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April 29, 2004

game over

"My love for crane machines is outmatched only by my love for the Cosby Show episode where Rudy and Olivia battled over who got to play with the leashed toy duck. Olivia won, because Rudy was going through puberty and nobody wanted to side with what she looked like."

Posted by R. at 11:49 PM | Permalink

April 26, 2004

not that there's anything wrong with that

"83. I can recall sitting around waiting to go home while writers were sitting around pretending to masturbate and continually talking about schlongs." Heh. Writers.

Posted by R. at 07:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

April 25, 2004

coming together

Peter Weir doing William Gibson? That's almost Ridley Scott-hot.

Posted by R. at 06:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

April 19, 2004

of sunroofs and curious cats

Poor taste. Good CG.

Posted by R. at 01:42 PM | Permalink

April 18, 2004

doing lines

"Impressive as HDTV looks, 35-millimeter film has far more color and detail. Engineers calculate that 4,000 lines of data would be needed to reproduce all the visual information in a frame of film—exactly as many lines as the Imagica delivers."

Posted by R. at 10:11 PM | Permalink

shows i like get cancelled

Seriously.

Posted by R. at 02:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

April 14, 2004

thing one and thing two

A tale of two prequels.

Posted by R. at 07:49 PM | Permalink

April 10, 2004

one miss wonder

Poor Andrew Sipes.

Posted by R. at 01:12 AM | Permalink

April 08, 2004

let's get retarded

Busy times these be.

Posted by R. at 12:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

April 07, 2004

diamond in the roughage

In the bubble universe where Romanian orphans are trafficked like South African diamonds, this is practically a De Beers infomercial. Yes, I'm weird for framing it in those terms.

Posted by R. at 08:03 AM | Permalink

isn't it bad enough that i'm on friendster?

Hmm. I don't know.

Posted by R. at 12:24 AM | Permalink

April 06, 2004

because beating off is clearly more dangerous than firearms and stuff

Lame.

Posted by R. at 02:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

April 04, 2004

sucking sound

"No matter where we placed the handset on our cheeks or jaws, nothing special seemed to happen. When Sid was testing it, for example, I could hear the sound as plainly as he could. That's not a bone conduction system, that's a speakerphone."

Posted by R. at 05:14 PM | Permalink

yugo 2000

"If an on-board microprocessor judges a collision to be inevitable, the car puts itself into a defensive crouch. Mercedes S-Class sedans will even start shutting the sunroof and lifting reclined seats if a collision is deemed likely."

Posted by R. at 12:42 AM | Permalink

federal savings and groan

"'Honestly, I don't get daylight-saving time. It's just a biannual government-mandated case of jetlag as far as I'm concerned,' said Fenton."

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