I, for one, welcome our new Robot Dancing Overlords.
Especially the second guy on this video. I mean, I've seen a lot of robot dances, some good some bad, but this guy takes the cake. He's even better than Brendan, the previous owner of the title of "Best Robot Dancer". I think that main thing that lead to Brendan's downfall had to be the fact that he used to just stand in the doorway of people's rooms watching their tv. I mean, come on, you are either in the room or you're not in the room. Stop taking up my leaving corridor. That's where I go when I want to leave. And now I can't. Becuase you're there. Watching my tv.

No snow? Make your own!
One flake at a time.

The man of a thousand faces
If by "thousand" you mean "forty". Hey everybody, let's go swimming!

Do you have your green ribbon?
Fight for freedom... the freedom to not have to say "www" when describing a web page. Join the 6-U green ribbon campaingn today! (The extra "n" in campaingn is becuase its extra cool.)

Hey, what's that behind you?
Oh nothing... just some Crazy Disco Squirrels!
Brought to you by the kind folks at Discosquirrels.com

Work it. Make it. Do it. Makes us.
Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.

The Daft Punk/River City Ransom flash music video site that redefines the Daft Punk/River City Ransom flash music video site genre.

ASCII Rules!
Holy Cow! Remember those Magic Eye images, where you stared at the seemingly random array of dots, and it turned into a 3D picture? Well, some guy decided to write a program that would turn 3D images into Magic Eye sequences composed entirely of ASCII. You know, you don't see a lot of stuff on the web nowadays that makes you go "This is great! Really really great!", but this page is really cool. Plus, it was done back in 1998. Recoculous!

Is that crazy Michael?
No, it's just some guy doing a wicked Smooth Criminal impersonation. You know, that last sentence could be taken as "wicked smooth-criminal" or "wicked-smooth criminal". I think I like the wicked-smooth better. "Oh man, you should have seen that dog jones up on that old guy... it was wicked smooth".

Hooray for something!
Though I don't quite know what that something actually is. Nonetheless, the archives are back up and working to their full archival capacity again! Now you can re-read all of your not so favorite past exploits and meanderings. Thrill at crappy flash animations! Rejoice in tawdry word-a-days! Ignore everything I have ever written!

All bow before the great Bender
And commence doing whatever he tells you to do. So speaketh the Bend.

The Economists
Dance my little global trend watching friends! Dance!

Where's Norm?
Man, I don't even know what to say about this... this crazy post-apocalyptic drunken-animal Cheers sing-a-long. Crazy.

Four wheelin' for fun and profit
Remember, with a little hard work and determination, you too can be just like the lovable characters from Junkyard Wars (or Scrapheap Challenge, depending on where you're from).

Watch your backs people...
...and sides and hands, because the word of the day is stigmata.

Fun with paper!
Why go through all the trouble (not to mention risk of personal injury) of physically making a paper airplane when you can do it on the computer instead?

Word-a-day!
Today's word a day is more of an object, and an exercise in cultural awareness... rollo. Because, you see, rollo is not only an exemplary candy, but, and correct me if I'm wrong, also Spanish for "roll".

Yep, my four years of rudimentary German has truly made me an expert in the Romance language that is the Spanish. So come to me with you questions, and let me lift the mental block that is biligualism from your tired and downtrodden shoulders. Rest easy my friend... rest easy.

Look at me! I'm a movie reviewer!
Except not quite as portly (notice use of past word-a-day). I told you colleges were good for something... the folks in CompSci over at the University of Minnesota developed this filtered movie database dealy where you rate a few movies, and it spits out other ones that you will probably like. I have rated about 20, and so far it's recommendations have been pretty much on. (Though I did have to bump up what I like to call the Strange Brew quotient on a few of them). Anyway, checka checka check it out.

Window peeker
You know, keep this up and you won't have any friends left. Jerk.

Weird Japanese vending machines
...but then you go and set up a live lobster catching arcade game of skill... and totally redeem yourself!

The plane boss... the plane!
It looks like we may have a winner for worst tattoo in history (though it was a tight race between this, and that freakin barbed wire tattoo that everyone gets.) Man I hate those barbed wire tattoos.

That is, of course, unless you have one. I mean yours turned out pretty cool... just different enough to make it stand out. You know?

Fire up the Printers!
It's t-shirt making time. Raven style. It'll be tough to beat that groovy rainbow design.

Word-a-day!
Today's word-a-day is "Frenchy", but only the noun form. And remember, it's "chow-deer", not "chow-da".

DVD... DV-Damn!
Since I am (hopefully) getting a DVD player soon, I have subscribed to Netflix.com. Basically, you get all the DVD rentals you want for a flat monthly fee; the DVDs are shipped to you in the mail. This has implications two-fold: I get to watch a lot more movies that I previously have, I have to make sure my neighbors don't steal said movies. The other advantage of this program is that I don't have to physically go anywhere to return or rent the movies. Which meshes well with my desire to not ever exert myself. If man was intended to walk, he would have never invented the Segway.

