Space McDonald’s!
Posted on August 4, 2007I was at work the other night, and we were discussing space (I think, otherwise the idea just came out of nowhere, can’t have that) when an idea struck me. I told the fellas, “I bet you, ten dollars right now, the first business in space will be a space McDonald’s.” “Like on the moon?” John asks. “No,” I says, “I’m thinking the International Space Station.” It makes perfect sense. What better to remind the brave astronaut of home than an all beef patty, tomato, lettuce, and onion all on a sesame seed bun? Mmmm.
The next thought that occurred to me though was that they would have to change the name of a few menu items, such as the Quarter Pounder with cheese. Weight is a function of gravity, and being as the ISS is a zero-g environment, the Quarter Pounder would in fact not weigh a quarter of a pound. Although the idea of a Double No-Pounder does sound cool to me. And think of the marketability! You can eat all the burgers you want and not gain weight. Also, thanks to special relativity, you can eat burgers in space and actually get younger! Brilliant!
Andrew and John decided that Starbucks would soon follow (and I guess it makes sense, given the name), but I’m secretly hoping that the next to go will be Carl’s Jr., because a Space Monster Thickburger would be completely awesome.
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Things DB Has to Do While in Europe
Posted on June 15, 2007DB is going to Europe for MINI United 2007 with the rest of the White Roof Radio gang in a few days, and so I thought I’d help him out by giving him a list of things to do while he’s out of the colonies:
- Call every British person he meets “gringo”.
- Party with showgirls in Monte Carlo.
- Get thrown in to a Turkish prison with Todd.
- Steal a robot from the MINI factory. Doesn’t have to be a car-making robot, a Roomba or a Transformer toy will do, as long as it’s a robot.
- Tell a group of Germans, “You krauts are alright.”
- Hookers, hookers, monkey, hookers.
- Drive a MINI One Diesel; not be sorely disappointed.
- Meet some royalty.
- Claim to be descended from royalty.
- Get one of those quickie Amsterdam weddings, and a quickie Amsterdam divorce.
- Lightsaber fight with the Pope.
- Promote MacFags.com, your source for occasionally updated Mac stuff.
- Do the Moose Test by running directly at the nearest moose.
- Probably do a podcast or something.
Any other ideas?
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Overheard
Posted on May 21, 2007Me: You see that people are using a bunch of AppleTVs to make an XGrid processing farm?
DB: Word? I haven’t. Wow
Me: Not really all that useful, but it’s good to know that you can do it.
DB: Sure sure.
Me: I’m calling it now.
Me: I give it six months… Someone is going to make an XGrid farm of iPhones.
DB: lol
Dang I’m Lazy
Posted on March 18, 2007
I’ve developed a new bad habit. I frequently enjoy using Apple’s Front Row techonology to watch downloaded movies, tv shows, and video podcasts on my iMac from the comfort of bed. I just push the Menu button on my little remote and all of my media is there for me in a classy, easy-to-use interface. However, sometimes the Menu button doesn’t work. The display wakes up, but it won’t initiate Front Row now matter how many times I push the button. Which would normally mean I have to get up, lumber over to the keyboard, and push ⌘+esc to start up Front Row, and from then on the remote works fine. But there’s good news, I’ve worked out a new way so I don’t have to get up. My laptop usually sits somewhere with in reach. I have VNC running on both Macs. So all I have to do is get the laptop, VNC into the iMac via Bonjour, push ⌘+esc on my laptop keyboard, and voilà, Front Row is started. Then I have to quit Chicken of the VNC, because video really runs like ass over a VNC connection. I am a genius.
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A Modest Proposal
Posted on January 5, 2006I got an IM today over Yahoo!, from a dude trying to get me to sell some diesel fuel additive crap. I’m guessing he bought into it, couldn’t move product so he’s trying to shove it on to someone else. But here’s our conversation…
Dude: hey
Josh: hey, what’s up?
Dude: i got a product that can earn you a shit load of money
Josh: is it drugs?
Dude: no
Dude: its a organic material that just came out
Dude: for your gas tank
Josh: amsoil?
