The Office’s Fake PSAs
My thursday TV viewing schedule is this: Watch Will and Grace at 7:00, do something sudo-constructive, watch CSI, turn back to NBC and half-assed watch ER (I’ve been watching the show for over 10 years now, even though it sucks now, I feel like a can’t quit it now. This is the longest relationship I’ve ever had!). The Office and Earl I download and watch later. Needless to say my in frequent watching of NBC this thursday cheated me out of the fake “The More You Know” PSAs that starred the cast from the Office and ran during the commercials last night. However today I caught up with all of them via NBC’s website, which has all of the aired ones plus many more “bonus” (which is how we say “edited out” in this new digital era we live in) PSAs. Check out the whole list and kill some time here: April Fool’s Day PSAs
My favorite is the one about how 5’9″ isn’t short, its average…”Check your almanac!” See it here. (of course, the best one has a commercial in front of it.)
Gratuitous Kate Beckinsale Photo #6
(Confused because this isn’t Kate Beckinsale? Click here for all your answers.)
Its back…but this week I’m switching it up a bit and using this fantastic Scarlett Johansson picture. Miss Scarlett was recently named “The Sexiest Woman Alive” by the 14 year olds, and the creepy, divorced 40 year olds that read FHM. Don’t get me wrong though, I think I’m on board with this decision.
Ok, yes. I’m on board for sure. Enjoy your Friday.
The Bureau of Workplace Interruptions
As a time-stealing agency, the Bureau of Workplace Interruptions works directly with employees to invisibly insert intimate exchange into the flow of the workday. Our promise is to create interruptions that challenge the needs of our users and the social and economic conditions of the modern workplace.
If you need an interruption during your daily grind at the office, go to their site and fill out the form. “The Bureau” will then find the best way to interrupt your busy work day and more than likely archive it on their site.
Link: Bureau of Workplace Interruptions
Link: Bureau of Workplace Interruptions: Archive
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Six Steps To Get A Web Developer to Kill You
Alwaysstock.net has posted up a great little article detailing six things you can do during your next meeting with your company’s web developer. I was skeptical at the humor in this at first, but after reading the list I can attest that it is dead on and I would kill you if this happened to me at a meeting.
Don’t need a sample of the article? Want to just finish this post and go read the article in its entirety? Too bad. Here’s a sample:
3) Talk about how you’d like a complicated splash page for the site. Tell the developer you want anyone who tries to skip over the splash page immediately re-directed. Use the phrase “flash intro” and “no skip button” with a smile and pretend like you know what you’re talking about. Shoot down any proposal that does not include a splash page. Offer a tissue when the programmer starts to cry.
Ok, now, if you are so inclined, you can go read the article on your own. After you are done reading it, ponder for a second on how I own your bitch ass and made you read an excerpt you didn’t want to.
Spring Break in a Wal-Mart
Skyler Bartels (Why do people insist on keeping the name “Skyler” alive?) didn’t want to go to Mexico for Spring Break, he wanted to spend it in the local Wal-Mart…all of it…the entire Spring Break…in Wal-Mart. His girlfriend dropped him off with his debit card, cell phone, and the clothes on his back and drove off. He bought what he needed in the store, and walked around meeting people, watching Chicken Little several times and occasionally helped out by fixing the shelved items of his new home. Sadly, after a mere 41 hours, his Wal-Mart vacation had come to an end when he was pretty sure the managers where on to him when hey saw them talking and the door greaters were pointing at him.
Figures its always the door greaters that ruin everything fun. The retarded greaters aren’t so bad…execpt that they usually have too much of a itchy trigger finger on those “simley face sticker” guns they carry. They always want to put 2-3 stickers on what ever it is you are returning and then just to be safe, a sticker on every article of clothing you wore in. But the real menace are the old people greaters. They are always way too eager to check everything because they know anyone younger than them steals stuff. I use to work at Wal-Mart when I was in high school and there was this old lady greater that, I swear, every time a young black guy walked into the store, she would call back to electronics (where I worked) and tell us to be on the lookout for this guy they she knows “…always comes out with more than he bought.” The lady probably caught one black guy in 1977 stealing a pack of gum and swears that he keeps coming back, never aging, and somehow changing his height, 200 times a day. Stupid bitch. Last time I was back in that neighborhood, she was still manning the door. The evil never die.
