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TubaPants
Celebrating internet minutiae. A ragtag band of bloggers from little ol' Green Bay, WI posts interesting, amusing and just plain weird stuff they find on the web. Reader submissions welcome.
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Inspiring lecture by Randy Pausch
2007-09-24 17:21:20
Randy Pausch is a Carnegie Mellon professor and virtual reality pioneer. He also happens to have terminal pancreatic cancer.
He recently gave his final lecture, entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” It’s about two hours long, but very much worth it.
He talks about his dreams & aspirations, Captain Kirk, virtual reality and a host of other [...] ...
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Declare (email) Bankruptcy
2007-09-22 05:54:56
My friend Kevin over at Incompetech.com alerted me to this brilliant idea to deal with a backlog of email after a business trip, vacation or other overwhelming backup of your inbox… declare email bankruptcy! Apparently this was coined by (or at least credit is being given to) Wired columnist Lawrence Lessig.
Here’s a snippet from [...] ...
Email
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Yarrr!
2007-09-19 15:21:11
It is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!!!
Speak it, Love it, Live it…
YARRRRRR!!!!
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360 Demo Report
2007-09-17 20:37:32
Here is my Xbox 360 demo report…
Fifa 08
Graphics - The difference between the Gamecube version and this one is slim when playing with the wide shot during the game. When the camera is close in on a player it is very nice. Crowds look like crap.
Controls - Same basic controls, but with some nice new [...] ...
Demo
Report
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Remission Review, still in Rehab
2007-08-27 16:55:57
Okay,
If you remember I said I would review that game I sent for called Remission… well, I installed it, and the game wouldn’t load. I looked for what the trouble would be, and couldn’t find anything. I will give it one more chance before bringing down my squeaky-kidlike gavel of remotely interesting dravel… [...] ...
Rehab
Review
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back on the job!
2007-08-27 16:47:23
Alright kiddies, I’m back!
I’ve had troubles keeping up with posting for awhile due to finals and end of school forever kinda stuff. Well, I wont say forever, I’ll probably be sucked back in to get another degree one of these days.
So, keep your onions’ peeled for posts from me… or run in fear, just [...] ...
Job
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See this play
2007-08-20 16:21:22
As some of you know, Joe & I perform with an improv troupe (ComedyCity) and community theatre (Venture Theatre) here in the great white north. One of the plays from that theatre is being produced in Chicago next month at the Chopin Theatre, and it’s really pretty hysterical. The play is written by [...] ...
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Not Casimir Pulaski…!
2007-08-08 16:39:10
Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, seem to have figured a way to reverse the Casimir force, making it repel instead of attract. In short… causing levitation
As Published by the Telegraph
This could at first change how computers and nanotechnology work and/or is created.
Then, we get [...] ...
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Comedian + Rapper = Awesome
2007-07-28 06:09:29
Now, you may have written off Kanye West following his meltdown during the benefit following Katrina. Remember Mike Myers’ face following “George Bush doesn’t care about black people?”
But, a chance meeting between between West and one of the funniest people on the planet, Zach Galifianakis, has resulted in another online viral phenomenon. Galifianakis created [...] ...
Rapper
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When lawsuits go too far… again.
2007-07-24 19:18:27
So, last week, or whenever it was, a steam pipe ruptured in New York City. It made a lot of noise, threw a bunch of debris, etc… So, a lady who happened to be right around this area happens to have post traumatic stress syndrome from the events of 9/11. When this [...] ...
Lawsuits
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Get your fake band fix right now
2007-07-24 05:04:27
Are you a fake band fan? Do you find yourself humming tunes from the likes of Spinal Tap, Jet Screamer, The Rutles, The Wonders/Oneders, Driveshaft, Banana Splits or Josie & the Pussycats?
Then www.FakeBands.com and their print version, the Rocklopedia Fakebandica is right up your alley. Finally, all the fictional bands and singers from [...] ...
