Moms Love Sliders

Here's a classic White Castle ad. Sliders make moms ecstatic.

Grizzly Adams?

They made a Grizzly Adams action figure? Evidently, they did, and with karate chop action, just like Big Jim. This one is wearing a G.I. Joe jacket.

Bleah and Stuff

The IRS is questioning something or other about the sale of our company that happened some time back. Something about the worth of Creator or other such accounting gobbledeegook. Shit that has nothing to do with the engineers. But, the IRS said they wanted to talk to the engineers, obviously because they have no idea what we do. A meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, with another meeting on Tuesday to talk to our lawyers about the Wednesday meeting. Again, nothing to do with engineers.

This morning I called and said the roads sucked and asked if they were really interested in risking my life for this stupid fucking meeting. Yes, they were. So, I sucked it up and headed out at noon. The roads were worse than what the DOT web site reported, mostly ice–covered, varying from 30-50 MPH, slower for the gawker slowdowns near the many accidents. It would've taken me over 12 hours to get to Peoria at that rate. Luckily, I got a call just before I hit Faribault, about 50 miles—or an hour and 45 minutes—from home and said the meeting was canceled. I told my manager, "it's about fucking time," and pulled off at Faribault and relaxed a bit from the white–knuckle drive, chock full of complete morons zooming past in the left lane because they are so much more important than everyone else.

Got home and worked, rather than wasting 3 days of not working because of that goddamned meeting. Went out later and blew snow all over the place. Yeeha to that!

Drums & Guitar & Acid

Clearly, those are the only 3 things you need to make a band. What a waste of some cool old North drums. You'd think these guys would be freaking out the little kids, but it must be normal for them in Turkey.

Evel's Porsche

If Evel Knievel drove a 4WD Porsche 914-6, it probably woulda looked something like this:

Obama Hates Brains

That's the only reason I can think of why he would make yet another stupid decision. Great, why not also cancel the public school program?

How to Make a News Video

The British are so good at comedy.

Phone Car

Remember how phone company trucks used to be painted?

2 Things That Made Me Smile

The first was this cover of a Bananas magazine. I used to read them in grade school. Don't think I had this issue. The one I do remember had J.J. Walker on the cover with the "dyn-o-mite" in large letters. Of course.

The second was this Photochop of Bob Ross in the most famous M.C. Escher drawing.

And really, what the hell do Kiss, Elton John, and Elvis have in common that they listed them on the front cover? Not many 10-year old Elvis fans in 1976, except Jim Tinnes.

iPhone Voice Band

This is a fantastic idea for musicians who get inspirations in weird places, like riding their bike or sitting on the can. As long as nobody does it around other people. That would be annoying.

Spock and Kirk Albums

Need some Nimoy and Shatner mp3's? Who doesn't. (Shatner's is a lot more listenable, because it's totally tongue–in–cheek and schlocky.) But what fewer people need are Mary Lou Retton records.

And since it's not at all obvious, the links are the name/title lines at the top of each of those pages.

Snow Screw Tractor

Here's a neat way to propel a tractor across snow and ice. Although it would suck when you hit a patch of dry pavement (not a lot of that in 1929). Fordson; that's what Mr. Douglas' Hoyt–Clagwell was really.

Ram Yamahauler

I thought I'd better paint the Ram the same color as my own, then added something extra, inspired by the Yamahauler van of the early '70s.

My god! It's full of stripes!

7th grade science teacher Mr. Wright had a Rabbit. He gave me a ride home once. I dug the golf ball shift knob (cuz they were always a Golf in Europe). The Forza boys even put in the dome light and sun visors.

The Shorpy Time Machine

This is cool. This Shorpy post features a photo of a little girl in the window (view the full size image), watching the photographer in 1926. In the comments below (on Shorpy, not here) is a photo taken of her in front of the house in 2009, as well as a message from her.

Updated Vette

I always liked the John Greenwood Corvettes raced at Sebring, Le Mans, and Daytona endurance races in the early '70s. I had a newish Vette sitting around that I needed to use, so I gave it some decent paint. The hardest part was doing the black pinstripe around the side graphics.

I Told You They Were Weird

Take a look at the letterhead used by the Church of Scientology of California circa 1976. It's horrible, horrible, horrible. Interesting site, though. Some of the letterheads are perfect (20th Century–Fox, Lawrence Welk, etc), obviously designed by someone who knows design and layout rather than by a brainwashed freak.

Mediacom's New Web Sites Suck

Mediacom has been redoing its entire internet system, it seems. First mail was hosed for some customers for a few weeks. Now they've switched to some new web page system that is horrible. I don't know why they couldn't just leave our old sites alone. Nope. They had to move them—breaking them in the process—and then really didn't explain anything. There are new Personal Web Page publishing/editing tools available online, but they are the most annoying, ugly, hard–to–understand pieces of shit I've ever seen. They look like they were designed by Hadji in India. Nothing makes sense. Few things work. It's ugly as hell. They don't support Safari, and that's complete bullshit. It's a total failure.

So I re–uploaded my sites to their server, but I still don't see my stuff when I visit it. Then noticed they moved my old files to a folder named "public". So I downloaded the site so I could move the real stuff into that folder, delete it from the old location, and upload it again, but it keeps puking when it gets to one of their folders named "img". Why? Because some genius decided to name files bgGrey.jpg and bggrey.jpg. That's legal on most Unixes, but not on any other OS that uses the far more friendly case–insensitive naming convention.

So fuck Mediacom. I'm no longer going to use their servers. I'll stick them on my iDisk and retain control without all the bullshit that some Mediacom idiot thought was a great idea.