Blastoff! With Captain Blastin

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April 2011

239 posts

Burning Question

Why the hell are Rebecca Black’s friends driving in that video? What state allows 13 year old drivers? And what 16 year olds would hang out with a 13 year old?

AND WHY IS SHE PARTYING AT 13?

And who is that rapper? Like what is his name?

Anyway, that’s all I have to say about it after all this time.

Mar 31, 2011

March 2011

192 posts

5% Juice

I used to look at cartons that said this, laugh, and inhale the sugar.

Silly we love the sugar so much, but most of us don’t know any better.

Mar 31, 2011
That little guitar riff..

..in the end theme to “Jeopardy” is as ridiculous as its exclamation point.

Mar 31, 2011
I don't like..

..having my character questioned.

There was a time when this wasn’t the case, but my character is currently rock-solid, thanks.

Mar 31, 2011
OHMYGOD

Is there a roller rink above me? What is this rolling that has been going on above my head always?

Mar 31, 2011
I have regressed

When I was seven - yes, seven - I used to read the Wall Street Journal - and understand the words but not the concepts - on the subway on the way to third grade.

Now I read Metro.

Mar 31, 2011
Snopes: Scams Part Two → snopes.com
Mar 31, 2011
Snopes: Scams → snopes.com

Sad that they prey on the infirm.

Mar 31, 2011
Jesus, SVU

Full-on honking, weeping crying tonight.

Mar 30, 2011
Never going back..

..Every time I see evidence of how sad and lacking in confidence I used to be, I vow never to let myself fall back to that. Never again.

Mar 30, 2011
Informed Instigation: "Checklist." → informedinstigation.com

More lighthearted post today, this one about relationships. I never know if I sound like I’m talking out of my ass with these, being a pretty commonly single person, but I think I have interesting things to say.

Mar 30, 2011
The hump of the hump

Wednesday is hump day. This is old news.

I make the hump an even higher hurdle to climb by making the day my hardest workout. Starts with some easy lifting but then I do the bike. Oh the bike. How I didn’t miss you.

I haven’t made biking (or, “spinning,” but come on, you know what spinning really is) part of my routine since I first started doing cardio in fall of 05. Back then I was gaining weight because of poor eating habits, and since I was still eating poorly, the biking didn’t help that much (I had yet to isolate the problem, which was eating unhealthy things at 2 am, like an idiot). But now, I’ve realized the rowing machine is physically uncomfortable for me for some reason, and the bike can be such a beast.

So, I do the “Alpine Pass” program, which is what it says, and by the middle, the real peak, I have to stand up off the seat to push myself through it. My heart rate is up around 188 by this point, and last week I had to stop and crumple to the floor (since I was getting over a fever and hadn’t eaten much). But this moment, right there, is the hump in the middle of the biking portion, which is itself the hump of my workout, which is the hump of the day, which is the hump of the week.

I still have shit to handle this week. But after that, it all seems pretty easy.

Mar 30, 2011
I have never seen a lightbulb die...

Is there a scientific reason it always has to blow the fuck out while being turned on?

It wasn’t any weaker last night before I went to sleep. Had I slept with my light on would it have stayed functional in perpetuity?

This is what I wonder at 6:30 am.

Mar 30, 2011
Taxes

Not my favorite thing to try and decipher.

Mar 29, 2011
See if you can figure this one out.. → sporcle.com
Mar 29, 2011
Judgment day, may 21st

Do these jokers come up with a new day at an annual meeting? I remember when judgment day was in 1997. What do they do when they wake up and they haven’t been judged? It has to be hard to go back to work after you, say, said goodbye to everyone thinking you’d never see them again as they burned for all eternity. Note: this is not about all people of faith. But the histrionic folks who make the rest of believers look bad by association. Sensible people of faith: bring your peeps back down from the ledge.

Mar 29, 2011
Snopes falsehood of the day: Marisa Tomei → snopes.com

Damn straight. She was hilarious.

Mar 29, 2011
Snopes truth of the day: The Deer Hunter → snopes.com

Sad.

Mar 29, 2011
Uh-oh

Ghetto yell/fight downstairs. “(something something) FUCKING PREGNANT!”

Mar 29, 2011
Informed Instigation: "Chris and Charlie: The Same?" → informedinstigation.com

On Brown’s comments that he’s being treated unfairly while Sheen rides the wave.

Mar 28, 2011
Fucking around with video editing software

This will make my trivia-creation skills legendary.

Mar 28, 2011
Interesting.. → cracked.com

So much of it is marketing..

