Are you a nerd with a hankerin’ for some quality food late at night? Got a deadline looming and feel the need to take the ol’ lappy with you? You may want to reconsider that in the future. An unidentified man (shocking, no?) got the smack put down on him while eating and working on his laptop by a few friendly NFL locals at a Los Angeles Denny’s on Sunday night.
According to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Police Department detective Robert Lewis said a group of people — including [Ricky Manning Jr.] — attacked a man in a Denny’s restaurant after teasing him for working on a laptop computer.
“The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd,” Lewis said, according to the Sun-Times.
Of course, we’re assuming our man-nerd was working on a project and not, well, taking his “girlfriend” out for a nice meal.
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Those darned Brits are making me feel a bit more guilty today:
“If a million PC users switched to a more efficient power supply, it would save almost the equivalent of 250 thousand litres of gasoline a day.”
No matter how easy these devices make our lives there is little doubt that they are costing us and the planet dearly.
As Mr Richards says: “If you really want to be green with your PC, when you’re done using it turn it off.”
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You know those showers at pools and locker rooms - the communal ones? They are for rinsing off only. Keep your trunks on, people.
No one wants to see your bits and jibblies. No one.
The good fellows over at Tricks of the Trade have jotted down some sound advice concerning voicemails:
When leaving a voicemail, it’s considerate to provide your number or other contact information at the beginning of the message, rather than at the end. That way, if the person wasn’t able to get the info written down or memorized on the first pass, they don’t have to re-listen to the entire message to hear it a second listen.
Let’s preface that pearl of etiquette: start off by actually leaving a message. I can’t count how many of these I’ve gotten on my voicemail before:
“Hey. It’s me. Give me a call.”
That is not a message. In light of the fact that most phones these days will display in some way/shape/form that I missed a call, you are simply being redundant (and really no smarter than the phone). I see that I missed the call. In many cases I chose to miss the call. You called, and therefore it is safe to assume that you want me to “give you a call.”
People, I’m not asking for a BBC spoken radio show here; just tell me why you called. What do you want? When do you need it by? I mean, you were going to tell me that anyway, right?
Folks, I just can’t make this stuff up on my own. I wish I could, but it turns out I’m just not that freakin’ whacked:
TOM Cruise yesterday revealed his latest bizarre mission..to eat his new baby’s placenta.
Cruise vowed he would tuck in straight after girlfriend Katie Holmes gives birth, saying he thought it would be “very nutritious”.
The Mission Impossible star, 43, said: “I’m gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I’m gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there.”
Of course, all the usual cautions about the reliability of British rags apply here. But really, given Tom’s eccentricity of late, is this that hard to believe? I guess I’ll turn down that standing invite to have dinner with the two.
Now how long until Rosie runs out and is seen eating a few placentae herself?
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The Washington Post recently penned an article discussing the bird flu, mad cow disease, and other end-of-days events that are sure to really ruin your Tuesday. One comment from the Dubya himself had me smirking in a suspiciously sardonic manner:
When President Bush went to Cleveland on Monday, a questioner asked him about a claim “that members of your administration have reached out to prophetic Christians who see the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism as signs of the apocalypse. Do you believe this, that the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism are signs of the apocalypse?”
“I haven’t really thought of it that way,” the president said. “The first I’ve heard of that, by the way.”
I doubt very much that I am the first to utter the following reaction upon reading the above quote; that, however, doesn’t diminish my desire to do so:
Bull-poopies.
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