Hair Salon Boot Camp

My first inclination, as you might expect, is to make fun of this hair Salon boot camp. But actually, upon reflection, I think it’s a great idea. Honestly, they should have the same damn thing for plumbers, HVAC repair, carpentry, whatever. I think the emphasis on college in our country is stupid and unwarranted. For a lot of people, going to college is just a random choice with nothing backing it up; it ends up placing people more in debt and even further from a paying career and self-sufficiency. If more people got involved in the vocational skills market, we would have a higher quality and more balanced arena for these vocational areas.

I mean honestly, college isn’t for everybody. It just does many people a disservice to funnel them through college when their skillset may be much more applicable to other areas.

 

So I say, let’s make bootcamps for all sorts of vocational schools. Maybe we’ll be able to generate a more aggressive and higher quality service and vocational sector. Hell, I would totally do an electrical bootcamp…fall asleep, get shocked with a home-made tazer…

 

Leopard Wrestling

Ahhhh, how I miss my days of wrestling leopards on the bedroom floor…silly Israelis

 

Best Tourist Rankings

Bizarre. I never would have thought of breaking out all the different nations as far as the tourist stuff…yet here it is.

I suppose I’m glad we weren’t elected the bonehead idiots of the tourist world…go America?

 

Chasing down the people that rob you...

Now if only we can get the general populace to take this same attitude towards the lawmakers that rob us blind…

Lesbian Sharks: Immaculate Contraptions

Yup. Lesbian sharks having little kid sharks, no men involved. What kind of crap is this? Next thing you know, they’ll be trying to tie the knot. Is Ireland the new Massachusetts?

 

Haha, married sharks. Now *that’s* funny. Unless you were in the water when they were getting it on…I’m sure it’s pretty indistinguishable from feeding frenzy, and that would scare the crap out of me.

Muthaf***ing Snakes on a Muthaf***ing Plane!

Hahahah, yes! Samuel L. Jackson, where is your sound clip when I nee you…Snakes on a Plane, Bitch!

 

 

Truth in Advertising...

Classic. I guess you can’t really get all that mad at them…best quote :

 

“Some of them must have clicked on it by mistake. Some must have been curious or stupid.”

 

I love it. You tell it like it is, man. Stupid people!

 

Nude Tourism on the Rise?

I really like nude tourism, actually. I went to see the statue of liberty naked and found it exhilarating. Next up is the Washington monument…

 

Drunk Wheelchairing...

Wow. 10x the legal limit...now that's alot of booze, even for a german who's always sitting down

Would Beyonce literally burn cash?

A friend of mine wastes time writing a blog called What Would Beyonce Do? which is far more amusing than mine, although to be fair: I fill my blog much fuller of pure crap every day. He actually waits until he thinks of something funny.
anyway, I thought his most recent was pretty funny.

1984 finds England?

Slashdot link to fascinating story…I wonder, though: are those cameras exclusively in place around the metropolises? As in, could this conceivably drive an increased migration to suburbs/lowered migration to the city? Or will it simply alter behavior within the cities?

Or, as is probably the case with Americans, will behavior alter such that everyone tries to get caught on camera doing silly things, with the anticipation of getting on the local news or a TV highlight reality show that is the inevitable conclusion of this ridiculous process…

 

13yr old CEO of Startup

Awesome. It makes me a little bit jealous, but then again, he made it happen so kudos to this smooth-ass 13yr old. I just need to see if maybe he’ll hire me…

I can totally play card games and I’m a wicked sweet dungeon master in Dungeons & Derivates (calculus role-playing)

The Study of Bubbles

Fascinating article talking about the rise and burst of technology bubbles, and how they’re indispensable for building the infrastructure which is then utilized by successful businesses after the burst bubble.

 

"Broadband" redefined?

Sure sure, everybody loves more speed and more capacity. That’s nice. But if we raise the threshold of what we call broadband, what are going to call faster-than-dialup-but-slower-than-broadband services? It seems sort of arbitrary and silly, to me. I mean, what’s all this supposed to accomplish? Yeah, you bring more access to low profit areas. Ok, great. We already have that through satellite internet, don’t we? Seems like much ado about nothing, to me.

Bible Almost Classified as Indecent/Immoral

I don’t care who you are, this is some funny shit…

 

Fake Retardation, Get Arrested

Ohhh, middle America. You have it so hard, you have to make your kids pretend to be retarded? <sigh>

 

Deep Skin wounds Cure Baldness

As I read the first paragraph or two of this apparently legitimate article, I just had this image of bald guys everywhere handing their buddies a machete and saying

“Ok man, I just need a couple deep gashes in the middle of that there bald spot. So go ahead and put your shoulders into it, dig?”

