Suggestive Hardware terms

It's not just me who think hardware terms sound dirty, as evidenced by this lovely little sketch from Fry and Laurie.

You're doing it wrong, by popular demand

I have a new shirt available, emblazoned with the phrase "I don't know what you are doing, but you're doing it wrong". This is a common response from common critics, who don't even have to know what you are trying to accomplish before they declare your failure at it.

The Musical Ride

Happy Canada Day! Here is some of the better footage I could find of the RCMP Musical Ride. Drink it in.

From Think Geek: Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

From the bright minds at ThinkGeek.com comes a fantastic Tauntaun sleeper, perfect for those cold winter nights. It has a glowing lightsaber zipper pull and is machine washable.

[$39.99 from Think Geek]

What I am: iPod Meme

They say one's music collection says a lot about a person. Sorting one's music collection by song title is something a non-OCD person would not do before the digital age. Now, with the predominance of the mp3 format, one can do this readily and it creates an interesting piece of self-discovery poetry.

Mine is a tale of love, loss and lycanthropy.

I'm a Boy
I'm a Mason Now
I'm a werewolf baby
I'm beginning to see the light
I'm free
I'm gonna crawl
I'm having a party
I'm not down
I'm only sleeping
I'm so bored with the U.S.A.
I'm telling Tim
I'm tore down
I'm your Man
I'm your moon
I've got the world on a string
I've seen the land beyond
I am a rock
I am stretched on your grave
I am the Highway
I am the Walrus
I can't explain
I can't quit you baby
I can see for miles
I did my best
I don't care about you
I feel it all
I fought the law
I get lonesome
I had my chance
I hate California
I hate the TV
I hear you calling
I just don't know what to do with myself
I just wanna have something to do
I know you
I love myself today
I need to be loved
I only want to be with you
I saw her standing there
I wanna be like you
I wanna be sedated
I wanna be your boyfriend
I wanna live
I want something more
I want to be the boy to warm your mother's heart
I want to conquer the world
I want to tell you
I want you
I will survive
I won't lie down


Who are you?

Tiki Bar TV: Lala Showers

Getting ready for a Tiki night on short notice, I found this little gem from Dr. Tiki, of Tiki Bar TV.

I present: Lala Showers.

Fast Talking, High Trousers

We interrupt our regular silence with an unscheduled post. Do you like old movies? I think some of my regular readers do. Here is a good natured summary of period films from Family Guy.

Nam Nam Nam

Nam Nam Nam
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

I have LOL'd this map. Let me show you it.

Worldwide Stuff on my Cat

For the last two months I have been receiving anonymous "stuff on my cat" postcards from around the world. They are addressed to "Dr Haggis," my online handle, but arriving to my home. Not a lot of people know both. I have questioned all the usual suspects, and all have pled ignorant.

I have gotten wigs from South Africa and vintage bands from Amsterdam.

How much longer can this go on? How many more stuff piled cats can I expect? Is there a big finish?

See the whole set on Flickr.

Paris based Humour

Crossing lolcat grade internet humour with planning a trip to Paris, I have forged this offering. We must name this sub-sub-genre appropriately. LOLParis or LOLFrance seems to obvious. I think it may work with a "french laugh" which would be spelt "hoh-hoh-hohParis" or perhaps "hohParis". It's funnier if you say it aloud.

Like most things, it is less funny if you have to explain it.

Inside Jokes Status Report

Here is the current status of some inside jokes that Slashboing has been monitoring:

Beans: Obviously.
Hippo: Maybe.
Waffles: N'pas.

More on these as they develop.

That is all.

Hail Atlanta!

I'm getting very excited for DragonCon 2007.

The convention is fan-tastic, and Atlanta is a wonderful city, though I have this scene from the Futurama episode "The Deep South" playing in my head the entire time I'm walking around the town.

Whose Humps?

From elmofromok I find Alanis Morissette singing her version of Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps." I think Beer@heart would appreciate it.

"Check it out."

Passing Thoughts: Monopoly

I thought I might help break the Cable Company's monopoly on television by switching to Bell Express View. While I'm at it, I should switch to Shaw phone service to wrest a little control away from Ma Bell. That'll show 'em.

To make things really interesting, I should schedule both technicians to arrive at the same time.

Fooling all the wrong people

Sure enough, the picture I posted yesterday, and submitted to the 365 Days project was indeed my right elbow joint. I don't think I fooled anyone, as it would seem that Slashboing readers and Drhaggis fans in general are too smart to be fooled by a simple"elbow-as-fake-butt" ruse.

I did however score big hits on my Flickr account by using suggestive tags such as "nude," "naked," "flesh," and "skin." I garnered over 200 hits on that image of my elbow, while my typical project pictures are in the 20-30 hit range.I bet people searching for those kind of images were a might disappointed to see what I offered them, or more accurately, what I didn't offer them. <insert convention runners joke here>

Name that body part

Day 68 - Name that body part
Originally uploaded by Drhaggis.

Here is picture of my naked skin taken for Day 68 in my participation in the 365Days Project on Flickr. Can you guess which part it is? How brave do you think I am? I will post the answer tomorrow.

Enjoy!

Inside Jokes for the Folks

As I recently discovered, my circle of friends use each others blog as more than just a nice diversion, as a but as a true source of daily information.

So here is a collection of inside jokes, aimed directly at my close friends.

• fanboy basic movements number 1
• don't eat found meat
• clam jerkey shouldn't expire
  
• who hasn't been painted blue yet?
• you have quite the induced wembly
• programmable shirts & e-toast
• "The Big Suck"
  

Thank you for your time.

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Road trip inside joke

Here is a quick digression from the day-by-day account of my trip to DragonCon 2006 for some background information. In the recent Strong Bad Email "road trip" the following is postulated:

"every good road trip needs a good inside joke that only the people that went on the road trip will get"

This trip followed the rule to the letter. During our expedition to the Georgia Aquarium (see previous post) there were plenty of signs around the touch pools indicating that the proper method of touching the creatures was gently, with two fingers.

DSCF0177.JPG,
originally uploaded by c2jupin.

This was risque enough for our juvenile minds to elicit off-colour jokes for the whole weekend. It also inspired me to create a shirt, available now at the Slashboing Store.






Bask in its aquarium humour! Bask I say! Half the fun is explaining the reference to others!

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A nice Magpie picture

Magpie at lunch,
originally uploaded by albro11.

Here is a lovely magpie picture from Flickr. He seems to be having a munch. I think this picture says "I love my friends and value their opinions".

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