Thoughts of an American guy: June 2011

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

www.reddit.com

Maybe I should be posting some of this type of stuff to www.reddit.com instead of my not very public blog so more people would see it and it may bring joy to the hearts of many... much like the Boxxy videos on YouTube.

Here are some cool links I saw on Reddit today

Wow. A guy lost his girlfriend.... whatever. FREE NAILS!!! (This is hilarious!)
http://i.imgur.com/qbhgp.png

"Hope to See you again!" says the nurse in Pokemon.
http://i.imgur.com/mTdSy.jpg

The highlight of EA Game's new football game is that you can decide if you want your player to have dreadlocks or not. You think I'm joking?
http://i.imgur.com/7xiJi.png

Camel drinking from a soda bottle at a concert
http://i.imgur.com/Yb1I8.jpg

If you worked at Caterpillar, would you sell bulldozers to Israel knowing they would use it to bulldoze poor neighborhoods and charge the former tenants for the "clean up".
http://www.imemc.org/article/61573?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

This is what makes skydiving exciting!
http://i.imgur.com/TtORj.gif

You don't need a college education to be focused and way hardcore. This Army Ranger's prosthetic story is crazy.
http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-news/2011/06/19/army-ranger-is-back-in-the-fight/

This cat passes out in 2 seconds. Funny gif video.
http://i.imgur.com/keZxV.gif

"Looks like Darwin missed an easy one." There is driving while texting, and riding a motorcycle on the freeway while texting... this is the latter.
http://i.imgur.com/v3PZi.jpg

Proof that the spots on a Dalmatian are simply illusions.--Oh lost the link. Placeholder!

Communist countries ration handouts (North Korea)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8ZIuaQwriWK5FnaeHGc9oLSDOnA?docId=CNG.bed48949978a3cf59e6ed8638cc60a46.591

Slapstick comedy reference in a database.
http://i.imgur.com/tycVA.gif

Shut down the town. Someone badmouthed the dictator.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=7893

Why aren't there more adult playgrounds? There totally should be! Toss in some disc golf, some 40 foot swings, a sturdy merry-go-round, some slides that go fast, and we're in business!
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ibzvl/why_dont_they_make_more_adultsized_playgrounds/

Comments on how far you'll go before date 3.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/icbrp/guys_how_many_of_you_really_expect_sex_on_or_even/

This wet dog looks silly and sad.
http://www.weblamers.com/pms79

Kangaroo in pajamas. Looks like a burro's face.
http://i.imgur.com/BDdcj.jpg

Apparently the government thinks that a way to stop an immanent protest is to have a government sponsored "disco" at the same time. Read the last paragraph. The whole "Last Dictator of the West" and the electricity being shut off to this country and stuff was cool too.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-06-29-belarus-financial-crisis_n.htm

Kind of dirty, but a guy put up posters advertising "lessons" and his phone number got girls to give him money for his advise/input of these party favors. He apparently got customers, though I doubt they were as attractive as he was hoping. Do a search in the top 500 for "high school".
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ice3u/whats_your_best_i_cant_believe_that_worked_story/

Pull for delicious candy! (Post-it notes on a fire alarm)
http://i.imgur.com/1zYqg.jpg

Wow. Beware of "I own a film company" ads on Craigslist. Even if the storyline is simple and based off of Zelda.
http://imgur.com/49LjC

"Stop putting these bumper stickers on your cars!!! I drive a Ford built in Mexico when there is a Toyota factory up the street."
http://imgur.com/3HS96

WTF. A guy in a high speed chase (he must have done something wrong) crashes his van, flips it, is thrown lifelessly into the concrete gutter, and police run to him.... and start punching him...
http://i53.tinypic.com/2hxsp6q.gif

Want to know what a first world "problem" is? Check out this restaurant complaint.
http://imgur.com/WbMts

The downside to too much man hair.
http://i.imgur.com/kiCWt.jpg

I'm not an electrician, but I don't think this is right...
http://i.imgur.com/OTY0I.jpg

Irony...
http://i.imgur.com/2sAaT.jpg

Don't use your roommate's shower gel.
http://i.imgur.com/nGIzQ.jpg

Regardless of the year, soldiers will be boys...
http://imgur.com/HHiZH

Clothing care instructions... and what not to do.
http://i.imgur.com/Bi7Ig.jpg

A tech question techies get to laugh at.
http://i.imgur.com/xhbQP.png

Rich kids...
http://i.imgur.com/1wIK6.jpg

When two idiots inconspicuously meet at a gas station...
http://i.imgur.com/jfHIt.jpg

Skirt length insinuation meter...
http://imgur.com/U2pFF

This girl doesn't understand a trust fall...
http://i.imgur.com/SF9TT.gif

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Unrelated, but one of the techies at work uses a Dell Precision T5400 with 8 Xenon cores at 2.5GHz each and 8 GB of ram at home to run Windows 7 x64 and VMWare to run Ubuntu as well as host game servers and stuff like that. Looks like a powerhouse. http://www.dell.com/downloads/ap/products/precn/precision_t5400_au.pdf

Where rats go to die

When a bigger dog gets old and ready to die, they sometimes have the urge to walk away from all they know, lay down, and die alone. Looks like this rat just died trying to find its next meal. How noble. (Not that I personally value traditional perceptions of nobility.)

I was told there was rat poison in that basement. Still an interesting story-to me at least. I should probably scoop it up with some cardboard before bacteria and other animals get to it.

Reminds me of the movie, Dinner with Schmucks.

Funny. Ridiculous, but funny.

See what it is like to run a McDonald's at ww.mcvideogame.com. It took me a few times to catch on, but then lasted until 2175ish (starting in simulated year 2000) before my browser window became unresponsive. I was doing well too!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Do you see the ironic typo?

Apparently the guy who founded Jimmy John's was almost kicked out multiple times from his private school-the same school my roommate went to. The headmaster kept giving him more chances.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

My newer bike! Trek 1000

This Trek 1000 bike was so undervalued, 80 people sent the seller an e-mail within 5 hours. I happened to be one of them and able to meet a few hours later despite having other things planned that night. I also asked more questions, like if he could look for the cycling computer, which he included for me and not for the guy who bought the identical other bike a few minutes before me. Actually, he took the computer off the other bike and gave it to me since the one on my bike had been lost. He said he was fine with it because the other guy didn't ask for the computer. It rides very smoothly. Only thing is that it has shimano sora shifters that can't be used when using the drop bars. It does have computer buttons in the shifters to cycle screens which is cool.