Maybe you didn’t know this, but there is a Ninja vs. Pirate war going on right now (primarily on the internet, I’ll grant you), and my money is on the Ninja. Here is one helpful ninja (oxymoron?) that distributes video advice and a good dose of tom-ninja-foolery. check it out:
Let me just say, I really like Mythbusters. Entertaining, informative, and they blow sh!t up. I was browsing my normal gadget websites, and I saw a you-tube (or something similar) with Adam and Jamie on it, so I had to investigate. Check out this video of Adam and Jamie defeating a fingerprint lock three different ways:
http://www.redferret.net/?p=7537
I’ve never personally assumed fingerprints to be very secure, and I’ve always refused to give Jewel my fingerprint because I don’t need big brother all up in my grill, but now that I’ve seen this, this is perhaps a better reason not to use it. True, someone could snatch my wallet and use my credit card, but I don’t leave my wallet everywhere. My fingerprint on the otherhand is probably all over the damn place.
Anyway, even if you don’t buy into the whole personal security/big brother thing, it is still pretty cool to see locks broken, eh?
Ok, not really _proud_, but you have to admire it when a nation of fatties manages to influence an international imaging company to release a ’slimming’ feature on their digital cameras. I’m not kidding, HP actually has a set of ‘artistic effects’ on their cameras, and some of them include an option to make your subjects look skinnier than they are.
You should check out this demonstration link while I go off to eat an entire pizza before 10am (I probably won’t finish it before 10, but still):
http://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/tours/slimming/index_f.html
As I’ve talked about before, sometimes I’ll leave DVDs playing in the background when I work. I try to pick funny or upbeat movies when I need to be creative (studies have shown even very short comedy sequences improve creativity), or more serious movies when I need to knuckle down (heh heh). Anyway, I’m watching Charlies Angels (a guilty pleasure), and I think I have a new favorite scene in that movie. My old favorite scene used to be any scene with Lucy Liu, and my new favorite is no exception, but Lucy plays a smaller role.
The setup is this- the girls are putting a camera on Roger Corwin’s briefcase so they can track his movements around his company. So the girl from ET gets in Corwin’s limo to distract the driver while Lucy plants the camera on the briefcase which is conveniently in the trunk (why put a briefcase in the trunk). Anyway, so ET girl is putting her moves on the driver and Lucy’s doing her thing in the back (heh heh again), but Lucy slams the trunk down and the driver goes to look what happened. ET girl grabs the guys face, says a sleazy line, and then licks the steering wheel. Then comes my favorite part. The driver who’s watching all this says in a not-so-slightly distressed voice ‘Oh my god’. This one line says so much to me about the driver’s character, and is so close to life, that it cracks me up every time. This guy knows he’s in way over his head, and he’s freaking out. I just love it.
Drew Barrymore (that’s her name!) then gets out and walks off, the driver cleans off the steering wheel, and the scene quickly transitions into a chase, but damn, I like that scene.
Steve Irwin died today (or maybe tomorrow since he was across the dateline?). Say what you want about him, but K and I used to watch that crazy guy all the time, and we sure enjoyed it. We’re thinking about his family.
P.S. Ever see South Park where Cartman pretends to be the Crocodile Hunter? Classic.
Well the other day I awoke to a slightly runny nose. I figured this was just due to some excesive Air Conditioning in the apartment and that it would go away. Well it didn’t!! This morning when I woke up at 7:00am to get ready to go scuba diving with my rented dry suit I just reset the alarm clock to 10:00am and went back to bed. The cold has progressed and isn’t any better and surely wasn’t good enough to dive on.
So I took all of the rented gear back to the shop and hope to be able to go next weekend. It really screws up a lot of plans, damn cold.
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