Media Matters awards ABC News their "Misinformer of the Year" prize. Congrats ABC News on not doing your civic duty and being crappy. You are a true embarrassment to your profession which admittedly isn't saying much.
Monthly Archive for December, 2006
Tonight I'm presented with a problem that has haunted me my whole life: Work or Fun? I've got a big project due tomorrow which I naturally haven't started yet. I also happen to be the new proud owner of a X-Box 360, purchased just last night and still sitting unopened in my living room. It comes down to this: will I resist the sirens call of the X-Box and focus on the work that needs to be done? Or will I succumb to the inevitable and play NBA Live '07 all night?
The old, high school/college Jake wouldn't even have regarded this as a choice: I'd be playing X-Box, no question about it. I'd probably come up with some lame excuse for why I didn't complete my homework, if I bothered to come up with an excuse at all and then I'd hand in the work a month late, if I handed it in at all. Good times. It remains to be seen what the "new", older, wiser Jake will do. I regard it as a sign of progress that I'm at least thinking about being "responsible" and doing my work.
I'm planning on at the very least bringing all the stuff I need to complete said project home with me so I can be ready to accomplish something should my more mature impulses (of which I have very few) win out. It remains to be seen if I'll actually do anything productive. I thought about pulling an all-nighter a la college but with the Orlando Crew coming in tomorrow night I'm probably headed for nights without sleep already. Such is life.
I like to think I can hold my own with pretty much anyone in the drinking department (this is not necessarily a positive attribute). My sister and I (stop reading mom) have thought about doing a drink-for-drink contest between the two of us but we've come to the realization that neither of us would stop until we had blacked out, making a winner hard to determine. Not knowing when to stop is apparently a family gene, one we are quite proud of.
So having said that I give the gentleman in this video mad props for going four brews in a row. Impressive. I think I could replicate this feat with the caveat being that I'm known for spilling drinks all over my shirt, as has been documented in countless photos, and so at least half would wind up on me rather then in me. To this guy's credit he seems to get it all in without any spillage.
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Anyone know Miss Nevada 2007? Want to hook me up? She seems like my kinda girl. Honestly, who cares about pictures like that? Young people go out and get drunk and crazy. There are pictures of me out there that don't paint me in the greatest light. Kids will be kids and take pictures showing off their thongs or making out with other girls. Thats what America's all about. One wonders how many political careers will be ended or at least sidetracked by things found on social networking sites like facebook and myspace. Now that I think about it, maybe there's some things I should take down. Eh, fuck it.
Gilbert responds to hating Kobe. Stop hating Kobe.
Continuing the theme from a recent post about if I had played football, If I had played basketball instead of being all-league in wrestling, then I would have been dunking like this routinely. Oh LeBron.
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(via Deadspin)
It's the holidays and all and my secretary brought her adorable four-year old kid in to the office today because he doesn't have any school. We've been hanging out all morning because I don't really feel like working today. His mother brought in a four pack of playdough for him to play with and he's been making me little sculptures as presents and leaving them on my desk for me.
This is all well and good except for the fact that this playdough is giving off some sort of toxic chemical-like fumes that have given me the biggest headache in the world and more then likely are slowly killing me. The fact that I currently have something like 10 pounds of playdough sitting next to me, in various weird psychedelic shapes, is not helping the situation.
Frankly I'd rather he went back to his previous present idea which was covering my desk in yellow sticky notes that had various misspellings of my name on them. That was some what annoying but lacked the accompanying nauseating headache that the play dough has.
I've solicited advice from people who are good with small kids but I really need help quickly. Somethings got to give here, I might pass out any second now. I should also note that one of the sculptures he made for me he referred to, I believe, as his "pee pee". So I've got that going for me, which is nice.
It's not as good as the Bush/Kerry video they made but Jib Jab has put out it's 2006 year in review video. Kinda funny, kinda catchy. (via TechCrunch)
When I have kids (to my knowledge I don't have any at the moment, if you are aware of any offspring I might have, please shoot me an email) I'm going to fuck with them so bad. Not in a bad way, more in a "give them funny haircuts when they are younger and other stuff" type way. How could you not? I could totally see myself doing something like the parent's in this video. Hats off to them.
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(via Kottke)