04/30/2008
Seven?
This is a totally reasonable system for confirming my laptop’s certification:
One, two… sigh… three, four… sigh… five, six… come on, come on… SEVEN! Yes!
Archive for April, 2008
04/30/2008
Thora Birch is Cavegirl
It’s possible that we finally have a contender for the Snakes on a Plane of 2008 — Cavegirl starring Thora Birch:
Two hundred thousand years ago, teenage girls wanted the same as teenage girls do today, teenage boys! However one amongst them shunned such basic instincts. She wasn’t into teenage clubs, teenage music, teenage fashions. She had more important things on her mind. She had battles to fight, wars to win, evil to conquer. She’s young, she’s fierce. And it’s a shame she doesn’t care about fashion ’cause she’s got great legs. She’s Cavegirl.
It’s based on a 2002 British TV show of the same name, and not the 1985 movie of the same name. How could this fail?
04/29/2008
Prescient Sliders
Speaking of prescient, here’s a very forward thinking clip from a ten-year-old episode of Sliders:
04/29/2008
Gorey 9/11 Memento
A friend (does he want to be named?) recently sent out this picture from his 2001 daily calendar. Very prescient:
If you can’t read it, it’s the September 11th, 2001 page from A Gorey Year and reads “T is for Titus who flew into bits — from The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Edward Gorey.”
Yikes.
Guess which Supreme Court justice likes Egg McMuffins…
Reverse Dictionary? Genius! Now if only I can get a buyer for my Reverse Thesaurus…
67 86 responses to a four word post with a misspelled title is weird.
Descriptive, not divisive. Can’t he be both?
04/27/2008
Ron Paul on the Ground
After CrazyMonk’s reports on the Nevada state Democratic Convention, it’s not all that surprising that the Republican convention was equally interesting. Ron Paul’s people, as usual, showed up en mass and overwhelmed the traditional republicans:
They seemed to make up more than half of the 1,300 or so state delegates to the convention. They won a key procedural vote on the rules, and their boisterous presence created significant delays, causing the convention chairman, Bob Beers, a state senator from Las Vegas, to recess the convention without selecting delegates to the national convention. The state convention is to resume at a later date.
Wherever Ron Paul goes, chaos follows. I like it.
Via Reddit.
Between homeless men being beaten to death with their own crutches, and ongoing gypsy disputes leading to firebombings, I’m pretty jazzed about moving to California.
04/25/2008
I Pray at the Hillary Clinton Temple
My favorite image from the Daily Show clip that CrazyMonk linked to:
It looks like a Soviet propaganda poster. Hell, it looks like THIS Soviet propaganda poster:
Now, let’s combine them:
UPDATE: For CrazyMonk:
Bill Cosby sounds like a parody of himself, even when he’s talking about his disapproval of teenage sex: “Let’s get with these teenage children and their sex and having sex. I’m telling you, you’ve got to talk to your children.”
04/24/2008
Price of Gas in Euros
04/23/2008
Lore Sjoberg Video: Twitter
Lore Sjoberg has departed from his spate of ratings-based videos and has done rehashing his most recent Wired column:
I strongly preferred the ratings-based videos, but this one was worthwhile for the drawings of Internet-type people (and Jeanne Tripplehorn, sortof):
Jonathan Coulton
Wil Wheaton
Jeanne Tripplehorn (on the side, there)
Today’s fauxlogism is Fauxlogophobia.
04/22/2008
Backgrounds: Safety Last
A question (mostly for Troeltsch): if a person with no knowledge of Western languages or Latin-based characters were to find a complete English dictionary which provided nothing but words and their definitions (nothing that could provide external data about the language, word usage or society generally) would that person, given enough time and intelligence, be able to decipher the meanings of the words? Is it possible to translate an unknown language in this manner?