Archive for March, 2007

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Monaco GP Montage

40 years of passes, spins, shunts, and classic finishes.


F1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO LES PLUS BELLES HEURES - racing-live
F1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO LES PLUS BELLES HEURES - racing-live

F1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO LES PLUS BELLES HEURES - racing-live
Des années 70 aux années 2000, de Stewart à Schumacher, de Graham Hill à Senna en passant par Depailler, Hakkinen, Panis et bien d’autres, revivez en quelques minutes les plus belles heures du grand prix de formule 1 le plus attendu de l’année : MONACO

Video from didier

Multimedia.

Things to watch and listen to:

The Spanish Henchmen, Slashdot, and Timelapse photography.

Underachievers: Slashdotters.

According to IRC users, Slashdot is dead:

  • A: I don’t read slashdot either
  • B: only on slashdot would you see tripe like “Cory Doctorow is my Hero”
  • A: slashdot was dead around 2001.
  • B: I consider the “Ask Slashdot” section as humor and generally most posters there are do nothing blowhards.

Henchmen.

Would you rather be a henchmen or a sidekick? Personally, I wouldn’t mind being Mr. Joshua. Granted, I would be a bit smarter and not reach for the gun. Mr. Joshua:

…Mr. Joshua, henchman for General Peter McAllister, head of Shadow Company (corporate slogan: Uniting Heroin and Junkies Since the Vietnam War). Joshua is an ex-Special Services mercenary, yet is freakishly loyal to his current boss, even holding his forearm to a cigarette lighter so his boss can show off to a potential client.

Inspired by IRC chat:

  • A: plus the graphic design was jaw dropping.
  • B: the color schemes were painful.
  • ME: maybe A is into pain.
  • ME: not that there is anything wrong with that.
  • B: *points AND laughs.*
  • A: hrm, maybe I am into pain. I wanted to be a marine in high school, so I did things to increase my tolerance of pain.
  • NARRARTOR: [TIME PASSES]
  • A: so like burning myself intentionally
  • B: you still do this?
  • A: No.
  • ME: A, should we start calling you Mr. Joshua?

Underachievers: Spanish.

For those of you who barely passed high school Spanish, I give you … ¿Que hora es? Go learn some Spanish: Days of the Week.

Photography: Timelapse.

Watch this! Make sure you click the play button once QuickTime is done d/ling.

WARNING!!!! HUGE FILE! 170 MB!

I Call Bullshit.

The Problems with the Rest of World (RoW): Australians on Movies.

Before The Matrix:

  • ME: Did you see the Fifth Element?
  • AUSSIE: I hate those big name Hollywood MOVIES! They are all crap! Too many special effects! Have you seen [Insert Australian movie here]?
  • ME: Yes. It was pretty good. I liked the part where…
  • AUSSIE: Oh. How about [Insert YA-Movie from down under]?
  • ME: Sorry, no. What’s it about?
  • AUSSIE: Blah, blah, blah, blah.
  • ME: Sounds interesting. Who’s in it again?

You get the idea.

After The Matrix:

  • AUSSIE: Did you see the Matrix!
  • ME: Yes. It was effing great!
  • AUSSIE: It was filmed in Australia. Did you know that?
  • ME: Yes. I really love the scene where…
  • AUSSIE: Uh, huh. That part was filmed in [Insert location somewhere in Australia]. You know that Hugo Weaving is an Australian, don’t you?
  • ME: Yes.

On and on it goes.

I have noticed this trend in Canadians, Brits, and Kiwis. My question is, what happened to, “I hate those big name Hollywood MOVIES! They are all crap! Too many special effects!” Seems like location is more important than the actual movie itself.

I smell a steaming pile of bullshit wafting from the RoW.

Old Skool Weblog Post.

Links

Student mentioned her cat was a ‘tortie‘. I had no idea what she was talking about. So I turned to the internet. As one does. Add-on cat links.

Conspiracy of the Century: Death Star Uncomfortable Questions:

7) Why has their been no investigation into evidence that the droids who provided the rebels with the Death Star plans were once owned by none other than Lord Vader himself, and were found, conveniently, by the pilot who destroyed the Death Star, and who is also believed to be Lord Vader’s son? Evidence also shows that the droids were brought to one Ben Kenobi, who, records indicate, was Darth Vader’s teacher many years earlier! Are all these personal connections between the conspirators and a key figure in the Imperial government supposed to be coincidences?

Pole Position, Space Invaders, and Pong. In my youth, I forced my parental unit to watch me play Pong in Sears. Now my wife suffers through, “Honey, come here and check out this site I found with people being Pole Position, Space Invaders, and Pong!”

Poor woman.