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November 30, 2005
A la cart pricing for cable ... maybe?
Ever since I've had to start paying for my own damn cable, I've wondered why the heck am I paying for hundreds of channels when I really only watch about 10 of them. Shouldn't they really give you money back for pumping in crap like the WB, UPN, and lifetime?
Looks like the FCC agrees too. They're advocating for the push of A la cart TV channel cable pricing.
This cannot come soon enough.
Posted by Bryant at 10:05 AM | Comments (1)
What do you call a Pine Tree with Lights?
A spruce tree with 10,000 lights and 5,000 ornaments. What do you call it? Well for the past few years, we've been sneaky and we've called it a holiday tree. Anybody see a christmas tree? You shouldn't. It's a Holiday Tree.
Maybe if having a ginormous christmas tree in front of the capitol is so offensive to all the non-christians out there, maybe they shouldn't have the Christmas tree at all. But apparently if you just call it something else, suddenly its not so offensive.
It's actually degrading to think that they're hoping that they're fooling non-christians that somehow a big ass tree with lights and ornaments is not a christmas tree. Somehow the same thing that has caused so much harm and anguish in malls and public places is suddenly ok once we start calling it something else.
And when has a Christmas tree ever done any harm? All it does is bring a fat man who gives presents to kids. Who wouldn't like that?
If they want to get rid of offensive Christmas Decorations, they should outlaw holiday sweaters. Right after thanksgiving these sweaters must start growin in these semi blind peoples drawers. First they spawn a red blue or green background, then they start growing snow, trees, snowmen, the red fat man, and mebbe even some reindeer. Some of this crap even gets even more advanced adding ribbon, bells, and lighting.
So I'm proposing a list of things I find offensive I'd like to rename:
Michael Jackson : Chaperone
Canada : North Dakota
NAAMBLA : Free Daycare
Illegal Aliens : Migrant Workers
Stealing : Borrowing
Crapping in Public Places : Art
Posted by Bryant at 09:40 AM | Comments (1)
November 29, 2005
Big Trailer Re-done
If you've ever seen Big, I'm sure this trailer will bring back good memories of a childhood classic. If you haven't watched Big with Tom Hanks, maybe this will convince you to dig it out of the bargain bin.
Actually this trailer is a humorous remake of a trailer taken from choice pieces of the movie.
Posted by Bryant at 10:16 PM | Comments (0)
November 22, 2005
Just about the best christmas light show ever
Well Carson Williams has officially raised the bar this year. Carson Williams from Mason Ohio used 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 christmas lights
Link to Christmas lights video (WMV)
Posted by Bryant at 10:52 AM | Comments (6)
November 21, 2005
Black Friday 2005
For those of you who won't stuff yourselves silly and who decide to be up at the butt crack of dawn on friday instead of in some turkey and gravy induced coma, you will be able to get your fair pick of off brand TV's, dvd players, and celeron based computing products.
And the website that has controversially listed a lot of the deals and the scans of the newspapers is available here
Posted by Bryant at 02:55 PM | Comments (1)
November 17, 2005
How to make Colored Bubbles
This is an interesting Popular science article on how Tim Kehoe had the idea of Colored Bubbles and brought them to life.
Posted by Bryant at 01:59 PM | Comments (2)
November 16, 2005
Brown CS Professor's Fat Twin?
Remeber that theory that everybody in the world has a twin? What if your twin was really fat? I noticed that Jeff on the the NBC weight loss show the biggest loser looks an uncanny bit like Brown CS Professor Thomas W. Doeppner. Maybe I found Tom's twin.
Posted by Bryant at 04:22 PM | Comments (0)
Holiday Shopping
So I had a nice trip down memory lane today when I saw a new poster at work.
Vendor Day.
From what I could gleen from the poster, it looked like they bring in outside vendors who purvey their arts, crafts, Mary Kay products and other crap so we can get our Holiday Shopping down without having to leave the comforts of our secured office. What a craptastic idea!
This immediately made me remember a memory from Morgan Elementary School I had long since forgotten. The Santa's Helper's gift shop. For a good 6 years of my life my parents received the crappiest of crap gifts made in some sweatshop overseas for the sole purpose of holding paper in place or keeping pens organized or sorting blue water while proudly proclaiming that they were the number 1 mom or dad in the world. I'm surprised that even at that young age, the irony of everybody buying number one parent paraphanelia went over my head. And then I got annoyed realizing that the school district was endorsing and supporting kids spending their parents hard earned cash on this crap because some vendor wanted to make some easy cash.
And then this also brought back to memory those wonderful fundraisers that were a total scam. Where some poor shmuck would come in and try and convince a bunch of middle school kids to go door to door to sell overpriced crap so that they could win valuable prizes like a football telephone or an FM radio without a proper FM dial. Remember those radios where apparently you were supposed to be able to calculate the proper angle between 89Mhz and 98Mhz so you could tune into 91.5?
