Grab it by the memes

The newest Vitamin Water commercial seems to have a thing for internet memes. After the jump you'll see my list of the ones I've spotted. Which ones did I miss?

Yo dawg...

Yesterday in class, I showed off my model of a 1s orbital inside a 2s orbital - a dark blue balloon blown up inside a larger, inflated white balloon.

When I did the, I made a comment about "yo dawg, I heard you like balloons".

Very few students got the gag.

Lemme just suggest that they should know their meme.

Instant CSI

Go ahead, click the link and click the sunglasses.

It's too fun not to.

Memeticism

Everybody's seen the Chuck Norris facts website. No biggie there, but did you know that there are dozens and dozens of such memetic sites?

For example, Randall Monroe facts tells us that [w]hen nesting, Velociraptors consider the possibility of a Randall attack and that [o]ne time, Randall Munroe, while exiting a black hole, cut himself (he was teaching himself how to whittle)... one of the drops of blood became Nikola Tesla, the other became Albert Einstien.

Or that Alton Brown facts reminds us that Alton Brown doesn't reduce sauces - [h]e demoralizes sauces - and that Alton Brown's freezer operates at minus-twenty-seven degrees. Kelvin.

And finally - at least finally in terms of how willing I am to read through these lists - Stephen Colbert truths wants you to know that Stephen Colbert knows what Willis is talkin' 'bout and Stephen Colbert invented horcruxes.

In case you weren't aware...

10 Weird Things I Do

'Cause you did it first...

1. I count stairs when I climb them. I start with the initial landing as #1, and I remember what most of the sets of stairs that I climb regularly have. The steps up from my garage, for example, count nine.
2. My mantle has stuffed animals on it - like a dozen of them. A couple of times a year, The Girl and I go to Valley Thrift and drop five or ten bucks and get stuffed animals for our elder dog to carry around like his baby, use as a pillow, and eventually eviscerate.
3. Once every spring break - and summer break, too - I get up obscenely early and head to Little Dutch Bakery (in Mt Healthy) for an apple fritter fresh out of the fryer.
4. I make my cat dance from time to time - hooking my thumbs under her front armpits and making her move. Her typical move from there is to kick and punch one of our dogs while I make bad kung-fu movie dialogue about them.
5. I put pretty much everything into spreadsheets and have been for a few years. If somebody asks me to type up a list, it'll be on Excel so I can sort it a hundred different ways. And anytime somebody sends me data on an excel spreadsheet, you can bet that I'm going to resort it and ask questions.
6. I'm a completist. At one point I owned every cd by Neil Young, Queen, Wilco, Richard Thompson, The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Chris Isaak, and John Mellencamp. As tastes have shifted, I've gotten rid of lots of them. I do the same with songs, too, and the best example of it is when I couldn't find the 80's music collection I wanted (every cd had some crap songs), I hunted down (in pre-iTunes days) about 400 songs of the 80s and made myself an eighteen-disc collection that is perfect 80s to me. And I have every figure (including the alternates) of the Kevin Smith Inaction Figures for the first three series.
7. I write a blog to which I am (for some reason that exists pretty much only in my head) desperate to post to every day.
8. I play everything to win. I just borrowed the Wii game Zach and Wiki, and I don't really enjoy it. So I'm playing it semi-obsessively until I win it so I can return it. I play Wii Tennis to win and get little enjoyment just playing around - especially if the other person isn't taking it seriously. If I find an online game that has me frustrated, I either quit or search for a walkthru and finish it so I can move on. I'm not a good person, clearly.
9. At home in the winter, I spend nearly every weekend day in some variation of jeans, hoody, ballcap, socks (no shoes if I'm just 'round home) and it's about a 50-50 chance that I'm not going to leave the home or even shower on a typical weekend day if I don't have a pre-scheduled social engagement. Sometimes, this level of laziness drives The Girl bonkers.
10. I spend most nights sleeping five on the bed - the order from left to right if you stood at the foot of the bed and looked at the menagerie is Dog #2 (under covers), The Girl, Dog #1 (on top of covers), and then ChemGuy with the cat on top of one of the aforementioned people. No kids...pets rule.

For those of you who know me, I'm kind of curious to hear what you think I should've included on the list but didn't.

In which I play along

"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." ~ Martina Navratilova

Gerardo Laterza is a Paraguayan soccer player who is also an American citizen. He played for Seattle Sounders, LA Galaxy, South China AA and various clubs in Hong Kong, China and Paraguay. While in Hong Kong, he was selected to play for Hong kong XI and one of the match was against the national team of his native, Paraguay.

And, sadly, the photo is a mystery because I didn't save the link when I should have. Such is the way of the world.

What does matter is that these are my record covers.

So, to quote a famous man once, I'll show you mine if you show me yours.