I like reading complicated maths blogs. I don’t understand them, but it’s fun when one extremely intelligent person fires a broadside at another extremely intelligent person. It’s like Rock ‘N Roll Wrestling, where I don’t understand who anyone is or what anyone is talking about, but it’s polite. How cool is that? (Murray @ Midnight | 0 Comments)
Wind Beneath My Wings
Published by July 1st, 2008 in Murray @ Midnight's Ethical Dilemmas and Uncategorized. 0 Comments
The Sun-Sentinel, South Florida’s most infotainious newspaper, is running a poll on the worst album cover of all time. Anyone who has been connected to the internet for more than 10 minutes has probably already seen most of these before, but if you consider yourself to be a connoisseur of truly awful album covers, you might find something new [1] in this list.
As with any list of this kind, you will probably agree with some entries, disagree with others, and wish like hell that there was some way to perform memory surgery to make you forget you’d seen the remainder. For myself, I didn’t really find the ‘cheap giggle’ covers all that entertaining [2], but there were enough genuinely quirky and oddball covers in the collection to make it worth browsing.
Just for the fun of it I’ve compiled my Top 5 best-of-the-worst album covers below, but if you get a chance, you should look through the original list to see which 5 you’d pick out as your best-of-the-worst.
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| 1. | Or at least rediscover something awful… |
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| 2. | It seems a little too obvious an unfunny to ridicule people like Cody Matherson and The Handless Organist. |
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Okay, so Krispy Kreme has finally come to Brisbane, but I’m confused.
What the hell is it about these deep-fried rings of sugar and dough that drives people so berserk?
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I’m not a fan of the donut, per se, it’s just that I don’t quite understand the religious frenzy people get into over the Krispy Kreme version.
Is it the brand?
Is it a secret chemical additive?
Is it a mind-control experiment being conducted by some secret government agency somewhere [1]?
Or is it really possible that it’s because Krispy Kreme donuts are honestly that much better than any others?
Please discuss.
Thanks to Stark Raving Duncan for providing the photo.
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| 1. | True story, I once had a woman imply that she’d take it very kindly if I donated half-a-dozen Krispy Kremes to her on a flight back from Sydney to Brisbane. Sure, I probably wildly misunderstood exactly what she was suggesting, but there was more than a little flirtage going on, either way; and I honestly believe it was the Krispy Kremes she was after… |
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“Wrongy-wrong” is the opposite of “Finey-fine”. I’m just saying, that’s all. (Murray @ Midnight | 0 Comments)
Meanwhile, in Brisbane’s financial district…
The building at Five Riverside Plaza was widely regarded as the city’s tallest and least sensible structure. Towering over the rest of the CBD, its upper reaches lost in clouds, the building boasted the most insanely exclusive floorspace in the city because it actually only had 5 floors, all jockeying for position somewhere near the top.
Nathan Blevvers, CEO of GrunkCorp Holdings Inc, edged closer to the floor-to-ceiling glass panels of his penthouse office. He was so high above the sprawling cityscape of Brisbane that it sometimes gave him a nosebleed just to look out the window, and if he was being perfectly honest, he hated heights, hated tall buildings and would have marvelled at the supreme irony that he had ended up working in an office where the ground was a half-hour elevator ride away, if only he had known the meaning of the word irony.
However, one thing Nathan Blevvers did know intimately was the fact that 98% of business was about appearances, and for this reason he forced himself to appear comfortable in his insanely high office every day, because his vast empire would crumble within minutes if he didn’t.
The Leeroy post reminded me of another classic take on roleplaying. This one is a classic. Enjoy. (Darren Saturday | 2 Comments)
Leeroy Jenkins - Online Hero or Twack
Published by May 18th, 2008 in Saturday Night Drive-by. 1 CommentNothing sparks up my day more than watching the infamous Leeroy Jenkins World of Warcraft - even after repeated viewings it still makes me laugh. If you haven’t seen it (or perhaps you’ve already hit this link already) its a video clip of a group of players gathered about in a dungeon planning their strategy. Continue reading ‘Leeroy Jenkins - Online Hero or Twack’
Sound Of Voodoo