Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Off week
Penguin Bravado is on a week hiatus so I can spend due time on my political blog (Beyond the Nation). We'll be back with a new review on Monday.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Friday Declaration
On this Friday, October 31st, 2008 I declare the following:
People that park their cars on top of parking space lines or horizontally over 2-3 spaces don't actually want you to avoid their car, but instead welcome you to join them in the sense of non-comformity. Make sure to park your car as close to theirs as possible, and heed not the parking lines. They didn't after all.
Have a good weekend!
People that park their cars on top of parking space lines or horizontally over 2-3 spaces don't actually want you to avoid their car, but instead welcome you to join them in the sense of non-comformity. Make sure to park your car as close to theirs as possible, and heed not the parking lines. They didn't after all.
Have a good weekend!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Thursday YouTube Commentary
In case you missed it, the Philadelphia Phillies won the delayed Game 5 to take the World Series victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. Let's see what the YouTube community has to say!
This video got a bit of a conversation going. It started with "djrfn 1":
phillies dont deserve to be CHAMPIONS. The game on monday should of never started. i would of done it differently then the mlb camish did. the camish is a fuckin retard. he should be fired.
"curtdaboss15" took exception to this statement and responded in kind:
u just mad that ya bum ass team lost djrfn1
That, of course, didn't sit well and a conversation began:
djrfn 1: phillies SUCK. YANKEES #1 thats right most world seires win in the mlb.
curtdaboss15: but is they champs
djrfn 1: a lot more then the phillies will ever be
curtdaboss15: the yankees sum bitches the phillies is what is is right now and you mad cuse they not better than the phillies
curtdaboss15: phillies all day fuck the yankees
Yes, after what seems to have been less than an hour, curtdaboss15 got tired of waiting for a retort and threw out a classy wish to the Yankees to end the thread.
"jalcaraz1" seemed to take great offense with the situation, and let everyone know just what he was planning on doing about it:
Phillies should loose the world series just on the basis of having shitty weather. I will organize petition MLB that from now on every game world series should be played by the best teams in MLB which are Dodgers and Angels. Luck should not be a free ticket to the world series anymore.
Three guesses on what city this guy lives in. So yes, despite how teams actually perform, the Dodgers and the Angels should be in the World Series every year. I think everyone should sign that petition should he get it going.
DuoTpia4, who actually posted the video, left this comment to no one really in particular:
I hate to break your shoes, but the curse will be completely removed, when the Flyers, Eagles, and Sixers all win chamoinships
I don't really know what "break your shoes" means, but I somehow am doubting that all three Philly teams are taking home championships. Thanks for playing, though.
A different Yankees comment got curtdaboss15 going again, but when he badly misspelled a sentence, he tossed out this gem:
see fag look what you got me doing got me so pissed im misspelling yeah fuckin fag
Never mind his earlier conversation. He did finish off classy (thus far) with another call for Philadelphia sports supremacy:
yeah i think we just need to clean it up a bit and the sixers,eagles,and the flyers winnin the champ phillie takin over
Taking over what is anyone's guess.
Finally, through all the Philly-loving/bashing, Tampa bashing and Yankee loving (weird), the most recent comment actually had nothing to do with baseball:
do you want it.....do you need it....let me hear it!
saliva's awesome!
Very relevant. Glad you took the time to share.
This video got a bit of a conversation going. It started with "djrfn 1":
phillies dont deserve to be CHAMPIONS. The game on monday should of never started. i would of done it differently then the mlb camish did. the camish is a fuckin retard. he should be fired.
"curtdaboss15" took exception to this statement and responded in kind:
u just mad that ya bum ass team lost djrfn1
That, of course, didn't sit well and a conversation began:
djrfn 1: phillies SUCK. YANKEES #1 thats right most world seires win in the mlb.
curtdaboss15: but is they champs
djrfn 1: a lot more then the phillies will ever be
curtdaboss15: the yankees sum bitches the phillies is what is is right now and you mad cuse they not better than the phillies
curtdaboss15: phillies all day fuck the yankees
Yes, after what seems to have been less than an hour, curtdaboss15 got tired of waiting for a retort and threw out a classy wish to the Yankees to end the thread.
"jalcaraz1" seemed to take great offense with the situation, and let everyone know just what he was planning on doing about it:
Phillies should loose the world series just on the basis of having shitty weather. I will organize petition MLB that from now on every game world series should be played by the best teams in MLB which are Dodgers and Angels. Luck should not be a free ticket to the world series anymore.
Three guesses on what city this guy lives in. So yes, despite how teams actually perform, the Dodgers and the Angels should be in the World Series every year. I think everyone should sign that petition should he get it going.
