Yekrats.com: Scotto’s Seafud Shanty

I found this amusing blog based on a couple of homeless Sims 3 characters, Alice and Kev, which the narrator has allowed to run amok turning on their free will. He created them with some serious issues dealing with other Sims. From there, the narrator weaves a tale of their life stories.  Tragic and funny: http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/ .

The game Portal, rendered in ASCII.

http://bytejacker.fliggo.com/embed/RuZobi9H

If you don’t know what Portal is, then maybe it’s not as impressive.

I recently discovered that the International Brotherhood of Magicians (”IBM”) has a local “ring”  here in Lafayette. Further, I found out they meet about 5 miles from my house! So, last night was the first meeting I was able to attend.

It’s a small, casual, fun group. They asked me to perform something, so I managed to do a couple of rubber band effects (one of which they seemed to have not seen before). They do a round where everyone gets to show a trick or two to the rest of the group, and get pointers and such. (Although none of them seemed to need any pointers.) The group has a couple of professional magicians who regularly attend.

Since I have a lot going on right now, I’m not sure how much I can do with them. But it’s fun to know that such a resource is so local to me!

I saw this on Facebook and thought I’d pass it along. It’s certainly not safe for work, or children, but I laughed out loud anyway…

When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires

(or… “Advice: Don’t Draw Genitalia As Your Signature When Paying Via Credit Card”.)

Since going to Vegas last month, I’ve kinda got a renewed interest in magic. (Illusion, sleight-of-hand, etc.) Vegas is a Mecca of magic, and I visited a real magic store. (I didn’t get a chance to see a magic show I was planning to see because I was strung out and a little sickly.)

Since then I’ve (re)tought myself the “Twisting the Aces” trick knowing a few sleights from my “Purdue Magic Club” days. I’m also working on a “Three Fly” routine (also called “Coins Across”) which makes coins magically travel from one hand to another. It requires some tricky finger gyrations that my hands are not used to doing. So that’s taking a lot of practice to learn a new motor skill.

From various other blogs…

First off, a tip of the hat to my good pal Fuzzy, who produced and edited a music video for the band Barenaked Ladies, called Pollywog in a Bog.

Also, courtesy of my good pal Lars, a link to a heart-warming video about just a guy named Matt dancing, and the world dancing with him. Mesmerizing and cool.  Strangely enough, the guy in the video is Matt Harding, a video game writer, who worked on (among other things) Zork: Grand Inquisitor.

I found this today and it was certainly worthy of a laugh or two. It matches up a random Family Circus panel with a Nietzsche quote, and it’s really deep, man…

• Nietzsche Family Circus