Yup…

My friend, via IM:

Can you imagine if John Mayer and Shakira had a kid? It would sing like fuckin’ Chewbacca

I’ve been enjoying the Failblog quite a bit. It’s fun to see lots of pictures of human stupidity and ironic juxtapositions, especially stuff like this, this, this, this, or even this.

While some of them are obviously fake (you can tell that it’s poorly photoshopped ’cause of phone cord bits on his tie), overall they’re pretty darn funny. My #1 favorite though is this one (which I just submitted):

(h/t to Brendon Wilson for tweeting about Failblog.)

It’s stuff like this that makes me proud to live in the Bay Area:

I simply can’t resist passing this on - an article on a proposal, naturally hatched in a bar, to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline of San Francisco to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. This is a memorial you can contribute to from your bathroom. The proposal has enough signatures to qualify it as an initiative on the November ballot.

I had a great day today up in the City (can’t really elaborate, sorry) to come home and find that one of my Australian friends had sent me some TimTam (Original AND “Love Potions”), Cherry Ripe, and some REAL Turkish Delight!

What a fucking awesome day!

My life needs to be more consistently like this, so I’m posting this to remind myself.

I noticed this today while I was gawking at blogs using Bloglines:

Personally, I’d love for one of my projects to have a double-digit of readers/subscribers via Bloglines, so I’m flat-out in awe that Dilbert currently has 96,724 users. Dilbert’s come a long way since I first saw it in the newspaper where I worked (where only the Editor-in-Chief and I “got it”).

David Lee Roth talkin’ to the gorgeous Martha Quinn in 1982:

It’s time for Diamond Dave to reclaim his throne.

Ok, so I think I finally “get” Twitter… it’s not like blogging, it’s like eavesdropping on other people’s instant messenger conversations.

Here’s my feed, if’n you give two shakes… (and if it works!)

http://twitter.com/totdt

Genius.

Man Babies are much cooler than I thought they’d be.

(h/t Ze Frank)

Perhaps I shouldn’t be admitting this publicly, but I was excited to learn that the early-80’s TV show Square Pegs is going to be released on DVD tomorrow (May 20, 2008).

From IMDB:

Welcome to Weemawee High School, where being in the right clique can make one’s years in school memorable. Enter Patty Greene and Lauren Hutchinson, two freshman who tried hard to be accepted into these cliques. The only problem was they stood out like sore thumbs. Patty was brainy and wore glasses, and Lauren was overweight and had braces. Thankfully, two other “square pegs” accepted them. They came in the form of aspiring comedian Marshall Blechtman and New Wave rocker Johnny Ulasewicz (aka Johnny Slash). Still, Lauren and Patty wanted to be in with the cool kids who came in the form of Jennifer DeNuccio, a wanna-be Valley Girl; LaDonna Fredericks, the hippest black girl in Weemawee High; Jennifer’s boyfriend Vinnie Pasetta, a John Travolta carbon copy; and Muffy Tepperman, a Jewish princess who joined anything from JV pep squad to science fair organizer. Written by Pat McCurry

I probably shouldn’t be admitting this publicly either, but I remember part of the theme song:

Square pegs, square pegs, square, square pegs!
I don’t wanna wear my glasses, but I’ve gotta wear my glasses…

I definitely shouldn’t confess that I thought the Johnny Slash character was the coolest dude I’ve ever seen (hey, I was 10 in 1982, k?) and I made my mom look all over town for a clip-on thing so I could have a cool braided ponytail like him. For the record, we never found one, so I didn’t actually attain that level of dorkdom… but oh, so very close.

I seriously have not been this excited about a DVD release since the collector’s edition of Twin Peaks (Seasons One AND Two!). If you don’t see much of me online tomorrow, you know why.

While I am honestly excited about this, there’s a lurking fear in the back of my mind that time has made the series more than it really is, and that I might be as disappointed with it as I was with Krull after I watched it 10 years later. No way it could be as bad as Krull… no way. (Krull is still awesome in my mind though, even though I know it actually sucks… but let’s take a “don’t ask, don’t tell” stance on that… I’ve gotta hold on to something positive from when I was a lad!)

I think my fears are misplaced though… ’cause how bad could a TV show be if Devo appeared on it to play at a Bat Mitzvah? Also, Amy Linker is adorably cute (and she’s still hot!).

What a goddamn moron:

R.E.M. on Sesame Street:

(h/t and a high-five to Stragglyr Chris!)

Need proof that when beautiful people fuck up it comes up roses? Here’s all the proof you need.

Some of them thar images are stunning.

I stopped to think about where my money goes… but I really didn’t need to stop to consider… I know it all goes here:

I’m totally looking forward to the equivalent product for men!

(Not exactly “work-safe” but not “extremely non-work-safe” either)

I’m not sure how I missed this, but there’s a Pragmatic Programmer’s podcast interview with Jeremy Sydik, author of Designing Accessible Websites.