First off, anyone who asked for interview questions, they're there. Just go look on the entry where you commented, and I commented back. Moving on.
Remember when I used to post random links all the time? You know, like a real blog, since that's what a blog actually is? I haven't done a great job of saving things lately, while this website was barely alive, but I'm going to give it another shot.
We'll start with gadgets that truly terrify me. I came across this wake-up angel and I'm horrified. If you are in danger of falling asleep while you drive to the extent that you need a little gadget around your ear, get out of the car. GET OUT. This is the epitome of frightening. And yet... Where was this when I was falling asleep in a few of my college classes...? Also sucky, this snow bunker. What's the point of a snow fort that you buy already completed? Back in my day when we walked twelve miles uphill to school, we had to make our own snow forts, and that's how it should be.
However, just because I mock gadgets doesn't mean there aren't a ton out there just as mockable that I actually want. Like this computer keyboard vacuum. Dude, I'm so sick of spray air. I need it. NEED. Really, I do. Also? These cool little disc skins that protect your CDs and DVDs but don't need to be removed to play them. Need. Oh, and a hoodie for my iPod. I mean, I have like a billion hoodies. It's only right. And if I ever work another desk job, I WILL be getting these computer rear view mirrors. In jobs I've had where my back has been to the door, I would say I spent about 50% of the time I should have been working glancing over my shoulder. And another 30% of the time I should have been working doing things I shouldn't have been at work and therefore glancing over my shoulder even more. Useful. And while I'm at it, I wouldn't mind having this little thing that converts cans to bottles. Why not? Cool. Not stupid and pointless at all, no, not at all. And I wouldn't mind these bookshelves that are Tetris gamepieces (ie, buy them for me).
I'm so not a youtube person at all, but I've gotten really suckered into a few cool videos there... For instance, this facebook parody version of an eharmony commercial cracks me the hell up. Also, someone took the time to round up 100 quotes from different movies with all the numbers, 1-100 in them and edited it into one video. I'm in awe. Mostly because that's the kind of obsessive compulsive task usually only undertaken by someone like me. He also posted the list of movies the quotes are from. Amazing. And as long as we're talking obsessive, there's a guy named Noah who has posted a picture of himself every day for like seven years. He made it into a video (the first oh, six years or so), but you can also see the pictures themselves up to current date here. There's one more video I loved (actually, I hated it until the end, but once I got to the end I liked it), but if you watch it AT the youtube page, it kind of ruins it because the title... well, ruins it. So... I've never tried to embed a video before, but let's give it a shot... Eep.
There are websites I can spend hours at. I mean literally, hours. I don't know why, but accents, dialects, whatever, they fascinate me. And that's why I went through almost the entirespeech accent archive. Basically, you click on the map, pick where in the world you want to hear the accent from, and get to hear a person from that city/area read a short script, which is also phonetically transcribed next to it. I personally think this is the coolest thing ever.
I'm so not a cook. Lately even the idea of heating up frozen stuff makes me roll my eyes. But if I was, you can bet I'd be the type to always be complaining that I don't know what to make with the crackers, shredded cheese, eggs, and leftover pizza that I had lying around. So just in case I ever decide to be that person who cooks, I'm saving these links to recipematcher.com and snacksby.com, both of which allow you to put in a list of ingredients and get recipe recommendations. I can't vouch for how well they work, due to the aforementioned not cooking issue, but cool concept, no?
I don't know why certain this amuse me. They just do. Like this archive of ineresting shopping bags. The first one bothers me, but other than that, I'm quite entertained. The same is true of this page of origins of bands' names. It's honestly not something I've ever pondered. But it entertained me anyway. And this website where you type in a word and it retrieves flickr images of those letters and spells out your word in pictures.
Okay, I've already posted more links than I usually do, so just one more thing. You know on AIM, that little smiley with the dollar sign for a mouth? It makes me nuts. I've always wondered just WHAT that was supposed to be. So one day I set out to find out (yes, that is the kind of thing I've been doing with my time lately) and here's what I came upon. urbandictionary.com was really no help. But what I did find was this entertaining entry suggesting a possible use for that smiley. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Perhaps this is not the strongest note to close on so...
My So-Called Life came out on DVD when I was in college, and I pre-ordered the set. I've never pre-ordered anything in my life. And when they came, I hugged them. I'm totally serious. I watched the full season in marathon three times in the course of a month--once on my own in my dorm room with various residents stopping in to watch, once with my family on winter break, and once with my friend SaraB who, at the time of the show being aired, I used to sit on the phone with in silence just so we didn't have to waste twenty seconds dialing each other at the commercials to talk about it. And it's great to have it on DVD, really. But it's just the show, nothing exciting. It was released early in the shows on DVD era and doesn't have a lot of features. But now... it's going to be rereleased by a new company, with hints that it may include better extras this time around. As soon as those details are out... You can bet I'll be pre-ordering once again. Anyone wanna buy my first copy off me?
So there we are. Links. Just a little bit of the crap I've been hoarding for the last few months. Hopefully this'll become regular again because for some reason, I enjoy linking to random things. Perhaps because of what I just said--I'm a hoarder. And like all those kids movies and books say, it's nice to share.
