Friday, November 8, 02002
Check out the American Kitsch project over at 0xdeadbeef.
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Thursday, November 7, 02002
Terror squirrel shot down.
But where did it get it's funding from ? And was this just a test for more massive up-and-coming squirrel attacks ?
Posted at 03:56 PM EST [Link][Comment]
Spin of the Day gave me an idea for a new Jaguar commercial. If you're going to go for the badboy image, why stop at muic - go straight to film, I say, my brothers. Alexander DeLarge is the spokesman you want, and Clockwork Orange with that kickass driving scene was custom-made for selling Jags....
Open with Clockwork Orange, Durango 95 scene. Of course it is assumed all images of the Durango 95 would be replaced with Jaguar images through the magic of CGI...
Alex: The Jaguar X-whatever purred away real horrorshow, a nice warm vibratey feeling all through your guttiwots.
Show a couple seconds of Alex and the droogs driving about. Gotta get a few seconds of that intense shot of McDowell driving ! Mandatory useless car commercial announcer crap would go here. Big engine, fast car, helps with the old in-and-out, blah, blah, blah.
Alex: We fillied around with the other travelers of the night, playing Hogs of the Road.
Show scene of the bike going off the road, maybe the van crashing. Some more useless announcer verbage: year end clearence, visit our web site, blah blah blah
Alex: Then we headed west. What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick, and good for laughs.
The Jaguar X-whatever pulls up to HOME. Alex and the droogs get out and approach the house. Cut to the scene of Alex coming home, plopping on the bed, and emptying his pockets into the drawer, and getting his snake. The background poster and bloody-eyeball cuffIinks would probably have to be CGI'd out, but the drawer contents are a must, an absolute must. The snake may make the commercial too long. I can't decide.
P.S. Note the car used in the film got 55 mpg, and I'm guessing, had no cupholders. Also don't miss the Whomobile page. The sidebar's a hoot. Or would that be a whoot. I can't decide.
Posted at 12:23 AM EST [Link][Comment]
Wednesday, November 6, 02002
No Peaches for me last night. I wasted last night tracking down a compiler problem in a really stupid CS656 programming assignment. I love functional programming more each day. Death to the dreaded side effect ! Boring particulars in the extended section. Upshot is the c++ compiler we have to use for the course doesn't process the if statement in correctly.
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Tuesday, November 5, 02002
"So how many El Salvadorans you got hiding in your basement?"
I stumbled across this Donna Bar interview totally by accident. Gonna go home and read all my old Deset Peach comics now. It's been a long day.
Posted at 08:17 PM EST [Link][Comment]
A question for my librarian readers:
I'm looking for a kid's book in which the protaganist decides to feed his pet goldfish much too much fish food and it grows to fill the neighborhood swiming pool. I tried to use the "growing goldfish" as a metaphor for requirements creep today and everyone looked at me like I was tripping on something.
Anyone else remember this book ?
Update:Becki's right. The book is Fish out of Water. I remember now how sad the fish seemed that he was growing, and how he would die if the frantic kid couldn't find a bigger source of water. It was a lot of suspense for a young kid.
Posted at 04:49 PM EST [Link][Comment]
"Regime Change Begins At Home"
Here's my ballot: So stay away from the polls, disagreeable Virginians, and let my vote'll count all the more !
- Senate: Write-in for D.C Amarashinghe
- House District 8: James Moran
- Proposed Bond Issue,Question No. 1: "Education": YES
- Proposed Bond Issue,Question No. 2 "Parks": YES
- Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 "More time for evidence": YES
- Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 2 "Local exemption of property tax": YES
- Sprawl Tax: NO NO NO
- Various Arlington Bond Issues: YES to all
Update: So, I'm done voting. Lines were about as long as expected. Voting officals asked about my "Use Less Gas" t-shirt and decided it wasn't political enough to keep me away from the polls. I was voter number 228. The lines moved slowly because apparently no one was prepared and everyone was reading all the bond proposals in the booth. Sigh. I'm not sure my write-in attempt really worked. It's about a four step process to do a write-in, and I'm not sure I did it right. Luckily I broyght my own pen, since there wasn't one in the booth. I may have ended up not voting for anyone for the Senate. if so, sorry D.C.
Posted at 08:42 AM EST [Link][Comment]
Sunday, November 3, 02002
The good folks at Citizens for Better Transportation, sent out a funny mailing recently.
It's got a guy sitting alone, in what I assume is an SUV. He's go the window down and he's sticking his head out, looking pretty exasperated. He's holding a paper cup which he looks like he's going to drop on the road at any minute, Seldom Seen Smith style. Apparently he stuck in a traffic jam. Below the picture is the text
How much money do you waste on gasoline burned while sitting in traffic ?
Eh, well, not much money at all. Almost none in fact. Granted the engine is warm enough, and the heater's not on, the Insight's engine shuts off automatically when the car is idle. Don't all cars have that feature by now. No ? What a shame.
In the meantime, our poor commuter can get some slugs and travel in the HOV lane. Or better yet, he can find a job closer to home, and/or start taking public transportation.
Sorry but I saw two humvees over the weekend and they put me in a foul, foul mood. Too bad they weren't stealth-mode hybrid humvees.
(Don't miss "If Pedestrians Had Clout...").
