More Miscellaneous Links

Today is a cold and wet December and I’m feeling a little under the weather so therefore I have decided to bring you some silly links to things that might amuse or intrigue you as much as they have me.

First up, an interesting little flash puzzle game out of the Czech Republic called Samorost (and the sequel Samorost 2) that is extremely well designed and has a very interesting and unique theme to it.

Basically click on items on the screen in the correct sequence to make your little guy go from point A to B

Next up for all you “adult” kids who collect beanie babies… I bring you the next best thing… Weenie Babies… Yeah, I was a little disturbed by them as well.

Enjoy these for now, I might post some more if I find anything worth posting.

An Interesting Idea…

My wife stumbled across this the other day and I picked up on it and have been morbidly intrigued ever since. It’s called Pandora and is an offshoot of the Music Genome Project. It’s a way to discover music you might not normally have been exposed to. You start with a band that you know and like and then expand your horizons from there based on the suggestions they give you of stuff that is musically similar. Enjoy your little musical voyage, I know I am.

Craaaaaaaaazy Taxi!

Or at least that’s what the roads feel like out there. We’re having a wonderful little dose of freezing rain this morning. The temperature was around -3 or so and the car was covered in a nice rime of ice. The roads were alternately wet and slick with black ice which made driving tricky but managable if you know what you’re doing. Sadly though, Texans, for the most part, do not know how to drive in them.

Idiots were everywhere on the roads this morning. I had a bunch of twits riding my bumper practically the whole way along my journey and I saw no less than three accidents with police on the scene. Only one looked like it was fatal but as they were all on the other side of the highway I didn’t get a good look or bother to stop and gawk (like so many others were). Sadly they probably all would’ve been prevented if people knew their stopping distances and wouldn’t drive like fricken eejits.

It’s warming up slightly now and the rain is staying wet rather than freezing but come tonight it’s going to get absolutely nasty on the roads. Especially with the half-wits on the road.

Oh to be in Canada where people actually know how to drive in this shit. *sigh*

“Sure I remember that, but I was in Pre-school at the time…”

In an effort to make me feel old in celebration of my birthday, I was sent this link

And here are my amusing results…

You said your birthday is 11 / 28 / 1973
which means you are 32 years old and about:

57 years 1 month younger than Walter Cronkite, age 89
52 years 5 months younger than Nancy Reagan, age 84
49 years 6 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 81
42 years 2 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 74
40 years 0 months younger than Larry King, age 72
33 years 10 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 65
30 years 5 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 62
27 years 5 months younger than George W. Bush, age 59
22 years 4 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 54
18 years 1 month younger than Bill Gates, age 50
13 years 3 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 45
7 years 5 months younger than Mike Tyson, age 39
3 years 4 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 35
2 years 1 month older than Tiger Woods, age 29
8 years 7 months older than Prince William, age 23

and that you were:

27 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
26 years old on the first day of Y2K
23 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
21 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
20 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
19 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
17 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
15 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
12 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
10 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
9 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
7 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
5 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
2 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
not yet 1 year old when President Nixon left office

You said your birthday is 11 / 28 / 1973
which means you are 32 years old and about:

40 years 9 months younger than Yoko Ono, age 72
32 years 6 months younger than Bob Dylan, age 64
30 years 4 months younger than Mick Jagger, age 62
28 years 8 months younger than Eric Clapton, age 60
25 years 6 months younger than Stevie Nicks, age 57
18 years 2 months younger than David Lee Roth, age 50
15 years 3 months younger than Madonna, age 47
11 years 9 months younger than Jon Bon Jovi, age 43
6 years 8 months younger than Billy Corgan, age 38
3 years 8 months younger than Mariah Carey, age 35
0 years 6 months older than Alanis Morissette, age 31
8 years 0 months older than Britney Spears, age 24

and when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred your age was:

Silly Love Songs, Wings: 2
Elvis Presley Dies: 3
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy, Rod Stewart: 5
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 6
John Lennon is shot to death: 7
MTV makes its debut: 7
Who Can it be Now, Men at Work: 8
The recording of We Are The World: 11
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 13
Didn’t We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 13
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 15
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor: 16
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 17
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton’s inauguration: 19
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 20
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 21

You said your birthday is 11 / 28 / 1973
which means you are 32 years old and about:

47 years 6 months younger than Andy Griffith, age 79
44 years 0 months younger than Dick Clark, age 76
42 years 8 months younger than Leonard Nimoy, age 74
40 years 7 months younger than Carol Burnett, age 72
37 years 10 months younger than Alan Alda, age 69
36 years 5 months younger than Bill Cosby, age 68
31 years 0 months younger than Linda Evans, age 63
28 years 10 months younger than Tom Selleck, age 60
25 years 11 months younger than Ted Danson, age 57
23 years 7 months younger than Jay Leno, age 55
19 years 10 months younger than Oprah Winfrey, age 51
18 years 9 months younger than Kelsey Grammer, age 50
15 years 6 months younger than Drew Carey, age 47
12 years 6 months younger than Michael J. Fox, age 44
9 years 1 month younger than Calista Flockhart, age 41
4 years 10 months younger than Jennifer Aniston, age 36
0 years 11 months younger than Alyssa Milano, age 32
4 years 0 months older than Colin Hanks, age 28
9 years 9 months older than Mila Kunis, age 22
17 years 7 months older than Madylin Sweeten, age 14

and that you were:

1 years old when Saturday Night Live first aired
4 years old when CBS introduced Dallas
7 years old during the first airing of Hill Street Blues
8 years old at the time the first Cheers episode was televised
12 years old when L.A. Law was first aired on TV
13 years old at the time the series Married with Children began
16 years old when Seinfeld was first televised
17 years old in the month Home Improvement began
20 years old at the time the TV series Friends began
22 years old when Everybody Loves Raymond first aired
25 years old when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire began in the US

You said your birthday is 11 / 28 / 1973
which means you are 32 years old and about:

54 years 10 months younger than Zsa Zsa Gabor, age 86
43 years 6 months younger than Clint Eastwood, age 75
40 years 9 months younger than Kim Novak, age 72
37 years 10 months younger than Burt Reynolds, age 69
33 years 10 months younger than Nick Nolte, age 65
32 years 7 months younger than Ann-Margret, age 64
26 years 8 months younger than Billy Crystal, age 58
24 years 0 months younger than Whoopi Goldberg, age 56
21 years 4 months younger than Robin Williams, age 53
17 years 5 months younger than Tom Hanks, age 49
15 years 0 months younger than Jamie Lee Curtis, age 47
12 years 8 months younger than Eddie Murphy, age 44
3 years 4 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 35
5 years 3 months older than Jennifer Love Hewitt, age 26
14 years 4 months older than Haley Joel Osment, age 17

and when these movies were released in the U.S. your age was:

Jaws: 1
Star Wars: 3
Animal House: 4
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: 6
ET: 8
The Terminator: 10
Top Gun: 12
Planes, Trains & Automobiles: 13
Steel Magnolias: 15
Home Alone: 16
Wayne’s World: 18
Jurassic Park: 19
Forrest Gump: 20
Fargo: 22
Saving Private Ryan: 24
Toy Story 2: 25