Missed at MacWorld

Here’s a product that didn’t get a lot of attention at Macworld last week.  The Macbook Wheel.

BTW This is fake, in case you didn’t pick up on that.

Kudos goes to The Onion for the great production on the clip.

Also, Anyone else notice that consumer products today are no longer good enough the way they were initially meant to be and now warrant the need to add on words such as…Advanced, Super, Plus, 2000, and my all-time favorite….Extreme. I was sitting around watching TV the other day, and I saw a commercial for gym in Ohio claiming to be the most “ExTrEmE” gym around and I thought to myself, what constitutes Extreme? Are there varying degrees of Extremity? Are there any pre-requisites to be considered Extreme? Is there an annual fee? What about the benefits of being Extreme as opposed to being bland, normal, banal, blah, boring, dull, flat, flavorless, ho-hum, humdrum, insipid, milk-and-water, monotonous, nerdy, nothing, pablum, sapless, tame, tedious, unexciting, uninteresting, uninspiring, unstimulating, vanilla, vapid, and waterish. At first, these questions seem almost impossible answer, but after numerous long and grueling brainstorming sessions atop of the porcelain throne I’ve come to the conclusion that to be considered “Extreme,” you must either be an asshole, or wear faded jeans, which would also make you an asshole. Use this link for an explanation on why people who wear faded jeans are assholes. Right Guard Extreme sucks ass.

And to talk about bad luck: Just when I finally perfect the art of sleeping with my eyes open at work, a little snoring problem comes along and screws up everything.

Also, I found this great webcomic at XKCD, and I think it perfectly describes our society as a whole since the computer has become ever so much more prevalent in our lives and homes:  (Click it to go directly to the page for a larger version.)

McSame

Just how out of touch is McCain?  Well, during the debates he praised the business accumen of Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, only thing is that eBay just layed off about a thousand people two days ago.  So let’s do a countdown of “financial gurus” that McCain seeks advice from:

1.)  Phil Gramm (aka Foreclosure Phil)

As of early this summer, McCain proudly touted him as his chief financial adviser and he basically wrote McCain’s economic plan…and then the economy crashed, and oops, looks like this guy caused a lot of it.  So Phil Gramm gave way to…

2.) Carly Fiorna

You may not know her, but I am sure you’ve used one of the products of her former company.  Carly used to be the CEO of HP-Compaq until she was fired for basically running the company into the ground.  She was so bad at her job, that when word leaked that she was fired, HP’s stock jumped 7%.  McCain liked to throw her name around alot up until she was giving an interview one day and she said something to the effect of Palin does not have the experience to run a large corporation.  FYI, the U.S. Government is the nation’s largest employer.  So Carly gave way to …

3.) Meg Whitman

Former CEO of eBay.  Buyer of everything online.  Here’s a quick list of companies that were bought by eBay: PayPal, BillMeLater, Skype (which she admitted they overpaid about a billion for), and epinions.com.  She has been widely criticized for buying up companies, whether they jive with Ebay or not, case in pointL Skype.  Why the hell does an online auction site need to acquire a Voice-over IP software company?  Meg will eventually give way to…

4.) The Guy from Monopoly

Sarah Palin is not fucking Matt Damon

Here’s a pretty sweet interview by the AP with Matt Damon about VP Canidate Sarah Palin.

 

pwned

 

 

best part..  ”it’s like a really bad disney movie.”

Sarah Palin(drone)

Her speech tonight was pathetic.  All we learned about her is that she is a bad public speaker and does not enunciate her words correctly.  She gloated about being a “hockey-mom” and then stated that the only difference between a hockey-mom and a pitbull is lipstick.  No sustenance, all she did was throw verbal jabs at Obama, and I’m sure most of what she said tonight will comeback and bite her in the ass during the VP debates.

Not Really shocking, but newsworthy nonetheless

Fresh off the announcement that Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate, which my father had actually predicted a few days ago, this story comes out of the Columbus Dispatch.

Apparently Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner recieved a letter from Premier’s President David Byrd admitting that the voting machines that are used in half of Ohio’s counties are defective and stated that their own programming error is to blame for votes being dropped in some counties. Premier, formerly Diebold Election Systems, also stated that the error wont be fixed in time for the Nov. 4th elections.

Here’s a better pic of the machine in question:

Circled in red is the card slot that holds the memory card, used to tabulate and store all votes.  The only problem is, is that this is accessible by the voter, so theoretically anyone could just go in there, and either swap memory cards, or just remove it and game over.  They just rigged an election.  My town of Greenville, PA in Mercer county uses a similar setup, but I’m not sure if Diebold made the machines.

Here’s a link to the story: Ohio’s voting machine glitch exposed

The Olympics

Well, the Olympics are back and personally, I’m glad.  I’m also especially happy for the fact that they are in a time zone that is 13 hours ahead of me, so when I’m up all night until 4am, I’m watching all the events live.  It’s especially cool, when you go into work the next day and people are watching the re-runs of it during the day and I’m able to ruin it for them by telling them who places where before it ends.

And you know who else likes the Olympics?

George W. Bush

Oh well, at least he has good taste as he seems to have taken a liking to uber milf/pitcher Jenny Finch (she’s so dedicated, she married a MLB pitcher and their son’s name is Ace):

But seriously, he’s the President of the United States.  He knows that his picture will be taken continuously, so why does he set himself up so many times for all those wonderfully awkward shots.  Like these two:

And even better…

He’s got that weird pedophile stare/gaze going on.

Finally

Gore endorses Obama, finally.

they are one and the same.

Picture says it all people, same face, same policies, same person.

This is much better.

son of a bitch.

i sent e-mails to most of my friends saying we should attend this part on saturday (here) and no one expressed interest. so we didn’t go. and what’s worse is that apparently bill murray was there. bill fuckin dr. peter venkman murray was there. and i missed it. so there goes my life long dream of meeting all of the ghostbusters. my next best chance is this saturday when i help a friend move, since her dad is harold ramis’ personal lawyer.

one can only hope.

my mother

apparently, my mother is the only one who reads my blog.

i live a sad, sad life.