at long last, I found this clip of max ranting about being a spokesman for car parts! worth the watch if you are a max headroom aficionado as I am. . .
click the pic.
25 April 2007
i must be out of my pis-pis-piston head!
at long last, I found this clip of max ranting about being a spokesman for car parts! worth the watch if you are a max headroom aficionado as I am. . .
click the pic.
15 January 2007
this from the guy who
spends four months of the year. . .
on vacation
george w. bush said people should treat MLK day as king's late wife, coretta scott king, wanted it. "it is not a day off," bush said today. "it's a day on."
05 January 2007
you're in the army now
the united states army is lowering its standards for education, and for DUI arrests. this'll help with recruiting. . .well, it's the same way they filled the position of commander in chief.
- david letterman, 5 january 2007 -
04 January 2007
smells like wet dog
a christmas story to share, not that you haven't heard enough of christmas. . .
my 6-year-old came home from school on the day before christmas break with magic reindeer food--a mixture of oatmeal and glitter, compliments of her first grade teacher. the instructions were to sprinkle it on the lawn so that the reindeer could snack while santa was in the house doing his christmas thing under the tree.
when anna was walking down the stairs in her pajamas to go outside, she slipped, and some of the magic reindeer food spilled on the steps and the landing. i told her not to worry about picking it up, because if the reindeer were really hungry, they could come in and snack on the rest of the reindeer food in the house. but i gave her a stern warning: reindeer smell like wet dog, and if she were to smell wet dog in the house in the middle of the night, she was not to come out of her room, or santa and his reindeer would vanish in a blink, because santa was only supposed to be in our house while we were sleeping.
the next morning, anna rushed into our room, and whispered very loudly that she thought she smelled wet dog during the wee hours, but she was a good girl and stayed in her room.
my 6-year-old came home from school on the day before christmas break with magic reindeer food--a mixture of oatmeal and glitter, compliments of her first grade teacher. the instructions were to sprinkle it on the lawn so that the reindeer could snack while santa was in the house doing his christmas thing under the tree.
when anna was walking down the stairs in her pajamas to go outside, she slipped, and some of the magic reindeer food spilled on the steps and the landing. i told her not to worry about picking it up, because if the reindeer were really hungry, they could come in and snack on the rest of the reindeer food in the house. but i gave her a stern warning: reindeer smell like wet dog, and if she were to smell wet dog in the house in the middle of the night, she was not to come out of her room, or santa and his reindeer would vanish in a blink, because santa was only supposed to be in our house while we were sleeping.
the next morning, anna rushed into our room, and whispered very loudly that she thought she smelled wet dog during the wee hours, but she was a good girl and stayed in her room.
15 December 2006
23 November 2006
wacky dictionary entry of the day
prune (v) (also pruned; prun·ing)
(from Latin pro- + rotundiare (around)
1: the act of cutting off or trimming overgrowth, overextension or overreaching parts of a tree, shrub or bush.
(see also 2006 ELECTION)
apologies to merriam-webster online
16 November 2006
13 November 2006
time keeps on slippin' slippin'
slippin' into the future*
an anonymous reader left this comment recently:
"just a question you will probably find annoying, but i must ask. how (and where) do you find time to do all this 'blogging'?"
it takes 15-20 minutes to compose a blog. it's all random stuff. . .not like I am writing a dissertation or anything. just stuff. sometimes yesterday's blog has nothing to do with today's, and sometimes there's a running theme. sometimes these running themes are spread over months or years, so i have to make them obvious by appending the titles with a part deux or somesuch kitsch.
in the two minutes it took to respond to an email on this subject, i could nearly have been finished with the text of this blog, but how, i wonder, do I find all this time to blog when I have all this sorting through fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:emails to do?
someday i'll figure it out.
and maybe, mother, someday you'll get it too.
"just a question you will probably find annoying, but i must ask. how (and where) do you find time to do all this 'blogging'?"
it takes 15-20 minutes to compose a blog. it's all random stuff. . .not like I am writing a dissertation or anything. just stuff. sometimes yesterday's blog has nothing to do with today's, and sometimes there's a running theme. sometimes these running themes are spread over months or years, so i have to make them obvious by appending the titles with a part deux or somesuch kitsch.
in the two minutes it took to respond to an email on this subject, i could nearly have been finished with the text of this blog, but how, i wonder, do I find all this time to blog when I have all this sorting through fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:emails to do?
someday i'll figure it out.
and maybe, mother, someday you'll get it too.
*apologies to the steve miller band
10 November 2006
futile?
rutgers university's football team was known for a long time as an exercise in futility.
no longer. they came out of oblivion and from behind and beat third-ranked university of louisville 28-25 yesterday. . .and they did it in front of a stadium record 44,111 home-field crowd in piscataway, nj. . .and in prime time in front of a national tv audience.
they are now one of four remaining undefeated teams, and are now in first place in the big east conference.
even new york has scarlet fever:
the empire state building was lit last night
in red in support of the LU v RU game
the empire state building was lit last night
in red in support of the LU v RU game
futility? methinks not.
next game: saturday, 18 november.
kickoff time tba.
kickoff time tba.
photo of empire state building
by associated press.
by associated press.