Fix
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Travel the world on the cheap
2007-07-21 07:13:31
Just saw this site on Nightline, and thought it deserved mention. The concept is awesomely simple and hopefully it catches on. Basically, you can travel the world and crash on someone’s couch (or spare room) to save some moolah. Transportation is your responsibility, but you can save on lodging by crashing with strangers.
Check out CouchSurfing.com [...] ...
Travel
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Suck it up
2007-07-21 07:02:13
Hey, I hate blogs that apologize for lapses in posts. So, I’m NOT sorry for not having a new post for over a week now. Deal with it, bitches. So there.
R.I.P. Mom
Give God a piece of your mind… ...
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BATTLE!
2007-07-13 14:17:42
Watch the Epic Battle of the day!
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Battle
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How drunk do you have to be?!?!
2007-07-11 18:32:49
So this guy in Green Bay was driving drunk (big surprise). He hits two pedestrians (a man and a woman) on the East side of town. Does he stop to provide some sort of help? Of course not… Instead, he continues driving home and drags the woman for a ways.
Not only that, [...] ...
Drunk
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Pimp your Bathroom!
2007-07-11 18:22:54
with Automatic Toilet Tissue Dispensers…. from Kimberly-Clark (local)
Transform your toilet into a WASHLET! with TOTO.
plus, the second website is rather addicting… I wanted to click on all the options for some scary reason.
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Energon Cubes
2007-07-09 14:28:48
The site Liquid Generation will help make you a delinquent at work today.
Do the Ultimate Transformers Quiz!!!!
I guess I’m Beachcomber… “a laid back hippie. If you had your wish, you’d transform into a plate of pot brownies. And, like, war is bad. For sure. No blood for Energon cubes, man!”
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The Time has come…
2007-07-05 23:45:35
ReMission, the game that helps people (mainly young adults) understand and give them aid while undergoing cancer treatments, has arrived!
I will be playing it and reviewing it as soon as I can.
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Time
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and then… THERE WAS A TWIST!
2007-07-02 19:11:18
Roswell, New Mexico…
Aliens…?
They said their bits…
It was a weather balloon…?
They denied their bites…
They were crash test dummies…?
and now…
a confession from the Press Secretary from the grave…
leaves us to wonder….
Who
is
lieing
now?
See for yourself…
Technorati Tags: Roswell, Aliens, weather balloon, crash, confession ...
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Wanna Play Doctor?
2007-06-28 16:49:04
But, you don’t want to put in the time to actually learn to be a doctor?
then try out this game found in Yahoo! Games section, Dark Cut. Apparently, you play the role of a sloppy medieval doctor of some kind, removing arrows, lancing boils, killing vampires, etc..
its a good time.
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Doctor
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Continueing Pants Coverage
2007-06-25 18:11:10
A judge ruled Monday in favor of a dry cleaner that was sued for $54 million over a missing pair of pants.
The man above, Roy L. Pearson (an administrative law judge), originally sought $67 million from the owners of the dry cleaning establishment that he frequented, claiming they lost a pair of expensive pants from a suit, then tried to give him a pair of charcoal gray pants that he claimed were not his. The sum of his lawsuit was created by him adding up years of alleged law violations and almost $2 million in common law fraud claims.
In the end, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled that he did not have enough evidence to prove that the pants were not his, and that his allegations over a sign saying “Satisfaction Guaranteed” was false advertisement were not in line with how people should consider such statements from businesses.
“A reasonable consumer would not interpret ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’ to me ...
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Pants
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A look into another culture…
2007-06-25 15:43:46
Sometimes to know another culture, its good to look at their… TV commercials!
In this case, we’ll look at Japan.
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Culture
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Something we all know
2007-06-25 14:32:10
Bill O’Reilly is an ass.
But here is a high school kid (Jesse Lange from Boulder High School), showing him up.
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Man killed by blue sky lightning
2007-06-24 03:11:20
Beautiful Blue Skies… of DEATH!!!
