There’s a fun meme floating around the internets of late. One where people point you to one of the “best videos ever” only to have it end up being Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
Rick Roll’d: An online prank where the user is unknowingly misdirected to a video of Rick Astley. Usually done with YouTube videos related to unconfirmed gaming news. [source]
There’s an official website with a list of most of the Rick Roll videos.. Mark Cubandid it to his blog readers last week promising a special behind the scenes video that ended up being a Rick Roll.
It really took off last week as a prank for April Fools, and me being overseas, I’m kinda late to the party .. but ..
This, however, is one of the most genius Rick Roll ever. The blog entry heading is Best Muppet Video Ever… it ends up being .. well .. the best Muppet Video Clip Ever.
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Actually, Wednesday is the day we do some serious tastings here in the Loire, so expect a longer post then. In the meantime just a quick little video we shot tonight mixing some Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne and Chambord Liqueur Royale.
We visited the Chambord Chateau today, and on the way back to Le Moulin Du Port (our B&B), we passsed the Chambord property - pretty cool.
Once again, our pairings are TOTALLY off, but what are you going to do when you’re in France with a 10mo old and curfew is each night at 7p, and the restos don’t open til 8? Well, you do a quick video with some champagne and Chambord for y’all and then settle in for a few episodes of Dexter on the MacBook.
BTW, tomorrow, we walk the 4k along the banks of the Cher to Chenonceau, a chateau with no moat, because it was built on the river.
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Jen and I fell in love with Rob and Big when trapped inside our hotel room in Cuba. We were pregnant, not drinking and not smoking, so, there we were in Cuba, watching MTV. It was a Rob and Big Marathon, we saw about 10 episodes in a row. We were hooked.
To understand what we did today, you need to watch what Rob and Big did earlier this season.
So, imagine our surprise while trucking along the A13 in Normandy today when Enrique blasts on Radio NRJ! I grab the camera, flip on the video and the whole family breaks it down Rob and Big style.
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Yes, we’re in France, but we’re in the North, not the south where the wine is (yet). Here, the trees are filled with apples, and the Belgians are just a barrels throw north. So Normandie is not about wine, it’s about cider. Lots of it. Cider and apple brandy, called Calvados, which also happens to be the name of the department (county).
But back to Beer Thursday. With the abundance of apples, and the friendliness of the Belgian beermakers nearby, you knew someone, somewhere would get chocolate apple juice in someone else’s peanut butter beer.
Oh, and I dont know why my head got cut off .. it was fine in the original footage.
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But that’s where the usual link between bricks and mortar and the internet end. Gary’s site is an alive and active blog with stories and tastings and humour and videos as he rolls around tasting wine and sharing his passion with the world.
Gary’s key goals are twofold: “First, I want people to try different wines. How can you have a favorite if you only know a few? Second, I tell people to trust their palates. If a wine appeals to your palate, then it’s a good choice. Don’t feel pressured to like popular brands or what experts recommend. Buy what ‘brings the thunder’ for you.” [source]
Jen and I have described wine as tasting like band aids, musty, fruity etc.
O RLY?
Gary is out to prove it. He recently went on Conan, where he had the host taste some wine, taste some dirt - and realize, “Hey! It’s the same!”
Twitter posts (tweets) are limited to 140 characters, the same limitations of SMS, so you’ll often find people tweeting on the go. Because of the character limit of the posts, they become almost poetic, a new internet Haiku.
I love it. It’s where I’ve moved my social networking. I mean, I still check Facebook every now and again, but it’s not where I spend my time. The quality of user is much more manageable at Twitter.. The Twitter peeps, tweeps, are ahead of the curve, smart, articulate and not into zombie biting. Sweet.
But things might change. I mean, I wrote about Twitter to draw in the unwashed, and now Lee LeFever and his CommonCraft crew are explaining things in plain english.
Get ready to unfollow @superpoke.
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When babies are born what comes out is gluey and sticky and much like tar. Then it gets a little wetter and grainier, kinda like mustard. These first phases may be tough to clean up, but they don’t really smell.
Once they started eating real food, the smell comes, but the clean up is easier. The #2 is solid little log that easily rolls out of the diaper and into the toilet - but you need a hazmat suit to get close enough to roll it out.
Today, while cleaning Zizou, I saw the log and was reminded of this fun song from Ren and Stimpy:
Yes, everyone loves a log.
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