Tag Archives: Burst of Weirdness

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: OK, this thing is already viral, so you’ve almost certainly seen it. But if you haven’t, witness one of the finer acts of marriage proposing in a long time. It’s thirty-one years since I last … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound!!! :: We all know that Aaron Sorkin’s scripts are basically the same script with the names and settings filed off and replaced with new ones, so it stands to reason that his commencement speeches should be … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: An acquaintance from the Twitterverse alerted me to the existence of this: Wow. :: This map shows what the wind is doing. All over the continental United States. And it’s zoomable! :: For lack of … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: In writing yesterday’s A-to-Z post, I did a bit of looking up on stuff for the Colossal Cave game, and I found this map of the game. Great stuff (spoilers, if you’re playing or have … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! ::  This is different. (via) ::  George Takei turned 75. That’s it. I had a slow week, Interweb wise.

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: This is neither odd nor awesome, actually, but it always amuses me when Star Wars fans write 1000+ word missives about why they just don’t care anymore. If they didn’t care, they wouldn’t write the … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Major highlights in the history of Space Opera. I can quibble about some of these, but it’s a cool little summation of my favorite genre-within-a-genre. :: Apparently there are characters in The Hunger Games (the … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound! :: Here in Buffalo, the newest thing going are the food trucks: restaurants on wheels that set up camp on a street someplace downtown and sell food. The trucks are pretty popular, but being Buffalo, we … Continue reading →

Oddities and Awesome abound!!! :: I’ve seen this in a lot of places, but Jedediah gets the credit. A bunch of these videos have shown up in the last year or two, but this one’s got amazing sound, so turn … Continue reading →