Higher Education

So, a few weeks ago I am working a job at Brown University. I work for a video production company. I believe the President of Brown was retiring and we set up a projector and screen for some video of his. Also they unveiled his painting. Fascinating stuff. The meal was filet mignon. Lets you see how the other half lives.
Before continuing, I should also mention that Brown is an Ivy League institution. I would assume that the professors there are top minds.
At any rate, around the end of the evening, I found myself in the men's room amongst several of the aforementioned august intellects. In the men's room was, of course, a paper towel dispenser. It was the type of dispenser that instructs one to pull the towel straight down with "two hands," after which the towel tears off automatically, and a new paper towel edge emerges. Now, should this mechanism fail, the dispenser handily instructs the user that "If no paper, turn wheel," with arrows indicating bright red 3-spoke wheels to either side of the opening.
At this point I would just like to point out the irony of the message "if no paper, turn wheel." IF THERE IS REALLY NO PAPER, HOW IS TURNING A WHEEL GOING TO HELP?
Of course, we all understand what this stunted phrase means, so it's cool.
Unfortunately, while I was in the bathroom, the paper towel had failed to emerge from the opening. This is the situation in which one would "turn wheel."
THREE IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE PROFESSORS AHEAD OF ME COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE PAPER TOWELS OUT OF THE DISPENSER.

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Wow

Whoever made this comic is on some serious drugs. The first one is funny, the rest are just plain WEIRD.



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Yet another reason to abolish children

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/14/1173722513504.html



Ahh, kids. Gotta love 'em. God bless their wee souls.



Seriously though, why would anyone ever have children?

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OK

I have a new way to spell "Irish," just in time for the holiday: EYERISCH. Just go with it.

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What a waste of life . . .

While browsing randomly I come across a guy who is animating at least the first Star Wars movie in text characters. He calls it "Asciimation." I have tried, and I cannot think of a bigger waste of time and life. Feel free to check it out, but don't spend too long. It's time you will never get back and wish you could.



http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

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Iran's Fantastic Nuclear Power Plant

Check out this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070205/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_centrifuges_dc_2



This is a picture of the spiffy anti-aircraft guns deployed around Iran's Natanz nuclear plant. Now, I would love to know if anyone has ever heard of any power plant anywhere that has needed anti-aircraft guns. Does Iran really think that an innocent power plant is in danger of being attacked? It seems just slightly more likely that Iran is worried about an attack on what is sure to be a weapons-grade (and weapons-intended) uranium enrichment site.

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Mooninites Attack!

Fans of the Cartoon Network Program "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" will know that Err and Ignignokt, those self-aggrandizing Mooninites, have every time failed to strike their desired level of fear into anyone. Until now. As you all probably know, Boston city officials freaked out yesterday (1/31/07) when several "suspicious objects . . .composed of electronic circuit boards with LED lights attached" were discovered hanging at public transportation sites around the city. Sounds ominous, right? Unfortunately, these objects don't look ominous. At all. As seen in the video below, the "objects" were LED signs depicting the beloved Mooninites giving the "finger."



At first, like many of you, I was amazed that anyone would both fail to recognize the characters, and go so far as to report the devices as suspicious. When you think about it however, we have no idea how many people saw the devices and dismissed them as innocent and/or amusing, before going on about their business, because none of those people would report anything, would they?
Now, here's where I think it could get interesting. If I were a terrorist, I would look at these "Guerrilla Ad Campaigns" and conclude that this would be a fantastic way to disguise an actual attack! After all, these devices were placed in 10 other cities, and failed to incite the panic that they did here in Boston. Here is a quote from "Brainiac's" blog on boston.com,
"But one question remains: If these devices (as we've now heard) were installed in 10 other cities, including New York -- where a terrorist attack has actually happened -- as long as three weeks ago, why was Boston the only city to misinterpret their nature and freak out?"
So I guess we can look at this two ways. Either we in Boston are paranoid, or else we are really smart. Because what happens when some enterprising young terror fanatic realizes the chaos he can create with a stunt like this? At the very least, it would seem that Err and Ignignokt have finally inspired the level of fear they wanted so much.