Hoping your holiday is safe and happy.
...still on hiatus, but the MBA applications are going (relatively) smoothly. Once those are over, I'll be right back to the 'ol blog-grindstone. Blogstone?
Dec 25, 2008
Merry [Holiday Name] from the Unwind!
Fair Use Law episode 104 - "Spoiler Alert: That wasn't a Clown"
Not the Christmas episode (or intended to be at least), but given to all as a gift, this week's episode is up earlier than usual. We had a special guest and everything! Join us for a graphic recalling of one man's ordeal with a nasty kidney stone - just the kind of thing to get you in the holiday spirit.
This week's episode, as well as show notes and other inanity, is now up for your enjoyment at:
http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/
As always, you could subscribe to our podcast out on iTunes:
Dec 22, 2008
Fair Use Law episode 103 now up
Another week, another episode. This week's episode is now up for your enjoyment at:
http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/
As with other episodes, you may want to listen to this with headphones. We usually earn an explicit rating, but this one probably landed us a double-secret explicit rating. And I'm not even talking about the riveting discussion about Wilford Brimley's moustache or Burger King's meat-scented body spray.
So check it out. Alternatively, you could subscribe to our podcast out on iTunes:
Dec 14, 2008
Fair Use Law - Episode 102
Self-promotion fail.
I'm a little late (only by over 24 hours) to posting this. Episode 102 of the Fair Use Law podcast is now up for your enjoyment:
http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/
Or, you could subscribe to our podcast out on iTunes:
Dec 10, 2008
J*** in my pants
Another flash of brilliance from SNL. Very NSFW, very hilarious.
Dec 7, 2008
Fair Use Law Podcast - Episode 101
Finally, at long last, the first episode of Fair Use Law is available for your streaming or downloading enjoyment:
http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/
This blog should serve as the updating hub of the podcast. Additionally, you should be able to subscribe to us on iTunes:
It's an hour long podcast chock full of inanity and non-sequitirs. Be forewarned, if you're at work or around impressionable children, you may want to listen to this with headphones as there is sporadic harsh language.
A synopsis of the episode, as plagiarized quoted from Dan Robinson's synopsis of the episode:
Not mentioned: we bust out into an a capella rendition of Dr. Mario. Click here to continue reading "Fair Use Law Podcast - Episode 101"For your post-Cyber Monday goodness, please partake in our first episode. I can guarantee it's roughly 99% STD and Stone Temple Pilots free.
As with all future episodes of our merry band, listen in awe as myself, Danger Dan Robinson, my partner in rhyme, Baker, and our producer, the Reverend Randy Lewis spin a yarn that you could knit a deliciously awful Christmas sweater with. Discussions found within include tales about Siena College and their inability to provide beds to their dorm dwellers, Rampage 64, former head cheerleaders becoming strippers and the awkward way of handling the touchy subject of meeting them in public, and, of course, our lord and savior.
Oh, and Cloverfield. We talk about Cloverfield.
Dec 3, 2008
Courageous Sucking
I know I'm on hiatus, but I couldn't resist this one.
The always awesome Felicia Day recently tweeted about an article that she came across entitled "Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking":
http://www.43folders.com/2008/12/01/courageous-sucking
I thoroughly enjoyed it, as it parallels closely my journey writing here. It's a good read and I highly recommend it for anybody aspiring to do anything creative, be it professionally or as a hobby.
Now go forth and suck! And be proud to do so.
Nov 30, 2008
The Unwind on (quasi) Hiatus
My reasons for it below, but I've come to the decision that I need to put this blog on quasi-hiatus to focus on my MBA applications, which are due mid-January.
What this means is that I won't be holding myself to my usual weekday posting schedule. What this doesn't mean is that I'm going to be ignoring the blog. Also, once I'm done with my applications, I'll resume my usual schedule.
I love blogging here on The Unwind. The whole process of it - from finding topics to writing and refining - is almost addictive. And it sucks that, as I'm starting to hit a stride, I'm going to scale back.
But in the end, it comes down to a matter of priorities. Getting an MBA is one of my life's goals, and I'm going to divert a lot of the time I used to write here to help me accomplish this.
So until this hiatus is over I'll be posting here very infrequently. You can follow me on Twitter, or listen to the Fair Use Law podcast I'll be a part of. I'll be back, I swear.
Nov 28, 2008
Mad skillz
I came across this awesome TF2 video over at Jaz McDougall's blog. It is some seriously awesome manipluation of the TF2 environment, set to some seriously awesome music. I'm liberally applying the term "awesome" here, because I think it's deserving of it.
Spectacular mid-air pyro volleys, an uber chain against the train, the random firing squads... there's nothing in here that doesn't impress. My favorite part has to be the cube spy crab walk at the 4:59 mark.
Nature's Meat Candy
One of the reasons I love the internet as much as I do is it acts like a portal into the deep recesses of our collective human consciousness. The oftentimes bizarre, scary, disturbing places that you couldn't even think of on your own.
