Smell like jet fighters and punching

Good lord, these are good ads, I have been laughing my butt off at them this morning.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekn36qfsi74&feature=youtube_gdata

They strike just the right combination of silly and funny.

This one is my favourite, for sure.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE&feature=youtube_gdata

The OldSpice YouTube channel has more, and the video descriptions are part of the joke, which is where the title of the post came from.

Saw this on Neatorama, nice find.

They Seem to Still Might Be Giants

A nice little follow up to my glowing review of They Might Be Giants’ new CD Here Comes Science on Time.com.  It’s cool to see pro-science folks do well by not dumbing things down, contrary to the norm.  Those songs are still favourites around the house, I will often put it on while we are having dinner and the whole family bops along and sings the words.  Actually Cael usually also acts out the words, which has to be seen to be believed.

Anyway, it’s way cool stuff.  Check these guys out.

Special bonus, which I didn’t know is: they did the theme songs for Malcolm in the Middle, and The Daily Show.  Cool.

Big Red

This morning, for no reason I can determine, I discovered that my brain has been storing all of the words to this song in my head for the past 20 years.  I was singing it over and over in the shower, it drove me crazy.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0MQazIfPMU&feature=youtube_gdata

I even remembered the lightning part, and the band guy forgetting his hat.

I now know why when I go to the store for three things I often come home with only two things and the nagging feeling I have forgotten something.

Why would I hang onto that particular bit of information?

Happy New Year! (two days early for you regular folks)

With the Christmas season past, and New Year’s looming, it’s time to set (unrealistic) resolutions (that are predestined to fail)!  My resolutions this year are as follows (in no particular order):

  • be 5 inches taller by this time next year
  • write a bestselling book about how I became a world famous cribbage star in just six months by winning the 24th Annual CribCage (of Death) Match in Venezuela.
  • turn 28 on my birthday this year
  • have the best lawn on my street
  • transcend time and space and become omnipotent

It’s the same list as last year, except for the birthday part.  I actually did turn 29 last year, give or take a couple thousand days.

That list isn’t getting any shorter (although if I manage the last one, I can stop time and that makes the other ones a LOT easier to get done.  A nice lawn takes a while to get just right.), so I had better get on it early.

Anyway, if I get nothing else done on my list, I’m sure that I can at least accomplish what this lazy guy can do.  I mean come on!  He still has to hang onto the bar to do his gravity defying thing, pfft.  What a lard arse.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCpK7GZR700&feature=youtube_gdata

Seriously though, that’s some amazing fitness right there.  I saw this video on Steve Edward’s blog (one of the P90X creators) and while I will never be able to do any of this stuff without being able to stop time to let me workout 6 extra hours each day, maybe I will be able to at least find my abs again at some point this year.

Any other resolutions I should add to my list?