Vice has been running a hilarious (and sobering) column for years now called London Rental Opportunity of the Week, which I stumbled on a few days ago; the author is hanging up his shingle and wrote a kiss-off to all landlords everywhere.
- Lost was great again this evening. Here’s a spoiler, though: next week is gonna be a repeat.
- Midway through CSI Expansion Number Seven, or whatever they’re calling the franchise version that runs on Wednesday nights, there was an exceptionally clumsy attempt at product placement by a company I won’t mention. Now, usually, I can spot this kind of thing, and it doesn’t bother me all that much. This was so clumsy, though. And immediately followed up by a commercial at the break. They might as well have had somebody in an empty studio shouting, HEY, STUPID AMERICAN CONSUMER. DID YOU SEE THAT? LOOK AT OUR PRODUCT. GO OUT AND BUY IT BECAUSE YOU SAW IT ON THE TEEVEE. WE ARE ORDERING YOU TO BUY THIS PRODUCT NOW. We decided to turn off the stupid show at that point. Fuck You, CBS.
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Interesting…
This is genius, and drives a point home using a literal cartoon character: Can you tell who said each of these phrases, Elon Musk or Mr. Burns, the villainous billionaire from the Simpsons? I got 75%.
Seriously, I don’t understand what is going on over there. It’s like they let the kindergarten bully run the whole school.
File this under You Can’t Make This Shit Up: Ernst & Young, an international accounting firm, was fined $100M by the SEC after they found that employees were cheating on an ethics exam for over four years.
A significant number of EY professionals who did not cheat but knew their colleagues did, and facilitated the cheating, also violated the firm’s code of conduct by failing to report it.
I am shocked.
This never gets old.
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Interesting trivia: The entire rear deck of the Travelall is made from marine plywood. At some point somebody glued a heavy rubber mat over the whole thing, and it began disintegrating over the years from UV exposure. I pulled out the screws and pulled up the board last weekend: underneath, the stringers and steel are in fantastic shape. Bonus: I can pull the board up and overhaul the brake and suspension systems without having to crawl under it every time.
I had the chance to park next to this beauty at cars & coffee this morning, and got a full tour of French engineering.
Holy Shit. @curatorpdx just reminded me that on this day in 1993 I graduated from MICA with a BFA and a raging hangover. I was wearing a Boumi fez (and my roommate a rubber truck innertube) because we didn’t like the berets issued by the school. This shot is taken from a picture of a VHS still my Dad recorded because I don’t have any pictures from that day.
I love old neon.
I think I love LOST as much as I ever loved Sopranos or Six Feet Under. It’s *that* good IMO.