So, since I will be watching all of these movies, I need some suggestions of some I may have never heard of (or should see again). Example: Way of the Gun (See also: The French Connection)

I have been out-worded!
The word of the day today on dictionary.com is "sub rosa". What a sweet word. If you ever catch me saying something like "Let's keep this 'neath the rosa", you know where I got it from.

Truly spectacular.

My Eyes!
So, since I spend my days staring at a laser, I like to relax with something a little more soothing. And remember to crank up the volume, so you can rock out robot style!

There but for the grace of God go CJ
The internet is no longer good for pornography alone. Now the rapid spread of the net all over the world has allowed weird freaky deaky people to find people of like minds and interests all over. This site is full of weird and wacky things that only someone having a twisted mind would invent. Why did I mention CJ in the title you may ask, well if you know CJ then you didn't ask. These people are probably much stranger than El CJerino but probably only by an order of magnitude or so.

Everybody likes t-shirts!
So, I was perusing this pretty cool t-shirt site, since I obviously need to add more t-shirts to my ever expanding t-shirt collection, and I came across a bunch of pretty interesting ones. That's about it for the story. Not too exciting, but I believe the point was justly made... that point being "I like t-shirts, and may very well buy some more soon".

Politics, politics, politics...
I guess I consider myself a moderate, in that I don't really ride the party line one way or the other. The major consequence of this is that I tend to dream of an ideal world, when in truth it is the real one I should be concerned with. Now, I don't really know how what I just wrote fits with this commentary on peace protests, but I thought Pete Bagge really summed up some of my feelings on why I have yet to see one I could enjoy and relate to.

And Now for Mysteries... Of... The Universe...
Uhhhh.... Not so much. But these are some pretty cool optical illusions and what-not. Hey If you don't think this is cool then can you honestly tell me that you knew what an Ambihelical Hexnut was? Cause if you can than I want nothing to do with you... Or your children.... Or your children's children... For three months.

Slow day today
So I'm going skiing.

One more for the road
Super crazy Japanese fun site of doom! Make sure you have volume, otherwise you will just have to provide your own sound effects, and I garuntee they will not be as good! This site is sweet.

Birthday Sharing...
Sharing a birthday with that one guy sucks, but sharing a birthday with this guy is pretty cool. I suggest going to a bar, playing some games (preferably some foos and bubble hockey) and fighting every call that doesn't go your way and perhaps throwing something to emphasis your point.

Adject WATHPSFTIPOSWIQ Extra!
As it was pointed out by Randy (and rightly so), there is a pronounced deficiency of adjectives in the word-a-day category. So, today I ante-up this extra option: portly. Used as "You are so fat, sir, that you are probably a card carrying member at The Portly Angler Lodge. Jerk" Plus, this word also pulls double duty as an adverb. Two for one, suckers.

As an aside, I think that WATHPSFTIPOSWIQ is going swimmingly. In fact, I should point out that the Oxford English Dictionary's word-of-the-day today is the very unimpressive "hawk". Whoopee.

Great... I have to share a birthday with him!?!
You know, sometimes having a birthday on the 16th of February is great. Every seven years I get off for President's day, and Michael Jordan's birthday is the next day. Then I go and find out that this guy shares my special day with me, and all of a sudden it isn't that special anymore. Oh wait, RJEC has the same birthday too. Consider the specialness returned... California style (like my Sunny-D).

Crab versus Pipe
Amazingly enough, pipe wins. However, I would like to see the odds on pipe versus inanimate carbon rod. I'd put my money on rod any day of the week (save for Thursdays).

You think this works at Greenbush?
Apparently, there is big business to be had buying and selling coupons on eBay. I figure that the college newspaper coupon market has yet to be saturated, and there are buy one-get on free doughnut coupons in there all the time. All of this equals the tasty smell of ill-gotten apple fritter based cash.

By the by... word for today: coupon, but only the good prononuciation.

Inspect This!
I am fairly sure that when the French were talking about tougher inspections, they were really talking about this.

Throwin' down the Adjects...
That's the new street lingo, and the reason I propose the you make more adjectives the WATHPSFTIPOSWIQ! Lately I've been running short when the adjects get lain down. Some homey's all like, "you fat" and I'm all like," so you wanna throw down some adjects?" and then we proceed to exchange adjectives at each other in a hostile manner. I need some good ones. Ones to leave the homies speechless. And one to throw at the Baldwins wouldn't hurt either.

New White Stripes albulm due out
Though I forget when. Anyway, here is the track list for it.

I like new music!
And I am pretty sure that everyone else does too. However, the biggest problem I have found to date is simply wading the horrible sludge to get at the good stuff. Well, Audioscrobbler says it can find new stuff for you, and all you have to do is keep on listening to your old stuff. I am going to give it a try, and I will update on how it works sometime later this week.

