Category Archives: flotsam & jetsam

A cure for self-importance

If you’ve got a large monitor & a good net connection, definitely play this in HD, fullscreen.

2012

Teacher hot for hot teacher

Students react to the news that their French and Spanish teachers were caught by a janitor having lesbian sex in an empty classroom:

It’s great that this school has French and Spanish teachers, but in my opinion they might want to think about laying out some bucks for an English teacher. I mean, it could be [...]

Shoot straight you bastards, don’t make a mess of it

Edward Woodward OBE has died. I got a real kick out of The Equalizer when I was a kid (and speaking of, it was interesting to see Mickey in The Dark Knight, too – I don’t think I’ve seen that guy in anything since The Equalizer, but it looks like he’s been getting plenty of [...]

This can only be explained by a surplus of free time

xkcdsucks

Two for the QM

Heh

In pursuit of weight-loss

…I may have turned myself into a mimbo:
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. — A new study from the psychology department at Tufts University shows that when dieters eliminate carbohydrates from their meals, they performed more poorly on memory-based tasks than when they reduce calories, but maintain carbohydrates. When carbohydrates were reintroduced, cognition skills returned to normal.
“This study demonstrates [...]

Cool self-defense mechanism

(via)

Excellent re-branding

…of one of the stupidest things I’ve heard of in quite a while, by the brilliant James Hudnall:
Obama’s Goatse Salute

This is the “salute” they want people to make when Obama appears. How appropriate. It’s exactly how everyone’s sphincter will look if his big government programs become a reality.
Zing!

Great things are on the horizon

Wow.
Good news for Archenemy Field Correspondent Stumpy McGimp*, for sure. When this tech is good enough for bone therapy, he’ll be the happiest (still super-clumsy) jock-again in the world.
* not to be confused with also-gimpy Archenemy Couch Correspondent

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit

It’s the only way to be sure.
(unneccesary subject line h/t)

Duck!

Very cool: The now-very-shiny ISS will be flying over the inner TJICisphere tonight and tomorrow night.
(via seablogger)

Big, dumb, slow & yet still kind of cool

A reason to be an old-fashioned man

Modern men feel emasculated, study claims

I could never figure it out, either

Completely out of the blue, the QM writes:
I’d long known that The Verve lost all their Bittersweet Symphony royalties due to allegedly ripping off the Rolling Stones’s Last Time. But I could never figure it out, since I don’t think there’s anything in LT that sounds like BS.
Then I finally found out that the [...]

Truth in advertising

Somewhere, an exhausted airbrush artist is taking a very well deserved nap.

FMG9 (but they should call it “The Man-purse”)

Another vending machine item in Anarchotopia.

Dire prediction

Hugh Hewitt:
Hillary will probably become the new Teddy K. –a lioness of the Senate, serving there until the end of days for most of us. She will even enjoy and perhaps earn a unique sort of authority, an uber “been-there-done-that” wisdom. If she ever writes a candid book, it will be riveting.
(my emphasis)
Bad [...]

Genius

(via, where there’re some Saul Bass-related links)