Role Reversal

Unbelievably Hilarious

Nerd-Cool: We Love Wordplay

Gender Bias Sucks

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I don't really think I am.

Maybe it's only because I'm a man who was faced with the very real possibility of becoming a single-dad, complete with custody struggles and sudden revisioning of my life.

Maybe it's because I think feminism needs to work both ways and "gender equality" should erase all imbalaces or none of them.

But this Kate Plus Eight shit really irks me.

It irks me first because there is no reason for this broad to be famous.  Congrats, modern science turned your uterus into an assembly line.  Woot!  Hooray for you because you had the Henry Ford of doctors.

Secondly, the press release about the "revisioning" of the show is total BS.  "Hey, let's edit the dad out and make it look like she's raising these kids all on her own and he's never around".  I'm sure that'll turn out great when it comes time for Family Court.

As a man who never considered turning his back on his child, I hate the way society still thinks that the mother will be the better parent to portray just because she's a woman.

C'mon people, we're in a post-gender society.  We've had Cliff Huxtable and Dr. Jason Seaver to show us how to get this done.  Hell, I'm half-way convinced that HIMYM ends with Ted Mosby admitting that the kids' mom left him and that's why he's jaunting down memory lane. 

Bottom line, it's pretty clear that Cate (yeah, I spelled it with a C) Gosselin has made a career out of pimping her kids for tv, and TLC is totally on board with this.  Welcome to the blocked channel list on my DVR TLC.  Hope you like it there.

I'm pretty sure this math checks out

LOL @ Greenwashing

Banksy Quote Tattoo

this girl might like Banksy more than me.   Shoot.

crazy pic

this may be the greatest sucky tattoo ever

LOL

I like Picard, but Kirk don't play

I've been playing a lot of Aion this week, thought I'd share an image of a tiger pig with you

Tough Lessons for Little Grimmy

Taken from Rotten Tomato's list of the worst movies of the new century, here's the ones I've seen.

In Theatre:
- Glitter
- The New Guy  (Eliza Dushku Bikini-montage warranted the price)
- Good Luck Chuck  (when will I learn Jessica Alba and/or Dane Cook = fail?)
- My Baby's Daddy (hey, I was making a lot of bad choices back then...)
- Down to You
- Dueces Wild
- The Covenant
- Kicking It Old School
- Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever

Rented:
- Envy
- New Best Friend (rented multiple times, actually)
- Strange Wilderness

Bottom line, I love movies so much I've been blinded and wasted at least $200 on these crap movies.  Damn.

Frank loves the Twitter

If you don't know these people, why aren't you watching Always Sunny?

No lie, today I had to clarify if someone was talking to me about Andy Samberg or Joaquin Phoenix. Pretty sure that's the first time those two got mixed up, ever.

I have a weakness for iPhone commercials. I pause them and look up every app on the screen.

who else can't stand crazy-ass O'Rielly?

I might actually want this skin

I wish everything was advertised in the Fallout style.

Nerd-Cool: We Love to Learn Everything about Everything We Love.

Yes, I meant what I said.  Go back and re-read that title.

When a nerd digs something, we really dig it (sometimes literally; those nerds are called archeologists).  If we're into something, we're going to find out everything we can learn about it.

We do this for two reasons:
1.)  Because we think that our expertise is directly tied to our devotion, and that everyone will know we are the tops at something because we know every obscure fact about it
2.)  Because we want to be the best at whatever it is. 

Think about it.  Star Wars nerds really love them some Jedi.  They forgive George Lucas for making Jar-Jar Binks, they think Episode 3 wasn't a complete waste of time, and they can do a very impressive Admiral Akbar impression (It's a trap!).  They love Jedi so much that they prolly even listen to Jedi Mind Tricks and think Vinnie Paz is the best MC ever.

Even undercover-nerds follow this line.  Think about the jock-nerd who plays Madden til his thumbs blister up.  Those guys know the rosters and each team's weaknesses within days of the game being released.  I once played a game of Madden against a dude who'd set-up his entire roster just to be unstoppable at kick returns.  No, not just his kick returner, his entire roster.  When you know how well lineman block, you've put some serious dedication into this.   Don't even get me started on PC Game nerds.  The amount of nerd-rage generated when one PC Game nerd gets out nerded is palable.  Nerd-rage like that could lead scientist to discover affordable fusion-reactors and power the hadron-colliders non-stop.

