Background: Co-worker #2 is my team lead, and his wife is into swordplay-type stuff. Co-worker #1 is our boss.

Co-worker #1: So are we going to see a picture of your wife beating things up with a mace now?
Co-worker #2: Yeah, eventually.
Co-worker #1: It just seems odd to spend so much time learning about swords. Is she just a naturally violent person?
Co-worker #2: Not really. More of a protection thing.
Co-worker #1: Protection from what? Muggers?
Co-worker #2: You never know who is lurking in the dark when you’re walking around.
Me: Also, zombies.
Co-worker #1: What’s wrong with guns?
Me: Guns are loud. And attract more zombies.
Co-worker #1: Hunh.
Me: You obviously do not spend enough time thinking about zombie defense.

• Is a burrito a sandwich?
  Finally, an age-old question is answered. And good use of our legal system, might I add.
• Chip shop smells of…chips. And fish.

• From Scott Adams’ blog: “And Tom [Cruise] also had the supreme bad luck of picking the only religion in the world that isn’t true. What were the odds of that?”
• A really big burger. And images that make consider going back to being a vegetarian.
• I really hope this guy’s last name is pronounced differently than how it looks.

• Deadly, deadly rainbows
• Neil Gaiman’s op-ed in the New York Times
• Time for the apocalypse: Death* hangs up his microphone so he can hop on his pale horse
• You got goth served

* I kid, I kid. Nursing a hangover with late morning TV will never be the same

• A fool and his money…
• The Last Days of Fast Food

So I thought to myself

“Self, why are so many of your posts just random links to things that amuse you?”
“Dude, seriously, I’m busy. Work? Our job? You remember those things?”
“Oh, come on!”
“You’re just going to keep bugging me about this, aren’t you?”
“Pretty much”
“Fine, whatever…”

And it’s about this time that I realize things could turn ugly. Also, that I really need to stop having conversations with myself.

Where was I?

Oh yes…So, in the spirit of being a bit more economical, I’m just going to do one post a day, collecting all of the things that amuse me in any given day. I call it: Things That Amused Me Today.

• Possibly the coolest old man ever
• An underwear advertisement. Or something. (NSFW)
• Not satisfied that your poor parenting skills will lead your daughter to a life of stripping? Why not get her a pole dancing toy this Christmas?