Thoughts and Ruminations

Even though I was pulling for Ohio State. This video from Joakim Noah dancing to the Florida fight song after the SEC championship is utterly classic. I laughed. Hardcore. Just look at the silly look on his face and the announcers trying to work with him.

“The Padres and David Wells have agreed in principle on a one-year deal, pending a physical exam, club general manager Kevin Towers said on Friday.

The contract is for $3 million guaranteed with incentives that can add another $4 million. He’ll earn $1 million based on staying healthy, and he’ll make about $176,500 per start from starts 11-27.

“I think this gives us a rotation that stacks up with any in our division and our league,” Towers said. “When I saw Boomer on Thursday, he looked like he was in good shape — and more than that, I think he really wants to pitch and contribute.”

From an article on mlb.com here.

Are you kidding me? This guy in “good shape”?

Let this be an example of hyper-obsession with a certain hobby. The funniest example is at the end of this video. You’ll see what I mean. The flashback title refers to what my friends and I saw upon emerging around 9 at night from a restaurant to find a guy hanging out in a dark alleyway practicing his choreographed moves with his green and blue ridiculously-realistic-looking-and-sounding light sabers. Upon finding an audience in us, he proceeded to stop, step to the side, and pick up a more longish object, and light that baby up. That’s right. Darth Maul. I was speechless, and didn’t know whether to stand in awe at his commitment as he danced and spun with that saber or cry at the amount of time he had poured into that dance.

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I guess I could use this time to make fun of my friend John Daubert, who heard the “Halo” movie was coming out sometime, and proceeded to scheme about what costumes he and Neil and Fong would wear to the movie, eventually deciding that they would come as a red guy and a blue guy, with the third one being the “flag” that they tried to capture from one another. Yes, John Daubert, Neil Thorne, and Dan Fong. Please make fun of them to their faces.

This is Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, and I have three things to say about these videos before you watch them:
1) If this guy was the CEO of my company, I’d either ridiculously love working for the company (because my CEO doesn’t have to “keep up appearances”) or be incredibly freaked out. Maybe both. I think I’d err more on the ridiculously love side (you’ll see what I mean with the pit stains in the second video), if the company wasn’t Microsoft, a modern-day example of the continual need for anti-trust watchdog organizations.
2) He reminds me of the youth pastor in the movie Saved!, which was a much more incisive criticism of the institution of Christianity than many would be willing to admit. (one great guy whose blog I read said only partly tongue in cheek “If I hadn’t seen the Microsoft logo, I’d have sworn this guy was a worship leader *hehe*), and
3) He dances like every member of my family (including me); it is clear he is white and has zero (maybe negative) rhythm

Here it is in all its glory…as well as a remixed version that includes some of his other work (and the sweet pitstains) you simply MUST see. Oh, how I love Youtube.
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…or just athletically challenged. Either way, this will make you laugh. I laughed so hard I cried, and my stomach twisted into knots. And the second time I watched it, it got worse…I wept, and couldn’t breathe I was laughing so hard. So here ya go. Don’t say I never did anything for you. By the way, evidently this is real…my sister’s boyfriend said he saw it on the evening news.

Oh yes. In watching this video you will laugh, you will gasp, you will think “What a bunch of crackheads,” you will hide your eyes from hideous dancing, you will giggle as some allow themselves to be free, this is white-bred dancing at its finest…this video is all of these things and more:

I present to you the Extended Fike Family dancing to “Left Unsaid” by Winter’s Longing (our cousin Mark’s band…too bad we cut it off before it got hard-core…that would’ve been INSANE!)

For a good time, watch the video on silent…it gets 359% funnier.

I’m sure some of my closer friends know the immense respect I have for John Piper as well as the discomfort I carry regarding his rigid Reformed approach to this business of following Jesus. All things being equal, he often lances into my heart with his messages and life witness…and thus I present you with this link for giggles.

Don’t say I don’t love you.

John Piper is bad.

ht: the D10s

I’ve only seen 11 seconds of this video, but it’s already lightened my day of slogging through thick reading and writing that made my head feel like sludge. So, completely unawares of the end, I post because I trust.

ht: jessica

I bring you “Little Superstar.” He’s graced the pages of Josh Brown’s blog for a couple days now, and I showed it to some guys and gals at seminary; quickly causing several of them to laugh so hard they were crying. Evidently it’s of Indian Bollywood origin, but wherever it’s from, it’s great fun to watch.

Like whoa. I used some rather harsh tones in my post yesterday about Ron Sider. However, I won’t apologize for them.

To provide balance to the Force, in addition to Conan O’Brian, here’s another freaky crazy video…any potty-training parents out there? This music on the video is making me laugh so hard my stomach’s in knots. Annnnnnd I think I just puked a little in my mouth.

Got the vid from the ol’ bob blog, by way of josh brown, by way of a breanna I do not know. Evidently this video’s all over the place now. Oh the wonders of the internet!