Thursday, 19 November 2009

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Monday, 09 November 2009

  • Yes, Halloween's been over for 9 days, but...


    ..my boss bought this HUGE, life-sized (or would that be death-sized?) Grim Reaper that adorned our office right up until the bewitching hour on Oct 31st.

    After that, he moved it so that it stands right in the doorway to my office.

    We work in a small office, and every day for the past week I've walked around the corner and have been startled by Mr Grim.  I literally jump every single day.

    Me: "Doot-do-doo...
    doo-dee-doot dooYAAAAAAA!"










    Oh, and yes.  He has a nametag. 
    (Don't call him "Mortie," though.  He HATES that...)


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    Unearthed
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Sunday, 08 November 2009

Wednesday, 04 November 2009

Friday, 30 October 2009

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

  • Who knew?

    Ok, so I'm stumbling around on Rhapsody looking for a karaoke version of the theme song from "Fame"  (don't ask), and I find this:















                                          "IRENE CARA TRIBUTE BAND?"

                                           Now THAT would be a tough gig...



    Currently
    Fame
    By Irene Cara, Michael Gore, Paul McCrane
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Monday, 26 October 2009

Friday, 23 October 2009

  • There, I fixed it!

    There's a great website called There, I Fixed It that's full of wonderful photos of folks "fixing" problems that would likely not be manufacturer or OSHA approved.

    We had a bunch of rain earlier this week, and alas - the roof in my computer area started leaking.

    Not having time to call a roof repair person, I came up with this ingenious "fix."

     

    Note the obligatory use of duct tape.


    And the economical use of garbage bags.



    Water park technology (and gravity) sets the solution in motion!


     




     








    And voila!  Right into the bucket.





    I told Mrs Savant the only thing this repair lacked was banjos.

    Currently
    "Dueling Banjos" From The Original Soundtrack: Deliverance
    By Eric Weissberg, Marshall Brickman
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Saturday, 26 September 2009

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

  • This made me laugh...

     

    091609flowtron Flowtron Leaf Eater

    Prepare for the onslaught of fall leaves with the Flowtron Leaf Eater ($170). Featuring a fully capable, yet not Fargo-style body-approved motor,  the Flowtron easily handles double handfuls of twigs, leaves, and sticks, and is designed to sit above your trash can for completely mess-free cleanup, while the two step shredding/mulching process leaves you with valuable compost that can be used to beautify your lawn next spring.

     

     

     

     

     

    [via uncrate.com]

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    Fargo
    By William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Kristin Rudrüd
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Monday, 14 September 2009

Thursday, 27 August 2009

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

  • The comedy gods smiled upon me today...

    I belong to a networking group that meets WAY too early every Tuesday morning.  I've been attending meetings for over 2 years now, and still haven't gotten used to how freakin' perky some of these people can be at that time of the morning each and every week.  I should stop by one of their houses at 3 am on my way home from a gig, and see how perky they are THEN!

    But I digress...

    Each week, a different member of the group give a presentation for the members.  This morning, a company that sells laser printers/copiers/etc gave the presentation and had distributed dozens of fake $1,000,000 bills throughout the room.

    082509MeeelionDollars

    I picked up 3 of them because I thought they might be fun to pass out from time.  You know, like leaving them in an offering plate or something clever like that.

     

     

    Little did I know...

    Roughly an hour and a half later I finished up meeting with a consultant on a project I've been working on.  At the end of the meeting, he jokingly said "That will be two million dollars."

    I didn't say a word - reached into my wallet and dropped the two bills on his desk.

    What followed was probably the best double take I've ever witnessed in my entire life.      It was PRICELESS. 

     

    Like I said, sometimes the comedy gods can be gracious. 

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    Serendipity Circus
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009

  • Whoever wrote this has great insight with regards to the worst aspects of humanity

    I stumbled across a wonderfully caustic article titled: 8 Classic Board Games That Destroy Friendships.  Here's one of the entries for my very favorite game:

    081909scrabble Here's an idea - let's get a bunch of anal retentive word nerds together to collaborate on a crossword puzzle and make a game out of it!   Get two or more people with graduate degrees in English playing this game and you may find yourself witness to a homicide.

    It is like old-west cliché of gunslingers playing high stakes poker, ready to shoot the first person who cheats, except instead of guns, people have dictionaries.  Someone puts down the word "Adz" and people are going for their pocket-sized, easily concealed pleather-bound dictionary, or their hard-bound New York area phonebook-sized monstrosity of a dictionary, suitable for bludgeoning.  More likely these days someone is going to whip out their iPhones, allowing them to look up a word in a second and then dial the police the next minute when they are brutally beaten by a library-science major for negating their Triple-Word score.

     

    I won't get into why the writer's opinion is true - but my family understands implicitly.  

    BTW - "implicitly" is worth 19 points.

     

    Currently
    Scrabylon (A Scrabble Movie)
    By Stefan Fatsis, Joel Sherman, Lester Schonbrun, Chris Cree, Ben Loiterstein Greenwood
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