Stray Hawkeye

So I just came across what I think is my new favorite blog.  Overheard in Minneapolis.  It’s a huge listing of little clips of conversations that people have overheard, in Minneapolis.  I love it.  All the amusing parts of taking the bus, without actually having to get on the bus.  There are also ones for other cities here, in case you live elsewhere and prefer more localized comedy.  The quotes alone are great, and most are made even better by both the title and the name of the person who logged them.

Favorites so far (only read back through about a week’s worth):

Better listeners, Shouldn’t raise fares, Wish, Crazy talk, Handful, Editor, Waterfall, Dumb Game, Totally Block E, Threesome, Proof not all cops are bad, High.

Totally going in my rss reader.

Wow, that last line sounds so dorky even I want to make fun of me.

“Sonia Pitt, the MnDOT emergency response executive fired for taking an unauthorized, state-paid trip to Washington during the Interstate 35W bridge disaster, is now working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.” – StarTrib

Oh, and after being fired for “activities that cannot withstand public scrutiny without embarrassment” at the State level, not only was she hired by the Federal government, she now make eight-nine thousand freaking dollars.

Your tax dollars at work.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, put to the music from Requiem For A Dream.  A good example of how important editing and sound track are to the meaning of what you see.  Probably not a bad parallel to your average movie trailer, or the evening news for that matter (think of CNN’s ultra tense back from commercial/going to commercial music for example).

As a side note, if you haven’t seen Requiem For A Dream, see it, but be prepared to be depressed for a couple of days, or maybe a week or two.  It’s a great movie, and extremely well done, but ultra-mega-super depressing. If just the sound track from it can do this to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 4 minutes, imagine what 1 hour and 42 minutes of content that is meant to fit with the sound track can do.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vy2aJY6rq8

I’m not one to often read movie reviews, as usually I’m really behind the times, and the review ruins the movie.  In this case, it sounds like the movie did a pretty good job of ruining itself.  This review of “The Happening” is a well done panning, chock full of enough spoilers you’ll never have to waste your time actually watching the movie, and a pretty good example of how dumb both the characters in, and directors of, horror movies generally have to be.  It’s also nice to see someone else pan a movie for being needlessly gore filled, featuring characters with no ability to make logical decisions, and the absolute compulsion to take a broken relationship and make it work during the course of the movie, regardless of the characters/plot/lack-there-of.

As a side note, “The Happening” was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who’s real name is Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, which is no where near as cool.  Okay, Shyamalan is still a pretty cool name, but the rest I can see why he just made something up instead.  Not that I’m really one to talk.

Mmmmm, dorkiness. Two totally different music video takes on the same nerdcore song.  I love the lyrics, the obscure references, and the appreciation of nerdy girls, or nrrrd grrrls, if you will.  Have I mentioned that my taste in women doesn’t exactly match the Hollywood endorsed standards?  This would be a good example.  I’d say the first is the better of the two, but I can’t resist posting a stop motion Lego video.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlaJ4zPbSI

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzHq28GFQuA

Well, I finally found a place that I’d love to work.

link: http://www.runawaybox.com/video.php?vid=443

Think I’d fit in pretty well.  Any guesses on where I would send an application?

Headline at New Scientist -> “Great tits enjoying the warmer weather – so far”

Contents of the story as related to the headline -> Proof that most scientists are lonely, lonely men.

If you are a woman, please, go find a scientist, and at least flirt with him, for the good of all mankind.

This site makes me giggle, a lot.

FUH2 is a site dedicated to cataloguing pictures of people’s responses to the Hummer H2.  The main page gives a good overview of the reason for the sentiment.  The submissions page, though the pictures aren’t the best quality, is impressive for its shear volume of submissions.

What if there were no stop signs?

What if a major corporation was charged with inventing one?

What if you were the one they brought in to help with it?

It might go a little something like this…

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU9YeOQm3Y0