Buy Your Own Pimpmobile

A man on Bend’s westside is selling his pimpmobile on Craigslist.

Yo. Bring in 70% of your whores take with this styling 2004 Chrysler Concord. You could be the pimp of a whole string of ho’s and ride around in comfort doing drug deals and dropping off mommas to their dates. Got a big trunk for carring a baseball bat or taking stolen property to the pawn shop. Leather seats and CD player. Aluminum mags. Tinted windows: flip off the cops or smoke weed in front of them and they won’t see.

Momma got to go to the DR so I have to sell it. Won’t last at this price.

Awesome.

Thanks Redmond-ite for the link.

April 15, 2008

Finally, Somebody Who Shares My Pet Peeve

Quotation marks are not to be used for emphasis. Over the years, I’ve found a multitude of documents and signs around the office that have used quotation marks for emphasis, and it really drives me nuts. Which is why I laughed quite heartily at this:

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April 15, 2008

The Most Useful Public Service Of All

Porn for the blind.

April 14, 2008

Flickr Hosts Videos, Everybody Panics

So Flickr Pro users now have the ability to upload video. There are a lot of folks who are pissed about that and want it to be a photo-only site. In sarcastic response to the whiners, folks now want photos taken off Flickr.

April 14, 2008

50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time

From the likes of Kids In the Hall, SNL, Carol Burnett, In Living Color, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Abbott and Costello and much more are some of the greatest comedy sketches of all time. I’ve seen a good chunk of these, but some of these were new to me.

What’s their #1? One of my personal favorites (and I’ve been catching up on Michael Palin’s “Around The World in 80 Days” on Netflix, so this is even more entertaining to me as he makes a subtle reference to this sketch during the show):

April 13, 2008

Turning A Little League Game Into A Major League Event

For these kids on these little league teams, this was like Christmas and birthdays all rolled into one — it was the best game ever:

April 10, 2008

On A Lighter Note…

With all the hullabaloo about the BendBroadband mess, some times we all just need to take a deep breath and have a laugh. And web design and SEO geeks will appreciate this:

Thanks Barb via COWPU for the link.

April 10, 2008

BendBroadband Makes Gizmodo With Their Bandwidth Caps

Quite the discussion has come about from BendBroadband’s annoucement that they’re going to start capping bandwidth on residential plans (no word on their plans for their business plans, which really should have been released concurrently). The entry has 59 comments (and counting), and the news has now hit the stupidly-popular Gizmodo: The Future Of Broadband: We’re Totally Screwed.

Commenters there say that they’ve got it worse (I haven’t had a chance to read through all the comments there), but really, you could say that with anything — life is always worse somewhere.

BendBroadband is getting less-than-terrific press about this, and maybe that will cause them to change their mind — or at least open it.

I say we all have a little informal contest: Who has the highest usage graph during a single billing period? How high has anybody gotten? (Update: Let’s not try to kill BendBroadband here. I wasn’t trying to encourage people to download as much as they possibly could just for the sake of downloading. Besides, it’d probably be hard to beat this guy.)

Thanks Mark for the tip.

Update on 4/10: That Gizmodo post is now on (at least) 14 other sites (and I just got word about this site as well.

Update again…: Now it’s on the front page of Digg… . Feel free to digg my original article (there’s a digg link right below the date/time stamp) so that folks can hear the local discussion about this and not just Gizmodo and Digg’s take.

Here’s a button that will digg the original post and the 60+ comments on this site:

April 9, 2008

Blogging Until You Drop

An interesting NYT story about how hardcore blogging could be bad for you.

April 8, 2008

“MySpace is the anti-Christ for children”

I couldn’t agree more with the Dad in this story (though I think I’d even go as far as removing “for children”) about the cheerleader who got the hell beaten out of her by some classmates over some text messages and MySpace trash-talking (full story here). These idiots even thought it was a brilliant idea to post their felony acts onto YouTube and MySpace (video can be seen here).

Why does this remind me so much of the infamous Summit High School girls, just with more physical violence? What is wrong with people these days that they seem to think this is OK? Where were these kids’ parents growing up? I mean, the kids were sitting there in their holding cells and “one asked if she would be able to make it to cheerleading practice the next day, while several others joked that they wouldn’t be making it back to the beach anytime soon.” Personally, my concern wouldn’t be cheerleading practice, it’d be how to stay the heck out of prison before you become somebody’s girlfriend — whether you want to be or not.

April 8, 2008