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Blu-Barred

I will be SO happy when Blu-Ray becomes ubiquitous enough that they stop putting garish blue banners and "high def" over everything. Gah!

Oh wait! Or they could find SOMETHING THAT LOOKS DECENT!

Short But Sweet

I have a new guilty pleasure: OneSentence—True stories, told in one sentence. It's like someone had the same idea as Post Secret, but their only exposure to the Internet was Twitter.

Now And Then

1 gigabyte of storage, 20 years ago vs. today. HT: Pudge.

Did I Just Do That?

I ordered myself an iPod Shuffle to use mainly while doing yard work. I've been using Laura's iPod Mini and... you know what. It doesn't matter. Here's the funny/scary part.

It comes with a free line of engraving. And before I could second-guess myself, I decided on "They see me mowin' / my front lawn".

Just when I thought I had escaped my geekitude, it sucks me back in.

Son of Excitebike

How did I just now find out about Line Rider? Some people have way to much time on their hands, but it's all for my entertainment! Bonus points for this creation using "Tank!"

Bonus points to the dude that actually gave his illustration depth.

UPDATE: Okay, this one just blows me away.

UPDATE 2: Holy cow. This one is full on illustrated. I promise this will be the last addition...

Shelf Space Means The World To Us!

Last November, I offered a little link to a corporately re-written version of U2's "One" for some Bank of America meeting. Needless to say, tie-wearing bankers co-opting U2 is a little disturbing.

Well, prepare yourself for Symantec's re-write (audio only, unfortunately) of Marky Mark's "Feel The Vibrations". C'mon, c'mon! See the solution!

HT: copyranter

Sprucing Up The Joint

As you can see, I'm doing some redesigning around here. Pardon the dust whilst I fiddle.

Funny Ali moment: She has started using the word "shall" in her vocabulary. And using it properly, no less. And we don't even have a KJV bible in the house!

Dunno

I took the picture below at a local Office Depot. The 30 pack of "Music" CD-R's on the left sold for $19.99. The 50 pack of "non-Music" CD-R's sold for $18.99. I looked at both of them and could not find one noticeable or notable difference that would justify the additional $0.30/unit cost of the "Music" blanks.

Oh, and the non-Music CD-R's can apparently burn at a higher speed.

Anybody got any ideas?

Subtle, Yet Pointed

Last month, this dude David Platt predicts the flop of the iPhone launch and product as a whole. There are many, many ways to mock this man. But my favorite comment was a gentleman who, in the evening of June 29 (the day of the launch), said:

I don't really have anything substantive to add to any of the criticism you've already received on this post; I just wanted to be the first to comment on it from am [sic] iPhone.

Have people learned nothing from Thread 500?

In Ear Ache

If you are a person who wears a Bluetooth earpiece around all the time, allow me to be the one to break it to you—you look like an idiot. Sometimes even a pretentious one.

I see people wearing these to the movie theaters, the theme parks, the bathroom. All kinds of places where you don't really need to talk on the phone that much, do you? One lady showed up to a worship committee meeting wearing one.

It's like Wrath of Kahn all over again, but with buds instead of bugs.

Don't get me wrong. I love the things. When I spent 2 hours a day commuting to work, I lived by mine. IN THE CAR.

I know what you're going to say. "But, Doug. It's so convenient and I don't have to dig around for my phone and I can't even tell it's there." Fine. Still dorky. Especially when you go for an hour without a phone call. It's like opposite jewelry. Instead of making one look more attractive, it makes someone look more Borg-ish.

Did I just make two Star Trek references in one post? I must be channeling Malcolm...

 

Image via: Brandspankin'