Powdered Non Sequitur Man

Excellent. Must remember to budget for a DVD player.

My favorite quote (and indeed, probably the only thing I remember) from My Chauffeur:
“It’s a blue lady! Quick! Get her underwear! It’s worth twenty thousand points!”

This is the best headline ever: Police fear wurst, halt Wienermobile near Pentagon

…but here’s a website and an online petition regarding pre-movie commercials (not to be confused with movie trailers, which make some sense and can be rather fun).

Well… so I’m posting this from my new, secondary computer. (It’s a 1.1 GHz AMD… Duron, I think, if you’re curious.) Ten feet away, my sweetie is also doing a little web browsing, thanks to the miracle of Internet Connection Sharing. But that’s not all! The reason I bought this computer [...]

Just got back from seeing Minority Report. I’m probably, well, in the minority (sorry!), but I didn’t really care for it. There was enough nifty stuff in it that I didn’t feel my time was entirely wasted (sexy bald teeps, robotic spiders, interesting interfaces — in fact, the human/computer interface was probably the [...]

There’s a rather nice interview with Sir Ian McKellen, who, in addition to being Gandalf the Grey, is, um… “so gonna party.” Apparently he’s also going to be the Grand Marshal of the SF Pride Parade. The interview goes on about lots of things, including how Frodo needs a boyfriend (paging Mister Gamgee!), [...]

I tell people I became a programmer out of laziness. They always laugh, but I’m never quite sure whether they believe me. Here’s In Praise Of Laziness and Laziness, Impatience, Hubris.

Real-time in-store customer tracking. This should entertain Justin, both for being an interesting application of technology as well as for his prior work with Prada. (=

What do you mean no ‘in a world?’ ‘In a world’ is our bread and butter. Test audiences love ‘in a world.’ The people like knowing a movie’s going to be ‘in a world.’
– from Behind the Scenes: The Minority Report Trailer, by Joshua Allen. (link via megnut)

Amusing myself this morning with the Jargon Lexicon. Particularly snorfle-inducing items include Quadruple Bucky and cokebottle.
(Have added to links page.)

Here’s a comforting thought: We were very nearly clobbered last week by an asteroid the size of a football field. This asteroid came three times closer to our planet than Luna (75,000 miles, whereas the moon’s orbit is about 240,000 miles out), and the best part is that nobody knew until a few [...]

The gap in time between when the spilled tidal wave of ice and club soda flows off the end of the airline seat-back tray onto your crotch and when you actually start to feel the cold and wet is longer than you’d expect.
I had about ten seconds in which to sit there and think, “Hmm. [...]

In case I’m not the only one who can never remember which axis is “pitch” and which is “yaw” … here’s NASA!

Homer Simpson’s beer song. Sing along for maximum effect.
DOUGH… the stuff… that buys me beer
RAY…. the guy that sells me beer
ME… the guy… who drinks the beer
FAR… the distance to my beer
SO… I think I’ll have a beer
LA… La la la la la beer
TEA… no thanks, I’m drinking beer
That will bring us back to…
[Looks [...]

The scene: my sweetie comes into the room to interact with me, and glances at the monitor.
her: Are you searching your own site?
Yeah. I wanted to see what I had to say about Jesus.
her: [...] That’s why I love you!

Justin sends this link about a bionic tooth that uses bone resonance to send audio to the ear. No, really. This one is just made for humans, which is just as well. Imagine a big jungle cat with one of these — a cyber-toothed tiger, if you will…

Wow. It’s been a while since I saw a website as bad as the one for The Bite of Portland. Your first clue comes on the main page, when it says “For Best Viewing quality, please set your browser font preference to 11 pt.” Right. Even users who know how to [...]

Damn. Damn damn damn. I want one. (Link via tiggrrl)

Shocking: I actually had to look up a word to see how it was spelled.