My good friend Andrew Heaton was dead on. Check out his video.
Save the date cards serve a maniacal purpose, and they only hasten the demise/reform of the U.S. Postal Service.
Seriously though, save the stamp and send me an email. Better yet, don’t send any at all, save the money, and make sure there is ample open bar and food treats for drunks.
Check out this hilarious clip from my good friend Andrew Heaton. And while you’re at it, bookmark his blog. Then come back and read mine. I have advertisements, and that makes my blog superior — or means that I am a sell out.
You should jump on this one if you love beer: (If you look closely, you can see that he likes Schlafly beer)
One I funded last year:
I don’t often talk about religion. Or science. But a recent video of a gorilla walking at a zoo has prompted some of my friends to insinuate the debate about evolution is clearly over. Yes. A YouTube video is the pocket ace, Christians be damned!
I tend to believe both evolution and creationism are true. Of course, I believe the universe exists because God created it. I also don’t believe that Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sunday because God was able to create humans in 6 days and wanted to rest for a delicious chicken sandwich.
The bible’s interpretation is just that — an interpretation. Maybe God intended for evolution. But this video has signified the end of the evolution debate for some. Though, I’m not really sold that it does that. Maybe when the gorilla stops throwing poop around, and tells us his views on entitlement reform, the proper role of government, and the role of the UN in US diplomacy, I will be impressed. But that is unlikely to happen in my view.
If you’ve never visited my friends’ blog about local dining in Falls Church, you should. They’re bringing it back with some new restaurants to review. Enjoy.
So tonight I actually went to the DC Social for the “Cheezburger Network.”
Alright. It is official. I’m a huge nerd. I’m OK with telling you this because you likely already know. I guilt tripped my friend Ben into attending, but I knew that deep down, he really wanted to go. It was at the Washington Post building, there were free things, free beer, free cheezburgers, and people who like memes. I love memes. We got there and quickly realized that while we thought we loved memes, we were mere hobbyists compared to most attendees.
If you don’t know what the Cheezburger network is, click here. If you don’t know what a meme is, click here.
I had invited my girlfriend Mary, who works two blocks away. Truthfully, I was afraid she’d be weirded out by the whole thing. You know, like that scene from Knocked Up where they follow Paul Rudd to the draft party? So, rather than hide the hobby from Mary, I figured I’d bring her into the fold. Ben and I quickly grabbed some free cheeseburgers, bought copies of the books by Ben Huh, got them autographed, and got our own versions of Happy Cat (see below.)
Earlier in the day, I emailed the RSVP link to my friend from college, Chris, who lives in town. Turns out his girlfriend had already RSVP’d them, and he was there. Seeing as they introduced Mary and I, my worries diminished. Then some weird guy kept talking about second life, complete with a projector screen of his character, a copy of the Kool Aid man. We all hoped he would stop before the girls got there. Thankfully, he did, but the projector kept going. It was awkward, especially knowing that we were the most conservative people there. (Which may not actually be the case, given Gawker’s hit piece on Huh.)
I was torn whether to get the free Happy Cat or the LOLRUS, which really brought me into the meme world. His commentary on the mortgage crisis brought me in hook, line, and sinker. Here’s an excerpt:
Reta Sanden from Turlock, California:
I am a realtor in the Central Valley of California, one of the hardest hit areas in the recent housing crunch. I too own a home, and my husband and I are struggling not just because I am not making any commissions lately, but because everything is going up – food, gas, taxes, you name it. We refinanced our home in November 2005 to do some much needed improvements. Now our adjustable rate mortgage is due to adjust in November. We are not sure what it will adjust to which is very worrying as my income has been greatly affected recently.
Banks used to be happy to talk to us and lend us money. Now we really need help and they don’t want to know us. We want to keep our home, and make the payments but if banks are going to turn their backs on us, then they deserve the losses they incur. Unless people are relieved of their prior credit damages, and are given a reasonable chance to pay back their debts, then they are in serious trouble.
Lolrus says:
Scuse, please? Why? Why come you buy ARM? Why not purchase bucket at affordable fixed rates? Scuse, as a realtor you should knows better. Me wish could lives in California but too expensive. Good fish there.
How can you not love that? All in all, it was fun.
1- Go to en.wikipedia.org and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to en.wikiquote.org and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to flickr and click on “Explore the last seven days” Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor, worked really well) to put it all together.
5 – Post it with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join in!
So, here’s what I got… h/t to ammertime
I saw this video and was enamored. I only took one physics class at SLU, and there wasn’t much of an aerospace component to it. I needed to know if it was possible. So, Bomble.com reached out to its network of aerospace engineers and aviators, one of which confirmed the possibility that this video is real:
now technically yes this is possible. very difficult, due to the turbulance of the air going over the air craft. i assume the right fan is pushing air from the right to left and the left one is sucking the air in. Pretty cool stuff, I’ll have to pass that around the office.
Another Bomble.com reader and engineer, disagrees:
Nope, this is fake. The stability issues alone, not to mention that a good chunk of this video has the airplane at negative angle-of-attack, would doom this from the start. Add in that the “pushing” air fan would add a rotational flow element given it’s close proximity to the airplane makes me think that someone is a great video editor.
So, who around here has two of the exact same fan? I presume they have to be the same fan to ensure that the airflow and airspeed are the same. Being outside makes things harder, so the experiment would have to take place indoors.
And now some tunes for your morning consumption:
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