Chase Perrin

25 January 2010

“All I ask of you is one thing:
please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism-
it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they
thought they were going to get.
But if you work really hard and you’re kind,
amazing things will happen. “

- Conan O’Brien’s farewell speech

25 January 2010

Hey you. You there in the Glenn Beck T-shirt headed off to the Tea Party Patriot rally.

Stop shouting for a moment, please, I want to explain to you why you’re so very angry.

You should be angry. You’re getting screwed.

I think you know that. But you don’t seem to know that it doesn’t have to be that way. You can stop it. You can stop it easily because the system that’s screwing you over can only keep screwing you over if you keep demanding that it do so.

So stop demanding that. Stop helping…

25 January 2010

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The comments are worth reading on this one.
A Bird In The Hand (Photo by: Robbie1 on Flickr)

A Bird In The Hand (Photo by: Robbie1 on Flickr)

While pop culture itself is full of colloquialisms, catch phrases, social niceties, and even a fair share of vulgarities, it seems that many of us repeat, verbatim, the things that we heard our parents say. Many of these are still relevant today, but a good lot of the clichés we use today have no meaning to our children.

Take for example: “Don’t count your chicks before…

25 January 2010

There are many, many laws having nothing to do with government, that are useful to know because they tell you something about how the universe works. There are Newton’s laws of motion, the laws of thermodynamics, Boyle’s law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, among dozens more. Most of these laws have been known for a long time, but it wasn’t until a mere nineteen years ago that Godwin’s Law was written.

If you’ve ever been involved in a discussion on Usenet, or have been following politics…

10 November 2009

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This is awesome. Why did this never happen in my classes.
Yesterday in Physics someone’s phone went off to the tune of the Justice League. After the professor paused his lecture to acknowledge the phone, the kid answered his phone and replied, “The University is in trouble?! We’re on our way!” The kid stood up, ripped off his t-shirt, revealed the Superman costume underneath, and exclaimed “Super Friends, Assemble!” Scattered across the class of about 150, Batman, Wonder…

3 November 2009

29 September 2009

Even worse if they’re turned on.

21 August 2009

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wizkid:

Whoa!

peetypassion:

2 Girls, 1 Up

nickdouglas: (via Debbie Pressman)

21 August 2009 • reblog: nickdouglas

Bon Appetit!

14 August 2009

Windows/Mac OS X: Enlarging images, especially from lower resolution source images, can be dicey business. Want to enlarge an image and you don’t want it to look like an 8-bit video game sprite? SmillaEnlarger can keep things smooth and artifact free.

Photo by 512 Photography.

SmillaEnlarger is an open-source and portable application designed to help you intensively massage an image enlargement to keep it from looking jagged and filled with artifacts. You can select the level of…

5 August 2009

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Destruction for destruction’s sake is always fun as long as no one gets hurt and everyone is ok withthe damage.

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This short video clip shows why it’s a bad idea to get your car washed with a Liebherr R9800 Excavator.

If you’re curious, the shovel has a capacity of 42 cubic meter (which when filled with water, is equivalent to 42 metric ton or oh, about 92,500 lb). Explains the end result, doesn’t it?

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted…

5 August 2009

Remember when everyone installed those neon lights underneath their cars, like in ‘The Fast and The Furious?’ We thought that trend had died out like Paul Walker’s acting career.

Now, thanks to LIT’s LED lighting kit, you can relive those days in the comfort of your own home. These LED tubes can be installed around or under just about any piece of furniture in your house, giving it that sci-fi or street racing feel you’ve been looking for. According to DVICE, the basic…

3 August 2009

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The Gatling gun of non-lethal weaponry. Scary!

tasermaster
When I posted that triple Taser the other day (apparently it’s for taking down your female coworkers, watch the video), I speculated that the criminals would come back with greater numbers, creating an arms race between muggers and the mugged. But if there was one of these on every corner, all you’d have to do is get behind it and hit the trigger, and everything you can see gets Tasered. Boom, no more muggers!

The …

3 August 2009

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I hope Hollywood is listening.

When everybody gets excited for ultra-gear thrillers like GI Joe, we get nervous. Techno-thrillers are brilliant when done right (think Casino Royale) but worse than awful when done wrong (think Firewall). Here are 20 tropes filmmakers should avoid.

1. Do not lower any characters through the ceiling of a museum/government building/secret lair on a thin wire so that they can dangle alluringly over a glowing object that they are about…

31 July 2009