I ran across this last night, and it’s the funniest thing, hands down, than I’ve read in awhile: Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time. Picked it up via Boing Boing, and it’s totally, utterly random. Vulgar as hell, too, but that’s part of what makes it so funny. Disclaimer: I don’t… Continue reading Black metal humor
Tag: Random
Shoe trees
Pril is wondering what the deal is with shoe trees. I’ve been curious about that myself, since seeing one on my Walla Walla trip. I know of two (that I’ve seen personally): the one I just mentioned, on highway 97 south of Grass Valley, I believe, and north of Shaniko, and another one on highway… Continue reading Shoe trees
Sheepherders
A coworker emailed me this today. It’s a classified ad that appeared in the Bulletin on Sunday. Anyone looking for a career change? Want to get out of the high stress, tight deadlines and sedentary lifestyle of the technology industry? Sheepherder with 3 months of experience. Immediate Openings Available. Attends sheep grazing on range or… Continue reading Sheepherders
Hobbit holes in Bend?
Now this is some kind of crazy: The hobbit holes will hold lawn mowers instead of diminutive, barefooted halflings from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but The Shire aims to bring some Old World styling and a fantasy setting to Bend’s east side. “We call it the place of enchantment, and we… Continue reading Hobbit holes in Bend?
That figures
I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised when the oddball stuff happens around here anymore, but… Bend.com is reporting that during next week’s Great North American RV Rally in Redmond, participants will attempt to build the world’s largest s’more. The S’more will consist of about 40,000 marshmallows, 40,000 graham crackers and 14,000 chocolate bars, and… Continue reading That figures
INTJ
My friend Kerry at work had a bunch of people take the Jung Typology Test to determine personality types and see how well they applied to the real world. I’m not really sure why, perhaps as a group-building exercise. Whatever the reason, they’ve been good for a laugh, but the best part is the analysis… Continue reading INTJ
15-pound burger
This is crazy; a 15 pound hamburger is being offered free to any two people who can eat the entire thing in one three-hour sitting. the “Beer Barrel Belly Buster” weighs in with 10 pounds of meat molded into a 20-inch patty on a specially baked, 17-inch bun. The balance of the weight comes from… Continue reading 15-pound burger
Vermont Country Store
A follow-up to my Scrapple post the other day: that post was inspired by a catalog for the Vermont Country Store (“Purveyors of the Practical & Hard-To-Find”) that inexplicably appeared on the desk of a co-worker last week. It’s a neat store, and I like the website; they sell all sorts of quality, unusual, nostalgic,… Continue reading Vermont Country Store
Bandage Man
A bit of Oregon esoterica for everyone this Friday morning, and it’s a ghost story to boot: The Bandage Man of Cannon Beach. The Bandage Man is a phantom of a man completely wrapped in bandages that haunts this small community. The bloody figure, who smells of rotting flesh, jumps into vehicles passing on a… Continue reading Bandage Man
Houston’s glass public toilet
Updated, see below. A while back, Jake posted about a public restroom in Switzerland that was made out of one-way glass. Well, apparently there’s one in Houston now; my friend Kerry sent me the pictures in email this morning. Here’s what it looks like from the outside: And, here’s the view from the inside: Man,… Continue reading Houston’s glass public toilet