Links posted in October 2004
October 31, 2004
Who's going to win? Kerry 283-246, Bush 286-252, Kerry 296-242, Bush 296-242, or is it perhaps even still a tossup? We know jhanssen and doncarlo's predictions; other methods exist too.
Perhaps you'd like to give prognostication a try: just download this form and fill in the table or color the map! There's three copies of the ballot, so you can print it for everyone at your favorite election-watching party (I hear the best ones have brownies).
If you are superstitious, then John Kerry has won the election. Packers win 28 to 14.
October 30, 2004
Abraham Lincoln = Greatest Gay Republican? - A new book with a conclusion that shouldn't be so shocking considering that Carl Sandburg (lightly) suggested it in his 1926 biography. Fairly impeccable sources tell a story about Honest Abe that I certainly would never have expected...
October 29, 2004
Anyone have an old cell phone they want to get rid of? Donate it to the Easter Seals -- proceeds go to helping "children and adults with disabilities, and their caregivers."
A letter of support for Kerry. I don't think anyone here needs convincing, but I still wanted to share this. It's from a fellow Austinite.
P-Diddy explains to Stan of southpark. Audio: NSFW, video: marginally safe.
Breasts!
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare.
A breast by any other name (1,233 to be exact, I counted) would...
Misconceptions of Kazakhstan due to Borat (Da Ali G Show)
- "In Kazakhstan we say, 'God, man, horse, dog, then woman, then rat.'"
DEA Photo Library
- In case you can't tell the difference between your Restoril (30mg) and your Tuinal (100mg).
Hobbits discovered! Hey, Tolkien Dorks. Middle-earth turns out to be the island of Flores, home to other evolutionary fuck-ups like the Komodo Dragon and pygmy elephants. No elves have turned up yet.
And you know what? Good for you, Perry, because the UN really gives two sh!^s what you think.
October 28, 2004
Holy Censorship, Batman! IF you are an organization that wants to remain tax exempt, then it is apparently a bad idea to mention certain presidents whose policies may be affecting the "Advancement of Colored People".
One finger victory salute
You may have already see the video of bush flicking off the camera, but just in case you didn't...
I personally would've thought it funnier if he'd mooned the camera instead.
October 27, 2004
For those of you who frequent a certain burrito place, you might want to go there this Sunday. (It involves free food.)
I got an invitation to an open house at my alma mater, The University of Maryland, for a new experiment getting ready to run in their complex systems group.
The experiment is going to try to test the idea, put forward 80 years ago by Joseph Larmor, that planetary magnetic fields are the result of dynamo action in the liquid metal in the outer core of the planet.
So what does the group at maryland do? They build an experiment. Sound difficult? I mean, what do you build, how do you do it? and where do you get molten iron? well, how about starting with a 3 meter diameter spherical shell, and instead of iron, because thats too dangerous, how about filling the shell with liquid sodium, and then spin the whole thing up to 12 Hz.
So, who wants to road trip to maryland to see 13 tons of molten sodium spinning faster than you ever did on a merry-go-round?
Arafat
Who want's to take bets on Arafat living through the next couple of days? My money's on the one way ticket to hell...
Maybe Sharon can get with the program and keel over soon too.
Another reason for natedogg (and probably most of the people who view this site) to root for the Green Bay Packers this Sunday.
Aaaacchhhoooo... Now if they could genetically engineer them without teeth and claws...
October 26, 2004
Raise? So you don't wanna give your cops a raise because you're worried about the city bidget? Better make sure the city's general fund doesn't rely on traffic citations, because angry cops just might decide that a certain traffic infractions only deserve a warning. And by "certain" I mean most of them.
