Blue Lobster

I just thought this was kinda cool. Blue lobsters are missing a pigment. This would look very neat in an aquarium.



Apparently this occurs on average of one time per 4 million lobsters. Unfortunately they turn pink upon cooking which means you will never get one on your plate (it's considered bad luck to cook them anyways).
The cbc has more on this if you are interested.

Photo clipped from the cbc

Ohh The Irony

Apparently there a new sheriff in town over at the UN Comission On The Status Of Women. You will never guess who it is (Hint: not Gloria Steinem).

Ladies meet your new buddy.  At least he smiles sometimes.Check first to see if he has any rocks in his hand.

This is absurd. Don't even get me started on the boobquake guy.

Sock Puppets

I find this absurd. What purpose in having TV presenters in full ninja? Might as well just have sock puppets or a radio show. The show is aired in Saudi Arabia and you can follow the comments on Al-Arabiya.

Burger-In-A-Can

OK I'm a little behind the times. This was old news. Shows you how connected I am.

Apparently if you are planning your next Antarctic expedition a cheeseburger may be high on the list of must-have items. I guess the days of pemmican and trail mix are long gone.

Personally I think that the canburger is possibly the nastiest product on the Internet. At first I thought it could only be made in America. But I was wrong. It actually comes from Switzerland??!! WTF? Why can't they stick to chocolate...or banks..or ski resorts?

Where can you buy this stuff? When I follow the link I get a blank page. Is it my browser, or is the canburger not from this world? Curiosity is killing me.

Has anybody actually tried this product? Would you admit it if you did? Is it one of those guilty pleasures?

All these questions. I'm losing sleep already.

I just don't understand...

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
Marshal Mcluhan

Why would people ascribe stupid names for their kids? I knew a kid once by the name of Harry Hole. Boy did he take it at high school. But naming your kid after Adolf Hitler? Better start buying the whoop-ass now because little Adolf will be eating nothing but for the next 16 years or so.

If there was ever a case for forced sterilization then this would be it.

this is just weird

Apparently sex with cyberwhores is just as damaging to marriage as real sex with real whores. I had no idea until now that these virtual reality sites even existed. Doesn't say much for my cyber-worldliness does it. What motivates people to create these kind of sites? Can you imagine the conversation between the marketing and engineering departments?

E: We have the new range of avatars

M: Great! Where are the genitals?

E: Genitals?

M: Yup we can sell em! We cater to narcissism. You want bigger boobs and balls? No problem, we provide the upgrade.

E: Ok we can make those...anything else?

M: Need some BDSM gear too. Where's that?

E: BDSM gear?

M: Well people like to experiment you know. What safer place than in a virtual environment.

E: OK BDSM gear. Got it. Check. Anything else?

M: Yes there is significant demand to make the avatars fully interactive with other aspects of the program.

E: In English please.

M: The avatars need to be able to have sex with anything, pets, inanimate objects, you know...

E: Okayyyy....

As an Engineer it just seems like a huge waste of bandwidth to create sites catering to virtual sex. It has a sort of juvenile appeal (in much the same way as a farting contest) but really, is this what software designers went to school for?

PS. Be on the lookout for cyber condoms, cyber stds, cyber hiv blah blah blah. You heard it here first.

PJ