Today I received an anonymous piece of fanmail. Did you know that you too can send threatening fan mail? I urge you to do the same.
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Taco Zeitgeist: Free Taco #1
According to sources at the Consumerist and Major League Baseball’s site, Taco Bell will be giving away one free taco to all patrons between 2 – 6pm on Tuesday, October 28. Mark your calendars folks. We owe the Jason Bartlett of the Tampa Bay Rays a round of applause.
Nike Strikes Back
A while back I was smitten with one of Nike’s Leave Nothing commercials. I am not a person who purchases sportswear, plays sports, nor watches sports. But somehow they got me to pay close attention to their commercial.
They struck gold a second time with another Leave Nothing commercial entitled “Fate.” This time around the vignettes follow a boy growing up, becoming more agile, and eventually becoming a football star. It is a well coreographed visual narrative with a befitting audible narrative. The tune is a sublte remix of Ennio Morricone’s song L´Estasi Dell´Oro, or for you non Italian speakers, The Ecstasy of Gold. Metallica fans will no doubt be familiar with the tune and/or falsely claim that it is a ripoff of their work. The non-metalhead will recognize the theme from the excellent 1966 western film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Bravo Nike. You get a pat on the butt. But I’m still not buying your gear.
Taco Zeitgeist: Important Update
Achtung! Achtung! Taco Zeitgeist fans! This is a special announcement.
I have just received confirmation that Taco Bell will be distributing free hard shell beef tacos during the MLB World Series. If any player steals a base then you are entitled to a free taco between the hours of 2 – 6pm on designated redemption days at participating locations. The details can be found at this Taco Bell website.
In order to obtain maximum free taco goodness I recommend using Google Maps to plot all Taco Bell locations in your area.
All Operation Übertaco Einsatzkommando are to report to base for additional briefing.
Obama
Spotted on the UW-Oshkosh campus behind a street sign.
The Temple of Massage
System 7 Connected
I can’t believe it actually worked, but it did.
This is a screenshot of my pet project from the last month. It is an Apple Powerbook 520c from 1995 running System 7. Finding the hardware to connect it to the internet was the easy part. Making the software actually work was another thing entirely. But, low and behold, I’ve been able to make it work. The fact that AOL’s instant messenger still works on a 13 year old machine with modern computers is pretty amazing.
Special thanks goes out to Dan Palka’s amazing resource System7Today.com.
A Note for Melissa
I was going to leave a note for Melissa, but I got distracted. I’m not quite sure what the original message was anymore.
Spontanmode der Brille
The KenKaela Fashion Walk-Off ’08 was held in a local Target yesterday. Fashion critics have rated the show as an “austentacious and abashed abuse of appreciative sense.”
Foto Zeitgeist
Beware the pet Rancor. A sign I made for Stewart/Evans move-in. Just trying to help the community.
