Steve Fischer's Random Blog

Category: Crazy

  • 116

    Holy crap. She was born in 1896. So what’s the secret to old age?

    I mind my own business. And I don’t eat junk food.

    Words to live (long) by…

  • Holy Crap, Cats Kill Birds

    This just in, when cats are outside they like to kill birds and other small animals. Who knew? Tweety Bird always gets away from Sylvester so I just assumed that was an accurate representation.

    The money quote from the internal link:

    I think it will be impossible to deny the ongoing slaughter of wildlife by outdoor cats given the videotape documentation and the scientific credibility that this study brings

    Not sure who exactly was denying this…

  • Dork Tower

    I wasn’t familiar with this comic before today:

  • Apollo 11 Lost Audio

    Obviously fake, clearly NSFW, and totally hilarious.

    Houston:

    Holy mother of fuck. The fucking moon. Over.

    Roger, Tranquility. We copy that. We cannot believe you are on the fucking moon. Repeat. Cannot fucking believe it. Over.

    UPDATE:

    I should have known this originally came from The Onion:

  • Truth in Advertising

    Not sure if this was Photoshopped, but how true…

  • Yahoo Passwords

    This guy did analysis on the passwords hacked from Yahoo. The full details are here. Not surprisingly, the three most common passwords were:

    1. 123456
    2. password
    3. welcome

    The surprise for me was that #4 was “ninja”…

  • Shoes

    Since I know a few people with a somewhat excessive obsession with shoes, this xkcd comic cracked me up:

  • We Ain’t a Sharp Species

    One of the more brilliant tweets from @shitmydadsays:

    We ain’t a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that.

  • Manhattanhenge

    Courtesy of Neil deGrasse Tyson:

    Future anthropologists might conclude that, via the Sun, the people who called themselves Americans worshiped War and Baseball.

    I think he was trying to be funny, but it’s fairly accurate…

  • Traces

    For Mother’s Day (a day early) we went to see Traces off Broadway.

    It was definitely a “wow” kind of show. There are two moments that go by in a flash in the video above. One of the best parts was an acrobatic dance with the one girl and the tallest guy. Freeze the video at the 2 second mark. She is standing on his hands with him lying down. He spins and somehow smoothly lifts her so he is holder her above him, still standing on his hands. He had absolutely no leverage to do that lift, but it looked effortless.

    Part of the same dance, freeze the video above at the 25 second mark. At this point the guy has been balancing her above him and then basically throws her up. She comes down head first behind him, grabbing his body to prevent her from landing head first on the floor and then she slides between his legs, again looking effortless. But she came about four inches from bashing her head.

    The whole thing was impressive and the kids loved it.