 

You know, a whole rash of emergency room injuries involving sharp objects to the head, many self-inflicted. I mean come on, it’s not very far-fetched, especially with the waning attention span of our contemporaries…

Nude Car Wash

So I guess Australia has basically turned into a Jay-Z video. In other news, I’m moving to Australia right now.

 

Move over India, Japan's way more fucked up

Yup. India relinquished the f’ed up crown with this bizarre article…

 

PHiladelphia Murals

I actually really like the trend of painting these huge murals all over Philly, and it’s interesting to see the program that enabled the coordination of these far-reaching projects…

 

Sex, Drugs, and Posting to your Blog

Haha, yeah yeah. This is a blog, and the title of this post has the word “blog.” But the article in question is really a pretty fascinating (although lengthy) read. Brings up a lot of interesting points about the shift in music business models and an interaction.

 

CERN

This makes me giddy.

 

BS Hype about EPA ratings for Hybrids?

Now bear with me, because I haven’t actually sat down and pounded out the numbers, but it certainly looks like all the ratings are dropping for mileage, not just hybrids. And while the hybrid #’s seem to drop more, I think maybe they’re inflating the importance of that drop in order to inflate readership. I would think that as both sets drop you would still get pretty high savings for the hybrid cars vs regular cars because of the better gas mileage. In any case, I would be very curious to see the down-and-dirty specs they’re using for determining gas mileage. And for that matter, who funded the push to change the mileage ratings…

 

Scientology vs BBC

Personally, I sympathize with the BBC guy. I mean, after seven days hanging out with those kooks, who wouldn’t flip out? I’m impressed he lasted seven whole days…

 

Best line of the article is the last line where they slip in, almost as an afterthought:

 

“Scientologists believe humans are tainted by the remnants of aliens' souls who were dumped on Earth and blown up with nuclear bombs.”

 

Ah. Of course. Aliens’ souls. It seems so obvious now, in retrospect…

Everyone Has Had More Sex Than Me

Sing it, brother

Ultimate Showdown

Just plain hilarious. Optimus Prime vs Batman vs...well, everyone.

How we read text

So. We focus in a small circle. And this new product is supposed to shift our text structure to fit more efficiently into our focus. This in turn makes reading quicker, easier, and less intensive. Ok, I’ll buy that. It certainly helps to explain the success of some of the Far Eastern character structures, such as Japanese/Chinese/Korean etc. They read vertically and in collections of just one or a few characters at a time. Sort of similar. But then again, what about the argument that man developed the evolutionary capability to scan vertical horizons easily to search for predators? It’s been backed up in research that our ability to collate images across the horizontal axis is much more natural than along the vertical; hence the really wide TV’s and computer monitors, rather than thin and tall.

Perhaps it’s simply a distinction between the ‘focus’ and the ‘peripheral’? Where our focus is indeed small and circular, and our peripheral is far more effective along the horizontal plane? And perhaps there is something aligned with the physical construction of our eye sockets/muscles/tendons that provide a preference in horizontal shifts…

hmmmmmm

 

Brad Pitt, Carpenter.

While I’m inclined to make fun of just about anything that is undertaken by Hollywood’s idiot celebrities, I do have to admit a certain amount of intelligence and balance to the current project being pushed by Brad Pitt. Energy-efficient homes are a good thing, with nobody really getting the short end of the stick. Now whether people can be convinced that they will really receive some nebulous future savings and thus should invest up-front in more efficient homes…well, the American consumer in general is still pretty short-sighted. So nice try, but I wouldn’t hold your breath, Brad.

 

Top-Ranked Space Movies

Space.com is doing a user-driven rating of the top ten space movies of all time. I’m a little upset by the seeming sweep of star wars. Sure, it’s fun and was groundbreaking at the time; that deserves A spot. Not all of the spots. Whatever, at least 2001 was in top three.

 

Act violently, or forever hold your peace

I tell ya, sometimes I think it would be really fun to live abroad somewhere, but I don’t know if I could deal with some of the crazy customs that produce these violent and ridiculous outcomes…

 

Martyr Mouse says drink your milk!

