After exposing Angry Birds as a depressing tale of terrorism and genocide, I'm turning my attention to the next big iphone game sensation: Tiny Wings.

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Really, Tiny Wings is your life.  It's about using skill and intelligence to transcend your biological limitations, but still being hemmed in by constraints of reality.  You can choose how you move ( Read more... )

I received a notice in the mail from the SF Planning Commission informing me that a medical marijuana dispensary is opening up around the corner from me.  They are soliciting my opinion on whether they should be granted a permit.

Reminds me of this Onion article:  http://www.theonion.com/articles/tonys-law-would-require-marijuana-users-to-inform, ( Read more... )

NAM just wasted a bunch of money on some very crappy direct mail leads.
 
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Most people who know me know that I have strange dreams on a regular basis ( Read more... )

More brilliant satire from the Onion

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/

I still haven't tired of this video, so I'm sharing it again.

The beauty of the "I love you" dog is that by mimicking her owner's utterances, she is signaling her shared pack affiliation and bond, which is just about the closest a dog can get to saying "I love you".

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It's a heart-wrenching and disturbing story of an oppressed minority. After surviving insult after insult, the minority is pushed over the edge when the ruling ethnic group kidnaps all of their children in an attempt to wipe out their race, driving them to physically hurl themselves at the buildings where the oppressors live and end their lives as ( Read more... )

Every now and then when people complain about the music that "kids these days" listen to, I have to remind them of things like this from the '80s:
 

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It seems as if when people reach the age of 30 or so, they forget everything that happened before age 18.

I'm the sort of person who'd be normally have nothing to do with Hooters.  Their lone San Francisco location sticks out like an archaic sexist relic, situated solely to pull in Fisherman's Wharf tourists from other parts of the country and provide solace to bridge-and-tunnel post-frat kids who failed to pick up women at North Beach clubs ( Read more... )

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