Guerilla Marketing or Terrar‽

So cartoon network or TBS or whoever was trying to promote Aqua Teen Hunger Force by putting up a bunch of signs around Boston. They were kind of like the things Graffiti Research Lab does, A bunch of LEDs with a magnet on the back. Magnets being only able to stick to metal, they stuck them on bridges and highways. And Boston homeland security types freak the fuck out and shut down the city because they thought they were bombs. First of all, good job not looking like idiots in front of various forms of media Boston law enforcement. Second, how the hell does that look like a bomb? It's a light up cartoon character. Ok, I get that terrorists would disguise a bomb as something that doesn't look like a big metal ball with a burning fuse, but why would they make something that would draw attention to itself. There's 'being suspisious' and then there's 'being a paranoid moron'.
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I gotta get me some DMT

Fuck man, fuuuuuck. I ned some fo this shit. THat is crazy. HEre's joe rogan talking about his trip. That would be so much better without those jackasses talking the background.

[Thanks to Mingo Agave for the link]

Yeah I know it's four months old and has already been on boingboing.

Best day ever!

Damn I'm having a good day. I found a quarter and a fake diamond. Waking up in the morning was so worth it today. I just need to find out how to tell if a diamond is real or fake and I'm set.

My day is going so much better than this models.
A 2,500-year-old mirror worth £500,000 was dropped and smashed on a Chinese TV show. A model was showing the ancient mirror to the audience when it slipped from her hands and fell to the floor.

And now we know,

I always wondered who would win in a fight between Rip Torn and Norman Mailer. [via panopticist]

That guy is pretty fucked u[, yet still articulate and such. Skillz

Um..look baby puffer fish link

Dear TV making people,

Let's agree that you never use the phrase "Reality just got real" ever again.

Cold; other stuff

It is really fucking cold right now. My nipples haven't been flaccid a week. I don't know if that's the proper term when applied to nipples. Everybody is wearing ski masks. It weird, like being at a Hezbollah meetup. Me, I had a scarf wrapped around my face to prevent freezing, I was going for more of an Afghani warlord look. Speaking of Hezbollah, I was watching the news and they were showing those student riots in Lebanon and this one guy had nunchucks, Now why the fuck would you have that? Don't be that guy man. Just stop. Throws rocks like everybody else, don't mess with a good thing. No one is impressed.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is some good watching.

Trucks that have lift kits on them are fun to ride in. Being taller then every other car is awesome.

Found another cartoon from the early 90's on youtube, Attack of the Killer tomatoes. I didn't notice at the time, being six and all, but this is one god awful show.


I do like finding things on youtube that were recorded on video. It's vaguely anachronistic and it just shows some dedicated geekery. Some body actually had to record all those by hand. That's got to count as OCD.

It's snowing

It finally snowed, it's been snowing for about an hour now. Screw you global warming.

I had a conversation with this deaf guy while waiting for the bus. It was interesting because I don't know sign language, I should probably learn it, seems useful. So it was just a lot of miming and gesturing. Apparently, somebody punched him in the face.

People just start talking to me for no reason, I don't mind. But it happens a lot. Maybe I look like a good listener or something. I should be a bartender or a psychologist or something. The only time I minded some random guy striking up a conversation with me was a few weeks ago. I was walking home and this guy was talking to me for a little while. It was okay at first, just his half assed understanding of current events. But then he got all racist and started explaining how it's Blacks and Puerto Ricans fault that downtown isn't as nice as he would like it. It was too early to argue with some jackass so I just walked off.

Trophies

I want to get a trophy in something. Really anything it doesn't mater. Instead of just getting an old bowling trophy and using a dremel to etch "Baddest dude in town" on it. THat just wasn't as fulfilling as I though.

I am so bored

There is really nothing going on over here. I need a hobby. I think I'll go make something.

Maybe I don't want to be a pirate anymore.

