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Be there, be square

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I found the link to Square America, described as “A gallery of vintage snapshots & vernacular photography”, while browsing commenter Charlie’s blog, best laughlin casino:

I’ve been loving Square America for some time now and want to urge you to check it out. It’s a web site wherein the curator chronicles the history of the U.S. in snapshots he has obtained by combing resale stores, estate sales, and other dusty archives for random, found photographs he then assembles into themed web-based exhibits. The results are simply fascinating. Text doesn’t even enter into it, only the images and you.

It’s a fabulous site that sucks you in as you browse the casual, even amateurish, old snapshots that still can’t help but communicate a sense of time and place. Beyond that, I often found myself thinking, “I almost know these people — and I know I’ve seen those curtains before.” Cruise on over and spend a few minutes going back a few decades.

Manival #2 is on the prowl

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The second Manival blog carnival is up and hosted this week by A Good Husband. Following Uncle Ben’s advice, I submitted last week’s post about the discussion (or lecture) from our last Fundamentals in Film class to the carnival, and it was accepted.

There are some other very interesting-looking posts in this week’s collection that I’m looking forward to reading. In particular, “Is It More Important to Be a Good Dad or a Good Husband”, “Thou Shalt Get a Job”, “7 Reasons Atticus Finch is a True Gentleman” and “Man Up: The Art of Marital Conversation” plus several more.

Check it out, and if you’d like to submit a blog post to next week’s Manival you can use this carnival submission form.

For Gino

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Here’s a really fun little video posted in honor of noted cat blogger Gino:

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats.

When you are finished watching the video you will know all about “corporal cuddling”, fun games to play with your cat (and – if you’re an engineer – with unsuspecting women), and experiments in renewable energy using static electricity. The clip also notes that no cats were harmed in the making of the video, though they were annoyed.

UPDATE:
Comments have been enabled! I’m not sure why they weren’t on initially.

Fore! I mean, “Four!”

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I may seem a bit distracted the next few days. You see, I’ve got a large LCD TV. I’ve got HD. I’ve got DirectTV. And I’ve got an itchy trigger-thumb on my remote.

DirectTV is featuring four full-time channels devoted to the Masters the next four days. One channel is dedicated to the main broadcast feed of the tournament; a second channel to the day’s highlights. A third channel is devoted exclusively to “Amen Corner” while the fourth focuses solely on Holes 15 and 16. In case I can’t decide which one to watch, I can WATCH ALL FOUR AT THE SAME TIME on one screen, plus have access to several interactive features that will let me pull up additional information!

Let it snow all weekend, I don’t care.

Buddy, you’re nutty

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The NuttyBuddy — a next-generation upgrade on the athletic cup — is getting somewhat infamous in certain, um, parts of the blogosphere. My friend KingDavid, unpaid and unofficial spokesperson for NuttyBuddy, gave me one of the company’s promotional tee-shirts for my birthday last week. While I’ll proudly wear the tee-shirt, I don’t know that I’d go to the lengths the guy in the video below goes to to demonstrate the efficacy of this new technology.

It’s hard to tell what is more disturbing, this clown’s (let’s call him a “Crush Test Dummy”) willingly and repeatedly standing in front of the Nuke LaLoosh of pitching machines, or the constant cackling of the off-screen woman who was feeding the (supposed) baseballs into the machine. Somehow she reminded me of the sound Hillary must have made while coming up with her health care proposals.

One positive thing about this video, however, is that at the end — after taking repeated shots to the gut and thigh and a couple direct hits on the NuttyBuddy — the guy says, “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to have kids.”

On behalf of the gene pool and future generations, I thank him in the name of all humanity.