Archive for August, 2004
Excuses, Excuses
It has been said that “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. Along a similar vein, I say “The road to mediocrity is paved with excuses”. Which is why I have adopted a new motto: No Excuses.
No CommentsDiamonds Are Forever
These are some funny/crude pics making fun of the whole Diamonds Are Forever ads that you often see. I took out the more crude of the bunch, but I’m sure you can find them w/ Google if these 3 aren’t enough.
Engineering Accuracy
This came out a while ago but its soo cool it’s worthy of a permanent place in everyone’s favorites list.
In addition, it’s two minutes long so every time Honda airs the film on British television, they’re shelling out enough dough to keep any one of us in clover for a lifetime. However, it is fast becoming the most down loaded advertisement in Internet history. Honda executives figure the ad will soon pay for itself simply in “free” viewings. (Honda isn’t paying a dime to have you watch this commercial!).
When the ad was pitched to senior executives, they signed off on it immediately without any hesitation-including the costs. There are six and only six handmade Accords in the world. To the horror of Honda engineers, the filmmakers disassembled two of them to make the film. Everything you see in the film (aside from the walls, floor, ramp, and complete Honda Accord) are parts from those two cars. When the ad was shown to Honda executives, they liked it and commented on how amazing computer graphics have gotten. They fell off their chairs when they found out it was for real.
Kozo
Low Rider Bike
Finally, now you can get that needed NEON glow for your low rider bike — as in bicycle. For SAFETY, of course, not to be fly down from the west side ‘E - or anything like that.
No CommentsHello This Is OnStar
This site has a few humorous transcripts from some OnStar customers that DIDN’T make the commercial.
No CommentsThat Ought To Hold It
Kuban Engineering is this: use rules of thumb, guess-imations, and rounding to figure out how strong of a board or bolt you need… and then double or triple your numbers for good measure.
No CommentsKaKaKa-Quotes
“If you going to do something, you might-as-well do it right.” — Kubanism
“Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.” — Best Fortune Cookie To Date
No CommentsWe Blow It Up.com
Everybody likes seeing things blow up, but now you can have the stuff you hate star in the explosive footage - for a small fee, of course. Yes for $100 this web site will blow X up for your (generally some type of electronics that has pissed you of for the last time) and send you the footage. They have a demo video that is fun both for the cool explosions but also for the background comments of the “explosive experts” enjoying their work.
No CommentsMosquito Forecast
While they have yet to perfect their ability to predict rain, the Weather Channel apparently are able to determine in the relative amount of mosquitos in your area down to two hour intervals. Amazing.
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