This is a video of a black bear loitering around a woman’s front door, who then closes the door after the woman insists that it does. Apparently this was not this woman’s first bear rodeo. Good bear! For reference, a bad bear would have torn that door off its hinges then taken a dump in the kitchen. According to the video description, this woman lives right next to a state park, and has become familiar with a lot of the wildlife that lives around her. Smart — it’s always wise to know your neighbors. Except mine, I tried and they’re all jerks.

This is a video from the Faber-Castell pen manufacturing plant in Engelhartszell, Austria detailing how the “superfluorescent” Textliner 48 highlighter is made. The factory in Engelhartszell produces some 35-million pens and markers every year, and I suspect at least half of those eventually spend some time in a person’s butt. And if they made Sharpies I’d say 95%. Nothing wrong with that. My point is this: let’s fill some empty liquor bottles with water and the ink from highlighters and add a blacklight so they glow and we’ll have the coolest room in the whole dorm!

Because doing battle is a way of life, this is a video of a guy using his straw to blowdart sticky boba tea balls onto the sweatshirt of a friend walking in front of him. The sound it makes is great. Sucks to be that guy! I mean unless he has a weird thing for sucking boba balls out of fabric, then he’s probably on cloud 9 right now. Me? I’m on cloud -4.

@canderian

He ain’t like the boba ##swagstepchallenge

♬ Pea shooter – Christian

Thanks to JustA, who’s not just an A in my book.

This is an absolutely delightful video of the founder of Save A Fox Sanctuary (a rescue organization that takes in fur farm foxes and surrendered pets and provides a loving home for them) giving all the different colored foxes at the rescue raw egg treats. What does the fox say? “More eggs,” apparently. They love those things! Personally, I’m more a deviled egg man myself, but that’s just me and I ate at least two dozen on Thanksgiving yesterday and probably won’t stop farting until mid-next week. No regrets.

This is a shot of a an Optimus telecommunications box truck parked behind an Amazon Prime delivery van, combining their powers Voltron-style to form the baddest ass truck of all time — OPTIMUS PRIME. You like how I made that Voltron-Transformers crossover right there? Total pro style. That’s why I get paid the big bucks almost nothing to write this blog.

Thanks to my dad, who agrees somebody’s birthday wish was clearly well spent.

This is a video of software engineer Greg Cannon demonstrating the capabilities of StackedRabbit, a NES Tetris playing artificial intelligence system he developed that plays the game with no human reaction time limitations and at 60Hz, making movements as fast as the game allows. In this particular scenario, it also tries to only make 4-line Tetris drops when possible to maximize score. The AI system makes it all the way to level 237 before the game crashes due to its own limitations, with 3,112 total line drops and a score of 102,252,920. Not too shabby! For reference, I used to try to strangle my brother with the controller cord whenever he beat me at 2-player Tetris.