Che Guevara's Blog

The most serious weekly magazine for politics in Brazil is called Carta Capital. I've heard it described as being like the UK's Economist but leaning left. Each week they have a fake blog for a famous person. They're pretty hilarious. Here are three of the most recent ones:

Che Guevara (legal means cool)

Marx

Mother Teresa (gotta love the comment spam...)

The Empire Strikes Barack

YouTube video with Obama as Luke, HRC as Vader and Bill Clinton as The Emperor. So good.

In kvetch again

A follow up to the one they ran last week. I wrote that one over two years ago. This is about something that happened last month:

Date had great big shades.
I should have turned, walked away.
But I didn't. Damn.

Too mean, I know. There are some good people who wear big sunglasses and say they really like them for how well they block out the sun, etc. Still, walking away would have been a damn good move.

Top Kvetch!

They printed my haiku:

Girls with great big shades.
Think they look like movie stars.
Like, yeah, whatever.

Confirming what we already know about Duke

Duke was the team most despised by those in Facebook. There were almost as many Duke haters (76,492) as there were for the next six teams on the list (North Carolina, Florida, Ohio State, Kansas, Indiana) combined (link).

02/08/08 PHD comic: 'Crushing the Dream'

This made me laugh pretty hard. The one before it is pretty funny, too. The quality of undergrads at Carolina is generally high, and I suspect very few of them will spend any extended period of time in minimum wage jobs. But it still made me laugh.

02/08/08 PHD comic: 'Crushing the Dream'

[2/16/08: It stopped displaying the comic so now I just link to it]

this also made me laugh

In my stupid computer game I'm in a guild. Our new guild website has a page called Outcast - Where are this website's members located?:

Note: China and UK apparently have legal issues with Geocoding. If you live in UK, please write your elected officials and inform them how preposterous it is that you can't get the coordinates by typing 'Glasgow,Scotland'. If you live in China, well, you'll just have to suck it up, as we all know how conducive the Chinese government is to criticism.

this made me laugh

"The amount of time the entire human population spends sitting in front of Windows boxes waiting for them to be ready to work is probably in aggregate worth the GDP of a medium-sized country."

Grad school is like this:

Monk on iTunes

My cousin Hilary gave me a gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) for my birthday and I used it to buy episodes of Monk. I only have one episode before I'm caught up on Season 5. I think that for me it's a cheaper alternative to cable, since I don't watch that much TV. Also I can watch them whenever I want, pause them, and there are no commercials. My monitor is 19" vs. my 20" TV, so it's pretty much the same quality. Monk is just so funny, and I also enjoy the crazy plots. I don't think I'd buy 30 minute shows on iTunes, though. $1.99 seems a little pricy for that. My gym has TV's on many of the cardio machines, so sometimes I try to time my workouts to catch an episode of Scrubs or Colbert Report.

On the subject of Monk, these cleaning tips are funny, but some of them also seem useful... (Katie cringes).

Bush = history major

According to the Biography of President George W. Bush on the White House website, Bush "received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University in 1968." [my emphasis]. Interesting. I'd never heard what his degree was in.

Funny Cartoon About Italy

The Prof. for whom I TA showed it in lecture. So funny. I've never been there, but people who have say it's pretty true (it's made by Italians).

http://europa.tiscali.it/futuro/speciali/cartoon.html