Amazing 1950s Computer Harddrive – Weighs Over a Ton!
Feb 6th

This is the IBM 305 RAMAC, the very first computer to contain a hard disc drive. It weighed over a ton and stored….WAIT FOR IT…5 MBs OF DATA!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you kidding me?
I have a flash drive smaller than my thumb that holds 8 GBs.
For those of us doing math, that’s 1,600 times as much data.
I’ll wait now, while you mull that.
Is your mind blown? If not…it well and truly should be.
Bill Cosby’s Not Dead – Don’t Believe Everything You Read on Yahoo Buzz
Feb 6th
Here’s what was the top story on Buzz when I checked my Yahoo mail this morning -

And here was the news when I searched Google News -

The lesson? Crowdsourced news can bring interesting things to the forefront, but not all of it will be true!
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Drugs Delaney’s Letter to Dunph from Outside Providence
Feb 3rd
One of the greatest scenes from one of the most underrated movies of all times, Outside Providence. Just like this scene, the movie itself works on so many levels. It’s also one of Alec Baldwin’s most memorable performances, as Old Man Dunphy. It’s just a fantastic, fantasic movie. If you haven’t seen it, seek it out!
The scene is transcribed below the video!
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Dean Mort: Do you have a friend called Drugs?
Dunphy: Drugs Delaney?
Mr. Funderburk: How many individuals named drugs could you possibly associate with?
Dunphy: Just one.
Dean Mort: Yesterday we received a letter addressed simply to Cornwall Academy, Cornwall, Connecticut. So naturally, we opened it and read it, and – you might want to sit down. It begins -
Greetings Dunph,
What’s happening? I got your letter today. Cornhole Academy sounds like it really sucks the big one. I can’t believe they make everyone work a lot and not smoke. You should tell that piece of shit Funderturd to shove it. You didn’t want to go there in the first place. Eat shit, man. Today you should have seen me and Mousy today at school today.
Drugs Delaney: We got cocked on a pint of Blackberry brandy and ate some T.H.C. on the bus. We were fucked. This teacher, Mr. Rivera, goes — “What’s wrong with you Delaney?” I go, “I’m totally FUCKED man!”
Dean Mort: Everybody laughed like a bastard.
Drugs Delaney: Oh man, you should – You should see this song I’m listenin’ to, man.
Dean Mort: It’s called, “Don’t Bogart That Joint, My Friend.” I think it’s by a group called –
This is a couple of hours later. Must have nodded out, man.
Drugs Delaney: I gotta go, cause I’m probably definately gonna nod out again.
Dean Mort: You want me to send you some Squeef, or you got enough? Good luck not getting caught.
Cocked in Rhode Island,
Drugs Delaney: Drugs. P.S….
Dean Mort: Oh yes, there’s a post script you might be interested in. Mousy says he stink-fingered Bunny Cody. As you might imagine Mr. Dunphy, this is fairly incriminating. Technically, you have not breached any of Cornwall Academy’s rules. But you can bet your bottom dollar, Mister. We’re going to be keeping an eye on you.
Caitlin Crosby’s Awesome “Embrace Your Flawz” Video
Jan 28th
I love people who are passionate about their projects, and that definitely describes Caitlin Crosby’s three year quest to record the footage for the following video, and create it.
Caitlin (along with actress Brie Larson) is the driving force behind LoveYourFlawz.com, a budding movement to promote body image celebration, not just among teenage girls as such pushes often focus on, but along the entire spectrum of age and gender.
This is a subject that is close to her heart, and a theme that can be seen throughout her songwriting – like in another of her popular songs, “Imperfect is the New Perfect.”
Take a look at the video – it’s really great. Very inspiring! And while you’re at it – Love Your Flawz! ![]()
Jeannie Mai and the Great Prayer Box Mystery
Jan 26th
OK, here is a bizarre (and also inspiring!) thing that happened to my friend Jeannie and a project of hers, The Prayer Box Project. Yes All In Caps. Deal With It.
She had an idea to put a prayer box at the top of this popular hiking place here in LA, Runyon Canyon. It’s a place where people tend to do an equal mixture of hiking and contemplating, due to the stunning combination of cardio-inspiring inclines and awe-inspiring views.
In this box, people could jot down their prayers on little pieces of paper and put them into the box, bolstered by the notion that their prayer, as it slipped through the slot, was joining all the prayers – all the love, longings, hopes, dreams, and ambitions – which had been scrawled out on similar bits of paper and entrusted to the box by the hikers who had come before.
It’s poetic and nice, right?
So, of course it got stolen inside a week. Stinkin’ Angelenos! Grr…
However, that’s not the end of the story. On January 1st of this year, the very first day of the brand new decade, it mysteriously showed up again, with some of the prayers inside still intact, no less. Sure, it was worse for the wear. But aren’t we all? The important thing is that it’s back, it’s working, it’s serving its purpose. Again, what more can we hope for ourselves than that?
I’d like to take a lesson from the prayer box, and I think we all can. Maybe 2009 tried to hold us back, and beat us up. Maybe 2009 even snatched us off of the path we were on and held us hostage for awhile.
But, that was then and this is now. It’s 2010 and WE’RE BACK, BABY! We may be battle-scarred and a little tattered, but we are BACK ON THE MOUNTAINTOP!
PS – If you think this was a cool idea for a project and want to throw some support Jeannie’s way, due to her being the kind of person that would think of such a cool idea for a project, LOL, then visit her at her blog, http://IHeartJeannieMai.com (so named because she’s adorable and of course everyone does!), or watch her shows, How Do I Look? or Extra. Although, the latter not being quite as important if you’re not a Nielson family.