The AEthermixes are literally pouring in today and are literally pouring out onto my floor as my cat has knocked the box off the table. While I unscatter the CDs from my living area, let me remind some of you procrastinators that the time is now to gets a move on. Le grand unveiling will be at the next Monday movie night (Halloween theme, 8PM) and if you're not marked off on the list then you wager on receiving substantial booing. Get your little bundles of joy to me before then or promise promise promise to bring them with you Monday night. If you have other plans for that time (in which case you must not remember last year's Vampyros Lesbos and Blacula) you should gimme what you got before then and expect a big gift basket with sausage, cheese, and CDs in return (AKA WI stylie). Or maybe it will be a plastic grocery bag (AKA cheap guy stylie). Soon after, I will send away the bounty to our far flung friends. Get going!
I have a feeling that the national terror alert level's moving to orange, turns out "Al Pieda" was responsible for the cowardly attack on Ann Coulter in Arizona. No word yet on what country sponsored these acts of terror but it's go time when we find out who supplied these WMD's (weapons of mass deliciousness).
Is anyone going to stay here over winter break? I need someone to take care of my cat. Or if you need someone to take care of your cat, maybe we can work out a deal? You know, a little you scratch my back, I scratch your record?
October 25, 2004
If this is your experience on voting day, please contact Comedy Central immediately. Jon Stewart will know what to do.
How the Dutch do Iraq
Wait?! I didn't know the Netherlands were in those 30 cuontries, too!
wow. and doing it better...(must be all the weed they share).
Bush vs. the Laureates: How Science Became a Partisan Issue by Andrew C. Revkin. Appeared last week in the NYT.
On a side note, this reference:
"You have to be evenhanded in reporting science results, and it's apparent that there is a tendency for that not to be occurring now," said Dr. James E. Hansen, a climate expert who is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan.
is not to our beloved Dr. James HanSSen!
October 24, 2004
Any players trying for a moonshot in World Series game 4 might miss their target. Leroy, do your seats have a view of this?
See the Astros are cursed too. Not that I think many of you will read this...but I thought I would try.
i know here we can never get enough of jon stuart, check out the article from the washington post
"Jon Stuart Leibowitz, who grew up in suburban New Jersey, is a physicist's son who found himself tending bar and doing puppet shows for schoolchildren after graduating from Virginia's College of William and Mary. He dropped his last name when he started doing stand-up at Manhattan comedy clubs, waiting tables to get by."
ahh. . . it all makes sense now.
October 23, 2004
pennies Ever wonder what a trillion pennies would look like? Yeah, me neither.
Cabinet Magazine linked to an extensive collection of International onomatopoeia (ya know, animal sounds in different languages?). Props to whoever can spell the sound a French lion makes. What up with the Korean Fly and Japanese snakes?
Hey Lil Jon, nice sunglasses!
haWhat?
I said, nice shades!
haWhat?
Nice glasses!
YEEAHH! I opted for the 256MB model, sporting a 75 MHz DSP with 18-bit sigma Delta DAC, allowing a multitude of codecs.
Awesome!
OKAY!!!
For those who watch the Daily Show regularly, you probably saw when they had an "advance copy" of a video about Bush to be shown at the RNC. Anyway, I found a link to someone who put it up on his webpage. It's entertaining.
October 22, 2004
OK, good news. The Travis County Democratic party has done some investigation into the issue I described below, and it turns out to be user error. Something like if you hit the enter button trying to submit the ballot, but you have scrolled one page too far, then you will end up hitting <enter> on the presidential ballot, which is what caused the vote change.
Sorry for the additional voter fraud hysteria on top of some of the other stories that have come out recently. Still, check your work. Damn, no link again. Uhhh... try this.
Just a warning to check your work when voting. Apparently, when a friend of one of my co-workers went to do early voting here in Austin (admittedly, this is total hearsay), they checked the Democratic party line option and, lo and behold, Democrats were selected in all races on the ballot save one -- you guessed it! President! In what must be an honest programming error, this person was about to unintentionally vote for Bush.
No word on whether a Republican party line vote counts for Kerry. I mean, it probably does, right? What with symmetry and all...
Just realized I didn't include a link, so here's a gratuitous one.
happy birthday universe! For those of you out of the loop, the universe turns 6000 today. Wish her a happy birthday and kick a scientist in the knee.
October 21, 2004
I don't...it's just...I mean...okay then, if I must learn it.
