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[ 1 Comment ]Posted on December 19, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture
Friday, December 19th, 2008I don’t know. Let’s do a flowchart.
We’ve talked about flowcharts here before. Although I’m a pretty organized person, I don’t actually find them useful for getting organized, but I do find them quite amusing. That’s why, when I dropped some lettuce on the floor as I was making a salad today, I realized I had to jump on the flow chart bandwagon and do one of my own. You see, I like simple rules, but the Three Second Rule for whether or not to eat food that’s been on the floor is just too simple. So here’s my flow chart assessing the problem. Think you might find a flow chart useful for a problem of your own, but you aren’t quite sure? Try the Flowchart Of Should You Make A Flowchart. Still not sure you’re getting the hang of it? Here’s A Guide To Understanding Flowcharts In Flowchart Form. And if you’re for some reason questioning the truth of the information I’m sharing, here are The Steps To Determine The Factual Content Of A Statement. You should be careful with this sort of self-referential analysis though, lest you become trapped in a Hasselhoffian Recursion.
I Dropped Food On The Floor Should I Eat It Flowchart
[ 2 Comments ]Posted on December 19, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Friday, December 19th, 2008Is the three second rule too simple? Here’s a chart.
Here’s a carefully diagrammed assessment based on the Three Second Rule. More info here. Read the rest of this entry »
Scary Santas Spread The Holiday Fear
[ Comments Off ]Posted on December 18, 2008 by admin in Holidays
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Yeah, you better watch out. You better not cry. Just whose idea was it to take small children and make them sit on the laps of strange fat men wearing bright red suits, anyway? No wonder there’s such a wealth of images of horrified children whose only wish for Christmas is for mom to get [...]
Yeah, you better watch out. You better not cry. Just whose idea was it to take small children and make them sit on the laps of strange fat men wearing bright red suits, anyway? No wonder there’s such a wealth of images of horrified children whose only wish for Christmas is for mom to get them the hell off the lap of the scary guy with booze-breath and fake beard. For me, one of the creepiest images of Santa would have to be the opening minutes of the film City of Lost Children
First Person Shoe-ter Games Featuring George Bush
[ 10 Comments ]Posted on December 17, 2008 by admin in Politics
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Flashe Shoe Throwing Games With Bush
Someday, the guy that threw the shoes at Bush will be an iconic figure, like the man facing the tank in Tiannemen Square . For now though, while he’s in an undisclosed location for Bush administration-style interviews, he’ll have to settle for being immortalized in Flash games. Getting the most attention (probably because of the clean graphic style) in spite of sucking as a game is Bush Boot Camp, proving that banjo soundtracks don’t always make a game funny. The eponymously-named (I love saying that; bring it on grammar nazis!) That Guy Totally Threw A Shoe At President Bush: The Game at least uses shoes instead of rifle cross-hairs to aim. Use the spacebar as needed to duck and reload. My Norwegian is a little rusty, or I’d explain in detail what the finer points of this game are. I think you’ll figure it out though. And in Flying babush, you get to be Bush and try to duck. Probably more amusing than all these games (after all, there are only so many ways you can throw two shoes) is this collection of animated graphics. On with shoe! Yes. I said that.
Lifestyle Drugs vs. Drug Lifestyles
[ 2 Comments ]Posted on December 16, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008I did my part in the war on drugs, but they just kept coming, and coming…
Although I’m not too fond of either these days, in my sordid former life I always preferred recreational drugs to therapeutic ones. As something of an amateur drug expert as a result (thorough field work beats lab work any day!) I was always amused by the fact that the “legitimate” drug trade bombarded us with ads constantly while we were simultaneously told that other drugs are bad. Yes, it seems there’s a legitimate drug for everything, and although lifestyle drugs are booming, the problem with a drug lifestyle is that it’s pretty hard to convey to a person who’s high that drugs are bad somehow. I think they’re finally getting the hang of it though. I might’ve been scared straight in my nightclubbing days if I’d seen this (slightly gory) ad at 4am, for instance. And although to this day I’d maintain that the worst thing about smoking weed is that you just sit around feeling like you’re doing something when you’re not, this ad might’ve brought me to that conclusion sooner. And it’s too bad the U.S. doesn’t have anything as hip as the U.K.’s Talk To Frank campaign, where you can meet Pablo, the Drug Mule Dog, Baggie, the talking cocaine bag, and Nostril, a rather unhappy orifice. Gotta go now, I just got an e-mail that says that on top of being overweight, anxious, and depressed, both my malfunctioning penis AND my breasts are too small…