Too Much To Read

January 29th, 2007 • General Hilarity
Tags: bLaugh

Given my recent revelation (to you and myself) that I read a lot of blogs, I found this comic particularly funny.

Five Things You Don’t Care To Know

January 13th, 2007 • 3 comments General Hilarity
Tags: Barrett-Comiskey, cello, David-Ratajczak, Ethan-Zuckerman, five-things, Georgia-Institute-of-Technology, magazines, Nabeel-Hyatt, sumo, Susan-Wu, Toyota-4Runner, Xavier-Cassanova

Coty, you are a rat bastard for doing this. You, of all people, know that I’ve got a zillion things going on and I have no time for such a game. Sigh. I almost didn’t play along when I read Jeff Pulver’s original post about this and saw a glaring grammatical error (try and find it). But heck, I’ll play along. Here are five things you may, or may not, know about me.

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Smoking Ban in Hawai’i

January 5th, 2007 • Business, General Hilarity, Travels
Tags: Hawaii, Japan, smoking, tourism

I saw this little snippet which is a welcome sign for Hawai’i:

Hawaii just passed one of the toughest non-smoking laws in the United States. This past November, the Smoke-Free Hawaii Law went into effect—banning smoking in restaurants, bars and places of business and in doorways.

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Malcontent Blogger

January 4th, 2007 • General Hilarity
Tags: bLaugh, ReviewMe

Given my recent post for ReviewMe, this was funny.

Funny Movie Quote About the NSA

December 21st, 2005 • 1 comment General Hilarity

Now that finals are done, I’m hanging out at home working on stuff. A side benefit (?) of this is I’m watching a lot of random television during the day. I’m watching the movie Sneakers right now and heard this exchange:

Dick Gordon (Timothy Busfield’s character who works for the NSA): National Security Agency.
Martin Bishop (Robert Redford’s character who is a security expert): Ah. You’re the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
Dick Gordon: No, that’s the FBI. We’re not chartered for domestic surveillance.
Martin Bishop: Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators.
Dick Gordon: No, that’s the CIA. We protect our government’s communications, we try to break the other fella’s codes. We’re the good guys, Marty.
Martin Bishop: Gee, I can’t tell you what a relief that is, Dick.

(emphasis added by me)

Man, this movie is so 1990s…