Ok, I didn’t get owned that badly, but I have definitely been one upped. Last week, I posted a Lego creation of the online personality Chris Pirillo that I made at home. Yesterday, some more Lego creations appeared in Pirillo’s Flickr Photostream. These new ones are definitely better than the ones I did. The bad part is that my Lego is still at my parents’ place, so I can’t try to make a better one.

These were made by someone under the alias Oysterjelly565. I couldn’t really find any info about this guy. Maybe he should have taken Chris’s recent advice to make sure you have an online home. To quote Chris:

It’s great to have accounts on many different places. But if you cannot at least direct people back to you somehow, by having your own personal space to keep track of it all… you’re potentially losing yourself and your identity

…..will the real Oysterjelly565 please stand up….

Here’s the Lego creation:

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If you haven’t seen O’Reilly losing it at his teleprompter and crew, you obviously don’t use the same internet that I do. Check out the rant here if you haven’t seen it (again, I am very surprised if you haven’t seen it….go watch it if you haven’t!). Although this is bad, there are worse recordings of one of the worse TV personalities in the US.

Here is a clip of O’Reilly interviewing Richard Dawkins. I think that is actually worse than the one of O’Reilly losing it. It is one of the worst interviews I have ever seen. I can’t believe that FOX isn’t embarrassed to have this guy on the air. Check it out:

On a lighter side, here is the dance remix of O’Reilly losing it. Very funny….

That’s it.

Here are a bunch of pictures that have just been collecting dust in a “to be sorted” folder deep in my hard drive. Most of these are self explanatory. The animated beans are not actually animated, it is an optical illusion. Stare at one to prove this to yourself. The last picture is there just because Montreal is in the middle of a playoff run….Go Habs!!

I’m not sure where this is from. It was just kicking around on my computer.

I saw this bumper sticker today and thought that it was worthy of having its picture taken. The sticker reads: “Growing the economy is shrinking the ecosystem.” I just thought that it was funning being on a Lexus SUV.

Here is a debate from Iraqi TV between a physicist and someone who thinks the world is flat. It’s pretty funny.

I have a feeling that it might be fake. Since I don’t understand the language, the captions could have been edited to say anything.

Here are a few highlights:

In response to why we see the top of an approaching ship first:

“The eye …. so far, no doctor has succeeded in understanding how the eye works.”

“we see with only half the eye. If we split the iris into half, we see with the upper half things that are far and with the lower half thins that are near.”

He says that scientists don’t know how the eye works, but he thinks he does?

On a full solar eclipse:

“This is because the moon is half the size of the sun . The moon’s diameter is 1,200,000km while that of the sun is 2,400,000km.”

“The sun circles the earth because it is smaller than the earth.”

Here is a few of my favorite Dilbert quotes that I was saving in a text file while watching the two seasons of the TV show.

“I will not be pressured into having fun just because we arbitrarily use a base 10 counting system and a big round number is coming up” - on year 2000

“It seems to me that this whole charity concept is nothing but an exercise in redistribution of guilt”

“How did I end up with all this obsolete equipment, it seems to multiply”

Mom : “How did you get so distrustful”
Dilbert : “Well, I’m just guessing, but maybe it was because you lied to me about the toothfairy, then you lied to me about the easter bunny, then you lied to me about santa clause, then you lied to me about the stork brining babies”
Mom: “He knows about the stork”
Dogbert “My fault, I let him watch the nature channel and he put 2 and 2 together”
Dilber: “Now I don’t believe anything i’m told unless there’s proof”

“I’m addicted to email. My endorphins spike when I get a message. When there are no messages, loneliness and despair overcome me.”
“Have you tried sending email to yourself?”
“We don’t talk about that.”
- Dilbert and Dogbert

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

 

My university’s math department requires students to use a specific model of calculator on all their exams. This calculator can conveniently be purchased at the university store. I can only conclude that the math department must have gotten into bed with Sharp, and is demanding the use of their calculators to keep the relationship together. Purchasing another calculator, when I already own a plethora of calculators, is both frustrating and a waste.

I have figured out a solution to this dilemma, coming at no cost to the end user. As per the university store policy, items must be in unopened original packaging to be returned. Conveniently, the Sharp EL-510RB is usable through the packaging. So, before each math test, I go the the university store and buy a new calculator. I leave it in the packaging during the test and on my way home I return it for a full refund.