Friday Funday CCLVIII
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 1711 hrs
Friday Funday brings you some fun and interesting links from my travels around the internet. Funday links will open in a new window.
There are only 2 Friday Fundays left until the 5 year anniversary of the section. For a number of reasons, Friday Funday CCLX will be the last one. I will continue to post fun and interesting links via Google Reader; you can find that feed here.
The Periodic Table of Videos
Take the entire periodic table of the elements, make education and entertaining videos about each of the elements, and you have some nerdy-good fun. Also, there's an old dude with a wicked 'fro.
Funny Japanese Kid
NANDE? Classic.
There, I Fixed It
Red Green style fixes from around the world.
Fancy Fast Food
I hate to admit it, but this stuff actually looks pretty good! The first post is from 12 May, and this morning I read that the site has a book deal. That was quick!
Jeremy's Ford Fiesta Road Test
Some knob wrote into Top Gear and complained that they don't test cars properly. This led to Jeremy performing a very thorough road test on a Ford Fiesta. It starts off slowly, but stick with it until the end.
Comic Crossover
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 0638 hrs
Two of my favorite web comics - XKCD and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - did a hilarious crossover today. Read the ALT text on this XKCD comic, and then check out the votey on this SMBC.
Friday Funday CCLVII
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 2216 hrs
Friday Funday brings you some fun and interesting links from my travels around the internet. Funday links will open in a new window.
There are only 3 Friday Fundays left until the 5 year anniversary of the section. For a number of reasons, Friday Funday CCLX will be the last one. I will continue to post fun and interesting links via Google Reader; you can find that feed here.
Cool Currency: 12 Beautiful Bills
Zambia has cooler money than us. Zambia. 1 U.S. dollar = 5,291 Zambia kwacha (at the time of this writing), but which country has the cooler note?
Reflex
While a little ball as it bounces around, you control angled panels in an attempt to collect all of the spinning "coins" and guide the ball from beginning to end.
100 Days of Fry
From artist Morgan Ritchie: "100 Days of Fry is an editorial illustration project based around the micro blogging website Twitter. The aim is to produce 100 drawings celebrating the site’s most celebrated tweeter, Stephen Fry. The challenge will be to see if I can produce an illustration per day, for one hundred days, based purely around what he tweets."
Trojan Pleasure Organ
Probably not really safe for work, but keep your speakers on low and you'll be fine.
Pete Hoekstra is a Meme
From the site: "It all started with a simple, foolish tweet. On June 17th, GOP Congressman Pete Hoekstra compared the life and death struggle of Iranians trying to get their message out via Twitter to the Republican Party’s tussle with Democrats. The Twitterati began satirizing Hoekstra’s tweet." Let this be a lesson to everyone: The Internet will always call you on your bullshit.
Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 1526 hrs
I have big news. Huge news. Life-changing news.
A few weeks ago, I gave notice at Zipline that I was quitting my job. Last Friday was my final day there, which makes today my first official day at my new full-time job: being self-employed. To be honest, it hasn't really sunk in yet. It mostly just feels like a Sunday. I suspect this feeling will continue for a few more days until Morah goes back to work (she has today and tomorrow off) and I spend all day working on projects for my clients instead of someone else's clients.
So what will I be doing? The same thing I've been doing: web development - also known as sitting on my butt all day in front of a computer. Only now I'll be doing it at home.
People have asked me, "are you scared? Are you excited? Do you feel liberated?" The answer is yes, I feel all of those things, but more than anything else, I feel relieved. For the past year or so, I've been antsy. I wanted to do my own thing, but I never made serious plans to do it. However, the more I thought about breaking free and working from home, the more appealing the thought became.
As you can probably tell, this wasn't something that snuck up on me. I have been planning this for a while (you could say years, considering one of the 2 other co-owners of the company and I first talked about doing this back when we were both working at FOX), so the idea of doing it has had a lot of time to steep in my mind.
So here I am, on day one of the new job. Day one of the new life, I guess you could say. If all goes well - and I am confident that it will - I'll never go back to working for someone else. Isn't that the American Dream? To make your own way in the world and be successful doing something you enjoy? Well here I am, at 28 years old, taking a stab at it.
Wish me luck.
Friday Funday CCLVI
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 0806 hrs
Friday Funday brings you some fun and interesting links from my travels around the internet. Funday links will open in a new window.
As some of you already know, there are only 4 Friday Fundays left until the 5 year anniversary of the section. For a number of reasons, Friday Funday CCLX will be the last one. I will continue to post fun and interesting links via Google Reader; you can find that feed here.
What the Trend?
Sometimes I see topics trending on Twitter and I have no idea why. This site helps you figure it out, and if you think the reason posted isn't quite right, you can write your own reason.
YouTube Babes
I've had this link in my queue for a while, so I wanted to get it out there. The site is pretty much what it sounds like.
Play Helen off Keyboard Cat. And then join Daryl and John.
If you can get through the whole first part, you will be rewarded with a delightful music video.
Kittyzilla's Embroidered Memes
If you've been on the Internet for at least 20 minutes, this should make perfect sense to you.
Post-it Love
A cute video about two people who express their feelings for each other through the creative use of Post-it Notes.
