The Millennium Shrimp

It’s awesome. Mainly because it’s in Russian! Ty Ezbrannyj - You are the one!

saw this on IO9:

It’s excerpted from a Czechoslovakian science fiction film from the 1960s. Surprisingly good. This scene has a decidedly anti-western theme to it.

Cell Phone Karma, and it contains a squirrel. Adam Hoskins would love it, but he doesn’t do the internet thing. So, if you see him, tell him what he’s missing!

Saw G.I. Joe, the rise of COBRA on Friday evening. I went to see it in Alliance at the cheaper theater ($4.25 versus >$8 at Tinseltown). The movie didn’t make much sense. The Joe team’s base is in Egypt, NATO is buying high tech weapons made in Kazakhstan, an elite international fighting force is named “G.I. Joe”? Duke, Cobra Commander, and the Baroness have a back story. Honestly, Duke is pretty much a smuck. He gets his fiancee’s brother killed and then doesn’t even bother to show up for the funeral. But who cares. The Eiffel Tower collapses, things blow up, and Sienna Miller wears tight clothing. If anything, the car chase through downtown Paris wasn’t as good as the one in the original Bourne movie. Probably because the Bourne movie was at least plausible, and this one involved two guys in some sort of “accelerator suits” chasing an SUV that fires missiles.

McSweeney’s has reposted a couple of Keith Pille’s Journal entries of COBRA footsoldiers:

After that we finally got to do weapons training. About time! They gave me a rifle and pointed at the target. I held the rifle up to my cheek and sighted down the barrel, just like I did when I went deer hunting with Grampa. Boy, did Sarge go apeshit over that! Got in my face and started yelling at me, asking how I expected to scare someone if I just stood there all quiet-like and shot so carefully. Sarge is a great teacher because he doesn’t just criticize. He showed the right way to shoot. What you do is you start shooting your gun wildly and run towards the target as fast as you can and, in your scariest voice, you yell “COBRA!”

Journal of a New COBRA Recruit

But then this huge guy in a Chicago Bears jersey runs in, swinging around a giant iron football. He’d knocked out a couple of the boys before I recognized him: William “the Refrigerator” Perry! I’m ashamed to say this, but I turned and ran. I remembered what the Fridge did to my Packers last September, and I’d be darned if that was going to happen to me.

Journal of a seasoned COBRA veteran

Heh -

10. Offended about the tetherball court being removed at AT&T’s request

Why Did Google’s CEO Really Quit The Apple Board Of Directors? from Woot.com

The other mike at the office has the new iPhone, it’s pretty sweet. I’m very tempted to get one. Or maybe just steal his… Just as soon as AT&T lets you tether it.

interesting new web mapping application:

http://unterbahn.com/tag/cartagen/

10 Ways to Look Good in Photos from Reader’s Digest.

# 11. - Photoshop! (or GIMP if you’re a an Open Source person)

Do’oh!

10. Bring the color blue into your life more often. There’s a good reason you won’t see many fast-food restaurants decorated in blue: Believe it or not, the color blue functions as an appetite suppressant. So serve up dinner on blue plates, dress in blue while you eat, and cover your table with a blue tablecloth. Conversely, avoid red, yellow, and orange in your dining areas. Studies find they encourage eating.

Reader’s Digest

But I love my red dining room. And my yellow living room. Maybe I’ll have to buy a blue table cloth…

Cool, Craig made the Goshen paper!

Captain Craig

Craig Glick Miller, who organized the ultimate Frisbee league, had been traveling to South Bend to play with about a dozen other people from Elkhart County.

“We finally decided it was time to form one in Goshen,” he said.

Sounds like the league is quite popular.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a company released the first personal music player. Of course, the concept of a personal music/media player didn’t exist then, it was simply called a portable tape player. Or a Walkman.
The BBC recently gave such a prehistoric fossil to a thirteen-year-old to try out for a week.

I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured.

I’m sure those of us a certain age cringed on reading that. Indeed our precocious protagonist reports that his father informed him that Walkman players were famous for “eating” tapes, which - horror of horrors - could have left him without music for the rest of the day!

I’m relieved that the majority of technological advancement happened before I was born, as I can’t imagine having to use such basic equipment every day.

Having said all that, portable music is better than no music.

Truly, life before the iPod was Nasty and Brutish, but it must have seemed interminably long without 30,000 songs on your play list.