Are people really so stupid, or has our culture just become so litigious?
I just saw a Jeep commercial where a family is watching sharks swim overhead, and then the Jeep they’re riding in emerges from the water. At that point, the following text appeared at the bottom of the screen:
“Fictionalization. Vehicle not suitable for underwater use.”
…how to pronounce Linux, here’s the answer, straight from the horse’s — make that Finnish programmer’s — mouth:
If this weren’t so funny, it would fall somewhere between a woeful lack of suspension of disbelief and “Shut up, ya damn Star Wars geek!”
But I have to admit, the guy’s got some good points. (And, I was wondering about some of these things myself… Hmm…)
Clustering is a natural characteristic of true randomness. The randomness of life’s events clustered on our household this fall, so I’ve had to let all of this sit idle for some time. I’m gradually reviving it…
…but I needed to come up with one.
Anyway…
I’m still trying to organize my life as it is captured on the platters of my new iBook’s hard drive. In the midst of doing so, I’ve been listening to some of my own recordings, including the new Inflationary Cosmology CD.
A co-worker, listening to the new CD, made the unfortunate observation that the main guitar pattern in the track “Nothing New Under the Sun” is remarkably similar to the opening of “More than a Feeling” by Boston… and sure enough, it is.
Oh well, at least I got the title right.
In other news… I just have to join the cross-linking stampede and draw your attention to this hilarious entry on someone else’s blog regarding the bizarre, Babelfish-esque cross-translated English subtitles from a Chinese bootleg DVD of Star Trek Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
There are many things to enjoy, but I think my favorite is that “Jedi Council” gets translated as “Presbyterian Church.”
That’s it for now. Back to reorganizing my existence…