Idea File: 4-Headed Bunny
The most satisfying part of eating a chocolate bunny is biting off the head, right? So how about a chocolate bunny that’s just 4 heads with a little bit of body in the middle to connect them? That way you get 4 times the satisfaction out of every chocolate bunny. I’d buy it.
Idea File | Comment (0)I’m stuck like glue to MySpace
You know that classic Motown song, “My Guy”? I just noticed that if you change “My Guy” to “MySpace”, the lyrics totally still work:
Nothin’ you can say can tear me away from Myspace,And that expresses the attitude of a lot of people. (Well, okay, teens.) Attempted humor | Comment (0)
Nothin’ you can do, ’cause I’m stuck like glue to MySpace, (MySpace, MySpace),
I’m sticking to MySpace like a stamp to a letter,
Like birds of a feather we stick together
There’s not a man today who could tear me away from MySpace.
It’s a little of everything, really
In Google’s movie listing, “Stardust” is described as an Action/Adventure/Drama/SciFi/Fantasy. They left out Romance and Comedy, which I understand also could apply to the movie. What’s left? Horror? It has ghosts in it, right? Why not just label it “Everything”?
Movies | Comment (0)La Vie
Christmas and I saw this show “La Vie” on Sunday night. Very good stuff–a lot of impressive acrobatics, in a space so intimate that you could reach out and touch the performers (or they could reach out and touch you, as happened to a few unlucky audience members). I got free tickets as a bonus reward for all of the shifts I volunteered at the Fringe Festival. Wasn’t expecting any kind of extra bonus beyond getting to see all of those Fringe shows, but I was certainly glad to get it!
(As a meta note, I just added a long-overdue “Theater” tag. Some time when I have too much time on my hands, I’ll have to go back and retroactively tag old posts as being “Theater”.)
Theater | Comment (0)Perverted Humor
I was thinking about writing a post about sado-necro-hippophilia, but I decided that that would just be beating a dead horse.
Attempted humor | Comment (0)Stupid Interface of the Day
Surprisingly enough, a stupid interface that isn’t from Microsoft! Instead, it’s my kitchen ceiling fan.
To start with, I’m not convinced that I need a ceiling fan in the kitchen in the first place. It seems like the living room would be a better place for it. But that’s not the stupid interface, that’s just my landlord being a little goofy.
So here’s the stupid interface. The ceiling fan has 3 (I think) speeds. To change between speeds, or turn the fan on or off, there’s a single chain to pull. It cycles high, medium, low, off. But of course, being a fan, it doesn’t switch instantly from one to the other, instead it gradually slows down. The speeds don’t really look very different from each other, and there’s no other signal of which speed the fan is currently on.
Which means if you want to turn the thing off, and you don’t know its current speed (say, you just came into the apartment), the process goes like this:
- Pull the chain.
- Wait for about 30 seconds to see if the fan stops spinning.
- If the fan doesn’t stop spinning, pull the chain again.
- Wait another 30 seconds, and so on.
Dada Pirates
Q: Who’s a pirate’s favorite artist from the early period of the European Dada movement?
A: Jean Arrrrrrp!
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
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