I don't know if this is the proper forum for this, but I know that at least becky and Ned (and possiby natedogg) will be interested in this.
I made a grand realization that I'm easy to please when I discovered the new Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper tonight at my neighborhood Randalls. (on a side note, this link says we're in a "heartland market", which is nice to know). Walking to the checkout with both regular and diet versions in my hand, I realized that they could pretty much put whatever the hell they wanted inside and I'd still whip it off the shelf and start guzzling. I want to enjoy it before I read the label and find out that it's got gizzards or whatever in it.
By the way, the new flavor is good. But you knew I was going to say that, didn't you?
A noble spirit embiggenens the smallest man
, but it doesnt mean they are right.
In fact Bush supporters are not well informed, or at least not as well informed as Kerry supporters.
Bryce deWitt has gone to check the cosmic answer sheet.
October 20, 2004
Yeah Red Sox!
Could this be an omen of bostonian dominance to come???
Excerpts from Lynne Cheney's literary masterpiece Sisters - a potboiler by the VP's wife, featuring lesbian love scenes, feminist rants, incest, adultery, lynchings, dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism...
So, Leroy or JSK: who'll it be? Bring it on!
What do dictators and sitcom characters have in common? Find out here.
Is the bible too boring for you? Could you be persuaded to be more interested if, say, the scenes were acted out by Lego characters verse by verse? How about if there were raunchy cowgirl sisters, painful cuts, and doggy-style debauchery? I learned more about Genesis in the last hour than the previous 26 years.
In case you don't already have enough free email addresses, you can now have an address at Frog Shit dot Com.
My sister claims that it is "the tits". How's that for a personal testimony, eh?
ASTROS in 6 BABY! I know that I risk the eire of a few individuals...truthfully, I am torn...the Cards were my Grandfather's team.
Plush microbes! Sorry to those who have seen this, but the Epstein-Barr virus is sooooooooooooo cute. Quit licking your lips! That's not calamari--it's my H. pylori. Catch 'em all.
October 19, 2004
Organized beyond all belief!
Do you know that you want it, or is the post just an excersize in excessive pretention?
(This is mostly for Becky.) Just be glad you aren't actually named Martha Stewart.
October 18, 2004
I know I've posted a lot of little "mash-up" videos lately, but I find that this one (expletive warning) works surprisingly, amazingly well.
Grab your glocks when you see purple
Call the cops when you see dino
So here's an idea, why don't we trade aethermixes via gmail? Instead of wasting disks we can waste bandwidth instead. Anyone still needing an invite to gmail can just email me (theOmegaman@gmail.com). I'm finding myself hard-pressed to fill up my one gig of space so maybe this'll help out a bit.
Good News Everyone! Despite rumors to the contrary, Alamo will not close the downtown location when the new six screen S. Lamar location comes on line. They'll run them simultaneously.
Following that Shatner link is as good a time as any to remind all of our little Aethermixers that the due date is ostensibly one week from today (October 25). I figured that the movie night was as good a time as any to exchange all of these masterworks. Forgot what it's all about? Look here. Now, if nobody uses The Transformed Man to prop up their mix, I'll be disappointed.
team america
Holy shit this movie was funny. Saw it yesterday with tina and we couldn't stop laughing. America...Fuck Yeah!
Be warned though, there is a graphic puppet on puppet sex scene as you may have witnessed in Jr High at that friend of your's house with the little sister who left stray barbie dolls and my little ponies laying around. Or was that just my childhood?
Shatner strikes a chord - with more than just the ladies. Bunny pointed out to me the existence of a new album that treads awesome territory: production by Ben Folds and a duet with Henry Rollins to name but two great things. It actually scores decent marks from pitchfork.
October 17, 2004
Need some tools for the lab?
The fact that this cunning stunt doesn't overstay its welcome makes it funny enough to post.
WARNING! Not safe for boys! Since the real link wouldn't fit into the form, here is the real gem: the sweetest ass bike ever made!. I would trade all three of my bikes for this one.
