Funny things I've seen in the last 24 hours

Graffiti in a bar bathroom: "Tom Daschill eats gypsy babies".

Bumperstickers: "Sucks gas & Hauls ass" next to "Horn broken, watch for finger". (Not funny so much as "Hey redneck, who invited you to the big city today?").

Heavy machinery: I saw a heavy-duty wood chipper. The kind that landscaping companies tow behind their bigass trucks. The model name of this particular chipper seemed to be "The Intimidator". And I thought...who exactly are you intimidating? The trees?

CTRL-V: While browsing a website, my right hand brushed a few keys at once on the right side of my keyboard (most likely Control, shift, left arrow, maybe the wierd Windows Menu key). In the text field (where my cursor was) the word "crapface" appeared. I don't remember typing "crapface" at any point...ever...in my life. And when I did a 'paste' to see what was in my copy/paste buffer, the video card model I had been researching earlier was pasted: "Xtasy 9600".

Welcome to my world...

"The Tech-Support Generation"
(story from MSNBC)

Millions of young Americans will head home next week to give thanks, eat turkey … and fix their parents’ computers.

Sellout

I couldn't do it...I couldn't resist that ol' consumer urge. I made the mistake of perusing the "Black Friday" newspaper advertisements late in the day Friday and found a few killer deals that I really wanted to take advantage of.

So what, you may ask, is the price of my soul? I'll tell you:

One 50% off coupon for Michael's Craft stores (seemingly gay, I know...but I needed a mat cutter for photography stuff). Grand savings of $50.

The deals that I saw and missed (and am pissed about) becuase my iron will kept me out of the stores during the *really* good shopping times):

One Doom3 video game $20 (a savings of: $30)
One ATI video card $80 (a savings of: $120!)

The realization that I am, in fact, a sheep isn't nearly as disturbing (or embarassing) as the price at which I am able to justify (to myself) being that sheep.

baaaaa.

Torn

Today, "Black Friday" as the marketers have dubbed it, I stand before you a man devided. I am torn between my desire to not follow the herd and run out and "spend!, spend!, spend!...buy! buy! buy!" (like the malls and TV commercials and newspaper ads tell me I should) and my desire to score some new stuff cheap.

Sometimes, it's difficult being me.

Bumpersticker

This is the mentality which makes me fear the next four years.


(As seen on a bigass SUV bumper in VA (no surprise there)).

Nothing says "third-world dictatorship" like shooting a few people you disagree with.

Onion

I know it's supposed to be satire, but man, sometimes they just hit things right on the head over at The Onion:

"Nation's Poor Win Election For Nation's Rich"

Sweet!
8:59pm Sunday

Travel Channel 9:00pm, World Poker Tour: American Chopper vs. Trading Spaces. Most interesting Sunday night TV since the Sopranos and Six Feet Under ended.

UPDATE
11:00pm Sunday

Well, that wasn't nearly as exciting as I had hoped. I wanted something more like "Celebrety Poker Showdown" where the players talk and interact with each other more. In "Poker Tour", the announcers spent the whole time commenting, with very little from the players. Worse yet, the one announcer took every opportunity to call into question the sexual preference of the Trading Spaces host. Constantly remarking about him singing "show tunes in his head" and other "show tunes" related comments. Why didn't he just say "the little fag is going all-in" and be done with it?? Too much of a pussy...guess he had to beat around the bush and imply.

(Note: I have no idea of the sexual preference of the Trading Spaces host guy. But I got annoyed pretty quickly at the Poker Showdown host and his implications (if that's the right word)). Anyway...