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If any of The Four Of You haven’t seen the viral video of The Shining as a heartwarming chick flick, go watch it now. I’ll hang out. See you when you get back. Pretty clever, innit? There are a couple others like that floating around YouTube that people have put together. That said: the following IS NOT EDITED. This is exactly as it aired during an episode of Who’s Line Is It Anyway earlier today: Her insane abusive husband is stalking her! Isn’t that ADORABLE!
(And apologies for not having written much lately. Starting next week I’ll have a lot more free time for a while, and plan to try to get back on a regular schedule of posting.) From a Reuters article about the TiVo-on-a-Comcast-cable-box:
The timeline they originally announced was “mid-to-late 2006.” God, I love my TivoHD. It’s my goal to acquire national fame for Chez Fred by becoming a clearinghouse for video clips of news broadcasts that have screwed the pooch. Sadly, the bastards at KTVU made YouTube take down my clip heralding the comic genius of Mike Litoris, so you may want to watch this one while you can. First, a little background. I frequently read a website called Fark. They basically feature discussion threads on news stories that people submit, along with a funny headline. Similar goings-on happen at another website, Something Awful. One feature occurring on both sites is the occasional Photoshop contest; a topic or source picture will be thrown out there, and people will use their favorite image-manipulation software (open-source whoring time: my favorite is the GIMP) to create a funny image based on that. Then everyone votes for the one they like best. That’s where the source for the following came from: For those who still can’t quite make it out, here’s the original source image:
Magical. Part of me feels for the poor technical director who made that graphic, and the other part wonders what the hell they were doing searching the open Internet for source images… While the rest of the world has criticized Microsoft pretty strongly for missing the Christmas season with the release of Windows Vista, I have discovered that it dropped at pretty much the perfect time for me: tax refund season. So, between this and the discovery that Adobe Encore won’t run on my old AMD Athlon XP processor, Operation Core 2 Duo is now in full swing. So over the last couple of days, I’ve been making the rounds, checking out what’s out there, what parts I can get for what I’m willing to pay, that sort of thing. And in Pricewatching and Froogling the motherboard I selected to make sure I was indeed getting the best price, I clicked a link for a place offering it on sale at a bargain price:
I wonder what coupons look like in their world. A while ago you may remember a post I wrote celebrating the asinine hobby of “ghost-riding”. Many enjoyed the examples of Ghost Rider Pwnage cited therein. Well, because you can never get too much of a good thing, I proudly present Ghost Rider Pwnage, Redux: Wanna know where the housing market is in Seattle? 1,500 people lined up yesterday to try to buy studio condos in downtown Seattle. Unremarkable in and of itself, until I give you the specs: 296 square feet. $150,000. That’s 17.2 feet on a side, kids. Just a hair under six paces. Want a little more room to stretch out? You can have 394 square feet of your very own for $203,950. You could take an unprecedented seventh pace. They had 251 of these available. That’s roughly six applicants for every unit. They’re 80% sold out, and they won’t even be finished building them until 2008. They haven’t even STARTED yet; the building currently occupying the space has yet to be demolished. Me? I’d just be excited to buy a new refrigerator. Not because I need the refrigerator, mind you, but at this rate all I’ll be able to afford to live in is the box… I have discovered that the kids these days like to partake in something called “ghost riding“, which is either climbing on top of or getting out and dancing alongside of a moving car. Oops, I forgot one important detail: the person doing the “ghost riding?” THEY’RE THE FRIGGIN’ DRIVER. Let me repeat that, because I can totally understand if your brain didn’t assimilate that the first time out of a refusal to grok that someone could be so insanely stupid: The driver of a vehicle leaves their station behind the wheel, in order to dance on top of or alongside their car, while it is still in motion, leaving the vehicle unattended. This is apparently the pinnacle of “hyphy“. Click that link and read the article. I’ll wait. Then, after you’ve gotten a couple of Tylenol for the whanging headache that will almost certainly ensue, I’ll continue. (While you’re doing that, I’m gonna nip off and refasten this onion to my belt. I’ll just be a second.) All better? Good. Now that you’re thoroughly depressed over the future of the country, let me try to lighten the mood, courtesy of our good friend Chuck Darwin. I give you…Ghost Rider Pwnage: |
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