There's Something About Harry

I saw these five finger toe boots on Amazon for the first time.  I hadn’t seen anything like this anywhere before including Vibrams own site.

These are the ladies version, and I don’t even know if they make a pair for men. 

fortunately I’m not hanging out in the snow enough for this to be much of a necessity, but having run in the snow in Treks and KSOs both this year, I could definitely see how these would be very useful. 

Just wanted to share this quick shot of Heather in BC and myself in an Xshot Duel last week or was it the week before at Affiliate Summit.

The original picture was taken by Trisha Lyn of TrishaLyn.com and then XShot put it up as their picture of the month.  I kept thinking that the picture need a caption above Heather’s head referencing Spaceballs, something along the line of Heather saying, “and I see your Schwartz is as big as mine”

I’ve seen a couple painted turtles this year that are as big as dinner plates, and they are getting busy making little turtles.  That said, I have refrained from filming the turtles having sex, unlike this particular video featuring a box turtle getting it on with a shoe.

Maybe I just don’t have the new media chops it takes to be successful on YouTube. 

Bobble Head Deer Alarm Clock

I just wanted to share a quick video of this silly Bobble Head Dear Alarm Clock that was regifted to my father-in-law.  I’m not sure that I have ever seen a more useless example of regifting. 

I love this one, even though I can’t look at the picture for very long.  I received this great viral email tonight.

Some people ask me, “what is a viral email?”

Answer:  Its basically something short of spam that gets sent all over the internet via email to everyone and their brother.  Often it is sent more than once, every 3-5 years even.

The Setup

Washington DC women were recently polled and asked if they would sleep with Bill Clinton.

Approximately 84% of women responded (with a margin of error of 3%) that

They would not sleep with Bill Clinton “Again”

I wonder why that is?

I was never a fan of the former President.  In fact bringing him back to Washington strikes me as something slightly worse and short of using a reverse colon cleanser on our nations capital.  I am positive that the area dry cleaners will be happy to see him return, while the NYC dry cleaners will morn the day he leaves Harlem.

I guess its a good thing that the former President does not reside in a Sharia law state or else they would probably stone him before sun down. . .

That said, these new Bin Laden Burkas are getting a little more sexy.

Batter Up, Its Bill Clinton batting .459 against blue material.  Burtha Bin Laden winds up for the pitch, he hits, he shoots (sports metaphors get twisted) he scores, she’s a legend and Osama Bin Laden Cuts his own throat.

I wanted to see if I could remove the imagery of the movie Reservoir Dogs from the Song Stuck in the Middle with You. I liked the movie a great deal, and the song fits perfectly in the movie. I just wanted to see if I could deconstruct it a bit and build it back together into something else.

So I started with the music video from the band Steal Wheelers that actually made the song in 1972, the year that I was born actually.

I was originally inspired to try and make some statement about the role of social media in medicine inspired by an utter over at Utterz called Healthcare and Social Media It’s Coming Soon.

So I went about trying to come up with a video response for this Utterz comment. I was thinking to myself, that I could just envision what would happen in hospitals and doctors offices when people started wearing video cameras that record everything all the time (they exist, cost $200 and record 4 hours at a time).

So any way as I was getting into the lyrics of the song, it kept moving further and further away from the topic of medicine and its evolution and seemed to go towards politics and the evolution of politics in the US. We are probably actually stagnant in the US with a bit of devolution in politics.

I originally intended to put about 10 images into the video, trying to make a video response statement to Healthcare & Social Media its coming soon, but then the images in number grew and I had about 50 by the end of it.

I liked the end result, although there are a couple images in there of people in hospital waiting rooms in the modern day, in foreign countries and from 100 years ago, that probably don’t fit as well with the evolved theme.

The Steps to Creating a Mashup Video

So I had never put together a real mashup before. I’d taken video from cameras and put together the video with pictures and even put music or a sound track together. But it was typically something of a random slide show.

Downloading a video from YouTube and mashing it into something new was completely foreign to me.

Funny enough I had most of the software I needed as I had written a review and made a clickable mindmap of the software a couple months back, intending to do this then, but running out of time. The problem was that when I installed the software, it went on some obscure directory of my hard drive, and I couldn’t find it again. So I had to go back to my own article and find the software all over again, and try out the ones that I liked until I could download the video, convert the video from .flv to avi and separate the audio from the video, pushing the audio into MP3.