October 16, 2004
Movie Proposals that Will Never Make It
"Two die-hard 'Big Trouble in Little China' fans are on a quest to recover Kurt Russell's tank top after being outbid at an online auction."
Cards vs. Astros Party
To all you loyal readers of AE, especially NanoCindy (a cubs fan who's crying in her beer), I'd like to invite you to a baseball watching get-together at my apartment.
<address>3625 Duval RD APT 813
San Marin Complex @ intersection of Amherst and Duval Road (not street)
3:00pm until Red Sox win at 10!</address>
Astros fans welcome, but you are not allowed to cheer for your team. Sorry. House rules.
Jon Stewart unloads on Crossfire's Tucker Carlson...
CARLSON: I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion. ...
STEWART: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.
It's worth reading the CNN transcript of the show. (Ctrl-F for "Nerf" to find the start of Stewart's segment).
At Zombo Com you can do anything. The only limit is yourself.
October 15, 2004
Wanna volunteer for Kerry this weekend? See comments.
October 14, 2004
Sad shit
'kay look out everyone, i'm gonna butcher another post.
here's an acknowledgement from the latimes at least:
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/cl-et-rutten2oct02.column
Why do I see Yafis doing this in 20 years? Physics prof goes nutzoid. Yelling at and smacking students.
An you thought the O'Reilly Factor was hard to stomach The Smoking Gun has the text of the sexual harrassment suit, replete with fantastic and salacious detail.
An incredible page-turner ... it appears a safe bet that Mackris recorded some of O'Reilly's more steamy soliloquies. ... While we suggest reading the entire document, TSG will point you to interesting sections on a Thailand sex show, Al Franken, and the climax of one August 2004 phone conversation.
The Bear is Back.
Well, in the comments, at least....
Good Times! (Elvis-impersonator crime spree edition)
Build your own hydrogen maser! so, i was looking up how to reduce noise interference from gpib cables, because i know nothing about electronics (i still didn't figure it out), and i stumbled upon a a DIY time nerd. turns out, if i get into a financial crisis when i get back to texas, i could sell him a lotta vacuum tubes...also check out his paper that he publish The State of the Art in Amateur Timekeeping. sweetass.
For those of you who want to vote early you can check your registration status here and early voting locations here.
Halo 2 released a month early! Thanks to pirates! Arggghhhh! Shiver me timbers! Avast ye swabs!
October 13, 2004
not funny Warning: contains information that democrats may find enraging. Brought to you RNC.
If the Pats' win streak ends this weekend, I know why. Hey mister, what's the worst part about watching your $47,000 Patriots-styled tailgating RV named Hannah burst into a fireball of flame on the way to the game?
"The worst part is, the tickets were still in the glovebox," he added.
I can't get enough of these timely Bush flash 'toons. But this one really takes the cake over all others. Then it smashes the cake in their faces. Also starring Gary Busey and ferrets.
October 12, 2004
Pranksters take over Virgin Megastore (from SE):
Megastore guy: They were all just standing there.
Cop: What were they doing?
Megastore guy: Just standing, and then they all danced.
Cop: Did they say anything?
Megastore guy: No. [Pause]
Cop: Why are we here?
Which OS are you? A super-scientific poll that almost rivals Cosmo for precision. Apparently, I am Slackware Linux. Yay! I guess.
As brought to my attention by fellow lab-rat sonia, here is a badass political flash cartoon starring Bush, Kerry, and Amitabh Bachchan (star of "Don"). She tells me that "Dishoom" is the name for the old school sound effects that were dubbed over fight scenes in early Bollywood movies. (It's supposed to sound like a punch). (also, i should point out that reid brought up badmash at least twice before but I forgot about it both times).
Take action against Sinclair Broadcasting Corp. Hopefully if the link works, it will take you to a petition.
Go 'stros! (no, not the beer...the team). Flip, I feel a game watchin' party is in order.
Not to rub halide on the collective Longhorn avulsion, but this is the Eminem parody I was talking about at the delightful RRS gathering on Saturday. It's from last year, but sadly everything except the Sugar Bowl reference still applies.
