The lines in the last panel of the comic below sum up everything wrong with Hillary Clinton’s campaign:
Democrat 1: We need to choose a nominee who fills voters with a sense of profound ambivalence!
Democrat 2: Yes — preferably one with high negatives and excessive baggage!
Democrat 1: White House, here we come!
If you’re in the Accordion City area and you’re looking for entertainment beyond the boob tube and movies, tonight might be your night to head down to the Gladstone Hotel, because it’s Pillow Fight League night tonight!
Here’s what’s happening tonight:
From the PFL Website:
PFL 13 – TITLE DEFENSE!
GLADSTONE BALLROOM
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Ten + fightsThis is the first World Title Defense to take place in Toronto in over TWO YEARS! Boozy Suzy VS Lynn Somnia for the ten pounds of gold! PLUS: the PFL is also thrilled to introduce its latest innovation in pillow-based violence – TAG TEAM ACTION! And, if that isn’t enough, prepare yourself for the return of Amateur matches! Advance tickets go on sale November 25 – check back for more details!
Here’s a slideshow showing photos from the previous Pillow Fight League match:
View it before FOX’s copyright cops take it down — it’s the “Homer’s life flashing before his eyes” sequence from last night’s episode of The Simpsons:
Update: The YouTube video got taken down, but you can watch the video at JibJab.com.
Click here to see the video on JibJab.com.
Watching that sequence, a couple of things came to mind:
Even as an eleven-year-old back in 1978, I knew as soon as the voice-over went…
with special guest stars…Beatrice Arthur! Art Carney! Diahann Carroll! The Jefferson Starship! Harvey Korman!
…that something was about to go terribly, terribly wrong with the Star Wars Holiday Special, a show so terribly bad that even George “I’m no longer qualified to tell good from bad” Lucas has disavowed any involvement with it, no matter how minor.
Now, thanks to the miracle of Google Video, you too can enjoy the so-bad-it’s-goodness of the Star Wars Holiday Special, either in the tiny window below or on its Google Video page at a larger size. After watching it, Episode I: The Phantom Menace seems like The Godfather in comparison. At least Phantom Menace had the decency to not include a scene featuring Bea Arthur doing a Broadway number and dancing with Greedo.
Click here to watch a larger version.
If you can’t bear to watch all two soul-crushing hours of the Star Wars Holiday Special, you’re in luck: some kind soul has created an edit that sums it up nicely in five minutes. It spares you a lot of painfully bad wookie pantomime…
Click here to see the video on its YouTube page.
In case you’d forgotten, I write another blog: Global Nerdy, where I cover articles of interest to programmers, techies, nerds and all you folks who like keeping up with all things geeky. Listed beow are some of the most recent postings:
“Halo 3” Cheat Codes, as Explained by a Neglected Girlfriend: “X, A, B, DOWN, RIGHT, Y: God mode. Total invincibility to all attacks. You can just stand there and the aliens can’t kill you. Heck, you could even put the controller down and they still can’t do anything. You could even walk away from the Xbox and—crazy idea—talk to someone who’s been sitting here for the past hour wondering if that was in fact an actual conversation she had earlier about going to the movies this afternoon and not just an incredibly realistic dream.”
Bug vs. Feature: Just in case the difference wasn’t clear to you.
It’s Complicated: An XKCD comic on everyone’s favourite Facebook relaionship status.
Developer Hardware Nerdvana at TSOT: They give us some pretty nice gear at work.
In PHP, There’s Equality and Then There’s EQUALITY: Not all “equals” operators are created equal.
Area Man Gives Glowing Review for His Windows Vista to XP Upgrade Experience: I’m thinking about upgrading from Vista to XP myself.
Pythagorean Pick-Up: If you were (or are) a high school nerd, you’ll wish school social life worked like this.
1000 Copies of “Rock Band” Taken in Truck Heist: A sure sign we’re living in the 21st century: a couple of guys hijacked a truckload of videogames!
“BioShock” Meets a Shopping Cart: Quite possibly the world’s first Objectivist shopping cart.
Here’s a comedy family tree that shows all the spiritual descendants of two British comedy television shows: At Last the 1948 Show (whose cast included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman) and Do Not Adjust Your Set (whose cast included Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle) .Their influences can be traced from these two TV series you might not have heard of all the way to South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.
Click the image to see it at full size.
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
For the curious, I’ve got a Flickr photoset showing my current workplace, TSOT’s temporary office (we’re moving to the permanent office in January).
Click the photo to see the whole photoset.
I’ll be updating it from time to time, so check it often!