Stray Hawkeye

Ladies, I’d like to give you a brief moment of insight into the male psyche.  Have you ever been out at a bar / club, and there was a guy with you who refused to dance?  No matter how much you tried to encourage or bribe him, he just would not get on the dance floor, and instead insisted on staying firmly planted in a chair/booth with a beer in hand?  And when questioned as to why not, he simply answered, “I don’t dance.”?  Well, let me explain this phenomena for you if you haven’t pieced it together yet.  It’s not that he’s physically unable to dance.  In fact, it’s even possible he would in fact like to dance.  It’s just…. at some point in his life, he saw some other guy dancing, and realized what an absolute fool he looked like, and somewhere, deep in the back of his mind, there is an ingrained fear that that is exactly how he looks when he dances.  Maybe not even a fear that he does look like that, just that he could.  In short, every guy who refuses to dance is terrified he’ll fit in perfectly at a Penn State tailgate:

Well, sans the Confederate flag in the background anyway.

Video via Black Heart Gold Pants

Did you know Penn State has a Nuclear Reactor?!?!

They do.

On campus.

That their students get to use.

Ummmm, perhaps we should avoid pouring salt in old wounds for a while….

Nah.

After all, we’ve got freaking laser beams (though no sharks that I know of).

Two years ago:

Last year:

This year, depending on the which poll you believe, it will be #18 vs #20, or #17 vs #22 this Saturday, 7pm Central. If history is any indicator, it should be a good one.

For the Penn State game, the Iowa athletic department has apparently decided to counter Penn State’s usual clan rally white out look with a creation of their own:

What's that sound?

I’ll be the first to admit that when we started doing the whole “all the fans wear the same color” thing, I loved it. I thought black outs at Iowa were the greatest thing ever. Until I saw one from field level… and noticed that you can’t really see shirts so much as everyone’s faces from that angle… and realized just how white our fan base is, and that is was more of a grey out than anything.

The gold out at night against Ohio State looked awesome, though it was pretty well tainted by the game.

In fact, it seems like on the whole, we tend to lose themed games more than not. So, I’ve pretty well soured on them.

But this one, even assuming it works, how long do you think it will be before someone photoshops it up to look like, well, hell, it’s going to happen anyway, so it might as well be done by one of our own…

Buuuuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

At least we thought of it before Georgia Tech. Unfortunately no one told us we’re not the Yellow Jackets / Ramblin Really Nice Old Car.  Though, it wouldn’t be so bad to have the pretty sweet Nice New Camaro Bumblebee from the dog shit terrible Transformers movie as a mascot (I’m not sure exactly how that’s related, but in my mind it is).

Via Chief Happiness Officer

So cute, so ridiculous, so… must post:

Via Cute Overload and Chief Happiness Officer

Further proof that given enough time, even possible geek fascination and meme will be combined with every other one, in every possible combination – Lego Star Wars Space Invaders.

I give it 6 months until someone find a way to throw pong, Super Mario, and a red Star Trek shirt into that.

Via BoingBoing

I’m not really sure what it says about what I watch on TV, but I noticed a couple of weeks ago that two particular products were being advertised a lot on the shows I was watching.

The first was the movie The Last Airbender- an M. Night Shyamalan movie that appears to be about a 8 year old asian boy who does martial arts and has supernatural powers that allow him to transform the fabric of the world around him to create wind and waves and such to fight huge numbers of generic, undifferentiated 30 to 40 something year old bad guys, and he’s the only hope to save the world from this evil force and bring balance to the world, all with various spiritual and religious overtones, along with self discovery, a dangerous quest for training, and the need to evade these evil bad guys until he’s truly ready and trained to be able to face them once he has mastered his talents. In sort, an 8 year old asian Neo from the Matrix.

There is no spoon.

The other product that was being advertised a lot was Activia.  From Activia’s website:

Activia® is a delicious, creamy yogurt that is shown in several clinical studies to help naturally regulate your digestive system*, which for many women means it can help with your occasional irregularity, or when you are feeling a bit sluggish.

Activia, with the unique probiotic culture called Bifidus Regularis® (Bifidobacterium lactis DN 173 010), works in your gut to help regulate your digestive system by helping with slow intestinal transit*. Activia is good for you, and it tastes good too! You can enjoy Activia every day, as a delicious snack, part of a nutritious breakfast or as a delicious end to your favorite meal.

In short, yogurt that makes women shit.

Mmmm, strawberries. It also comes in prune flavor. No, really.

So, aside from the randomness of these two products advertising on the same type of programming, both to someone who couldn’t care less about either, why did it strike me as blog worthy?  Well, I noticed a similarity, and couldn’t stop laughing once I did.

See it yet?

Let’s see if I can help…

Hoodie, trench coat, same idea

Is your colon supposed to make a whooshing noise?

See it now? Maybe look a little harder….

Cut. Cut! Now who gave the kid yogurt after midnight?!?

What do you mean I'm pregnant? And it's a what?

Just struck me as an interestingly similar design choice across products for an semi-intricate, downward pointing, glowing arrow as the main logo for each.

The Talking Carl app repeats back anything you say in a higher pitch.  What happens when you put two next to each other?

From the above, it would seem apparent that what you get is an astonishingly accurate reenactment of every political discussion that has occurred on any cable news channel in the past decade, summed up in a profoundly concise manner.

Video via Kottke

Makes you think, doesn’t it?  Or at least makes you want three go get intoxicnineed.

Via Kottke