Archive for August, 2007
Harmonica + Beatbox = Tight.
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Yuri Lane, everyone:
Miss Teen Educational Diplomacy
Monday, August 27th, 2007I’m not sure who I feel sorrier for - America for this amazing and ironic representation of our educational system or Mario Lopez for allowing his career to spiral even further…
Picture of the week
Monday, August 27th, 2007 So a bit late last week so might have we have 2 this week.
This is a self portrait while riding back from a recent trip up to northern California.
Ingredients: Dark room + Glow sticks + 3yr old + long exposure shot = Light stick paintingYou can make out my son’s shirt in the background, yes he is standing still and doing an age old kung fu move called windmilling.
Bacon products of the week
Sunday, August 26th, 2007I think this winning combination could take the whole furry thing to a new level. Look at how happy they are.

NFL Predictions: Star Wars Style
Sunday, August 26th, 200718to88.com, an Indianapolis Colts fan website, gives their take on the upcoming NFL season, using Star Wars characters as representations of each team’s predicted fate in ‘07-’08. The predictions are pretty funny and mostly well-reasoned, though is anyone surprised that a Colts’ website deemed Bill Belichick “The Emperor”?

(via Scott)
Two Haiku Movie Review: War
Saturday, August 25th, 2007Jet Li cannot act.
I want back those one hundred
minutes of my life.
This is what happens
when you let your personal
trainer write a film.
Needlepoint meets irony
Friday, August 24th, 2007I may have to start a new sewing hobby. There have been some cool things going on in needlepoint, like from Sublime Stitching and Subversive Cross Stitch (above), but things are getting crazy. See below. Yes, that’s Hugh Grant’s mug shot and there’s lots more where that came from (Maria E. Pineres, Kate Westerholt).
Japanese Arm Wrestling Game Recalled for Breaking Arms
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007According to PCworld.com, Arm Spirit, a Japanese arm-wrestling game, was recalled from more than 150 arcades across the country after 3 people independently broke their arms while battling the machine. Apparently, the game has 10 levels of difficulty, including a French maid, drunken martial arts master, and a Chihuahua before reaching the final showdown with a professional wrestler. In response to the broken arms, Arm Spirit’s spokeswoman said, “The machine isn’t that strong, much less so than a muscular man. Even women should be able to beat it.“
Broken arms from an arcade game are pretty serious, but injuries in videogaming aren’t new, including a recent phenomenon: “Wii Elbow.” And something else just dawned on me: there would have been more of these Arm Spirit injuries, but honestly, who goes to arcades anymore, and furthermore, who plays the arm wrestling video game? Definitely tagging this one as ‘geekery.’

Oh Yes… Bumper Dumper!
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Google Sky
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Early yesterday, Google launched their next phase of interstellar domination with Google Sky. This is an addition to the Google Earth app that allows you to navigate the heavens by way of constellation maps, Hubble satellite images, and planetary orbit animations. Not to mention the ability to aimlessly wander space the traditional Google Earth way by panning, zooming and rotating your view. I have to say, this is pretty freakin’ sweet. Check it ›
It’s just uhh… European.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007For all your fashion needs:
AStyle
Monthly Mashup Vol. 3 - Summer Love in the Disco Club
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Pop music: so bad but so good.
In my latest monthly mashup, I try to prove that 2+2 = 5 by mixing two pop songs (The Black Eyed Peas’ “Disco Club” with Justin Timberlake’s “Summer Love”), with the hope that the sum, in fact, is greater than the parts. Also, this is a fitting end to summer, which I’m sad to see go. Enjoy, and free to comment!
Summer Love in the Disco Club - Remix by Johnny Haze, 2007.
‘What is It?’ of the Week: a “Grilled Charlie”
Monday, August 20th, 2007“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” just may be one of the funniest damn television shows ever written. A detail in one of the episodes (season 2 - “The Gang Goes Jihad”) has caught the attention of several serious fans: a mysterious sandwich called a “Grilled Charlie.” Below are the results of my own reverse engineering analysis of a Grilled Charlie.
Its appearance and description in the show offer several good clues to its construction:
•Firstly, the instructions shouted by its creator, Charlie:
“A Grilled Charlie has peanutbutter last! Peanutbutter outside, chocolate inside! Butter inside, cheese outside!”
•Close inspection of the scene reveals a jar of JIF peanutbutter, a packet of American cheese slices (or cheddar), and a bottle of Hershey’s syrup next to the hotplate used to fry the “Grilled Charlie” (though other posted recipes erroneously indicate a chocolate bar).
Here’s a possible/probable way to create this:
Step 1 - Butter the bejeezus out of one side of a piece of white bread. Place the piece of bread, butter-side down, onto a hot skillet (if you’re hardcore, your skillet is on a hotplate and you’re in a filthy apartment).
Step 2 - As the butter side is frying, place a slice of cheese (American or possibly cheddar) on the top of the bread and let it melt. Then flip the bread over and fry the cheese side (you’ll need a sh*tload of butter to pull this off properly). You’ll have to keep moving it so the cheese doesn’t burn off the bread.
Step 3 - Remove the butter-cheese slice and put a new white bread slice onto the skillet (make sure there is still sufficient butter in the skillet to fry it). Fry the piece of bread, and while it is frying put Hershey’s chocolate syrup on the top side. Flip the bread over and quickly fry the chocolate side (it will actually fry if you do it right). Remove from skillet.
Step 4 - Join the two pieces of fried bread, cheese on outside, butter and chocolate on the inside. Add JIF peanutbutter to the outside of the sandwich (not clear if it goes on top of the cheese or on the opposide side of the sandwich).
Step 5 - Eat warm, with cold beer. Then prepare for the heart attack.
It is surprisingly good - a nice combination of burnt cheese, chocolate and peanutbutter.
Two Haiku Movie Review: The Invasion
Sunday, August 19th, 2007Nicole Kidman was
perfect for this role because
she married Tom Cruise.
A great metaphor:
Church of Scientology.
“Would you like some tea?”
To continue the theme of the day…
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Check it out– Extreme Quarters:
Off the ceiling fan, nuttin’ but net.
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Heywood: The beer-pong video you posted below totally reminded me of this video that my girlfriend’s little bro and his buddy made last year. Not as impressive, but the same concept nonetheless. Check it.
The LeBron James of BeerPong
Saturday, August 18th, 2007This has been around the Internet a bit already, but in case you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a look (or two):
Oh, and I tagged it “geekery” because they are playing with water, after all– not beer.
(via Deadspin)
Two Haiku Movie Review: Superbad
Saturday, August 18th, 2007A pile of d*ck jokes.
It kicks five flavors of ass!
This year’s top movie.
Emma Stone: “It Girl.”
Jonah Hill will win awards.
Two words: McLovin.
Kuato Sings Chocolate Rain
Friday, August 17th, 2007I’m sorry, I can’t resist.


















