Archive for February 2011
I want this guy on my team
Regardless of your position (and I don’t pretend to know enough about the Wisconsin budget situation to possess an informed opinion), you have to admire Wisconsin state representative Gordon Hintz’s passion. I don’t think he’s faking it.
Read MoreObama and Dicks simpatico
It took me more than two weeks, but I finally sat down to watch President Obama’s live interview with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly prior to the Super Bowl. I didn’t think O’Reilly was nearly as disrespectful as some have claimed. He interrupted the President on several occasions and dismissed some of his responses, but it seemed…
Read MoreESPN was listening
One day after I criticize ESPN for a stupid design decision, they promote their front page video with this image: Much, much better.
Read MoreFinally. A solution.
The People’s Bank ATM prompted me with this message today: Would you like your preferred language at this and all other People’s Bank ATMs to be set to English? What? You’re not going to ask me if I speak Polish or Cantonese or Swahili every time I need cash? It’s about freaking time.
Read MoreShould boys and girls be allowed to compete against one another in high school wrestling? Of course. Not. Maybe. I don’t know.
I never wrestled (my school didn’t have a wrestling team), but for a year, I served as a practice dummy of sorts for members of the Brockton High School wrestling team when I was living in town and managing the local McDonald’s. I was about five years older than the guys I was wrestling, and…
Read MoreESPN fail: A simple design decision gone awry
Last night’s NBA freshman-sophomore scrimmage was filled with playground-style dunks, fast break offense and sparse defense. Bounce pass alley-oops, off-the-glass jams and other plays you’d never see in a competitive basketball game. Yet it was this image that that ESPN chose as the splash card for their video highlights of the game: Wizard’s point guard…
Read MoreBrilliant restroom redesign
I don’t have a problem with adjacent urinals in a men’s room, but even so, this would seem to make a lot of sense. Right?
Read MoreThe survivors are more menacing than the zombies
I spent the night battling zombies again in a zombie apocalypse nightmare. Nothing about these end-of-world dreams is fun, but the three most disturbing things aspects of these dreams have nothing to do with the actual zombies. It’s the behavior of my friends and comrades that I find most disturbing. Specifically: 1. The amount of…
Read MoreTHIS COULD HAPPEN, TOM.
I believe that the degree to which you find this funny says a lot about you. I think it’s hilarious. I really, really, really want to pull this prank on my friend, Tom, who is afraid of flying. Actually, he’s afraid of spiders, too, so if I could find a way to work them in…
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