There are lots of things we must fear in nature: sharks, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, bears, hurricanes, icebergs, etc.
Add to that list the seemingly innocuous blue sky. That’s right… some poor landscaper in the Miami area was struck by lightning on a beautiful, sunny and freakin’ CLOUDLESS day.
41 year old David Canales was struck and killed by a phenomenon known as “bolt from the blue” or “dry lightning.”
What the hell!?!?!
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Blue Sky
Lightning
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Don’t mess with Texas.
2007-06-20 21:21:17
On top of that, if you hit someone with your car in Texas… specifically, a little girl… RUN! Hell, don’t run, drive to the nearest police station and have them lock you up for your safety, because around the corner are a bunch of 10 Gallon Hats of Doom coming to bludgeon you to death!
Two guys accidentally hit a girl while driving a car. They got out to make sure the girl was alright, and then a sudden mob attacked. The passenger of the vehicle was BEATEN TO DEATH. The driver managed to get away and is cooperating with the police.
There was a man that tried to stop the crowd, but they started to attack him to for defending the passenger of the vehicle. What the hell is wrong with people sometime?
Click here for the Yahoo! News article
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Texas
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You need to watch this video.
2007-06-19 18:41:15
This is where the future of picture sharing on the internet is headed, and its awesome! Its a program/technology procured by Microsoft called: C Dragon. It takes photos of all sizes and dpi’s and makes the accessable at a much quicker rate and in more interesting ways.
Click here to see some interesting new technology.
they mention something being on the web now, but I couldn’t locate it using a search engine.
Technorati Tags: future, picture, internet, Microsoft, C Dragon ...
Video
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Tha Pope’a Says!
2007-06-19 16:05:34
The Vatican must have found a burning bush over the weekend, because they have come down with a new set of commandments, the Motorists’ 10 Commandments! God be praised, maybe now people wont be complete knobs on the roadways… well, they’ll still be knobs, but they will BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY for it now!
The NEW 10 commandments:
1. You shall not kill.
2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.
3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.
4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents.
5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.
6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.
7. Support the families of accident victims.
8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating e ...
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Now pitching… The Lefty-Righty
2007-06-15 00:52:14
Even if you’re not a baseball fan (communist)… you gotta admit this is pretty freakin’ incredible. There’s this kid pitching for the Creighton University baseball team who can pitch with both arms. And he’s pretty darn good with each.
His name is Pat Venditte, and he’s a junior who, as you can imagine, is starting to get catch the eye of pro scouts. He’s got a specially made glove, so he can switch hands and pitch with either arm during the same inning.
Umpires working Creighton’s games have to dust off seldom-used rules regarding switch-pitchers. Like everyone else, Venditte gets only eight warm-up pitches upon entering a game and five before any inning, whether he chooses to throw left-handed or right-handed, and may not warm up again if he changes arms midinning.
Here’s the link to NYTimes story about him (you may need to register, but it’s free). There’s a short clip of him pitching with both arms during warmups.
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Lefty
Pitching
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Loss of the Wizard…
2007-06-13 14:53:47
Don Herbert, more notably known as Mr. Wizard died Tuesday at the age of 89.
I remember watching him all the time a a kid and loving it.
Who will make things explode or burn up for the sake of education now?
check the Yahoo! news article
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Wizard
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Money = Happiness (thanks Dr. Obvious)
2007-06-11 19:01:54
The age old question of whether or not money can actually buy happiness has finally been answered scientifically - at least for Brits
A research team from the University of London surveyed 10,000 English about their happiness level, as well as wealth, health & social relations. They were then ranked from 1-7 depending on their “life satisfaction.” Apparently friendships & social relationships are important too, just not nearly as interesting.
In related news, my research team is seeking a generous grant to study the Money vs. Happiness scenario as it relates to US citizens, specifically those living in Green Bay, WI. More specifically, those living in my house. If you have a spare, say, $2 million you’d like to donate to the cause, I am we are excited to get started on our exhaustive study.
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