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January 29, 2007

Google TV Is No Hoax

I got Google TV, and they're paying me 40 large just to watch it.

Here's a screencap:

The only program available is some weird show with two aliens stacking boxes. It hurts my eyes a little, but it is kind of addicting. And anyways who cares, I'm getting paid 40 big ones to watch.

[I realize that by combining two extremely obscure references in the same post, the population of readers who will get it is basically nil.]

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1 I think it must be finals time; Annie seems to have lost it again. P.S. He said "Forty large", not "Forty Big Ones"; in the venacular, that means $40,000, not the $40.00 he's being paid. This entire video looks like it was made by someone on acid; I didn't think they used hallogens anymore. Or maybe it was just a third year law student being bored to death...

Posted by: shelly at January 30, 2007 02:27 AM (SLFj+)

2 I just watched the Mark Ericson videos; there must be thousands of geeks pulling their hair out trying to get that little TV antenna. Only Annie could find this stuff. Is that why we check this blog? Back to the books, Annie.

Posted by: shelly at January 30, 2007 02:37 AM (SLFj+)

3 "halogens?" I never touch the stuff. Flourescents are my bulb of choice.

Posted by: annika at January 30, 2007 07:39 AM (9EnDq)

4 LMAO! I didn't even get the reference at first, but I had a feeling that was "Carl-speak" in your post. I hadn't seen that episode before, until today.

Posted by: reagan80 at January 30, 2007 09:21 AM (qjCPY)

5 Two questions: Don't you people feel guilty for wasting time watching stuff like this? It's not even funny, or good. It's just a bunch of pothead rambling. What am I going to do with forty Orlocks?

Posted by: Casca at January 30, 2007 12:20 PM (2gORp)

6 "Don't you people feel guilty for wasting time watching stuff like this?" Nope, not me. Each episode is less than 15 minutes long. That's a reasonable price to pay for bizarre humor. However, watching 5 minutes of this made me feel a deep sense of shame and regret.

Posted by: reagan80 at January 30, 2007 01:42 PM (qjCPY)

7 Reagan 80, thanks to you, I had to click that link and click "PLAY" to watch that hideous monstrosity posing as parody. I have to wash my eyes now.

Posted by: Mark at January 30, 2007 04:25 PM (xqjVb)

8 The other day I was walking my dog in Santa Monica and a homeless dude said "hello, dog." I swear to God he sounded Just Like Carl. Probably wasn't him, though. I can't imagine Carl is too fond of dogs after the Handbanana fiasco.

Posted by: The Law Fairy at January 30, 2007 05:54 PM (XUsiG)

9 Are you all 3rd year law students? At least Annie has an excuse for being balmy.

Posted by: shelly at January 30, 2007 06:02 PM (SLFj+)

10 Shelly, I'm not but I used to be. Anyway, spend enough time in a law firm and you'll find that ATHF can at times be less bizarre than real life. I'll admit the most recent season seems trippier than the others though...

Posted by: The Law Fairy at January 30, 2007 06:07 PM (XUsiG)

11 OT: top Super Bowl ad this year! CHICKS DIG CHOCOLATE!

Posted by: Radical Redneck at January 30, 2007 07:21 PM (cOyko)

12 I'm sorry about that, Mark. It could've been worse, though. Instead, it could've been a link about tentacles or something.

Posted by: reagan80 at January 30, 2007 09:22 PM (qjCPY)

13 lawfairy, my alltime favorite episode is handbanana. either that or dickesode. tonight... you

Posted by: annika at January 31, 2007 08:16 AM (6InDk)

14 Look, everyone just calm down, and lean your heads back.

Posted by: Leif at January 31, 2007 08:27 PM (bWO4B)

15 Leftist LoonsÂ™ go bananas (like the apes they are) over a crew cut wearing photographer (obviously a secret fascist)! LIBERALS ARE INFERIOR PEOPLE!

