Stray Hawkeye

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From looking around, it’s apparently originally from a designer call Justin David COX (his emphasise).

Of course my next response after laughing, being a computer geek and all, is that this doesn’t make any sense.  The only logical progression is to either copy or cut something, and then paste it.  That’s kind of the point of having those functions. I suppose the Copy Paste Dance would involve a bit more flailing, though I’m not sure if that would make it more or less suited to the IT folks.

From reading the comments on the original post, I’m apparently not the only one with this line of thought.  From Yudhi:

I don’t get it, after you ‘cut’ something, then there’s nothing else to ‘copy’.. since everything has already been ‘cut’… the only next thing to do would only be ‘paste’…

you dig?

And after that, we immediately find out that the guy who made the poster is a total dick:

sorry you dont get it.

i know how computer works. i assume the same for everyone else, yet they still seem to get the poster. its just trying to represent the band’s name “Cut Copy” in a literal representation, not rewrite the technical functionality of a keyboard. thanks, for assuming we’re all idiots, though

Sorry for being slightly more familiar with universal keyboard short cuts than with an obscure Australian Indie Electropop group. Guess we’re all just not cool enough to understand the deep layers of meaning your fliers promoting bands.  Also, learn how to use the shift key, ass.  While we’re at it, learn how to properly use apostrophes, plurals, contractions, and commas too.  In short, repeat grade school.

I would make a poster showing my literal representation of both the designer’s name and his personality in the same image, but I do have some standards around here.

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After I get through airport security and the various bull that goes along with it, I tend to be one of the people looking out the window going “Oh my god! Wow!  I’m in the air, inside a giant chunk of metal and this somehow works.  Awesome!” Especially during take off and landing when things get bigger and smaller or when you can see the tops of clouds. Think of how recently in history it is that people have seen the tops of clouds.  Though I also occasionally get really excited about the concept of instantly available clean drinking water at any temperature I want at the turn of a knob, so don’t mind me.

Of course, I do get annoyed when I can’t get a good cell phone signal in a brick building or my internet is down for more than a couple minutes. Bring on the donkeys with clanging pots.

I laughed until I hurt.  I hate the use of extra words, making up words and phases to make mundane things sound important, and all the general process of flying.  Oh, and NSFW, at all (in case it being George Carlin didn’t tell you that already).

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I now know who I want to be when I grow up.

Also, bear in mind that this was made in 1992, just think of all he’d have to say about the process that has been added since then.

Hi All,

I’m going on vacation for a couple of weeks.  I had great intentions of getting ahead on posts and saving up a bunch to publish while I’m gone.  I ended up with 2, so about one a week.  Less than I hoped, but it’s something so it’s not completely dead around here.  We’ll see if scheduling posts to publish themselves works, as I haven’t tried that before.  I don’t plan to log on while I’m gone, so comments and such won’t get approved until I’m back.  Back in a couple week,

Kearn

This seems related to the last post too. Also, NSFW:

There isn’t a whole lot on SNL lately that’s any good, but I like that one.

(You wouldn’t believe how long it took to come up with reasonably fitting / punny title for this one.  It’s admittedly about eight separate thoughts, but they’re related in my mind.)

Came across this one on Secrets of the City a while back: In Which I Lose my Navel Ring and My Dignity on a Boogie Board by Melinda Jacobs.

Read it through. See if you think this would be a reasonably fitting alternate title: “On realizing I could no longer hold on to superficial displays of youth to maintain my self-worth and social status, I found that I could always fall back on superficial displays of inherited wealth to impress others”.

In case you’re not from the Twin Cities, Lake Minnetonka is where the rich people live. Not just the semi-well off – the filthy stinking rich.  (Or the massively, massively in debt I suppose.)  There are boat houses there notably larger than the house I grew up in. The kind of shameless displays of useless wealth that actually make me physically nauseous.

Really?  You need 74 rooms and 19 bathroom for you, your spouse, and your 2 kids?  Do you all really all hate each other that much, and all have that severe of bowel problems?  Really?

At first I wasn’t sure if the above piece was written straight, or if it was sarcastic and mocking.  So, I did a quick search on the author, and the first thing I found was her adhering her lips to Joan River’s gross plastic ass:

Go buy yourself some self-worth! It’s only $39.95!

Okay, I’ll give that 3:00 is pretty funny.

The other bit that was supposed to go in here was a link to a list of Minneapolis/St Paul Barbies playing off of stereotypes of people by where they live in the Twin Cities, mainly because the first one ties to the above (Minnetonka Barbie).  However, the “original” post (I put original in quotes because it was on tumblr, and therefore probably stolen in the first place) isn’t there any more.  On searching, I found there are a few versions of it floating around out there.  This one is fairly complete, and with most of the pictures.  This one fills in quite a few others.  The two overlap a bit, but fairly entertaining either way.

And while we’re on the random, for some reason this song kept running through my head while I was writing this:

lifestyles of the rich and famous

And, while we’re on shuffle mode here, both the “Really?” from this post, the one on CNN earlier, and any other time I throw it in….

