tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197906472024-03-13T08:09:46.616-07:00KirknogginsKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.comBlogger1265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-67828608731780742942024-03-12T17:05:00.000-07:002024-03-13T08:09:13.508-07:00Oscar Night Gets Noggin'd! 2024Time to roll up that red carpet. After a year of movies that almost didn't happen I take my hat off to the union workers. Here's my completely uneducated review of what I guess were the top movies of the year. Oppenheimer was a textbook Oscar movie and I'm bored with how predictable it was that it would win. I was confused as to why I needed to see a bunch of people talkingKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-21578242271221268272024-02-23T16:31:00.000-08:002024-02-23T16:31:38.841-08:00 Ok we need to talk about the new 2024 MLB uniforms. You're ... probably gonna get sick.Let me start this baseball uniform noggin by telling you a little story. Let's go back to the mid 1800s right around the time the great American pastime was starting to get going. A time well before food regulations were established on a federal level. While some of the first baseball games were being played, babies started dying. It was an epidemic but no Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-39710426276488149742024-02-20T10:44:00.000-08:002024-02-20T10:46:16.895-08:00What If...? – We Did Slip Into a New Timeline and This Was The Better OptionThe Watcher from Marvel's 'What If...?'I often joke and wonder if we slipped into an alternate timeline around the time Trump got elected because everything has just felt wrong ever since then. Trump has gone on to become a messiah for the stupid and angry. It’s polluted the entire Republican party. But like, the Cubs finally won the World Series. That’s not supposed to Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-3344540494959371912024-02-02T09:16:00.000-08:002024-02-02T09:16:37.096-08:00Old Photo Friday (haircut book edition)I used to get my haircut at this place that was close to my old house that looked like boobs. Yes, I said boobs. The building was two single story geodesic domes connected in the middle. They're right on a main road in town and everyone calls them the boobs. Apparently it used to be a video store. Dang remember video stores? I'm not talking about Blockbuster orKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-59495128108959136472024-01-18T16:32:00.000-08:002024-01-19T06:09:52.706-08:00Happy New Year! Good Ol' Photo Friday It's been a minute. Fucking 2024. Trump's cult is going to bypass democracy and make him king. So that's great. We had to put Rosco down. RIP dickbutt. Then we got a puppy, I had a really fucked up New Year's Eve but my band played which totally made up for it. Here's some shit. There was an eclipse right after we got home from Italy. Halloween Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-6900174073798659032024-01-18T09:46:00.000-08:002024-01-18T09:46:58.084-08:00Your Mom Clicks Ads...I hate how unashamed targeted ads are now. It's like they're just coming out and saying "yea we were totally spying on you when you just did multiple search queries for vinyl stickers. Here's some sponsored posts from a ton of scammy sticker companies. You're welcome" God it's fucking annoying.A: It's crazy how obvious it is now and B: How utterly useless it is to see ads for the exact thing Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-29509443301077392662023-11-30T09:56:00.000-08:002023-12-07T09:42:24.274-08:00I'm Sorry Chris Janson, Holiday Road is NOT a Christmas Song. Country singer, Chris Janson played "Holiday Road" on the Disney Holiday Special the other night saying it's his favorite Christmas song. I'd never heard of this Christmas Song so when he played it I instantly realized he was playing the theme song to the movie: National Lampoon's Vacation. Wait how is this a Christmas song? Was it used in the Christmas Vacation movie? I had so many Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-36647339958695189662023-10-20T09:29:00.000-07:002023-10-20T09:29:37.946-07:00So I went to Italy. So I just selected these from my Google Photos and they seem to have plopped in here out of order. Anyway. Here are some photos. We had an amazing time. Creepy entry to our Naples AirB&B. Inside was super posh but the people who lived on the ground floor would just chill in plastic chairs and smoke cigarettes all night. They had a little dog who would shit Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-5931822043765517872023-08-24T09:35:00.002-07:002023-08-24T09:55:45.248-07:00Hip