January 2010
42 posts
“I got an A-. I showed the fog machine episode, and the teacher thought it was ‘pretty funny”
- A senior in high school who wrote a “leadership report” on me, letting me know how it went
Here it is - my world record run at “Most Trivial Pursuit 90’s Edition ‘Wired’ Questions Answered Out a Shuffled Deck in 60 Seconds.”
We did several attempts before we got one I was happy with, but I decided to put them all online anyway. If you just want to see the record setting 15-question run you can go the record’s home on the Universal Record Database...
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Enough people (specifically Dave Cho) enjoyed my first movie round-up post so much I decided to periodically do more.
I usually don’t watch that many movies, but I’ll post one of these when I feel like I have enough interesting thoughts. A midnight screening of Jurassic Park just put me over the top.
Daybreakers - Though some really interesting ideas keep this well above flat-out...
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Studying for my run at the world record for “Most Trivial Pursuit 90’s Edition Computer Questions Answered Out of a Shuffled Deck Correctly In 30 Seconds” lead me to the story of Craig Shergold. According to Trivial Pursuit 90’s Edition, he’s the answer to “What brain-cancer patient recieved more than 350 million get-well cards, when a chain e-mail refused to...
Here’s a video from the last CollegeHumor Live where I set the world record for “Most Whoopee Cushions Sat On in 30 Seconds Without Laughing or Smiling.” I got 22, the previous record was 18. Thanks again to interns Nat and Tom (if it’s not clear, I asked them to practice a few times).
If you think you can do better, go to the URDB and make a video of you beating my...
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I’ve had the idea of putting dirty stand-up comedians voices with their family friendly cartoon characters for a while, but it was brought to several-times-better-than-I-even-dreamed-it-would-be life by relatively new CH editor Sam Jacobson.
I look down on online petitions. They’re not even the least you could do - that implies you’re doing something. Most don’t even tell you who they’re going to send the petition to, likely because they haven’t thought that far ahead. On the off chance they have, anyone with any influence will immediately recognize how easy it is to fake 100,000 e-signatures. Signing an...
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I had a little extra time and no new TV the past few weeks, so I’ve been catching up on movies. Here (I think) is everything I’ve seen. There’s some doozies. Ghost Rider - I don’t get the devil. If he’s just going to trick Johnny Blaze into signing away his soul, why put up the whole pretense of a contract? Nicholas Cage is fun (I’d say he’s doing about...