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Heh.

via Reddit.

When it comes to online videos, I’m a sucker for 2 things. Jugglers and Rube Goldberg machines:

(HT: Geeks are Sexy)

Today, I was introduced to Rock Sugar. If you’re a child of the 80s, or a big-hair-band fan, you’re about to be introduced to total awesomness. If you’re not, skip this post.

From the Rock Sugar bio:

And so, the hardcore degenerate heavy metal members of Rock Sugar spent the last two decades stuck on an island with nothing to do but drink schnapps, catch hard to digest wildlife, befriend monkeys and dream of their long lost groupies while listening only to, and being slowly and systematically brainwashed by, every favorite pop song of a 1980’s preteen girl. Bored, full of schnapps and wasting away on a tropical oasis, they built a stage out of driftwood, bamboo shoots and tree sap and got to work. Against the odds, Rock Sugar was alive… and they were practicing.
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Finally rescued and now violently thrown back into the real life of present day Los Angeles, and with absolutely no clue whatsoever of anything that’s happened, developed or changed in the world since 1989, Rock Sugar is back and ready to electrify audiences with their brand new, razor sharp, psychotically original sound.

For some horrid reason, Rock Sugar isn’t available on iTunes. But you can find their music on YouTube, which I’m happy to share with you now.

Ladies and Gentlemen… Rock Sugar!!! Because Pop Rocks.

Don’t Stop The Sandman:

Shook Me Like a Prayer:

Heaven and Heaven:

Round and Separated:

This was posted on Twitter over the weekend, but I wanted to share it here as well:

The family went shooting on Saturday. It was Caleb’s first time ever. I’d bought him a single shot .22 a few years ago (the tan one in front of him), and he did okay with it. However, I let both he and Brandon try out my 10/22, which is a Semi-Automatic. Caleb shot much better with it. I got Brandon to pull the trigger as fast as he could, and he loved that.

Caleb asked if we could go shooting again yesterday.

Apologies to my co-workers, because things at work went Tango-Uniform, while I was away.

If you roll up funny, and sprinkle it with awesome, you get this:

Last year, I took part in my first ever Lenten fast. I gave up Facebook for the 40 days of Lent. It may sound silly to you, but I used the time that I would have otherwise spent on Facebook to prepare myself for Easter. I believe that it helped me focus on Easter more than I had in years past.

I’m doing it again this year. From tomorrow until after Easter, you will not see me on Facebook. I’ll be using the d365.org website as a daily devotional guide, in case you’re interested.

To quote last year’s blog entry:

I have one friend who, yearly, gives up something that is “possibly addicting” (his words, not mine). Those words have always echoed in my ears. I have found that Facebook is becoming, to be transparent, a little bit of an addiction for me. I can access it from a PC. From my cell phone. From my ipod. I love all of your memes, notes, old photos, and just learning more and more about old and new friends. But I’m officially giving it up for 40 days. My goal is to spend the time that I would have spent on FB in Bible study and prayer.

Again, I’ll clarify like last year: I’ll probably still be blogging here at clanMcGraw.com. I’ll also continue updating on Twitter. Both of those activities are set up to show up as new Notes and status updates on Facebook. So you may see “activity” there. But I won’t see any of your pictures, notes, responses, or comments. If you’d like to follow up, you’re welcome to do so here or via email.

I also invite you to consider undertaking a 40 day journey of your own, to put aside something you like to do, as a small sacrifice commemorating the ultimate sacrifice that was made for you.

Everybody loved it. Everybody thought they were great at it.

Try First Person Tetris.

Still think you’re pretty awesome? I didn’t think so. I share in your humility.

…but please stop butchering this song:

Santa’s Bag of Random Crap #fb

Originally uploaded by clanmcgraw

So today I received my Christmas Eve / Day Bag of Crap from Woot. The loot:

8 8-digit display calculators
1 galvanized steel bucket
2 Brothers In Arms Hell’s Highway action figures
6 Burpmaster Ink Pens.