Genius Of The Week - 18

Each week Almost weekly At least once a month I will choose something and it will be your task to guess what it is. The person with the correct guess will get their name and link (if applicable) put under the title "Genius Of The Week" in my sidebar for the remainder of that week (or until I get around to removing it). As the week progresses I will add clues to the GOTW post until someone guesses it.

Please don't search on the clues.  It's just too much work for me trying to make the searches hard.  Hopefully this will make it more fun too without me having to make the clues obscure.

GOTW #18 is live and the clues are:

1 - severe weather


**** Sorry, this game has been put on hold as I am unsure that I will be able to moderate additional clues over the next few days. 

Well, I'm sorry to say that now that I can attend to this I no longer remember the answer.  I'll try to start this anew on Sunday.

Random Crap

More lazy posting.

Cannibal

My mind hasn't been on blogging much lately.  In the mean time, lookit this jack-o-lantern I carved this past Halloween.

Hibernation

I think I'd like to give this a try.

And the votes are in

I decided to go back and review my last 6 months worth of postings and tally the votes from the little thinger at the bottom of each post.

Interesting: 9
Sucks: 0
FU Maelstrom! FU FU FU!!!: 6

It seems that most of the FU votes are related to GOTW puzzles.  This is fine.  But what was most intriguing was that someone voted that it was interesting when I reported that it seemed that one of my coworkers pubic hairs must be falling out.

Finger Dip

Are you tired of the pain in the ass of eating with utensils? You need FINGER DIP!

excerpt of designer's own words:

The act of eating and its nature are one of man’s a prime needs. Our hands, sensually evoking a wild return to our origins, are the best instruments for feeding ourselves leading to the satisfaction of our animal impulses. . . Finger-Dip is hygienic, for single-use and fun!


Even more info on the entry over at designboom! : http://www.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=21&item_pk=20389&p=1 

Imagine finding a few of these on a coworker's desk.

Super Powers - 4

More super powers rated by me.

Psychokinesis (4) - Basically this is just like using the Force, which is bad ass.  Why is it not rated a 5 then?  Because why would I ever get off my ass when I could just make something float to my hand.  Sports? LOL, I would just make the ball/puck/whatever shoot right into the goal every time without even moving my feet.  Psychokinesis is the recipe for laziness and obesity.

Invisibility (3) - Not bad as far as super powers go, but there seems to be some contention as to whether the person's clothing also goes invisible with them, here we'll assume that they do not.  It may not be that big a deal to run around naked as long as you're invisible but this isn't a super power you can use without some amount of planning.  It also has some substantial drawbacks.

• You have to have time to remove your clothing and stash it some place so that you can get back to it later.
• You still have to open/close doors and use standard modes of transportation to get places.
• Footprints where it is not clean and dry.
  
• Things like smoke and steam(women's shower room for example) would produce evidence of your presence.
• You still make noise (footsteps, sneezes, farts, etc).

Hahaha, invisible farts, would anything be more fun than that?


Teleportation (5) - Top tier super power.  It's generally assumed that A: You can teleport to any place you can see or that you've been before.  And B: You can teleport stuff along with you, including other people.  So, take the normal route to any place once and then teleport there and back as you wish.  You can't be captured or forced to do anything because nothing can hold you.  Seriously, I don't think there are any significant down sides to this power except for the possibility of accidentally teleporting inside another solid object.


X-Ray Vision (2) - Only a 2?  Yes.  Have you ever looked at an x-ray?  They suck.  You wouldn't even be able to peek under someone's clothes like Superman does.  You'd really just see through clothes, and the skin, and get to check out their sexy bones - boring* **.  Plus you're lighting people up with hazardous radiation you ass.

Read other Super Powers posts by clicking on the "What If?" label below.

*Unless you're a doctor.  
**Or a bank teller.  Crook: "Give me your cash, I have a gun in my pocket!"  Teller: "lol, no you don't, and now you're sterile."

Sith Eyes

Okay, here's me with the costume contacts from late last week.

Genius Of The Week - 17

Each week Almost weekly At least once a month I will choose something and it will be your task to guess what it is. The person with the correct guess will get their name and link (if applicable) put under the title "Genius Of The Week" in my sidebar for the remainder of that week (or until I get around to removing it). As the week progresses I will add clues to the GOTW post until someone guesses it.

Please don't search on the clues.  It's just too much work for me trying to make the searches hard.  Hopefully this will make it more fun too without me having to make the clues obscure.

In an effort to increase the challenge of this week's puzzle, the clues will be more obscure than normal.

