in which i am, again, easily amused.
I ran hard yesterday, and if a stupid cramp in my side hadn’t made me walk the last 800 or so meters, I would have done 5K in under 30 minutes. That’s probably not that big a deal for people who regularly run, but for a 44 year-old dude who spends most of his day sitting at a desk, it was pretty awesome.
So last night, I decided that I would sit in an epsom salt bath, to minimize the aches my legs would almost certainly be serving up today, on account of me being a middle-aged guy who ran really hard yesterday.
After soaking for about 30 minutes, I poured some of Anne’s bubbles into the tub, because bubbles. Then I sent her a picture of me, peeking up over the top of the bubble mountain, and I thought, hey, this is just like Space Madness…
So I recreated, in photos, one of my favorite Ren & Stimpy bits and posted it on Twitter
Next stop; SPACE. MADNESS!! pic.twitter.com/pGK99bMHrX
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) August 11, 2016
@wilw OH MY BELOVED ICE CREAM BAR! pic.twitter.com/c1UCWdNVFa
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) August 11, 2016
@wilw Yoooooouuuuuuu! You covet my ice cream bar! pic.twitter.com/egCsrdiqOz
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) August 11, 2016
@wilw BACK OFF, MAN! DON’T FORCE ME TO USE IT! I’LL USE IT! I’M WARNING YOU! pic.twitter.com/lkqxGX4MzR
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) August 11, 2016
@wilw THAT’S IT! YOU! FORCED ME! TO USE IT! pic.twitter.com/lGaE9de72m
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) August 11, 2016
So, totally stupid, but supremely amusing to me, because I am easily amused.
If you, like apparently millions of people on Twitter, don’t know what this is referencing, let me help you out:
I got some of the specific dialog wrong, but since I was doing it from 25 year-old memory, I’m giving myself a pass.
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Space madness! Great, now I think I have to rewatch the show. Thanks, Wil!
Loved it!!My little brother loved Ren & Stimpy, oh the memories :)
I've just started watching Videogame: The Movie. And who did they open with? Awesome! Btw i don't think it's big in the US yet but check out Blendle (and app and a site). It uses an iTunes-like model where you pay for single articles / pieces from newspapers and magazines (you can set preferences, for me they are scientific pieces for instance) and instead of reading and paying for a whole paper or magazine you pay per article and only read what you want to read. Because it's not add dependent this sidesteps clickbait articles and you can instantly get your money back if you didn't like an article (usually $0,25 cents or so) so it also promotes good writing. I'm from the Netherlands where it's already big (also Germany) but they're not in big in the US yet (I'm in no way affiliated with them btw).