Even more headlines

All of these headlines appeared on the drudge report on 4-29-08

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HILLARY TO APPEAR ON O'REILLY
ORLY???

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MOVE OVER, DEMS! Chaos over Ron Paul cuts short Republican gathering...
Seems the short republicans didn't like it when Ron called them Ridgets.

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WSJ: Obama Heads for Superdelegate Edge...
He believes that the Superdelgate is round. Many fear he will fall over the edge when he gets there.

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McCAIN MOVING MIDDLE ON HEALTH CARE; CALLS FOR GREATER, STATE FEDERAL ROLE...
And while he looks kind of silly wearing the giant hat over the top of his body, he can sure make his middle whistle!

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Managers, customer all draw guns in West Palm Beach grocery...
Capping off the worst team building exercise ever.

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EVIL: Incest dad insists he acted alone as DNA proves he fathered daughter's seven children...
Daughter's seven children would seem to indicate that maybe she was involved as well.

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Dukakis Speaks!
Adding to his large repertoire of tricks which include Sitting, staying, and having really bushy eyebrows.

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FLORIDA: Sharks Attack 3 Swimmers In 3 Days; Number Of Bites Ahead Of Record Year...
Congress is considering holding hearings to determine if the sharks are using any performance enhancing drugs.

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Loud Booms And Light Baffle Maryland Town...
The town is also often distracted by shiny things, and likes to swat at danglely things.

Ah the good old days

My prime cartoon watching years were between 1977 and 1992 (ok I probably watched cartoons longer than I should have.) Starting with classics like Grape Ape, Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel and McGilla Gorilla. Moving on to things like The Transformers, He-Man, GI-Joe, and all the other half hour long toy commercials. I've enjoyed them all, and never once did I stop to think that there was anything wrong with any of them.

Today I had reason to recall one of my favorites, Under Dog. Which was acutally several cartoons in one. Each episode had 2 shorts of Underdog, and then a segment or two of other cartoons in between. I have to think about these, because I'm wanting to confuse them with shorts that appeared on Rocky and Bullwinkle, another show that followed the same format. Just to be sure, I looked them up. The other shows were The World of Commander McBragg, Klondike Cat, and Go Go Gophers, the reason I'm writing this now actually.

I looked up the lyrics to it's theme song. Here they are:

Out west in Gopher Gulch lived Indian tribe.
Then come the pioneers, pushed them aside.
All Indians leave but two, they vow to fight.
What can two Indians do?
(Gibberish)

Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

Here comes the colonel with his sargeant,
Both are a-roarin' and a-chargin'.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

Two little Indians, no others near.
Colonel he vows these two soon disappear.
Fighting the army with soldiers galore.
What can two Indians do?
(Gibberish)

Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

Here comes the colonel with his sargeant,
Both are a-roarin' and a-chargin'.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

You know, not once as a child did I stop and think that this show was about the last two members of an entire tribe of Native Americans, who were robbed of their land and force into some kind of trail of tears death march to some reservation, fighting against the might of the United States Army for their very survival. I just thought the show was funny. Hell I think we were still playing Cowboys and Indians back then.

Now I don't like to get all politically correct but really how did this show get made? I may have make a list of other TV shows that could never be made today. The thing is, I don't know if I'm more enriched because I grew up with these kind of things or not.

Google things my blog is gay

I'm not sure what to think about that.

Making the world a better place

We as a species have some problems. We're dependent on gasoline and oil. We're running out of gasoline and oil. We like things made out of plastic. Plastic is also made out of oil. We like to throw our plastic things away. Plastic does not decompose. Thus, 100 million tons of our plastic that's made out of oil is now circling lazily in the middle of the Pacific. So what can we do about it? Well, here's a thought, searching the internet, I found 2 ways to convert plastic to oil. There's Thermal_depolymerization A neat little process that's currently turning lots of turkey parts into sweet crude oil. There's also this neat giant microwave thingy that is supposed to do the same thing. Now, if you were to take a giant oil tanker, strap on a giant dredge pump to suck the plastic into one of it's holds, and then stick one of these two types of conversion methods on the top, you could theoretically sail out in to the pacific, suck up all this plastic, and sell the oil for a nice profit. After start up costs, and basic necessities (food, water, etc.) for the crew of the boat. I would imagine the rest would be pure profit, plus, you'd be making the world a cleaner place! I haven't done any numbers yet, but it really seems like the perfect solution. We'd clean up the pacific. Doing so would pay for itself, you wouldn't need to transport much except the oil you're turning the plastic into which could probably also be used to drive your ship. Plus, this could easily scale up to multiple ships. I'm almost tempted to figure out how to write this up as a proposal and go seeking funding. Except for the fact that I don't know how to do that. And I really don't have the time or money to take off work and go flying out to where ever the money is. And I have no management skills. But I hope someone sees this and runs with it.



Continue reading.

I couldn't let this one pass without comment

Just the one for now. I may add more later.

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Cat naps at U.S. nuclear plant may catch hefty fine
D'oh!

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Operation Beijing storm: rockets target rain
I think someone took that Milli Vanilli song a bit too seriously.

More fun with Headlines

All of these headlines appeared on the drudge report on 4-7-08

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MICROSOFT Gives YAHOO Deadline on Offer...
After next Tuesday, they can only exclaim Yippie.

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Warning: GOOGLE Is In Your Driveway!
Indexing UR Curtains

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Dems look to fatten lead in House, Senate...
Republicans still looking to change lead into gold...

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Small Quake Hits South Texas...
Bush declares war on Plate Tectonics. Says don't mess with Texas!

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San Francisco readies security blanket...
New Security Chief Linus van Pelt assures the citizens that everything will be ok.

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World's smallest girl proud of her tiny size...smallest man, not so much...

Spread the word! Stop Uwe Boll

http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/06/uwe-boll-will-quit-making-movies-with-one-million-signatures/

Ladies and Gentleman, we finally have a chance to rid the cinematic world of a cancer. Uwe Boll, the German director behind such horrid video game adaptations as House of the Dead, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege and Postal, has recently admitted that he would retire from making movies if enough people want him to stop. When FearNet mentioned to Boll a petition online signed by 18,000 people requesting that he cease making films, Boll responded that “18,000 is not enough to convince me.” So how much would be enough?

Indeed, now we have a goal. All we need is 980,000 more signatures on this petition and we can rid the world of future Boll-directed/produced cinematic atrocities. as my friend Scott Weinberg on Cinematical points out, Tunnel Rats, Far Cry, Zombie Massacre and BloodRayne 3 are already in production. So we might not be able to stop those productions. Be we just might have the ability to prevent a BloodRayne 4 or House of the Dead 3. So sign now!

Kevin and Tycho. Seperated at birth?

So am I the only one who thinks this?

More habits to avoid and overcome procrastination

While surfing the web at work today I ran across this article on Digg about procrastination titled:6 Habits To Avoiding And Overcoming Procrastination. I'm sure it's a fine article, though I admit I didn't read it. Lots of words and not a LOLCat to be seen on the entire page. However it got me thinking of some other habits one might adopt to help avoid and overcome procrastination. So here they are.

1. Don't go to Digg when you're supposed to be working.

2. If you do go to Digg, don't actually click on any articles. Stick to the pictures, they take up less of your time.

3. If you do click on an article, for god's sake don't blog about it. I mean really, haven't you wasted enough time on it? It's already on Digg, if you have something to say about it, just make a comment. You know no one reads your blog anyway and there really nothing left to say about it that hasn't already been said.

4. Don't Digg your own blog entry on the article that was already on Digg. How self absorbed are you?

5. Don't email all your friends a link to the Digg article, which links back to your blog. They're your friends, they probably already read your blog anyway, and if they don't, then obviously your blog just sucks that bad and you should really consider finding a different way to express yourself. Perhaps you could sign random guest books or just go around commenting on other blogs kept by people who can actually write and have something interesting to say. Like maybe that one you read that started this whole messy chain of events.

6. If you went to Digg, read an article, Blogged about the article, Dugg your own blog and then emailed all your friends about it, Don't then spend the rest of the day checking your tracking page to see who actually came over and read your blog.

Hopefully, following these easy steps will help you overcome procrastination.

If not, post a link to your Digg Article, I'll Digg you up and post a comment on your blog.

Favorite fools

Think Geek Super Pii Pii Bros


IGN Legend of Zelda Trailer
This one almost made me cry. I hope there's enough fan buzz to get someone to make this for real.

Xbox with their new accessories
I like the xbox live board game the best!

Astronomy Picture of the day Dextre the Magnificent"

the most inadvertently funny thing ever!

XKCD, Questionable Content and Dinosaur Comics decided to switch places for April Fools Day. To be honest, since I have all 3 bookmarked, I didn't even notice. But after Digg was nice enough to point it out to me, I looked into it a bit deeper.

Since I read them every day, I noticed that QC had a new strip for today, but XKCD did not. I wasn't sure if it just didn't update, or if it was in there somewhere hidden so I went looking a bit.

Friday's URL was http://www.xkcd.com/403/, last wednesday's was http://www.xkcd.com/402/ so I figured today's should be http://www.xkcd.com/404/

I clicked that, and this is what it said.

404 - Not Found

Which is either the most brilliant prank in the history of the internet, or at least a very funny coincidence.


Update: Checking out XKCD today I see that he skipped 404 and went right to 405. which makes me think the 404 joke was intentional. Though I still think it's a pretty neat coincidence that it happened to land on April 1st.