Archive for June, 2008

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Aviation Technology For Idiots


2008
06.27


Pulse Detonation Engine Jet:  The Blackswift

Unfairly or not, Fox News is often blasted for “dumbing down” their interviews with scientists and folks in high tech. Well, in this interview, I think I can fairly say the interviewer comes across as a complete moron… just listen to him as he gushes enthusiastically like a boy racer about the simulated takeoff:

(1:03 in… clock on lower left shows 2:10 remaining in video) Check that out! You see that go off the runway? It was gone.

I knew we had a mouth-breather when I heard that, but he keeps going…

(1:48 remaining) Is that 3,000 miles per hour?

…and he wraps up the interview with this priceless quote, which reminds me of something Beavis might say:

(0:15 remaining in video) I wonder what Wilbur and Orville are thinking about this? Huh huh! Cool!

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If sex were like Google…


2008
06.27


Diesel Sweeties #2045

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I don”t think this would be the responsibility of DHS…


2008
06.27


Simulated Comic Product: Secret Bear

How could she *not* know?


2008
06.27

I read this one on Post Secret and thought, “Bullshit!” — but hey, stranger things have happened…


I wear a penis enlargement device...

...and my wife does NOT know.

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Grand Theft Auto IV Changed My Life…


2008
06.26

…because it introduced me to some good music and wonderful artists I’d never heard before. Or to be more precise, I’d heard them, but didn’t know who they were… like David Axelrod and the song “Holy Thursday“, which I originally found on “The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV


GTA 4 fans discovering David Axelrod

I’ve committed over 140 car-jackings, and yet this song never fails to take the edge off. Apparently, it has a similar effect on other gamers.