There’s nothing to see here
John McCain has made a remarkable move in his choice of VeeP. He’s chosen a runner up in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest, Governor Sarah Palin.
her energy policies look, ahem, interesting. we’ll see where this one goes.
No Hillary, but a woman in the election regardless.
it will be beacuse of joe biden’s unnatural hair
How awesome would this be?
http://greatamericanroadtrip.us/
I heard about this on NPR this morning. Very cool. Today, they’re my almost-heroes.
It’s also a pointless waste of gas.
Although it’s not as cool as the guys who went from NYC to Santa Monica, CA in 31 hours. Yup. 31 hours.
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun
conman mentioned this place in a recent post, so i google’d it. not only did i find some ancient super 70s photos, i found some more recent ones of rocky point
http://home.att.net/~d.bavaro/wsb/html/view.cgi-home.html-.html
i miss rocky point. school trips there seemed awesome, and concerts in later years (de la soul in my jeep!) were still fun.
it’s [...]
if you’re interested in some very compelling interviews with eclectic, unpretentious and interesting guests, check out the alcove iwth mark molaro
http://markmolaro.blip.tv/
jerome might like the gwendolyn wright interview where she talks about american houses (she’s also the history detectives lady)
enjoy, or don’t.
at the moment, she’s on the front page of cnn because scalpers are pricing out her core fans with outrageous prices.
who’s buying these tickets? adults? i don’t think so. fathers brought their kids to see Britney back in the day (you remember the pre-trucker days, right?) so they could drool over britney.
hannah montana? [...]
i really do. i fear dying more than death and wish neither upon anyone, but i had to chuckle when i saw that marcel marceau had passed.
the guy was a mime, which makes him my nemesis. along with clowns and midgets.
but as mimes go, he went pretty well. he did the Mel [...]
I’m dusting off my copy of EKAAT and will be taking it with me on my ride today. there’s a bbq festival somewhere near pennsylvania, and i think i need to go.
“`There are going to be times,’ says Kesey, `when we can’t wait for somebody. Now you’re either on the bus or off the [...]
Tommy Makem died this week.
I had the pleasure of seeing Tommy perform a few times in Washington (The Four Ps on Connecticut Ave) and it was a blast. I wish we’d been a bit more mature (smuggling brandy in so that we could add it to our cokes) but when we weren’t singing along, [...]
I’m lucky enough to work from home more than half the time. It means early starts (usually online before 7am) and long days (ending circa 6) but the breaks walking the dogs are so much nicer than hitting the Burritoville in the Chrysler Building (although they do have the best mass-produced burritos, and some [...]
Jeff and Glen navigate the Blackstone in one of these.
Yes kids, this idiot attached a jet engine to a kayak.
A what?
A jet engine. In a kayak.
Click to see the video.
Song of the Sausage Creature
by Hunter S. Thompson
There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.
Everybody has fast motorcycles these days. [...]
I’m going to complain via the Investor Relations route.
Finally, Cablevision called me back! Woo hoo! And the super helpful, if not interrupt prone, David turned my bandwidth on again. Apparently, sustained uploads and high levels of contention on the Cablevision network devices will cause this to cap happen. So, they can’t tell me how much I can use the [...]
I’ve been out of town for the last ten days-or-so.
I returned to find that my usually zippy broadband Internet service with Cablevision’s Optimum Online (not Boost) was running at a little less than I remembered. In the past, I’ve has speeds over 10mbps down and 2-3mbps up. Very nice. (test your connection here [...]
South by Southwest has begun.
Last night we drank free beers on the roof at Six, then it was off for some late night grub and cheap drinks at the always cheesy Chuy’s. And now I’m off to listen to Peter Rojas (one of my favorite gadget guys) talk about Emerging Social and Technology Trends. [...]
Anyone watch this?
Comedy Central is starting to get some decent, original shows. It’s not just the South Park and Daily Show network anymore.
It really makes me want to start making crank calls again. I used to really enjoy pretending to be WNRI calling people, or dialing Child World to ask if they had [...]
Sarah Silverman’s show is pretty funny. The first few episodes have been well written and surprisingly unusual– I really enjoy the musical interludes, although they might get a bit tired. The little girl auditioning for a Little Miss Rainbow pageant by performing a scene from Wall Street as Gordon Gecko was totally funny.
She’s [...]
those are the olsen twins. almost naked. wearing little more than butterfly pasties.
thanks to Creamsicle which is a not-safe-for-work link and really is run by the nerdy kid from the Encyclopedia Britannica commercials.
I have just vomited into my shoes.
Tony Danza? When has this guy been funny? Perhaps when he was drunk beating up a waiter (he was a pro boxer for a few minutes, right?) He was pathetic on Taxi (not to be confused with the fantastic Luc Besson film later mangled by Jimmy Fallon [...]
I love anything related to Star Wars and I wish I owned this! Screw the Bavarian Falcon, I want this!
One Geek to Rule Them All
I had no idea that they were still making games for the Dreamcast. And I certainly had no idea about this NAOMI thing, although I’ve wanted to build a stand-up game console ever since I had a meeting in LA with a Variety dude who had an original Tron arcade game in his office. He [...]
I don’t really understand what this is, but I admit to being an airport eavesdropper and listening to other people’s conversations. That’s what makes this equally addictive and revolting.
I hate other people’s lives. But I am strangely prurient about them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavktaBamzQ
This weekend I bought some 19th Century first edition Audubon prints at a local estate sale. They were a steal, and even after many years remain gorgeous pieces of naturalist art, as well as valuable collectibles. (There was also a Charles Bree Bald Eagle, which I’m quite excited about.)
The family running the estate sale also [...]
Bob Cousy (I played in a league named after him!)
Tom Heinsohn (always reminded me of Fred Flintstone)
Larry Bird (met him at a dinner in the North End of Boston, the night before he coached his last game in Boston)
Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Bill Russell.
Almost six decades spent building exceptional teams, discovering legends and [...]
One of the things I’ve learned while living in New York is that people will create beauty in the most disgusting places from the most revolting things. I’ve seen lower east side trash piles decorated into garbarge gardens with park-like arrangements, and wind chimes made from roadway debris. Calling those things beautiful would be stretching [...]
Boogie’s Porn Blog is the personal webjournal of an adult pornographer. Its a random assortment of porn, rants, and celebrity news and nudity. You’ll find nude pics porn galleries and other things you’d expect at a porn blog. Its updated at random, depending on when the guards let me out of the straight jacket.
The amount [...]
Is very yummy in the August Manhattan sunshine.
seriously, can’t you imagine this dog with the aliens drinking coffee and smoking cigs in the break room?
this poor dog disturbs me on so many levels
why did they not put it down at birth?
why would they torture the poor thing this way? poor Faith!
Steven Spielberg couldn’t have done it better.
http://stickynotes.squarespace.com/journal/2006/8/13/conflicting-images.html
This story is what I dream of (short of the spilled ketchup, of course) every time I enter a restaurant. One hopes for an attentive owner who will make right anything which may have gone wrong.
Excellent, and Bravo! to Miracle Grill!
check it
While my car burns far too much fuel, the least I can do is to send that money somewhere other than into the pocket of the president.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm
and even though Craig Kilburn left, it’s still pretty funny (he looks like G Money, no?)
Check it
The festival was the best technology gathering I’ve ever attended, at least in terms of discussing the social aspects of interacting with technology.
Wonderful people.
Great sessions.
Rooms that were too small.
And a fantastic venue in Austin.
I can’t wait for next year.
And the Red Bull House rocked!
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