From the New York Times’ article on 4×4 fun in Iceland.
“In the 1960s, there was nothing to do here except go see three-year-old American movies or have a fistfight with your neighbor,” he says.
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Time of Day
Normally I leave work between 6 and 7 every day. Yesterday I left at 5:30, so I could get a run in before the sun set and it became cold (I am running the Shamrock Shuffle on March 30).
I caught the bus at around 5:35, and noticed a peculiar thing: it was mostly women. And I do mean mostly – between 2x and 3x as many women as men.
Was it timing? Was it my route? I don’t know.
Santa Bot
This from Marc Andreesen‘s blog:
“Microsoft recently brought into the world an online “Santa bot” —
an interactive chat program for kids. The idea was that you would add
“northpole@live.com” to your kid’s MSN Messenger and your kid could
talk to Santa Clause online. Sounds like fun.
Thanks to The Register, let’s roll the chat room transcript:
User says: Pizza
Santa says: Yum! What do you want for Christmas, User?
User says: Maybe you shouldn’t eat so much! You are quite large!
Santa says: My elves will get right on that. And what else are you wishing for this year, User?
User says: Maybe you shouldn’t eat it?
Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
User says: Eat it
Santa says: No thank you. I don’t eat things!
User says: Eat it
Santa says: See if you can get someone else to eat it!
User says: Eat it
Santa says: You want me to eat what?!? It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else…
I think I need to go take a shower.
Sadly, right after The Register broke the story, Microsoft killed Santa bot.”
John McCain’s suit
While I’m no expert in fashion, even I could tell that John McCain needs a tailored suit. Pictures below from his appearance on The Daily Show dated approximately August 16. Images captured with my Neuros OSD.
Stay Tuned for more The Office
I have been watching a lot of television these days. A lot more than I like, at any rate. My favorite show these days is The Office.
One of the hooks that the show uses to keep you through the last commercial break is putting a short 5-10 second clip after the break. To alert you that they are doing this, a woman’s voice comes up saying “stay tuned for more of The Office”.
A few months ago, the original phrase used to be “stay tuned for more, The Office”.
Try saying these two versions out loud. Notice how much harder it is to say the original phrase?
What the Geek Squad client doesn’t know won’t hurt them
Geek Squad, the lovable collection of nerds in every Best Buy, may see a shake-up shortly. The Consumerist ran a 3-month sting on their operations and captured video of Geek Squad agents stealing customers’ computers for porn, images, and music. Check out the link for a video of the agents at work. From the article:
This is not just an isolated incident, according to reports from Geek Squad insiders alleging that Geek Squad techs are stealing porn, images, and music from customer’s computers in California, Texas, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere. Our sources say that some Geek Squad locations have a common computer set up where everyone dumps their plunder to share with the other technicians.
Can you blame them? Maybe this can be considered as the personal “tax” of having a strange man in white shirt and skinny black tie come into your home to fix your computer…
Rubber ducky, you’re the one!
After 15 years, the ducks will finally land.
29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago.
Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack.
And now they are heading straight for Britain. At some point this summer they are expected to be spotted on beaches in South-West England.
The ducks have traveled as far as Alaska and the Artic circle. In fact,
So precious to science are they that the US firm that made them is offering a £50 bounty for finding one.
See the map below for their path.
Kwik-E-Mart, live
The Simpons Movie will be released July 27 (I give the series one more season, tops, after the movie). 7-11 and Fox are engaged in a fascinating promotion.
Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of “The Simpsons” fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.
Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.
An interesting photoset is here.
Google Apps & Dodgeball
The video creators at Google Apps love their dodgeball. This screenshot was taken from their video demonstrating Google Apps.
Something is amiss.
Organic City guy is playing a hell of a lot of dodgeball! 2PM Monday, 3PM Wednesday, and 5PM Friday. Most notably, he moves from his dodgeball game on Monday fluidly, back-to-back, to a supplier meeting to plan the expansion.
Busted!