Online Bubble Wrap

May 12th, 2008
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
What is it about bubble wrap that reduces us all to 7 year-olds?

Here’s the Internet version. Nice and simple. And a “manic” mode for the OCD kids.

The Emergency Party Button

May 8th, 2008
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
Best idea I’ve seen in a while. Press the button and the party begins. This $634 do-it-yourself project includes the strobe, laser, fog machine, button, electronics, and blacklight but leaves out the $.99 for "Haddaway’s "What is Love" at iTunes. But you can substitute Salt and Pepa’s "Push It", Darude’s "Sandstorm" or whatever song you want to kick things off with. Want to add some pyrotechnics?  Perhaps a pole that drops from the ceiling? Go for it. That’s the beauty of a do-it-yourself project. And don’t worry about your roomate throwing parties without you.  The plans include a keyed lock.

Check out the (highly entertaining) video!

ThisNext.com lets you watch people shop in real time.

May 7th, 2008
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
Here’s a cool find. Thisnext.com lets you explore product recommendations, share/talk about products you recommend, and watch what other people are shopping for in a real-time basis. It’s basically a shopping community site, which means there is a heavy focus on girly items. I really like the implementation of their map page showing what people on the site are looking at.

One year later

May 7th, 2008
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Here I am, exactly one year later. I have not been spending enough time with you, blog. Time to remedy that.

Hello blog, I’ve missed you

May 7th, 2007
Posted by Travoli in General Comments

I’ve been slacking. I have 39 links in the “blog” folder of my IE Explorer favorites list waiting to be posted. Getting sidetracked right now… I’ll write more next year.

Happy Holidays

December 19th, 2006
Posted by Travoli in General Comments

Holy Holidays! I’ve been busy. The blog has been sitting stagnant. I’ll try to get something up soon.

Streaming Movies

December 6th, 2006
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
Want to watch a movie or two at work? DailyMotionMovieVids.com has a bunch of links to movie posts. I tried a few of the links and they seemed to work. I assume that these links are taken down pretty frequently. Anyway, Check it out if you have some time to kill. I never knew there was an Airwolf movie.

Update: Dang… offline now.

Top Gun: A Requiem for Goose by TeamTigerAwesome.com

December 6th, 2006
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
The kids over at teamtigerawesome.com had some fun turning Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose into an old style black and white moving picture short. The written dialogue is great. My favorite lines: "Chomped"
"So I ask of You. Who among you wish to fornicate with immortality?"
"The Jester didn’t have a flapper’s chance against us Protestants!"
"Horsefeathers!  Are you a man or a dixiecrat?"

Also check out their version of Die Hard: The Ballad of John McLane.

Peter Callesen - Art with a Sheet of Paper

December 1st, 2006
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
Imagination and a single sheet of paper are all Peter Callesen needs to create some inspiring artwork. Check out this page and also Peter’s homepage.

Man Laws and Alcohol Abuse

November 30th, 2006
Posted by Travoli in General Comments
This Thanksgiving weekend a series of unfortunate events occured at Hell’s Kitchen. My beer was purposely hit by unnamed friend, causing it to overflow. Unnamed friend decided to do this again several minutes later on a fresh beer. The hit knocked the beer out of my hands and to the floor, spilling 75% of its contents. This was unacceptable. Unnamed friend was the most sober of the group. He should have known better. I gave him a choice: Finish the remainder of the beer, or have it poured over his head. Unnamed friend then commanded me to finish my beer and said I wouldn’t dare pour it over his head. Strategic error, I’m afraid. If he was the most sober of the group, I was the least sober. And two of my beers were now wasted. I gave him the options two more times, with the same reply commanding me to finish my beer. I was left no choice but to pour it over his head.

There was an initial anger period, but I believe we worked it out last night. We each explained our views, mine backed by this recent Miller Lite commercial titled "Man Law Overflow." Not cool to spill another man’s beer for fun. It was brought up that I had also wasted beer.  But my action was in retailation. Unnamed friend maintains that if another beer is spilled on his head, he’ll be swinging at the pourer. I believe a "don’t waste beer" truce has been established to everyones’ benefit. Fair enough. I don’t instigate these things.  But when pushed I will retaliate with equal measure.  Fair warning.

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