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  • Damn Those Cobblestick Shuttlerunners

    Adam Felber gives us a transcript of an obscure event from the olympics. Here’s a snip of the beginning.

    Olympic Transcript [Obscure Event Edition]

    TOM: Welcome back, and we’re just in time for the 800 meter sideways cobblestick shuttlerun. With me, I have 1976 bronze medalist, Lucy Pinker. Lucy, what are we looking for today?

    LUCY: Well, Tom, Hungary’s Bidrai Malouva is the favorite in this event, having taken gold in Sydney.

    TOM: He’s more machine than man!

    LUCY: Uh, well, sure…

    TOM: But don’t count out the plucky American, Morgan Hurren. He gave Malouva a real run for his money in Sydney, finishing a very close 7th, and he’s been training exceptionally hard for this year’s games.

    [Cut to exciting video package about Hurren and his various trials and tribulations as he trained to rival the preeminent sideways cobblestick shuttlerunner in the world. Morgan turns out to be a startlingly down-to-earth kid, and you get the sense that maybe, just maybe, he’s got a shot here. He’s plucky.]

    TOM: And there he is, the Kansas kid who has the whole cobblestick shuttlerun world abuzz. [Fanatical Apathy]

  • I’m really not sure what I think of this

    #!/usr/bin/girl once again alerts me to important news:

    Freddy and Jason…and?
    I’m not sure if I want to laugh or cry about Freddy vs. Jason vs…Ash.
    [#!/usr/bin/girl]

    My personal feeling? I will only allow this if Ash gets to kill them off for good. Or at least send them out to another dimension or something.

  • Lions and Tigers and Bears… BRAAAAAP

    Those wacky animals are at it again.

    Bear guzzles 36 beers, passes out at campground

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    SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) — A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday.

    “We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around,” said Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 km) northeast of Seattle.

    The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years old, broke into campers’ coolers and, using his claws and teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds. [CNN.com]

    I personally like that he was smart enough to avoid the Busch beer. He’s even got taste!

  • Oh, Yes. So Wrong.

    Thanks to those fine folk at Boing Boing for this link. I may have to destroy you all for it.

    Watchmen comic remixes

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    So wrong: Something Awful re-captions selections from Watchmen.

    Link
    (thanks, Zed)
    [Boing Boing Blog]

     

    So wrong, but so funny. Hmm, what other comics to re-caption.

  • DVD Reviews: GetBackers #1

    B0002I83RC.01.LZZZZZZZI was at Best Buy over the weekend picked this up. I hadn’t realized it was due out this week, so was pretty happy. This was a show I enjoyed on fansubs and was looking forward to. Ban Midou and Ginji Amano, the GetBackers, retrieval agents who will get back anything that you’ve lost or had stolen. And their success rate is always 100%. The show is a lot of fun and while it starts out being fairly episodic, it slowly works up to having an overall story being told for the first season. This first release contains the first five episodes, which give us their first few missions, and introductions to some characters we’ll be seeing throughout the show.

    The show has both english and japanese language tracks, with english commentary from the VAs and production staff on the first and last episode on the DVD. I have the one for the last episode playing in the background right now. In general the dub doesn’t sound bad, though at times the writing on them confuses me. Like, was it really necessary to translate ‘Adieu’ to ‘Bon Voyage’? Overall the voices are good, Akabane’s english VA (Shannon McCormick) being one in particular that I think worked quite well.

    ADV did a nice job with this release. Sound and video quality are both great. I’d definitely recommend giving it a look, at least through the first two volumes to see if you like it. There’s so much more I’d like to write about, but I’m afraid I’d be giving away spoilers for upcoming stuff.

  • QOTD 08/18/2004

    Trey Parker and Matt Stone
    “Sometimes what’s right isn’t as important as what’s profitable.”
    [Quotes of the Day]

  • Assholes and Morons

    Mark Pilgrim writes about how most developers are morons or assholes in a post about why specs matter.

    Why specs matter

    Most developers are morons, and the rest are assholes. I have at various times counted myself in both groups, so I can say this with the utmost confidence. [dive into mark] [via The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty]

    I believe this applies to sysadmins also, but there are probably one or two more groupings. I know I’ve fallen into both camps at one time or another. Though I tend to think that my time in the asshole camp was usually caused by dealing with a moron.

  • Shorts

    Panda-Z has five-minute episodes, with a hard-rock opening, and concerns the battles — mental and physical — of a group of robot animals. Silent-movie style, with text placards rather than voices.

    Dogtato-kun (Jagainu-kun in Japanese) has 3.5-minute episodes, and it’s about cute little animal-vegetable hybrid creatures. A bit similar to Ocha-ken (Tea Dogs).

    Pugyuru also clocks in at 3.5 minutes. It’s about a girl who gets a maid named Cheko-chan from the Country of Maids; Cheko is short, rubbery, runs on batteries, and her head is prone to popping off. She’s friends with an edible yuki-onna and has a squid for a rival. (The folks doing this one put the funny mushrooms on their pizza.)

  • Hello Kitty Desktop Vacuum

    So scary I think I want one.

    soujiki_d50_smallI would have posted this up about 5 minutes before now, but I noticed they only had three more in stock, so I thought I should get there before you punks. Because lord knows, there’s nothing that goes together more sweetly than a distended Hello Kitty head and a light, battery-powered sucking force. And for $10, even! If this thing moves itself around by itself – something that I’m sad to say probably isn’t the case – I would buy 24 of them and set them loose around the house. It’d be cheaper than a Roomba and at least 24 times as cute.

    Also, have you noticed people saying kawaii a lot lately, too? I doubt they are doing the clap and giggle. You gotta do the clap and giggle.

    Read – Hello Kitty Desktop Cleaner – Pink (Duh!) [Jbox via RedFerret via Engadget] More Hello Kitty yum yum links after the jump. [Gizmodo]

    I also agree that they would be much more cool if they moved around on their own. And even if I did say kawaii, I’d refuse to clap and giggle at the same time.

  • QOTD 08/15/2004

    Voltaire
    “To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.”
    [Quotes of the Day]