Warning : May contain more than your daily recommended allowance of randomness
I’ve always enjoyed finding remixes of soundtracks from classic video games. Just hearing a theme again can bring back great memories.
I came across a “death metal” version of the Super Mario Bros. castle theme from world 8-4 (the last level). The video features some gameplay, along with some unexpected surprises. If heavy metal isn’t your thing, give it a try anyway — there’s no screaming in this song.
In a previous post I wrote about wanting a tank to drive around town. Unfortunately, tanks tend to be out of the budget, and I don’t know of a used tanks surplus emporium. But now that’s okay, because someone has figured out how to convert your car into a tank. You use the frame and engine of your car as is. You drive up on the tank tread assembly, remove the tires, make some changes to how it’s all connected, and then your car drives like a tank. The video below illustrates this.
My Russian translation skills are somewhat lacking, but I’m pretty sure somewhere in the video they said the equivalent of “this is one of the coolest things ever”.
BTW, if you do this, you’re on your own. That would probably void your warranty. And I’m pretty sure the highway department would frown upon such use, at least on major roads. But in the deer woods, this would be great!
February 2010 marked four years of Buffet o’ Blog. Can you believe it? It seems like only yesterday this was an obscure blog, trying to find its place in the blogosphere. Speaking of yesterdays, check out this cool graph showing our monthly growth.
As the graph so poignantly illustrates, traffic is up something-eight percent, which surely puts us in the upper percentiles of blog growth. Obviously I should be getting paid for this! (So if you feel led to be a sponsor or to make a donation, have your people contact my people.)
Now, for some detailed statistics, for those of you who care about such things…
Total # of posts: 822
Total # of comments: 4,131
Total # of spam comments blocked: 73,461
Total # of page views: 368,604
Best day of traffic: 2,286 hits (page views) on Sept. 28, 2009
Last year at this time, we had only 161,241 page views / hits (over 3 years), so in just the last year, we’ve had 207,363 hits. Inconceivable! It boggles the mind. I’m amazed that so many people have seen and perhaps read some of my ramblings. Does this mean I’m famous? Is my blog now officially not obscure? I think I’m becoming a seasoned veteran at this now… 🙂
Last but not least, I’d like to thank you, the loyal reader, who makes this possible. Without you, I’d just be rambling, but with an audience, I’m an author or something. So thanks and stuff. I wish I could host a crazy-huge party with unlimited nachos for all the regular readers, but since there’s no budget, there’s no money. (If someone wants to host a party for the Buffet o’ Blog staff, we do parties! And let me tell you — if you think the snippets of randomness you read here is something, consider that our randomness quotient increases exponentially when we’re all together. It’s a guaranteed good time. More fun than you could shake a stick at!)
BTW, if you’ve read all the posts here, you deserve a gold star. You know who you are!
Here at Buffet o’ Blog, we endorse marriage. But through “research”, we’ve discovered that there are sometimes unrealistic expectations placed on various aspects of the marriage relationship. (With that intro, you could probably fill a blog for years with content.)
One thing I want to address here today is the appearance of the interior of your house. Both sides would agree that it should be kept fairly clean, even if no one wants to do the chores. Things like dusting, vacuuming, and straightening up / removing clutter have to be done from time to time. However, the needed frequency of such things is likely to be disputed. So to help aid in that debate, I will present this bit of information to help clarify things:
It’s okay if your house looks like someone actually lives there.
Just that phrase, when applied properly, can help a lot. It’s simply unreasonable to have your house always look like it’s a show home for a magazine.
But the application doesn’t stop there. When you visit someone’s house, this concept also applies. So if you go to someone’s house, and they have mail on the coffee table or dining table, and/or there’s kids toys in the floor, don’t judge them — it just means people live there, and that kind of thing is part of living. Just because someone’s house doesn’t look like a magazine photo, it doesn’t mean they’re a slob or they don’t care. Life’s too short to spend most of the time cleaning unnecessarily.
So there’s your free relationship advice. It didn’t even cost you a trip to the Important Psychiatrist or a marriage counselor. It’s free (and hopefully it’s worth more than what you paid). But let’s be clear that you are liable for the response you get when presenting this info to your spouse. 🙂
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