Thursday, May 31, 2012

Monthly Thoughts: May 2012

Judge

This is relevant to some of my previous posts, as I've reviewed several energy drinks. Note that Red Bull, my favorite, is apparently little more than an elevated soft drink, while Starbucks coffee is about the same as five Cokes.

Grammar Nazis, unite! I like to read these sorts of articles to test my grammatical meddle more than anything else, and this time I came out a mixed bag. But, commas are a big bugaboo, so really it's worth everyone's time to at least skim through the article.

Old people have a distinct smell, now. Of course, everyone always knew this.

Joker

I want to pitch a TV show to the E! network to be directed by Gene Roddenberry (well, his spirit, RIP), and I want to call it Keeping Up With the Cardassians.

They are doing a lot of telephone-pole construction near my workplace, so I see guys in cherry-pickers all the time. And everytime I want to ask them if anybody ever pays them in Trident Layers...

Do you want me to blow your mind like you've been liberated from The Matrix? I present to you one of the biggest "Can't Unsee" things I know: the FedEx logo.

If you like really neat real-life stories, I highly recommend that of Future Shock, the tale of "Velocity Gnome." It's a real-life story that happened to a random kid from the interwebz that he dictates for all to read. (It starts off sounding like a random, fictional short-story, so I was confused at first, but as you go along it makes more sense as you realize what's happening.) Do yourself a favor and read the entire thing. There's even a video at the end. It is amazing how much time and effort went in to planning it. All in all, it's one of my favorite things I've ever heard about.

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