HA HA BRITISH PEOPLE INVENTED TEA BUT COULDN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT ICED HA HA BRITISH PEOPLE ARE DUMB. I refuse to explain this.
Monthly Archives: January 2008
My Goal For 2008
Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With No Chute – New York Times My goal for 2008 is to lose enough weight and get into enough shape that I can start BASE jumping, learning how to do it, so that I can make a wingsuit jump, in the next five years. No, I’m not kidding. Here’s […]
links for 2008-01-12
American Psycho – Romantic Comedy – CollegeHumor video Trailer remixes are old news, but this is pretty funny. (tags: movie funny parody) Tank Chair If I ever end up crippled, I’m gonna get me one of these. (tags: wheelchair badass charles-xavier-can-kiss-my-treaded-ass) Apple – Trailers – He Was a Quiet Man – Trailer This looks like […]
More Random Thoughts Of The Day
The more social networks come into being, and the more people talk about what it all means, the more I want to chuck all my fucking computers into a bin and go live in the woods. I don’t want to talk to you, I don’t want to be your Magic Special Interwubbie Friend, and I […]
Random Thought Of The Day
I think whatever it is the rest of you are hearing in The Arcade Fire, I’m hearing in The National. The only track off that last AF album I really like is “(Antichrist Television Blues)”, and even that feels too affected, too preciously Springsteen-ish without the naturality of Springsteen. No dynamics. Same problem I had […]
Things I'm Listening To These Days
Music I’m digging on at the moment: My own stuff, of course, since I’m recording my album. Bat For Lashes, Fur And Gold. Superb. Matthew Dear, Asa Breed. Also excellent, and similar to some of what I’m doing. The National, Boxer. I met a couple of these guys at SxSW 2004, and I’m delighted to […]
Cool Jay Leno Science Video
5min – Jay Leno: How to Float a Boat on Air – Video I’m curious as to what gas they’re using…I can think of some interesting apps for something like that….
List of oldest companies – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Did you know that the oldest continually operating company in the world was a Japanese construction firm that was founded in 578 and liquidated in 2006? (The next oldest is a hotel in Komatsu, founded in 717.) Or that Beretta Firearms was founded in 1526, when Mastro Beretta was paid 296 ducats in payment for […]
Fuck! I Am Defeated!
You win, Mr. Beaton…this time…
Eddie Murphy battle, round 3
Ah, Dr. Beaton, once again we see that there is nothing that you can possess which I cannot take away.