Link of the Day

Sign Language - from Gigglesugar: Funny signs from around the world. Make sure to scroll to the bottom and continue reading the next several pages. There is some serious laugh out loud stuff there.

Hamodia Pulls a Reuters

As seen here, it looks like the Hamodia was trying to pull a Reuters:

The image appeared in the June 5th  Hebrew edition.

In Honor of Don Imus

Dry-Cleaned USB Drive

Over the last two days, I was wondering what had happened to my USB drive. It doesn’t have too many school things on it, but I do have some other random important things on it. Much to my dismay, my wife pulled it out of the dryer this evening. Apparently, it had gone through both the washer and dryer.

After cleaning off the lint and with much prayer (this thing retails for $80; I got it for $30 over Thanksgiving), I plugged it into my computer. Amazingly enough, it lit up right away. It took a second to load, but everything is exactly where it should be and the entire thing is intact! No files missing, nothing corrupt, it’s all good.

Wow.

On a totally irrelevant note, http://www.aishel.net now points to this blog.

Baltimore Signage

I saw a sign today while at the laundromat washing my comforters:

 NO CASH OR NARCOTICS ON PREMISES

Of course this was on the other side of Reisterstown Rd.

Steve Jobs Prank Calls Starbucks

While giving an iPhone demonstration, Steve Jobs shows how he can pull up a map of all the Starbucks‘ in his neighborhood and call whichever one he wants.  I wonder if the employee of that Starbucks will ever know that she actually spoke to the CEO of Apple.

LMAO

This is hysterical:

The Orioles, Jobs, Help with Problems, and Bikkur Cholim

Anyone else see the ad on the top of page 116 of Baltimore’s latest Where What When?  In one half-page ad, there’s a plea for everyone to petition to baseball commissioner Bud Selig to make Mr. Angelos sell the Orioles, a blurb about a service for finding jobs, helping with problems, and getteing better care in a nursing home, and a request for people to do Bikkur Cholim.

Talk about a mix of unrelated ads.

Pickup line overheard at Starbucks

I was at the newest Starbucks in Baltimore doing some homework when two older adults, aged approximately 75 years old, walked in.  They had apparently never been to Starbucks before because they were wondering about ordering a small or medium coffee, and the cashier kept on explaining that small was tall, medium was grande, and large was vente.  Like three times.

Anyway, the guy finally orders his coffee, when the following conversation takes place:

Cashier (~17 year old girl): “Would you like cream or sugar with your coffee?”
Old man #1: “No thanks. If you want, though, you can stir the coffee with your finger.  That will definitely sweeten it up.”
Cashier: [Half-hearted laughter]
Old man #2:  “Don’t  listen to him, he’s a dirty old man!”

I was sitting in my seat hearing this, and I started laughing out loud, as did the people sitting at the next table over. Regardless of the inappropriateness of his flirting, I thought it was a funny and clever line.

Amazing Astronomy Picture

Here’s a picture of Saturn right when the sun is directly behind it.  Even cooler, if you look at the high-res picture, you can see Earth on the left side, just inside the second to outermost ring.

Romance in the blogosphere

I came across several dating oriented blogs that are obviously all by the same person.  I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry. In any case, here they are. Some of these look brand new.  Others look like they’ll never have another post.  I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

First, to get a date, you have to make sure to ask the appropriate questions.  For example, does the SDJ  have the same cellphone carrier, so they can use shared minutes?  Lots more crazy date questions here.  Once you have your date all lined up, you need a place to go. Like Starbucks or Target. Therefore, we have the next blog, called Great Date Places.  Unfortunately, your date often times ends up being crazy, so we try to put a stop to it by creating blogs in hope that these people will find the stories about themselves and learn to become normal.  But if that doesn’t happen, there’s still hope.  Because chances are, they’ll give you a sign that it’s time to move on.

It may be hard to believe, but everyone will find the right one eventually.  And when you do, it’s important to publicize how he proposed.  And to get rid of these pre-marriage jitters, there is one more blog to talk about marriage and such.

Guns ‘n Rabbis

The latest movie I got from my area Redbox (using another free code from the website I linked to previously, of course) was Lucky Number Slevin. In the movie, there are two mob bosses, the Boss and the Rabbi, and they go after each other in the movie.

The movie itself was excellent. Great action, lots of interesting and unpredictable twists, shooting, great plot, etc. The only thing I didn’t like was the way they portrayed the Rabbi. Now I don’t know if they’re making it so ridiculous that it is supposed to be obvious that it is fake, or if this is what they think we actually do. For example, two of the Rabbi’s henchmen are supposed chassidim. One of them has a buzz cut (I’m talking about a zero), with a yarmulke that looks, plain and simply, silly on the guys head. The other guy also has the buzz cut, but he also has a Chassidic hat with the curled payos. The only problem with the second guy is that he doesn’t have a beard, just a five o’clock shadow. Since when do chassidim shave their beards? (BTW, I see this was brought up here).

Later, when Slevin walks in on the Rabbi, the scene shows the Rabbi with his yarmulke suddenly on, and he is reading from a seemingly real sefer torah, using a yad. The room is also filled with things that are significantly Jewish. The walls have Hebrew lettering, there’s a menorah in plain sight, etc.

The whole way they portrayed Judaism is just plain and simply weird. But either way, it was a fun movie and I recommend it to all.

Mary Christmas

Link:

Don’t bother making jokes. This family has heard them all. No, they don’t communicate directly with Santa Claus. They don’t celebrate the holidays year-round, and they certainly have some not-so-cheerful days. The smirks and the wisecracks are just part of life when your last name is Christmas, and especially so when two of your family members are named _ no joke _ Mary.

“People ask me all the time, `What were your parents thinking?’” said the younger Mary Christmas, 30. “I never minded. It’s a conversation piece.”

Wow.  I would definitely mind!

Time Person of the Year: Aishel

I’ve been trying to fill up space in my awards section on my resume, so luckily, Time just awarded me Time Person of the Year:

 Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I’m not going to watch Lost tonight. I’m going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I’m going to mash up 50 Cent’s vocals with Queen’s instrumentals? I’m going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?

The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you.

When the sun goes down, Hannukah’s on!

Today’s woot.com podcast features a cool song about Chanukah starting tonight:

Click to play