Garfield Minus Garfield

Garfield Minus Garfield is a clever and funny site. The concept is simple ... remove Garfield from the Garfield cartoon, and Jon becomes a strange, philosophical, existentialist weirdo. Brilliant and funny.

Randy Pausch reprising his "Last Lecture"

I vaguely recall reading about Randy Pausch and his famous "Last Lecture," but I had never actually heard it. This is probably the best possible way you can spend the next 11 minutes of your life. What you choose to do after you hear it is up to you.

Butchered Song Lyrics

Admit it. You do it too. Not sure of the real lyrics? Sing whatever sounds close to it. Thanks to my buddy Mark for passing it along.

The "Sounds Like a Band" Game, Version 2.0

I don't know if I've previously posted about the "sounds like a band" game, but here's the short version. Whenever I or one of my boys says something which, taken out context, sounds both absurd and cool we yell "band name!"

A classic example -- one day during our commute I was absentmindedly scratching my chest while driving. My son asked "what's the matter ... do you have an itchy nipple?"

Band name!

"Tonight, for one show only, Itchy Nipple is opening for Pose'in, the ultimate Poison Tribute Band!"


I stumbled across a link to this website, which takes it in a slightly different direction. Here is how to play the game called "Albums That Don't Exist." Yet. Apparently credit goes to something called "rllmuk forum" for creating the concept.

1 - Go to Wikipedia's random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.

3 - Go to Flickr's Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.

4 — Put it all together to make your album. Either crop it to CD cover size, or just use the raw image itself ... the only rule is you're only allowed to add the album title and artist title.

Here's the album I created of a band that doesn't exist. Too bad I didn't randomly receive "itchy nipple" when I clicked on the Wiki article page.