In today's economy, it really pays to stay versatile

If you missed HIMYM last night, you missed out

Really, at this point, if you're not watching HIMYM yet, you fail at television. 

But, if you missed last night's episode for a good reason, whoa, man, you missed out.

I still don't like the Barman & Robin storyline, but the Barnacle continues to hit them out of the park, and Jason Seagel is just hilarious to look at.

Just to give you a taste, here's some Barney wisdom:

“the rules for girls are the same as the rules for Gremlins”:

1. Never get them wet — in other words, don’t let them take a shower at your place.
2. Keep them away from sunlight — i.e., don’t ever see them during the day
3. Never feed them after midnight — meaning, she doesn’t sleep over, and you don’t have breakfast with her. Ever … No, Ted — brunch is not cool.

And I was proud when Maximus got 30 MPG...

Let's start with this tid-bit

Our friends at Ecomodder write: "The 2nd generation Honda CRX HF is a good platform for fuel economy. It's light (1830 lbs), has a small 1.5L 62 horsepower engine, and relatively tall gearing. It's rated at 41 city / 50 highway / 45 combined mpg (US) by the EPA's revised 2008 ratings."

 50 MPG Highway.  That's stock.  OMFGWTFBBQ!!!   That's a sweet load of fuel economy, and in a CRX.  You could probably pick one of these up for under $2k, put another $1k into fixing the worn-out parts and re-coup that in fuel this year alone.

Well, guess what, it gets more shocking.

Modified Honda CRX HF Wins Fuel Economy Competition with 118 MPG!

 And look what he did it with.  A regular CRX beater, some masking tape and some aluminum banding!!

I imagine the same idea applies to the "public option"

I want this shirt, today!

Life Advise: Becareful who you moon

they just might be a Werewolf

sweet stuff from David Choe

If "WHOSE Responsible this" didn't take the focus off of Kanye last week, then "keep fucking that chicken" definately should.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Intro - Ernie Anastos' Catch Phrase
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Healthcare Protests

the ONLY non-ugly flame decal ever

The Fratellis channel tons of Awesome

Point 1.  I really dig the Fratellis music
Point 2.  Pin-up girls can't be beat.  Try it, I dare you.  You will not be successful

Lincoln + Your Mom joke = I am defenseless

Mood Chart for your Monday

Ok.... this would actually be kinda cool....maybe

This reminds me: I should ride bikes more

It may take a whole team to play this controller

but I want to press the 42 button

NSFW Shark Song

that third frame got a little out of hand

Addition to the list: Shakira. Back-up option: Kely Clarkson

If LOST looked like, I'd probably want to watch it.

as it is, I haven't seen 2 complete episodes, ever.

Friday Flip-Up Day!!

Even the wind is in on the plan

A little motivation for you

so I was at Walgreens getting a birthday card for Anie the other day and I noticed that Ellen Page & Drew Barrymore are on the cover of Marie Claire, talking about how they're "BFF's". This made me think I need to update my Celebrity 5 to compensate for this.

Here's what I got so far:

- Heidi Klum
- Ellen Page and/or Drew Barrymore
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now I could easily fill these in with just hap-hazard choices, but I think this is something that needs lengthy consideration. Can't just run out and laminate this list without analyzing it.

Dear Felicia Day,
Why is The Guild so boring this season? Fix it.

Thanks,

This Guy

I totally see Anie doing this to me

Nerd-Cool: We always know the right word to use

Dear Anie,

Did you know that thing you have is called Brumotactillophobia? Yup, the thing where you hate your food touching and my statement that "it all ends up the same place" brings you no solace? Yeah, that thing. That's Brumotactillophobia. Congrats, now you know.


You're Welcome,

Mr. Awesome.

Whoa There Unholy Trinity

Mario + Sub-Zero & Scorpion = Unfair Advantage

Happy Birthday Anie

Today is NE's birthday, so I'm sure she'll be dying to wear this:

LOL @ Dirty Car Art

Always Sunny + Breast Cancer Prevention

I couldn't find a way to embed it here, but this video is full of so much WIN, it's worth just putting up the link.

VERY NSFW!!!

http://bit.ly/1a1Kt1


So now dudes, go out and rub some boobs if you want them to stick around. Random ones, too. That should totally be acceptable.