One such place is Bacontoday.com, a website dedicated to all things bacon. It's got everything you'd expect from a focussed-interest website: recipies, articles, and a desire to increase bacon awareness. But what surprises me is that it doesn't just have your run-of-mill stuff either - these guys are the masterminds behind the Turbaconducken and even sell bacon pillows. This site oozes high levels of creativity while giving you high blood pressure.
Personally, I can't look at this website for too long before I begin to think they're secretly trying to kill me. In all fairness, this reaction probably has more to do with the fact that I stuffed my Thanksgiving eat-hole only a few scant hours prior to writing this. Not the smartest thing I've ever done...
Nov 27, 2008
Best. Thanksgiving. Ever.
Rick Astley has just Rick Rolled about 10 million people at today's Thanksgiving Day Parade:
This is going to spread like wildfire across the internet. This could have been you, SNL!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving from The Unwind! Hope you're having fun this holiday, and no matter what you're eating today, it's a pretty safe bet it isn't as awesome/horrible as Turbaconducken. That's right, it's turducken - your run-of-the-mill chicken stuffed in a duck all crammed into a turkey - only wrapped in bacon.
And to our non-American friends: Happy, uh, Thursday! We're taking today off to eat way too much and watch American football. I don't get it either, but it's fun.
Nov 26, 2008
Quitting time
Those familiar with The Unwind know that I'm a big fan of video games. In this vein, something that never ceases to fascinate me is the gamer culture surrounding it all.
One particularly insightful article from The Escapist delves into the recent phenomenon that myself and many other gamers have experienced: not finishing games. It's a really good read that touches on many of the reasons why people stop playing games mid-way through.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_176/5486-To-Do-Finish-Any-Game
From my own experience, I know that even a 10 hour investment on a linear, complex story is asking a lot. If I step away from a game for a while - and I invariably do, thanks to everything else in my life getting in the way - I may forget the controls or what it is I have to do next and may deter me from getting back into a game. The games that I can easily and gladly sink 40+ hours into are the ones that I can just pick up and play after stretches of time away.
Also, another thing that I find is that once I understand and really figure out a game, I get bored of it. It's exciting to learn new game mechanics and immerse yourself in a new game universe, but when I "get it", it starts to get repetitive. Good games keep me interested by keeping things fresh.
Nov 25, 2008
Rumor: Fed's recent bank pledges part of upcoming Punk'd episode
Anonymous insiders into the U.S. Federal Treasury have indicated that recent loan guarantees and bank pledges, which represent $7.7 trillion of taxpayers money, are all a part of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's elaborate prank that he plans on revealing on an upcoming episode of Punk'd.
"Truth be told, Paulson was just shooting from the mouth at first and didn't realize that the press was listening [when he first talked of bailouts]," an insider informed The Unwind on condition of anonymity. "But then, the stock market kinda liked the idea and we kept running with it. Honestly, we thought people would have caught on by now. Paulson almost suggested infinity trillion dollars, but that would have been too obvious. ...Right?"
"How he has been able to keep a straight face through all of this is beyond us. But I guess that's why they pay him the big bucks," the informant added.
Reports indicate that Paulson will hold a giant "money giving" party in the Federal Treasury, having invited all his bank friends. In it, he plans to hand the bankers huge sacks with dollar signs on it filled with Monopoly money. All at once, he'll ask the bankers to open their sacks simultaneously, followed by Ashton Kutcher coming out of nowhere and pointing to the camera a lot.
The episode will air during May sweeps on MTV, for those people fortunate enough to still be able to afford cable and electricity.
Nov 24, 2008
Shotgun Content 5
Every so often, I have some things I'd like to post here at The Unwind, but can't really justify making a whole post out of any of them.
- An old friend of mine, "Danger" Dan Robinson, and I are starting a podcast call Fair Use Law. We're still working out when we're going to actually start it (with Thanksgiving coming up and all), but it should be a weekly podcast of everything and nothing all at once. It's essentially doing what we always do, only we'll have a microphone in front of us recording it.
More details to follow, but to give you some insight into my future colleague, here's the intro theme to it that he wrote and created. It's delightfully whacked-out, and I wholly approve:
http://www.carlandsons.com/fairuselawtheme.mp3 - Steam has been a huge pain in my butt today. After I updated my client, I've had issues logging in all day that are still unresolved. I need to kill me some zombies, Valve.
- From the "why the hell can I not look away" files, I wanted to share MiniKiss, which I originally found out seeing them in a random sports bar some time back with friends. MiniKiss is a coverband of Kiss... played by dwarves.
Yes, it's all the Kiss hits you've come to know and love - like "Rock and Roll all Nite", "Strutter", and "Detroit Rock City" - played by people half the size of the original. We're talking pure, concentrated 80's here. - Lastly, this week's Cracked.com photoshop content is "creative ways to break bad news". Only really had one idea for it:
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