Mar 28, 2011
CVS, true. → snopes.com

I think I’ll post one debunked and one proven each time.

This one makes me shake my head.

Mar 28, 2011
Superbowl sunday domestic violence - snoped! → snopes.com

I believed this one for a while. Goes to show, check up on shit before assuming it’s true.

Also: news media, stop being lazy.

Mar 28, 2011
New feature!

I’m going to post snopes rumor-busters often now. People need to know shit.

Mar 28, 2011
The grind

Back to it in 6 hours. Time to kick the ass of the next four weeks!

Mar 28, 2011
A jamba juice supplement. → youtube.com
Mar 27, 2011
Do you have any meth? → youtube.com

I love Patton Oswalt.

Mar 27, 2011
Remembering last night

The taxi driver was laughing at drunk me trying and failing to swipe my credit card (this after being kicked off the m15 at 126th and 2nd).

“It tells you what to do!” he kept saying. Heh.

Mar 27, 2011
Another thing that needs to be banned from dating profiles

That kerouac quote about the ‘mad ones.’

This does not make you deep!

Mar 27, 2011
Nightcrawler!

Alan Cumming is at odessa.

Mar 27, 2011
Things that make a city fail

If your city has anything on this list, and especially more than one thing, it fails.

If there is no subway, it fails.

If there is only a subway that takes you across the downtown area, it fails.

If your subway closes before midnight, it fails. (Note: if your bars are cheap enough that staying there until 5 am will not break the bank, this is acceptable.)

If your subway does not take you most places you might want to go, it fails.

If the most common way to get from point A to point B is a drive on the highway, it fails.

If your city has less than several million people, it fails.

If the bars close before 3 am, it fails.

If liquor is not served on sundays, it fails.

If an independent movie is released, but it is not likely to reach your city within a week or two, it fails.

If you can smoke in the bars, it fails.

So, far as I know, this knocks off LA, Philly, Boston, and many other places. I think Chicago is still alive. The Bay Area, if you combine it into one thing, lives too, but then highways are involved.

Internationally, you have a few more choices.

Mar 26, 2011

I should watch that movie more often with “limited edition” 4 loko. Fun times.

Mar 26, 2011

THE INCEPTION SOUNDTRACK IS SHAKING MY APARTMENT AND I LOVE IT.

Mar 25, 2011
Turns out..

Dude was actually run over by a bus. Will never say ‘I feel like I got hit by a bus’ again. Not sure if I ever said that archaic statement, but still.

Mar 25, 2011
Just when I was getting frustrated with traffic..

..On the crosstown bus, I realized that the snarl at 96th street had caused a bike-rider in hazard gear to have his head… Crushed? Knocked off? Couldn’t see, but when the ambulances came by, they weren’t pulling out the stretcher quickly. Puts shit in perspective. Going to go back to reading my book and not even think about complaining.

Mar 25, 2011
I think I just did most of my taxes..

…my refund seems depressingly low.

Mar 25, 2011
Cooking experiment..

…ended in smoke alarm. Oh well.

At least I live here where I have a smoke alarm, unlike some Asian country I used to live in…

Mar 25, 2011
I have to say...

I am really, really going to miss Michael Scott.

Mar 25, 2011
“Listen, lady - a gender I write very well when the situation calls for it…” —Aaron Sorkin
Mar 24, 2011
Elisabeth Rohm

Definitely has to be the the flattest of all the ADAs on the show.

Wow. It’s like she has Jacob Silj disease.

Mar 24, 2011
Fun one! → sporcle.com
Mar 24, 2011
Law and Order from 2004

People spazzing over an old iPod. Ha.

Mar 24, 2011
Lord I love grapes.

If you don’t, go away.

Mar 24, 2011
Ad for Rite-Aid

Explaining all the wonderful things you can do in 15 minutes. Okay, fine.

End of the ad says, in small print, “Not available in NY.”

That’s like when I see contests where the prize is a trip here.

Mar 24, 2011
Definitely the stupidest commercial currently airing. → youtube.com

Surprisingly high production values though.

Mar 24, 2011
Obligations

My week off from work was full of soooo much nonsense to handle. But I’ve tackled all of it (aside from my taxes… will be done tomorrow!), and I’m really excited for this saturday. Oh how I love hosting the trivs.

Mar 24, 2011
Yeah SVU!

They dropped that incest bomb tonight! And out of nowhere! That’s the SVU I know and love!

Mar 24, 2011
Yaaay!

New modfam and SVU!

Mar 23, 2011
This eyelid story...

….happened to me too!

Mar 23, 2011
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