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) talks with Larry King about converting to Islam and being denied entry to the US.
October 11, 2004
funny site This one's for you Todd "funny-bone" tinsley. Turns out your site's full of nuggets...
Would someone tape this show so that I can watch it on my jumbo-tron later?
So how does this bit torrent thing work Nate?
If anyone needs some extra space to stuff (sorry Ben, I mean shit) I toying with the idea of subletting space in my garage. It would make an excellent space for workshop type stuff.
Also there was this retardedly large caterpillar crawling around in front of my appartment today.
The Ride for the Roses is this weekend (Sunday, Oct 17th) -- Pablo and I are both doing the century ride (map). Last year Phil J and Biggun yelled from the bridge at S Main St and Highway 290, and I heard people several hours later comment how much they appreciated spectators, especially "the two guys yelling at everyone from on top of the bridge" (I sure appreciated it). If the weather's good and you'd like to watch & cheer, we'll pass through Elgin at about 8:45-9:30pm and again at 12-1:30pm. Also please consider supporting our ride -- any amount is welcome -- here (mrflip) or here (pablo).
I was listening to RJD2 and heard a lyric about the "thousand-yard stare." I looked up the phrase and found a fascinating mystery about this photograph of an unknown soldier ("An exhausted Marine finds refuge inside a church in An Hoa during a heavy North Vietnamese mortar attack." -- 1967 UPI caption). The full story is here.
fair and balanced WTF?
All 25 Fensler Films Public Service Announcements. G.I. Joe.
"The next World Beard and Moustache Championships will take place in Berlin, Germany on October 1, 2005. The championships are timed to coincide with the annual celebration commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, held on October 3, a national holiday in all of Germany. The organizers of this event, the Berlin Beard Club, claim that this is the biggest party in Germany, bigger even than Oktoberfest. Luckily, those traveling to the WBMC 2005 will be able to see for themselves by stopping over in Munich on the way to Berlin. Oktoberfest 2005 starts in Munich on September 17 and continues until October 1."
If the Green Bay Packers knock and ask to see your bedroom closet -- even if it's just for a sec -- tell them no.
Ad Graveyard (Has this been posted before?) -- ad campaigns that, for some reason or another, never made it.
October 10, 2004
Dr. Strangelove (FRR) - more real than we ever knew.
October 09, 2004
Jon Stewart et al. from the Daily Show have published a new book named America: The Book, which is in the format of an elementary school government/history textbook. It is the number one book on amazon, where there is a special video greeting from Jon himself as well as an illuminating 15 minute (audio or transcripted) interview with amazon staff. If you're too busy to listen to the whole thing, Jon would pick flying as his superpower since stretchy limbs are lame and fireball throwing is too destructive.
Everyone (or at least the male readership) has seen their share of extreme skateboarding/bmx/surfing trick videos. These often fall comfortably in the middle of the spectrum between nut-crushing hilarity and jaw-dropping agility. It's time for the new breed of videos and who better to take the mantle than unicyclists?
Everyone should tell Pete Figliozzi that Michigan beat Minnesota and that Ohio State lost to Wisconsin today.
Which candidate is funnier? - a head to head comparison from seanbaby.
October 08, 2004
Get it while it's hot, presidential wood. I hear you can find it on internets.
Lying in wait for a proper bracket, I had to get in the spirit of the season and go political. Result: the NY Press schemes to find the worst campaign journalist.
Hey there electoral super-fans. No doubt the more dogmatic of you have already heard the growing clamor about whether Bush had an earpiece in during the first debate. A picture at that link shows some weird bulge between his shoulder blades and it is oddly coincidental that the Bush campaign specifically asked that the candidates not be photographed from behind during the debates (which was ignored by the press pool anyway, it seems). More links from a week ago in metafilter including transcripts of a few moments when he appears to be talking to himself nonsensically that could be better attributed to him accidentally talking back to his handlers.
Dear Santa, please bring me a set of these for Festivus; I'lll find room.
