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I have been out of commission on vacation in Colorado.

It was refreshing to not get internet service where I was for most of the time, although I did spend some days working from a train car pictured below.

My commute was then:

• Wake up in a pink trailer at 9k feet
• Get into a bright yellow International Scout II (1970s)
• Drive to a train car in ‘town’
• Get wireless from the B&F grocery shop across the way

You can really start to get internet everywhere now.

CNN Money has released their Top 100 Cities to Live.

These lists always make me laugh. It seems that every place I have lived in has claimed that it has won the “top place to live in FOOBAR magazine”.

However, the lists show me the statistical view of things. It shows that it is better to live in a suburb than an actual city.

For example, I think that it is a lot nicer to live in Boulder, CO than Westminster, CO. However, the “price” amount of the equation will knock Westminster up in the rankings.

How can great cities such as NYC and San Fran not be anywhere to be seen on these lists? They may not be for everyone, but they have a lot going for them and I think I would prefer them to: Olathe, KS, West Bloomfield , MI, Richardson, TX, or Gilbert, AZ for examples (no offense to those cities).

The BBC managed to interview the wrong guy on the Apple Corp vs. Apple Computer lawsuit.

Guy Kewney, a white, bearded technology expert was astonished to see himself appear on screen as a black man with an apparent French accent.
The BBC were interviewing “Experts” on the Apple Corps vs Apple Computers legal case. They called for the “Expert” a Mr Guy Kewney, but a Mr Guy Goma raised his hand. A mic was attached and he was put live in the studio to answer questions.

He was a cab driver waiting for job interview.

Hilarious.

I never blog about this stuff, but it is friday, and this is the funniest thing that I have seen in a LONG time.

This must have taken SO long to plan.

Do watch the Live-Action Super Mario Brothers Re-Enactment.

And then there is the Mike Tyson Punch Out version.

I was reminded again why I listen to BBC Radio while I work during the day (and not podcasts ;).

This morning they discussed a study that has shown women are a lot more keen to cheat on their partners while ovulating. At that time they also day dream more about non-partners.

What I get from that? Time to lock up the wife when that time of the month comes around :)

A friend send me the picture below of a Gay-dar. He saw it as a hospital in South Dakota where he just met his baby a week ago.

After the baby was born, they started on the “bug baby and mom every 2 hours” routine to do some random tests that are somehow important. Just when you get the baby nice and calm they come and squeeze blood out of his heel, make him sit in his car seat for 1.5 hours, put electrodes on his brain and test his hearing, and on and on.

The strangest option for my friend was that they wanted to put electrodes on his baby’s head, and plug into this Gaydar machine. Visual impulses of men and women were sent to baby, and analysis would be done on the brain activity.

Aparantly if the baby was deemed to be “probably gay” the insurance premiums went down as statistically gays take care of their bodies a lot better.

I have a feeling Diebold is behind this somehow….

I was driving home the other day when I saw a pub with a sign out front:

Free Beer Tomorrow

Very generous don’t you think?

Of course, then you have a ‘duh’ moment. This may take as long as a day, when you drive past the same pub and see the same sign. Day, after day.

This made me wonder if I could get a lawyer and make them give me some free beer, as that is what they advertise!

And does “free beer” mean one? a thimble? as much as you can drink? :)

I have been telling my european friends about The Daily Show for years. It can help explain to them that “all americans don’t love Bush, and we do have good satire over here”.

I finally got to see “The Daily Show: Global Edition”, which was aired by CNN International last night in Denmark.

I often joke about how, being a brit, I need to add “Just Kidding” to sarcastic comments (I know, I know… sarcasm is the lowest form of wit) in the US. However, I saw this reversed as the Global Edition started with a screen of text saying:

The Daily Show is satire. Facts are not checked. Please do not take this literally!

I wonder if the show used to go out without that message, and people thought it was real!

Of course, The Daily Show is the most “real” news that is shown in the US (and BBC news shown on cable)

I love Steve Martin, and it seems like Huffington has quality again with Steves Leap Second Lovers Are Traitors Says Bill O’Reilly.

Satire is the new black in the US (always been black in the UK).

Jon Stewart hosting the Oscars. Nice.

With the idiot Bill O’Reilly jumping on the “war on christmas”, I now resort to only withing people a Happy Festivus.

Here’s to you Constanza!

Have you got your aluminium pole ready?