Believe it or not, the ad below comes from an issue of Tiger Beat, circa 1976. It’s creepy in a way that only a Texas children’s beauty pageant meets the Disco Era photo can be:
Click the picture to see it at full size. Magazine scan courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
If you’re going to RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon or just interested in what’s happening there, let Yours Truly be your reporter! I’ll be posting reports at my technical blog, Global Nerdy.
I’ll be covering the premier Ruby on Rails conference from all angles, technical and social, from the all-day Rails Guidebook tutorial sessions on Thursday to the main conference, which runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to whatever extracurricular hijinks 1,200 nerds, a lot of the fine local craft beer and an accordion can get into.
Damn you, Photoshop! Damn you all to hell!!!
Click the picture to see it at full size. Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
“Yup,” says the guy on the cover of Identifying Wood, “that’s wood, all right.”
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
A little while back, I posted three YouTube videos of Saturday Night Live’s parody of MacGyver, titled MacGruber, featuring Will Forte in the title role. In that series, MacGruber’s improvised gadgets made of ordinary household items are undone because one component is too gross to handle.
Last Saturday, SNL aired a new series of MacGruber shorts, this time featuring MacGruber’s backsliding into alcoholism, with the final short being a parody of the infamous video of David Hasselhoff, shirtless and eating a hamburger off the floor.
Here are all three MacGruber shorts in a single clip:
In case you haven’t seen the Hasselhoff video, here’s a short version, taken from a celebrity TV news show:
David Malki hit the nail on the head in his Wondermark! comic on Wikipedia:
Click to see the full comic on its original page.
And while we’re at it, one for furries too!
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.