This Boy Elroy

Don't eat my cheese!

This is from a recent post on one of my favorite blogs, Passive Aggressive Notes.

Sometimes the notes tend to be more aggressive than passive aggressive.  In any case I totally empathize with the note writer as I love cheese and anyone who illegally partakes in my cheese would feel my wrath as well. 

I love how he re-used the spent box as his note medium, it really drives the point home while being green at the same time.  Nice touch.

Things I Dont Understand

1. Bandwith limits on broadband Internet service. If the companies don't like us using so much bandwith why do they offer it?

2. Borders. Imaginary lines that cause a lot of trouble.

3. People who walk barefoot in the locker room at the gym, especially in the urinal section. Clearly, none of these people ever took a microbiology class. I'm glad none of them sleep in my bed.

4. Complaints about Muni. I've lived here for two and a half months now and I've had some Muni delays, but that's life. Yeah, it's crowded during rush hour, welcome to the big city people. I've learned that if I push onto a train and kindly ask people to move to the center of the train rather than standing in the doorways, Muni is just fine.

5. People who drink decaf in the mornings. Too weird!

6. What Bob Costas does in non Olympic years.

Priceless

Mrs. Garrett doing body shots!? Catherine Helmond is a dead ringer for Cynthia Nixon. This is gold.

Popcorn for everyone!

I love the movie "Real Genius." Val Kilmer was brilliant and when I was a kid I wanted so badly to go to college and live in a dorm with science nerds, coating the floors of our dorm in dry ice, and riding super-secret roller-coaster like elevators to cavernous computer rooms where brilliant burnouts of yesteryear ruminated.

Well it turns out that reality has caught up with fiction and the laser technology featured in the movie has come to fruition. We're making progress people. Popcorn for everyone!

The More You Know

Created by OnePlusYou

Maybe so. But THEN my consciousness would be downloaded and I'd be regenerated shortly thereafter in a pool of warm pink goo on the mothership, just in time to join my pals for a game of spook the human. Good times!

Under Barack Obama

I'm so amused by this.

The guy who plays Obama is very attractive IMO.

BSG - S4

This photo makes me giddy as a school boy.

In the Wired article that this photo accompanied one of the cast member let it slip that "Hillary's the final Cylon." Who said there's no truth on TV?

If you're a fan be sure to check out Letterman tonight, the cast will be presenting the "Battlestar Galactica" Top Ten.

Found through Justin

When Alter-Egos Collide

The Sony Time Machine Beta-Max!

My favorite quotes from this video:

"The beta-max will allow you to break the time barrier!"

"With the beta-max you are the controller and preserver of time!"

"And...consider the ultimate conquest of time!!"

I hear all these stories about how the '70s were just a big party but from the shadow people in this commercial it seems all anyone wants to do it watch TV. Hell, they go so far as to complain that their company caused them to miss their favorite show, that they should be at home watching TV instead of at the symphony, and even losing weight isn't enough recompense for missing their favorite TV show. I thought people were nuts about TV now but they were really nuts about it in 1975.

I'm also surprised that they tout the ease of use of this new product. It's got enough dials and buttons that it even scares me, a lover of all things technical.

Found via FreeBradley

L'Alamo D'Etre

I don't remember how I found this but here it is.

What is it? Well, in the U.S. (Dorothée has told me that it's not like this in France) when you learn the passé composé (past tense) you will inevitably learn La Maison D'etre. La Masion D'Etre is a representation to learn all of the verbs that use "etre" as the auxiliary verb in the past tense. The idea is that all of the verbs are verbs that you do in or in relation to a house.

Someone at the University of Texas has put a Texas slant on the trick and created L'Alamo D'Etre. I like the armadillos, especially the one that's resting with a beret. I'm assuming the alien is there because of the Marfa lights.

tex's french grammar