We wants it. We needs it. Must have the Precious.
J. K. Rowling Oh no, who's next? I am not sure I can take another achracter death.
I'd like to see how the cat-fancyin' crowd reacts to this article about cloned cats (FRR); the pun-fancyin' crowd loved it.
NED AND BECKY...Red River Shoutout still on at your house? Gonna watch UT kick some Sooner azzz. I can't believe I just wrote that.
Bikes Against Bush For those of you AE members who bike...and there are quite a few...
Relevant quotes even in the Bush-Cheney Word of today You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, [shouting] 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
October 07, 2004
Remember that guy that proposed to that lady during the basketball game and then she ran away? Well, his name is Lisle and he has his own website. But really, he should be selling tools, which is what I'm really interested in right now...
Tools, that is.
O wonderful sitemaster, don't you think there should be a way to search this site, especially for useful things like that Latex template posted for theses??
Don't count Kerry out yet...but if he loses, all might not be lost. A Harvard history prof feels like four more years of Bush might be disastrous for the Republican party. If you know anything about the campaign of John Major in Great Britain (or even Ike in the fifties), you know that history might be destined to repeat itself.
This dog is awesome. I wish I was smart enough to do the things he does. Watch the video, too...
Check outThis Auction for a *ton* of gaming consoles and junk on eBay (as seen on Slashdot. ) Can you imagine the shipping costs on this stuff? Most of the boxes are far overweight... zoiks!!
presidential debate! Since stoker et al didn't want to get together for the VP debate, how about we all get together for the pres. debate at the alamo? Entry is free.
Shootout at the alamo An alternative to becky's, athough I'd prefer the famous 7-layer dip at becky's to the pay-for-food at the alamo.
Early Voting in Florida I'd like to credit Matt Lane with sending me this link.
October 06, 2004
Here's an interesting Red River Almost-Shootout I never knew about... It wasn't settled til four years ago today.
European Nannies prefer to be Engaged No more: Eldrick the Niblicker Elicits Nuptials from Elin Nordegren.
YO! Check it!
"They know the charges are false. They know if you go, for example, to factcheck.com, an independent website sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, you can get the specific details, with respect to Halliburton."
Cheney meant to say factcheck.org.
Hi about my post below (Darth Cheney)...though I do mean it about him...I did not read through all of the caption next to it...ugh. Moderator, moderator...where are you...please remove my post.
Earthalkaline Nabobs love Emerald Nuts' ads. (Click on "TV Ads" in lower left; then use hands to scroll more ads.) My faves: "Egomaniacal Normans" and "Elegant Naysayers." Let the Deesenutz jokes commence.
Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monobrow! ...
What'd I say?
Ned Flanders: Monobrow!
Lyle Lanley: What's it called?
Patty+Selma: Monobrow!
Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monobrow!
Crowd: Monobrow... Monobrow... Monobrow... Monobrow!
Homer: Mono-d'oh!
A Classic - makes your relationship seem utterly functional by comparison.
October 05, 2004
batteries Please remember during travel to remove the batteries
Just in case anyone wanted to check out what
Wil Wheaton's been up to in preparation for the alamo's
pie eating contest ...
Red River Shoot Out So this saturday is the Red River Shoot out. It starts at 11am so come over and watch on my large TV with DVR so we have our own instant replay. Bring beer and I will have plenty of munchies including stuff to grill for lunch and my wonderful brownies. Spread the word as I don't have the time to do and official e-vite. E-mail me and let me know you are going to be there. The link gives directions
How long before PJ becomes the next JetMan?
Join For those of you that want to help the Kerry camp donate a little bit of internet time. Or not.
Halliburton guide for VP debate tonight. In case you were going to watch the debate tonight check this out first.
The 2004 Nobel Prizes - as sG once said, it's on. Frank Wilczek writes the monthly "Reference Frame" column in Physics Today.
There is an Official String Theory Website where you can find out how string theory outlasted the Vietnam War, Mrs. Thatcher and grunge music.
October 04, 2004
Magic Trick (from SE).
"Now, when I deal the cards (... je distribue les cartes...) they disappear (ils disparaissent)."
You Forgot Poland dot com - See what other words were spoken during the debates with overstated's debate spotter. Kerry wins for kill and Bush wins for wrong time, wrong place.
Some celebrity news stories are ten times funnier if you've been watching back episodes of HBO's Entourage
Cockeyed has always been one of my favorite sites, mostly thanks to the "How Much is Inside?" feature which measures how much toothpaste in a tube, shaving cream in a can, gold in Goldschlager, ink in a Sharpie, etc. However, pranks also abound including something that I wish I had thought of: replace the Atkins menu at a TGIFridays with your own photoshopped AtkinZ menu featuring things such as "Bacon Churners with Fauxtatoes".
Crossover Mayhem - One of the most popular ratings boosters for TV shows (comic books even more so) is to have the much hyped crossover. You know, where a character from one show makes an appearance in a different show. When this happens, it implies that the two shows are operating in the same fictional universe. If some character from that show then appears on a different show, all three are linked. Of course, comic book hypernerds have 75% of their arguments about who lives in what universe (the other 25% are about which female character is hottest). But thanks to some intense scholarship, we now know that 164 television shows operate in the same universe (named the Fontanaverse), and that this universe exists only in the mind of autistic child Timmy Westphall (of St. Elsewhere). Almost any show you can think of: Friends, Mad about You, every Law & Order and Homicide, MASH, Seinfeld, and I Love Lucy are all in there. It's totally fascinating.
October 03, 2004
OK, I try as hard as I can to keep from posting the baseball stuff but this is pretty awesome: an interview with Anne Quinn, a Red Sox fan who's attended almost every single home game since 1964 (in the same seats -- bleachers section 40 -- no less).
I helped Bruce Hurst once. I don't remember the year, but he started out 1-7. I went down to the bullpen before a game and said, "I think I know what's wrong with you." He came over and asked, "What?" and I told him that he wasn't following through completely -- he wasn't wrapping his arm around his back like he did the year before. Well, he started winning, and later he was on the radio saying, "A fan helped me turn my season around."
October 02, 2004
funny Yeah, beer commercials. You know they're funny.
Twins? Lets take a moment and a thread to pontificate the phenomenon that is Nader. Please save your praises for the alternate universe that spung up when monkeys flew out of my butt.
Id, Lego, and Superlego - Customize a lego-man version of yourself!
October 01, 2004
welcome to nerdville Well kids, the leaves are changing colors, bears everywhere are fat and feeling sleepy, and the ig nobels have been handed out, which can mean only one thing... its crying time for all the ego's at UT as the Nobel committee awards the prize to some prick at (insert any other college name here) instead of them. Sorry D.J. and sorry to your daughter whose eating disorder will now be coming a year earlier than expected.
Why have I not heard of this before? This is Important! Behold:
Chingo Bling, The Tamale Kingpin. This is big. Big enough to be on Billboard Top 100 Rap Charts. Part of being The Tamale Kingpin means that you also get to have a Fighting Cock on hand at all times and be able to make some Shmokin Tamales!! Buy the Album! Buy the T-Churts! You know he's legit because he has Ostrich Boots and a problem with the INS. Two thumbs way up!!
I have it on good authority that a certain vegan bicyclist was weaving in and out of traffic on Guadalupe today without a helmet...
We should start taking bets on who lives longer; The vegan velocipedist or the materialistic motorbiker.
in case you missed it
I know most of you probably keep up with Whats New so this is probably old hat for you but I thought the bit about the liberals was precious. Nothing quite like a hot Carl (Rove that is) for your party.
BTW, the Bible banning club meeting will be moved to wed.
What if Thomas Hardy had play-by-play and color commentary as he worked (audio)?
You can't make this stuff up: someone fires random shots at the Cleveland Indians' team bus, hitting a rookie pitcher. He is saved from a severe leg injury by his go-go boots, part of the USC cheerleaders' uniform he was wearing at the time.