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

Friday, May 22, 2009

How much would you bid for a cave home?


Uniform Velocity points us to this spectacular dwelling:

And SCS has the original eBay details:

A 15,000 square-foot home built into a cave? I thought only Bruce Wayne could afford that sort of thing.


Norma Jean


Carabaas has an exceptional album of Marilyn Monroe photos taken in 1948.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

BBC: Baby animals in the womb


The BBC used a combination of ultrasounds and computer-aided engineering software to create striking images of baby animals in the womb.

These photos are a couple of years old, but amazing nonetheless.


Freaks don't know 'bout my popsicle


First things first, I poppa, freaks all the honeys

Dummies - playboy bunnies, those wantin’ money

Those the ones I like ‘cause they don’t get nathan

'Cept popsicles and the occasional muffin

However, I stay 'sicled down to the socks

Rings and watch filled with rocks


When Boomers and Gen-Y collide


Joy of Tech juxtaposes the generations.

Battleship Island: Japan's Rotting Metropolis


Viceland has an incredible photographic tour of Japan's Hashima Island, an hour's sail from Nagasaki's port.

...A former coal mining facility owned by Mitsubishi Motors, it was once the most densely populated place on earth, packing over 13,000 people into each square kilometre of its residential high-risers. It operated from 1887 until 1974, after which the coal industry fell into decline and the mines were shut for good...

...With their jobs gone and no other reason to stay in this mini urban nightmare, almost overnight the entire population fled back to the mainland, leaving most of their stuff behind to rot.

Today it is illegal to go anywhere near the place as it’s beyond restoration and totally unsafe...

In all seriousness, it reminds me of Grove Parc in Chicago, the first in a series of stunning success stories brought to you by Valerie Jarrett and Barack Obama.


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

20 of the most awesome sand sculptures ever


Here are my two favorites from Locked Up Mind.


I'm almost scared to imagine how much work went into these beauties.


The Chipmunk Whisperer


Chris McVeigh (hat tip: BuzzFeed) bribes chipmunks with almonds and then snaps photos of them engaging with action figures.

I'm going to take a wild guess and presume that Chris voted for Obama. Not that there's anything wrong with that.


Saturday, May 16, 2009

Shocking archeological discovery


An archeological team, digging in Washington DC, has uncovered 10,000-year-old bones and fossil remains of what is believed to be the first Democrat politician.


Hat tip: Papa B.

Google Street Views in DC


Junior Cub Reporter Biff Spackle was surfing Google Street Views in the Washington, DC area and came across the following.

Driving by Jack Murtha's mansion, one of his aides appears to be negotiating with a defense contractor.

Here we look inside the window of Hillary Clinton's expansive dining room.

On our way to John Edwards' house.

A sneak peak inside the Edwards' DC condo as John prepares for a comeback.

This is the parking area near the Kennedys' brownstone.

The headquarters of the group Democrats for America lies dead ahead.


Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Return of the Streets of San Francisco


Papa B sent this one in with a single remark: 'This ain't the show I remember.'






Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Except for the Pelosi and Feinstein part.


Sunday, May 10, 2009

Why men don't write personal advice columns


Dave W. sent this one in:

Dear Angelo,

I hope you can help me. The other day, I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV. I hadn't driven more than a mile down the road when the engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt. I walked back home to get my husband's help. When I got home I couldn't believe my eyes. He was in our bedroom with the neighbor's daughter. I am 32, my husband is 34, and the neighbor's daughter is 19. We have been married for ten years.

When I confronted him, he broke down and admitted that they had been having an affair for the past six months. I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was laid off six months ago and he says he has been feeling increasingly depressed and worthless.

I love him very much, but ever since I gave him the ultimatum he has become increasingly distant. He won't go to counseling and I'm afraid I can't get through to him anymore. Can you please help?

Sincerely,

Laura



Dear Laura,

A car stalling after being driven a short distance can be caused by a variety of faults with the engine. Start by checking that there is no debris in the fuel line. If it is clear, check the vacuum pipes and hoses on the intake manifold and also check all grounding wires. If none of these approaches solves the problem, it could be that the fuel pump itself is faulty, causing low delivery pressure to the injectors.

I hope this helps,

Angelo

Electric Fence


Bernie writes, 'This is Hysterical. Obviously written by a guy, so forgive the explicit expressions... A bit gross, but flat-out funny.'

Thought y'all should read this in case you're thinking of installing an electric fence! We have the standard 6 foot fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence.

I then used an 8 foot long ground rod, and drove it 7.5 feet into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my El Cheapo Wal-Mart 6HP big-wheel push mower. The hot wire for the fence is broken and laying out in the yard. I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger. I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way. It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawn mower in my right hand and the 1.7 gigavolt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover. Time stood still. The first thing I notice is my gonads trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine.

It seems as though the fence charger and the POS lawn mower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot crap, pee, and discharge at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all three at once, but my bowels emptied three different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back and BAM-BAM-BAM you just crap your pants three times. It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Chevy turning 8 grand.

At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can't let go. I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences... but Dad always had those POS chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled. This I could not let go of. The 8-foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Ark-La-Tex river bottom soil. At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.

'Damn!’ I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!

Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop, pee, sweat, and other substances, I think 'Oh God, please die... pleeeeze die'. But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.

So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day... he left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created...

I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire... I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned. There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot were the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire. Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things:

1- Three of my teeth seem to have melted.

2- I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).

3- Poop, pee, and semen when all mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.

4- My left eye will not open.

5- My right eye will not close.

6- The lawnmower runs like a sumnabitch now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.

7- I can turn on the TV in the game room by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still don't understand this?)

That day changed my life. I now have a new-found respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.

The good news is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.

Author unknown


Friday, May 08, 2009

Wikio's Top 100 Blog List Released


Wikio sent me another advance look at its new Top 100 list. I think my name is holding me back -- it's boring. Hey! What if I changed my last name to Malkin?

1The Huffington Post
2TechCrunch
3The Corner
4Think Progress
5Gizmodo
6Boing Boing
7Political Ticker - CNN
8Michelle Malkin
9Political Punch
10The Daily Dish
11Gawker
12Engadget
13The Conscience of a Liberal
14Talking Points Memo
15Firedoglake
16Instapundit.com
17NewsBusters
18fivethirtyeight
19Daily Kos
20The Caucus - New York Times blog
21Gateway Pundit
22Crooks and Liars
23Power Line
24The Official Google Blog
25ReadWriteWeb
26Mashable!
27White House.gov Blog Feed
28The Consumerist
29Kotaku
30Threat Level
31Deadspin
32Lifehacker
33Political Animal
34The Plank
35Washington Wire - WSJ.com
36Bits - New York Times blog
37CrunchGear
38Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
39Michael Goldfarb - The Blog - The Weekly Standard
40AMERICAblog
41Calculated Risk
42Marginal Revolution
43Jezebel
44Chicago Breaking News
45Greg Mankiw's Blog
46Neatorama
47Wired Science - Wired Blog
48GigaOM
49Gadget Lab - Wired Blog
50VentureBeat
51io9
52Swampland
53In The Faith - A Chronicle of the Christian Faith
54The Big Picture
55The Boy Genius Report
56Kottke
57Atlas Shrugs
58xkcd.com
59Wonkette
60Official Gmail Blog
61Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Se
62Eschaton
63Valleywag
64naked capitalism
65Full Comment
66Real Time Economics
67Pam's House Blend - Front Page
68Political Radar - ABC Blog
69Freakonomics - New York Times Blog
70DealBook - New York Times blog
71SimpleBits
72Doug Ross @ Journal
73Pharyngula
74Jihad Watch
75PerezHilton.com
76Deadline Hollywood Daily
77Lynn Sweet
78The Jawa Report
79Balloon Juice
80I Can Has Cheezburger?
81Political Wire
82Hullabaloo
83Seth Godin's Blog
84Geekologie
85The Next Right
86TorrentFreak
87SlashGear
88Althouse
89core77.com
90Just Jared
91Glenn Greenwald
92Cato-at-liberty
93Trading Goddess Stock Blog!
94Towleroad
95MyDD
96Inhabitat
97?bergizmo
98Techdirt
99George's Bottom Line
100Obsidian Wings

Ranking by Wikio.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Somali Coast Cruise Package


Need to get away from it all and cut loose?

The Coast-of-Somalia Cruise Package is the cure for what ails you. And rates have never been cheaper!

Depart from beautiful Sawakin in the Sudan and arrive refreshed at Bagamoya in Tanzania, seven adrenaline-charged days later!

Bring your own high-powered weapons (handguns are welcome!) or rent them from our onboard Master Gunsmith. Enjoy reloading parties every afternoon with skeet and marksmanship competitions every night! We even have an indoor range for those rare days when the weather is uncooperative!

Starting at $3200-per-person (double occupancy, inside room) and $3,900 (veranda complete with bench rest), you'll relax like never before.

Rent a full auto M-16 for only $25/day with ammo attractively priced at $16 per 100 rounds of 5.56 armor-piercing;

On a budget? Rent a full-auto AK-47 for only $9/day with 7.62 ball ammo at $12 per 100 rounds.

Hello! Nothing gets a pirate's attention like a Barrett M-107 .50-cal sniper rifle; only $59/day with 25 rounds of armor-piercing ammo affordably priced at only $29.95.

Need a spotter? Our professional crew members can double as spotters for only $30/hour (spotting scope included, but gratuities are not);

Want to make a real impact? Rent an RPG for only $175/day with three fragmentation rounds included!

Free complimentary night vision equipment is included and coffee, pastries and snacks are always available on the main deck from 7pm until 6am.

Our deluxe package comes complete with gourmet meals and all rooms offer a mini-bar.

But that's not all! Twin mounted miniguns are available for rental at only $450.00 per 30 seconds of sustained fire.

And we guarantee that you will experience at least two hijacking attempts by pirates or you'll receive an instant $1,000 refund upon arrival in port.

How can we make that guarantee? We operate at 5 knots always staying within 12 nautical miles of the coast of Somalia. In fact, we make three passes through the area's most treacherous waters to ensure maximum visibility by Somali "mother ships".

At night, the boat is fully lit and bottle rockets are shot every five minutes with loud disco music directionally beamed shoreside to attract maximum attention.

Reserve your package before May 31 and receive 100 free rounds of tracer ammo!

Testimonials

"Six attacks in 4 days were more than I expected. I bagged three pirates and my 12-year old son sank two boats with the mini-gun. What a birthday present!" -- Fred D., Cincinnati, OH

"Pirates 0, Passengers 32! Well worth the trip! Can't recommend it highly enough!" -- Ben L., Bethesda, MD

"I haven't had this much fun since flying choppers in 'Nam. Don't worry about getting shot by pirates... they never even got close to the ship with the crap they shoot and their lousy aim... reminds me of a drunken juicer door-gunner we picked up from the motor pool in Phu Bai!" -- Dan J. -- Toledo, OH

Act now, because cabins and pirates are limited! You don't want to miss this adrenaline-charged vacation experience, available exclusively from Cheney Industries, a division of Halliburton!



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