Archive for January, 2003

Douchebaggery

Sunday, January 19th, 2003

Struggling writer gets job photojournalism job with Playboy during their search for the Playmate of the Millenium, and feels “embarrassed to be a man“.

Look, Mr Ueland. You act like you don’t care about being on a bus with playboy models when you’re on the bus. That’s how you distinguish yourself among the crowd.

“I want you to open your green booklet to page 23, Chapter 5. How to Fake Like You Are Nice and Caring“.

However, you look like a fool trying to convince people, through a newspaper interview, that you really didn’t like being there, and having to take pictures of all those beautiful naked women made you feel uncomfortable.

Especially when the manager tells you you need to stop inviting the models to strip for a little extra credit after their non-nude photo shoots.

Loophole In Tax Code Means Big Tax Breaks For SUV Buyers.

Tuesday, January 7th, 2003

Let me get this straight. I drive a used ‘99 Sentra that gets 37+ mpg and all I get is a hundred or so off my tags, but a Range Rover, one of the biggest gas guzzlers out there, getting 14mpg, is entitled to a $21,000 “light truck” credit intended to be an incentive to small business owners using their personal vehicles in farm or construction work. How many small business owners are buying $72,000 vehicles, then using them to haul lumber or cow manure?

Lin.

What Science Fiction story am I reminded of?

Tuesday, January 7th, 2003

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Karl Hansen’s WAR GAMES (Playboy Paperbacks; 1981) sounds similar, that’s not it. It was a short story in which the army had stay awake ampules which gave them faster reflexes and better sight, but this guy using them goes crazy.

Do you remember Commodore or Atari or NES? Then you’ll know why I’ve been listening to this all day.

The new CDs: Neither compact nor disks. Discuss.

Monday, January 6th, 2003

“To the new generation of music artists and engineers, “CD-quality sound” is an ironic joke. It’s like filming a movie in IMAX and then broadcasting it only to black-and-white TV sets.”Why would you want a 6 inch fragile disc that was incompatible by design when you could have a 1 inch 4 GB industry standard portable drive. Isn’t that what being digital is all about? Devices that are smaller, faster, cheaper, and media that is infinitely transferable without loss? The rich old geezers who run things in the recording industry are being dragged into the digital age kicking and screaming.

First Post!!1!!eleventy1!!

Monday, January 6th, 2003

I promise to never write one of the following two things: excuses for not posting frequently enough or overextended, overwrought metaphors so old and tired they not only fell off the turnip truck last decade, but have been lying in the dirt of the dusty road, getting run over by passing farm equipment and tractors, ever since. You figure out which.