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That’s Why I Choose to Only Shop From Skymall on a Plane

Posted by Oscar on March 13th

Read More: Technology, Pop-Culture, Funny, Every Category, Poetry, Consumerism

Normal stores stuck on the ground, they strike me as mundane.
That’s why I choose to only shop from Skymall on a plane.

I’ve got a watch that sets itself with satellites in space
And glasses with a fifty inch TV for on my face.

My luggage is the kind preferred by golfers who are pro.
In my my pocket there’s a GPS to tell me where to go.

My grill at home’s accessorized with lights and other things,
Like a doodad on my belt that when my steak is done it dings.

A hanging upside down device keeps my back from getting sore
But when it is I’ve got a plastic stick to rub it more.

I have a toaster oven that’s designed by Wolfgang Puck
And an underwater vacuum–what an extraordinary suck!

My vest has weights. My pet-foods timed. My shoes have built in springs.
I’ve hundreds of alarm clocks, one shoots helicopter things.

There’s a device that’s made specifically to help me fall asleep,
A whooshing sound or waterfall, it sure beats counting sheep.

A stress reducing wrist band that needs a battery.
A pair of golfing glasses make my balls easy to see.

My bike fits in a back-pack1 that I wear when I can’t ride
Like when I walk to aerate my lawn with spikes on my shoes outside.

Speaking of lawns mine’s always well lit for my lights have solar powers.
The sun also charges a vibrating thingy that keeps the moles out of my flowers.

The walk to my house has a gazing ball that’s twenty-three inches and glows
And you can’t tell how I water my grass ’cause a flower pot hides my hose.

I’ve got a step to help my dog get up into my bed,
A gate to keep him from the kitchen, an urn for when he’s dead2.

My golf cart looks like an Escalade1, it cost me twenty grand.
There are hanging seats I hook on my truck, when I tailgate I don’t have to stand.

For my wife I’ve gotten a lot of things like roses dipped in gold,
and her make up mirror has a light so she won’t look so old.

The largest crossword in the world, the smallest helicopter too.
A Star Wars traveling battleship game and litter robot for poo.

A robot shark and floating black jack game–My pool is full of shit!
A little boat that brings the drinks to the chair in which I sit.

Theft is no concern of mine. I’ve cameras all around
And a folding ladder just in case my house is burning down.

There’s a spot on my mantle for Harry’s wand and other wizard things.
I’ve also a copy of Frodo’s sword ’cause he’s the Lord of the Rings!

There are handles for my toilet so I don’t fall down when I poop
And life is so much easier with a heated ice-cream scoop.

A robot Elvis talks to me and sings at my command.
Oxidation I fear not with my rustproof towel stand1.

Believe you me, I’ve got more things, this list is only some
But my plane is boarding. I’ve got to fly! SKYMALL HERE I COME!

1 This used to be in skymall I swear… they must have stopped selling it.
2 Not actually sold by skymall… slackers.

If your only tool is a screwdriver, everything looks like a screw.

Posted by Oscar on June 14th
Read More: Arbitrary conclusions, Mixed Nuts, Poetry, Fast Food, Tools

screwdriver.jpgIf your only tool is a microwave, everything looks like a bag of popcorn.

If your only tool is a lever, everything looks like a fulcrum.

If your only tool is a Happy Meal, everything looks like a chubby 10-year-old.

If your only tool is a stapler, everything looks like a stack of papers.

If your only tool is the internet, everything looks like porn.

If your only tool is a flux capacitor, everything looks like a delorian.

If your only tool is a flashlight, everything looks like the dark.

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night!

Posted by bongo on April 25th
Read More: Technology, Pop-Culture, Religion, Science, Arbitrary conclusions, Off Topic, Sci-Fi, Breaking News, No Shit, Rhetorical Questions, War, Poetry, Battlestar Galactica, Scary

Beam me up!Scientists have announced that a new rock floating through space, Gliese 581 c may be a habitable planet. If this is the case, we will need to start thinking about ways to get there. Hell, we’ve been thinking about it as a species for years but we need to put aside social and political differences and really work toward finding a way to migrate to a new habitable planet. We don’t even need to live there really. We just need to be able to grow food on the planet until we find more planets capable of sustaining life.

Once we discover a planet capable of supporting farming, we can send our robo-workers to do do all the heavy lifting and humans will make future livings as Teamsters. Only we’ll all be piloting space ships delivering foodstuffs and repair parts back and forth. Ice Pirates anyone? It may have been an entertaining farce in 1984, but if we as the human race want to go out with a bang, not a whimper, then we really need to start making real progress into deep-space exploration and migration.

We need inter-galactic spaceships capable of traversing millions of miles a la Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek.

Think of it as science fiction if you must…but things change. Sometimes, fantastic stories that were once considered fiction lead to discovery.

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Catch the Last Few Monthes of “The Show”

Posted by TheJackal on December 28th
Read More: Pop-Culture, The Internets, Poetry

Lately I’ve been looking forward to “The Show” with Ze Frank everyday.

I first became aware of this guy when he was the opening Speaker at a Conference I attended in 2004… He talked at length about the direction he felt the web and culture in general might be headed. He didn’t even have “The Show” at that point, but I’d come across it a while ago and wasn’t real impressed. I remain a bit skeptical about vlogs (Video Blogs/Podcasts), because there is still a considerable amount of effort/talent needed to pull together decent Video and interesting subject matter everyday, especially as a one man operation. I was never a fan of RocketBoom.com, but I think I’m becoming a fan of “The Show”.

Sadly, Ze has said that he only plans to keep it up for a year. He’ll stop on St. Patrick’s Day 2007. I’m sure there’s plenty of goodness I missed over the past year, but if you want to get in on getting Ze’s take on the latest news stories, now is the time.

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Spametry

Posted by Oscar on December 27th
Read More: Ask EightAndFive, Rhetorical Questions, Poetry Spam, Poetry, Google

I received the following poem (spam) a couple of days ago. Does being spam preclude it from being art? Did a human make this? If not can an algorithm be an artist? Are humans anything but complex algorithms? And if they are cannot they too send thousands of people words strung together in a pleasing manner such that they be considered poetry? What if the purpose of said poetry was to sell Viagra?

The poem that evaded the filter follows:

It was not grief, this feeling, although she was nearly overwhelmed with grief — this was a strange, thundery feeling that she couldn’t ever remember having before.
Is it all cut up in that trunk his wife won’t let out of her sight?
Yes, he supposed he had been his own Scheherazade, just as he was his own dream-woman when he grabbed hold of himself and jacked off to the feverish beat of his fantasies.

I think we are all guilty of spam if not in action then at least in thought which in turn moves our hearts. Why, oh why cannot our filters stop what our algorithms create? Perhaps our filters, like Google’s, are less than perfect. Please Google take gmail out of beta and with it improve our souls, our poetry, our hearts… and the strength and duration of our erections.

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