Friday Fun

I don't have the time or energy to write my own content today, but since I know most of my readers come here to be distracted from their everyday routine, I will leave you with some random/interesting things to check out.

What's your most embarrassing moment?
Larry Zierlein (who is the Pittsburgh Steelers new offensive line coach) accidentally emailed an "explicit sex video" to various NFL employees. As if that's not bad enough, one of the employees was NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Zierlein implies that he was trying to delete it, but I find that hard to believe. Without going into how wrong this is, I just can't imagine how mortified he must feel right now. Anyways, here's the story I read: Steelers' assistant apologizes for raunchy e-mail to Goodell, others

I have that sickening feeling that I just got screwed.
Edmunds.com is a great resource if you're thinking about buying a new car. There's an awesome piece they did, where they sent a guy to do some under cover car salesman work. It's extremely long, but well worth the read if you can do it. Check it out here: Confessions of a Car Salesman

Google knows what I want before I do.
Seriously, Google is amazing. I'm just now transporting all of my spreadsheets into Google, so the wife and I can both have access to everything. We already utilize their calendar and everything else. It's so easy and incredible useful. Google rules. Google Spreadsheets

This should be inspiring, but instead, it makes me feel worthless.
I really love the piano. I started playing about five years ago and I just love everything about it. Then I see stuff like this and it makes me want to quit. I wonder what it's like to be a genius? Amazing young piano players:





Embedding is not allowed on this last one, but if you liked the other two, this one's awesome. It's like my favorite piano piece: Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu Op.66"

Linking To This Blog- Your Time Here is Up

There are a million things I have in mind for this blog (getting my own domain name, hosting, new title, etc.), but one thing I've been meaning to do for a long time is clean up my links.

I'm starting with that long ass list to your left called, "Indianapolis Bloggers." That list started as a way for me to easily keep track of everyone who has joined the Indianapolis Bloggers Ring. It started out pretty small, and I enjoyed keeping up with what everyone was doing.

Well, that site has grown and has about 40 members now. It's a list that is fairly irrelevant to this blog and one that I no longer keep up with on a regular basis.

So, within this next month I'm going to do some Spring cleaning. If your blog is in that list and you're already linking back to this blog, I'll keep you there. I know from checking my site stats that I rarely get visitors through these blogs, but it's always nice to see your blog on someone's blogroll.

If your name is on that list and you're not linking back to this blog (and if I don't check your blog regularly because I think you're boring), then you will be removed by the end of the month. Nothing personal, I just get tired of seeing it.

If you are ever interested in exchanging links, just let me know. You can leave a comment on the blog saying so.

Weekend Update

It's Friday and I don't feel like working. I've decided to give you some fun things to check out for the weekend. We've got a bachelor party tonight, so that should be fun. Colts should have a tough game on Sunday. Christmas tree shopping tomorrow. Should be another good weekend.

Click for Cans: Campbell's is giving away soup for the needy. Please go here and vote for Indianapolis! We're currently winning in the "Most Improved" category, but it's a tight race with Cincinnati. If you're thinking of voting for a team other than Indy, click here and let me persuade you to change your vote.

W.B.'s: A couple friends add their love to cyber space. First, "C.M." has begun blogging, although not very regularly, at Weary Wednesdays. Also, Joel got engaged and started a site to document their love. True to his geeky roots. You can get more than you ever needed to know about he and his fiance at this site.

Chris Rock is a Prophet: Thanks to Mike for providing this link to a video that shows how Chris Rock predicted the O.J. Simpson tell-all book. That link will take you to his site which will take you to the video. Amazing.

Rab Photos: Rab put up a few pictures of the old school Naptown BBS.

Ben Folds Fake: New Mission at Improv Everywhere. They get invited to do some gags with Ben Folds.

Richard Simmons Exploding Steamer: YouTube video. Pretty dang funny. Simmons on the Letterman show with his own steamer.

DrawThings.com: This site analyzes your personality based on what you draw. The questions they ask about your drawing when you're done are fairly limiting, but it's still interesting. They had me pegged. Here's my drawing:


Phone Spelling: Find out what your phone number can spell. I'm afraid to put what mine spelled, in case people want to be funny and try to prank me, but it was really funny. Now when people ask me what my phone number is, I can just have them memorize a simple and creative phrase.

Anagramsite.com: I've always thought anagrams are amazing. This site is the best one I've found. Anagrams are words or phrases that are formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Like "dormitory" becomes "dirty room." Life in the Shadows = "faithless wind hoe" "faithless who dine" "fiendish owl hates" and "finished low he sat," among other things.