Dude: no whats amsoil
Dude: this is bio peformance
Josh: it’s this crazy oil they sell, supposed to last a year or more between changes
Dude: no
Dude: this is a pill or a powder that breaks down your feul
Dude: fuel
Dude: an it works
Dude: i even give you a bottle at my cost
Dude: what i need to do is sell this stuff
Dude: i can get you in and in less than a year this will be a household name
Dude: give me a call 770 XXXX
Dude: name john
Dude: names
Josh: aight
Josh: what’s the active ingredient in this stuff?
Dude: its a enzime
Josh: what enzyme though?
Dude: it like a organic material
Josh: do you know the chemical makeup?
Dude: no
Dude: only the owners no
Dude: know
Dude: i put it in a 60,000 dollar truck and i got almost a 100 more miles a tank
Josh: what kind of truck
Dude: give me a call
Dude: dodge ram 2500 cummins lift banks package
Josh: ah i see
Josh: that’s the diesel, right?
Dude: yep
Dude: pepole are seeing any where from 6 to 10 mpg better in there gas
Dude: you ther
Dude: there
Josh: yea sorry
Josh: doing some work while i’m online
Dude: o
Dude: were having a metting tonight
Dude: you should come
Josh: if i can get out of work on time
Dude: what time do you get off
Josh: not sure yet
Dude: hold on
Dude: i see what time the meeting is
Josh: alright
Dude: u live in lincoln
Josh: yeah
Dude: this probaly sounds pretty lame huh
Josh: what?
Dude: what i’m talkin about
Josh: no it’s cool
Dude: i was a little worryed and skeptical up front
Dude: but after i used it and found out and gave some out i was like wow
Dude: you could get in this program and never go back to work again
Dude: i’m serious i made 500 hundred yesterday
Josh: well i’ll tell you what
Dude: what
Josh: i gotta get back to working here, so if i get off in time i’ll give you a call
Josh: what’s the name of your product again?
Dude: bio performance
Dude: give me a call any ways
Josh: cool, will do
Josh: you said your name was john?
Dude: yep give me 20 min
Dude: if you don’t like i buy you a case of beer
Josh: lol alright
Dude: names john
Josh: later man
Dude: later bro
I think I’m gonna say no, but I decided to post it anyway, in case one of you guys wanted to make a shit load of money.
Random Tech Junk, pt 1
Posted on December 28, 2005iPhoto Book | I was at a loss as to what to get my parents for Christmas, until it hit me: I oughtta order an iPhoto Book from Apple, full of my own photography. It was a snap to make within iPhoto, just select the pictures I want and drag them into place. iPhoto tracks whether or not the pictures are the proper resolution, so you can make size adjustments and whatnot at will. It took about 5 days from the time I ordered it until it arrived, so they were pretty speedy about the whole thing. The book is pretty slick, with the photos printed on glossy pages and everything. Except for the cover, which is a glossy page pasted to the hardcover (although nicely so), the whole thing looks like what you might get if you were a real publisher and such. Going to have to keep this in mind for portfolio type stuff.
Wordpress 2.0 | It’s out. The site is running on it. It’s pretty keen. Some hiccups in the interaction between plugins/themes and the installation itself, but everything is being smoothed over. The backend is all nice and Ajaxy (although I still think Ajax is a little hyped up more than it should be, more on that in part 2). Overall it works pretty nicely though. If you run Wordpress on your site, it’s worth it to update.
My Laptop Battery | I’ve been in need of a new laptop battery, and with Christmas money flowing in and such, I figured it was time to get one. My battery, according to the widget on my Dashboard says that my battery is currently at 23% of its original capacity, not bad for a 100 week old laptop. But it’s only good for 45 minutes to an hour. Not that hot. So I placed my order, waited for it to ship, and it arrived today. Except it didn’t. In the box was a copy of Motion 2. Granted, Motion 2 is a pretty sweet animation suite for only $299, but my little iBook doesn’t meet the system requirements. So now I have to go through the exchange process, through the mail, which is a pain in the ass, and I pretty much wasted the money for the expedited shipping now. Hopefully the proper battery will ship quickly. I’ll keep yall posted.
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Blog Notes 11/28/2005
Posted on November 28, 2005>> We got a dusting of snow this evening, combined with a touch of ice. I found out tonight that the way to the apartment is pretty much all uphill. Hills + Cougar x Snow = No Bueno. Meanwhile DB is probably living it up with 80 degree weather, and bikini babes on each arm. I guess I should be thankful that I don’t live in the middle of the state, where they received a big-assed blizzard.