Posted by: Radical Redneck at January 31, 2007 09:43 PM (cOyko)

16 Cartoon Network To Boston P.D.: To Er Is Human

Posted by: annika at January 31, 2007 11:16 PM (Q3+V0)

17 You my dear have an uncanny sense of timing. I told you these fuckers were stoned. Do you think they told the cops to... "just tilt your head back"?

Posted by: Casca at February 01, 2007 12:06 AM (2gORp)

18 Definitely Dickesode.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at February 01, 2007 12:20 AM (3ZNma)

19 "All Your Base Are Belong to Err I officially proclaim myself hipper than Boston's police force. "I want my name to be Spaghetti" Posted by The Law Fairy on Jan. 31, 2007" Damn, I was sure it was "All your BABES belong to us". At that point, I was ready to enlist with them...

Posted by: shelly at February 01, 2007 09:58 PM (SLFj+)

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January 26, 2007

Big Hair Video of the Day

Oh, yeah! More Flirts!

(I wouldn't have done this if one of annika's 6MB readers hadn't mentioned 80's music. Blame him.)

UPDATE: A different video of this song (with the same lip-synching) can be found here and it's worth watching just for the way the male VJ totally checks out the girl sitting next to him.

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January 23, 2007

Crap!

As if there isn't enough to worry about these days. Now this.

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1 Eh, no desire to go to those third world shitholes anyway. Yes, that includes Louisiana.

Posted by: Casca at January 23, 2007 08:09 AM (Y7t14)

2 I used to worry about the Killer Bees when I was a kid. Now they're in our county and life is still the same. I'm not going to mention this to our 16-year-old daughter, who recently overcame her fear of the Chupacabra.

Posted by: Joules at January 23, 2007 10:22 AM (u4CYb)

3 hey, chupa tu cabra!

Posted by: annika at January 23, 2007 11:39 AM (zAOEU)

4 "Yes, that includes Louisiana." LMAO, even though that's MY third world shithole you're talking about.

Posted by: reagan80 at January 23, 2007 11:54 AM (qjCPY)

5 "Some experts estimate the number of people in Latin American countries who have this disease to be 25%. About 25% of these will suffer heart damage. So .o6% of the population suffers heart damage from this one bug." Eh. Dude. 25% of 25% is not .06%. It's roughly 6%. The guy apparently isn't a math professor. Six cases ever reported in the U.S. I'll hold off on panicking. Like Joules, I used to worry about killer bees. Used to worry about fire ants, too. Then I lived in places where they're endemic. No big danger except to kids. Gasoline (plus a match) deals with fire ant mounds nicely. They also make reasonably effective poisons, but it's more gratifying -- and more effective, I think -- to burn the little fuckers out.

Posted by: Matt at January 23, 2007 01:07 PM (10G2T)

6 Check out the CDC page on the virus. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/chagasdisease/factsht_chagas_disease.htm While the condition doesn't sound pleasant, the CDC information is much less alarmist.

Posted by: The Maximum Leader at January 23, 2007 01:42 PM (iJhG9)

7 You think that's bad? THIS shit is scary: Nasty Shit! Long article, but the last page is the best.

Posted by: Casca at January 23, 2007 03:49 PM (2gORp)

8 Eh. Dude. 25% of 25% is not .06%. It's roughly 6%. The guy apparently isn't a math professor. Eh. Dude! It seems you aren't a math professor either. Both notations can be correct.

Posted by: Math Prof. at January 23, 2007 08:51 PM (7spUy)

9 I have to agree with Matt. .06% is not the same as 6%, although I see where the mistake was made. .06% is six hundredths of one percent.

