Friday, 14 Nov 2008

Recently input:  Wristcutters: A Love Story, Bubba-Hotep, True Blood, Heroes, Fringe, http://io9.com, http://lifehackers.com, http://gizmodo.com, “Cordial Invitation” - Giant Drag, “The Tape Song” - The Kills.

Recently output: cash. $700 for brakes and tie-rod and bearing. $300 water pump.

recent annoyances: credit card companies who try to guilt you into agreeing to payments you can’t afford by insulting you.  ”free market” enthusiasts who see nothing wrong with trillion dollar bailouts and governmental intervention to save an economic system they think works fine.  all the references to how thick the Bulletproof glass is that protects or will protect president-elect Obama when he speaks, drives in his car, etc.

random pop culture observation:  Tabloid magazines in supermarkets. Online ‘news’ blurbs. Impossible to not see references to the Angelina Jolie vs. Jennifer Aniston thing. I vaguely recall back when BP left JA to be with AJ (isn’t that kind of odd that they have antonymic initials?) and their was a lot of public hand-wringing and people going ‘why would he leave J, she is Sooooo beautiful”. Putting aside that people rarely cheat just because person A is more attractive than person B, what was the mystery? I never ‘got’ the whole ‘J is one of the most beautiful women on the planet’ thing. Cute? sure, in that before-she-was-a-plastic-surgery-homewrecker-Meg-Ryan kind of cute, but ‘hot’? Never got it. AJ on the other hand? omg so hot I think she makes mens brains melt. literally. so hot men just do stupid things because their brains disengage and they follow her around like zombies. so that i got. but lately after seeing a bunch of articles and photos I kind of get the JA hot thing. AJ is still really hot, and it’s probably not fair to compare someone who’s had a kid to someone who hasn’t but recently I’ve begun to think JA might actually be more beautiful than AJ. Not in quite the same melt-your-brain-omg-what-just-happened-why-am-I-in-Tijuana-handcuffed-to-a-bed-with-a-giant-tattoo-of-a-viking-skateboarding-on-my-chest-kind of way, but objectively more beautiful.  Don’t know what weird diets or fitness regimen she’s on, but JA is aging amazingly well - most of us don’t get more beautiful as we age, but I think that might be what’s going on.  I know, I know… why is the question of who is hotter even in my brain?  I don’t know. I blame the liberal elite Hollywood obsessed media. And why do I keep using the word ‘hot’? I dunno. I blame my melted brain.

Speaking of weird diets and amazing fitness regimens,  if Madonna didn’t just kill someone and is not laying the groundwork for a defense of insanity, and reports of her visitation conditions she wants her husband to follow are true (a very large IF), then she is the very embodiment, the very personification the psycho b____ that every soon-to-be-ex husband feels his soon-to-be-ex has become.  While I’ve heard people say that the conditions are so bizarre they HAVE to be fake, and I don’t have any reason to think the conditions are true, anyone who thinks they HAVe to be fake underestimates just how out of touch with reality some celebrities are, and just how bat-s*** crazy people get during divorces.

Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008

Yes, in case you didn’t notice this when it was first discovered FIFTY YEARS AGO(!!!!!) scotch tape emits x-rays when peeled from certain materials in a vacuum.    So, of course someone had to build their own primitive x-ray machine powered by scotch tape.

Scotch-tape: Researchers Build X-Ray Machine With Scotch Tape

Just think of the post-apocalypse usefulness of having a stock-pile of scotch tape after the power grids are knocked out and fuel to power generators gets scarce.