YouTube Tuesday: Office Invention

In case you haven't heard, our good friend Joe, former proprietor of Hip Suburban White Guy, recently got a new gig at a new cube farm.

It turns out his new gig isn't as, well, demanding of his time. Which leaves him a few minutes throughout the day to focus his creative energies to solving humanity's pressing concerns... like finding a cheap source of perpetual energy.

He sent me this video of his latest scale model. Well done, sir!

Reflective Ruminations, Fletcher Dodge

Reflective Ruminations for April 8, 2016

• I think "beaver" is a terrible slang term to use for a woman's … adorable son in the late 1950s.
  
  
• Some people look at a glass and say, "It's not half empty, it's half full." Then they get throat-punched by me.
  
  
• Here's something they won't teach you in History class: GEOMETRY.
  
  
• It doesn't really bother me when people say "et cetera," but I get really annoyed by people who say "et cetera, et cetera."
  
  
• 
  It seems like we're all putting a LOT of faith in the guy who came up with the original alphabetical order.

YouTube Tuesday: Toon time

If you weren't around in the '80s, or if you were but you weren't of cartoon-watching age, here's everything you need to know about every Saturday morning cartoon...

Initial results

Yes, Mr. Zimmerman, we've had our best people crunching through your data and I just wanted to schedule this quick call to present some of our initial findings. Please take a look at the attached spreadsheets…

Cuban Reverie

An original composition from Three O'Clock AM

Cuban Reverie
The stage is set, now pay the price
High priests of holocaust, fire from the sea
Rise so high, yet so far to fall
Entrails in the sky
Entrails in the sky

One decree that stands alone

Chased up all the dead end streets
Like the walls are closing in
One decree that stands alone
Chased up all the dead end streets
Killing for religion

A book written by man
Make sweet the breeze now defiled

YouTube Tuesday: Arrow

Here at the beginning of the end of society as we know it, as technology becomes our master, as resources dwindle, as the thin veneer of civilization begins to peel back to reveal a reality in which we feast on our own kind… it's probably a good time to brush up on the skills that will allow us to eek out a miserable existence in the post-apocalyptic hellscape that will become our planet.

That's where the good folks at Primitive Technology are being so darned helpful. Check them out for all of your primitive tool tutorials such as Making Charcoal and Basket Weaving…

And, of course, the exceedingly helpful, Primitive Bow and Arrow…

Bullitt List: This week in links

Today's category: This week in links

It's the end of another dumb week, and I have another dumb head cold with dumb snot the consistency of dumb tapioca pudding coming out of my dumb nose.

So here's a list of dumb links from our dumb world for you guys to click through without any dumb editorializing from me:

• Dear University of Kansas, please stop raping women…
  
• Lawsuit reveals Obama's DOJ sabotaged Freedom of Information Act transparency
• Batman V Superman is V Bad
• Going Solo: The 20 Best Private Jets
• Ship carrying 50 atomic bombs worth of weapons-grade plutonium leaves Japan for U.S.
• Tick… Tick… Tick… The Augustus Countdown Continues
• Why human brains are prone to the black and white fallacy
• The enduring mystery of 'Jawn', Philadelphia's all-purpose noun
• Chicago area sees greatest population loss of any major US city, region in 2015

A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?

Updating the classics...

This is going to be meaningless to the massive set of the population who don't know what Kodachrome is, or even what "film" photography is, or who Paul Simon is. But, hey...

When I look back on all the crap I've watched on YouTube
It's a wonder I can blink at all
And though my lack of punctuation hasn't hurt me none
I still read updates on your Facebook wall

Instagram
It give us those weirdo filters
like the world is out of kilter
make you thing something's wrong with your camera's lens, oh yeah!

I got an iPhone camera
I love to take a selfie shot
So mama don't take my Instagram away.

If you took all the girls I met while browsing Snapchat
(I mean before I met my lovely wife)
I know they'd never match their sexy selfie profiles
Everyone look worse in real life.

Sportsball

In this season of March Mental Mania, I just wanted to say a quick good luck to all you fans of men who play with balls.