DuoTpia4, who actually posted the video, left this comment to no one really in particular:
I hate to break your shoes, but the curse will be completely removed, when the Flyers, Eagles, and Sixers all win chamoinships
I don't really know what "break your shoes" means, but I somehow am doubting that all three Philly teams are taking home championships. Thanks for playing, though.
A different Yankees comment got curtdaboss15 going again, but when he badly misspelled a sentence, he tossed out this gem:
see fag look what you got me doing got me so pissed im misspelling yeah fuckin fag
Never mind his earlier conversation. He did finish off classy (thus far) with another call for Philadelphia sports supremacy:
yeah i think we just need to clean it up a bit and the sixers,eagles,and the flyers winnin the champ phillie takin over
Taking over what is anyone's guess.
Finally, through all the Philly-loving/bashing, Tampa bashing and Yankee loving (weird), the most recent comment actually had nothing to do with baseball:
do you want it.....do you need it....let me hear it!
saliva's awesome!
Very relevant. Glad you took the time to share.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tuesday 10 Minutes
I would like to say that I had a ton to do which blocked my brain from picking something to do for ten minutes, but in all actuality, I just couldn't think of anything I wanted to do, so finally I ran a Google search for 'killing time' and settled on online sudoku.
There's a difference between the excellent program run by DKM Software and the small LabPixies gadget that you can add to your iGoogle page (after you add Penguin Bravado to your Google reader, of course). I spent five minutes with each, going after an easy puzzle - because I like to win. Shut up.
DKM's has helpful features that you might take for granted while using a handy Walgreen's sudoku book - such as a pencil feature that lets you jot down all possibilities for a square - where the iGoogle gadget allows you to stare...and stare...and stare some more. Can it be solved without? Of course it can - except for a tricky little bit that comes along with the gadget.
On both settings, there are four difficulty settings. With DKM, the easiest setting gives a large amount of numbers, and the elimination principal is fairly simple. When I ran easy on the gadget, I found myself still stumped with few numbers - and I quickly learned that I would need more than five minutes to figure my way through it. After all, I didn't even have the pencil tool to jot my possible answers down.
So take this knowledge and go waste time at work. You're welcome.
There's a difference between the excellent program run by DKM Software and the small LabPixies gadget that you can add to your iGoogle page (after you add Penguin Bravado to your Google reader, of course). I spent five minutes with each, going after an easy puzzle - because I like to win. Shut up.
DKM's has helpful features that you might take for granted while using a handy Walgreen's sudoku book - such as a pencil feature that lets you jot down all possibilities for a square - where the iGoogle gadget allows you to stare...and stare...and stare some more. Can it be solved without? Of course it can - except for a tricky little bit that comes along with the gadget.
On both settings, there are four difficulty settings. With DKM, the easiest setting gives a large amount of numbers, and the elimination principal is fairly simple. When I ran easy on the gadget, I found myself still stumped with few numbers - and I quickly learned that I would need more than five minutes to figure my way through it. After all, I didn't even have the pencil tool to jot my possible answers down.
So take this knowledge and go waste time at work. You're welcome.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday Review
It's Monday, and that means it's time to review something - anything. This week, we take a look at nature's little joke, the platypus.
If you're not a fan of the written words, then take the time to enjoy this 7 minute video. I will warn you - it's adorable.
However, this (or the 35 seconds of the video that I watched) cannot give me a scored review fit for the Internet, so I'm going to use the greatest resource on platypi the Internet has to offer. Yes, of course it's Wikipedia.
The platypus weighs 1.5 to 5.3 pounds and can be 17 to 20 inches long. That doesn't make them very menacing, but does give points to huggability. Watch out, however, because the male platypus is actually venomous, producing it from a spur of the ankle. The venom is not lethal to humans, but is excruciating, returning points in menace. The huggability factor stays up, however, because the females can still be hugged without said fears. The only other thing I'm going to say that's not made up is that the platypus has a sense of electroreception, which sense electric pulses caused by muscle contractions. That's super-heroish, and that gives points.
As cute as the platypus is, however, you cannot deny that the thing is simply ridiculous looking. This comes off as both a positive and a negative, as it loses points for appearance (a sleek-looking critter like the cheetah scores high here), but does give a huge boost to humor. You can't help but laugh as you see one waddling around. The platypus is also a good swimmer, which might score at least a bronze in the mammal competition should the animal kingdom finally get around to holding its own Olympics. You'd think that the senses, venom and Olympic prowess would give points to cool and bad ass, but it still is quite ridiculous. A dork who's good at baseball is still a dork.
The last thing to factor in before giving the final score is that the platypus is one of the only mammals that reproduces by laying eggs. You'd think that would take points in the valued 'birth creepiness' category, but have you ever seen a live birth? Eggs are a plus, though not as many because it's still odd to see a mammal lay eggs.
