http://blog.paulbarrett.net These days, seems like everyone has a blog. Well, this one's mine. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:18:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can you shake a beer can or a coke can or any soda or carbonated beverage in an aluminum can hard enough so that the pressure just builds and builds and eventually just pops? Just bursts the hell open? I'd like to build a machine that aims to find this ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-03/great-idea-005/ - 1 -Once upon a time, in the woods deep under all the brambles their was a castle that belonged to an ogre. Everyone would tell storys like: All of the kings knights and the Emperor's best warriors tried to kill the ogre but every time someone went to the ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-02/three-fairy-tales-i-wrote-when-i-was-a-kid/ Two men at a bar. The man on the left is overweight and has an open pack of cigarettes behind him; also a rocks glass with liquid. He stands with his back to the bar, leaning, legs crossed at the ankle, a cigarette balanced insouciantly between two fingers as smoke ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2010-01/described-comic-002/ 1. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica  (2000) 2. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People  (2002) 3. Radiohead - In Rainbows  (2008) 4. A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward  (2001) 5. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP  (2000) 6. Panda Bear - Person Pitch  (2007) 7. Liars - Drum's Not Dead  (2006) 8. ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-12/albums-of-the-decade/ 1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 3. Atlas Sound - Logos 4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca 5. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - - - St. Vincent - Actor Song: Animal Collective - My Girls Best of 2009 Mix Previous years' lists http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-12/best-of-2009/ A bar where the seats are all unicycle seats, and people can pedal while they drink. The pedals are hooked up by bicycle chain to small generators, and the power generated by the pedaling goes toward powering the bar's lights, refrigeration, signage, etc. Would be the World's First Human-Powered Bar. ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-11/great-idea-003/ A man crests a hill on a bicycle. The camera follows him over a series of precipitous drops and craggy boulders, it's that sort of sped-up-motion style that we've seen a million times before. The man wears a white helmet w/ a red cross on it and a kind of ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-10/advertisement-for-a-painkiller/ There's a guy lying on the couch. His eyes are closed but we can tell since he's got a speech bubble that he's awake. His wife has just walked in the door with a bag of groceries or a briefcase, something that suggests accomplishment, and she's saying, "Still working on ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-10/described-comic-001/ What if you filmed a movie in black and white, maybe a WWI movie or something old, but you filmed it in COLOR only you just built all the sets and costumes in black and white. You'd have to shoot only on cloudy days and everyone would have to wear ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-10/great-idea-002/ Just about every time I used the bathroom at my old job, which is, in four years, probably about (4 x (5 x 50)) x 1.5 = 1,500 times, I used the middle of the three urinals. That middle urinal was like my urinal, like nothing could keep me from ... http://blog.paulbarrett.net/archives/2009-09/bathroom-etiquette/