Fun Stuff

#1 place not to live

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Alright, I was alerted to this video via SModcast. Basically, it is a village in Columbia where there are only two ways in and out: either a massive, dangerous hike half way around a jungle, or a ridiculous, crazy zip line across a perilous gorge. The Columbian government says it is not worth building a bridge across the gorge, because there are too few people living in the village. For the record, I don’t necessarily disagree with that. I mean, come on, you just *have* to live on the other side of a perilous gorge?

Anyway, in order to get to school, the kids don’t have time to do the hike. So they are forced to use the zip line twice a day, every day, back and forth. They also carry all of their groceries, etc. in burlap sacks at 30 mph over a 1,200 foot drop over a raging river, using rope slings and a wooden hand brake. The video is only a few minutes long and well worth the watch. And don’t worry, they save a shocker for the end.

And here we are with Christmas just around the corner

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So obviously all of my loyal listeners are wracking their brains trying to figure out what to get me for Christmas. Well, you can’t all get me bacon-of-the-month club memberships. On second thought, you could…packages upon packages of bacon arriving every month…but then again, if I’m too fat to type, you’ll miss my posts.

Well, if one person out there doesn’t want to get me bacon, how about Last Night on Earth, a zombie board game. $50 seems a little steep on the price, but surely it is worth $50 to try out various survival techniques. Also, you can play as the master of the zombies, and that just sounds cool. I don’t think I even need to mention the “epic CD soundtrack”, I think you’re already sold.

Okay, let’s be honest, ThinkGeek had me at the words “Zombies are officially the new black.” Truer words have never been spoken.

Project BLT

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I can’t embed this, but check out this graphical tree depictionof making a BLT from scratch. And when I say from scratch, I mean from scratch. Follow the bacon tree branch down to collecting sea water for sea salt, and distilling raw sugar cane for the pork rub. The homemade mayonnaise branch alone has 17 sub-steps, 8 of them under homemade mustard.

And if staring at the delicious pictures makes you hungry, you can go sign up for the bacon-of-the-month club. What could be better than delicious bacon delivered to your doorstep every month? And you can’t dislike a company with a motto like, “It’s a bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon world.”

Bacon-of-the-month club link via Meg, who teased me by saying she would have gotten it for me for Christmas, but she didn’t. 😛

It’s like a sign just for Evie

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This sign might seem strange to a lot of people, but not to me. Evie has been eating babies for a long time.

Link via FailBlog.

Talk like a Pirate Day!

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Yar, it be talk like a pirate day, ye scurvy dog! In honor of the day, here be a most excellent presentation weighing the merits of pirates versus their most deadly enemies: ninjas.