So how does the platypus do? Let's total up the points.
POINT TOTALS
Appearance: -100
Menace: +6
Huggability: +33
Coolness: -20
Humor: +369
Birth Creepiness: +10
Superhero-like Abilities: +29
Bad ass: -20
Olympic Eligibility: +32
FINAL PENGUIN BRAVADO SCORE: 339
If you're not a fan of the written words, then take the time to enjoy this 7 minute video. I will warn you - it's adorable.
However, this (or the 35 seconds of the video that I watched) cannot give me a scored review fit for the Internet, so I'm going to use the greatest resource on platypi the Internet has to offer. Yes, of course it's Wikipedia.
The platypus weighs 1.5 to 5.3 pounds and can be 17 to 20 inches long. That doesn't make them very menacing, but does give points to huggability. Watch out, however, because the male platypus is actually venomous, producing it from a spur of the ankle. The venom is not lethal to humans, but is excruciating, returning points in menace. The huggability factor stays up, however, because the females can still be hugged without said fears. The only other thing I'm going to say that's not made up is that the platypus has a sense of electroreception, which sense electric pulses caused by muscle contractions. That's super-heroish, and that gives points.
As cute as the platypus is, however, you cannot deny that the thing is simply ridiculous looking. This comes off as both a positive and a negative, as it loses points for appearance (a sleek-looking critter like the cheetah scores high here), but does give a huge boost to humor. You can't help but laugh as you see one waddling around. The platypus is also a good swimmer, which might score at least a bronze in the mammal competition should the animal kingdom finally get around to holding its own Olympics. You'd think that the senses, venom and Olympic prowess would give points to cool and bad ass, but it still is quite ridiculous. A dork who's good at baseball is still a dork.
The last thing to factor in before giving the final score is that the platypus is one of the only mammals that reproduces by laying eggs. You'd think that would take points in the valued 'birth creepiness' category, but have you ever seen a live birth? Eggs are a plus, though not as many because it's still odd to see a mammal lay eggs.
So how does the platypus do? Let's total up the points.
POINT TOTALS
Appearance: -100
Menace: +6
Huggability: +33
Coolness: -20
Humor: +369
Birth Creepiness: +10
Superhero-like Abilities: +29
Bad ass: -20
Olympic Eligibility: +32
FINAL PENGUIN BRAVADO SCORE: 339
Friday, October 24, 2008
Penguin Bravado!
It's an odd world out there. However, some people are too focused on trying to be important to let their hair down and try to have a little bit of fun once in a while. Not everything needs rhyme or reason, my friends. And hence, we have Penguin Bravado: a formulaic blog in which will be written things that never really needed to be written.
Monday - Review
A lot of bloggers enjoy reviewing whatever they can find, so I may as well jump on that boat. I'm going to review anything I find. It could be a movie, it could be a mailbox. I don't discriminate. I will find it, judge it for its flaws and grade it on the PB scale.
Tuesday - 10 Minutes
I came up with the idea of playing an old NES game for 10 minutes and see what I got out of the experience, so I'm going with it. While video games are the easiest things to do this with, I might watch 10 minutes of an episode of Lost and see what I get out of it. Who knows?
Wednesday - 300 Words of History
There have been many important events in history, but people don't have the time to sit and read about them. I'm going to try to sum up history in 300 words a week...or cut it off there.
Thursday - YouTube Commentary
Never has there been a more creative forum for opinions than from YouTube comments. Each week I'll pick a topic and find what the anonymous people of the Internet have to say about it.
Friday - Declaration
Exactly what it sounds like. Every Friday there will be a Penguin Bravado declaration, and that will make it binding. Beware.
Monday - Review
A lot of bloggers enjoy reviewing whatever they can find, so I may as well jump on that boat. I'm going to review anything I find. It could be a movie, it could be a mailbox. I don't discriminate. I will find it, judge it for its flaws and grade it on the PB scale.
Tuesday - 10 Minutes
I came up with the idea of playing an old NES game for 10 minutes and see what I got out of the experience, so I'm going with it. While video games are the easiest things to do this with, I might watch 10 minutes of an episode of Lost and see what I get out of it. Who knows?
Wednesday - 300 Words of History
There have been many important events in history, but people don't have the time to sit and read about them. I'm going to try to sum up history in 300 words a week...or cut it off there.
Thursday - YouTube Commentary
Never has there been a more creative forum for opinions than from YouTube comments. Each week I'll pick a topic and find what the anonymous people of the Internet have to say about it.
Friday - Declaration
Exactly what it sounds like. Every Friday there will be a Penguin Bravado declaration, and that will make it binding. Beware.
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