Thursday links
Jan. 31st, 2008 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiToday's a crappy day, one of those ones that should be thrown into the recycle bin and traded in for the nickel deposit. And then that nickel should be combined with a bunch of others to purchase a large amount of alcohol, which will get consumed and obliterate any memory of the day.
And yes, I realize that I'm writing this before the mid-point of the day. That said, I have no reason things will get better.
Links, at least, sometimes make me happy:
1. Especially when those links include Speed Racer Lego sets!
2. Or Strangers in Paradise: The TV Series.
3. Or how about Cheeseburger in a Can?
4. 20 Things You Didn't Know About Science Fiction is less awesome. Honestly, how many of you didn't know a bunch of these (is there anyone reading this who doesn't know #4?). That said, it does reveal Wolfe's involvement in the evolution of Pringles, and Heinlein's in the waterbed, neither of which I'd been aware of. And it's the rare Discover article that uses the word "Dickbot."
5. There is a Saw videogame coming out. Strangely enough, it uses the Unreal 3 engine (making it a shooter?), instead of, say, a revamped Deception engine. I'm sure, though, that since the creators of the movies are closely involved, that the game will have an amazing plot and storyline. (/dripping sarcasm).
6. Awesome folded paper art, courtesy of a link ganked from my lovely wife.
7. Sam Raimi is planning on making a TV series out of Terry Goodkind's books. I've never read them, and all I know about them is from Duncan Farraday's wonderful essay and assorted Fandom Wanks. And the line, "But this was no chicken. This was evil manifest." I suspect that the TV series will be fun, though.
8. Speaking of wank, here's Ralph Nader's Skeleton Closet.
9. Domino's now offers online pizza tracking! Too bad they still serve suck-ass pizza (but at least the money doesn't flow into -- and out of -- Tom Monaghan's pockets any more).
10. Microwaveable Boston Cream Pie! Hooray for technology!
11. Finally, remember to visit beautiful Yendiopolis!
And yes, I realize that I'm writing this before the mid-point of the day. That said, I have no reason things will get better.
Links, at least, sometimes make me happy:
1. Especially when those links include Speed Racer Lego sets!
2. Or Strangers in Paradise: The TV Series.
3. Or how about Cheeseburger in a Can?
4. 20 Things You Didn't Know About Science Fiction is less awesome. Honestly, how many of you didn't know a bunch of these (is there anyone reading this who doesn't know #4?). That said, it does reveal Wolfe's involvement in the evolution of Pringles, and Heinlein's in the waterbed, neither of which I'd been aware of. And it's the rare Discover article that uses the word "Dickbot."
5. There is a Saw videogame coming out. Strangely enough, it uses the Unreal 3 engine (making it a shooter?), instead of, say, a revamped Deception engine. I'm sure, though, that since the creators of the movies are closely involved, that the game will have an amazing plot and storyline. (/dripping sarcasm).
6. Awesome folded paper art, courtesy of a link ganked from my lovely wife.
7. Sam Raimi is planning on making a TV series out of Terry Goodkind's books. I've never read them, and all I know about them is from Duncan Farraday's wonderful essay and assorted Fandom Wanks. And the line, "But this was no chicken. This was evil manifest." I suspect that the TV series will be fun, though.
8. Speaking of wank, here's Ralph Nader's Skeleton Closet.
9. Domino's now offers online pizza tracking! Too bad they still serve suck-ass pizza (but at least the money doesn't flow into -- and out of -- Tom Monaghan's pockets any more).
10. Microwaveable Boston Cream Pie! Hooray for technology!
11. Finally, remember to visit beautiful Yendiopolis!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Lame list
Date: 2008-01-31 04:47 pm (UTC)Just because we don't know about something doesn't mean it's a significant piece of information.
Re: Lame list
Date: 2008-01-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 05:31 pm (UTC)Oh boy, I hope they keep in the part in the first book where people vote to outlaw fire!
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 05:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 06:18 pm (UTC)As I recall, it wasn't like the guy doing it made a great speech, either. He was just like, "Don't you hate when fire burns things? We should get rid of that." And the people were like, "Hey, that makes sense!"
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 07:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 10:41 pm (UTC)You know what you probably get bears no resemblance at all to that
fresh looking burger next to it.
The comment there about McDonalds.. i had a total junk food attack about a month ago from all those late nite fast food ads on tv and bought 4 of the one dollar double cheeseburgers. Wrapped in paper instead of cardboard, you just wrap up two apiece in aluminum foil and put in fridge.
10-15 min in an oven, ready to go. Foil keeps it from turning into a hard brick. Still, um, "edible" after a week probably, though i never pushed it past three days ;)
Better bargain than a Double Quarter Pounder, exact same ingredients.
I didn't bother with the Big Mac, the lettuce and tomato are a joke,
pickles and onions just fine for this purpose.
Bought a "milkshake" too. A weird taste that nobody can quite duplicate, fun to drink though they must have cheapened up on whatever made them almost solid because a year or two ago, if you used a straw, your face would turn blue :)
I won't buy the fries, 5 mins after you get them they can be used as lethal
throwing darts.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-01-31 10:52 pm (UTC)