Dear [commanderflatus],

Mr. [flatulence],
I have a question for you relating to your recent sale of a Fugitsu
s510m scanner. I bid on it for almost 24 hours as did at least
one other person in increments of $5. For the last hour or so of
the auction, I was the high bidder at $281. I had entered a max
bid of $300. In the last 5 seconds of the auction, someone bid
$305 and won. I find it exceedingly curious that, even though
eBay's countdown clock showed no other bidding going on,
suddenly in the last seconds someone knew enough to bid not
just one $5 increment above the last bid (mine) but $5 over my
unposted maximum. I am not questioning anyone's ability to bid
at the last second as this person did. What I am wondering about
is how that auction winner knew to bid exactly $5 over my
unposted maximum. Are you aware of any way a person could
hack the site to find out what maximum bids are? Thanks much.
I remain,
a Disappointed tyro-Pat

- tyro_pat

This is too easy…

man-whore

polydipsia.com and their parent company, polydipsia productions ltd are announcing today that they have officially dropped Tiger Woods as an endorser.

1. Societal norms change over time, this is an important lesson for children to learn (in addition to adults apparently)
2. Cartoons are not reality
3. See Bugs Bunny, Coyote, Muppets, etc.
4. If you rely on (or allow) cartoon to formulate your children’s world view you deserve a swift kick in the ass
5. Finally, I’m glad that we have this whole healthcare thing so well figured out that this is the most important thing for us to worry about.

I fully realize that the Christmas issue is usually BMJ’s light issue and perhaps that’s the only reason that they published this politically correct garbage, but come on.

In a press release, Aaron Patzer, Founder and CEO of Mint.com said “we look forward to Intuit’s multinational reputation of screwing stuff up. They bring to the table dynamic opportunities to involve more stakeholders in the wanking up of our products and/or services”.

Super! Read all about it here. Also, for giggles (and to understand what a bunch of wanks work at Intuit) read here.

Seriously, Intuit needs to focus on their core business. The flaming pile of stink that is Quicken for Mac needs to be fixed. I switched to iBank because I gave up on their worthless crap.

Link (story has been removed, maybe it will appear on wikileaks).

This is genius. If only one could then use the bacon torch to weld together an offset barrel smoker.

via Popular Science

Friday Fun: Turn a Sharpie into a Liquid Fueled Rocket.

I’m so glad I don’t have a desk job. I’d be fired in 3.2 seconds for doing shit like this.