February 2008 Archives

This is a reposting of an amazing craigslist post out of Tacoma Seattle that has made the best of list.

[NOT SAFE FOR WORK]

Letter after the jump:

"PowerPoint is to design and communication what hemorrhagic fever is to a Sunday afternoon picnic." ~BL

That is all.

In response to Sarah Silverman's "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" video, Jimmy Kimmel got half of Hollywood to come out and contribute to "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck"

Videos posted after the jump:

Absolute Vodka seems to have changed it's iconic advertising to something pretty...vaginal. Seriously.

Maude Lebowski: Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?

The Dude: Uh, is that what this is a picture of?

Maude Lebowski: In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.

The Dude: Oh yeah?

Maude Lebowski: Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.

The Dude: Johnson?

Picture of new advertising after the jump.

Just kidding on the last two.

Amtrak is planning to increase their security presence in lieu of the 2004 Madrid bombings, the 2005 London bombings and 2006 bombings in Russia and Mumbai. I'm all for security but given Amtrak can hardly keep running without a giant budget deficit, I don't see this working out well.

The highlights:

• Mobile security teams will show up at stations unannounced
• Baggage screening areas will be setup to swab for explosive signatures
• If any swabs turn up positive, the people and baggage will be searched
• People who refuse to be searched will not be allowed to board AND THE TICKETS WILL BE REFUNDED.
• Note: If you need to get out of a trip home for Easter, rub some fertilizer on your bag, refuse to be searched and, oh damn, sorry, mom and dad but I couldn’t make it! Bonus for college students, maybe you you could get that refund in cash.

The total security budget is running Amtrak about $60 million.

Speaking as someone who has been handcuffed and illegally searched by Amtrak's finest (multiple times), I'm sure they'll do wonders catching terrorists...as opposed to catching 14 year old kids at 30th Street station on the first Friday of the month...pricks.

Sources: [WaPo], [Wikipedia]

Sit, Beg, Roll Over, Stay Animal trainers use lots of tricks to train their charges. Try the techniques below at home.

* Reward positive behavior: If your mate picks up just one dirty sock without being asked, give lots of praise. Or a tasty fish.
* Ignore negatives: Don ' t nag about the rest of the filthy laundry still piled on the floor. Trainers call this Least Reinforcing Scenario.
* Don ' t take it personally: Laundry is just laundry, not a symbol for how much your spouse loves you or values your marriage...
~[Newsweek]

...or so says Amy Sutherland author of "What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage, " a journalist who spent a year at an animal-trainer school and decided to apply the trainers' techniques to her husband's annoying habits.

Further down in the article we have, "Sutherland's husband eventually caught on to her experiment...and even started using the techniques back on her. Now they use the word "shamu" as a verb, as in "Did you just shamu me?"

This isn't cute or neat.

Simple and precise if you're in a relationship or a bitter single person. Thankfully I am not in a relationship, not bitter, and have excellent friends.

I spent this hallmark holiday with three good friends at Brasserie Becks (http://www.beckdc.com/), a French/Belgian cuisine restaurant that opened in DC last spring.

St. James Gate, Guinness Brewery Dublin, Ireland
Originally by a Picasa Web Users

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Forget the Guinness Towel, Guinness Flying Disk, or any other Guinness branded toy that won't be delivered for six months after being ordered. Guinness is going for broke and has created an online petition, Proposition 3-17 (get it?), to make St. Patty's day a national U.S. holiday. They need one million signatures in order to present the petition to Congress for consideration. Currently, they have 977,000.

I appreciate the effort; however, the day after St. Patty's day should be the real national holiday.

Regardless, Guinness needs your help!

Sign the petition for Proposition 3-17 at http://www.proposition317.com

"... zooming in on attractive women."

[WaPo] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021002726.html?nav=rss_metro

Arthur B. Spitzer, legal director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, demonstrates that he has never been to the District's low or high crime areas.

I think the police should try to find attractive females with the cameras, it would ensure that they are glued to their monitoring stations. I suggest a points-based system between one and five, where one is witnessing a mugging take place and dispatching police and five is finding a hot woman in this town.

Improved the site layout and threw up the graphic to the left...improving a few more things and hopefully regular posting will resume.