When I learned that water polo was not, in fact, an underwater version of regular polo, I became very disappointed. Gone were the visions I’d had of players riding atop oxygen tank-wearing horses at the bottom of an Olympic size swimming pool and swinging at a ball around the pool’s surface ever so slowly with [...]

Filed under: humor, thoughts on April 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When designing a layout, one usually uses placeholder images to get a better idea of where every piece of content will go. The placeholder images are not a part of the final product, so the quality and content isn’t especially important. That is, unless one happens to forget to replace the placeholder image with the [...]

Filed under: advertising, humor on April 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, The Longest List of the Longest Stuff at the Longest Domain Name At Long Last lists the world’s longest cat as being a mere 4′ long. I’m pretty sure they’ve never heard of Longcat, then. I’d link a photo, but then you’d have to scroll until the end of time.

Filed under: humor on April 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

Gallup posted their latest polling results on overall U.S. satisfaction yesterday. Here is full story, and here is their chart:

The first thing I noticed looking at this chart was that, lo and behold, satisfaction increased during Ronald Reagan’s and Bill Clinton’s terms, and decreased during both George H.W. Bush’s and George W. Bush’s terms. An [...]

Filed under: politics, thoughts on April 15th, 2008 | No Comments »

With so much tragedy in the world, it’s easy to become jaded, and unless you can identify with a particular story, these tragedies are easy to ignore. The only news story that’s ever haunted me was the triple-murder at a Starbucks in D.C. that happened during the summer of 1997.
The other day, I saw an [...]

Filed under: personal, thoughts, work on April 14th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, I came across this post, which basically said what I’d been thinking since Battlestar Galactica first started: that John McCain and Col. Tigh might just be the same man.
Let’s compare the two, shall we?

Col. Tigh
John McCain

Bald old dude?
Yes
Yes

Grilzzled war hero?
Yes
Yes

Tortured?
Yes
Yes

Has younger, blond wife?
Yes
Yes

Once-maverick, slipping in his old age?
Yes
Yes

Drunk?
No*
Yes

Cylon?
???
Yes

Those are just the similarities I can [...]

Filed under: humor, politics on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »

An Italian woman who had been hitch-hiking to promote world peace was found murdered. From the BBC News article:
She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
I guess that didn’t work out so well. Call me jaded, call me cynical, but God, that was a [...]

Filed under: news on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »

I have a confession: I’ve never beaten a Wii game. Despite lining up at midnight and purchasing the Wii on launch night, I have never played through to the end of a single of my Wii games. I blame Nintendo for ignoring the rules of crafting a solid entertainment experience; namely, you need to retain [...]

Filed under: rants, reviews, technology on April 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, I’m minding my own business, reading Slate, and see one of those “family killed by ninjas, need money for karate lessons” pictures off to the right of the page. Then, I see it is an advertisement for life insurance. Oh, and the article in question was about John McCain visiting Mo Udall on his [...]

Filed under: advertising, humor, news on April 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Seriously, people are still on about this “buy no gas” nonsense? Do so many people have such a fundamental lack of understanding in economics that they actually believe that boycotting the two largest gasoline brands will force a price war that cuts the price of gas in half?
I’ve been seeing the Facebook group How to [...]

Filed under: business, rants on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »