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A Washington man was in a single car accident last Friday, ramming into a power pole.  The 50-year-old man suffered no major injuries in the accident and called family to come help him get his car out of the ditch.

While waiting for his family to arrive, he decided to go “see a man about a horse”.

One can only imagine what happened next, and since the Seattle Times did a poor job speculating, I will provide the following as my reenactment, beginning after the phone call to family:

“Well, son of a bitch. This sucks and I gotta take a piss.  Well, they’ll be here soon, I’ll just hold it….  Oh, god they’re never gonna get here…  That’s it I’m gonna just pee into the ditch.

(sidenote: He doesn’t see that he has knocked a powerline into the ditch and it’s live.)

zipppp….. pssssss……  “Ahhhhhh…..”

“YEOWWWW!!!!!”

The Seattle Times picks up the story at this point indicating that, while an autopsy is planned, the burn marks seem to indicate a direct path of travel of the electricity.

Ouch, this has got to be a terrible way to go.  Remember to look where you pee, you never know when the reaper is gonna come for you.

Over the weekend a woman called into a radio talk show to complain that her “Linksys wireless connection” has disappeared.

Via Mashable:

Meet Jennifer, she had been unwittingly yoinking Wi-Fi for more than a year and a half when the gravy train ran out, after which she called into Leo Laporte’s Tech Guy radio show in a state of utter confusion.

Even as I chuckle to myself thinking about this woman, I am reminded of my many friends and family who rely upon me for various levels of technical support and the questions and confusion that often ensues.  But, none of it compares to this, truly priceless.

I think it’s the fact that she knows what she did and is still seeking some sort of solution from the Tech Guy.  Perhaps if she just said “oooooh, now I get it….” and hung up it wouldn’t be so funny to me.

RUFKM?

Do I miss a president who had no regard for the Constitution?

Do I miss a president who gave away trillions in tax cuts to the super rich?

Do I miss a president who started two wars and didn’t finish one of them?

Do I miss a president who authorized torture?

Do I miss a president who lied about wiretapping U.S. Citizens without warrants?

Do I miss a president who spoke English like it was his second language?

Do I miss a president who appointed two Supreme Court Justices that built the majority opinion that says corporations are people?

Do I miss “heh heh heh…?” (well, a little maybe.)

Do I miss a president with a callous disregard for those less fortunate than himself and “his base?”

Do I miss a man with the morals of a laughing hyena?

No!!!  I don’t miss him one little bit.  In fact, I miss a migraine headache more than I miss him. 

Minnesota Public Radio story here and here.

Washington Post story here.

A couple days ago I was chatting with a friend bouncing ideas off each other and he was asking me what I thought about the website icanhascheezburger.com ?

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

I told him that I thought it was a pretty funny site.  He next asked me what I would think about a site that posts porn images with funny LOL speak captions.  As we discussed this,  would we both started laughing and determined that it was a fun idea. After all, what could be funnier than LOL porn?

From that conversation, LOLzPorn.com (Not Safe for Work) was born. From the site:

At LOLzPorn you’ll find the Interweb’s funniest sex pictures. Because breathing heavy and laughing are nearly the same thing!

Here is a redacted version of an image on the site (Clicking image will open NSFW version):

In a nutshell, LOLzPorn is a fun place to find hot nude pics with silly captions added.  You’ll ROFL from some of the clever captions on the images.  The site has everything from sexy pics to shocking photos.  This is a twist on the classic porn images found all over the internet.

I clicked on an incoming link to this blog and found myself at Skinbeatergreg where I came across this YouTube video.

I like it.

Skinbeatergreg has a post above his OBollywood one featuring a few other YouTube campaign videos, including an incredibly awful one by the McCain Girls titled “Raining McCain.”  I dare you to watch it.    Aaack!  Greg has some things to say about what makes it so awful.  Check it out.

Quietly this weekend, Apple, Inc., released a minor update to its so-far disappointing Apple TV software. The update, delivered around 3 o’clock Saturday morning, was quietly announced in a press release on ReutersYE (Youth Education). The computer maker and self-described New Media Darling has struggled to make the Apple TV, once known as the iTV prior to its launch, relevant in an age of Tivo, BitTorrent, Netflix, and XBox Live saturation of the passive entertainment, family-room market.

The previous update, “Take Two”, was meant to herald a new era for Apple’s only foray into the set-top box fray. No previous attempt by any technology company has managed the ubiquity of DVD players, VHS, or even the relatively small console gaming platforms.

This update, however, has responded to the market’s response to their first and second attempts at relevance. Among the user friendly improvements are the following items:

1. The ability to download podcasts from your Apple TV and have them saved to the Mac or PC to which it is synced.

2. Dynamic “genres” list for movies. Any genre you add your personally backed-up movies to will be listed in Apple TV’s movies/genres menu.

3. Better shading of menu items to produce a more “live action” appearance while waiting for the click of the IR remote control signal to register.

4. A reflection has been added to certain interface elements.

5. An “Add to Queue” option has been added to the previous “Play” and “Download” option in the “Podcasts” section.

6. Further enhancing the previous feature, a sort of “Playlist” feature has been incorporated so that you don’t have to return to a menu every time a one or two minute clip ends so that you can choose another one.

7. “Smart” playlists, enabling the pre-scheduling of up to 6 hours or non-stop, successive podcasts, music videos, movies, and television shows, have been added to the iTunes software. These playlists, which can be synced to and played on your Apple TV in an attempt to mimic the standard environment in which consumers of entertainment appreciate their widescreen, surround sound, darkened room home-theater setup from their couch, seem to be an attempt by Apple to “catch up” with the immature, yet persistent, crowd of home theater early arrivals who have offered these features for years.

8. Support has been added for a new remote that looks remarkably similar to the first gen iPod Nano. A small screen for quick menu selection, a circular “click wheel” (a technology pioneered by apple but seemingly abandoned with its recent “touch” products), and the diminutive form factor with a 6 button interface that has served hand held tech from Apple for so long.

9. A revamp of the “search” keyboard for online services. Instead of a square, highly unusable letter grid, Apple has adopted a common typing interface across all of its Apple TV interfaces. Coupled with the new scroll-wheel remote, entering text into search fields has remarkably improved usability, once a hallmark of Apple products, which cannot be matched by any other.

10. Removal of the distinction between the computer to which an Apple TV is synced and the content shared on the network. All content is available by selecting its source, similar to the way it was made available in the previous version of the Apple TV software.

These are the ten most interesting updates. The revision also includes a number of bug fixes from improving the response of the unit to clicks of the remote to close to real-time syncing between the Apple TV and its coupled iTunes installation. In a previous version these features were sorely missing or incalculably buggy.

In the first part of the new millennium, Apple Inc revolutionized the personal, portable entertainment industry. Today Apple Inc is a leader in portable entertainment technology with market leading positions in wireless communications, the iPhone, pocketable media libraries, iPod (Touch)™, and the yet unannounced iWiiPod portable theater system and gaming device.

And we shall call his name Muhammad.

Unfortunately for Muhammad, Mother Nature has reduced him to water vapor and called him back to the heavens.

We shall miss him… and his hat.

Can you believe somebody stole Muhammad’s hat? 

While surfing around last night checking out Chuck Prophet’s MySpace pages (yes, he has two.  I don’t know why.)  I found this twisted Photoshop montage based on the famous Eddie Adams Vietnam War photo.

Kind of gives a whole new meaning to “a shot of espresso.” 

It was posted on Chuck Prophet’s page by some guy named Mike.

Go see Chuck tomorrow night at The Tractor Tavern if you can.

We’ve been watching this guy for about seven years now, and just when we start thinking that there’s probably not much more he can offer in the way of verbal gaffes or stupid statements, he comes up with this:

I try to make sure that when I’m with foreign leaders, there’s a pretty picture of the two of us walking down the colonnades, or something like that, to send a good message.

I watched the clip on last Thursday’s “Moment of Zen” and I couldn’t believe it.

Watch.

According to the Register, women around the world are mailing their panties to leaders in Myanmar to protest the militant crackdown on citizens…

Ladies’ smalls sap generals’ vital energy
– By Lester Haines
“The Burmese military is facing an unexpected threat from female opponents to its regime – a deluge of panties dispatched to the country’s embassies in a “in a culturally insulting gesture of protest” against its recent crackdown on protestors.”

You can join the movement here!

Edit –
“This, just in: Junta leader Gen Than Shwe has vowed to sniff out the perpetrators and bring them in for a thorough debriefing.”