I was looking around shirt on Snorg Tees and came across a few that made me laugh a lot.  Click the images for where you can get the shirts if you like:

Tons more on their homepage.  Lots of them are a bit more pop culture references.

I also like the gender classifications on their site, and the icon they use for your cart.

(Note that this is not me asking for these in any way, shape, or form.  I have way, way more t-shirts than I need already.  Just pointing out good comedy on the web.)

Entertaining both for the content, and the reflection of the culture:

All in a skirt no less. I love her casual, quiet, proper bad-assness.

The fact that she’s wearing heels, and that the bandit is wearing a tie and jacket make it even better.  Kinda makes me want to learn Jujitsu.

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Today the Iowa Supreme Court deemed a law limiting marriage to straight couples to be unconstitutional.  (Go Iowa!)  I’ll probably do a longer post on this soon, but for the moment, a bit about the news coverage.

I turned on CNN tonight, and figured they’d probably have something on about it.  I picked CNN because I don’t have cable, so it’s the only all news channel I have.  So, when I turned it on, they had a story about some shootings.  Okay, gruesome murder, tragic loss of life, you’re a news network, it’s what you do.  After a few minutes they had about a one minute bit between the host and some random correspondent live from some lawn somewhere, which basically consisted of:

“So, Chuck (not his real name, but I forget), I hear Iowa passed gay marriage today.  Is that so?”

“Yep.  And, for those of you who don’t know, Iowa’s in the Midwest.  It’s not on either of the coasts, and in fact doesn’t even touch any major body of water.”

“Fascinating stuff Chuck.  After this, Madonna’s attempt to adopt a second child from some country you’ve never heard of blocked by a judge there.  What do you think?”

That was it.  Maybe 30 seconds, followed by celebrity gossip.  “Okay,” I thought, “I’m sure there will be something on their website about it.”  So, I went to cnn.com and searched the front page.

Nothing.

Not one single link to a single story about it.

Now, if CNN’s front page was Google-like in its Spartan-ness, I could forgive that, but there’s a lot on there.  By my count, there are 94 links to specific stories on their front page right now, not counting broad categories (politics, entertainment, national, …) or regular shows (Larry King, Anderson Cooper, weather, …).  No, 94 specific stories about specific topics that were deemed worth putting on the front page of the website instead of gay marriage being legalized.

For comparison, MSNBC has a short (16 second) video clip on the front page right at the edge of the bottom of the screen when you first open it, and then a headline a few inches below that in fairly large type.  The clip is captioned “Iowa becomes first in Midwest to legalize gay”, and yes the formatting cuts it off right there. Sounds little more Fox News style that way. Speaking of which…

Fox News has a four large print headlines at the top, and the first headline below that is “Iowa Court Strikes Down Same-Sex Marriage Ban”.  Easily visible when the page loads.  It’s basically the fifth headline. Fairly prominent, and not as overly derisive as one would expect from Fox News. The article is actually reasonably balanced, not really the “In another step on the way to defining marriage as between a man and a box turtle” that I’ve come to expect from Fox. (Okay, it wasn’t Fox, but you had to check didn’t you?)

So, what are some of those 94 stories CNN deems more important than this fairly major civil rights ruling?  Let’s take a look:

• Ticker: Mrs. Obama makes fashion faux pas?
• Judge denies Vick’s bankruptcy plan
• Gang of villagers chases away Google car (that one’s actually listed in 2 places, so it’s 2 of the 94 stories that are more important than legalizing gay marriage)
• Guy coughs up rusty, 30-year-old nail (with video)
• Strangers dress guy suitably for his job (with video)
• Teen knits duct-tape prom dress (with video)
• iReport.com: 1,052 Waldos smash world record
• Review: A great time in ‘Adventureland’
• ‘Idol’ Megan Joy talks about being voted off
• From ‘Sex’ to ‘Rings,’ film tours excite fans
• Two new reasons to worry about insomnia (hope that one doesn’t keep you up at night!  Oh, see what I did there, cause, … ah, yeah…)
• 9 bold MLB predictions for the ‘09 season
• Prolific NFL QBs who went to new teams
• Local bank makes good
• Charged twice for my Cayman Islands hotel

Quick quiz – how many of those did I actually take from The Onion rather than CNN?  Unfortunately, none.

CNN, please turn in your journalistic integrity badge and company coffee mug at the front desk.  Here’s a box for your things.

Mobile Homes

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Iowa Hawkeye Football 2008 – The Year in Photos from HFM Ride on Vimeo.

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In other news, it’s a sad, sad day in Iowa football… they’re putting astroturf in Kinnick.  You can’t have 3 yards and a cloud of dust if there is no dust.  Next thing you know, we’ll be running a damn spread offense.

I wonder if they’ll sell the turf like they did the bricks when they redid the South end zone and press box.  How cool would it be to have a little square of Kinnick grass growing in a pot.  That would be the best house plant ever.  I’m serious.  Do you think they’ll sell the turf?