01.28.2009
WEEKLY DIGG //
Change is here. Wha?!

Aww, it's a cute little girl with her doggie. Wait...AH KILL IT! KILL IT!

Traffic. It just takes one idiot.

Sup brah? Beer me yo.

Whoever wins worst lyrics ever, doesn't matter. Good taste loses.

Problem solving flowsheet.

The truth behind how people met.

Bitches don't know about my popsicle.

Celebrities that haven't ages well.

I have eaten award winning food, and this Sir Richard Branson is not award winning. Unless they give out awards for culinary abominations.

Tattoo cliches to avoid at all costs.

16 more images you won't believe aren't photoshopped.



01.24.2009
WEEKLY DIGG //
Apple introduces a revolutionary new laptop. I may have to change my stance on Apple.

Calvin and Hobbes on the today's economic apocalypse 10 years ago.

Don't be a douche bag side kick. They get pimped.

The logic is brilliant. Wacky but it works.

Worse night out ever.

What you get when you mix rich, bored, and insane.

The Secret saved this man's life.

Hippo eats dwarf.

Disney doing it's part to keep women barefoot and pregnant.

Skip towards the end to see cops shoot a cooperating suspect dead.

More sardonic current events humor in my furniture ads please.

Hack your brain.

This is 100% grade A American Freedom.

Wait, why is OU our rival again?

He stepped into it.

This image was created with a computer.

Diversity at Wisconsin is a magical thing. In that like magic it doesn't exist.

One year in 40 seconds.

The eternal Mac vs PC war rages.

If movie posters were honest.

This is cold.

Documentation that my dad has tried tech support.

543 mile ultra-marathon won by, 61 year old farmer in boots.

The Tiajuana/ San Diego border.



01.14.2009
JACK'S BACK //
24 used to be one of my can't miss shows. It was intense, action-packed and paved the way for Obama's presidency, the exact opposite way that Geena Davis did for Hilary in the woefully conceived Commander in Chief. It was watching an old man with dentures navigating a steak dinner sad the last 2 seasons. Not only did 24 jump the shark, but Bauer choked it first before it coughed up the launch codes.

Thankfully the show knew it needed an extreme home makeover. So they have cut out whiny characters, brought back favorites, kept the action, and beefed up the White House storylines with truly moral delimmas. Starting with Jack's African romp, 24 is returning to the same pulse pounding show I fell in love with. Everytime Jack uses his go to move (choke hold while barking out spittle soaked 'DAMNITS!' makes me misty). But his new partner/love interest/dark side protege is so forgettable. If someone could get on an email campaign to have her be a mole or force Jack to kill her to maintain some type of undercover status, that would be swell.



01.14.2009
LESS THAN ZERO SUM //
I'm going to take a quick break from navel gazing to rant about recycling. I was very impressed with how it is a cultural norm everywhere in Japan. I would see frail old women walk to different train cars so they could put their trash in it's very specific bin. You don't see single garbage cans much. There are typically 4 bins together for paper, plastic, certain drink bottles, and then other.

So here in Austin, which is supposed to be a top 10 green city in America, it's a different story. Not only is there a disturbing lack of education on it (no PSA's or classroom education), but it's actually difficult even if you want to. The city just replaced our small recycling bins for gargantuan 90 gallon over-sized trash cans. You could easily fit 3 bodies in there, if you needed to.

They don't fit in our garages and it turns out in my 70 unit community only 1 person has chosen to use them. So every week a huge truck comes by just to pick up his old pizza boxes. Is this considered innovation if it leads to even more waste?



01.13.2009
NEW BLOOD //
Last week my 19 year old cousin who I hadn't spoken to since she was 6 came to visit. I've been removed from college for so long I hadn't ever met someone who watches Gossip Girl and shops at Abercrombie and Fitch. I thought they only existed in cell phone commercials.

We have very little in common and yet there is an instant connection because it's family. One night after an epic Rock Band session we stayed up and talked. Her words, "Wow, so much wisdom. It's because you are so old."

(sobbing softly)

Here is a picture of her with her mom setting up beer pong. And yes that's Natty Ice. I know this image may be controversial so I'll let you decide: Is my aunt a cool mom, or the coolest mom?





01.11.2009
LONG AND HARD //
One of the things I love about The Office is how it's brought a renaissance for 'that's what she said' jokes. I love them. Use them all the time. They are easy, explicit, and juvenille, but you can get away with them in almost any situation because they retain some cultural cache. I'm not being disgusting and immature, I'm hip and sardonic. I thought Amy Ryan was fantastic on it. She was goofy and childish but still felt like a real person as opposed to the unbelieveable Michael Scott. I was disappointed her guest run ended. It was shorter than I expected.

That's what she said.