David S. Atkinson's Blog, page 175

Happy Easter Again!

I’ve made a bunch of these modified Quackers from Tom and Jerry pics by now. Enough that the holiday for the one below has come around again. I might have missed some in between, but the take away is the same. Did I do a new one? Nope! I’m re-using. Anyway, Happy Easter!

Pointless Conspiracy Theory: What If Steve Harvey’s Boffo Was Planned?

Here’s a pointless conspiracy theory for you. By now, you’ve doubtlessly heard that Steve Harvey announced the wrong name at the Miss Universe pageant. He said the winner was Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez shortly before correcting his mistake and saying the winner was actually Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach. This has everyone talking…but what if it was intentional?

Obviously it most likely wasn’t…but what if?

I mean, this is everywhere now. Harvey has apologized, but people are making fun of him all over the place. Humans make mistakes, but it’s true that the name announcement wasn’t that difficult a job. Combine this with so many people questioning why such a pageant even exists and the talk is abundant.

What if someone wanted that?

After all, ratings for this pageant have definitely declined. This is the most press the pageant has gotten in a very, very long time. It’s a simple error, one that doesn’t really hurt the pageant any more than the nature of the pageant itself. Couldn’t all this attention possibly help the pageant’s ratings?

Admittedly, this is a ridiculous possibility. However, many think the pageant itself is fairly ridiculous. I just thought I’d throw it out there.

Disturbing Resemblance Between Modern Macaulay Culkin And Me In My Early Twenties

I’ve been seeing links to something about how Macaulay Culkin was reprising his role from Home Alone with his more modern, slightly strung out look. I wouldn’t have even paid attention, but I was a bit disturbed to note a resemblance between the modern strung out Macaulay Culkin and me in my early twenties.

Maybe I’m just seeing things. For all that is holy, I hope so. Please tell me that I’m delusional here. I really want to be delusional.

You Gotta See What Jason Arment Shared With Me

You have got to see this game that a local writer, Jason Arment, shared with me:

Ennuigi 1.0

Imagine Super Mario Brothers where Luigi walks around depressed, smoking and ruminating. That’s it. You can either walk left, walk right, ruminate, or smoke (and only one at a time, you can’t multitask). Nothing else. You can’t jump, win, or die. There are no coins, no enemies, nothing else. The Super Mario World is a ruin, and apparently random as you walk back and forth.

You’ve got to check it out.

Book Animated GIF!

I’ve been posting a few animated gifs recently. As that often does, that started me wondering about whether or not I could find animated gifs of different things. What I wondered about for today? Books.

Yup, they’ve got ’em. They’re out there.

Soothing, isn’t it?

I Haven’t Actually Eaten All My Wife’s Potato Chips Yet

I posted recently how my wife was on vacation in Maui while I stayed home to work so I was eating her cheddar & sour cream oven baked Ruffles that she normally keeps away from me. However, I turn out to not be such a bad guy after all. I haven’t eaten them all yet.

Actually, I’ve only had one serving so far. There are still plenty in the bag and she’ll be home fairly soon. That one serving might be all that I’ve had when she returns, leaving plenty for her. We’ll have to see how this plays out.

Anything could still happen, I suppose.

The Things I Do For My Wife

My wife actually invited me to go along with on her Hawaii trip with a friend. However, I had too much going at work and couldn’t get away, particularly since we just went to Paris last month. However, she got to do a really cool whale watching trip because I wasn’t along. The things I do for her.

It was actually supposed to be a snorkel excursion. They got on the boat and went from snorkeling site to snorkeling site, but the winds kept being too high (I believe upwards of forty knots) and they kept having to look elsewhere. At one point, they spotted some humpback whales. The boat stopped a hundred yards from the whales or whatever safe distance they had to stop when approaching, but three whales came right up and swam around the boat, all over the surface of the water such that everyone could see really well. The people loved it. None of the whales breached right there, but they did see one breach off in the distance.

All cool…and that’s why I did a favor for my wife.

You see, I’ve been on several whale watching tours. Mostly up near the Seattle/Vancouver area, but even one in northern Quebec. I’ve never seen a whale breach. I’ve only seen maybe a fin and a little rolling as they surfaced just a little bit before going deeper. This is because the vast majority of whales I’ve encountered on whale watching tours were minke whales (with the addition of one beluga and one humpback, both off in the significant distance).  Minkes just don’t seem to come up on the surface much, so a whale watching tour seeing only them is kind of piddling. Nothing like the breaching of orcas.

And it happens every time I go. I almost always see whales, but just a tiny bit. I never get to see anything really impressive. If I’d been there, the boat would not have been surrounded by three humpback whales. We never would have gotten close, and would not have seen all that my wife and the others got to see. So you see, my wife only got such a great whale watching experience because I wasn’t there. She even got to snorkel a bit later, luckily since that’s what she actually paid for.

The things I do for her.

It’s Still Cold. My Wife Is Still In Hawaii. Look At This Hula Animated Gif.

It’s still cold and my wife is still in Hawaii. As such, look at this animated gif of a hula “dancer:”

This is all we get, people. This is all we get. So it goes.

(Yeah, I know this posted yesterday already along with the animated coconut. Typed the wrong date. Decided to fix the date and have it run again rather than write another post. I’m lazy. Sue me.)

Wife In Hawaii? Why Not Look At This Coconut Animated Gif?

Are you like me? Is your wife on vacation in Maui while you have to work and it’s cold as crap outside? Why not look at this animated gif of a coconut?

Well, there’s probably very few people like me, if any. They might have to work while their wife vacations in Hawaii, or something like that, but they’re probably still not like me. They can look at the coconut anyway.

I Should Save Some Of This Icky Weather For My Wife

It’s really sad that my wife missed the icky weather in Denver. As of when I’m writing this, we’ve had something like 5-8 inches of snow. It’s cold, windy, and still snowing. I had to march through snow drifts all the way to my bus stop. It was bad enough that the bus was twenty five minutes late, leaving me standing out in the cold wind and snow for much longer than I hoped. However, my wife missed it all because she’s on a vacation without me in Maui.

It’s really too bad she missed it.

You know what I should do? I should save some of this for her. I should pack a bunch of snow in our deep freeze. Then, while she’s sleeping, I should cut the heat to the house and open all the windows. Once it’s really cold but she hasn’t yet woken up, I should bring up all that snow and dump it on her in bed.

That would be a nice gesture. Wouldn’t it?