09 November 2006
• • • • our second nominee into the
• • • • second annual bored stiff geeks
• • • • hall of fame
if someone has entirely too much time on his hands,
he (or she) must be a bored stiff geek.
we have another nominee with paper and scissors, but this fellow gives papercut boy a run for his money!
julian beever is an english artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of england.
he (or she) must be a bored stiff geek.
we have another nominee with paper and scissors, but this fellow gives papercut boy a run for his money!
julian beever is an english artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of england.
it certainly is amazing what you can do
with a little chalk and an expanse of sidewalk!
yes, they're walking around the "hole" in the sidewalk!
both his feet are on flat pavement!
this drawing of a "rescue" is supposed to be viewed
with an inverting mirror.
spiderman to the rescue!
batman & robin to the rescue
with a little chalk and an expanse of sidewalk!
yes, they're walking around the "hole" in the sidewalk!
both his feet are on flat pavement!
this drawing of a "rescue" is supposed to be viewed
with an inverting mirror.
spiderman to the rescue!
batman & robin to the rescue
you decide. . .papercut boy, or the beever?
• • • • the 2005 inductee
• • • • can be seen here
• • • • can be seen here
08 November 2006
ready. . .aim. . .part trois
from what would have been the day after the election in november 2005 (if we had had an election in november 2005):
i used to think that people who left their W'04 stickers on their cars were gloating, and that they should get over it and move on. but i realized today that nobody sporting a W'04 sticker would consider "move on" as an option--sounds too much like moveon.org, i guess.
then a colleague of mine suggested this: don't people who sport W'04 stickers on their cars realize they're making themselves targets?
to which i replied: if people sporting W'04 stickers are of like mind with W, and W is of questionable mind. . .
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my point: take off your campaign stickers if your candidate won (or lost), stop gloating (or sulking), and move the hell on. we have the future to think about, and we're all in this together, republican or democrat.
i used to think that people who left their W'04 stickers on their cars were gloating, and that they should get over it and move on. but i realized today that nobody sporting a W'04 sticker would consider "move on" as an option--sounds too much like moveon.org, i guess.
then a colleague of mine suggested this: don't people who sport W'04 stickers on their cars realize they're making themselves targets?
to which i replied: if people sporting W'04 stickers are of like mind with W, and W is of questionable mind. . .
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my point: take off your campaign stickers if your candidate won (or lost), stop gloating (or sulking), and move the hell on. we have the future to think about, and we're all in this together, republican or democrat.
05 November 2006
all the news that's fit to blog
we here at bored stiff geeks are proud to announce (really proud) that our little blog made news.
melissa mcnamara at cbsnews.com gave bored stiff geeks a moment in the spotlight on november 1 for a little commentary we made on october 28. look in the section called using the internets, about two thirds down the column.
we couldn't be more honored.
we couldn't be more honored.
03 November 2006
payback
jesuit high school's varsity football team made short work of the southridge skyhawks last night, capping an undefeated season and clinching the metro league title, a title which they had to share last year with southridge, the only team to defeat jesuit in the 2005-06 regular season, and that was in the season opener--21 games ago.
even more sweet is that they did it on a nationally-televised game on fox sports network's high school game of the week.
paul weatheroy runs
for yet another td
it wasn't even close. 38-nil.
what a way to seal the deal.
what a way to seal the deal.
01 November 2006
kitsch is dead
well, at least the pink flamingo is dead. after 49 years, its manufacturer is ceasing production of the venerated-and-yet-reviled lawn ornament.
couldn't they have waited just one more year and had a 50th anniversary edition of the pink flamingo?
nah. that'd be too kitschy.
couldn't they have waited just one more year and had a 50th anniversary edition of the pink flamingo?nah. that'd be too kitschy.
29 October 2006
i can't believe i ate the whole thing
i am trying something new this year. i am setting a reminder on my doorstep for all those little ankle-biters who will be ringing my doorbell on halloween how they will feel the morning after eating all that candy.
28 October 2006
i wish i were home
where the buffalo roam
and the deer and the antelope
don't stay the course
but i never said stay the course
george w. bush said on cnbc this week, that he "sometimes goes on the google to pull up maps like. . .I kinda like to look at the ranch. it reminds me of where i wanna be sometimes." (click here for the youtube clip.)
and seriously, he told stephanopoulos that, "when it comes to Iraq policy, we've never been 'stay the course'!" (click here for the abcnews clip at thinkprogress.)
i beg your pardon?
go to your own white house home page, dubya, and enter the term "stay the course", and see how many hits you get.
if you don't remember how many times you said "stay the course" in the last two years, then perhaps you should go back to the ranch and stay there, instead of looking it up on "the google."
geeez.
27 October 2006
• • • • our first nominee into the
• • • • second annual bored stiff geeks
• • • • hall of fame
if someone has entirely too much time on his hands,
he (or she) must be a bored stiff geek.
he (or she) must be a bored stiff geek.
it certainly is amazing what you can do
with an x-acto knife
and a single sheet of paper!
with an x-acto knife
and a single sheet of paper!
• • • • the 2005 inductee
• • • • can be seen here
thanks to scandalous
for the pictures
23 October 2006
i like a little roughage with my lettuce
it's either this or e. coli with your spinach. your choice.click the picture for the urban myth answer
thanks to scandalous
for sending this to me
22 October 2006
bill maher's new rules
you can't call yourself a think tank
if all your ideas are stupid
if all your ideas are stupid
watch the video
quicktime • windows media
read the transcript
here or here
courtesy of crooksandliars.com and hbo.com
'nuf said.
20 October 2006
paging speaker hastert
paging speaker hastert
what did speaker hastert say to mark foley?
"lets be sure we're all on the same page."
"lets be sure we're all on the same page."
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