Mundane Ramblings

The Ottawa Citizen has a great photo gallery from the Westminster dog show, which of course is a humongous deal for a teeny tiny fraction of dog owners, and for the rest of us just provides sheer amusement.

I subscribe to the “dogs are incredible, loyal, often hilarious companions, but they are not my life” group, like most folks I think, so the shots of these pampered pooches casting long-suffering looks balefully into the camera are pretty funny.

The caped Corgi shown here in particular seems to be saying “Oh, keep laughing.  I will keell you slowly and taste your hot blood on my tongue… aaas soon as I am done perching here like an eediot.  What is this?  A bird house?  What the hell are these things I’m standing on?  Corgi stilts?  Why am I wearing a purple cape?  Bah, I shall keel you all for this.  Tremble before me….Tremble!”

Almost every picture there is caption-worthy, I had a hard time deciding which one to make fun of….  This guy’s super-intense gaze spoke to me.

He sold his soul to the devil, there’s no other explanation for what this guy can do with a deck of cards.  This makes what I do when I shuffle cards look like smashing them with a big rock.  Several things come to mind:

• never play cards with this guy
• he needs to get out more, or needs to stay home more, can’t decide which
• holy wow

Enjoy:

Some of the lads from the Trailer Park Boys are returning to TV in a new series, which will probably come as a relief to nobody but Nikki and I.

The show description almost defies belief:

Mike Smith, Robb Wells and J.P. Tremblay of Trailer Park Boys have been cast to play multiple characters in a new Showcase series called The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour .

The series will centre on the cast of a fictional children’s show, played by Smith, Wells and Tremblay, who accidentally ingest an addictive hallucinogen mixed by a character played by Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson.

As the series unfolds, the characters will contend with the bizarre cast of hallucinating children’s show characters, a dysfunctional crime family that runs the town and a dangerous cult.

Wow.  That certainly should cover most of the comedy ground they are already familiar with.  I am personally looking forward to seeing these guys do something besides the characters they are known for.  It should be interesting to watch, at least.

Official press blurb

Wired has a great article on it’s GeekDad blog about plot holes in movies that I will admit I have at least thought about at one time or another.  Some examples that come to mind are the several Star Wars related plot holes they cover.  I’m not sure if my inherent geekiness forces me to over think these things, but for whatever reason I am able to enjoy most of these movies, despite their somewhat obvious problems with logic.  If you think about them too much these logic holes can become hard to ignore, though.  I remember being quite bothered by the Gremlins logic problem, it made no sense at all why all of the cute little mogwais weren’t already gremlins, they must have eaten something at some point…

Anyway, there you go, have a read and see if you noticed any of these.

They Might Be Giants (who until now I had never actually heard) released a kids CD called Here Comes Science, and it’s happy, catchy, and scientifically accurate.  Good lord, but this makes me happy.  It will be purchased for my kids by the end of the day.  My geeky heart overflows with joy.  The band website has lots of good stuff, but I stole the links for these videos and they are brilliant, check ‘em out.

Electric Car:

(my favourite) I am a Paleontologist:

GO and get it on iTunes or Amazon. Go on. Go ahead, I’ll wait here.

I saw this on Boing Boing first, as usual.

It seems that good cousin PJ has been busy lately, what with the recording of the new Crush Luther disc and all.  There is some new content on the band’s MySpace page, which I highly recommend checking out.  The two new songs on there so far are excellent, they have matured in sound a bit, but there’s no rough edges at all.  Good stuff.  The album will be available in an all you can steal, er, pay what you can promotion on September 29th, which I would imagine would be a good way to get this stuff.

Nice job guys, can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.