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23 Year Old Guy Learning How To Ride A Bike

This video of 23 year-old Keith Haskel trying to learn how to ride a bike is as funny as it sounds.
My favorite part is the 60 year old dad helping him learn. He does the half-run on the sidewalk as Keith rides on the street, and also the running while holding the bike on the field. Dad OBVIOUSLY knows how to teach someone how to ride a bike, so I don’t know what happened.
Spoiler alert: He eventually sort of gets there.

Via The Daily What

YouTube Adds Captions For All Videos

I couldn’t tell from this article about YouTube adding captions to all videos whether you will be able to get a transcript of the video or just see captions while the video is playing. If you can get a transcript, did YouTube/Google just release a free audio transcription service? I can see uploading interviews to YouTube and then cleaning up the voice recognition mistakes. It would sure beat typing out an entire interview.

Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride

It’s not clear why this performance isn’t more heralded. Break My Stride was the first song I remember thinking of as my favorite song and it was on the radio incessantly when I would be riding in the car with my mom. But this video. Wow. It’s from Matthew Wilder’s appearance on Solid Gold, which explains the numerous backup dancers. But there’s absolutely no explanation for his crazy shirt. Also, the 3 keyboards? WHAT THE HELL DOES HE NEED 3 KEYBOARDISTS FOR? Anyway. Enjoy.

Fun fact, Matthew Wilder was the producer for No Doubt’s 1995 hit Tragic Kingdom. I wonder if he’s available for interviews. Or if he was in the No Doubt Behind the Music?

I Can Walk Like A Penguin

As far as I’m concerned, there are 2 types of people. Those that know what “I can walk like a penguin” means, and those that don’t.

It’s from a commercial for the New England Aquarium that aired incessantly when I was younger. Can you walk like a penguin?

“That Rhymes With The City of Salinas”

Just watch it.


Thanks, Jon.

Creepy Back to the Future III Kid is Creepy

It’s very hard for me to understand what could possibly be happening in this video. The kid is motioning on the DL for some reason, and then all of a sudden, he points to his junk. Just watch, you’ll see.

About the Time I Locked Myself in an Office

I’ve learned from the government that if you have to release something embarrassing, you do it as close to the end of the day on Friday as possible. Well, here you go. Mind the cursing. (By the way, I put tape on the lock so it wouldn’t happen to anyone else.)

Thanks to Zack for helping me get out documenting the situation.

Watch That First Step, It’s A Doozy!

I spent 15 minutes looking for this scene from ‘Groundhog Day’ so that we could all enjoy Ned Ryerson together! Now I’m gonna have to go watch it again. “Don’t drive angry” is another classic scene, amirite?

Get Some Balls

It’s come to this.

Via Andrew Sullivan

I Have A Dream

As I said last year, it’s worth watching once a year. May as well be today.

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