All this thing is missing is a giant rack of ribs on the side.
Stupid cops, once again. Just because it’s shaped like a car. If his wife was as big as a cow, would she have to stay in the backyard, because it’s safer?
[url=http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/410165]http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/410165[/url]
So, yesterday, walking out to my car I see this sculpture of a pink Cadillac with jet wings on the corner of the block. Kinda weird. Looks like something you’d see at Silver Dinner or Generous Georges. It looks like someone left it out as trash. Then I noticed another fighter jet across the street. And then another.
[quote="washington.bizjournals.com"]Fifty airplane statues will begin landing in selected spots April 9 in a nearly five-mile loop throughout the Arlington County enclave and remain there for the summer… The public art show is also a means to recast Crystal City’s image as it continues efforts to transform from solely a terminus for worker bees to a 24/7 destination for visitors and locals alike.[/quote]
I figure it’s some dumb artsy movement or something. It is, sorta. From Tivoli Too’s, the people who created the forms, web site, “To create really cool stuff that ‘wows’ people in it’s environment that is fun for employees and clients. Barf. That just reeks of “pat me on the back because I got paid to do something that someone else thought of because we aint’s creative enough on our own”.
It’s all a part of the Crystal City Business Improvement District.
[quote="crystalcity.org"]Established in April of 2006, the Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID) is creating a soul for Crystal City. A public-private partnership, the BID is providing a higher level of service to visitors, workers and residents in Crystal City – driving to become world-class destination in both Arlington and the greater DC region.[/quote]
Basically they wanna make Crystal City this hip place to be. I work, play, shop type place. Although it is a nice area. Maybe instead of slapping planes on every block, how about helping out the 4 homeless people I’ve seen trolling Crystal City since I’ve been here. Or is that the last bullet point on the Crystal City visitors guide brochure, “We gots dem homeless peoples, too! * No feeding after dark.”
I’ll give it till the weekend till the drunks come out and trash the sculptures. At least three per weekend. That’s 16 weeks, which is close to mid-end summertime. At first it’s just vandalism, then it turns into the drunkenest scavenger hunt ever!
As nice as this area is supposed to be. People still write “Move Me” or “Wash Me” on cars in the parking garage. Which apparently you never grow tiresome of doing. It’s a classy bit like “rubber balls and liquor”. Next to it I read, “I’m drunk”, so, you know only the smart, well spoken people work in this area.
Stay classy, Crystal City.
I found a gallery online here: [url=http://picasaweb.google.com/CrystalCityBID]http://picasaweb.google.com/CrystalCityBID[/url]
Looks like Perdue took the title in the Rube Goldberg Contest… again. Surprise!
“WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) — A team of engineers from Indiana’s Purdue University have been awarded $1,000 for their creation of an elaborate 156-step hamburger-making machine.
Purdue won Saturday’s annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, a competition in which engineering students from across the country create devices to perform basic jobs with the most possible number of steps, the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier reported.
“With all the hard work we’ve put into this machine, it’s just fantastic,” said Drew Wischer, Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team captain.
More than 1,500 people attended the competition at Purdue University to watch machines from seven U.S. universities creatively assemble hamburgers with at least one meat patty, two vegetables and two condiments in a pair of buns.
The winning machine featured King Kong scaling New York’s Empire State Building, London’s Big Ben clock and the Eiffel Tower in Paris among numerous other well-known structures. “
The Don & Mike farewell show will be this Friday, the 11th.
As for the Mike O’Meara Show, I’ve got mixed feelings. Although I like all the guys and the returning Beth Ann McBride. It’s just that on the day’s Don is absent they seem a little all over the place. Don really quarterbacks the show very well. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see how it turns out.
I got bored and surfed. Then I found out that you can make Google web apps better. I’ve been using Better Gmail for a while now but Stylish is new. When I get a minute I’ll create a “redllama.net 4 Chicks”. It’s just a stylesheet that’ll make everything pink.
