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.
Friday Funday CCLV
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 2124 hrs
Friday Funday brings you some fun and interesting links from my travels around the internet. Funday links will open in a new window.
Cooper: Photographer Cat
Back in Friday Funday CLI, I linked to Mr. Lee CatCam, which has photos taken by a cat. A lot of people thought this was cool, such as Cooper's owner, who did pretty much the exact same thing.
Hammer Pants Dance
You know that video of all the people in Hammer pants storming that hipster shop and doing a choreographed dance that has been really popular on the Internet for the past week? Well, I found out about it last Saturday and knew that everyone would see it before now. I'm sure I was right.
Headlines
Funny headlines, Jay Leno style. I've had this one in the queue for a while now.
Meme Scenery
You know the memes, but can you name them from just the scenery? I only missed 8 (of those, I had never seen 6 of them).
The Personal Journal Of Doogie Howser, M. D.
Every journal entry, from every episode of Doogie Howser, in order, and dated correctly. Someone just won the Internet.
Friday Funday CCLIV
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 2148 hrs
Friday Funday brings you some fun and interesting links from my travels around the internet. Funday links will open in a new window.
The problem with waiting until Friday to show you the cool stuff I've found, is that by the time Friday rolls around, there's a good chance you've already seen it elsewhere. Such is the case with most of today's links.
Explosions and Boobs
I didn't realize Michael Bay was making websites now.
Turbo Heather
If you grew up in the late 80s or early 90s, you'll agree that this video is perfect.
Damien Walters Showreel 2009
I'm a simple man. I only really want two things in life. First, I want to be able to parkour like this guy. Second, I wish I had his body.
The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations
As a creative, I can assure you this is dead-on.
Over 30 Bald Eagles in the Back Yard
Holy crap, that's a lot of eagles.
Alice
Damn cool video. About 90% of the song in the video is samples from the movie Alice in Wonderland. Also check out Expialidocious (Mary Poppins) and White Magic (The Sword in The Stone).
Solicitation Section
Be my boss!
If you visit my Amazon.com PayPage, you can pay me as little as $1. I could be your underpaid employee!