Hercules Has the Best Face!
Jan 26th
Say Hello to My New Favorite Snack in the Entire World
Jan 22nd
It’s pre-sliced red apples with Walden Farms calorie-free caramel dip. MMMMMMM…so good. And let’s just take a moment to absorb that little descriptor there. CALORIE-FRICKIN-FREE!!!!!!! No calories. Zero. None. Zippo. The big zilch.
And, yes. That’s an XS in the background.
I’m in heaven!
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Betty Bowers – America’s Best Christian – Breaks Down Bible Based Marriage
Jan 21st
This has got to be one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long, long time. It’s hilarious, thought-provoking, and oh-so-detailed! You can tell so much work went into it!
You need to watch it more than once, to focus on the different parts. Once to watch it and get the overall impression, one time to pay closer attention to the graphics, one time to read the Bible verse citations, once to read the snarky captions…and then a bunch more times to just laugh and laugh!!!
Gotta give props where props are due. Deven Green plays Betty Bowers, and the killer illustrations are by Steve Hogan.
ENJOY!
In case you wanna read along, here’s a transcription:
BETTY BOWERS: Here’s a well-known fact. All you unsaved trash out there have no idea what constitutes a Bible-based marriage, and here’s a little known secret – neither do Christians. And that’s why the Lord has called upon me, America’s Best Christian, to teach all of you his definition of marriage. Pay close attention, because he’s rather inventive!
In the beginning of time, say…6000 years ago, God created one man and one woman. They had two children, both had penises. You might inquisitively ask, “Lord, if Adam and Eve only had boys, where did the grandchildren come from?” Trust me, you’re not going to like his reply. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, one woman, and the son she seduces after he’s killed his only brother.
A family that slays and lays together, stays together.
True story: Abraham, the father of three faiths, two of them total rubbish, married his sister. As if that wasn’t sordid enough, slutty sister Sarah invited Abraham to have sex with her maid, someone named Hagar, such an appallingly butch name! A Bible-based marriage is between one man and his sister…and the help! Goodness me, Lord, the help? Doing the help? I don’t even speak to mine.
Quick, what’s the Lord’s favorite way to punish a man who rapes an unmarried virgin? Anyone? Marriage! Yes, a Bible-based marriage is between one woman and her rapist! Mazel Tov!
Remember how God turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of Kosher salt? So a Bible-based marriage can sometimes be between one man and a kitchen condiment. Bon Appetit!
So what do you do if you run out of close relatives or servants to marry? Well, the rather crafty Lord has a fabulous tip – just drive over to the nearest town and murder everyone who either has a penis or has seen one. Then just round up all the virgins who are left. Of course, you don’t need to take a big truck if you try this in, say, America. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, a gal who’s kidnapped and raped right after her mother, brother, and slutty sister are slaughtered.
Remember – in the Bible, it’s not rape if the man says, “I do.”
King David had a fabulous collection of wives and a harem absolutely chock full of athletic concubines, whom the Lord had raped by David’s son, because the Lord was in a snit over some drama concerning that little troublemaking tramp Bathsheba. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, a woman, another woman, yet another woman, a few more women, an adulterer, and a pack of raped whores!
In a galling show of one-upmanship, David’s son King Solomon had 700 wives, and because God loves to round up, 300 concubines. Which are really just live-in whores. A Bible-based marriage is between one man and, frankly, enough booty to make a Mormon compound seem quaintly understaffed.
So what do you do when you can’t afford even one wife, let alone a pack of in-house hookers, but you still have your little heart set on having a son? Well, the Lord shrewdly suggests that you inveigle a slave into raping your daughter. Voila! Problem solved. A Bible-based marriage is between one man, Daddy’s little girl, and the slave Daddy hired to rape her. Try getting a Hallmark card for that.
The whole concept of marriage apparently bored bachelor Jesus to tears, other than encouraging his buddies to abandon their wives, about all Jesus said on the subject was that once you do it, that’s it. No running off to Babylon to get a divorce. So, clearly, in the Bible you can have as many wives as you want – just as long as you have them all at once.
So, let’s recap the Lord’s idea of the perfect marriage. It is between one man and his sister, and a rapist, and a kitchen condiment, gal who’s kidnapped and raped, a few more women, an adulterer, and a pack of raped whores, 700 wives, 300 concubines, and the help, and a son who has murdered his brother.
But it is NOT between one man and another man. Because, well, that would be immoral.
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Rent From Us or Burn in Hell!
Jan 20th
OK, people! I risked life and limb digging my camera out of my purse while still remaining level with this guy on the freeway! Not to mention having to continue freeway driving while I held my camera up to the window with a steady enough hand to take a legible picture.
It was worth it, though, to memorialize this truck. Jesus Party Rentals.
Where the staff of Party Down Catering will be working after they get their lives right, I imagine! And here they thought they were just gonna go wait tables at the Soup’r Crackers!






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