Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Top Five Tuesday: Top Five Christmas Songs

This Tuesday I find myself lacking the energy to comment on my top five.  Also, seeing as I erected a Christmas tree, we're going festive.  Bands listed are versions I'm particularly fond of, but the songs are mostly chosen for lyrics.

5. You Gotta Get Up - Five Iron Frenzy
4. I Hate Christmas Parties - Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes
3. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Frank Sinatra
1. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Viva Voce

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Top Five Tuesday, Wednesday Edition: Top Five Ways To Kill a Squirrel

By popular demand (and by popular I mean one guy who apparently has a beef with squirrels), today's Top Five Tuesday (I know it's Wednesday, but I'm a sucker for alliteration) is the top five ways to kill a squirrel.  There's really only one reason you'd be going on a squirrel killing rampage.  To eat their tiny hearts and gain their powers.  As such this list will be constructed in order of ease.  Remember, he's cute, but it's him or you.



5. Traps- You don't want to engage a squirrel in direct combat right out of the gate, that's suicide.  Fortunately squirrels are pretty fixated on the whole eating stuff thing, so if you take their food, and put it in a place where retreiving it will kill them, they'll fall for it every time.  If you need plans for a starter trap, here's a british guy telling you how to kill red squirrels.  I know it seems harsh, but that little guy wants to steal your girlfriend.


4. Guns - It is possible that you might be able to skip directly to this step providing you're absolutely certain the squirrel you've targeted is unarmed. However in any early attempts at squirrelicide it is imperative that you remain concealed until the moment you strike, and that you make each shot count.Otherwise you're pretty much hosed. I recommend something about this size.



3. Hadouken - To perform this ancient technique simply visualize your chi rolling in a quarter circle from your feet forward to your belly, and being released when you throw a punch.  You're not going to throw a punch though, just imagine it.  Your actual physical motion is going to look like this.  Note that this technique is going to be a lot harder if you imagine your chi as controlled by a directional pad rather than an analog joystick.

2. Badgers - Badgers are the natural predator of all living things, they know neither good, nor evil.  Only of honor, and the hunger that drives them.  For this reason this is possibly the most dangerous technique on this list, enlisting the aid of a badger always comes at a cost.  But if you feel you have no other options, it is a choice, though not one that should be entered into lightly.


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