STRANGE FINDINGS FROM THE INTERNET LXII

*with updated content*

I've posted many updates in the past with robots as the theme. Not once had I posted something about a robot with the potential to do some really naughty and nasty things. It's a great concept, it's a great design, but I wonder what would happen if it malfunctioned -- actually, I don't want to think about that.

I can't wake up on time often, which is why I have two alarm clocks that are set on a staggered time table to wake me up. There are some people who have the same problem but are inventive enough to do something about it. This just looks like a shag carpet and baby roller wheels. This looks like something I would place in my room.

In a stunning story out of Los Angeles, Sony Corporation is being ordered to pay for copyright infringement on Playstations and Playstation 2's. Check it out!
*ironically, the pop-up ads are for PSP's...

We have ours placed in a cut-up soap container hidden behind the commode and behind the shower curtain. This just brings more questions from your guests than one would feel comfortable talking about. The voice on the site is a little creepy, but its a good environmental idea -- strangely executed.

*UPDATE*
I am slowly turning into a Linux addict, but that doesn't mean I have turned my back on Windows entirely. While being bored at work right after I initially posted the SFFTI at 7am today, I saw this ubelievable flash which shows you that you can have fun with your computer if you are extremely fast at point and click.

Ciao voyeurs!

Hypochondriacs

There is one in the office that likes to run around the building and almost like clockwork, commences the now daily update in the declining health experienced that day. Today's symptoms are similar to hives, but ramlbed off symptoms more like a case of low blood sugar. By the time the hypochondriac walked to the end of the hallway, the symptoms changed to a fever and head cold. Yesterday was exhaustion coupled with a stomach ache and low blood pressure.

Why must these people parade themselves around to everyone, panhandling sympathies and wasting peoples valued work time? These are the people we hate the most because they leave work every chance they get to go home and recover from their imagined Disease of the Day and come back in the afternoon acting as if nothing has ever happened. These are the people that we have to waste our time trying to pick up the slack from these people because their productivity is in shambles because they are more pre-occupied cross referencing their symptoms to what they think they have and not doing their work.

People like this need to be locked up in a room with others like them and exposed to a different colored mist on an hourly basis while adjusting the room temperature just to fuck with their heads and make them think they are lab rats for corporate America and the drug czars who want to keep people medicated and oblivious just so they have something else to do other than bother the rest of us hard working people who are trying to get to the end of our day with our sanity in one piece.

LEAVE US ALONE. WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT. WE COULDN'T CARE LESS. JUST GET SOMEONE TO FILL IN FOR YOUR HALLUCINATING ASS SO WE DON'T HAVE TO BEAR YOUR WORKLOAD THE REST OF THE DAY.

Is it stealing?

Last night I was watching The Simpsons' 10pm airing when it finished. As is my usual, I grabbed the remote and changed the channels by using the down arrow to get to the Tonight Show, cause every once in a while I like to watch that Antiques Roadshow that comes on PBS broadcasting. Well, when I came across the PBS station and found it was the story of the Mamas and the Papas, so I stayed on and watched just in time to have the show go into an intermission & telethon workers pop on screen asking for your donations for such fine quality shows.

In his plea for cash, he reminded us over and over again about how PBS and public broadcasting are solely dependent on the private sector for support & blah blah blah blah blah, and then said that the history of PBS has always depended on support from the viewers of the past. Then I started to think about what he said until I hit the channel down button and hit the Tonight Show. While listening to what Jay Leno was joking about, I started thinking about the years my parents and myself had essentially been STEALING public broadcasting programs as we sat on weekends watching This Old House and Hometime, Motorweek, Yan Can Cook and that weird art guy with the afro. We stole those programs from people who paid for it!

Then I started thinking about it. The same people who paid for those programs also paid for those Masterpiece Theatre shows that no one watches, Dr. Who[cares], and ever-so-stimulating musings of local leaders. I figure, if they litter the PBS frequency with that crap, at least they went low-brow with the home improvement and car stuff. Suckers...

So, I go back to my original question, if you watch Antiques Roadshow (I am hooked), Motorweek or Nova (it's still on!) do you send your contributions in, or are you a dirty thief?

PS, Don't get me started on how Sesame Street needs to start funding PBS, they pull in millions of dollars a year in merchandising, you can't really believe that you have to pay to keep them on that station...

Allergies SUCK

Last week was an interesting one. I couldn't think of a good update worthy of noting. So I took the time off to play Gran Turismo 4 a lot. There were some problems though...

March is El Paso's windy month. The winds kick up to at least 35mph on average and unfortunately for this month, the windy season kicked in later than usual. I say this cause the trees are starting to blossom and with the winds, well, the pollen flying thru the air is absolutely murder. I stayed up sneezing one night and couldn't sleep the next night cause my nose was stuffed up. It was absolutely miserable.

On the plus side, I made some progress with my Linux dualboot. I had issues with hard drive allocation and not being able to incorporate a second partition to make one large partition. Things were fixed and now I know for future installations.

Will be back later.

So I am driving down the road going home...

When I see something ahead of me that just doesn't look right from first glance.



So, I race ahead and see that it just looks stranger the closer I get.



So imagine you are following this down the road, and all you see is each bear bouncing and moving in a slight delayed rhythm to another and its just not right.



I think they need to get off the main roads and go find a hotel, or a park, or a tree or something.