A Picture Share!

This is some brilliant graphitti... After seeing it defaced, i could not imagine it any other way.

A Picture Share!

I am damned bored. About the most interesting thing that is within my range of vision is this pile of boxes. I am glad that I have my mobile phone and rss to keep me just on the precipice of sanity...

A Picture Share!

Does a skirt this short even constitute a skirt...

A Picture Share!

Just another fine california morning...

Who's There? Forest Creatures?

This story reminds me of those damned "Land Shark" bits on 70's era SNL. Ananova - Door knocking bear

"Animal experts in Croatia say a bear has learned how to trick people to let him in by knocking at the door." What type of experts are these? Door experts? Animal control agents?

I would say that these experts are overstating the abilities of this bear based upon spurious anecdotal information. Probably a few people in town got together to fabricate a story about seeing a bear in a door's peephole following a muffled respnse to the Croation equivalent of the query, "Who's there?"

Chuck E. Cheese - Reloaded?

Newsweek reports the inventor of Pong and founder of Chuck E. Cheese is getting back into the restaurant game. Adults welcome. At age 62, perpetual kid Nolan Bushnell wants to get gamers out of the house. This week, he will announce a new venture, the uWink Media Bistro restaurantchain. (via Digg, Slashdot and Newsweek)

Nolan Bushnell has had some crazy ideas in his time on Earth... Who would have thought that an electronic version of Ping Pong would lead to a 6 billion dolar a year industry? This is the same man that made a huge mouse a symbol for pizza and video games.

Bushnell's latest idea does not seem like its time has yet come... especially as a franchise. I foresee this quickly taking a nosedive.

I wonder what the food or ambience would be like? It seems that the business model of any cyber/gaming bistro is inherently flawed due to the fact that people do not want to pay for services such as these, but I could be wrong. It seems that the model must either make the service provided as you purchase a certain amount of food or beverages (ala strip joints and Denny's) or (the more likely model) that you pay to play, and food is there as well.

Upon reading the actual Newsweek story, I disagree with my "gut" reaction. I could see this as a viable business model today. I have spent many an hour plinking quarters into a bar multi-game machine and have seen others obsessed with them... shoveling more into the game than into drinks. A restaurant/bar based around such machines with interoperability and competition between tables would cause people to spend more time and perhaps even become "regulars." Perhaps this is a way to pull in those that would not usually go to bars.

I have always thought that arcades with bars are the way of the future... tons of 21+ gamers in the world.

Perhaps the time has come. Go Nolan! Innovate again!

I suggest adding brew pubs to these restaurants.

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I took this picture to remind myself about ribbons on the back of cars. What is a black ribbon (this isn't one...but hmmm)? 

Here is a conservative roadsign... it said something like, "faggots are sinners... and they all must die" or "liberals hate America... so hit them with your truck." It is emblazoned with the authoritative face of Uncle Sam. Roadsigns like this are scary.  

Here are a bunch of brass sculptures... they are near the town of VADER... I have seen them many times, and they make sense to nooone. 

Look at me driving... I hate driving for too long... I thought I would make it better by taking random pics... 

According to the Jackson Publick blog...

Season Two of Team Venture is a go... now if I can only wait for a year to discover the grim fate of The Brothers Venture and the cruel fate of the "rehabilitated" Monarch.


Venture Brothers Season Two is ON!! 

Make Your Dead Pets into Pillows...

This is so wrong... I don't even know where to begin. The article describes this as an alternative to stuffing your pets. Why don't people just take a picture and remember their pets? If these individuals were married, would they stuff their mates? [via]

It looks as if the actual link is down, but the idea is just wrong (then again, taxidermy is scary as hell).


Pets as pillows?