They live in terrifying conditions, constantly being abused by the people who torture them. They’re never given praise, never told that they are good dogs. They have no love in their lives, no happiness, no joy. Their worlds merely consist of pain, anxiety, agony and suffering.
Apple finally dropped the iPad. I know, you probably even questioned whether it was real. Checkout Steve’s keynote here, and the official Apple marketing video here.
SoulPancake is number four in WIRED’s “What’s WIRED This Month” playlist in the January 2010 issue. Rainn graces the mag with a little shot of his near perfect Michelangelo-esque physique, and we get a nice blurb as well! It’s on page 48 in the magazine.
I wanted to setup a place to share my thoughts. Twitter doesn’t give me enough “oomph” and I usually ramble about Apple, Google and other tech stuff there. Every once in a while, I try and write down something I’d want my (non-existent) children to hear. Avha.me is where I will (attempt) to save these thoughts.
The lights at a Phish show are part of the experience. Some would say the lights are complimentary to the music, others say the opposite. Either way, Chris Kuroda is a genius, and Hampton Coliseum is his playground.
From film.com: The Office’s Rainn Wilson sings about the birds and the bees on the Cartoon Network’s adults-only comedy series.
Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show (Great Job!) is a show that’s difficult to just blanket recommend to folks. The cable-access-outtake format requires a certain taste in comedy that a large majority of the population never acquires, even those familiar with Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup. It can often seem just weird for the sake of being weird, but through the insanity many great moments of surreal comedy bubble up.
Take the Rainn Wilson guest appearance as child singer Bobby Stoan, showcasing his limited knowledge of how to make babies (see video below). The visual joke of having Wilson’s face digitally placed on a real toddler is funny enough, but having him sing “do you really have to pee in a girls mouth to make babies?” is beyond funny. Kids do say the darndest things, including this misinterpretation of the birds and bees.
This is easily the funniest video I’ve seen in months. Just watch. Read More…
One of my great friends Tom Fite found this original pie chart on this blog. Since the quality was so bad, but the chart was so incredibly amazing, I decided to enhance it a bit and make it readable.
I hold a deep passion for martial arts. Many people may not know that in a previous life I studied to be a black belt for about 5 years. I’m not too keen on American style boxing so much, but more bushido, jujitsu, tae kwon do and the such.
Below is an amazing compilation of Mixed Martial Arts upsets from the past year.
NOTE: If you don’t want to watch the whole video, scrub to the 7:50 mark and watch it from there.
Five years ago, after numerous consecutive Phish tours across the country, a large group of friends and I traveled to Coventry Vermont where Phish last broke things off. The music sucked and the atmosphere was concrete depression mixed with a little bit of suicide.
The grounds were muddy, the band was sad, people were broke, and it rained so much in the days before the festival, that what seemed like Army forces had to be brought in to help the masses get through those 3 days.
But now, five long years after leaving us in a cold, wet and dirty swamp in North Coventry Vermont, when the economy is in the dumps and our unemployment numbers have skyrocketed past 4.2 million people without jobs, Phish decides it’d be a good time to hit the road again. And best of all, to kick things off at Hampton Coliseum on Friday, March 6th 2009 – they opened with a juggernaut… Fluffhead.
Sometimes when Nya and Ryu (my dogs, photos on the right) dream, they get kind of rowdy and kick around while fake running. Usually, I obsess about them… But, after seeing the video below I no longer feel the necessity to obsess about it…. at all.
Thanx to my friend Seth Weintraub, author of 9to5mac and writer at Computerworld for sending this my way.
As you may have seen with my entry about Tarsiers, I have become rather interested in unique creatures that somewhat scare the shit out of me. What you see below is a Giant Japanese Hornet, and from the looks of things, you never want to meet one.
These hornets live right outside Tokyo, can fly upwards of 50 miles a day, and presumably kill around 40 people each year.