It must really suck to make a computer-generated guesstimate at a future car model just days before the real deal gets leaked onto the internet. If your Photoshop handiwork is pretty close to the real deal, that helps lessen the blow, but still….
Here’s what Autobild came up with, seen just a few days ago at [...]
Filed under: business, thoughts on August 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
I finally saw WALL-E tonight, and despite it being the highest-rated film of 2008 so far, it could have definitely benefited from a little tragedy. For the two or three people on Earth who haven’t seen the film yet, spoilers ahead:
First off, the plot is really thin, and the payoff is too family-friendly. In other [...]
Filed under: thoughts on August 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
This year, you might make up for the mess you made of the 2000 presidential election.
Don’t fail America again.
Filed under: politics, thoughts on August 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
When I saw the cover for the new Death Cab for Cutie album, I thought to myself, “hey, I’ve seen this before.”
Les Savy Fav, The Microphones, and Lamb all had similar album covers for their respective albums around the turn of the century.
The Microphones, in 2000
I would say the Death Cab for Cutie album cover [...]
Filed under: artwork, music, thoughts on July 2nd, 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 thinking about the name of the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia the other day. Surely, most people don’t puzzle over corporate nomenclature, but I hardly think it’s uncommon for a consummate Volkswagen enthusiast to do. The name Karmann Ghia rolls of the tip of one’s tongue in the same way as the term fahrvergnügen, but [...]
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a thought: Pizza Hut serving pasta dinners is akin to McDonald’s serving a t-bone steak dinner. Come on, we defeated Hitler for this?
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 1st, 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 »
One day, years ago, I wrote the following, stream-of-consciousness style, immediately upon waking. Something about crapping out a sort of story out of my subconscious while still in a half-asleep daze makes me smile. Here it is:
She wore a robe of burgundy and gold. Her home was made of felt and porcelain, satin and ceramic. [...]
Filed under: personal, thoughts, writing on May 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
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 »