Month: November 2003

AKMA, a vegetarian for over a decade now, points to What is the Meatrix?, a Flash animation about meat and factory farms. Don’t let the fact that it’s from PETA throw you off; for once, they’ve created something entertaining, even if you don’t agree with their radical vegetarian propaganda.

I’m having too much fun with the Church Sign Generator! I’ll have to do some real work after this, though…

Yeah, that’s right, the party — featuring the hot tub truck — is happening tomorrow night!

This one goes out to my buddy AKMA. I like the way he cringes whenever I say the words “folk mass”.

I think everybody knows this now, so it’s not really a “spoiler”:

Daaaaaamn right:

This web page lets you create photos of your own customized church signs like the one shown below:

[Thanks to MetaFilter for the link!]

While searching for some web-based information on contributions made to the candidates for the race to become Accordion City’s next mayor, I stumbled across a Flash-based game called Whack the Mayor. As the name suggests, it’s a “Whack-a-Mole” style of game featuring the candidates. What makes the game interesting is that there’s more than just candidate-whacking; the game is also a question-and-answer session. The candidates are all asked a question, and then you move your whacking hammer over each candidate’s head to see a satirically-played-up answer. You whack the candidate whose answer you like least, after which another question appears, and the cycle is repeated until one candidate remains.

To make things more interesting, the game keeps track of the last candidate standing for each visitor, so it’s an unofficial opinion poll of sorts. Here are the results as of 9:45 pm EST on Thursday, November 6, 2003:

The results are pretty close to what actual polls seem to be showing, except that when last I checked, Miller had the lead, followed by Tory. The other three candidates seem to be doing as well as their whack-a-candidate counterparts.

In observance of the convention that’s being practiced by other Accordion City blogs, I’m tagging this blog entry with the Last Chance City button linking to its namesake, Rick McGinnis’ excellent blog on the mayoral election.

My friend Wes Felter recently wrote about a computer that he’s building using premium parts. He describes it in a blog entry titled Wes’s Penultimate Linux Box.

I believe that by “penultimate”, he meant to say “archetypal”, “quintessential” or maybe even good ol’ “best”. However, that’s not what “penultimate” means. It means “second to last”.

To really mess with people’s heads, start making use of the word “antepenultimate”, which means “third to last”.

Gentlemen, start your ovens: I just found out via MetaFilter that today is “National Men Make Dinner” day.

There’s a set of official rules, one of which is “Man agrees not to be within 30 feet of TV remote during cooking process”. Sound thinking. I know a guy who burned Jell-O™. While the powder-and-water mixture was boiling, he took a quick look to see what was on TV and got transfixed by an Andre the Giant vs. Hulk Hogan wrestling match (this was int he eighties). he subsequently forgot about the Jell-O™, which has boiled dry and turned into a hard lump of old-style-iMac-like plastic that refused to be scraped or washed off.

Another thing to note: according to the list of “Foods that should not be part of Men Make Dinner Day”, barbecued food is not allowed. It’s about kitchen cooking. I wonder if they’ll make exceptions for the George Foreman Grill or those people fortunate to have Jenn-Air™ stoves.

My housemate Paul and I are pretty decent cooks, so most days at the house are “National Men Make Dinner Day” anyway. If you haven’t yet learned how to cook, we’d like to remind you:

• You’re not really a grown-up until you’re capable of feeding yourself.
• Cooking at home is a great way to eat healthier and save money.
• Most importantly (at least for us eligible bachelors): It gets you chicks.

Get cooking!