Category Archives: Amusements

These cucumbers are perfect with fried chicken and outstanding on grilled hot dogs!

He graces Germany with the presence of his noodly appendages.

Milton has gone over the edge…

A Guide to U.S. Newspapers

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they should run the country.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the Washington Post. They do, however like the smog statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave L.A. to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country, and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country either, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority, feministic atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are democrats.

10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.

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These pics are so teh woot! TEH INTERNETS FTW!

My God – this video is about me!

Inventory: 10 Highly Pretentious Musical Instruments

Nice – I own numbers 2 and 6.

2. The Chapman Stick

Art rock—especially ’80s-00s King Crimson—wouldn’t be complete without the Chapman Stick, a combination guitar and bass that looks like a 2×4 and is played by tapping the strings with both hands. (Or with little drumsticks tied to your fingers, if you’re Tony Levin.) Though its clean lines look best next to the stylishly bald and mustached Levin, it’s forever connected to serious, ponytailed men like Trey Gunn, who look like they treat “picking” and “strumming” with a sniff of contempt. The Chapman Stick is also worn across the chest with the top resting on the player’s shoulder, giving the impression that it’s so precious, it needs to be cradled.

6. Keytar

The portable keyboard you strap on like a guitar has graced an embarrassing list of people who should have known better, like Donald Fagen, Herbie Hancock, and “Weird Al” Yankovic. But it still looks like a plastic toy that should have bubbles coming out of the handle. When Steve Masakowski invented it and Moog Music rolled out the first models, keyboardists everywhere who’d been stuck in the back at concerts got the chance to strut across the front, just like the real stars. It didn’t take long to figure out that they’d been put back there for a reason.

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When Bruce Schneier does modulo arithmetic, there are no remainders. Ever.

Bruce Schneier Facts

Viddy these well, oh me brothers. I wish they were real.