A man in Oregon got caught trying to launder money by making large cash deposits at a bank, but he smelled so bad he made one of the tellers vomit.  (via Obscure Store)

This is one of those things that makes me think, "Well, at least I wasn't that guy." #entertainment

DeepLeep is a word game sort of like Scrabble, but with a timer and without any competitors.  You have to make words from the letters that pop up, and you can only keep the letters you don't use for a certain amount of time before you're penalized.  It makes you think fast and immediately look for patterns, which is something I tend to do by default because I'm a dork. #entertainment

It strikes me as odd that several people on the Chicago Public Radio show This American Life have speech impediments, including host Ira Glass, whose form of rhotacism (I think) make him subtly substitute "w" for "l", and Starlee Kine, whose lisp sounds like her tongue is simply too big for her mouth.  Also of note are the fact that Ira Glass has a very unusual cadence to his speech, almost as if he was once an alien who later learned to use inflection and accents, and the fact that many guests have a ridiculous mumbling problem.  As a radio show, there's no visual, just vocal, so I would expect it to sound better than a bunch of kids talking into a tape recorder.  Either way, what a cool show.  Currently my favorite podcast. #entertainment

Beer can.  Wake.  Brawl.  Let's see ... how can we put these words together to form a story? 

Ah ha!  Woman with beer can in hand starts brawl at wake.  Bingo! 

As with many things, I feel this story would be best conveyed in list form: 

1. There was a wake
2. At a church
3. Woman showed up with beer can in hand
4. Woman was asked to leave but refused
5. Woman scratched man's face
6. Man's mother kicked woman in chest

I love every part of this article. #entertainment

Seth Rogen stars in Observe and Report, one of the best mall cop movies you'll see this year. #entertainment

Italian automaker Fiat might do something to help stupid American automaker Chrysler.  The thing I don't get is, why are so many news outlets missing this easy joke headline -- "Fiat to aid Chrysler by fiat"?  That's the problem with the news media.  Always missing easy jokes. #entertainment

I learned recently from an older person that TV programming used to be free.  He was talking about how he was opposed to satellite radio because he couldn't imagine paying for something he used to get for free, but then he remembered that he once said the same thing about TV.  I never realized there was a time when cable companies didn't exist and when anyone with a television received free programming over the air.  Sure, there were significantly fewer channels, less variety, and TV stations only broadcast during certain hours of the day, but it was all free for the taking.  Sort of like radio is today.  I wonder when that will change?  And I wonder what other currently free things will later be un-free? #entertainment

I think it's funny how GE advertises their aircraft engines, diesel locomotives, and medical imaging systems on their very own TV network, NBC, as if the people who watched their sitcoms on weeknights had any kind of ability to buy such things.  I guess they're trying to advertise their brand, not just their products, but it still comes across as odd. #entertainment

Deal or No Deal might be the stupidest TV show ever created, though I might be just as stupid for watching it.  To be fair, I've only seen it a couple times and I don't fully understand the concept, but I was thoroughly disappointed by what I saw.  How can Howie Mandel, with all his fashionably bald, soul-patchy coolness fail to impress?  Easy; make a game of chance into a primetime network TV show.  And most times, the "chances" are less than flipping a coin and getting heads.  At least Wheel of Fortune requires the ability to spell.  They could easily cut an hour-long show down into about five seconds.  "Will you will a million dollars?  *flip*  Nope."  One thing that stands out about the contestants is their incredibly selfish, pigheaded greed.  I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course.  Several times throughout the show, the contestant is offered a sum of money to leave the show, oftentimes rejecting that offer in the hopes of winning the million dollar grand prize.  The episode I watched had a woman reject five or six separate offers for over $250,000, then tearfully explain how a million dollars would help her family get out of debt, pay the mortgage, and support the kids.  The offers kept going up until they hovered just under half a million, as the woman continued to shut off her critical thinking skills and follow her foolhardy greed.  I found myself wanting to actually jump through the TV and smack the woman in the face, in the hopes that I could convince her to use a tiny part of her brain to think about the situation for two seconds and realize that half a million now is infinitely better than the less-than-50% chance of one million later.  She ended up accepting the next offer, which was lower though still over $400,000, and finding out that if she had continued playing the game, she would've won the million dollars.  If I was on the show, I'd probably accept the first offer that popped up, likely in the range of $5000, making me perhaps the worst possible contestant, though also $5000 richer.  Easiest $5000 ever. #entertainment

Last week, I was surprised to find out that the radio station 92.3 K-Rock in New York City died, or more accurately, it switched to a top-40 station.  This came just over three years since the station (and many others around the country) switched to Free FM, and then switched back after about 18 months.  This most recent switch was equally as unexpected and unwelcome, and it's really thrown a wrench into my morning commute.  I used to listen to a talk show that kept me entertained just long enough for my 30-minute commute.  But now I'm forced to look for other music on the radio, and it just once again hammers home the point that I don't like "accepting" whatever is broadcast.  I'd rather have a choice, and that choice isn't radio.  For the moment, I've allowed myself to settle on NPR, though I'm morally obligated to financially support it, and I'm not sure that I want to be "a supporter of NPR" a.k.a. "a card-carrying liberal".  In the future I see myself getting more into audiobooks and podcasts and anything else that can occupy my time in nice little 15- or 30-minute intervals. #entertainment