Terrapin Tables

Darwin wins .. again ...

Now I know I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but if I notice that there is a fire under the hood of my truck in my garage do I:

A) Go get my tractor to pull the truck out of the garage, leaving my wife in the house.

B) Get my arthritic wife out of the house, call 911.

C) Let my arthritic wife call 911 while I stuggle to get the tractor started.

D) both A and C, sue Ford, profit

...guess which one this guy picked...

Google is going to own us all

So google has released more goodies for us nerds. Check out Google Earth. Software that lets you use Google's satellite images to get directions, find bars, spy on ex-lovers... etc.

Clickable random screenshot (showing the optional 3D buildings feature):

The software is a free download.

CarterCopter on Slashdot

Thanks to a phone call from Rick this morning, I learned that the CarterCopter website had made it onto slashdot. Now I feel like we've really accomplished something. But it also means that our site's getting flooded with traffic, so it's hard to get into.

I like the drunky

SO I'm here alone, drinking a bout most of a bottle of whisky, and it strikes me that we haven't been shitfaced drunk togethter in a long time. Is this what growing up is? Then fuck growing up. Drink bithces. Let's all go and get shitfacesd sometime very soon.

Yours in perpitiutioty,

Chtris

I ;oikkey the drinky.

My random story

So I've been down at Virginia Beach on and off the the last two weeks for work. Against my better judgement, I decided to come right to work from the airport (yes, I flew, and yes, I'm that lazy), but I'm too tired to work so I'll just randomly post what I did last night because I had a lot of fun.

One of the engineers I worked with down there was a young guy from Lithuania. There is a new club down there that opened last night, and since it was our last night down there, he told us to come with him and his friends. So we show up at his house, and he's got the turntables going, and he's playing this euro house music stuff, kind of like Chad when gets really drunk and listens to Castles in the Sky. So anywho, it turns out all of his roommates are also from eastern Europe, so there's couple of guys from Poland, and some Russian girls all rocking out and drinking large amounts of vodka. These people are insane. I'm already feeling good from my dinner beers, but me and my coworker start drinking there.

Then we have to wait for the Italians to come by, and then some other people from somewhere (France?) show up. Yeah, apparently there's a European contingent in southern Virginia. I don't know how they all found each other.

So I hop into some guy's BMW, and we go to this ginormous club, which is home to what must me the world's largest disco ball. The private balcony we have for some reason gets abandoned immediately, and we pretty much just hung out by the bar all night. Nothing too exciting, but it was just fun because out of the 15 people in our group, my friend and I were the only two Americans (actual conversation: "Where are you from?" / "Maryland" / "What is that, USA?" / "Yes, yes it is."). Oh, and if anyone wants to learn something useless today, "devushka" means hot woman, and "padushki" means large breasts. Which led to another fun conversation:

[a cute girl comes up to a small group of us]
Cute girl: Hey, weren't you the guys yelling at me in the parking garage a few hours ago?
Me: We were yelling at you?
CG: Yeah, you were yelling some word at me.
Me: Oh yeah. "Devushka".
CG: Yeah. Why?
Me: Oh, that means you're hot.
CG: [changes her mood] Oh! Thanks!
Me: Yeah, we also could've yelled "padushki". That means 'large breasts'.
CG: Oh... okay...

For the record, she did ask for my number last night. And I assure you it has nothing to do with the fact that her husband is just out of the Navy and looking for a job up here. Nothing at all.

Anywho, I got drunk, went back to their place, spent some time behind some turntables (I am God-awful at being a DJ, as if there was any real doubt), and woke up in a hotel room. My phone tells me I made a call at 4:00 in the morning, so I guess I was up for a while. Good times.

The club (I kept wanting to call it a discotheque):

Oh My God

Ownership means nothing.

Seen today at Safeway

I submit to you one of the soups available for your enjoyment.

And of course I had to get it. Since I've never had potatoe soup. It was off-white, warm & creamy. And, of course, I am partial to things warm, white & creamy.

