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The Obama Administration Badly Needs Google

Posted on March 7, 2009 ·

The Obama administration wants to reset US relations with Russia, and in a symbolic gesture Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented her counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a huge RESET button when the met in Geneva.

Except the button did not really say reset: it said перегрузка (peregruzka), which, as Lavrov pointed out means overload.   Now, we don’t want to overload relations with Russia, do we?

Congratulations for the State Department translatorss for getting it right.   Here’s my bailout proposal for State: fire the translators, just use Google Translate:

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Your Bailout

Posted on February 24, 2009 ·

Dear Reader,

This blog would not even exist without you, and I am eternally graceful for your sticking around in good and bad times.  We happen to be in the latter nowsmile_sad… and I feel compelled to help. I am sharing my new-found wealth with you:

Happy shopping smile_tongue

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I’m Getting Bailed Out

Posted on February 18, 2009 ·

Oh, so we’re getting bailed out after all:

Off to apply for my millions while the bonanza lasts smile_wink

(Found this stupid ad on a respected blog site – not linking to the junk site behind the ad though).

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Underwater Ironing (???) World Record

Posted on January 22, 2009 ·

From the it doesn’t get any stupider than this department: 86 people in the UK have broken the World Record in underwater ironing. 

 

What’s wrong with these people?  I wouldn’t want to be anywhere close to an ironing board even on land, let alone underwater.  These people should take a flight on Us Airways… (oops, sorry, bad joke).

Here’s another world record in a much more pleasant category. smile_wink

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Bush Street Renamed Obama in San Francisco

Posted on January 20, 2009 ·

(Photo Credit: *takeitez* on Flickr)

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Did The Tow Guy Get Towed?

Posted on January 8, 2009 ·

This is real, I am not making it up. Excerpt from a Skype conversation:

[4:26:50 PM] K says: BTW, remember the towing?
[4:27:13 PM] Z says: yeah
[4:27:18 PM] K says: He was supposed to take two blocks to the repair guy. It has been 3 hours and the car hasn’t reached him. The towing company is now trying to trace the employee 🙂
[4:27:33 PM] Z says: c’mon?????
[4:27:52 PM] Z says: do you have a rolls royce or austin martin that’s worth stealing?
[4:27:53 PM] K says: Yeah. I am coordinating with Geico (who sent that towing company) and the towing company 🙂
[4:28:00 PM] Z says: hilarious
[4:28:02 PM] K says: Nope. Hyundai Accent :))
[4:28:11 PM] Z says: sorry, not making fun of it
[4:28:15 PM] Z says: but sill hilarious
[4:28:18 PM] K says: Actually, it is
[4:28:32 PM] K says: I was laughing with the Geico guy when I was complaining 🙂
[4:28:33 PM] Z says: oh, it had to be a misunderstanding.. because of the Accent 🙂
[4:28:47 PM] K says: Ha Ha

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Popcorn Leads Police to Burglary Suspect

Posted on January 4, 2009 ·

This just in  from the “You can’t make this up” department:  Police found the suspect of a convenience store burglary by following the trail of popcorn the suspect left from the crime scene all the way to his apartment. 

The popcorn brand “trail’s end” just got a new meaning…

Source: Sacramento Bee.

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Corporate Logos Reflect Recession

Posted on December 22, 2008 ·

From Flickr, originally published by Business Pundit, and re-discovered by Jeff Nolan.  (Oh, yeah, I did my not-so-artistic-but-realistic rendering of the Apple logo a year ago.)

Update:  Will some of these Web 2.0 logos change in 2009?

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Couldn’t Find Three Wise Men in Washington

Posted on December 19, 2008 ·

I couldn’t help but re-tweet (actually re-blog) this from Charlie:

Chain email: "No nativity scene in DC this year. Couldn’t find three wise men in Washington." har har 16 minutes ago from TweetDeck

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Charlie Wood

(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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No Broadband on Internet Street

Posted on December 3, 2008 ·

You can’t make this up … there really is no Internet on Internet Street.

Andrzej Gromek bought a house in Warsaw, Poland on a street named … Internet.  Wow!  How nice of the City of Warsaw to recognize the Internet by naming a street after it!  

Mr. Gromek soon discovered he could not get a broadband connection in his house.  Turned down by all providers he launched a campaign to the National Telecom Authority in Poland. They first took his letters for a prank, but after a dozen or so decided to look at the matter.  It turns out that Mr Gromek is the only resident on Internet Street actually wanting to use the Internet, and it would not be economically feasible to pull it to one customer only.

Solution: Mr Gromek is now selling his house.   I hope he does not move to a street named after water, electricity or gas… smile_wink

(Cross-posted from CloudAve)

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