Actually, on second thought, it seems like he’s had enough already…
Archive for March, 2008
Came across this in a book titled “The Sayings of Samuel Pepys” over the weekend:
He that makes Reason his guide goes by a law of God’s making, subject to no falsifications and misconstructions which all other guides whether written or others, are and must necessarily be.
To quote Jay Sherman’s father, “Take that… Birth of Man!”
Some humorous headlines have arisen surrounding the Honduran Cantaloupe scare of 2008.
Ten shekels?! Are you trying to insult me?! Me, with a poor dying grandmother?!
Published March 23rd, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsNYTimes presents an interesting article about “The Return of Haggling” at modern-day megastores, which allegedly “is a considerable change from even 10 years ago…when studies showed that consumers did not like to bargain and did not consider themselves good at it.” This reminds me of a recent episode of King of the Hill, which I am usually informed that “nobody watches anymore” but they should because Mike Judge is still the closest thing to Jonathan Swift that the last 20 years have yet produced:
King of the Hill - The Accidental Terrorist
(And while I’m on my KOTH high horse, let me also recommend to you this other recent episode in which Peggy gets a job as a real estate agent and ends up inadvertently gentrifying a nearby Mexican neighborhood by selling all the properties to kickball-playing, scarf-wearing hipsters & artists looking for something “real,” thereby pricing out Hank’s friend Enrique who has been renting there for 20 years. They put SALMON in the fish tacos… SALMON! They’re ruining everything!)
The change in these Nintendo characters since their birth display the universal sequence we see in evolution and biological development. Organisms go from general indistinctness to ever greater and sharper distinctness.
Neat! (via here)
In this paper, examples of international onomastic appellations are presented which demonstrate that the names of contemporary dining and drinking establishments serve as semantic and/or humorous reflections of societal mores.
I don’t know too much about how LCD panels are manufactured… Oh wait, now I do… They’re put together by robots that listen to jazzy house music! But anyway, I think it would be cool if some company decided to do partially custom builds in such a way that you could order a panel in any aspect ratio & size you wanted, as long as it was a multiple of some base dimensions. In other words… Since they already assemble these panels (if I understand things correctly) by slicing a larger panel to an arbitrary size towards the end of the manufacturing process, could they pick a size (say 5 x 5 inches) and then let me tell them how many of those sub-panels I want stuck together (Make me a panel that’s 30 inches wide by 10 inches high, I’d say!) and provide me with whatever custom driver I would need to make such a thing functional. I’d totally buy one!
You know what happens when you assume things…
Published March 13th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentI just got a telemarketing call that began with a recorded message: “All representatives are currently busy…” and I’m like, “Well so am I you fuckers!!”
