These sites have made me laugh in the past:
Www.FunnyOrDie.com - These are hit and miss but those with 80%+ ratings are often genuinely funny
www.MyDamnChannel.com - Wainy Days is worth watching. It's vulgar and intentionally silly but has some famous actors doing cameo roles and the writing is intelligent
www.cracked.com - I find it hard to pull my eyeballs away from their humorous posts
www.teamcoco.com - Usually I just watch the show when it comes on TV, so there is no point in visiting this site. Still, the site usually has good clips.
Shopping for Baseball Tickets:
I'm not a huge fan of Major League Baseball. The fact that the Yankees payroll is three times that of my team, the San Diego Padres, means that they can never compete on a level playing field. I believe that MLB needs to adopt the NFL's model of providing a league wide salary cap, which would allow all the teams to have a chance of winning the World Series.
Still, I like to attend 1-5 games a season so finding the best deals on tickets is a help to me. Recently, I came across a piece that recommends ticket price seat aggregators FanSnap.com and SeatGeek.com, both of which pull information from a wide range of ticket sale sites to present a picture of what seats are available at what price from all the various ticket brokers out there. There is a good video that is just over one minute long, which breaks down the process for using these aggregrators here.
I really wish I could man the controls of one of these:
Book Things:
As a senior in high school I had a really sharp English teacher who was on top of his game. In fact, the guy had won Teacher of the Year at a large high school with 3,300 students twice in a row before he took himself out of the running so that the other teachers would have a chance. In short, this guy really knows his stuff when it comes to literature. One day in class this teacher recommended that anyone interested in reading a book that was both deep with meaning and would be a real page turner should buy a copy of The Magus by John Fowles. Unfortunately, there was no way he would be able to teach it in class.
Disclaimer: Of course, your mileage may vary in terms of enjoyment of any of the items above.
TL;DR: I list several items on my entertainment list. If you're looking to be entertained, I would suggest you start at the top with the websites I suggest.
Shopping for Baseball Tickets:
I'm not a huge fan of Major League Baseball. The fact that the Yankees payroll is three times that of my team, the San Diego Padres, means that they can never compete on a level playing field. I believe that MLB needs to adopt the NFL's model of providing a league wide salary cap, which would allow all the teams to have a chance of winning the World Series.
Still, I like to attend 1-5 games a season so finding the best deals on tickets is a help to me. Recently, I came across a piece that recommends ticket price seat aggregators FanSnap.com and SeatGeek.com, both of which pull information from a wide range of ticket sale sites to present a picture of what seats are available at what price from all the various ticket brokers out there. There is a good video that is just over one minute long, which breaks down the process for using these aggregrators here.
I really wish I could man the controls of one of these:
This form of entertainment doesn't exist yet but I think it should. The Air Force doesn't really need to pay people to pilot their unmanned drones. I bet there are hundreds of thousands of people, gamers especially, that would love the chance to use a joystick on an Air Force Base in Colorado Springs to launch a missile attack from a Predator drone against targets in Western Pakistan.
Can you get some more missiles and bombs on that thing?
A good friend of mine works on improving the design of the Reaper and the Predator, actually trying to put more ordinance on the Predator shown above. I hope that whoever was in charge of naming those two drones will get to name the next armed drone (the unarmed Global Hawk doesn't count) and if it's anywhere near as good as the first two it will definitely become part of the name of my yet to be formed band.
Book Things:
As a senior in high school I had a really sharp English teacher who was on top of his game. In fact, the guy had won Teacher of the Year at a large high school with 3,300 students twice in a row before he took himself out of the running so that the other teachers would have a chance. In short, this guy really knows his stuff when it comes to literature. One day in class this teacher recommended that anyone interested in reading a book that was both deep with meaning and would be a real page turner should buy a copy of The Magus by John Fowles. Unfortunately, there was no way he would be able to teach it in class.
Disclaimer: Of course, your mileage may vary in terms of enjoyment of any of the items above.
TL;DR: I list several items on my entertainment list. If you're looking to be entertained, I would suggest you start at the top with the websites I suggest.
Great post and great sites! I loved them!
ReplyDeletei have most of my entertainment needs taken care of :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! This will keep me entertained for a long time when I'm bored :D
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, multipost. Nice man, geeze. o_o into the sites first!
ReplyDeletethat's a good list you have there. :)
ReplyDeletequite a nice list you got there
ReplyDeleteI love funnyordie.com. I also agree with you about the Yankees, its just really not that fair, with the money the spend, i don't see how they don't win each world series.
ReplyDeleteExcellent list, these sites are very entertaining.
ReplyDeleteYeah they were excellent thanks.
ReplyDeletemanning a predator drone would be soooooo cool! have it fly over my own house, the would creep me out ! ahha, just hope nobody pushes the button!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a huge baseball fan either but I love the energy. I went to a Red Sox game yesterday. We wonnn~ :D
ReplyDeleteDo want that plane! Oh and great novel, read that a year ago & it was quite interesting :)
ReplyDeleteSo cool, that's like a little stealth bomber
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