Which Is Worse? Plane Crashes Or Confidence Crashes?

Ok, let me get this straight. NASA is commissioned to do a survey about air-travel safety. They survey 24000 pilots over 4 years. they find out that incidents of near collisions and runway interference is much higher than government statistics, so…they decide to withhold the results and purge them?

Apparently, they just don’t want us to know because it would undermine the economy. Um, don’t we have a right to know? Or, at the very least, doesn’t the data need to go to someone who can do something about lowering these horribly high statistics? God, maybe the things that happen on Mayday happen more than we think!

Sing A Song of Synth Clips

We have known about something for years that just has to go up here. Hell, I think we knew about it before there was a vomit comet. Why it wasn’t already up here, I don’t know, but better late than never, I guess.

There is a site, the owners of which have way too much time on their hands. On the site are mp3’s of their creations. They have gone to dictionary.com, with lyrics of songs in hand. When this site was created, you could hit a button after looking up a word and dictionary.com would use synthesized voices to let you hear how it should be pronounced. Apparently, you have to pay for this now, but that’s beside the point.

So, the strangely talented makers of this site, who are funny but must be very, very odd, captured all the synthesized representations of all the words to a song, set them to music, and voila! We have dictionaraoke.org!

Um, yep. I don’t know what’s funnier, Take On Me, or Waterloo. Yeah, these folks are total geeks. Enjoy, if you can stand to listen very long.

Wacky Word Fact Of The Day

Irregardless, the almost universally hated bit of English that it is, is a real word that is recognized by more than one dictionary. But before you start thinking that all those people who ever called you stupid for using it are the dumb ones, consider that the dictionaries that list it actually all but tell you not to use it because it’s so ridiculous.

I never would have thought in a million years that irregardless was in any way thought of as real vocabulary, but then I saw this in my email and figured it had to be some kind of joke. Guess not.

Don’t Mess With These People

Tajuan Bullock should consider himself a very lucky man. He doesn’t, but he should. Why? He robbed a house, and when the owners caught him at it, they made him clean up his mess at gunpoint. They didn’t shoot him. they just made him clean it up…and wait for the cops, of course. When the police arrived, the burglar actually had the nerve to complain about how he was treated. Not surprisingly, he didn’t get any sympathy.

All I can say is it’s a good thing he wasn’t in Texas robbing Dennis Baker, or he’d be dead right now.

This Deal Stinks

This is a message to everyone on Facebook. If you have the sudden urge to throw poop at your friends’ facebook walls, you might want to think about whether it’s worth it.

Here’s how the poop throw works. It’s apparently part of this thing called Food Fight. In Food Fight, you pay virtual dollars to fling food at people’s Facebook walls. How do you get those virtual dollars? You provide them with personal information. Now, guess what they do with that personal information. If you guessed give it out to advertising companies so they can very carefully target ads at *you*, and do who knows what else, you win a prize.

I can hear you now. “Where’s the poop?” you say. You need a hell of a lot more virtual dollars to be able to throw a big ol’ chunk o dung at Buddy Joe. So, that means giving up more personal information, and perhaps information about Joe who receives the splat bomb.

Here’s where I start to get scared. People are doing it! People are willingly handing over mass amounts of private information just so they can fling fake feces. Honestly, folks, does sacrificing personal data for a virtual shit-fling seem like a fair trade? I certainly don’t think so.

Fools, all of them. But the advertisers just think it’s wonderful. While Seth Goldstein, the one who created this monster, says the thought of what his own creation is capable of makes him cringe, he still lets it continue and says it’s by the people for the people. I don’t think it makes him cringe too much. It’s amazing what money can do.

I hope no one who took part in this launching of Lincoln logs wonders why their personal information ends up who knows where and they get spam messages with their private details in them. They brought this on themselves just so they could be juvenile for one fleeting moment. Smart move. Real smart.

What A Load Of Horse Shit!

Here’s one to twist your brain a little. Patty Cooper needs a service animal. She’s broken her back twice, um, ouch, and is now in a wheelchair. But the animal she has chosen is a horse!

Ok, I can handle that, sort of. It’s a miniature horse, and I’ve heard of guide horses for the blind, even though that seems a little weird to me. If you read more about it, it does make sense. I just wouldn’t want a horse, like some people wouldn’t want a dog. But she wants to keep this beast in her apartment! This would be perhaps fine if…

  1. she didn’t have to have part of her living-room made into a stall.
  2. It didn’t require hay that she wanted the landlords to provide,

    3. and

  3. it didn’t pee on the floor and require the landlords to put in pee-proof flooring!

Ok, there comes a point where accommodating a service animal is too much. What does she say she’s going to do in this whole deal? It sounds like she’s expecting the landlords to do everything. I mean, she’s not even getting the hay!

If she wants a horse, one that is going to urinate and defecate all over the inside of an apartment, maybe she shouldn’t be in an apartment. If she knew how to properly train her horse, she wouldn’t have this issue. the folks at the Guide Horse foundation figured it out. They also said that the horse should have a barn or fensed yard. Maybe she needs to figure out how she can have a place that’s more suitable for….a horse!

I know some people are probably thinking that somebody had to pave the way for service dogs to be accepted in buildings that don’t allow pets, and I agree. But this isn’t paving the way, it’s ripping up the foundation. dogs don’t pee on the floor and need hay and a stall. They crash out on a blanket and do their duty outside. This is, well, a whole different animal!

Will You Marry Me? For Yes, Press 1. For No, Press 2.

Here’s one for the other side of the coin. Now there’s a ring box with built-in LCD screen. So, if you’re an especially lazy prick, you can pre-record your wedding proposal, and let the fucking box do it for you.

Hopefully, for the sake of the girl, there’s a nice sparkling rock in there so she has to at least give it some thought. Aha! I’ve got it! If you have a girl who goes and gets her own ring and makes you pay for it, propose to her with one of these as revenge!