Like Looking Into the Future

Maybe the economy here is on the fast track to collapse, maybe we aren't going to subsist as accountants, law office dudes, and tradeshow carpenters, or maybe Chad and Kristen won't give us the open bar we so desperately need on Sept. 10...whatever the reason, there's a good chance we're all going to end up here someday.

Job search

So in the process of looking for interesting jobs in the Cincinnati area I ran across an advertisement for a job with "Answers in Genesis" or "AiG". The ad describes AiG as "an apologetics ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively. It is the desire of AiG to train others to develop a biblical worldview from the very first verse of the Bible." They are also building a creationism museum near the Cincinnati airport where they will educate Christians on how to defend the Bible as "provides a reliable, eye-witness account of the beginning of all things, and can be trusted to tell the truth in all areas it touches on".

What do you think, should I apply to be their video editor?

CarterCopter

Well, I logged on to get a quick look at what was going on back up in Maryland, and found this site empty. So, just to put something down, take a look at the CarterCopter Website for the latest update on our progress. We finally broke mu-1 (there's an explanation of why that's important on the website), so that's pretty good. We broke the aircraft later that day, which sucks, but it was unrelated to the mu-1 flight, and at least we broke mu-1 before we broke the aircraft.

Buffett

Here are some photos from yesterday's outing. Paige took many more pictures, which I am sure are better and of a much higher quality. As always, the e-mail address is: photos@terrapintables.com and the password is: terps

Ask your Uncle . . .

. . . about Roofinex. I guess this really shouldn't be funny. But I'm a bad person.

Not Guilty

Apparently he didn't touch that little boy. Uh huh - sure.

Anyway, courtesy of John, this made me laugh.

"Who amongst us can honestly say that they have never slept with a 12 year old boy after sharing some alcohol and pornography in the company of a chimpanzee?"

Bible Humping

Find out what the Bible says about Threesomes, and other kinds of fun activities.

Funny Video

Aren't you Richard Simmons' friend, Richard Simmons?

THANKS!

I just wanted to thank everyone for entertaining those us from H-town last weekend. The food, company, cards, and place to sleep were all MUCH appreciated. For those of you who actually showed up at Champps- it was a great night! As always, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the pub crawl- hopefully I will be able to attend the whole thing. I'll be having a day-after-the-crawl-BBQ at my house and I hope everyone can stay around H-town long enough to attend. Thanks again for everything!

Sexcellency In Inventionalism

Despite stealing Pat's word, this message is good for the First Annual Sexcellency in Inventionalism Awards. Nothing I have ever seen is more desperately needed, more indicative of man's potential, more important to the cultural and intellectual furtherance of the human race than this wonderful product. I recommend we gather every coin beneath every one of our driver's seats to establish investment capital.

Radio station song listing

From the this-is-actually-useful dept, this site will list songs that were played by radio stations in your area (it covers about the last 24 hours). Good for when you listen to a song, but have no idea who signs it.

Good Dog

Short video of police dogs.

Redskins

Why do I get the impression that it is going to be another very long football season?

Stupid Spurrier

Spurrier sucks, the BCS sucks, and most importantly Duke sucks. That stupid hick is screwing things up every year, openly admits to it, and doesn't seem to care. In response, the NCAA should ban those retarded visors for a year. See how he likes that.

Does Dicky V get a basketball vote? Because with all the preseason #1s there, you'd figure someone with a Blue Devil hard-on must be voting for no good reason.

Simpsons Reference on NPR

I was driving down to the airport where we do flight testing the day before yesterday, listening to NPR like I normally do, and they're going over the birthdays for the day. The announcer says something like, "Today's Andy Griffith's birthday. Maaatlooock turns 79 today." It was pretty funny to hear a professional commentator pull out a Simpsons reference like that. Anyway, I would have written about it on Wednesday, but with the flight testing, and then having a shit load of stuff to get done yesterday, this was the first chance I had to write it down.

Just because I'm a proud daddy...

The Lesson: Don't Read

According to this list, the Origin of the Species is tied for the 17th most harmful book of all time. The Feminine Mystique is 7th. The Kinsey Report is 4th.

From "The National Conservative Weekly"

Interesting

Chucky Cheese for adults.