Posted by: annika at January 23, 2007 08:56 PM (1EshY)

10 Actually 25% of 25% is exactly 6.25%. Sorry to be a math geek about it... (.25X.25=.0625 or 6.25%)

Posted by: Billy at January 23, 2007 11:04 PM (SLFj+)

11 Your baiting technique sucks, 88.

Posted by: reagan80 at January 24, 2007 08:48 AM (qjCPY)

12 Whoa Nellie! Thanks Annie, my pals and I were planning a trip to South America for fishing. No way Jose now! I'm thinking Iceland might work. You know anything bad that ever happened to folks in Iceland? Let me know. Over and out, X

Posted by: Major X at January 24, 2007 09:18 PM (N155d)

13 Scandinavia is always a good vacation choice!

Posted by: annika at January 26, 2007 02:02 AM (1EshY)

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January 10, 2007

Scorpions On A Plane

In case you hadn't heard this story:

Sullivan, a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was aboard the United Airlines flight on the second leg of his trip home from San Francisco, where he and his wife Helena had been visiting their sons. He awoke from a nap shortly before landing and noticed something strange.
"My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp piece of plastic or something."
The second sting came after the plane had landed and the Sullivans were waiting for their bags at the luggage carousel. Sullivan rolled up his cuff to investigate, and the scorpion fell out.
"It felt like a shock, a tingly thing. Someone screamed, 'It's a scorpion,'" Sullivan recalled. Another passenger stepped on the two-inch arachnid, and someone suggested Sullivan seek medical help.
He scooped up the scorpion and headed to the hospital in Burlington. His wife stopped at the United counter and was told the plane they were on had flown from Houston to Chicago. The Sullivans surmised the scorpion boarded in Texas.
"The airlines tell you can't bring water or shampoo on a plane," Helena Sullivan said. But the scorpion did make it aboard, she said.

That's right, scorpions on a muhfukkin plane!

In other Samuel L. Jackson related news, check out this awesome t-shirt.

t-shirt recommendation via Dawn.

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January 03, 2007

Berkeley News

Check out the Concourse of Hypocrisy.

Full disclosure: my old car gets at least 35 mpg without the benefit of a single bumper sticker.

h/t 6MB.

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1 They're a collection of loons. Amazing how this collection of the best and brightest uniformly adopt a lunatic orthodoxy, and defend it without question or consequence. Just wait til the revolution my friend. We'll be hanging them up and down the central valley.

Posted by: Casca at January 03, 2007 09:26 PM (2gORp)

2 I don't know how a bright student like Annika can stand being around such dumb asses.

Posted by: Mark at January 04, 2007 10:49 AM (krump)

3 Bumper stickers improve fuel efficiency by disrupting the boundary layer, thereby reducing air drag. When you see an apparent moonbat with 20 or more bumper stickers, he is probably actually an aerodynamic engineer who has conducted careful modelling of the best locations for bumper stickers to maximize efficiency.

Posted by: david foster at January 04, 2007 11:09 AM (/Z304)

4 I occasionally see environmentalists driving SUVs with conflicting bumper stickers, though such incidents have been very rare in my experience. Less rare are the environmentalists driving SUVs without bumperstickers. I'm surprised to see a Honda Civic and a 38 mpg Jetta as part of this collection. Is this all the cars they could manage to photo? These few are not much of a basis for making far-reaching extrapolations. And no bumper stickers on my Insight (yet). While we are on the subject, I recommend reading articles by the group "Securing America's Future Energy", made up of former USMC Commandant P.X. Kelley, FedEx CEO Frederick Smith, a former PACOM CINC, former CNO, UPS CEO, and a gaggle of other senior military/CEOs etc. See http://www.secureenergy.org/reports.php Also see the Council on Foreign Relations recent National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency.

Posted by: will at January 04, 2007 12:10 PM (GzvlQ)

5 WTF is it with bumper stickers? I've always said that it takes a really shallow person to reduce an admired philosophy down to a damn bumper sticker. Doesn't matter if it's a topic I agree with or not; pithy one-liner speak may massage the ego, but it does nothing for critical thought. That said, for simple humor, I've always loved bumper stickers. I'm appalled that I laughed out loud at the "I miss my wife, but my aim's gettin' better" one, but hey... there's lotsa things I don't like about myself. I'm still amused by that one. And I always wanted to make one that said "I outran the Batmobile" and put it on this old, deranged (yes, it had it's own mind) atrocity of a clunker I once owned. It was fast in it's heyday, but when I owned it... hooo boy! Zero to 20 measurable by calendar. Oh, sorry, main point of the post: Hypocrisy. Well, look who's doing it... it'd almost be contrary to character for those folks to not be hypocritical, since the self-centered pride of owning disapproval, rage, or some other sort of contrarian-ness is much more important to them than actually having logically consistent positions. Or in other words: What'd you expect?

