Terrapin Tables

Road Trip

Maybe an ODB Memorial Tour 2.0 is needed: here's where we need to go, even if he is a lying bastard (compare story 1 with story 2).

Go Spret

Shawne Merriman has his own website. Not a ton of content, but the video is pretty slick.

Just Because

Draft talk

Well since nothing is on here...I figured I'd ping you guys on your take of the draft. How did we like it?

I'm pleased with who my 'phins took. Ronnie Brown reminds me of Fred Taylor, but hopefully with a stronger groin muscle...ouch baby....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!

Crappiest Car You Ever Drove

Since we are on the topic of cars, I thought it might be fun to see the biggest POS's that we all ever drove. And I don't care if you drove a pinto once. Something you drove regularly. Mine looked a lot like this, minus the bizarrely placed window halfway down the side:

60 Minutes

So, did anybody catch the "big" 60 Minutes story on the CarterCopter last night? After how much the producers built it up, telling us to make sure to get people to watch it to make them fans of our technology, and to beef up our web server for the millions of visitors we were going to get, and possibly even get more people to man the phones for all the calls we'd be getting; man, what a disappointment. They showed our aircraft for what, 2 minutes? I don't think we've gotten any phone calls from it, yet, and we've only gotten something like 2000 visitors to the site since last night. And that's after I spent all day Friday working with our web host provider to get the site on a dedicated server, and got a new account with a different provider (actually with Affordable Host), to host all of the videos so that they wouldn't bog down our main server, and all of the associated html editing to point to that server. What a waste of time. Oh well, at least I got my picture in the local paper. The story even made the front page. And the story on the Science Channel was supposed to be pretty good, so that's something.

Vroom

The sebring is gone...traded in for a Civic Hybrid. Yay 50 mpg...

Random Crap

You won't have to play with your dradel before you get started this passover because Viagara has been ruled Kosher. Oy Vey.

Kill some time, contribute to research. Boom goes the dynamite.

Live the dream. Beat up children.

Live the dream. Shoot round-headed toddler-like things.

We are actually getting closer to anal razors, even if it is only conceptual. Ouch.

Save your $70

The NFL is reasserting their status at t3h g4ey...here they go trying to keep all the fun out, and all the supposed dignity, or some crap, in. Is it really their business what people do with a jersey? Homos. Guess Pat won't get that shiny red and black #7 anytime soon...

TSA does it again

So I'm no fan of the Transportation Security Administration, espeically since my name has been added to the watch list, but their latest attempts to improve safety are laughable. They're now banning lighters for all flights (as per the old rule, you can't stow them in checked in baggage either). Just banning lighters wouldn't be all bad, but this quote from the AP shows how idiotic these people are:

Of course not...

CarterCopter on 60 Minutes

Okay, I know I don't usually talk about work on this site, but this is the big time. Prime time national TV, not just specialty cable channels or the local news. This Sunday, there's going to be a segment on the CarterCopter on 60 Minutes. It's their normal, 7:00 ET program (CBS). Oh, and there's going to be a segment on Discoveries This Week on The Science Channel, plus a story in the local news paper, the Times Record News.

Anyway, I haven't bugged you all before when the CarterCopter was going to be on TV, but I figured that since this one was going to be getting millions of viewers, it was worth mentioning.

US Mint Accomodating Counterfeiters

I just went and bought myself a soda from next door, and got a nickel as part of my change. I wasn't sure if it was real at first, since I'd never seen one like this before. I just assumed that the Mint came out with something new. Apparently, I was right - it's part of the new series of nickels. So, is the Mint just trying to make it easy for counterfeiters? I mean, they've come out with so much new money over the past few years, from peach colored twenties, to a quarter for each state, and now this, that when I see a bill or coin that I don't recognize, I just assume that the Mint's come out with a new one. So if I ever get slipped a counterfeit, I wouldn't realize it. And I bet that Joe Blow behind the cash register at Wal-Mart isn't going to know the difference, either.

Ding Dong, the Bitch is Dead...

Hell yeah - another victory for people that think rationally and don't overstate or sensationalize to mask their deficiencies. What happened? The evil supreme mistress of bullshit, Andrea Dworkin, has passed away. Yes, it's stupid to celebrate a death, but this chick was full-on batshit insane, devoting her life to "ending" malehood and, above all else, pornography. I couldn't support anything - not even my long-lusted-after National Thin-Mints-for-Free Initiative - if one of the riders was "no more porn." Check out some of the things she's said and see if you think she's the type to invite intelligent, even discourse.

Now, before some of the TTables women (ha!) jump on me for being a bastard, this chick is to sexual equality what the Ayatollah Khomeni was to religious tolerance. And, what's just as bad, people bought her line of nonsense. Most feminist criticism is forced and empty of real intellectual value: Her life-long line of crap is devoid of any redemptive value at all. I was not a fan.

Miss USA II

So Miss North Carolina won the Miss USA pageant, over Miss Illinois among others. Which is good, because I had both of them in my final four.

RZA on NPR

I listen to NPR on the way to work most every morning, and today they were interview the RZA about his book, The Wu-Tang Manual. I guess I'm a little behind the times, since I didn't even realize he had written a book. Anyway, for those interested, the interview can be heard on NPR's website.

Yeah, you suck.

I was going to keep this to email, but John and Rick have made the Diamonback - if only for being two lame dudes who "bailed." So, their anonymous celebrity - a commodity not unlike jumbo shrimp, freezer burn, and Swiss cheese - hinges fully on "bailing" on Mitch Hedberg's next-to-last-ever performance. Rick blames Judy. John blames Roy.

This is crap, it is unfair

So Sesame Street is making Cookie Monster somehow health conscious.

Cue the 80's music

So it looks like there will be a live-action Transformers movie for the fall of next year. Michael Bay (The Rock, Armageddon) is set to direct, so you know Mike will like it. We'll see if the soundtrack consists of more than three songs, which would be a step up from the animated movie.

"Thinking outside the box"

Interesting piece about purity pledges & what constitutes sex.

Ringtones

I wish Nextel participated in anything moronic...that way, I could grab this recipie for disaster. I imagine Pat and Chad will each use it, then sit around in the basement calling each other all fucking day and night. I know I clicked "preview" about twelve times.

So go get a ringtone. And a banana cognac, bitch. You see how Tron is liv-vin, for the cit-tay.

Avast, N.C. State

"'Voting for someone who wants to rid the campus of scurvy dogs is not really an effective way of having student government,' sophomore Christopher Sanchez said."

April Fool's

The Diamondback usually has a pretty funny April Fool's section. I would upload it, but it is 26MB (right click, Save As if you care). But either way, I broke it up into 4 screen captures. Not as funny as usual, but the Mike Jones article sounds a little too familiar.
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And pour out some booze for Frank Perdue.

What the fark?

I go to www.fark.com this morning to find a bunch of guinea pigs and leet speak. Funny, kinda...but I wanted me some fark, dammit.

I know it's pretty early, but check it out if you get a chance, it might not be hacked long....