Got passed by this guy on the way to work the other day. I thought of a number of appropriate post titles for this Austin Powers wannabe (“Your goolies aren’t that groovy, baby!”), but you can only use one. I guess this would probably fit over at Tacky Raccoons, where Bunk has an entire category devoted to cars apparently intended to attract women. This one certainly looks better, apart from the license plate.
As is usual, click for larger.
All is well.
Via Ghost of a Flea.
If you don’t already have plans on how to spend it, you might be able to find something in the Acme catalog.
Well, I guess you can, because someone did.
My youngest brother likes spy stuff: Bond movies, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, and the like. I just picked up a book for him at a local used book store. It’s The Man From T.O.M.C.A.T #2: The Million Missing Maidens, by Mallory T. Knight, printed in 1967.
The cover blurb reads:
Under orders to deflower every virgin he can find, T.O.M.C.A.T Agent O’Shane comes up against evil beauty Gisela Vultch as he seeks the secret of her strange orgiastic cult.
I’ve only given the first chapter a quick once-over, because of that and the back-cover blurb, a portion of which is:
The Man From T.O.M.C.A.T. could not have devised a more stimulating assignment. Until, hoisted aboard Merdalor’s mystery-ship, O’Shane found himself the only man on a vessel carrying two hundred virgins, five hundred monkeys and a pair of armed Lesbians.
The character names are horrendous: Merdalor is the bad guy of the story, a brilliant biochemist who was an associate of Heinrich Himmler during WWII, and is now head of a cult known as Systemology. Merdalor’s companion “was Hund Scheiskopf, mathematician, physicist, and ardent Nazi.” O’Shane’s boss is Duncan MacSwiver. The Willick sisters, Fanny and Hilly, show up again (they were apparently in the first book).
I tell you, I don’t know whether to give my brother the book or burn it to save his sanity.
It’s too late for me, now.
… if any of them ever wander in here. Found at The Last of the Few (probably NSFW overall, depending on where you work, although this link should be ok).
… even if it’s called Phun. A 2-D physics simulator, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Be sure to watch the video.
The Big Guy points to a time-travel story in Wiki format. That puts me in mind of this fantasy story in blog format.
As a related aside, here’s a short film on a similar subject.
What global warming?
Note: Both of these photos come from a column written by Jack Ganssle for Embedded Systems Design magazine on programmers being insufficiently paranoid about how their code handles errors.
Tom Waits on Fernwood Tonight:
Found at Tacky Raccoons.