GOTW #17 is closed and the clues were:

1 -
2 -
3 -

Sorry, no winners this week!  The answer was:  Pancakes

Super Powers - 3

More super powers rated 1-5.

Heat Vision (4) - Never drink cold coffee again.  So many time's in traffic it would be nice to use some heat vision and pop the tires of some jerk so that they have to pull over.  Seriously though, this is one super power you don't want to have any accidents with.  Like straining to see that tiny splinter in your finger or checking out that hot girl the wrong way would.. hahahaha, PUN!

Super Fast Healing (5) - Yeah, that's not the only thing that makes Wolverine a badass, but it sure helps.  Just think of what you could do if you had little regard for your own bodily harm.  Like if you were making dinner and suddenly, "OW FUCK!  Stupid cheese grater!!"  But then after a few seconds it would be okay, so you wouldn't have to destroy the cheese grater in a fit of rage and throw it in the trash.

Stopping Time (5) - This one is awesome.  I imagine* this one in traffic all the time.  Some examples are stopping time and then

• Shoving the cigarette butt up the nose of the person that just flicked it out their window and almost IN to mine
  
• Turning someone's steering wheel so that they fly off of the road
• Setting their newspaper/magazine that they are reading as they drive on fire
• Changing the text message that they're thumbing in as they drive with their knees at 30mph in a 45mph zone to something awesome(this is a relative term) for them and sending it
  

Of course, someone less scrupulous than myself might use this power for things such as

• Tripping that running back that is running all through your teams D
• Untying bikini strings at the pool/beach
• EVERY exam would be "open book"
  
• And helping out the tired looking Wells Fargo man by lightening his bags

Read other Super Powers posts by clicking on the "What If?" label below.
 
*My imagination never includes the possibility that you may keep aging while time is stopped for everyone else. So don't mention that or I'll burn your nuts with my heat vision.

Time to get some exercise!

Lately I've been thinking I should try to get more exercise, plus a lot of people are saying we should reduce pollution and all that.  By giving up driving everywhere I can get some cardio up, save on gasoline, and reduce pollutants.  So to get around town and solve both issues, here's what I've been considering:

Razor Electric scooter or Electric powered bicycles - iZip Electric Bike

I can't wait for my new athletic physique.  And I'm ready to buy a stairmaster for home as soon as they make one that simulates walking down some steps, rather than walking up.

Genius Of The Week - 16

Each week Almost weekly At least once a month I will choose something and it will be your task to guess what it is. The person with the correct guess will get their name and link (if applicable) put under the title "Genius Of The Week" in my sidebar for the remainder of that week (or until I get around to removing it). As the week progresses I will add clues to the GOTW post until someone guesses it.

Please don't search on the clues.  It's just too much work for me trying to make the searches hard.  Hopefully this will make it more fun too without me having to make the clues obscure.


GOTW #16 is closed and the clues were:

1 - carrot
2 - apple

@eloh wins! The answer is:  Types of cakes

Look, geniuses or not, I'm not fond of my puzzles getting guessed in 1 day.  Don't make me have to come up with things like "the ignition temperature of thermite" (nevermind, EGE would get that one), or "physicochemical properties of an alkaloid", or "the number of times a year I clip my toenails".  Really, I'm warning you.

Halloween is coming

And for once I will wear a costume on a few occasions this season.  I've decided to go as a Sith.  I'm not getting the full outfit because it just costs too much, but I'm getting a robe, one of my kid's light sabers, and some costume contact lenses.

I shopped around, found a reputable site and made my selection.  The contacts I really wanted were $215 per lens.  I did not get these.  I got ones that were much cheaper and so "close enough".  I normally wear contacts so I needed to get ones with my prescription, because Sith that wear glasses are just not as scary.  To do this I had to provide my prescription information along with contact information for my eye doctor's office so they could verify it.  After 1 day I got the following reply:


Under the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers act, we are required to let you know that we did not hear back from your eye care practitioner's office when we tried to confirm your prescription. 

Damn, is this going to be a pain in the ass? . .

This means that by law we are allowed to process and ship your order.

 LOL, Win!

Thursdays

You know, I was just looking back at a few things and it seems that Thursday is the day I'm most likely to make a new post.  I hope it's not OCD.

The Comment Game

I almost accidentally posted a comment meant for one blog to another blog and got the idea to make a game out of it.  So I was going to go around and post comments to the wrong blogs on purpose and see if everyone could figure out what I was really responding to.  But then I realized that, once again, this would be something that would only be funny to me.