Digging Trees in the Spud State November 14, 2009
Posted by Retired Geezer in Crime, Man Laws.trackback
Dang, I haven’t posted in months yet Michael pressured me.
Eddiebear posted a video of a hot girl in a hot chair.
I can’t top that so I’ll go with the bucolic rural shtick.
I’m positive that Dave in Texas could hurt himself and others with this machine.
done
That’s my buddy, Big Ron. He’s 7′ tall. His Tree Spade is pretty scary.
The stupid horses killed a tree at Camp Geezer so he came over to dig it up.
Hope y’all like the music mashup by DJ Earworm.
How many groups can you pick out of this song?
The music is entirely Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” with samples layered on top like “into the future” (Steve Miller Band) and “she’s a lady” (originally, Tom Jones, but that’s not his voice) and “Mama” (Queen, I think).
Isn’t that Bowie/Metheny with This is Not America at the outset?
I love watching shit like that work. Bigger and louder the better. Just a big kid I guess.
I heard the Steely Dan riff and sorta tuned out the music from there. I got stuck on the mechanical aspect of watching that thing work.
Nifty machine.
Your horses are going to lose their self respect RG. You should have let them finish the job.
Michael, Geoff and Grumpy got most of them:
* Under the Influence of Giants – Mama’s Room
* Steely Dan – Do it Again
* Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
* David Bowie & the Pat Metheny Group – This is not America
* Steve Miller Band – Fly Like an Eagle
* Common – Go
I don’t like all his mashups but he does some interesting videos also at DJEarworm.com
His Tree Spade is pretty scary.
That’s what she said.
This is the best post ever.
Good heavens, Wisconsin slaughtered Michigan. That just ain’t right. Looks like another season with Michigan not even bowl eligible, with two ranked teams (Ohio State and Iowa) left on the schedule.
UT eased up on Baylor in the second half. They have really hit their stride this year. A&M will be amped but it won’t matter.
As much as I love what TCU is doing this year, I’d hate to see it come down to UT and TCU for 3rd.
Another appropriate tune for this video:
Threadjack alert: if I buy a new 128mb video card, can I just plug it in and play? Do I have to download drivers?
I need a tech butler.
I need a yard butler.
Raise your hand if you are going to Vegas, baby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vPsrY3GDs
Re: DJ Earworm
Now I need me an hour of mashups (a la SIXXMIXX). Mashups are like Pringles, you just can’t sit in front of a computer for 2 hours downloading stuff…oh, never mind
Re: Video Cards
Depending on OS, either it will just work (and work even betterer with new drivers), or it won’t work at all. Whatever TFM says that you are supposed to R will tell you what you need to do. The best advice I can give you that may not be in the aforementioned FM is that you should leave the plug in on your computer, then touch something metal on the inside. Static discharging is your friend.
Kevl, Mr. L says that if the video card is new, it should have the drivers included in it.
Also, if the video card is old, your computer should already have the drivers you need.
Raise your hand if you are going to Vegas, baby.
*sorta raises hand*
Depends on work, but this actually sounds like a good idea.
I’m considering it… heck, if I could drive 700 miles to see Lipstick, Sobek and Enas, there’s no telling how low I’ll stoop.
Just kidding, THEY were the high points of the trip. The low point was Cook E. Jarr. Seriously, he USED to be awesome.
Oh, and BTW, I pure hate Russ for coming up with a better soundtrack than I did.
I just floated Vegas in April past Mrs. Pupster. She didn’t flinch, much.
One good thing about living in Vegas is that everybody comes to you.
Pups, loved the clip. Mr. L hasn’t seen that movie, so now it’s in the queue.
Oh hell I’m going. Wouldn’t miss it
The FIVE POOLS ARE HERE?!!?
Love that movie.
Soundtrack is all covers of Elvis tunes.
http://tinyurl.com/yf6atye
Not better, RG. Just different.
And am I right to assume that “going to Vegas” is shorthand for “going to AceFest 2010″? Depending on the date, I’d love to go. It’ll be hard making time for this during harvest season, but I’m going to make an effort anyway.
I’ll probably go just to meet Enas. Have not met him yet, but I like him. Enas strikes me as somebody worth meeting.
Oh hell I’m going. Wouldn’t miss it
Dave, there are substantial bodies of water in Vegas, which may look to you like an enchanted Atlantic Ocean. The huge pools which are home to the fountains at the Bellagio, for example.
Stay back. Do not approach the shoreline. Too many people are willing to push you (including me). Protect your 3G iPhone.
I’ll also go to Vegas just to show Lipstick that the Black Ice Zippo Lighter she gave me is suitably scuffed up, because I actually use it every day.
That lighter works great in the windy concrete canyons of downtown Dallas, when some shitty little Bic lighter will not work.
Yeah, we’re not having a great year. UH is, though. They definitely deserve to get in a bowl game. A good one, not the Gallery Furniture one.
I will go to the Vegas meetup if it works with my schedule. We don’t have a date yet.
a date for the Moron Con, of course I mean
Bad day for UH. Still, it is always fun when a small school like that has a great year, gets ranked, and becomes a bowl contender.
That’s why college football is more fun than the pros.
