I spent three years on the USS Hartford (SSN-768). It was a fantastic experience, though I always talk about it in Dickensian terms…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
- A Tale of Two Cities
I recently saw a video that reminded me of some of my more fond memories of [...]

This is a hilarious advert; as soon as I saw it I knew I had to find it on YouTube and blog it!

This guy is both inspirational and a total nutter…
At least he gets to work outside in the fresh air!

This is hilarious… h/t to Fred Wilson:

I was recently reminded of the Terry Tate adverts when I was back in the States. They’re absolutely hilarious!
Terry’s World
This one is my favourite. When he starts the “Pain Train” with the “Woo-Woo” train whistle while his victim frantically digs in the rubbish, I nearly cried laughing.

Draft Day

Office Athlete of the Century

Vacation

Super Bowl [...]

If you’re like me, you occasionally like using the 3-D and other transition effects in Apple’s Keynote software. However, if you try exporting these videos to YouTube, you’ll find that they just don’t work. Between Apple’s exporting and YouTube’s importing, enough data is lost and/or compressed that the final result looks like crap. [...]

Strangely enough, this reminds me of rowing, or at least a few of our races.

I can’t remember where I found this video first, but I really got a kick out of it.