And then this brought me to my memory of my great Sociology teacher who despite being quite a below average teacher had the incredible testicular fortitude to walk around the halls with zebra pants and a mullet way past when people thought those fashion disasters may have been popular. Every morning during morning announcements he would set up shop for the first 15 minutes of class so that the fat kids who didn't eat enough at home could buy his Wholesale club candy and juice at extortionist prices. Of course the money wasn't going to some sort of charity, but instead towards some sort of twisted fund that supported his addiction to having his hair have that wet look 24 hours a day on any given day.
Posted by Bryant at 03:40 PM | Comments (2)
Beans arent the only food that will give you gas...
Coors has found a way to use beer to power cars.... not only the best light beer now also fuel for my broke ride...
source
Posted by Jesse at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
November 15, 2005
LOST: Video
watch above the turbine.... what is that?
Posted by Jesse at 11:34 PM | Comments (0)
November 07, 2005
Ironic Event of the Year award goes to Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster was rehearsing a song titled "I'm An Accident Waiting to Happen" when she fell and broke her arm.
Thank you God for this and the duck billed platypus reminding us you have a sense of humor.
Posted by Bryant at 05:12 PM | Comments (0)
November 04, 2005
New AIM smilelys
this program is an add on for 1000 custom smileys. which is nice cus i always wanted a hippie smilely set....
Posted by Jesse at 03:44 PM | Comments (3)
North Korea Orders Females to Remove Their Pants
Posted by Jesse at 03:40 PM | Comments (0)
Is Your County a Dirty Cookie?
enter your zip code and find out how polluted your county is... pretty simple...
Posted by Jesse at 03:37 PM | Comments (0)
November 03, 2005
Christmas is coming again
Christmas is right around the corner, so y'all better start saving up for your favorite blogger.
Here is the first item on my 2005 Christmas wishlist:
No its not something lame that detects how far away something is or how fast something is going. This bad boy burns holes through whatever you point it at. Best of all, it's commercially available, so you can buy one and send one to me.
Posted by Bryant at 01:01 PM | Comments (0)
Kevin Federline Rap Star yallaintready
and we got the proof. here are some lyrics courtesy of foxnews.com
"I should be saying keep my damn name outcha mouth but y'all people keep increasing my change amount
So, go ahead and say whatcha wanna, I'm gonna sell bout two mill, fool, then I'm a-gonna
I know you wish you was in my position cuz I keep getting into situations that you wish you wuz in, cousin
I'm not your brother, not your uncle, I'm daddy, dude
Steppin' in this game and y'all ain't got a clue
My prediction is that y'all gonna hate on the style we create, straight 2008
But I know that you really can't wait because people are always askin' me — when's the release date?
Well maybe baby you can wait and see
Until then, all these Pavarottis following me
Gettin' anxious, go take a peek, I'm starring in your magazine now every day of the week
Back, then, they call me K-Fed, but you can call me Daddy instead..."
and at this link i was able to find an audio sample....
AND I FOUND THE MP3 LINK.... ENJOY... the name of the song is "yall aint ready"
Posted by Jesse at 12:10 PM | Comments (1)
United Slowing Down Planes?
I'm not sure if anybody else got a phone call or email today, but United Airlines notified me that my reservation has been changed.
At first glance, the itineraries looked the same, but after looking at it again, the flight times for both were extended by 9 minutes. Now either Chicago and Washington have grown farther apart due to global warming or United may be slowing down their planes by 10% in an effort to save gas and money.
Just speculation.
Posted by Bryant at 10:24 AM | Comments (0)
November 02, 2005
What grinds me gears : Automatic Windows restarts
Well its annoying enough when an operating system reboots randomly due to buggy code.
But do you know what really grinds my gears? When an operating system reboots randomly because it was designed to do so. That really grinds my gears.
The "feature" of having windows update automatically reboot your computer if you happened to step away from your computer for more than 5 minutes is just about the most retarded "feature" ever.
That is all.
Posted by Bryant at 10:29 AM | Comments (2)
November 01, 2005
Robot Invasion Step 1
Imagine bringing in a machine into your home disguised as a friendly figure that knows all of your child's vital statistics.
Mattel is releasing a new Knows your name Elmo
After uploading these stats, the robot will address the child by name and try and gain their trust by reciting personal information about the child.
Combine this with Robot mind control devices, it's easy to see where this is going.
Posted by Bryant at 10:07 AM | Comments (1)
Radio Controlled Navigator with MP3s and Rims
At first glance this may be just another radio control vehicle, however a look at the specs will let you see this is so much more.
The Radio Controlled Lincoln Navigator
Posted by Bryant at 09:56 AM | Comments (1)