Wow. You know what the really funny thing is? I bet our reaction to this ridiculousness would be far more effective if Disney got angry about patent infringement and just went in their with a cartoon character mod squad strike team to take back their intellectual property. Nothing ever gets done in America with some good, solid, economic backing. And who better than the corporate powerhouse of Disney?

 

Secretary or SWAT Team?

Yeah yeah, I know. More robot articles. But the reason I post this is not so much because of the article or the technology, but because of the comment the contributor makes on /.

 

“If this were a Japanese project I'd say it'd be useful for robotic secretaries new on the job, but since it's an American one I suppose it'll be used for automated SWAT teams.”

 

Oh, how true it is…America, you bitch.

Red vs. Blue - Chupacabra

And in case you aren’t familiar with RVB, this specific link is to the video I was talking about a few posts ago…

 

National Guard turns to Pornography?

Well, sort of. I mean, they sold their old armory to a porn group that wants to use it to film stuff and use as their data center, apparently. Pretty crazy shit, if you ask me. But then again, it’s a legitimate business. I dunno, it’s far enough out of the every-day experience that you just don’t know what to think about it…

abandoned airplane in the city

I don’t really know what more there is to know about this story, and I don’t care. I’m simply amused that there’s an airplane sitting in the middle of a city. Talk about a great playground for kids, though…

 

Chupacabrathingy!

<sigh>

 

Maybe it’s just that I watched the first season of Red vs Blue too much, but even the name is funny. Anyway, it gets mentioned in an amusing space.com article debunking space visitors or whatever. Take a look.

 

No punches pulled in parliament

Ha! Yes. I love the idea of our senators and congressmen/women getting all riled up and wrestling for the podium. In fact, sell tickets! Put it on Monday night prime-time! Actually, I’m sure this is somewhere in our future…although anything that could convince more people to vote or even show some vague knowledge that we *have* an elected body that makes laws would be progress…

 

Top Gun = Gay

Ahhhh, too funny. And actually, I'm linking to a blog entry that has a really interesting commentary about the whole scenario, as well as the common practice of purposefully mis-interpreting buddy-films and male bonding as gay interaction. Of course, it still has the video.

Castlevania Movie?

Ok, I seriously hope I’m not the only one excited about the Castlevania Movie… I loved the games on Nintendo and SNES, although I haven’t played any more recently. I can only hope it’s not cheeseball.

 

And so it begins...Again

I don’t really believe it’s likely that Iraq will be able to provide for their own democratic process any time soon. This most recent development is just yet another nail in the coffin of America’s hope of success in the middle eastern region. I the advent of a functioning democracy does not simply happen overnight, and definitely not as a result of being imposed on a war-torn state of warlord-driven anarchy. This is basically the scenario that you have in iraq, combined with very deep rifts between the major ethnic/religious groups. I just don’t see that being overcome in a short time-period. Really the only way it could have worked was if we could have kept the Hussein govt/infrastructure in place and simply taken over the working of it. Instead, we destroyed everything of structure within the country, both physical and administrative, and did not rush in with replacements. The emphasis now simply doesn’t matter, because we let the insurgency and counter-american efforts build up so much. I don’t see a good way out, but realistically there cannot be a coherent peace in that country while the Sunni and Shiite contingents are at each other’s throats over the resources and control…

 

Women Empowered by Everything

Hahaa, the title pretty much says it all. I laugh as I always do from the sarcastic meanderings of The Onion…

 

Stabbing Ducks w/ a Pencil. You heard right.

Ok. So kids are dumb, that’s no secret. Also, there are some pretty messed up kids that grow up to be pretty messed up adults. But there are two lines from this article that really jumped out at me; one really funny, and the other one just messed up.

 

“Even though they are a huntable species, there is a legal method of take, of which using a pencil is not one of them”

 

“he had talked about the act to classmates and did not understand why it was wrong”

 

You be the judge…

Obama requests Waived Copyright for DNC debates

As is pointed out in many of the blogs and forums talking about this, it is a definite step in the right direction, but it will remain to be seen if he is able to make good on further steps in this direction…

 

$10 laptops in India

Well, I guess this is all nice and good, but it does illustrate an interesting point. So much of the world’s problems are being addressed through technology. And that’s fine, but it can’t be the whole solution to any of these problems; technology is merely a tool, a means by which to achieve and end in concert with many other tools or means.

Real development requires social reform as well as tech reform. The vast transformations many countries are going through in their growth pain transitions to first-world industrial economies are espousing tech and industry exclusively, at the expense of social reform. This will provide a very imbalanced culture (similar in many ways to the worst aspects of western culture) where all the emphasis is on high-tech and little emphasis is placed on artisans, service sector work, or basically any career that doesn’t have a high computer-use quotient.

