Some of the charts are silly MS Paint jobs that will put a smile on your face and others are beautifully designed graphs and charts. Dig it:

August 23, 2010 

Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury!

When I was in seventh grade, I befriended some eighth graders who shared the same interests as myself: music, wit, passing notes during class, making good grades, and Eddie Vedder. One gal in particular mentioned the author Ray Bradbury so naturally, as the eager-to-please younger sister of the group, I checked out Fahrenheit 451 from the school library. Although I also checked out Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, I do believe there should still be a copy of Fahrenheit 451 at my junior high that shows that I’ve checked it out at least seven times. Not even consecutively as I found myself drawn to re-visiting the story of Guy Montag, the fireman / bookburner who meets a free spirit named Clarisse as they proceed to try and “stick it to the man”. Thus, my love for dystopian novels was born.

Even sixteen years later, I make sure my small, used, discolored copy of Fahrenheit 451 remains in my book collection in case I need to reminisce about how geeky I was (and still am) or remind myself that the internet may be full of information but nothing could ever replace the feel, smell, and endless possibilities of a good book.

So, in lieu of one of my favorite author’s 90th birthday, I will be humming this tune in my head all day (NSFW):

August 20, 2010 

Can’t Stop: Watching: Creed Shreds

Besides creating music that is fit to pop in your car on a sunny day, Austin-based Quiet Company is also a source of amusing tweets. Recently, they posted this:

Curiosity got the best of me and everyone loves listening to people sing with a mouthful of water so naturally, I hit up Google to find a clip from this concert and ran across an amusing message board thread. In it, I found both Creed performing “Bullets” from their Creed Live DVD (which broke a few Guinness World Records?) and a parody called Creed Shreds. The precision of the dubbing in Creed Shreds is what keeps me coming back for more. Someone put some effort into those videos and for that, I applaud them. I’m not sure which sounds more like someone singing with a mouthful of water, real Creed or fake Creed but you can make the choice yourself:

Real Creed:

Fake Creed: