mobilejones points out that when viewed as a per-megabyte cost, text messages are probably the most expensive data transfers that anyone born after 1950 can possibly imagine. But such is the doublethink magic of per-unit pricing I guess. Oh well… At least Comcast isn’t involved in the the telephone business. Then we’d *really* find out what it’s like to get screwed! Oh wait, what… they are? Well, fuck… Who’s running this shit?
Archive for July, 2007
Beware of EPIC LULZ!
I want to see Mike Rowe take on what must certainly rank among the dirtiest of all jobs:
BART replaces about 25 toilet seats a year at a cost of $20 to $30 each, Johnson said. The agency had been swapping out about 30 damaged mirrors a year, at a cost of $175 a piece, but has given up replacing broken ones.There was no doubt that bathrooms seemed their tidiest and least foul-smelling right after one of BART’s 122 station janitors worked his or her magic. The agency spends nearly $13,000 a month on cleaning supplies for the station bathrooms.
At some point last night it occurred to me that taking any given Achewood strip and substituting the dialog from the same day’s Dilbert strip might be kind of funny. So I tried it, but I’m still not sure if it’s funny or not…
Neat profile on famed LSD cook, Owsley, in the SF Chronicle. A choice excerpt:
He keeps up with the music scene — he singles out Wolfmother and the Arctic Monkeys as new bands he likes. “Any time the music on the radio starts to sound like rubbish, it’s time to take some LSD,” he says.
And also…
“I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for,” he says. “What I did was a community service, the way I look at it. I was punished for political reasons. Absolutely meaningless. Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.”
Do check out the last.fm playlist thingie that I’ve embedded in the sidebar. I have and will continue to load it up with the best stuff I can find on there. Note that you can click on the little icon in the lower right corner of the playlist to pop it up into a floating window. Or, if you are down with the last.fm scene yourself, just click on this to load the playlist directly in your last.fm player!
UPDATE: In fact.. maybe it doesn’t work at all if you don’t click the pop-up link??? It seems like the “embedded” version might have gotten overloaded as I added 150+ tracks to the playlist! =P But the pop-up and “play in last.fm software” versions appear to be working just fine…
Before there was The King, there was… The Colonel!
You’ve all probably been listening to this From Here We Go Sublime album by The Field for awhile now right? I kept meaning to pick it up but never quite got around to it until now. Don’t be like me! Here are some sample tracks…
I got this real sweet poster:
Courtesy of my awesome girlfriend, who must have been fed up with me complaining about how much I wanted my very own Visible Frylock poster every time we watched ATHF. It brings great pleasure to all my hearts and ocules!
