Yippee-ki-yay!
For all you Princess Bride geeks out there. You know who you are.
I’ll spare you the (in)appropriate WAV link. For now. Instead enjoy the great xkcd. And click the image to see the strip full-size.
So during the week (when I should have been doing productive things) various items on the Web caught my magpie eye. Hit the jump to see what some of them were.
- The Merry Adventures of Saraphina – my friend, author, and sometime commenter Sara Harvey’s LiveJournal. The blog she actually updates.
- For some freewheelin’ movie discussions wheel over to my pal Scott Phillips’s Netflix Fiend blog.
- How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders – Tim Ferriss excerpts Neil Strauss’s upcoming book, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life. Which looks awesome. (You can pre-order it on Amazon through this site by clicking the title.)
- What’s a Hulu? The Origins of 8 High-Tech Names – Well, I was wondering. I’m that way about names. I’m a word nerd.
- Sleeping dog runs into wall – because we all feel this way before our coffee. Say! (Gets day’s first cup.) (H/T to Tim Ferriss via Twitter.)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self-Defense site – because in politics, nothing ever really changes.
- Charlie Stross’s defense of George RR Martin – scroll all the way down for my Quixotic contribution. Although today I was pleasantly surprised at a gracious response from Charlie himself. (H/T Happy Curmudgeon via Twitter.)
- Possible (likely!) huge news for electronic publishing: Amazon releases Kindle-on-iPhone App. (H/T Happy Curmudgeon via Twitter.)
- You can discuss the ramifications of the Kindle/iPhone news on my Forum.
- How could I almost forget this? Hockey Games Bring Out The Drunk Muppets – you’ll either cherish its hilarity forever … or carry it in your nightmares to your grave! (H/T Deadspin.)
- And finally, Medieval Castle History, Design of Medieval Castles, Haunted Castles. Because who doesn’t want to know about that?
That’s it for now, kids. Feel free to tell me how you like the feature in the Comments. Suggestions to improve?
The weekend’s upon us. That always excites me, even though it means exactly nothing in terms of “work;” I write everyday.
Don’t forget the big Wild Cards signing tomorrow, 4-6 PM, at Page One! Hopin’ to see ya.
Thanks for reading.
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Loved the XKCD. **Finally**, we get our hands on the reunion scene!
(If you don’t get it, you need to read the book. Not that there’s anything wrong with the movie, nothing at all..).
FWIW – and this’ll probably merit mention in full post, prolly when I get around to the Big Upgrade (largely based on Larry’s recommendations) – you can use basic HTML tags such as [i] and [b] in blog posts, for, like, emphasis. If you wanna; not mandatory, of course.
The sentiment is understood, here, as the Japanese say at thre-handkerchief movies: I don’t want to look like a dork by having the tags themselves turn up literally in my posts, either. And because blog engines are entirely random in how they handle ‘em, well – better safe than sorry, I usually say.
I want to look like a fool on the basis of what I say, not how I say it, dammit! And by the Gods, I usually succeed!
And, oopsie! Can’t use those side arrows in an engine that accepts HTML tags, can I? Ah, well, use your imaginations.
OK, so funny story (I thought) – I sent this xkcd to a friend who HAAAAAATES the Princess Bride. I mean, hates it with a burning hate of intense…. hatred. I thought he’d enjoy it, but he just totally didn’t get it. I underestimated his ability to fall asleep in the middle of the movie and totally not recognize the Westly and Buttercup reunion scene. So just to say, I now have a whole new appreciation of this cartoon failing on soooo many levels.
(man, you wouldn’t believe the people you meet in Government service. Sheesh.)
Haha! The XKCD is totally hilarious! Btw, that’s a nice roundup of your week, quite productive I must say.
I recently purchased the Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss and it really is awesome! The techniques for tracking and surviving in the wildersness are pretty cool.