Alex Peters » Hilarity

The sky is falling

Alex — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:23:17 +0000

What should you do when a light fitting in your apartment starts gushing litres of water?

You know, besides race to remove thousands of dollars of electronics from the area, along with your birth certificate and whatever other important documentation you may have on your desk because you’re in the middle of moving house?

Had this happened just an hour later, it would have been right in the middle of my real estate inspection. Gold.

Had it happened even later, I may not have even been here to save my stuff. Poor form, apartment; poor form.

Billie Holiday: “The Lady Lives”

Alex — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:22:41 +0000

Source: ESP-Disk’ 収集記

It greatly amuses me that someone thought this to be a good shot for an album cover. Should it?

El Chombo: Chacarron Macarron

Alex — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:06:10 +0000

My life was not completely fulfilled before I came across this video. Thanks, Emily.

Wikipedia says that the “mumbled vocals were originally laid down as a rough skit with a view to writing ‘proper’ lyrics later but because many loved what he had recorded, they decided to keep the original version.” I haven’t decided yet whether this enhances or spoils the experience.

My favourite picture this week

Alex — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:30:41 +0000

Source: Overclockers Australia

Knowing the (pneumatic) drill

Alex — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:15:04 +0000

Me: “I should become…A LUMBERJACK!”

Abe: “Haha, you like to vibrate?”

“…”

“Wait—what’s a lumberjack?”

Naturally

Alex — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:42:39 +0000

Oh, the irony. The bittersweet irony.

Targeted advertising win

Alex — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:13:48 +0000

EdgeCurve.com runs a semi-regular game where a photo is posted and people compete to submit the funniest caption for it. Take a look at the archives to get an idea of the pictures and captions submitted in the past.

At some point it was decided that archived entries should feature a banner ad between their photos and their captions. I don’t think these ads were ever expected to trump the user-submitted captions in awesomeness though.

Certainly looks organic to me.

This was taken from round #197. Presumably the ads are selected based on the text content of the page (i.e. the user-submitted captions). Google’s ad servers have obviously seen all this talk of digging, eco-friendliness and planting bulbs, and selected what seems to be the right ad for the target audience. They probably don’t know how spot-on they were in this instance.

If wins aren’t your thing (and perhaps while not at work), check out the FAIL Blog and Shipment of Fail.

Update

Mr. EdgeCurve himself was amused enough by this idea to look through the archives for other “appropriate” ads, and came across this one (thanks for sending!):

Jolimont and Goldilocks are two separate things…

Alex — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:00:48 +0000

But I was quite amused all the same.

On my way in to uni today the computerised woman on the train said her usual thing: ‘Now arriving at Jolimont.’ What made it interesting today however was how this caused the five-year-old near my seat to react. With a big beaming smile, he exclaimed: ‘Yaaayyy! It’s Goldilocks!’

Oh, good times… I guess you had to be there. People always hear what they want to, I guess…