Tag Archives: humor

It’s just a battery. Honest!

Sometimes I watch Youtube videos on a channel called “The 8-Bit Guy”. I originally saw one on restoring an Osborne 1 “portable” computer. When I started at Computerland going on two score years ago, they’d been without a service department guy for a while. I walked in to a stack of Osbornes needing repair and learned fast. Any way it caught my eye.

I watched a video on rebuilding the battery pack in an old Apple laptop. Afterward, what happened was so bizarre, I had to comment on the video:

“You can’t make this up. Our smart TV asked me to rate this video with this dialog:

I put a link to the photo in the Youtube comment. I don’t think you can add attachments to comments.

I’m in the US, don’t log in on the TV, and I’ve never been asked to rate a video before. I think Youtube’s algorithm may have thought the batteries were, um, something else. At the risk of getting agency attention, I gave it 5 stars. Great content BTW.”

If anyone needs me, I’ll be at a black site somewhere.

Random Post for 17 September 2019

This may be my favorite comment on the 52 Cameras YouTube channel

Red eye reduction on wedding pictures made BORG BRIDE!

I think the generator was spewing diesel fumes into the building again when I made this

Thanka. Thanka verra mush.

eeg

I love this. Especially because a rock is a bud and a microscope is a bong

Inspired by: https://imgur.com/gallery/RZqNrSQ
The cats were driving M nuts. She wrote “I’m tired of their shenanigans. They think it’s my duty to entertain them”. Auto-correct jumped in and changed it to “Duty Town Terrain”.

Album Cover game (yeah, I misspelled shenanigans)

Random Post for 29 May 2019

When I left the job in Los Alamos, I sent myself a bunch of emails. The digital equivalent of cleaning out your desk I guess.

Remember when Spaghetti Cat was the big thing?

Sticky note portrait by M

Zombies and cats just naturally go together

Remember when Sweet Brown and “Ain’t nobody got time for dat!” was the big thing?

I took it in a different direction

My friend emailed and the bobcat picture is from October 9, 2016.

Visitor at my friend’s house in Santa Fe

Going waaay back, remember the Partnership for a Drug Free America PSAs?

But try to find the Grape-Nuts commercial where Euell Gibbons asks, “Ever eat a pine tree?”.

Random post for 11 July 2018

You ever look at some of the spam that gets caught by email filters? Sometimes there are lengthy paragraphs of text that looks like they were scraped from random emails, texts, and web sites. Some of it is tiny, like this one, and some is white text on a white background that goes on and on.

Red Lobster spam

Every now and then there’s something funny in it, like this bit of slam poetry.

Jamaican dance hall music
Hussydom
Peasanthood
Jamaican dance hall music
Immortalizer
Three-penny piglet
LOL, Jamaican dance hall music

This popped up at an online Sudoku site. I probably don’t want to know.

Ice cream? Potato? Diseased organ?

Forgot which spam we were writing.

The app installation progress looks like cartoon Hitler.

Dang Etsy, do you know something I don’t?

OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, Wait, what?!

Random Post for 28 November 2017

I’ll start with this cartoon and get it out of the way.
I need to get one of those things that helps you make straight text.

I know it’s not nice to make fun of someone’s appearance or name but f__k this guy.

September was safety and security awareness month at work and this is the logo they chose.

Shades of Soviet propaganda posters.

I couldn’t resist. The same words according to an on line translator.

Be Essential, Comrade.

Not to be outdone, a buddy at work pranked me in the same style. He did the spine of a manual on my bookshelf too.

Arm & Hammer & Sickle. I didn’t notice for over a month.

M left this drawing for me.

Looks like Kid from Kid N’ Play. (Wikipedia claims fair use because it’s a promo. I’m using it in a satirical work.)

Soap dispenser is appalled and angered by your lack of hygiene.

Random Post for 2 November 2017

Just playing in Photoshop

Halloween 2017

It’s el Día de los Muertos so time to put up some Halloween images…

Woooo, scary puns! I posted this one to Imgur and it got a “most viral” rating.

The ears didn’t stay long but Trinity was a bat.

I was a punk rocker. I had a cat in the 80s named Den. That's his rabies tag.

I was a punk rocker. I had a cat in the 80s named Den and my choker is his rabies tag.

Random Post For 28 September 2017

I found these saved on a thumb drive from about a year ago.

We’d recently seen a video of Pete, the farting wombat, eating corn.

M sent me a link to this video with the subject “OMG”. Original video is gone but I re-found it.

My reply:
Wombat did a better job.

M:
I didn’t think it was real because her scalp didn’t bleed. But then she posted six (!) follow-up videos and one of them was her going to the doc.

MORE WOMBAT, LESS TEENAGERS DESPERATE FOR “LIKES”

My reply:

More wombat!

Obviously, I’m easily amused.

Random Post For 28 April 2017

Fire across the street from work. M’s old DroidX.

M likes to remind me that I look like this little girl in the fire photo.

“Firestarter” by David Roth AKA the Disaster Girl meme.

Not many people know I’m an ordained minister.

Hello Kitty and Pedobear — a match made… somewhere.

New Year’s eve 2011

Found still-life in an alley in Santa Fe.

A toon I made poking fun at The Santa Fe Reporter.

She’s funny.

Random Post For 17 April 2017

I forgot to turn off a Google reminder. Kind of glad I did since the images are from Atalaya Mountain, just like the last Konica photos.

Atalaya, six years ago.

Say it in my head and count syllables on my fingers.

From work. Uh, can you wash my windshield? A pterodactyl $#@! on my car.

I hate meetings and doodle a lot to stay sane(ish).

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