Wow.
Bailout Pie
05 Dec 2008
XO Laptop
Quite a few of you wrote to say you donated XOs last year. I love the XO. It’s a brilliant idea, an outstanding design, and it comes loaded with great software. However, I’ve been disappointed in the speed of the one we bought our son. Considering the fact that it has a flash hard drive it’s incredible, and he loves having it. However, I think he spends more time using one of our computers than his own because ours are faster. On the other hand, if he didn’t have ours to compare to I think the XO would be his favorite thing.
Please donate if you can.
04 Dec 2008
Auditorium
29 Nov 2008
The World Wins
If you’re not in America, you should know that there are fireworks all over our city right now. I’ve never seen that after an election in the US.
05 Nov 2008
Protesting Palin
Sarah Palin gave a speech three blocks from my house Sunday, and we walked over there to protest. 8000 conservatives were lined up to get in the door and there were probably several hundred protesters. The streets around the Civic Center were full of people. Cars were squeezing through the crowd, honking, and generally giving the Obama supporters a lot of love.
The annual march of the zombies was also scheduled to come right through the whole mess that night. I was imagining 700 zombies arriving just as Palin’s limo pulled up. However, they were both late, and we had to leave because my little boy was feeling ill. My phone battery died before I got a picture of it, but there was a great “Humans against zombie tardiness” sign. Here’s a few more I liked:
Arugula eating intellectual for President ‘08
9 more days til your 15 minutes are up.
Sarah, after the rapture, can I have your clothes?
They outnumbered us by 30 to 1. They were better dressed, and they probably smelled better as a group. But we totally kicked their ass in creativity. I saw no indication of imagination in the Palin crowd (unless you consider a camouflaged baseball cap imaginative). YouTube has video:
31 Oct 2008
The Yes Men
When Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos created a satirical website at gatt.org, some of the visitors didn’t notice that it was a joke. Through their website, they started recieving invitations to represent the WTO at legitimate conferences, and they jumped at the chance. This 2003 documentary follows them as they engage in “identity correction” for the WTO.
1 hour 22 minutes. Link to Video
18 Aug 2008
Patton Oswalt’s Commencement Address
From the speech Patton Oswalt gave to the graduating class at his high school 21 years after he graduated:
And then this banker – clean-shaven, grey suit and vest – you’d never look twice at him on the street – he told me about The Five Environments.
He leans forward, near the end of the dinner, and he says to me, “There are Five Environments you can live in on this planet. There’s The City. The Desert. The Mountains. The Plains. And The Beach.
You can live in combinations of them. Maybe a city in the desert, or in the mountains by the ocean. Or you could choose just one. Out in the plains somewhere, perhaps.
“But you need to get out there and travel, and figure out where you thrive.
“Some places you’ll go to and you’ll feel yourself wither. Your brain will fog up, your body won’t respond to your thoughts and desires, and you’ll feel sad and angry.
“You need to find out which of the Five Environments are yours. If you belong by the ocean, then the mountains will ruin you. If you’re suited for the blue solitude of the plains, then the city will be a tight, roaring prison cell that’ll eat you alive.
He was right. I’ve traveled and tested his theory and he was absolutely right. There are Five Environments. If you find the right combination, or the perfect singularity, your life will click…into…place. You will click into place.
Read the rest at PattonOswalt.com
23 Jul 2008