The jerk-store is flourishing in Hollywood
Hey Rando, if you're ever out walking on the street and you see one of these guys, give 'em a kick for me will you? Especially one of the Baldwin's, I don't really care which one, but if you have to choose (as they often travel in packs), choose Billy. Man, what a jerk.

Things to do... things t0 do
So, there comes a time of year when things get really busy, and one tends to slough off all other responsibilities. This may or may not be that time. In case anyone was wondering (and by anyone, I mean both people who read this page), I am currently working my way through the letter Y of the SIT pages. There have been some promising entries, but nothing as spectacular as Walter Zhang as of yet. The man had a gift...

Also, the WATHPSFTIPOSWIQ! is crouton. I would like to take time out here to personally thank Pete (now currently living in Wausau) for this delightfully delicious word. So, Pete... thanks.

TO THE EXTREME!


Science... and crap

WATHPSFTIPOSWIQ!
Today's is shuttlecock. "Hey boys! You lose your shuttlecock?" This word is most notably established a presence on the web at Brunching Shuttlecocks. Home of the irreverant writings of one Lore Fitzgerald. Usually some pretty funny crap.

In my lab I got beats
Everyone should check out Dexter's Laboratory: Homeboy Genius, the most definitive hip-hop interpretation of a cartoon about a scientist to hit the shelves ever. I think my personal favorite track has to be "Secrets" by Will.i.am (from Black Eyed Peas).

Word... to the extreme!
Today's WATHPSFTIPOSWIQ is cantankerous. Here it is in a sentence... "Cantankerous is a word." Enjoy.

What time is it?
Why, it's crazy clock time!

Keep on the Lookout.
I just worked on a music video for a big star, whose name I can't release as I signed a contract promising not to. I can tell you that they had one sweet pimped out mini cooper. (check out the antenna surfer) Imagine the Gorillaz Jeep, but as a mini cooper. I got to sit in it. It should be on MTV in a month or so. Even if you don't like the secret artist, the car is worth the viewing, that and I got paid $50 an hour so I like it.

Help is (hopefully) on the way!
Update on Archive problem: You may have noticed that going to www.scienceandcrap.blogspot.com gives you something different from going to just scienceandcrap.blogspot.com. For some reason, the non-www site doesn't show any updates I have made since then. I fired the problem off to the guys at Pyra labs (makers of Blogger), and hopefully they will be able to give me the quick and easy fix. If that happens, you may be in store for some real changes soon. I am thinking of upgrading the site to just www.scienceandcrap.com. Mostly so I can remember it easier. And it would be cool to have my own domain name.

That's it, I'm tired.
Well, if you didn't go skiing with me last night (however sad your reasons were), you didn't miss much. The rain from the night before pooled up on the snow, and then proceeded to freeze yesterday. Thus, we were left with the world's largest angled ice skating rink. I was, to say the least, slightly disappointed.

However, all that changed today, when I logged on and kicked a certain famous psychologists ass in arm wrestling. I recommend you give it a try.

More dancing people
There are so many dancing people on the web, I think I should start a weblog devoted only to finding dancing people. Until then, however, relax with Steve Kim.

Like nuts? He doesn't.
As a pro-nutter, I don't agree with Cardhouse's anti-nut tirade, though in an effort to induce free exchange of ideas I present his Hard Things In Soft Things Manifesto.

Attack of the Random Letters!
Pretty straight forward here, the letters come at you, you type them to blow them up. So blow em up boy... blow em up real good.

Word-a-day Spectacular!
It's pretty late in the day for the whole word-a-day, so instead I am tenatively renaming it to word-a-24-hour-period-starting-from-the-initial-posting-of-said-word-in-question, or WATHPSFTIPOSWIQ. Rolls of the tongue nicely if I do say so myself. Anyway, todays word is "dog". Use it, learn it, own it.

A Real Shame..
After veiwing one of the selected sit websites CJ had suggested I had gone to jimbo's site. I liked what he had going, but thought it could be improved. I tried to email him as his site suggested. It's simple he says, but not if his email address is not valid. I have attached this email, hoping someone will see it and get my suggestion to mr. jimbo. Here's the email:
Dear Mr. Jimbo,
You have a nice webspace going there for you. However, I think it would be greatly improved be removing the "that's all folks" background and inserting an animated gif of a cartoon cat with a mohawk that breathes fire. He should have a menacing look upon his face. Also a t-shirt with a slogan such as "I like Bacon". Perhaps the t-shirt could change it's slogan very week, thus giving visitors a reason to return to your website.
If you choose to take this advice please let me know when the gif of the cat is up, as I would really like to see a picture of such a magnificiently ricocculus creature.
Regards,
Randy Jimmy El Camino

Working in the Woodshed?
For all of you who have been "working in the woodshed" for all of these years, no longer do you have to hide in your "shop". Now you may box your hobbit in the safe confines of your own home without having to feel life a freak or a weirdo. Huzzah for the shopkeep! Huzzah!!!