>> Friday night I went to Best Buy to see if RAM sticks for my laptop were on sale. A few weeks ago when I checked they had them for around $75 apiece. Friday night, the same stick, a Kingston PC27000 512 mb stick, was $199. That’s nearly three times as much as what it was selling for. I was blown away. I went back tonight, (looking for something else) and saw, again the same Kingston stick, for fifty dollars. I snagged it up for the iBook. Makes you wonder how many people got screwed on Friday. When I got home I installed it. Everything is definitely nice and snappy, now that I’m running at 640 mb. Now I just gotta figure out what to do with the 256 mb stick I pulled out.
>> As seen in the Miniblog (over on the right, scroll down a little, below the Moblog. I love the nifty things I can do with K2 in Wordpress), The I Love My Mac song is a song dedicated to how much this girl loves her Mac. Of course, it was made in Garage Band. Granted, the song kinda sucks, as does everything else she’s made. It all suffers from MIDI quality music, and karaoke quality vocals. But still, she loves her Mac.
>> Fox is cancelling Arrested Development. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s the best show on tv right now. It was almost cancelled after the first season, despite winning 5 Emmy awards, and at the end of the second season, it was unsure until mid-summer whether or not it would be returning for a third season. It did, albeit moved to Monday night. Apparently the move didn’t garner it much ratings. Perhaps because the move was stupid. The kind of people who watch the show are the same kind that watch The Simpsons and Family Guy. Instead, at 8:30 we get The War at Home, a show which many people switch away from for half an hour after the Simpsons and until Family Guy comes on. I would not be surprised if they moved it to Monday night with the intention to kill the show, so they can use the poor ratings as an excuse. Who knows though, maybe it will be saved again. The remaining unaired episodes that have been produced will begin showing up in December.
- Official Fox Site
- Balboa Observer-Picayune An Arrested Development Fan Site
- Amazon has the season 1 and season 2 DVDs for 32 bucks.
- News on the cancellation
- Overcompensating on the cancellation
>> The other day at work, I won a pie-eating contest. I had to eat a regulation sized slice of pumpkin pie, including crust (I hate the crust) in less than the previous champion’s time of 54 seconds. I did it in 30 seconds exact. I rock. Kyle came in second place at 48 seconds, and Katie in third with her 54.
>> There’s some more links in The Family block on the right. I’ve set up the podcasting site anew, as well as the forums, a whole new gallery (for my non-moblog pictures), a wiki that I’m not sure what I’m going to do with yet, and a calender using a nifty tool that imports from my iCal settings. Now you can see what I’m doing when I’m not around.
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Read any Good Books Lately?
Posted on November 5, 2005I read. A lot. I’ve usually got three books going at once. (Not literally at once, that’d be really hard. But you know what I mean.) Right now I’m working on a book of typographical style, that’s really interesting if you’re into that sort of thing; I’ve long been interested in the history of language and orthography. A book I just finished up last week is Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. A great book about a group of Milanese publishers who decide to combine all the conspiracy theories of history into one grand unified theory, as a joke, but the wrong people start to believe their little tale. The Wikipedia entry has a much more detailed description of the book, so I’ll let it speak for itself. The book is very erudite, with lots of historical points and interesting facts; I often found myself looking up various facts that I found interesting. The book was actually recommended to me several years ago by a high school teacher, and I guess I had it on the back burner until now. It’s kind of like a less retarded person’s Da Vinci Code.
However, right now I find myself with a dearth of books to read, other than the type book that I’ll be finishing up soon. Any one else read anything good lately? I’m thinking of picking up another Eco book if I ever get a chance to swing by the Barnes and Noble. Anything else I should grab?
New Word
Posted on October 28, 2005Fiestacide: n, When a good party dies out, or turns bad by the actions of a person or persons.
Aww you killed the party man. Total fiestacide.
Etymology: Span., “Fiesta” “Party”, L., “-icide” “Killing”.
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New Sandwich Idea for Burger King
Posted on October 16, 2005I better patent this one. Take a piece of veal and wrap it in a 10 oz top sirloin steak. Lay it on a bed of a dozen eggs and four ham patties on a hoagie bun. Add a package of bacon over the top and melt two pounds of cheese to top everything off. Serve with 64 oz overroasted coffee.
