Tag: Humor

The PUACF

I’m not the most rabid football fan out there. I live in an area where it is hard to root for the dominant program for $REASONS while none of the other programs provide much reason to root. My other alma mater has a joke of a program so rooting for them is even more depressing. Also, football isn’t my favorite contact sport even though Elizabeth will tell you I’ve wasted enough time on the couch the last two weeks sleeping through games.

But THIS1 right here is where I think college football needs to head. And stat. Not to mention the affectation used in the writing is brilliant. Also personally funny/relevant in that one of the few competitive impromptu speeches I gave in high school competition was on the topic: Football Is a Communist Plot.

We need the People’s Union of American College Football!

So, yes, bring on the level of competition is greater. Bring on the is no cupcake schedule. Eliminate inefficient capitalist driven competition and bring on true competition of team verses team in fair combat where every game is exciting and a single loss does not eliminate you from nationally broadcast bowl of fruit championship game.

1 People’s Union of American College Football

A close approximation

The mighty M-981 available as a 1:35 plastic model:
http://www.scalemates.com/products/product.php?id=107510. The mighty M-981

Notable features:

  • Two realistic crew figures
  • Plentiful accessories

For the sake of realism I hope those plentiful accessories include cans of beer, pr0n magazines, tins of smoked oysters and other potted meats, and goth chicks to provide entertainments on the weekends.

Additional models not shown:

  • The Metropol®, your very own tanz cafe
  • Wolfgang’s Clunky Cab taxi
  • Bravo Two, a run down military barracks building
  • Mr. Kim’s Korean House restaurant and watering hole. Comes with many small pieces meant to be drunkenly secreted out and hidden at Bravo Two.
  • The Bottle Shop, your connection for contraband liquor and single-packs of smokes. Comes with your very own ration card and paper punch.

Collect Them All!

A fun little thing

The Romney campaign’s web site is coded with a bit of an open loop. It makes sense from a dynamically generated website perspective I guess. However, it’s also the sort of thing that lazy RESTful programming gets you. The idea being that you have a template that is populated by values from a data store based on parsing the URL that lands you there. The lazy was of doing things is to just assume that every value passed is valid. The smart way of doing this is to check to see if you have something useful for that value and to redirect to some kind of error if not.

For example, the good way of doing this is this very blog. Let’s say you want to see every blog entry published in 2012. You’d use the address http://blackfez.com/2012. Let’s say you’re on to the trick and want to see every blog entry published in 1948. You’d type http://blackfez.com/1948. Notice how the second link redirects to an error page? This is smart. And relatively simple. You just check your input before going off to render stuff.

Enough of the theory, why is this fun? Because with lazy RESTful programming you can do stuff like this:

Anyway. It’s fun. At least to me. It’s also a bit of lazy programming and leaves the Romney campaign open to some needling. And it seems like the last thing the guy needs is another exposure to ridicule.

I’m becoming that guy

So…I’m posting cat humor now. In my defense, it seems kind of funny to me.

Louis vs. Rick. The ostensible results of a Rick teaching his cat how to IM. Presented in reverse chronological order.

For your reading pleasure, here’s the same content only in chronological order: