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May 23, 2008
Video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans"
Fun little video can be found here. Internet meme's are a flying, be warned.
Posted by bucjos at 03:26 PM | Comments (2)
May 22, 2008
Fun thought of the day
So, I'm stuck at a Carribou in Maplewood. I've been here since 8:30 am while my car gets worked on. At present the ETA is $350 and 4 hours on a lift. This is after my $230 car wash yesterday (oh, and they thew in a free remote door opener).
The one fun thing is that after they started working on problem 1 of 3 they found a fourth issue. Turns out something that has the word "bellows" in it has a tear and that's apparently not a good thing. So they're fixing that.
This latest news put a fun thought in my mind. Since there's a bellows of some variety in my car I've decided that the guys from fraggle rock are real, they live in my car, and they have progressed into their own little iron age. Good luck little builders and avoid the dark ages if you can. No one wins when knowledge is considered bad and dogma's rule supreme.
UPDATE: I just read the whole wikipedia article for fraggle rock and saw that a movie is in the works with Frank Zappa's son doing the script. It's live action and should ship sometime in '09. Neat :)
Posted by bucjos at 12:14 PM | Comments (2)
Do it for the kids...or the lack thereof
Ars had an article about a condom manufacturer doing research into condom failures and trying to reduce failure rates. Without getting into a religious/philosophical debate, I'm willing to state that I think more reliable condoms would be a "good thing" in general, so nice work team.
That being said, the funny part is the picture in the article. The issue was that the company wasn't having luck reproducing failures in the lab and apparently failed products that customers sent in (really?) weren't shedding a lot of light into how they broke. So, someone built a machine to better simulate the failure environment.
Somewhere a mechanical engineer had this happen after a day at work:
(engineer's wife) what did you do today at work honey?
(engineer) I built an anatomically correct machine that simulates sex.
(wife, now with a disapproving stare) ....
(engineer, semi-pleadingly as he remembers how uncomfortable his couch is) It was for science I swear!
(engineer, under his breath) ...this time....
UPDATE: added link to actual article
Posted by bucjos at 10:39 AM | Comments (2)
May 15, 2008
Neat internet video of the day
A pretty cool time lapse video that is worth your time (in my opinion).
Posted by bucjos at 04:01 PM | Comments (0)
May 07, 2008
New "Mates of State" video
from their forth coming album, the video for "Get Better".
Also, new weezer album at the end of June (The Red Album). I'm digging the single so far.
Posted by bucjos at 12:55 PM | Comments (0)
May 04, 2008
New dark knight trailer
Or at least new to me.
Trailer here.
Posted by bucjos at 02:22 PM | Comments (0)