Posts under ‘Idiocy’

Following is the red band trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s Machete starring Danny Trejo. Um, not work safe.

Rappelling out a window with a dude’s intestines? I’m there!
Yeah, it’s cheesy, but with Rodriguez you can be sure it’s going to be fun.

Today J.F. Gonzalez pointed out the existence of this book:

When does this stop? A wiser man than I recently said:

“Talent sustains and bullshit fails to sell after a very short while.”

I hope so. Look, for all I know, this Porter Grand guy crafts better prose than any other writer on the planet. The part that [...]

According to an Iranian religious leader, promiscuous women cause earthquakes. Too many girls tramp it up and hit the town? God puts His foot down.
Uh huh. Guess I better start speaking to some people about that Illinois earthquake a couple months back, and tell the school board they better set up a burkha budget before [...]

I had a life insurance exam on Tuesday. The nurse came out to my house to do her measurements and collect blood and urine, and it wasn’t quite the experience I expected. As such, I thought I’d share a few tips for those of you who may face one of these exams yourself in the [...]

I just watched the following video called The Story of Bottled Water, discovered at Boing Boing:

I try to limit my bottled water consumption anyway. With rare exceptions, I only buy cases because I can get 24 bottles for less than $3.00 versus the $1.00-$1.50 gas stations and supermarkets charge for single bottles. We filter our [...]

Wired has an article about how it’s legal to give police the finger but it’s not a good idea.
Hell, I can show you that in one short video and save you five minutes:

Yes, some cops are dicks. They don’t hand out reason and common sense with guns & badges. However, there are better ways to [...]

This is the planned layout of a new US Embassy building in London:
Writer Warren Ellis has some good thoughts about what this layout and design is actually saying about US post-9/11 policy, but in looking at the architecture itself, I’m wondering where the engineers pulled their inspiration from.
Could it be:
Or maybe they’re Star Trek geeks:
Either [...]

I do this to the cat all the time. Have been doing so for months, maybe over a year now.
And it still amuses me to no end.

Yesterday’s Workday:

Today’s Workday:

I’m sure someone makes a pill for this.