I was about to toss some ducats towards the Pirate Bay so they can be the ones to buy Sealand and make it a data haven or whatever, and I would get citizen ship. Collecting citizenships from countries that's governments only exist on paper is some weird ambiguous way is like a hobby of mine. (link) (link2).

But then I saw a picture of that actual place and it's a total shitbox. It's an old gun platform from WWII and it is rusted to hell. I'm not really in love with the idea of a country being built on a temporary structure that was meant to last maybe a decade tops.

If I was going to throw away €750,000,00 on making my own country, I would just do like they do in Dubai and get one of those dredger deals and construct and actual island. Maybe find some kind of atoll and just build it up. Actually that's a damn good idea, I think I will do that.

News stories that have made me want to drink and add Idiocracy to my Netflix queue

Going through digg has made me make some long exasperated sighs.

In Federal Way Washington, the school board has decided not to show An Inconvenient Truth to the students. They require movies to "be balanced with an adequate opposing viewpoint." That sort of policy sounds nice on paper but not when you have fucktards who drop soundbites like this one:

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven children who doesn't want the film shown at all.
"The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is," Hardison told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."
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Is there a way to encourage non-morons to spawn at the rate that your average religiose asshat does? Because if so that would be great. Maybe we could just take all the warning labels of things, thin out the shallow end of the genepool a bit. And isn't Washington usually considered a blue state? Aren't they usually fairly liberal on environmental issues? I think that this is just the case of one group that isn't necessarily in the majority (but who think they are, see also: pretty much every evangelical and Conservative ever) being the loudest so getting there side heard over everyone else. Yeah, that's what I'm telling myself. Helps me sleep at night.

I had another couple of things to mention but now I'm to pissed of. Something about a Texas restaurateur getting death threats for taking pesos as well as USDs and this thing on ethanol but I'm getting a cluster headache.

#1: suck less

Notable people seem to be doing a lot of dying the last few weeks. I just found out the Robert Anton Wilson died yesterday. I really like his work, go read some of it.

All these dead people hanging around and being on the news has got me contemplating my own mortality and I've decided I have done enough stuff yet. SO I'm just going to make a buttfucking huge to do list of things I want to accomplish, no time frame on this, sort of a late New Year's resolution/overly ambitious GTD list. Hear it is in no particular order. I'm putting it hear so as to publicly shame me into doing it.

#2: Bake my own bread. It's the staff of life. This is one of the most badass things you can do, it's the staff of life. This is what people used to eat in old times and not eat anything else. I've been researching this, it seems really time consuming but not that hard. Just a lot of waiting.

#3: Get better shape. I'm like a veal calf over hear its ridiculous.

#4:Run a marathon. I figure I'll start with a 5K and work my way up.

#5: get better at art. Because I can't draw worth a shit.
That's all I can think of for now.

adding some more,
#6 Be able to do a handstand.
#7 Finish getting a degree.

iWant

I want an iPhone now. I am totally willing to spend as much as I could pay for a very crappy car on a piece of consumer electronics. It's all shiny and thin and touchscreeny.

Momofuku Ando

I never even heard of this guy until now, but I subsist on that stuff man. He really revolutionized how people eat. What did poor people eat back in old times, before the inventions of instant ramen and quarter water. I'm going to go Boil two cups of water; add noodles; simmer for three minutes; stir in flavor powder and then pour it out on the curb.
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Recovered memories

I'm really proud that I could remember this far back. Last night for some reason I remember from when I was three or so and had a set of pajamas of the show "My Pet Monster." All I could remember at first was vaguely what the character looked like and that he had handcuffs that he would break out of. After thinking about it a little more I remembered what I though was the title and then found it on Retrojunk and then youtube.

Turns out the whole thing was created by a toy company. I think I had one of those too. A bunch of shows I liked as a child were really just half hour commercials for some toy, that's kind of depressing.

But anyway, used some cognitive neuroscience shit to remember. It's called priming, basically if you remember a little bit of something you just focus on that and start remembering other things that are linked to that memory and eventually you got something. I've been reading Seed a lot.

First hurr...

I started this up again. I'll actually post things later.