Showing posts with label Water-cooler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water-cooler. Show all posts

Sunday, March 30, 2008

China's freaky new Olympic venues


The "Bird's Nest" Stadium as depicted by an architect.

A model.

Under construction.

The "Watercube" will host the water sports.

Inside the Watercube.

The "Bird's Nest" appears ready.

Putting finishing touches on the Watercube.

Both venues are in close proximity to one another.

Pictures: Shanti, IaaC, Spiky247.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Top eight signs you might be a member of the Taliban


Papa B offers the following counsel.

8. You refine heroin for a living; but you have a moral objection to beer.
7. You own a $500 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher; but can't afford decent shoes.
6. You have more wives than teeth.
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
4. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against.
3. You consider television dangerous; but routinely carry ammunition in your robe.
2. You've never been asked, 'Does this burka make my ass look big?'
1. A common compliment is, 'I love what you've done with your cave.'

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Before faxes, emails and text messages

 
There were telegrams.

Remember those?

Hat tip: AdClassix

Friday, March 21, 2008

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Bodyguard auditions

 
Holy crap, I almost spit out an entire mouthful of ice tea on my keyboard.

Click the image or here.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Photos o' the day


Check out Reuters' latest collection of 'oddly enough' photos. These two -- in particular -- caught my eye.

One of Google's employees crashes in a "nap pod", which suppresses light and sound.

A European fashion show highlights the latest in women's haute couture.

Bear Stearns' Massive Capital Loss Fund

 
About a year ago, in late March 2007, Tony Novelly -- a director at Bear Stearns -- was described as extremely bullish on the investment banking firm's prospects.

Tony Novelly, chief executive and majority owner of Apex Oil Co. in Clayton, is placing increasingly larger bets -- $7.42 million last week alone -- on the stock of Bear Stearns, where he is a director... Novelly bought 50,000 shares of the Wall Street investment banking firm over three days last week: 35,000 shares March 20 at $147.49 a share, 10,000 shares March 21 at $150.29 a share and 5,000 shares March 22 at $150.18 a share.

After those purchases, Novelly, 63, owns 177,905 Bear Stearns shares worth more than $26 million at current trading levels...

"Insider buying is always a positive for a company, because an insider doesn't have to buy," said Ken Crawford, a portfolio manager who follows Bear Stearns at Argent Capital Management in Clayton. "The insider seems to think things are going well or the shares are underpriced."

According to the SEC's insider trading records, Novelly was able to sell $4.3 million worth of shares (50,000 at $86.78) on Dec. 28, 2007. But no additional selling records appear before Bear melted down completely last last week.

Now don't cry too hard for Novelly. A self-made zillionaire, he's the CEO and majority owner of Apex Oil Co., which reported $5.2 billion in revenue in 2006.

But it still can't be much fun losing, by my calculations, around $20 million in a very public and very humbling manner.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Worst. Design. For a web site. Ever.


Try as I might, I can't bring myself to link to Havenworks.com -- the home of this elegant website.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Party like a blogger at Spring BlogFest East!

 
Fausta and Parkway Rest Stop are hosting Blogfest East 2008.


This isn't a picture from last year's Blogfest East, but you will have this much fun!

If you live anywhere within traveling distance of New Jersey, New York City or Pennsylvania, the party is too close to miss.

The party is Saturday April 5, 2008 (starting at 6pm and going to... whenever, loser) at Triumph Brewing Company in Princeton, NJ. Space in the Sky Suite is limited, so get to stepping!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

My Daddy is a Dancer


Papa B writes:

One day last week, a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.

All the typical answers came up: Fireman, Mechanic, Businessman, Salesman, Doctor........

However, little Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money."

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some math problems and then took little Justin aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"

"No," the boy said, "He works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to get Hillary Clinton elected as our next President, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Vanderleun spots Spitzers on magazine cover

 
American Digest spotted the Winter '07 issue of hoity-toity Boston mag 02138 (Cambridge's ZIP code, ergo Harvard's) with the following cover:

That's Client #9 with his current (well, I haven't checked the news lately, I think she's the current one) wife.

I've picked out some of the more streaming chunks of irony for your Spitzer stew of the day:

"To say that Wall softens his image would be to ignore the crackling energy between them."

"On the trail, Wall, who speaks with a subtle drawl, reminded voters that Spitzer is also a family man who likes to grill on weekends, wear sneakers, and watch NASCAR."

"...Asked if she and her husband take time together, just the two of them, Wall laughs. "With three kids and two dogs at the ages they areâ€"the ages they all areâ€"and our careers and community engagement, it's hard to say that we do."

Well, whatever time they were taking together, I think it is safe to assume that in the future, there will be less.


Hat tip: Larwyn

EmperorsClubVIP.com is down... but here's the cached version

 
This is how the site appeared in 2004.




Client #9 was unavailable for comment.

Update: Doug from Upland writes to alert us to a related eBay auction.

Top 8 reasons Mrs. Spitzer should have known Eliot was cheating

 
1. While in the throes of passion, kept moaning his Mastercard number
2. Referred to his privates as the "stimulus package"
3. Mentioned that he kept running into Charlie Sheen.
4. Mysterious collection notices from "Pleasure Island"
5. Always humming theme song from Shaft in the shower
6. Traded in Ford Explorer for '72 Cadillac Fleetwood with curb feelers
7. Wore mink overcoat and hat in bed
8. Discovered yellow crime scene tape in his pants

Also see: Eliot Spitzer croons his greatest hits!

Monday, March 10, 2008

What Dads do with kids' action figures

 
Hat tip: Sean

Update: jpm100 provides the photo of what kids do after the Dads have gotten finished with the kids' action figures.

Uhmm, yep, that's about right.

Friday, March 07, 2008

The colon who came in from the cold

 
Seen an enormous colon lately?

"Coco the Colossal Colon" is touring America.

"Coco,” as the Colossal Colon® is affectionately known, is a 40-foot long, 4-foot tall oversized model of the human colon that is designed to educate about colorectal cancer and other diseases of the colon. Visitors who crawl through the Colossal Colon will see Crohn's disease, diverticulosis, ulcerative colitis, hemorrhoids, cancerous and non-cancerous polyps, and various stages of colon cancer.

Legendary humorist Dave Barry paid a visit to the touring colon.

...the Colossal Colon... was on a nationwide tour to promote awareness of colo-rectal cancer. The idea is, you crawl through the Colossal Colon, and you encounter various educational items in there, such as polyps, cancer and hemorrhoids the size of regulation volleyballs, and you go, ''Whoa, I better find out if I contain any of these things,'' and you get a colonoscopy.

If you are as a professional humor writer, and there is a giant colon within a 200-mile radius, you are legally obligated to go see it. So I went to Miami Beach and crawled through the Colossal Colon...

The night before his own colonoscopy, he drank the requisite "cleansing" drink called "MoviPrep".

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, ''a loose watery bowel movement may result.'' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

Visitors praised Senator Ted Kennedy, who played a prominent role in the colon's tour.

Reached for comment, Kennedy said:

It's been an adventure. I'll admit: it's very, very painful having all of those folks crawling around my intestines, but if I save even one person by convincing them to get a colonoscopy, it will all have been worth it!

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Friday, February 29, 2008

Photo o' the day

 
Buddy G has an apt caption for this picture.

Clinton Mansion

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Engineering Question o' the Day

 
Question: How much does a house weigh?

Answer: More than a rural, two-lane bridge can hold.



Another question:

Is this covered by Home-owner's Insurance, Auto Insurance, or Roadside Assistance?

Hat tip: DSC