Hop Fans Reacting to Beastie Boys For the First Time. HOW? So my Youtube algorithm has picked up a rabbit hole of unlikely music fan reacts to shit like Primus for the first time videos. But there seems to be a ton of "hip hop/rap fan reacts to listening to Beastie Boys for the first time" WTF? how have you never heard Beastie Boys? One of them was like "Ive heard my dad yelling NO SLEEP TIL... but I didn't know what it was. Another one after Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-52048619945075947652023-07-05T16:05:00.003-07:002023-07-06T09:06:54.977-07:00A Good Old Fashioned Photo BlogHere ya go. A turd-storm of out of context images from my cameral reel from the last couple weeks. We used to do these on Friday's but I was just sitting here thinking about the old days on this weird Monday-like Wednesday after a mid-week holiday. The fog was thick for the fireworks. #pinkfog My balding eagle shirt I wear once a year. Indian place started aKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-65642744673959168702023-04-27T08:31:00.002-07:002023-04-27T08:31:42.351-07:00PYMHM: I Hereby Welcome Our Robot Overlords (2018)I wrote this post you might have missed back in early 2018. A time before all the chatbots and AI image creators. I've posted a few times about how these AI tools are starting to scare the shit out of me, and there have been posts showing my concern about AI and bots taking jobs, but the part I totally missed was that the robots would be the ones living it up. The bots, not us, would be making Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-38340594522578205352023-04-24T16:33:00.001-07:002023-04-24T16:33:49.458-07:00My Severance Theories. No one cares but these are some of my theories for the AppleTV+ series, Severance. If you don’t know what this show is you should go watch it. If you liked Lost or other shows like that you’ll totally dig Severance. I’ve been obsessed since I watched the first episode. With that being said if you’ve never seen it, none of this will make sense and spoil the show for Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-24182897142123104222023-03-18T18:13:00.000-07:002023-03-18T18:13:11.529-07:00Garbage In, Garbage Out. Bathrooms of my Disneyland Vacation: A Photo Retrospective You eat and drink a lot of crap at Disneyland. Delicious, horrible crap and for me, I end up in the bathroom more than usual. I decided to document my magical journey.In order I used them as best as I can remember. I'll let you figure out where they are. I missed a few because there were a bunch of dudes in there who wouldn't like a camera being whipped out while they got it whipped out. There Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-41114831325505749242023-01-03T12:23:00.001-08:002023-01-03T12:26:29.881-08:00Guy Fieri Chili Cook-off Judge Update! Remember this? I Judged a Chili Cook-Off hosted by Guy Fieri.Well the Food Network special finally aired last Friday. It ended up being called Guy's Hometown: From Ferndale to Flavortown. It was an hour long and goes back and forth from Guy's life growing up in Ferndale and interviews featuring food at the County Fair, feeding first responders and of course the ChiliKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-2713862341073537052022-12-21T15:55:00.002-08:002022-12-21T15:55:44.049-08:00We had a big Earthquake. On the morning of Tuesday, December 20th at approximately 2:30 in the morning I was awoken out of a soft gentle slumber to the bed shaking and my phone blaring with an alarm. As I come out of my sleep state I realize "oh there's an earthquake" but then it shakes harder and the sound of my whole house being shaken gets louder. The whole time I'm waking up, along with the wild rumble ofKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-21740754104410386862022-11-17T16:15:00.005-08:002022-11-17T16:28:57.069-08:00Story Time With Uncle Noggins: Swashbuckler!this wasn't us but it very well could have been. In 3rd grade my class had just one computer that we all had to share. It was like an AppleII or something and was coveted as fuck. Gen-Xer's know this was pretty much the style of the time. One computer per class or per several classes and one VHS and TV wheeled into the class on a cart to watch movies. You know. Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-14930913078979863492022-11-04T16:31:00.000-07:002022-11-04T16:31:01.943-07:00Noggins TV Party Friday Night Long Winded Extravaganza! Like a lot of people most of my TV watching has been consumed by Star Wars or MCU lately so I'm taking a breather to watch other stuff. (Andor is really good and She Hulk and Ms. Marvel were great BTW) My guilty pleasure recently has been young adult sci-fi/fantasy. My friend Rosie calls it “Kids on bikes” probably because of Stranger Things. (Just Googled out of curiosityKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-46997190100949728032022-10-25T09:24:00.002-07:002022-10-25T09:24:52.975-07:00McDrive-Thru faux pasIt's been a while since I posted a good ol' fashioned fast food Noggins. It's not because I don't eat it anymore. I'm a fat ass for a reason. Just that nothing really interesting happens as much as it did when I worked in the hood. The McDonalds and the Jack In The Box on San Pablo Ave were a guaranteed Noggin worthy visit. It was like a TV show. Use the Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-6108282184129234022022-08-26T11:34:00.009-07:002023-12-13T14:23:47.717-08:00I Judged a Chili Cook-Off hosted by Guy Fieri.
My local county fair is the oldest continuously running fair and horse racing track in California. The Humboldt County Fair began in 1861 and has been located in its current home at the historic Humboldt County Fairgrounds in Ferndale since 1896. I know this because part of my job, as some of you know is researching local history. Another claim to fame for Ferndale is former Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-42199893358079030022022-06-17T16:03:00.001-07:002022-06-17T16:08:18.400-07:00Humans Are Toast. Robot Overlords Pard XVIIOk so I know I just posted about this but that's sort of supports my point here. This shit is not slowing down and it's just getting worse. This week there was a headline about a Google employee who said it's AI chatbot was alive. Last Friday, a Post article by Nitasha Tiku revealed that Blake Lemoine, a software engineer working in Google’s Responsible AI Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-41785764046616041492022-05-23T09:53:00.001-07:002022-05-23T09:53:10.603-07:00Our New Robot Overlords. Making Stuff, Blowing Minds. AI or, Artificial Intelligence is something I've talked about several times on the Noggins and while I've stated that I'm starting to lean on the side of the fence that is sort of freaked out by AI. Sometimes it makes cool stuff. Cool but scary as hell stuff. I've written recently about the AI that lets you start a story and then a writing bot finishes it for you. I've also Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-43884638736332225672022-03-23T16:00:00.002-07:002022-03-23T16:01:42.986-07:00Why Dark Knight Rises Totally Sucks Gordon: they said there was gonna be glitter. The new Batman movie was good. A little long but overall I didn't have complaints. After discussing it with people they keep bringing up the Dark Knight movies and how fond they are of them. The joker one was good, I don't remember the middle one but here's my take on the last one. I watched it twice just to make sure I wasn't Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-20612141630644886282022-03-07T10:40:00.001-08:002022-03-07T10:40:49.451-08:00Old Man Musician Soapbox Time: We Need To Talk About Your Band's Stage Appearance.A friend saw a band at his local club that he really liked and posted a video on his facebook. I'm not gonna post it here or mention the band because it's really not about them. They are a really good sort of progressive sort of thrash/death metal type band and there was nothing really wrong with them other than some pitchy melodic Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-11518545644983763182022-03-01T15:30:00.005-08:002022-03-01T15:30:54.349-08:00Pirate Ship Designated Driver, Dog Poop, Some Pictures and a TV Show Obsession - Hold the Pickles.How is it March? January 1st feels like it was 7 years ago. I know Feb is the shortest month but it literally flew by. If I'm being honest 2019 feels like a whole different lifetime ago. Anyhoo, here's some nonsense. Today I was at the Jack in The Box drive thru. I hate drive thrus but our one and only Jack in The Box is still closed for dine-in because ofKirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19790647.post-41197417920322997522022-02-08T15:36:00.007-08:002022-03-01T15:38:35.057-08:00Welcome to 2022. Please Drive Thru. Here's Extra Napkins. You'll Need Them. What a wild year 2021 was… or two years? Three? From Trump to Covid and Black Lives Matter, school shootings, fucking Russia and everything in between it's felt fucking nuts for like 7 god damn years. I used to write a Noggin on here almost every day. In 2006, the first full year of the Noggins, I wrote exactly 365 of these damn Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03269144717191708795noreply@blogger.com0