Fun Stuff

Mmmvelopes

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J&D’s, the makers of bacon salt, continue to make good on their promise “Everything should taste like bacon”. Including, apparently, the adhesive on the flap of envelopes. I give you, Mmmvelopes.

Proclaiming it as a radical change in 4,000 year-old envelope-flavor technology, they write: “No longer will envelopes taste like the underside of your car. You can enjoy the taste of delicious bacon instead.”

I strongly support this cause and the general overall philosophy that everything should taste like bacon. I approve of this message.

(I think the link was sent by both Jackie and Meg…I forget who sent it first. Just goes to show you I should blog these things sooner.)

Now that’s what I call a remote!

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Calling all Harry Potter fans!

How awesome is this? It’s a universal remote that looks like a magic wand! Basically, you train it from your regular remote and assign button functions to various movements of the wand. Then you can literally change the channel with a flick of your wrist!

I would totally buy one, but I don’t think I need a $90 remote…

Now I go on and on about ThinkGeek on here and all the great products they have, but I have finally found one that seems a little silly to me. They have a flashlight that is so powerful, you can literally cook an egg with the beam! According to the website, you can actually set fire to paper with this thing. What purpose could there possibly be for such a flashlight?

Jabberwocky

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Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carrol

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Best. Poem. Ever.

At the risk of over-explaining things, I love the fact that this poem is mostly made up nonsense words, and yet it still totally makes sense. Is there any doubt that a vorpal blade would go snicker-snack when it cuts off the Jabberwock’s head? Doesn’t “came whiffling through the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came” give you a good picture of what it looked like? And some of the nonsense is so good, the words have made it into common language. Brilliant.

Google Wave = ?

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What to say about Google Wave?

First off, let me say that it is pretty cool. I could see the potential there. It is sort of a combination of chat and email, but the possibilities really shine when multiple people are using it at the same time. It also has some cool potential for work/school/group collaboration. I can see where they were going with it.

BUT

For the average person there doesn’t seem to be much point. It fills a niche that most people didn’t really need to be filled. It doesn’t offer me much more than Gmail already offers me (I even have chat built in to Gmail!). So the net result is that I just have one more website to check. As far as I can tell, Google Wave seems to be a website where people can go to ask each other what the heck Google Wave is and what we are supposed to be doing with it.

So, in summary, Google Wave is kind of cool but kind of useless, until such time that it completely replaces email (a.k.a. just short of never). Anybody disagree?

(And after all that, I have invites! Ask in the comments and I’ll send you one!)

Oddly Specific

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We’ve all seen funny signs somewhere. I just do not get tired of seeing them. I remember one time we were at a campground and the speed limit was set to 5 1/2 miles per hour. We joked about it at the time, but too bad we didn’t take a picture…because it would have been perfectly at home on Oddly Specific.com.

In fact, it’s not nearly as oddly specific as some of the signs they have on there already. The link is well worth the click, but here are a couple of my favorites to wet your whistle: