Determining whether or not I have “grown up” using a random blog post from some site I’ve never heard of which apparently caters to women sounds like a reasonable enough course of action, right? Especially when it amounts to an e-mail friendly list of 25 items in the “you might be a redneck if” format.
Out [...]
Filed under: humor, rants on June 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
Bill-O Offensive? Hmm.., originally uploaded by ASurroca.
Came across this while perusing podcasts. If the image offends me does that count?
Filed under: Uncategorized on June 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Marquee for Jesus, originally uploaded by ASurroca.
So, this truck in front of me has a tiny LED marquee under its license plate with a mesage about being saved by Jesus. Oh Bible Belt, you always find new ways to amuse me.
Filed under: Uncategorized on June 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a snippet of an IM conversation about expensive guacamole I just had a moment ago:
Kate: you should come over, im making kick ass guacamole
Alfonso: sweet, I’ll hop on a red eye and be there in three hours your time
Kate: awesome. sounds like a plan.
Alfonso: sweet, it’s gonna be the priciest guac ever!
Photo: hale_popoki
Filed under: humor on June 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Can you spot the real Albertsons?
There are two Albertsons supermarkets near my home. I know exactly where they are, but out of curiosity I decided to go to albertsons.com and search their locations. Instead of a list of stores, I was greeted with the notice below:
“The ZIP Code that you have entered is in an [...]
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
I was just driving home this evening and rain and sunset mixed together to make everything cool and yellowish. I’d already taken more than enough photos at times like these, so I thought I’d do something a little different. Music is: Lamb - “Five”.
Filed under: artwork, music, video on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Wikipedia has an image of a letter 12-year old Fidel Castro wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, wherein the future Cuban dictator asked the then-US President for $10 and offered him a sweet hook-up on quality steel for use in building ships.
Admittedly, his English was not especially good, as he mentioned in his [...]
Filed under: humor, politics on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently, the Associated Press, in a noble effort to appear as much as an obsolete dinosaur as possible, has rules barring bloggers from citing more than four words out of an AP article without paying fees. See the deets at Boing Boing.
This got me thinking: What would AP headlines look like were everything past the [...]
Filed under: business, humor, news on June 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adapted from school a project write-up from last semester — When you add several ingredients together, the result will either become nothing more than a hodgepodge of dissimilar ingredients, or something new and equal to much more than the sum of its parts. The latter case is a transformation. It’s the difference between the tacked-on [...]
Filed under: business, school, technology on June 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
I shot a few bits of video during the drive from one friend’s home in Coral Gables to another friend’s home in South Miami. Here’s what came of it. Music: “Neuflex” by Two Lone Swordsmen.
Filed under: artwork, music, video on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »