Archive for May 29, 2008

For Your Next Two Hour Break at Work

Posted in Earth is not to be trifled with, Miscellaneous, Our Meaningless Lives, The "Arts" with tags , , on May 29, 2008 by karstencross

http://improveverywhere.com/

Personal favorite missions of ours: Best Buy, Rob!, Abercrombie, Slo-Mo Home Depot, and hell, all of them.

Brilliant.

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Soccer Is Happening!

Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 by IceyRomance

soccer BALL

You may have heard that the Pacific Northwest (a region of the United States) is home to a new collection of people pretending to be European.  Well, yesterday we found out that they will also be wearing clothes (is that a mock turtleneck? HOT).   And just to make things even better, they’re sponsored by VIDEO GAMES!!  

As someone who doesn’t care for soccer, clothes (ooh la la) or video games, this news wasn’t such a big deal.  We did, however, find it weird that the sponsorship wasn’t just Microsoft, but rather a specific product of theirs.  I looked into it further, and found out that all of the corporate sponsors in the running were also looking to promote a product .  Lucky for you, we were able to obtain the list of other Northwest-rooted companies who were in the running to promote their products on the shirts of men hiding chafed nipples: 

I think the Sounders FC made a decent-to-fine choice. 

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Really? Doesn’t Anyone Else Think This is a Bad Idea?

Posted in Earth is not to be trifled with, News, Our Meaningless Lives with tags , on May 29, 2008 by karstencross

We think in this one instance, foresight is 20/20.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/29/monkey.robots/index.html

Scientist: “Good job, Bobo! You fed yourself a marshmallow! Who’s a good boy? WHO’S A GOOD BOY? Now watch some more Project X while Mommy… Wow! GOOD BOY! You made the robot arm grab my labcoat! Oh. No, Bobo. NO. That hurts Mommy. Make the robot stop, Bobo! OH MY GOD MY EAR! BOBO, NO! BOBO!!!!” (Sudden silence followed by the sound of Scientist being beaten to death by their own windpipe. Bobo smiles.)

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You Are The Decider.

Posted in Movies with tags , , on May 29, 2008 by rydo

We’ll be honest, here at The Lad we have many pastimes that we enjoy, but none that we find more deeply satisfying than sitting down and doing some good old fashioned judging. Restaurants, movies, races of people, we judge it all, and relish the opportunity.  What’s more, it’s even better when we get to not only judge something, but then actually decide it’s fate as well.  And if there’s one thing that goes hand in hand with deciding someone’s fate on a whim, it’s the Seattle International Film Festival. Seriously, they’re like peanut butter and chocolate.

So click this link, watch a few movies, and enjoy the raw unadulterated power that comes with your vote.

http://myfestival.indieflix.com/

Note:  While judging, tenting your fingers and laughing maniacally are recommended, but optional.  We certainly enjoy them, but you be the judge.

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