(isn't the wolf in the background sweet?)



((NSFW = not safe for work, peeps))

France & Itally look tasty, but I'm betting Austrailia is a tricky dingo-pie.

whoa

this girl is Totes McGoats into that slice of pizza.

I love you too, man.

I imagined this would look much better animated

Steampunk X-Men..... sorta makes me like these people less

Dear GirlWhoAlwaysWantsToPrereadMyBlogs,

I just happened to watch and episode of a certain show and noticed that when someone's significant other tried to get a sneak peak of an unfinished article, they caused a computer to crash. Let's not have that happen here, eh?

HappyToSeeAMacCrash

Repeat of Last Year

Here's how I spent 9/9/08:

I still agree with all these sentiments, particularly about the pinkberry (double bleh now) and the last line.

Evening of Shmance

Went to the symphony last night and had a great time.

Anie and I had gone to the Phoenix Art Museum for First Fridays the night before (which we arrive to late due to an extended Sans-Pants Nap) , so we spent a good portion of the morning being lazy kids and not wanting to get out of bed. Her more so than me, as I got jettisoned to go pick-up coffee.

Newsflash: Did I mention Starbucks brought back the Pumpkin Spice Latte? This is always a good start to a good day.

Oh, sweet, sweet PSL, you are the greatest of morning treats. Why do you run away from me each year?

But, I digress...

Several hours later, we were on our way (late, of course) to Durant's for dinner. Pretty swanky place, I tell ya, yet for some reason, it seemed that all the women were dolled up, and decided to bring their husbands/boyfriends out on the town wearing whatever clothes were on the floor. Also of note, Durant's does not seem to have a guy that comes around and offers to take a picture of you and your date. This I learned as we left and I thought outloud "I should have scammed that waitress into taking our picture".

So, as it turns out, if you plan on going to the symphony, you may want to cover these two bases first

1.) Find out where the symphony is located

2.) Find out where you can park near the symphony

We did niether of these until 25 minute before showtime, as Anie frantically tried to make use of her Pinkberry phone. (meh) Luckily, somehow, she works literally across the street from Symphony Hall and never knew it.

The actual Symphony was pretty awesome, or as awesome as things in all-German can be. It was what I expected it to be, a night of culture and people-watching, especially when we encountered people such as "sings the national anthem incredibly loud from the audience" guy and "Helen-Mirren look-a-like Silver-Fox" Lady and "wears a school-girl outfit even though she's 30" woman. Plus, one of the violinist had a dog on stage with her. Randomness: 3 Boredom: 0

Afterwards, we spent at least 30 minutes driving around Downtown and Midtown unsuccesfully trying to find a coffee house or desert shop that was still open at nearly 11pm.

In review this morning, I gave the Symphony evening a 9.0 out of 10, and said that in my head I wanted to be the kind of person who went out to cultural events all the time, but knew that in reality it could/would only be a sometimes thing.

In truth, I could go for any reason to see Anie as dolled-up as she was last night.

(Pictures to be posted later)

Great! Now we REALLY have something to be thankful for...

The Road has been pushed back to now release the night before Thanksgiving.

1.) Anyone who hasn't read the book should really use this extra time to read one of the most riveting and moving stories I've ever read.
2.) Those of us who have read the book, I expect an especially poignant Thanksgiving morning-after. I mean, we get to wake up to a world that hasn't been killed yet. That's a pilgrim-sized bonus.

Who knew Harvey Weinstein was trying to save the real meaning of the holidays.

Nerd-Cool: Maps, the Follow-up

things must be catching on, because after I posted about the NYC neighborhood map about a month ago, I saw this come up on my Google feed-reader. Agent_M totally biting my steez-a-roni. However, in return, he did provide some sweet maps of his own.

well really, who has NOT had this chart-talk??

well really, who hasn

I totally want to go see "9"

A Paramore song I can actually endorse

Won home hold'em game on Sat, family game Mon and online tourney just now.

Quote from another blog

from FireFox Facts (say that 18 times fast)

"Tree Charts are Awesome."

Not a great trailer

but still. Whedon + X-Men = Win

I saw a lot of weird stuff on subways trains

but never this.


Props to the dude in the white shirt on the right for not staring hard-core the whole time.