Archive for the 'Bizarre' Category
Red Hot Balls
A recent report out claims that Laptop Computers May Affect Male Fertility… yup, you’re wizbang new laptop could be causing your boys to not work so well. The funny thing is it’s not really your laptop so much as using your lap. Apparently, “Elevated scrotal temperatures have been linked to male infertility.” — Oh yeah, that’s a great quote. Lap-top use increases those temperatures. The study found that using a laptop caused a increase of +37F but interestingly the simple position of holding something on your lap (without a laptop or anything else) resulted in a +36F increase. So really if you’re worried about your boys, you should never sit down again… or switch to boxers… or stop reading scientific studies…
Cher Photo Shoot
My new job is never dull. I’ve removed names to protect the innocent, but this was just too random not to mention.
On a recent concert stop during Cher?s ongoing Living Proof Tour, the Tour turned to [our company] for photo assistance. Store XXXX in Chattanooga, TN was called in to do a photo shoot - a passport photo shoot that is. Head Photo Specialist Christina received a call from Cher?s Tour Manager. The tour needed passport photos for 80+ people before starting the International portion of their tour - so of course they turned to the photo excellence of the [company’s] photo department. In addition to passport photos, the tour also needed additional photos for work visas in various countries resulting in the need for 6 total pictures for each person (3 passport shots). Joining Christina in the shoot was Ruby former HPS and currently PHT at the same store along with District Photo Supervisors Adam and Scott. All four employees worked together to form a seamless assembly line at the venue allowing Cher?s entourage to quickly stream through the process. Over 240 passport shots were taken, processed and delivered to grateful tour members including Cher herself. Since passport photos are essentially glorified polaroids, the company made a tidy profit even after a 10% bulk discount. Meanwhile, I got another great story to add to my already colorful career….
All in a days work. :D
Prayer Outsourcing
Apparently joining the rest of the world in outsourcing everything to India, the Catholic church is transfering prayer requests and special masses (done for a certain donation amount) to the priests in India, that both have less work and income than their American counterparts.
I will resist the obvious commentary on this as I think most people should be about to see the several layers of mockery this makes of the relationship between man and God. I would like to point out the irony that I see when compared to many computer-related professions. I mean if your priest can charge you (much like a lawyer or accountant) for his time praying for you… shouldn’t it be reasonable for your techie friend to be compensated the next time he spends two hours fixing your computer?
Tron’s Fat Brother
Here’s a funny site about a guy’s journey to be the coolest Tron friend type person there is. At a costume party at least. The pics are funny but so is some of the text so don’t miss out on great quotes like these:
It turned out to be easier than I thought, largely because acrylic paint is easy to work with. It went exactly where I told it to go. The learning curve was in figuring out how to tell it.
Thanks Kenneth
Uhm - Yeah.
This is probably fake… let’s all hope and pray… but like a train wreck where you just can’t look away…
Yeah. Mmm. Yeah.
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Bush Pig
The Bush Pig is a new -uhm- vehicle out of Australia. It’s pretty much a skateboard meets dirt bike (though some claim segway meets ATV). The strange thing is that you put your feet where you would expect the wheel hubs to be. Designed for off road use and able to reach 20 mph, this thing looks really fun -er- dangerous.
The Snooze Button
Dean Bladwin has been snaping digital pics of himself waking up for 3 years now. He rigged a digi cam up to his snooze button to “point out the subtle difference in the sameness of our daily routines; the tired eyes may look similiar, but the beard is scruffier and his sheets have been changed… part of a broader practice in which he obessively documents life’s habitually recurring and more mundane moments.”
The flash interface is pretty cool and the background tracks are worth the visit alone. From what I can gather it’s Circle Research playing Psy’d Tracked Feat. Psy of the Oddities and others…
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A-E-I-O-U…
Until recently, exercising your face required - well - some interesting efforts, such as, over-enunciating you vowels over and over, but NO MORE! Now you can get that same great work out in a new bizzare way: the Facial Gym! And apparently I’m going to have to add a new topic that encompasses all the bizzare stuff I have been finding lately.
Banana Guard
That’s right banana guard. It guards your banana. No really, your BANANA. Apparently squished banana’s in lunches has become quite a problem or perhaps the market for difficult to manufacture products is a bit to saturated right now. Anyway, it comes in a variety of colors and even a glow in the dark model (for a $1 more, of course).
Meth Math
Meth is made out of Sudafed ? Nasal Decongestant (or the generic equivolent ) and some other ingreditents that don’t really pertain to this story. Anyway the people that make Meth are idiots armed with the Internet — not amateur chemists. Y you ask? The recipe to make Meth online is designed for use with a 24 pack of Sudafed… and therefore (to increase their margins) Sudafed Nasal Decongestant in the 24 pack is a HIGH theft item at drugstores around the country.
Now here is the funny part. The 48 packs (as well as the 96 packs) are NOT. The geniuses seem completely unaware that the 48 pack is the same as 2 of the 24 packs they keep stealing. No wonder they keep blowing themselves up.