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Sometimes you run across things you will never, ever understand. This is an example of just that. This is a French safe gay-sex ad, and it is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen. Do NOT click play if:

• You are homophobic, or
• You are at work
  • Yes, there are sexual innuendos. Actually, not innuendos. It is the equivalent of 2 Ken dolls making man-love at times.

I post this because I think it is absolutely hilarious. It’s not gross and it isn’t offensive, so don’t worry about being scarred for life here. But imagine the artist and animator who had to put this all together. And who did this concept, seriously?

YouTube video after the jump

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Sometimes when I come home from work and empty my pockets I find I’ve left one of my work pens (actually, marker…I haven’t used an actual pen or pencil in a long time) in my pocket. The weird thing lately is I’ve only been forgetting to take the green pens out of my pocket, and those are the ones that make it home. I use 3 colors throughout the day (red, blue, green). They all serve the same purpose, so it’s not like I only use the green pen near the end of the day or during a specific job that I might forget it more often. It is simply luck that I keep taking the same color home over and over again.

Or is it? I’m starting to wonder if there is something unconscious going on here. Do I like green pens so much that I secretly want to carry them with me at all time? Or do I simply not care for them as much as my other colors, making sure I always put the red and blue back in my pen holder while I neglect their green brother? This has happened way too many times to be purely coincidence. Something is happening here!

…Did you?

via gullible.info

Overheard standing in line at the local Old Navy:

Girl 1: So this guy was so cute because he was saying why he didn’t know why he liked me so much.

Girl 2: Like like like?

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P.S. I hope someone gets the reference in the title. First one to point it out gets a prize! (ok, that’s a lie, but humor me)

It’s 2008, so you know what that means. No, not the Olympics. No, not your daughter who was born on February 29th, 2000 will FINALLY turn 2. What I’m getting at is that it’s the year of the vote. This is no more fun that doing taxes, except you have to do taxes every year and only vote every four years.  Politics are like the bible, you know what’s going to happen, but you keep going back to them anyways in hopes that there’s going to be some kind of change, but inevitably there won’t be. Now, I’m not very political at all, hell, I usually vote for the guy that can be best photoshopped into a monkey (sorry bout the Bush vote, totally not my fault). Sorry, dramatization there, I do actually take the time and do some research and pick who I think will be best for the position (again, sorry for the Bush vote, totally not my fault). This year we have two front runners who basically sum up the the entire schlepper of man/woman kind. Now, I mean this figuratively of course, because who really is a schlepper now a days, other than Ralph Nader. The two candidates I’m talking about are Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. (Sorry McCain, you have to be a bench warmer for now….)

Now, here’s the first thing that sets these two people apart from every other candidate we’ve ever had; they’re different. Obama is African American, and Hillary is a female. (Is it sad that I thought of Kindergarten Cop when writing about how Hillary is a female?). ANYWAYS this is the first time that the next President of the United States will either be a woman, or an African American and frankly that scares a lot of people. Now, I’m not saying that it scares me, I think it’s a great idea! Maybe in another 4 years we can have a Disney Character in the office! I should prob stop with that part of the rant right now before I take it too far….

But anyways, back to the candidates. So Brittney Clinton, er, I mean Hillary Clinton has been bashing Obama a lot recently. The big one that comes to mind is she is releasing photos of him over in third world nations dressed in typical Muslim attire and implying that he is working with terrorists (she won’t directly state this because THAT is an outlandish statement!). So, yeah, she’s using sly tactics and is just getting bashed beyond belief….oh well!

Now, to be fair, Osama, er Obama’s (wow, slip of the tongue there) no saint either, he’s using mud slinging tactics as well, but unfortunately he’s not as bad as Hillary so therefore, no hard evidence to prove that he’s such a bad guy.

If I come off a little biased here, what ever, its a blog, you should be a work working anyways, not reading this silly thing. For now I’m gunna go eat some frozen french toast sticks with warm eggo syrup and drink a quarter gallon of milk, because I live in America, and darnit, that’s the healthy American thing to do!

By the way, Happy Birthday all the sons and daughters out there born on February 29th….I know your birthday comes only once every 4 years, but trust me, in 84 years, you’ll be able to drink legally!

Not my headline. Scott’s title for an off-the-cuff comment I made regarding wanting to hook myself up to batteries and just eat all day and sell my excess energy.

Inspired by foodsel (via lifehacker)

Jokingly, I told my girlfriend Stacy to write an article for the blog instead of study for her big test on Wednesday. She’s been really stressing out about it lately, and I knew she wouldn’t have time to take a break. However,  she did have time to write this short article…

So my boyfriend asked me to write a little something to post on his new blog. After reading all of the computer science/tech savvy articles by him and his brothers, I felt a like anything I would write would be out of place. Instead, I decided to do the opposite of their trends and move a little closer to the stone age, away from computers - where I technologically fit.

I guess I should add a bit of history about me first. I am a junior in college at UIUC. I am studying psychology, but pursuing a career as a physician’s assistant. I hardly have a background in computers, although I’ve always been considered good at fixing electronics since I was young. Currently, my boyfriend is helping me fix up a web page for a club I am in. Other than that, when it comes to computers I know how to write a paper and play freecell and I wouldn’t give myself much credit for anything else. Back to the point I started making, moving back to the stone age makes me feel more comfortable that I don’t rely on technology everyday. Even though the medical field is increasing their reliance on technology, I’d rather rely on what has been around for a long time and what I know works.
For example, I volunteer at the local hospital in the ER. Just the other day I got to watch a guy’s head be sutured. This is a pretty good experience for a volunteer because most of our experience is restocking shelves or changing linens. When the nurse began to suture his head, the patient’s hair kept getting in the way of the knot. If she continued, this would have led to a very irritating healing process with hair stuck under the knot in the scab. So how did she solve this problem? A paper clip. When she first asked me to fetch a paper clip, I was surprised that the suture kit didn’t come with some kind of sterile clip that can hold back anything that will get in the way. But I guess you can always rely on paper clips.

Maybe it’s just the psych major in me, but this reminds me of a term — functional fixedness. It means that if you ’suffer’ from functional fixedness, you can only see an object for its intended use. So for people like this, a paper clip is only an object to hold papers together. When I say ’suffer’, maybe it’s a stretch, but I mean that these people lack the creativity and find a hard time deviating from norms, making their life less efficient. I learned this term in my first psychology class about four years ago. This was around the time that I also found another use for a paper clip. As much as I hate to reflect upon it, I worked at Subway for what seems like a lifetime. But I actually learned a lot from that place. Anyway, in our less than classy store, the toilet in the men’s room broke very often. However, a coworker of mine replaced the rusty/corroded part with a paper clip. I probably wouldn’t have thought of this idea myself, but needless to say, for the following four years that I worked there, we never had a problem with the toilet again.

Maybe these are just two examples of other uses of paper clips, but my point is that if you look around, there are a lot of things that have multiple purposes. And not all of these things are new. They are reliable tools that have been around for a long time. As I slowly pull myself out of the stone age and transition to a new era, I want to not only learn about computers and new electronics, but also how to use our past tools more efficiently. As a last thought, I leave you with the famous problem of fixing a candle to the wall and lighting it given only matches, a candle, and a matchbox filled with thumbtacks. Solve that and maybe you’ll see things a bit more in my light.

So it’s not often that I find anything good on Digg anymore, but I happened upon this little beauty today. It’s a whole site dedicated to things that look like ducks– a peanut, a tomato, even a fetus! This seems like a treasure from internet-past, but I like it. Check it out!