I used AVS Video Converter, which I had previously picked up because it also converts DVDs or mini-dvds (from my camcorder) into digital content that I can edit on my computer. (AVI, MP4, MPEG, MOV, WMV and more). I grabbed the program which does come with a free trial -wrote about that here.

The article with the clickable mindmap has a number of YouTube video download programs on it. The tool for a PC that I found the most useful was VideoGet.

I tried TubeSucker, but it kept dropping the right audio track.

Now when I mixed it all together, I used MovieMaker (free Windows program that comes with XP and Vista). Its easy and free, but a good bit limited on the surface because they keep it easy. I’m actually preparing to upgrade to new software, just hadn’t gotten around to ordering with an educational discount yet.

My wife is a teacher and I have kids in school so I qualify for lots of educational discounts!

I ran into an issue with MovieMaker. I had imported the video in originally in a windows media file format. This enabled me to mix everything in MovieMaker, but prevented me from burning it to a file so that I could publish it online.

AHHHHHHHH! 2 hours of work and I was stuck with a file I couldn’t use.

So I spent about 2 hours trying to fix the file, but that just locked MovieMaker up until it crashed. Ultimately, I had to remake the whole thing from scratch. I knew the final format, so did this and got the video produced in about an hour.

I published it first on Utterz and then on Revver where I can earn a little money whenever someone is interested in clicking on ads from the video. Mainly though I like the final quality of videos on Revver, it seems less grainy than YouTube videos.

The only thing I wish I had done differently is the placement of the image of Sgt Osvaldo Ortiz. It was important for the song to be placed where it was, but the way Revver works, that was the image that shows up when the player is showing but not playing. It makes the video look a little more somber than really is.

In our former article, we mis-spelled the headline writing the word “loose” instead of “lose”.

Bin Laden did not ‘loose’ his member.  He did not set it free nor expose himself, this time, although the tail of Bin Laden and the 1997 Gay Bomb strike is rather funny.

He did lose his member as in lost, gone, hacked off, look what the cat dragged out the door and lost in the wadi.  We do apologize for the mix up in spelling and any visions of Osam Bin Laden terrorizing the world by exposing himself. 

Worst Case of Compensation since Hitler

It can probably be argued that Bin Laden seems to enjoy one of the worst cases of small penis compensation since Hitler, hence his need to do dastardly . . . do.  When you have a piece that is as small as poor Bin Laden’s little larvae, its unfortunate but no surprise that he’d have to compensate by attacking people with passenger jets just to get a chance at 72 virgins in heaven.  Stupid fool doesn’t realize that the 72 virgins will laugh at his little larvae in heaven just as they already do on Earth.

I just received this joke in the mail and thought I’d share.  Hopefully, it doesn’t offend, but if it does, you are probably reading the wrong blog! (Note, Osama, if you come across this, SAYP – Sorry About Your Penis, but you did have it coming to you.)

While trying to escape through Pakistan , Osama Bin Laden found a bottle
on the sand & picked it up.
Suddenly, a female Genie rose from the bottle and with a smile said,
“Master, may I grant you one wish?”
Osama responded, “You ignorant, unworthy Daughter-of-a-dog!
Don’t you know who I am? I don’t need any common woman giving me anything.”
The shocked Genie said, “Please, I must grant you a wish or I will
be returned to that bottle forever.”
Osama thought a moment, then grumbled about the impertinence of the
woman and said, “Very well, I want to awaken with three American
women in my bed in the morning. So just do it and be
off with you.”
The annoyed Genie said, “So be it!” and disappeared.
The next morning Bin Laden woke up in bed with Lorena Bobbitt, Tonya
Harding, and Hillary Clinton at his side.
His penis was gone, his knees were broken, and he had no health insurance.

For those of you that are not familiar with my book review blog over at Story Addicts, I write book reviews.  They are full of spoilers and not intended to convince anyone to buy a book, but to discuss the books.

I just finished reading Janet Evanovich’s latest Stephanie Plum book, Lean Mean Thirteen (via Audible and it was unabridged) and I thought it was one of her best since maybe the 4-6 books.  I was laughing out loud several times.

You know a book is funny when you have to hold the laughter in while you are in bed with a reading light on so that you don’t wake up your wife.

I’ve been reading a few other books too, but I haven’t gotten around to putting the latest reviews together.

I will, just not quite there yet.