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Global Nerdy » Blog Archive » Have You Seen This Guy? He Might Have Taken Bill’s Laptop.:
It seems that this gentleman stole a friend’s laptop…well then decided to take pictures of himself, but then uploaded them to the laptop owner’s Flickr account. With all the caveats about allegedly, and innocence preceding guilt, if you know this person,
oh, my.
I think this qualifies as one heck of a OMG ROFL UIPM
Random thoughts from a dirty $99 hotel room in Silicon Valley 30 minutes before checkout:
1. I'm still really cheap. I have a hard time paying over $200 for a hotel room, I always try to take the low-level car, and I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee based on price. I wonder sometimes if I'm doing this to try to "keep it real" or if it's a DNA thing. It really doesn't hit my frontal lobes so there is some unconscious process at work. I think I need another podcast session with Dr. Goulston.
2. Trouble sleeping is one of the most important early indicators as an entrepreneur that you're on to something big. If you're sleeping well at night then something is WRONG. Great ideas, big problems, and execution puzzles keep you tossing and turning. I've learned to embrace my insomnia, not fight it. If you can't sleep get the frack out of bed and work, write some emails, or do a blog post. Get it out of your system then try to sleep. However, don't think there is something wrong with you... there's something right with you!
Of course, the problem could be mistaking that you're on to something big when in fact it's a bad mattress in the hotel room...
Creation Museum Updatery - Whatever :
Folks -- including my own sister -- are wondering when I'm actually going to get my ass down to the Creation Museum. Well, I keep trying, I swear. It's just that every time I schedule it, something happens. For example, when I scheduled it last Tuesday, our washer gave out, and I had to hang around the house because the people who were delivering it could only deliver it on Tuesdays. Because it was a Whirlpool washer, you see. No, I don't even pretend to understand what the hell that's supposed to mean. I'm just telling you what's happening. I keep scheduling it, and then the universe conspires against me
Obvious: God's wil.
(or maybe God's sense of humor. Maybe the same thing....)
I mean, seriously. If God has enough time on His hands to put an image of Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich, this is a no-brainer...
Dublin's Wax Museum Vandalized; Teletubbies go Missing, Madonna Loses Limbs - Gadling:
Dublin's Wax Museum Vandalized; Teletubbies go Missing, Madonna Loses LimbsPosted Aug 12th 2007 8:00AM by Neil WoodburnI've never really understood the appeal of wax museums, but apparently there are many tourists in this world who enjoy gazing upon wax replicas of history's villains, heroes, and stars.
That being said, the National Wax Museum in Dublin was recently shut down to make room for a hotel. Its relocation has been delayed due, in part, to city officials "citing the wax museum's lack of cultural merit."
Ouch.
But that's not all. Dublin's array of wax figures recently suffered further indignation when the warehouse in which they were being stored was broken into and used as a venue for an underground rave party. The ravers were not kind to the wax figures. According to a recent AP report, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill were all stripped naked, Madonna's limbs were broken off, and The Edge lost his guitar.
Other wax replicas went missing altogether, including Hannibal Lecter, Bob the Builder, Gollum, and the entire Teletubbies quartet.
I'm sorry, but the thought of some stoned Irish kids, giggling and tripping over themselves as they spirited Hannibal Lecter through the dark streets of Dublin really makes me laugh.
This is just so wrong.... I shouldn't laugh -- but I am...
I had a chance to get a ticket but passed because it conflicted with another show I wanted to see more – Jack Benny was at the Sahara’s Hotel in Vegas.
Jack Benny is my comedy God.
I grew up a huge fan of classic comedy and old-time radio; not just Jack Benny, but a huge fan of W.C. Fields (a friend of the family was the head of his unofficial fan club, and once picketed the Movieland Wax Museum to try to get Field into it -- with a thermos, and no, the thermos didn't have water in it).
Benny could do more by standing and sighing at the audience than Lenny Bruce could with an album full of expletives. The only comic I can think of that comes close to his ability to use silence and timing is Bob Newhart.
Levine's note made me think of two key Jack Benny moments.
