Mixed signals

While I was looking into gifts from PBS, I came across this site. It's a blog about the prevention of teen suicide, a very worthy cause. The curious thing though, is the picture they decided to have on the site:

Maybe it's just me but it looks like a suicide pact to jump off a cliff. Nothing like discouraging kids from suicide by making it look fun. Is it supposed to be ironic? Who exactly chose this picture to represent the prevention of teen suicide?

Interesting priorities

I always get a kick out of the wall ads in bars in the bathrooms. This one especially tickled my fancy ( and not in that way Snarky). It's for a local Harley-Davidson dealership that's displaying their 1000 mile service program and all the parts that are serviced. Note what #1 is:


That's right, their very impressive 28 point service program starts with the latch of the saddle bags.

Awesome.

It's called playtesting

The newest game from Rock Star, the folks who brought us Grand Theft Auto, is Red Dead Redemption. It's a western sand box shooter/adventure game. It's on my radar, but only when it comes out for the PC.

In any case, there have been a few dedicated fans that have uncovered a few glitches. I'm not talking about invisible walls or bad cameras, I'm talking about things like flying bird people, talking dog gunslingers and viscous cougar men.

What kind of play testing did this game actually get? I have no idea how much time Youtube user Wheredabootz spent to find these glitches, but it still seems like a playtester should have found them first.

While they're all slightly creepy, this is my favorite:



WTF?

Pickup Cookies

The "fortune" found in my cookie after we ordered Chinese for dinner the other night:

We've apparently completely abandoned the concept of fortunes. Now I get pick-up lines, and not even a good one.

For those who like to wait

Lately we've become pretty addicted to the Bertolli Skillet dinners. They're tasty, quick, and can be fixed in a skillet or in the microwave. Of course microwaving it usually only saves about two to three minutes, then there are the occasional meals from Opposite Land:

I have to wonder why microwaving this meal takes up to twice the time in a microwave...

Aw, aren't Doc Brown's kids just the cutes....What the HELL?

The Back to the Future movies are some of my all time favorite movies. Thanks to those hyper-observant people on the interwebs, part three has a whole new meaning to me. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've seen the three movies, but have never noticed this:



Is it a request for a pee break or is Little Verne asking Elizabeth Shue for a Journey to the Center of the Earth??

Upping the Redneck Ante

Considering the neighborhood I live in, I MUST have this...



"Many people have bought one for both sides of the bed." What a great idea! I'm going to get one for each couch too.

A niche I didn't know needed filling

I know that a lot of people don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom. It's a sad, ugly truth of life. Anything that can be done to encourage these lazy folks I'm all for, I just don't know how effective this would be:

Plus it wasn't one of those hand sanitizer dispensers. It was full of liquid soap and the only water to rinse the soap off was right in front of you. There was no sink in the stall.

So, if someone is too lazy to go all the way to the sink to wash their hands, how will this help?

I also love that they spent the money for this random soap dispenser, but can't afford a lip to the tank. Nice plywood!


And while we're talking about random things in bathrooms, this one is in a local bar:

WTF? I don't want to know what electrical appliance goes there....

THAT'S how it's done.

Below is page one of the assembly instructions for Beemer's Winnie the Pooh Ship:



And page 2:



Seriously? I suppose I can forgive the instructions for assembly. Some people may not know where a mast goes on a ship, but how to play with the toy? Do today's kids really need to be told how to play with something? If so, this is the best they can come up with? Rock the cannon back and forth and move the crows nest up and down? Wait there's more! Try it with and without Pooh!)

Ferret Gein

Rob Zombie should take notes:



Wonder where I can get a tiny little chainsaw...

Literal Idiocy

Taking "No shirt, No shoes, No service" a bit too far:



I would have loved to hear the cops' response, if they had been called...

Mourning the death of originality.

Earlier this month, Universal announced plans to turn the 80s classic arcade game Asteroids into a feature length film.

This could be pretty good as long as the movie stay true to the plot. The classic quest of a tiny Italian spaceship, working his way through field after field of space rocks to save his beloved princess-ship while collecting as many coins as possible, has to be done just right.

WTF!?

Hey Hollywood, I can come up with better movie plots than this at a fraction of the price! I have a guaranteed hit about a man in a space suit that digs under the ground, looking for alien tomatoes and newts that are threatening to destroy the world's supply of ketchup unless he inflates them to the point of bursting with a bicycle pump.

Or how about my gut busting comedy about the crew of a space ship that is constantly attacked by a race of space bugs? The crew's antics peak when one of their mates is captured by the biggest bug and hilarity ensues. Fortunately, the friend is saved and they join ships to defeat the evil space wasps.

I'll expect my check in the mail. A cool million should cover the cost of both.

You're welcome.

A Winter Summerland

Last night was one of the craziest storms I've ever experienced. At one point I opened the garage door and before the door was a foot off the ground, hail was hitting the back wall. Apparently, a hurricane passed directly over us. Fortunately though, no real damage except a broken tee limb in the back yard. Though I haven't been able to check the roof yet.

Our neighborhood looks like it frakking snowed!

Keeping my fingers crossed for a healthy roof

¿Qué?

303-555-YUMMY

Hey! you got your beef jerky all over my business cards!

Well you got your business cards all over my beef jerky!

Wait a minute...

Jumping the Real Slim Sharky

At what point should a celebrity just say "Enough"? How far should a celeb has been go to revive a career? For some it's "shocking" sex tapes, others lay their hopes on reality TV. Eminem has found a new low, however. He has decided to reenter the public's eye by helping out the Punisher.

Yep, Eminem and The Punisher will team up to fight crime in the latest issue of XXL, Eminem/Punisher: Kill You.

I'm not sure who to feel worse for, Marshal Bruce Mathers or Frank Castle. I'm leaning towards the latter, I mean he lost his family and now has to put up with this decade's Vanilla Ice. No wonder he's so cranky...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

And now for something completely different, I present Crappy Cat.

I really can't tell you what to expect, except psycho cats and exploding spider-Darth-vaders.

Enjoy...

Go in back - we DARE ya

These dolls are at a bar downtown.

They sit next to a dark stairway that leads upstairs to the back bar and patio, like little demonic guardians. I tell you, no beer is worth that.

Insert firewire here, or how I learned to turn floppy disks to hard drives.

I've seen some pretty cool PC case mods, some of which i might even want to try. This one, however, just makes me say W....T....F...

Yep, In a mere 29 steps you too can own a compubeaver. Why you'd want to, I have no idea.

Ah, so many innuendos to use, so little space.

Rainman makes manager

All I have to say is ,"The hell?"