Now I’m not sure what the best way to bring about this balance is; lords knows we haven’t achieved it perfectly in the US, either. But we’re better off than most. A handful of European countries have done well with it, but those same countries are so rabidly homogeneous and static that they have essentially a unified populace. This makes change much easier and the issue of social collision much less important.

Perhaps some cultures are strong enough to resist the gaping maw of empty Western glitz, in which case they will somehow integrate the Western tech into their traditional society. But somehow, I just don’t see that happening a whole lot. Hong Kong is a perfect example, which is an empty shell of its Chinese cultural predecessors, and ends up being a disturbing bastardization of Chinese culture and western greed. Very bizarre.

But here’s to hoping…

 

What's Next, Mickey Mouse Chopsticks?

Now this is some funny shit; Disneyland being blatantly ripped off by the Chinese. Ironically, although we bluster all the time about Taiwan, Korea, Japan and the Chinese Humans Rights Violations, those things are not really what will bring us to war with China. Having all of our precious profits ripped off by the Chinese will totally send the corporate power-wielders into a rabid tail-spin that could very well end up with military posturing at the least, and possibly conflict in the end. It’s just how it goes…

 

Peruvian Frog-Viagra

So is this what that fairy tale is really talking about when the princess kisses the frog?

 

Ahhh, parables for modern medicine…

 

Protection from Jewish Weddings and Boat Anchors

I haven't laughed this hard in quite some time. Perhaps I was just taken by surprise...

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The Llama Song

Yeah. So....the llama song. I guess you'll just have to watch it and try to decide what is says about something, if anything. Mostly, it just makes me remember how much I enjoy to mess with people...oh wait.

Are DARPA goggles anything like beer-googles? I'll take two!

Oh you silly DARPA scientists…nobody really wants to see things 10,000m away with binoculars. I just need enough power to see through my next-door neighbor’s window. Now if we could get some better night-vision, maybe with some x-ray power…then you’re talking.

 

Ask a Mexican!

While Carlos Mencia pretty much roles this genre in and out of every show, this article caught me off-guard enough that I took a look and found it to be equally refreshing, and probably a little less vulgar than Mencia’s show.

 

Jersey Barriers making electricity?

So yeah, I’m as into alternative energy as the next guy, probably even more so. But let’s be serious: jersey barriers with little turbines generating enough electricity to run a light rail train? SHouldn’t our efforts be focused on more feasible and realistic applications of wind technology? I just don’t see that working. Especially since the heaviest usage of said train would theoretically be during rush hour, right? The time where the cars are moving much more slowly and not generating wind? Sure. I applaud the innovative thought processes involved here, but sometimes the rabid, unfocused idealism of these projects completely undermines the real benefits (monetary, environmentally, and otherwise) provided by many of the more realistic projects.

Man, I Gotta Pee!

This is extra hilarious because not only has it happened in classrooms I’ve been in, it’s happened repeatedly in the navy, as well. And it’s been pretty hilarious every single time…

 

HD movies over the web to Xbox 360

This is another one of those things where it could really work out well, if Microsoft just places themselves in an intelligent marketing position. Apple did exactly this with iTunes and the $0.99 song download. If they do movies to the Xbox 360 with a good price scheme and a more liberal playback, it could really make a huge difference to securing their market share. I suspect they will be stupid about it and try and restrict it too much, thus opening the front door for more competitive solutions to whoop up on them. It’s a shame, sort of. Microsoft does some things very well, but it’s really setting itself up for failure in many arenas by not allowing forward-looking thinking to drive innovation in its business models.

 

Great News Day for India... Beheading!

Seriously? Beheading your employee for not doing their job? Oh how I wish I could have used that when I was in the Navy…

 

I'm worried about my indian friends

Because this could totally happen to them. Except maybe it would be cousin/cousin swap. Malhar, Vaibhav, I’m talking to you here…

Web-searchable Public Records

I’m going to have side with Google on this one, I think. If the govt records have sensitive data that shouldn’t be released to the general public, but yet the majority of the document should, then it’s up to the government to remove the sensitive part whether it’s accessed online or in person/physically. I think this is a great move towards governmental transparency, although your average person will probably only benefit in assorted very small ways. Few people will have the time to get deep enough into the information to really make sense of it all…but then again, that’s basically what we have now; so hopefully the whole situation just gets a little bit better.