One last thing, if you were wondering where Skyler slept during his little vacation, here’s a quote that should satisfy you:
“I got to the point,” he said, “where I was adept at falling asleep on the toilet seat, which sounds kind of weird.”
Yes. Yes it does.
Let Your Fingers Do the Dancing
Its Friday. I think it time to get loose, kick off our gloves? and do a little Fingers Breakdancing!
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Chef’s Dead, But Not Really: One of the Best South Parks Ever
Wow. In the latest South Park Chef’s part of a “queer little club” that molests children that makes him leave South Park huh? God, I think there’s a reference to some group in real life in there, but I can’t seem to put my finger on it. Can anyone help?
If you haven’t seen it, you need to. Even if you aren’t a hard core fan of the show, just seeing how Matt and Trey deal with Isaac Hayes leaving the show is a hilarious pleasure. For those that have seen it or don’t care that I talk about the ending click through the jump to discuss the best parts.
Apple’s Mighty Mouse Laser: Easter Egg or Creepy Coincidence?
According to Arstechnica.com and several people in the comments of this post, when you look at the image that Apple’s Mighty Mouse makes, it looks like a…(wait for it)…mouse. Cool. Creepy…but cool.
So is this the way it was made? I would have to think so, but usually Apple isn’t shy on its little features like this so its odd that we are just hearing about it now. But then again, they never say a thing about OS X’s ability to switch to negative colors in a flash (Try it: Ctrl+Option+Apple+8), so maybe we can just add this to the list of cool little Apple secrets.
Anyone out there have a Mighty Mouse? Can you add to the list of verifiers?
Google’s GDrive Needs .Mac Features
According to Kevin Rose’s first sudo-podcast Google is set to release yet another web application. This one is to be called GDrive and will be online storage with an ever growing amount of storage allotted to each user. This is a cool idea, even though this could be done already with the right applications you could turn your GMail account into a sudo GDrive. Rose believes that this will be the first step in a unification of all of Google’s new and current web applications. For instance, your GMail will be stored on there…your purchased Google videos will pop up there as well as your Writely documents and the list goes on and on. I agree with Rose 100%, the creation of GDrive is something that needs to be done to start to bring together this universe of seemingly unrelated Google projects. That being said, GDrive would go from a nice idea to a killer app if they upped the anty, stuck it to Apple and released (or an open source app was created) a backup program like that of Apple’s .Mac Backup application. If you got a couple of gigs of space on this drive it would cover your email, documents and other needed system files with no issues, and the creation of a very user friendly app like Apple’s Backup where you just check the pre-programed items you want and it backs them up for you is just the thing that could make those last few holdouts move to a virtual Google Web OS once and for good. This Google version of .Mac would need to begin with backup, but it could easily move on to all the other things that .Mac does. Google already allows you to make a quick and dirty website, but they could expand to an online version of their Picasso for photo sharing (maybe someone could hack this to make it work like Apple’s Photocasting?) and even syncing between computers. With the introduction of GDrive all of those applications would be fairly easy to roll out by Google and they why would anyone pay for .Mac when they can have all the features for free and just see a few ads on their emails and blogs? I love Apple, but this is a huge opportunity for someone to really take the time and get the applications right so that they can give real competition to a server that everyone could use, but no one really wants to pay for.
Of course we all know Google’s track record for waiting forever to release OS X apps , or not releasing them at all. I have no reason to think that line will change and although said, it will be forgiven to a degree if they release a nice API that will allow those smart, handsome open source guys to whip up exactly what I’m talking about in both Mac, PC and Linux flavors.
Anyone have any idea why this wouldn’t work or more reasons to add why this would be the greatest thing since “Sample Day” at the grocery store?
South Park vs Sceintology Round 3
First the episode #912: “Trapped In a Closet” aired. Then Isaac Hayes leaves the show. Now, after a re-airing of “Trapped In a Closet” is pulled at the last minute for mysterious reasons, Matt and Trey fire another round past the bow of the S.S. Crazy Celebrities, also know as Scientology.
“So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!” the “South Park” creators said in a statement Friday in Daily Variety. “Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies… You have obsructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail!”
Damn I love these guys. That is the best quote ever.
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