In life imitating video games news, this is some dashcam footage from Antioch, Tennessee of an inspired driver making a very creative U-turn. Hey, if it works in Grand Theft Auto, it’s bound to work in real life too, right? Per Rodney Dangerfield: “This afternoon my wife cracked up the car again. I was out driving with her, she told me she was gonna make a u-turn. I’ll tell ya, the letter she made… you’ll never find in the alphabet.” LOL. Maybe it was a Ж from the Cyrillic alphabet. Also, do you think it’s coincidence the back right bumper of this Civic looks like they just backed into something and ran? Because I’ve got the sneaking suspicion somebody just earned a two star wanted level and is circling back to the nearest Pay ‘n’ Spray.

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Source: Geekologie – Where’d You Learn To Drive, Grand Theft Auto?: Dash Cam Footage Of Driver’s Creative U-Turn

This is a video of the Klingon Pop Warrior (aka Jennifer Usellis-Mackay) performing a live cover of ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ in Klingon (previously: Frozen’s ‘Let It Go’). She does a great job. Gosh, I wish I could be found somewhere over the rainbow. Like where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Because if we’re being completely honest I’ll probably be found under a bridge with a possum on a leash, both eating out of the same cat food bowl.

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Source: Geekologie – Encore, Encore!: Live Klingon Performance Of ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’

This is a video created by Youtuber Hazegrayart imagining if the Saturn V, Space Shuttle, Falcon Heavy and the Space Launch System (SLS) rockets were transparent so you could see the fuel while they blast off into space in real time from Kennedy Space Center. In the video, the fuel is color coded with red = kerosene RP-1, Orange = liquid hydrogen LH2, and blue = liquid oxygen LOX. The only fuel I need to keep me reaching for the stars all morning long? *puts foot on desk, leans on knee and takes bite of energy bar* 100% all natural Energeez protein bars. They’ve got the– “Cut, cut! Put some long pants on, I can see your nuts.” *spitting bite into wastebasket* This shit tastes like particleboard.

Keep going for the whole video while I pour a little liquor out for Space Bat — gone, but never forgotten.

Source: Geekologie – Real-Time Rendering Of Transparent Rockets Blasting Off Into Space

This is a short video of a woman in an H Mart parking lot while a serial murder of crows go nuts all around her. She says she had just returned to her car when the plague started. Apparently this is something that happens before a big storm. Or, you know, the end of the world. Don’t even act like you’re surprised.

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Source: Geekologie – The Birds IRL: Woman Sitting In Car Watching Plague Of Birds In Parking Lot

This is a video of ‘Wave’, an anamorphic illusion displayed on giant wrap-around screens designed for video advertisements in a South Korean plaza. When I first read the title I thought it was going to be a real wave maker like one of those desktop toys that seesaws back and forth with the blue liquid inside WHICH I’VE DRANK BEFORE. “You’re so cool GW.” Was there any question? I mean who else are you friends with that knows what the inside of a Stretch Armstrong tastes like?

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Source: Geekologie – Giant Wave Illusion Art Installation In South Korea

This is a video of Youtuber Quint BUILDs successfully filling a car tire from completely flat to 34PSI using a garden hose and series of 2-liter bottles to build up enough water and air pressure to pump that sad-ass tire back up. It does take four full rounds of filling up the bottles (80 liters total, along with a custom fabricated in-line bottle screw system) to inflate the tire though. Still, I think it’s proof-positive that the next time you’ve got a flat and nothing but a garden hose and bunch of 2-liter bottles laying around you should just call AAA like a normal person.

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Source: Geekologie – Man Inflates Car Tire Using Water And Air Pressure Created From Garden Hose, Ten 2-Liter Bottles

To remind everyone there was a pro-democracy movement in progress prior to the coronavirus pandemic (and show support for the movement), a gelato shop in Hong Kong is selling a ‘tear gas’ flavored frozen dessert. Some more info while I order a more traditional pistachio flavor:

it’s not easy to swallow (literally). One customer who had been tear gassed at a protest said the ice cream, made of black peppercorns, tastes a lot like the real thing.

That…does not sound very pleasant, although I’m sure it’s worlds better than actually getting tear-gassed. The closest I’ve ever come is taking turns with a friend pepper spraying each other. Easily in the top 20 cries of my whole life.

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Source: Geekologie – Hong Kong Gelato Shop Selling ‘Tear Gas’ Flavor

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Source: Geekologie – Giant Herd Of Firefighting Goats Run Through California Neighborhood

This is a video of a bunch of different celebrities singing pieces of Weird Al’s ‘Eat It’ to perform the entire song when edited together in the right order (which somebody thankfully did). Celebrities included are: Scott Adsit, Al Yankovic, Fred Armisen, Rachel Bloom, Amy Carlson, Bryan Cranston , David Cross, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Al Franken, Heidi Gardner, Tony Hale, John Hodgman, Jack Black, Michael Mando, Michael McKean, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk, Alison Pill, Phil Rosenthal, Paul Scheer, Rhea Seehorn and Amber Tamblyn. I’m not going to lie, it was refreshing to see celebrities looking as run down and beat up as the rest of us feel right now. *shrug* At least it’s Friday. “What’s that even mean anymore?” Absolutely nothing.

Keep going for the piecemeal performance while I whip up a batch of my famous deconstructed margaritas. “So tequila shots.” Swing by and I’ll pass you one through the window.

Source: Geekologie – Celebrities Perform Weird Al’s ‘Eat It’ During Quarantine

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Source: Geekologie – Man Captures Footage Of Coyote Chasing Roadrunner IRL

You know what the problem with the closure on cereal boxes is? “They never stay closed.” Even if you somehow do manage to not rip the receiving slot when opening the box for the first time! And then what? “Roaches.” I don’t even like to think about it. Enter this clever cereal box top folding hack. It keeps the box shut– “Tighter than a dolphin’s blowhole!” Well not literally. Like I wouldn’t play with it in the bathtub like a toy boat if that’s what you’re getting at.

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Source: Geekologie – Valuable Info: A Cereal Box Top Closing Hack

This is an official virtual ride (complete with more-than-a-little-annoying facts and figures constantly popping up about the ride) of the ‘Star Wars: Rise Of The Resistance’ attraction located in Galaxy’s Edge at both Disneyland and Disney World. It’s probably the closest you’re going to get to riding the real thing for a while, or, if you’re like me and your parents don’t believe in amusement parks or having fun, the closest you’ll ever get. One time we went to the county fair but left without even getting out of the car because my dad saw the Tilt-A-Whirl.

UPDATE: Added an 18-minute video of somebody who filmed the full experience and didn’t edit it pop-up video style.

Keep going for the video, which contains about three minutes of the four minute ride but does skip some of the full story.

Source: Geekologie – Disney Releases Virtual Ride Of ‘Star Wars: Rise Of The Resistance’ Attraction

This is a video compilation of 60 health inspection issues in three minutes, including shoddy railings, backdrafting water heaters, furnaces spewing flames at ignition, leaking gas pipes, all sorts of scary electrical problems, water leaks, and shit just straight-up falling apart. Man….my house has all those. Thankfully *putting on cool guy shades and replacing full bucket under leak with an empty one* home inspections aren’t required. “You should just burn the place down.” I probably won’t have to.

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Source: Geekologie – Hazards Abound: 60 Health Inspection Issues In Three Minutes

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Source: Geekologie – I Must Have One: Man Builds R9-D9 Housekeeping Droid On Top Of Roomba