^
I mean, college football is more fun unless some cheesehead Calvinist sodomites from Wisconsin are beating Michigan, in which case, it is not fun.
Houston.., hell I’m not done hating those pukes from when we let em in the SWC.
Hey, IB is perilously close to 3,000,000 views!
I’ll probably go just to meet Enas.
That’s well worth the trip, right there.
Lipstick and I got to meet him but he had to leave before Sobek arrived.
I met him the next day for lunch.
I’m sure he’d be willing to help push Dave in the Bellagio Fountains.
Is that place that rents machine guns still in business?
What? You thought I was going to bring a car full of MY OWN weapons to Vegas? Do I look like Hunter S. Thompson? Wait….don’t answer that.
Hey, IB is perilously close to 3,000,000 views!
2,000,000 of them showed up to look at Amsterdam hookers and a shark. It’s a very small site.
Except for Geoff’s chart. That has made a difference, I think.
Today, I spent $29.97 with WordPress to subscribe to 5mb of storage for IB for the next year.
That means, no lunch for me next week.
Geoff’s chart makes that worthwhile.
*Geezer chuckles to himself that part of the storage was for a video about a Frickin’ Tree Spade.
Is that place that rents machine guns still in business?
Yep, that’s the Gun Store on Tropicana.
Tell my buddy Tony (Spaghetti Slim) hello for me.
Is that place that rents machine guns still in business?
The Gun Store on Tropicana is still in business, as is American Shooters. Both reasonably close to the strip, but both suffering from an ammo shortage.
Ha, Geezer beat me to it!
I wanna go so I can correct any bad shooting habits Mrs. Peel may have picked up from Dave.
I went to the Gun Store with Lips. She showed me the ropes up in there. I don’t recall any Slim Spaghetti tho – he might have seen our intimidating approach and hid in the back.
Shhhhh! Don’t tell anybody but I have photos of KC and Lipstick at the shootin’ range!
http://tinyurl.com/yfnxy4x
Hahahahaha!
Nailed it Brew, very nice.
HAH Brew. That is NOT my belly button.
That is NOT my belly button.
That ain’t my finger either!!
argh, I’m so tired of people spouting disproven lies like “no connection b/w Saddam and al-Qaeda.” Maybe Saddam didn’t help fund 9/11 specifically, but he definitely offered safe haven and help with training to al-Qaeda in general.
Yep. Salman Pak was actually an amusement park for kids with special needs.
In other news, I am still furious over what we did to Honduras. When did it suddenly become ok to interfere with other countries’ free and lawful elections? I hate to say these five words, but Ann Coulter has a point: if you want to know what lefties are doing, check out what they’re accusing us of.
I guess it came out all right in the end, but I’m still really mad. That was a completely inappropriate use of our power. Fuckers.
Salman Pak had that neato “hijack an airliner” ride too.
You must be this tall to cut throats.
New sign at Salman Pak:
http://www.bannister.org/coasters/trips/2003/0606fc2.jpg
Old sign at Salman Pak:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Oi_NRL0S0v4/SLWVwf_9DiI/AAAAAAAAAVY/o745wt-MGtE/s400/Silverwood%2BCoaster%2BSign.jpg
Random historical factizoid: Oldest Amusement Park in the United States is in CT, not far from my business.
SIGH that futhermuckin’ bam spucket.
Random historical factizoid: Oldest Amusement Park in the United States is in CT, not far from my business.
Is that the one with the slip-off-the-rocks-into-the-harbor ride?
*glares at harrison*
Wha?
Ha ha haha ahahaha.
Ooooo you can’t fuck with me. Baby will cut ya.
O/T
Saw this at Calculated Risk:
Stunning admission that all the original criticisms of the stimulus were on the mark. Even taking only a third of the package (since most of the money went to things like Medicare and unemployment benefits), we should have been able to get more bang for the buck than we did.
And Krugman pretty much tacitly admitted it.
Anybody know the score of the Packers-Cowboys game? How about the Wisconsin-Michigan game yesterday?
*giggle*
Bucks are headed to the rose bowl. Tress wants to give the fans all heart attacks, but any day teh OSU wins and meatchicken gets spanked is a good day indeed. I would love to go to Vegas to meet some of the old Ace regulars and as many IBers as attend (if only to prove I’m not spurwing’s retarded second-cousin). Ace’s comments site has become like an online dating and flirting chat room. I don’t get it. Thanks for the post RG.
I’m really going to plan on attending the Vegas Vestal Virgin meetup.
I just put 5 things on Craigslist… 4 of them were Trailers.
Dang, I got a bunch of
crapextra equipment here at Camp Geezer.If Ace does this thing in Vegas after I already moved out, I’ll be unhappy.
I wish Ace et al. would decide on a date…I want to know if I can make it. I already have plans for most of March, so if he’s thinking spring, I might not be able to.
Well, if Ace has an idea of hanging by the pool, March is too early. It gets cold here and by March it might be temperate, but it sure isn’t pool weather.
I think they were saying April.
I don’t think I’ll have my bikini body ready by March.
Sometime in April.
April will be difficult because I’ll have two classes next semester, but doable…