[b]Better Gmail 2[/b]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076
Just makes Gmail better. It also helped with logging in to AIM
through Gmail while at work. I didn’t look into why, I just accepted
the fact it happened.
[b]Stylish[/b]
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
Customize the look of the application and of websites with Stylish, a user styles manager.
The following are used with Stylish.
[i]Gmail: Inbox with new style[/i]
http://userstyles.org/styles/678
Adds some better row highlighting and shorter line-heights.
[i]Google with only search results – No ads[/i]
http://userstyles.org/styles/897
Just what it says. No ads because, I like to upkeep Google’s promise
to never host ads on it’s web sites.
[i]Google Search – Fixed Search Results Bar[/i]
http://userstyles.org/styles/1864
Adds the Gooooooooogle links fixed to the bottom of the browser. No more
scrolling to the bottom of the page.
[i]Google Compact[/i]
http://userstyles.org/styles/640
Basically this widens the result block for each item allowing more to
fit on the screen at once.
Yelp, you know. Since I’m such the celeb and brag all the time. Figured it was time to post my appearance on WJFK last week.
They were talking about putting rims on Dukes low end Charger that he’s probably leasing. Everyone called in giving there advise and encouraging him to do so. I felt I had to let him know that he shouldn’t.
BTW it’s 15:00 minutes in, and it’s “Alexander” because I didn’t want to be turned away because of my name, nor talk about my name, or have them mispronounce it for the whole tow minute conversation.
Funny thing is, I never told them what I drive and, he hung up on me when right as he yelled “F U!”. I had no chance to respond.
But, what I was going to say was, “If you really want rims, I got a guy that works at Costco. He can hook you up with some 15″ rims for a nice discounted but we might have to paint them. I’m leaving work now, you want me to pick up “Gunmetal” or “Gloss Black” spray paint cans?”
[url=http://www.wjfk.com/episode_download.php?contentType=36&contentId=1717146]http://www.wjfk.com/episode_download.php?contentType=36&contentId=1717146[/url]
[quote]Always buying sneakers? It’s the sign of a leader: poll Tue Apr 1, 9:50 AM ET
Got a passion for buying sneakers? It could be a good sign, with a poll finding that people who buy three pairs of sneakers or more a year are far more likely to be a leadership type than other people.
Mindset Media, a media company that examines personality traits of different consumers, found that people who buy more than three pairs of sneakers a year are 61 percent more likely to have the qualities of a modern leader.
These qualities were defined as having ideas and vision, and a style with others that is both inclusive and decisive.
The survey of 7,500 people, using market research group Nielsen’s online panel, found multi-sneaker buyers were 50 percent more likely to be very assertive and 47 percent more likely to be spontaneous.
Lauren Arvonio, a spokeswoman for Mindset Media, said sneaker buyers were more likely to fly by the seat of their pants.
“It is often said you can tell a lot about a person by the shoes they wear, and now we have some hard data to back that up,” Arvonio told Reuters.
“What is interesting is that these personality traits held true across the board, regardless of age, income, or gender.”
Previous Mindset Media surveys found that people who pay their credit card bills off each month were more likely to be “highly deliberate,” thinking through their actions, but also less modest than others, likely to brag about their habits.
Hybrid car owners were found to be 78 percent more likely to be highly creative than other people and less dogmatic.
(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Patricia Reaney)
[/quote]
I wonder what the study shows about men with the habits of buying at least three pairs of red stilettos every year. Probably something along the lines of “… are most likely to join the Army.”
In lue of April 1st, and the fake Zelda movie trailer that’s been spreading like wild fire, I give you a different fake movie trailer that I watched yesterday. It was created by some fan boys back in ‘04. Even has it’s own [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430154/]IMDB listing[/url]. You can watch it [url=http://theforce.net/fanfilms/nonsw/grayson/]here[/url]. (5:27) [url=http://download.theforce.net/theater/nonsw/grayson/grayson_new_large.mov]Hi-Res link[/url]. It’s pretty much the awesome.
[quote]telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl[/quote]
I haven’t watched the whole thing, yet.
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