Frikkin laserbeams

Since my last technical project was relatively successful, I can't wait to try this one:




Laser Flashlight Hack! - video powered by Metacafe

Who doesn't want a handheld laser that can start fires. Now I just need some ill-tempered sea bass...

Time travelling pie thief

One of my most anticipated games from E3 is The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, an indie game scheduled to come out this year (I hope). You control time (ala Blinx) in order to steal pies. Sounds fresh and puzzleriffic!



Hell, I don't even know what platform it's going to be on, but I want it. Hopefully it will be a PC or Wii game, but if not this may even be a console seller for me.

Sushi is a lie

If only I would have seen this about 3 years ago...

If you can't tell from the embiggened pic, its a sushi wedding cake. Looks like a layer of yellowtail, tuna and salmon covered in edemame. Tasty. Of course, this much sashimi would cost more than my wedding did...

Dumbocrats.org

A few days ago, my wife sent some comments to the Democratic party. Unfortunately she used her actual email address, which put her on their email list. And boy-howdy do do they use the email list. She's been getting 2 to 3 emails a day, all giving her the latest news from the DNC. Which may be interesting IF she cared about the DNC and IF we didn't live in Denver and hear about it on the TV constantly.

This wouldn't have been a big deal, except that it's frakking ridiculous to get off of the list. Sure, each email has an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom. This link takes her to a webpage that asks her to verify the email. The next screen then requires a 4 digit "confirmation code" that was supposedly emailed to her. The code didn't arrive for over 24 hours. When it finally did, the website claimed it was invalid.

Turns out, if the webpage requiring the confirmation code is closed, the code is invalidated. Basically this webpage needs to be kept open until the code can be entered, which is fine if the system actually sends the code promptly, but a day later is anything but prompt.

I have resorted to replying to every email with "For the love of all that's holy UNSUBSCRIBE ME." and spamming the webmasters with "Unsubscribe" emails until they finally take care of it.

I would ask the party how their candidates will be able to run the country when they can't even run a website, but I don't want this to start over again...

Icing mishaps

This blog was referred to me from Hotdrwife and is rather entertaining. It's all about bad cakes and questionable cake decorators. Maybe not your cup of tea, but I thought it was amusing...

Chanisms

I love the Onion and I love Jackie Chan. This article just makes me love them both even more...

Jackie Chan is using his "status as the world's most famous martial arts movie star" to teach kids that violence should only be used if you're making a lot of money to do it. Which is pretty damn responisible of him if you ask me.

My favorite quote: "If I have learned anything from my long and profitable career as a martial artist, it is that spitting a mouthful of industrial alcohol onto an opponent wielding a hot glass rod to make him catch on fire—even if it's being filmed for your smash hit, Drunken Master II—is wrong."

I couldn't have said it better Jackie. Hopefully your noble teachings will help reduce the violent tendencies of today's youths. I salute you sir!

Olympic Shame

My wife and I have been watching the Olympics fairly religiously. Mostly we've been interested in the swimming (Phelps is a frelling robot) and gymnastics.

The swimming was spectacular, and the US obviously did really well. I've also come to realize that I will never watch Olympic gymnastics again. Swimming is very definitive, the winner has a better time - pretty cut and dried. Gymnasts, of course, get a subjective score. The judges' bias inevitably shows through, especially this year.

The Chinese kicked ass at gymnastics this year, with a lot of help from the bad judging. How in the hell did the Chinese vaulter win a bronze when she didn't even land her routine? Gods I miss hockey.

Anyway, rant over. Now everyone can start questioning my manhood (Yes I still feel pretty)...

Grasping at straws

I've mentioned before that the shop gets a lot of porn spam. Our website is a second home to spambots, thus the incessant "Alissa Milano Naked" and male enhancement ads.

Recently the scope of the spam has taken a rather strange turn. Apparently since we weren't responding to offers of naked chicks, the bastards have changed tack and are now wanting us to check out a nekked Brad Pitt or Jake Gyllenhaal.

However, what made me post about this was the "See pictures of Kelsey Grammar NUDE" spam (insert ironic Sideshow Bob groan here).

The hell? Is there anyone that would want to see this? Not that I don't like Kelsey Grammar, he's a great actor and I suppose the choice could be worse, but still.

I'm burning the computer if I ever get spam for a "Nude Rosanne Barr"...

Yeee-HAW

I keep telling myself this isn't real, this was done as a joke. Jeff Foxworthy's got nuthin' on these folks...

Here's the slideshow goodness.

One more time for good measure: This isn't real...

Customer Quote of the Month - August

Customer that had just signed up his girlfriend for scuba class, "Hi, I just signed my girlfriend, Jane Doe up for class."

Me, "OK. What can I do for you?"

CthJSUHGFfSC, "Well it looks like the student kit doesn't have the binder it should."

Me, "That's because we've changed the kit we sell. In order to save you some money we are now using the cheaper kit. It's about $35 cheaper if we don't force you to have a binder."

CthJSUHGFfSC, "I did my class last year and my kit included a binder."

Me, "That's because we changed the kit for our students. This one is cheaper. If you really want a binder we have some for $25. You still save about $10."

CthJSUHGFfSC, "So this kit doesn't include a binder?"

Me (while pounding my head against the counter), "No. No this kit does not include the binder."

CthJSUHGFfSC, "Don't you think it should? Store Y includes a binder in their kit."

Me, "The kit you're talking about is more expensive, but you're probably right, theirs includes a binder."

CthJSUHGFfSC, "Well then I want to cancel the class and get my money back."

Me, "So you want to cancel the class here so you can go spend more money at another shop?"

Ok I didn't say that last part, but I sure as hell thought it. I ended with, "You'll have to talk to the owner if you want your non-refundable deposit back.

That's one huge case of officesupplyphilia...

Nice Planning

I have spent the last couple of days at the new University Hospital and have come to realize that the designers of the building were retarded. The biggest example of this is the helicopter "access". The local news did a story on this recently, but I got a chance to see this marvel of modern engineering personally.

For some reason, the designers decided that this brand new hospital building didn't need a helipad on the roof. So they built one in the parking lot. Did they choose a parking lot next to the ER? Nope, they placed it across the street. This means that patients must be loaded into an ambulance and then driven about 100 yards. Did they not know they were building a hospital that would be taking care of critically injured people? What dumbass thought that an ER department at a "state of the art" facility didn't need a convenient helipad? Apparently it was someone who hadn't heard of these new fangled devices called "helicopters".

Only slightly less irritating is that this 4 year old hospital is already too small. After waiting in the ER to be moved to a regular room for 19 hours, I had to ask what the hold up was. I was told that it could take 30 to 40 hours to get a hospital bed. Apparently the rooms are always full, so ER patients are forced to sit in the crappy emergency beds for up to 2 days! There are already plans to add on another tower to the hospital. Apparently no one thought to take into account that this new location is in a very populated area, with no other hospital for miles.

If you couldn't tell, I spent about 36 hours in hell Monday thru Tuesday and I'm a tad irritated about it. I won't even go into the nursing day staff...