One of my best friends, college graduate Dreidel Bagelwicz (he's Joooooish), is somewhat interested in going into law. He works as a paralegal at the moment, and he told me he might apply for law school in the upcoming years. I told him that I'd read a lot on the depression of the law industry, and how law students were suing (typical) their schools for fudging numbers on their employability estimates. Put simply, law graduates are having trouble getting jobs these days. He said he knew of the situation, and that was the end of the conversation. Well, Dreidel, if you're reading this, I have great news for you! You DO have job opportunities after law school! True, those lucky students go to UCLA which is ranked 15, but still I do believe there is hope for you. One day, you too may be able to drive some old guy's lexus around some traffic jam.
It'd be fun to be a chauffer... if you got to use this car. DIY: Students build an electric car that passes 300 mp/h. Those bastards better be careful, we all know the dangers of going super-sonic and entering the 8th dimension. I mean, Dr. Lizardo and Buckaroo Bonzai showed us the very real dangers of that sort of travel. Lord John Whorfin is not to be trifled with.
Google, like alcohol and duct tape, can pretty much do anything. Google launches new program to allow you to make free domestic calls from your computer. International calls cost about $0.02 a minute. Cool stuff, too bad I don't trust Google as far as I can throw them (trick statement: You can't throw something that's everyhere).
iPhone, like google, duct tape and alcohol can pretty much do anything. Couple uses iPhone to thwart robbery in their home from 1400 miles away on vacation. Pretty cool, but to be honest, this is sort of old news. Over 4 years ago I installed a little program on my laptop that was an alarm. When activated, any person who did not properly de-activate it would set off the alarm, which would simultaneously take a picture through the webcam and send an email with the picture attached to my personal email. I love the future.
Economist: Good news, we're officially in a depression. Well, there's two ways to go when you hit rock bottom... up, or suicide. My bet: the American economy doesn't have the balls to commit suicide. Pussy! Chicken! Yeah, you're such a failure you can't even kill yourself. Seriously, that's how you're supposed to talk to depressed, suicidal people. They react terribly to compassion, you must goad them, because if they're all emo, they def don't have the balls to off themselves. Trust me, the Navy makes us do suicide prevention training a few times a year, I'm basically like a black-belt in suicide prevention.
Why Hollywood loves liberalism, explained. Pretty standard fare, although I do think this is a noteworthy quote: "As Nozick said, “a capitalist society rewards people only insofar as they serve the market-expressed desires of others; it rewards in accordance with economic contribution, not in accordance with personal value.” This might seem counter-intuitive but, if you think about it, a system that rewards individuals for improving the lot of others is far fairer than one that rewards them for some arbitrary intrinsic quality." Uh oh... the author of that article made capitalism sound fair, I don't like it any more!
Ulysses: Not just unreadable James Joyce garbage, but a real, living man? Ok, so I've never read Joyce's Ullyses, but I have read Dubliners and I rather liked it. Homer's Odyssey was one of the first books I ever read (well, my dad read it to me). I always liked when he tricks the cyclops and calls himself "No man" but then, in a showcase of textbook hubris, he reveals his identity.
Question of the day (H/T: Hotair): Is it simply British to 'get smashed'?
This is why teacher tenure needs to go... Unbelievable: Teacher assigns class project where they plan a terror attack. Well, I took forensics and I have a great assignment for her students as well. I'd like them to plan a murder, and the person who's plan has the least risk of getting caught will be picked for the follow up assignment :). Hint: the target is female and Australian, working as a teacher. Good luck!
Obama Inflatable Sex Doll on sale in Asia. There are pictures up if you follow the link. Wow, just wow. Maybe they got their inspiration from this? I mean, Superman is the protector of the human race, let's take it one step further and make a doll of the protector of te entire planet! Oceans will rises, babies will cease to cry, yes we can!
I didn't write about it when it happened, because I didn't care much and I didn't think you all would care either, but there was a time when a lot of violence was being blamed on tea-bag hers (I did write about that). A census worker's suicide was blamed on the political right and used as proof of escalating wingnuttery. On the right, they're still waiting for apologies, aren't they. Well they were also blaming the firebombing of Rep. Russ Carnahan's campaign office on righties, which I found to be more feasable but without proof, it's just demagogery. Turns out the culprit was a lefty and former staffer to Carnahan. So when a muslim cab driver in NY was brutally attacked recently, of course the left practiced some restraint until the facts cleared up. Who am I kidding, the usual suspects jumped on "islamaphobia" on the right contributing to the attack, when the police confirm it was a man who works for Park 51, the group involved with the mosque near ground zero. Glenn's got the scoop in the same link above, as does the blog American Power (sorta a redundant name, I think... let's take it one step furter. Male American Power, booyah suck it feminists!).
Allah introduces us to a new hilarious political candidate, who as he notes, doesn't fit in the same category as Basil Marceaux or Alvin Greene perhaps. Read the link above to get some better commentary, but watch the video and see for yourself what kinda guy we're dealing with here. Fine, I know you people hate clicking links so I'll provide an excerpt. "He looks a bit like Chris Farley, he sounds a bit like Jack Black, but the magic is all his own, my friends."
That'll do it for me today. If you look over to the right side of the blog, you'll see my twitter feed is embedded, feel free to follow me on twitter if you'd like. I'm moving into my new place tomorrow, and it'll be a week or two before I have internet at home, but I should be able to continue posting as normal by either stealing internet from a neighbor, or going to a starbucks as a last resort. Either way, I should be blogging, but don't boycott me if I don't, I love your sweet, sweet traffic.
Love the Buckaroo Bonzai reference, as you knew I would!
Posted by: The Dad | 08/26/2010 at 09:33 AM