Fun with Photoshop

I missed the Indycar race Sunday. Hate to do that, but my sister-in-law was appearing in an excellent performance of "Singing in the Rain" and, if I skipped that, there wouldn't be any YouTube highlights to tell me what I missed.

What I did miss was a major executive-decision screwup: with 5 laps left and the cars running under caution due to rain, the race was restarted even though it was clearly still too wet to race safely. Unnecessary mayhem ensued and Will Power, never the shrinking violet, let Race Control know what he thought of their decision:


(And no, that wasn't ABC that put Power's fingers on a loop)

At iRacing, someone suggested that this was a great topic for Photoshop and I agree. Here are my submissions.

Will Power, the movie actor:




Will Power at the center of historic events:




Will Power vacations in Scotland:




More here


More. This is fun!

"In Jesus' name, boogity boogity boogity amen!"

This was the prayer before the NASCAR Nationwide Series race this evening:



Yep, that's why Jesus died for you, Southern style.

Baring the soul (eHarmony spoof)

This brought tears to my eyes ....



... while laughing out loud.

Via the Daily Dish,

Who wants to play?

Surely I'm not the only one who hears the term "mixed martial arts" and thinks of this?

Who said it?

Charlie Sheen, Glenn Beck, or Muammar Qadaffi? This is not easy.

A warning to legislators:

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Some good photoshopping

"Impossible Celebrity Couples" at Buzzfeed, including this all-too-plausible scene of JFK with Anna Nicole Smith:


And twenty more. The Photoshop work throughout is just topnotch: the focus, grain, and contrast are matched perfectly.


Via The Daily Dish

I dunno, it sounded good

At Oh, For Goodness Sake, a perpetual roundup of all things Birther, another hilarious example of amateur lawyering:

REPLY AFFIDAVIT IN OPPOSITION
TO DEFENDANTS ANTICIPATED MOTION
FOR DISMISSAL OF THE PEOPLE’S
MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGEMENT
THAT MUST BE DENIED
ON THE MERITS AND LAW

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

OFGS sums it up pithily: "Court records being public records, except in extremely limited circumstances, there are no rights to reserve."

It's not uncommon for people to have no clue what copyright law is about, but in this case I wouldn't be surprised if these poor slobs didn't even know they were referencing copyright law.

Greatest prank ever

I should have posted this one for the Rose Bowl game two weeks ago, but better late than never. Here is the greatest prank in the entire history of the planet, or at least that portion of history that's come to my attention, which surely must amount to nearly the same thing. You almost wish the word pwned had existed then.

Anyway, read about the great Rose Bowl prank of 1961, when fourteen Cal Tech students stole the plans to the University of Washington's proud flip card routine, and offered a few improvements of their own.

Clever thinking

Via The Friendly Atheist, a clever way to get someone to clear the snow off your car for you:


I may have to try this some day.

Too funny

Via Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

Interesting documents

[While I'm cleaning up my unpublished posts....]


Even the underworld needs accountants:



Via BoingBoing

An English major finds a job!

Writing for the Colbert Report (jump to 3:20):

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Friday photo

Some messages are just meant to be kept in-house.

Central Campus Transit Center. Ann Arbor, MI, November 2010.

I'm offline most of the week, so nothing wordy today. Happy Thanksgiving!

You'd mock Charles Dickens for this ....

... but the Vice-President of the American Forest Resource Council is named Ann Forest Burns.

Via James Fallows

Hooray!

2D Goggles is back!

Stumbled upon

Strange job description

From the Bozeman Daily Chronicle:

"High-raking park official to take Yellowstone reins in 2011"

Which is peculiar, because most of the trees in Yellowstone -- especially at the higher elevations -- are lodgepole pine, which don't drop leaves.


[Update 10/7: the typo has been fixed. Where's the fun in that?]

You want to go where?

Tourist site for Quebec City.

If you were pitching your city on the basis of "unparalleled romance," would you at the same time list HP Lovecraft as a reference?

A pox am I

Have you ever wondered what sort of protein you would be, if the letters in your name corresponded to amino acids? Of course you didn't; only a complete geek would wonder something like that.

So a f(r)iend threw my name into this Name-to-DNA translator and, well, here are the results:


The highlighted portion reads: "This protein is found in the species Camelpox virus (strain CMS)."

So be nice to me or I'll make your camel sick.