Thursday, August 28, 2008

No, this won't suck at all

Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin admits he does not understand Facebook

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has agreed to make a film about the founders of social networking site Facebook.

Sorkin, who created US TV drama The West Wing and wrote the Tom Hanks movie Charlie Wilson's War, has even opened a Facebook account to aid his research.

"I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page," he wrote.

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Wow, he "even opened a Facebook account." I really appreciate the hard work and grueling conditions that writers put themselves through in order to truly understand their subjects. Bravo Aaron Sorkin, bravo...

Lloyds is pants

This story is so random, it's kind of awesome...

A man who chose "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to "no it's not".

Steve Jetley, from Shrewsbury, said he chose the password after falling out with Lloyds TSB over insurance that came free with an account.

He said he was then banned from changing it back or to another password of "Barclays is better".

You can read the rest at BBC News

I've never heard pants used in this way, but I have to say, I'm a big fan.

From urban dictionary: pants: (h) Adjective. British. Rubbish

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Yay for random crap on the blog!

I was just playing around with the google gadgets and discovered that there's all sorts of junk I can stick in my sidebar. I added a "subscribe to" option to enable easy subscriptions to Margelisms. All 4 of you who read this blog might find it useful. I also added a random Wikipedia article and a "This Day in History" feature. Now even when I don't update the blog for weeks at a time, you can still come back and read interesting (albeit random) information.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Ticketmaster = greedy crap master

I'm going to see the Fratellis in a couple of weeks and I just bought my tickets. Awesome, they're only $25. What a deal! $8 per ticket for convenience charge? That's crap! It's not a convenience when I have no choice but to use ticketmaster. $5.15 order processing charge? What the hell is that? I buy stuff online all the time and no one ever charges me for the act of processing my order. $2.50 for the privilege of printing my tickets using my own paper and ink?! What the hell ticketmaster? I hate you so much! The two $25 dollar tickets ended up costing $73.65... nearly a 50% mark up!

Monday, August 25, 2008

What's the deal with Paris?

I've noticed a trend in my spam lately. It seems that something bizarre has been going on with Paris Hilton. I've looked over the headlines and I think I have it figured out. I'll start from the beginning...

Aug 20: Paris Hilton was caught nude in a bathroom. Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, ever the upstanding citizens, commented on this childish behavior. They clearly don't approve.

Aug 21: Paris Hilton was seen covered in excrement. That's just gross. If only we knew more... Hilton slams Pamela Anderson as "Rabid Scavenging Hyena." Ah ha! So Pamela Anderson was the one who covered Paris Hilton in excrement!

Aug 22: This was a busy day for Paris, for I'll try to take it one step at a time. Paris wakes up that morning and heads out to get the paper. Forgetting about the excrement brouhaha of the previous day, however, she forgets to shower first and the local animal control mistakes her for some sort of wild, excrement covered animal. After straightening out that embarrassing situation, she goes back inside to get ready for her day. As she gets dressed, she watches the local news on TV. That morning they air their weekly segment where Steven Hawking talks about the latest in pop culture. Paris is happy to see him defend her recent sex allegations. She makes a mental note to send him a thank you note.

Paris eventually finishes getting ready and heads to the local University where she teaches literature. That day she compares the works of Dickens and Dostoevsky. Her class is a great success, but she doesn't have time to stay and chat with her students because she has to run to the airport to catch a plane to Geneva. Today is the big day that she gets to turn on the Large Hadron Collider.

Aug 23: Paris was so proud that she got to fire up the LHC for the first time. Her years of studying particle physics finally paid off. Unfortunately for her, the LHC created a black hole that destroyed a large portion of the earth. The public demanded blood and a judge ordered her execution.

Paris, head in her hands and crying, walked from the court house to her waiting SUV. The media was everywhere and reporters from all over the world were jockeying for the best position to ask her questions. As she approached one such journalist, he suddenly lept towards her and set her on fire.

Aug 24: "She wose fwom a life of nude child pway to the height of scientific achievement only to hit wock bottom in a ball of fwames...tonight I sit down with Ms. Hiwton for an excwusive one-on-one intewview." ~Bawbwa Wawa

Wow, what a week! Thanks spam emails for keeping me up to speed!

Edit: I also received a spam email with the subject of "Britney Spears is Actually a Piece of Broccoli." That sort of deserves a post of its own.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Sir Penguin!

"It is our gift of disposition, we being well satisfied with loyalty, courage and good endowment of our trusted, well beloved Nils Olav, and proposing entire trust and confidence in you as...as a penguin, in every way qualified to receive the honor and dignity of knighthood"

You have to watch the video to truly appreciate the awesomeness...

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Random Pictures of the Day



A couple of pictures taken from on board
Molly's birthday boat ride...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Those pesky Blue Screens of Death

Did you see the opening ceremonies to the Olympics? They were incredibly technologically impressive, but Gizmodo has a post pointing out one little hiccup. Check out the link for more pictures.