Greedo Never Fired

The Manhattan Ralph Lauren Rugby store (why the word rugby even enters into it is beyond me) has got a whole lot of nerve when it comes to dressing their stores windows. I enjoy the convenience of bottled water and buy it often, but at this point it is fairly common knowledge that imported bottled water has a terrible impact on the environment. So who could possibly think it is reasonable to use 256 bottles of the stuff as window dressing for their pretentious store? I guess the same folks who think a window with 24 box fans running all day every day is also a great idea.

My friend RR and I always talked about driving around Manhattan with a camera on our roof, crisscrossing every street snapping photos until we had a virtual, walk-thru map of the city. Now, nearly 10 years later BEHOLD Google Maps STREET VIEW. Just go to maps.google.com . Click on STREET VIEW, zoom in enough to pick a street outlined in blue and BLAMMO you are on that street. And once you have planted your virtual feet on the virtual street you can choose a direction and start walking. I don't know what cities are completed but Manhattan, New York is and Portland, Maine is not. Oh my science this is cool! By the way that’s the NYC Hell’s Angels Club House up there on the right. (click pic for larger)

Hey 30 years of Star Wars! Holy crap I am ancient. But I am cool too. So I am blogging about the 30 years of Star Wars. Okay, I’m not cool either. Regardless I would like to do my part and give something back. The links below will take you to the Free At At Boo Boo Walker Wallpapers. My own design which was converted into a T-shirt by GoApeShirts.com . There are no ads or logos on these wallpapers so just download and enjoy on me. 2 Styles available in 2560x1600, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200. Art Style 1280x1024 Art Style 1600x1200 Art Style 2560x1600 Real Style 1280x1024 Real Style 1600x1200 Real Style 2560x1600

Oh my dear, dear friend. What have you done? I said get something Geek Chic not Geek FREAK! I wonder where she will put Yahoo!

I have decided to post this picture in lieu of an elaborate shooting spree I was planning. If you’ve ever been to a Kinko’s you know the feeling. Dave Chappelle knows what I’m talking about... Here (skip ahead a bit)

Everybody is so excited about Gliese 581! The headlines say things like... “Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet!” And they go on to say things like... "this planet will most probably be a very important target of future space missions." Really? Future space missions? Maybe EXTREMELY distant future space missions. Do the people writing this crap have any notion how far away this planet is? First keep this in mind: so far our record for traveling in space is 1.3 billion miles. (And that's in orbit.) Now look, a light year is about 6 trillion miles. So we are talking about a planet 120 Trillion miles away. A distance I regrettably believe we will never ever come close to traveling. And yet 120 Trillion miles is a laughably short distance to travel and expect to find the incredible combinations of factors that can produce life. Looking to Gliese 581 for life is akin to looking for the holy grail in your pockets. Don't get me wrong. I say keep looking, keep re...

The following is an exerpt from Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut who has died at age 84. The book is about a guy named Billy Pilgram who has become dissjointed in time and does not experience time linearly as we do. At some point Billy watches a WWII film on the TV in reverse... From end to beginning with this simple yet wonderful description. I had to share it. (again) American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation. The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the...

Turns out the Dictionary/Thesaurus widget on my Mac is a bit opinionated. I love it. Check out the Thesaurus' sample sentence.

What the? Is this some unfinished CGI? Nope. Wonder woman’s car? Nope, it’s a 1:1 scale Subaru Impreza wire frame sculpture by British artist Benedict Radcliffe and in no uncertain terms it freakin’ rules! More pics HERE.

Looks like Go Ape Shirts has another winning t-shirt on its hands. Superfrog Found! is a tee by Blair Sayer and Graye Smith. I have already ordered mine. I suggest you do the same. And for those of you who don’t get the headline here is the full original quote: "Not bird, nor plane, nor even frog, it's just little 'ole me, Underdog!"

During SNL last night there was a GE commercial. It was a sort of nauseating, CGI, 'super frog's eye view' journey through how GE makes life better for everyone. At the very end a half a dozen frames went by so fast that their content was imperceptible. So of course my ReplayTV (Tivo like DVR that actually came first) is put into action and viewing the portion frame by frame I was treated to the story of The Frog Prince as told by the frog or The Ugly Princess. More interestingly GE has decided to say “So you’ve got a device that can skip commercials... Bet we can make you watch our commercial even longer.” My hat is off to GE. I had been waiting for some DVR countering innovation. As I mentioned HERE over a year ago. Oh, and GE has details here HERE

You know you did a good job parodying a genre when a song you wrote for an imaginary band which would eventually become an imaginary super band gets picked up for an actual American Express commercial. Gimme Some Money is a song by The Thamesmen , a band that never existed and went on to never actually be Spinal Tap . Sweet. Thamesmen performing Gimme Some Money on GoogleVideo