Tag: fun

I’ve received enough copies of the Bush/Saddam Verizon Wireless spoof graphic. You can stop now. Thanks.

The Lords of the Sith are ripping off Apple with their own commercials.
(Note: Ricky’s warned me that the rest of newgrounds.com isn’t work/family-friendly, so be advised. Flash required.)

Belated birthday wishes to friend and fellow ATPM staffer, Eric Blair. So what, you’re old enough to buy beer now, right? ;^)
Hope you had a great one, amigo!

Mars bar, meet Snickers Almond. Snickers Almond, the Mars bar.
Why would a company create a product that not only competes directly with one of its other products, but is nearly indistinguishable from its established product? Or is the Mars bar going to get the boot?

% unzip
% strip
% touch
% grep
% finger
% mount
% fsck
% more
% yes
% umount
% sleep
I IM’ed my wife this with the qualifier that it came from Jim and that, yes, we’re total nerds. She heartily agreed.

“Training In Progress” cries the banner outside the new Grapevine location of P.F. Chang’s. Two minutes from the office, about 15 minutes from the house. No more half-hour-minimum drives for our favorite Chinese bistro! Chicken lettuce wraps! Chang’s Spicy Chicken! Mongolian Beef! Yum!

Thanks to Gary and Chuq, I blew water out my nose when reading this. Highly entertaining.

The March 3 issue of Business Week features a blurb regarding controlling your credit card usage. In the past, the solution to credit card overusage has been to cut up the card–which leaves you stuck in the event of an emergency. A tip from the book Good Advice for a Bad Economy suggests that you put your credit cards in a sandwich bag full of water, then stick the bag in the freezer.
This way, you have access to the cards in the even of an emergency, but “impulses must wait for the ice to thaw.”