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 »
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 »
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 »
Last month, I went with my friend Lisa to a an Orlando cafe which has the distinction of being the only cafe in central Florida (and one of two in the entire state) with a Clover coffee machine. For the non coffee cognoscenti out there, it’s basically the brewing method that has made everything else [...]
Filed under: business, humor on June 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
The other day, I was at a bar watching the Marlins game with a friend of mine; the television next to the one we were watching had a NASCAR race on, and the people sitting next to our booth were watching that.
One of them commented something to the tune of “how can people sit for [...]
Filed under: humor on June 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
“When I walk down the street and only 3 or 4 shots are fired at me, I find it hard to stay awake.”
That’s the quote that stood out, among numerous outstanding quotes from this excerpt of a book of post-modern stream-of-consciousness madness by an author known only by the initials H.C.
It’s not new, especially [...]
Filed under: humor, technology, thoughts on May 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
It seems you can’t hit Craigslist for even a few moments without coming across something hilarious. Today, I was browsing the local job boards for freelance graphic design or web development work, and I come across this post:
model wanted artistic photography
Model wanted: prefer nubile fresh petite
and willing. Artistic photographer
compiling book on petite models
adding to portfolio. [...]
Filed under: humor on May 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
So there’s this meme going around where one describes something plain, like vegetables, in the most expletive-laden manner possible. I found this picture of “robo-Jesus” today, and thought the two would be a very good fit.
Filed under: humor on May 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
I work remotely, and often find myself working from Starbucks. Normally, I’ve got my Zune pumping (thank you noise-canceling headphones), but today, I was enjoying the Eighties mix the store had going. That was, until the sound was drowned out by the endless chattering of two soccer moms perched right next to where I was [...]
Filed under: humor on May 13th, 2008 | No Comments »