Posted by: elmondohummus at January 04, 2007 01:01 PM (xHyDY)

6 "9-11 What Really Happened?" sticker?? (Link to Concourse image) GRRRRRRRRRRRR...... that really pisses me off! Hey, Subaru Forester driving moron! See James Randi Educational Foundation, 9-11 Debunker, 9-11 Myths... or maybe YOUR OWN F****** EYES!!!! Oh... Mr. Forester-driving moron: What really happened? RADICAL TERRORISTS FLEW PLANES INTO BUILDINGS!! Try to avoid Loose Change and 9/11 Blogger for your information, you brainless f***. Oh... try original thinking, too... although if you're one of the "My Life Philosophy Fits On A Bumper Sticker" crowd, you're probably already lost... GOD!... those folks rile me up so bad... they're the freakin' epitome of bandwagon-jumping, non-critical thinking sheep... and they call us "sheeple"... stupid f****...

Posted by: ElMondoHummus at January 04, 2007 01:25 PM (xHyDY)

7 Hey, Sheep are sheep whether their wool twirls left or right. Simplistic reduction of ideas to bumper sticker size is not an attempt by anyone to get a change of attitude from the other side but rather the equivalent of the knowing, finger-lift of a wave practiced by drivers of BMW, Corvette, Porche, etc. as they pass a fellow devotee.

Posted by: strawman at January 04, 2007 02:00 PM (9ySL4)

8 Yes, that reminds me; I've seen "Fight Terrorism" and similar vanity plates on SUVs and Corvettes, though they seemed oblivious to the fact they were indirectly funding such.

Posted by: will at January 04, 2007 02:07 PM (GzvlQ)

9 I love to watch socks talk to each other.

Posted by: Casca at January 04, 2007 04:55 PM (2gORp)

10 Casca continues to piss into the wind...

Posted by: will at January 04, 2007 08:20 PM (h7Ciu)

11 Whew, I got my laugh for the day--and needed it--autism parenting is not super-relaxing. Reading through the above was better than the Three Stooges (although, I'm a woman who thinks anything is funnier than the Stooges)!

Posted by: Joules at January 04, 2007 09:40 PM (u4CYb)

12 David F, that's the Huge Comment Of The Week!

Posted by: annika at January 05, 2007 01:22 PM (VqvfN)

13 Stawdog has a Bush Lied bumper sticker on his vesta.

Posted by: kyle8 at January 06, 2007 06:04 AM (tVIRZ)

14 er Vespa, or what ever they are called.

Posted by: kyle8 at January 06, 2007 06:05 AM (tVIRZ)

15 Kyle8, Actually I have a much funnier sticker on my vesta. "BUSH TOLD THE TRUTH" This one gets far bigger laughs, knowing smiles and enhances true liberal bonding as I drive the streets of Brooklyn.

Posted by: strawman at January 06, 2007 12:07 PM (9ySL4)

16 Speaking of Moonbat MobilesÂ™ I thoroughly PWNED one the other day. I saw some dikey broad with a weathered Kedwards bumper sticker, along with Hillary and Duval Patrick (new socialjism friendly governor of MA) stickers on her (what else) Volvo. Righteously disgusted, I called 911 and said that she was driving erratically and had thrown a beer can from the car. About 10 miles down the road I saw her pulled over! SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! PWN3D!

Posted by: Radical Redneck at January 06, 2007 10:21 PM (93RY0)

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