David Haselhoff riding a unicorn running through a care bear

I have a friend… well, for the sake of being honest, let’s call him an acquaintance.

At any rate, the man has phenomenal artistic abilities. This afternoon I asked him to draw a picture of something completely random. I suggested the first three things that came to mind:

David Hasselhoff, riding a unicorn, running through a care bear.

Around 3 hours later he wandered over to show me what he’d churned out.

As you can see the man has more talent in his pinky than Chuck Norris has in his round house.

want to know what the worst part of this story is? Despite my immense pressure to convince him that he is sitting on a veritable internet gold mine, he has 0 interest in pursuing a blog featuring random crap churned out from his awesome mind and all-powerful hand.

“My hand hurts!” is his terse and insistent response.

Don’t waste this awesomeness! if you enjoy this mans work, let me know! I must pressure him into churning out more high quality randomness.

He had been working with a vendor from a very large and well known company for a little over a month. Over this month they’d had a few phone calls, exchanged a few emails, and held one or two ‘online demonstrations’ of the new product, in hopes of getting Thomas to make a purchase. I think it’s important to point out that I’m told Thomas in no way ever led this guy on to believe a sale was going to take place. There was no paperwork, no PO’s, no commitments.

Thomas had a particularly busy week at work, and had to put purchasing on the back burner. Apparently letting some sales calls go to voicemail was a poor decision on his part:

It kind of makes you wonder what he’s been telling “management” that’s got him so worked up. Good luck with that!

I’d also like to point out that I work in a professional office building. In a very conservative State in the Union. So while I myself am no stranger to tattoos, I was definitely surprised when I saw this one!

While some people may consider it gutsy, I asked the young lady if I could take a picture of her tattoo. More specifically the conversation went like this:

Me: Excuse me miss!

Her: <Incredibly weird “why are you talking to me” look>

Me: that is the most awesome Tattoo I have ever seen. Would you mind if I took a picture with my phone?

Her: Sure.

Me: Thanks!

And that was the end of our conversation. Here now I share a censored version with you.  Click the thumbnail above to see the picture I took.

Caution:I wouldn’t let my kids see this tattoo if I could help it! With that being said, I still saw it in my office building.

Personally, I’m not sure what would possess a person to get any kind of tattoo. At all. Part of that is my own personal life-long philosophy; some of it probably has to do with my beliefs;  Mostly my thoughts revolve around: ”What the heck is that thing and why would you want it on your arm?!?!”.

What do you think?

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If the first few dates were going good, he would take the unusual step of trying to meet the girls family. More specifically, he wanted to meet her mother to evaluate what the younger girls Fat Potential might be, based on how her mother’s appearance has panned out over the years.

If the girl appeared to be at a high risk for FP, he would frequently end the relationship within a couple of days thereafter.

Fortunately, someone was kind enough to make a ring tone of it, which you can get here. Or, for a later part of the video, try this one.

Thanks to Chris Crutchfield for his awesome remix!

In my own life, I find it difficult to understand my position until I understand the opposition.

This just in: House bill 1337 requires all U.S. Citizens to purchase tooth brushes or receive a 250$ fine, 10 days jail time, or both. Subsidies will be provided for low income families who can’t afford tooth brushes.

The narrow 51/49% vote is considered an enormous win for President Barack Obama and the democratic party, who’s approval numbers had been waining in recent months due to unfair criticism by the media and school yard bullying by the republican party.

“Now even less fortunate people with bad teeth will be able to focus more on their ‘arts and crafts’ project time and less on their dental hygiene.” – Nancy Pelosi

The Congressional Budget Office published estimates for the Bills fiscal impact, based on an implementation date of 2014. the CBO estimates that by 2017, 297 million Americans will have tooth brushes, and 220 million americans will be brushing semi-regularly. They also estimate a 250 million dollar revenue for fines and penalties imposed on brushless naysayers.

the remaining 15 million unbrushed americans are either denture wearers or newborn babies.

Update 3/22/2010 1:07 PM – Amending bill passed:

Now, all US citizens are required to brush at least 3 times a week unless they’re disabled, or on medicare in which case, tooth brushes aren’t covered. Also, members of congress aren’t required to have tooth brushes, although they’ll be provided free of charge for the duration of their term.

Update 3/22/2010 2:10 PM – Executive Order Issued:

An executive order by President Barack Obama modifies the existing legislation so that pregnant woman are encouraged to brush regularly, but won’t pay a fine if they choose not to brush.

Note: This is satire. However, it being as believable as it is should be a statement in and of its self.

My wife mentioned the other day something I too have thought about. I’ve always wondered if the color purple that I see is the same purple that you see. Color blindness aside, is there any way to really know that blue looks the same to everyone? If we traded bodily places temporarily, maybe your blue would be my red?

Food for thought.

These spectacular images of the Earth are the most true-colour images of the entire world released to date, according to Nasa scientists.

Photo: NASA

Via BBC News

From space, you can’t even tell we exist.

Here’s some illustrations that might help to clear this up.

Thoughts?