My name is Jeff Gordon and I build websites. When I'm not working, you can probably find me daydreaming about things like space ships or dinosaurs. Maybe a dinosaur flying a space ship. That's awesome.
I've heard about quite a few cases where you can sync up otherwise unrelated songs and movies resulting in a piece of film that seems completely and eerily intentional. The most famous of these sync-ups is called Dark Side of the Rainbow, which syncs up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz. I've always dismissed these kind of things as people just looking too deeply into it, like this one interpretation of Fight Club and Radiohead's The Bends:
Track One on "The Bends", "Planet Telex", is referred to at least three times within the film.
(a) "'Planet Xerox' was this song's original title, but because Xerox was a copyrighted name, Radiohead changed it to 'Planet Telex.'" Jack: "When deep space exploration ramps up it'll be the corporations that name everything: the I.B.M. Stellarsphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks..."
(b) The pay phone that Jack uses to call Tyler is made by a company called Telnex.
(c) When Tyler disappears and the house is run by his army, Jack refers to the place as "Planet Tyler", a mere two letters away.
Anyway, I ran into this sync-up of a scene from Fantasia 2000 and Tool's 10,000 Days which I feel is pretty neat. I've never seen the original Fantasia nor this remake in 1999, but I basically have to now because it looks really cool. The song isn't bad, either.
I may be more interested in these kinds of things now, but I'm sure it helps if you are familiar with at least the song or the movie. That is probably one reason why I've never been too curious about Dark Side of the Rainbow.
So I guess that means tell me some that you might know about, and I will watch them. Or I won't.
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Ever since 1995 when Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was released, I went around saying "bumblebee tuna" under the impression it was an original part of the script. I couldn't have been more wrong.
This startling fact was brought to my attention by Taylor at work, after his mom gave him a can of Bumble Bee brand tuna (as seen to the right). Further investigation showed that the brand has been in existence since 1899. They also sell Bumble Bee chicken, salmon, crab, oysters, clams, and sardines.
Youtube is full of Bumble Bee tuna related advertisements, including this vintage one, and all sorts of other theme songs. My girlfriend and I use "Bumblebee Tuna" as our guild name in WoW, but I had no idea it was such a huge phenomenon.
My life will never be the same.
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My previous hosting company (1&1) was giving me grief, so I was forced to switch to a new one. My sites would go offline almost daily, for hours at a time, for no good reason. So, by recommendation, I switched to Media Temple, and so far everything is great. How does this affect you? Well, my site will (hopefully) have less downtime and it should be a heck of a lot faster.
My friend Ryan has a couple sites on 1&1 as well, and he has been having the exact same problems as me. I wrote 1&1 to inquire about the recent downtime, and they basically told me "Hey, it works on our end, check your ISP".
THANKS GUYS. -1 CUSTOMER. FOR YOU.
After looking around on google for any possibly reason why my ISP would be preventing me from viewing my own website, I came across a whole bunch of not-so-good customer reviews of 1&1's services.
I am not alone.
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I used to be a fan of the webcomic Spamusement, until the writer eventually ran out of motivation and gave up (it's also kind of ironic, the website is now completely filled with ads). The comic took regular spam email subject lines and turned them into hilarious single-panel comics. Some were pretty funny. I don't get a whole lot of spam myself, but a couple months ago I started receiving some pretty awesome ones. This is the one that started it all:
"Europe is ready for summer. Do you?
G1rls put on their b00bs, deal it!"
Sweet! It didn't take long before even more gems found their way into my inbox:
"Force all girls to submit your sexy discipline!"
"She loves these bags"
"New generation of TVs
What Iranians really think?"
And finally...
"Want to make love everywhere? Ask us how.
Girls will call you Largissimo."
Usually they didn't even contain any links, just a nice little message for me to read every day. It got to the point where I was actually disappointed when my inbox didn't contain any spam that day. Unfortunately, I haven't received any funny ones in a while, but I'll share them when I do.
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