So this is your new, probs not improved Free for All Friday. Since we last did these, I’ve completely changed my reading habits. I cheerfully use google reader now and subscribe to about 200 different blogs. I use the “share” and “share with note” feature A LOT. And getting into that habit, I think, has made it a bit harder for me to determine what should, and should not be, FfaF material. Among any other comments you might make today, please let me know what are the sorts of things you’re interested in reading here, or having here. You know you can always send me stuff, and it will appear.
And just to get it out of the way, I think I’m done with the bacon, y’all. I am just baconed out. I’ll eat it, certainly. But I am no longer willing to commit time to scouring the internet for tasty bacon recipes. I am, however, willing to entertain the idea of another food or foods or something that we could all get excited about every week. Please make suggestions. And don’t just say, “meat.” It’s a big internet.
Otherwise, here we go. Remember that if you’re going to get down and dirty, you need to do it in the pudding. Otherwise, high fives all around.
- Natural Movement Training and Conditioning:
I’m interested in this sort of training. I’m finding again this summer that running is just not for me above about 80 degrees. And even when I get up and out onto the trail by 5:15 a.m., the heat index is still usually 85 or so. I shamble along for 2.5 or so miles before I just want to drop dead. I’m a drag on my training partners and I’m getting burnt out and hateful. So I need a new workout. I’d like to try something like that.
- The Periodic Table of Meat
- How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors
- Via David Thompson, a stonking huge ant colony.
- How to open a bottle of wine with your shoe
- Curtains made from slides
- How to Access the Internet, a Guide from 2025:
Getting your Internet Surfing License is a necessary prerequisite in making the web safe for everyone. Before governments made the ISL mandatory, people often found themselves lost in the myriad of web sites, naively double-clicking Hit The Monkey to Win iPad ads, finding themselves spammed by pop-unders. Acquiring the license typically takes only between 2-5 days of education by your local Surf Training School. You will need to carefully prepare for the final test, in which you are required to answer simple questions like:
* What is a pyramid scheme, and do they really work?
* How do I replace the solar cells on my cyber glove?
* Why exactly is it bad for people to badmouth their governments or big companies online? - From Apollo, Tom Jones and The Cardigans cover Burning Down the House
- He also sends you the felicitations of The 28 Best Photos of Christina Hendricks. I think I speak for all of us when I say, “Hnnng.”
- And because it’s not a FfaF without spiders, check out this infestation!
- Breitbart sums up JournoList: Yes, but the reporters at Pravda weren’t such insufferable assholes.
- Behold the new logo of Miller High Life, the Champagne of Beers.
- Strawberry Cream Pie
- A list of common misconceptions
- The biggest star ever! No foolin’!
So glad you’re back with the FFaF. If you’re done w/ bacon, you should move on to cheese. If ‘cheese’ is too broad, pick a particular type of cheese each week, maybe? Or just stick with Feta, which is the best cheese.
The “natural movements” training looks like a load of BS to me. Like I’m seriously wondering if they’re not just kidding. It looks like a bunch of people who don’t know what they’re doing just making some shit up in a weight room.
There have been a multitude of awesome periodic tables showing up online recently! First the periodic table of insults and now meats! I can get behind this meme.
I use the Spocker every time I play Rock, Paper, Scissors. Also, when I was in college there came a trend of playing that at bars but they called it “Roshambo” instead of RPS. Lame.
Curtains made from slides are so rad! I want some! Where the hell do I get slides? 1970s classrooms?
I’m very amazed that I am just now hearing the amazingly amazing collabo between Tom Jones and the emm effin’ Cardigans. And it was a David Byrne cover! WTF Y’ALL.
The biggest star ever is — and he’d be the first one to tell you this — obviously Billy Corgan. Stupid astronomers don’t check their sources well enough.
Our long cold winter of missed content is finally over! Yay!
The wine/shoe thing was cool, but unfortunately I don’t have any fruity Eurotrash pointy toed suede shoes. I do, however, have the shoes for the workout thingy. That looks like the perfect regimen for the upcoming apocalypse that Glenn Beck keeps telling me about. I’m not sure that using the baby for the kettlebell get-ups is a great idea, though.
And when you said curtains made from slides, I pictured playground slides. Those were cool too, though.
And finally, thanks to Firefly, I can look down my nose at all the new Christina Hendricks fans and say “Please. I was starching towels to her long before Mad Men was around. Where were you then?”
Christina Hendricks – Hnnnnng, definitely. I aspire to her body. I especially love that 3rd photo of her in that navy blue dress – ‘scuse me, I’ll be in my bunk.