The first is one of his famous bits, where a robber comes up and says "your money or your life!" -- and Benny just stares at him. Finally, the robber says it again, and then Benny looks at him and says back "I'm thinking! I'm thinking!". THAT is Jack Benny, in essence.
But another time I was in vegas, and I took in a show by George Burns. During part of it, Burns showed some clips from his TV show with Gracie Allen (and if I have to explain Burns and Allen, just move along and read something else...), and during the clips they did after Gracie decided to retire, Burns had "auditions" for her replacement.
And one of them was Jack Benny, in dress and wig. Watching Jack Benny attempt to do Gracie's parts, with George Burns egging him on -- just priceless.
Oh, of course. Here's a classic George and Gracie -- Gracie, the classic bimbo, maybe the funniest comedienne of her time, and one of the few people who could upstage Burns (and anyone else) at will.
"we have so much in common -- when I was her age, I was 17, too!"
well, this came up in conversation today. Fortunately for the sake of humanity, all I could find was the five minute version of thte two hour special. That's enough to remind me just how bad this was...
Beatrice Arthur? Jefferson Starship?
Oh, my god.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnVcbWQ2cg)
Viagra helps jet-lagged hamsters, maybe humans, too: study - Yahoo! News:
Researchers at Argentina's National University at Quilmes in Buenos Aires injected male hamsters with small amounts of the drug and switched off the lights six hours earlier, which researchers compared with taking an eastbound flight, as would occur from the Americas to Europe.
Hamsters receiving a dose of the drug adapted 20-50 percent more quickly to the new schedule than hamsters receiving a placebo, the study said, as judged by how quickly they resumed running on their exercise wheels.
However, the trick worked only when moving the schedule ahead, as on the so-called eastbound change, without helping hamsters shifted six hours in the other direction.
Okay, the mind boggles. But somehow, I'm not surprised.
The good news is -- if this works in humans, it'll make one major hassle of business travel less of one. But it'll create other ones in its place, especially for business travellers that travel alone. either that, or we'r egoing to see some interesting re-interpretation of the charges on the expense account.
"what do you mean, $300 for a taxi ride from the airport?"
Only one question: did they offer the hamsters companionship after the tests, or were they told to take care of it on their own?
April Fools Day at Google: Technology Evangelist:
There is a long tradition of April Fools gags in Silicon Valley, especially at Sun Microsystems, where engineers variously built a putting green (with real grass!) in founder Scott McNealy's office one year and another year McNealy unlocked his door to find his Ferrari sports car not only assembled in the office -- it was idling.
Not quite right, but the essence is there.
The putting green is true. It was actually a two hole, as I remember. After that, they assembled an old (but working) junk VW Bug in the office, not a Ferrari. The Ferrari was the next year, when they built an artificial island in the middle of one of the complex ponds and put Bill Joy's car on it (via a ramp they also built -- he drove a Ferrari, which was "borrowed" from his driveway for the hack. And then after that, they moved McNealy's office outside onto the grass, including his phone, electricity and ethernet....
A couple of years later someone tried to wrap one of the buildings in plastic -- "safe" computing, but the logistics got in the way..
This is puzzling: former Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson wrote a... (kottke.org):
This is puzzling: former Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson wrote a terrific, blistering, spot-on rant about how bad the technology coverage of Gizmodo (and by association, many of the other gadget sites) is and how stupid their readers are for lapping it up...and they printed the whole thing on their web site.
Not puzzling at all.
Nightline exists, and so does Larry King and Entertainment Tonight.
Newsweek exists, as does Discover. So do People and Maxim.
If you want the kind of writing Joel Johnson is ranting about, do you go to Gizmodo? Hell, no. you read Walt Mossberg and David Pogue.
Joel Johnson wrote for Maxim, and is now ranting that it wasn't Discover. Of course the editors of Gizmodo are eating it up. THEY understand their audience and what they're trying to do, and Joel, who evidently wants to be taken seriously as a real writer (evidently retroactively) is coming across as rather clueless.
Sort of like eating at Hooters and complaining about the food.... Like, you were there for the food?
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