Rob Larsen

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Mostly for Dan and Sarah…

…but the rest of you might enjoy this as well.

Usher's Love in this Club, performed by The Rock-afire Explosion.

This brilliant video was programmed by Chris Thrash and Aaron Fetcher.

For more info (and to bid on your favorite song):

Rock-afire Explosion Show Bids

Have you wanted to see the Rock-afire Explosion perform your favorite song? Would you like to have us program a song for your girlfriend, boyfriend, mother or child? Well, here's how to make it happen! This is the page where the list of songs being bid on for the Rock-afire Explosion to perform will appear as well as the winning song each week.

(Finally) Presenting… The Hot Tamale

I wrote some checks for this film way back in the summer of 2001. I finally was able to get a copy onto the Net :)

Some Credits:

Bike Boy: Troy Metcalf
Charley Marley: Tak Toyoshima
Directed by Richie Gibbs
Written and Produced by Lorie Steele
Executive Producer: Rob Larsen

(for the full credits, watch through to the end :) )

My Top Photos From Flickr

Since I've got a few minutes to kill and especially since no one asked, here are my top photos on flickr based on:

Interestingness and Comments

dallas fonse running commuter

Views

(with 12,585!)

graffiti-letter-l

Views (of an actual photo)

(with 927 views)

An actual sign on rte. 1 in dedham,ma

Favorites

(just 5 :( )

MQ San Francisco Street Bombing

and with that I say, "hell yeah."

XKCD on the New York Times Site

FOR a certain subset of Internet users, “Sudo make me a sandwich” may as well be “Take my wife … please.”

Perhaps some explanation is in order. Before giving up the goods, however, we should heed the warning of Randall Munroe, the 23-year-old creator of xkcd, a hugely popular online comic strip (at least among computer programmers) where the sandwich line appeared. Mr. Munroe believes that analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog — it can be done, but the frog dies.

Still, he plays along, explaining that “sudo” is a command in the Unix operating system that temporarily grants godlike powers: “The humor comes from people who have encountered typing a command and having the computer say ‘No,’ and they say, ‘Oh, yeah, sudo says,’ and the computer does it. Kind of like ‘Simon says.’ ”

Hence the set-up: one stick figure says to another, “Make me a sandwich,” only to be told, “No.” Thinking quickly, stick figure No. 1 says, “Sudo make me a sandwich,” and the once-recalcitrant stick figure No. 2 must comply.

Read more:

Link by Link – This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix

While I'm here, why not click through for my favorite XKCD ever.

little bobby tables!

One of the Funniest Videos I've Seen in a While

Does anyone have any history behind this? The subtitles are hilarious, but I'd love to know what the back story is behind the video.