Quick Update:
It’s getting pretty bad when your ENEMIES give you the silent treatment (rolls eyes). Poor poor bitchy Hillary… What’s a witch gotta do to get treated like a queen around here?
X-treme Geek has once again earned hosannas in my humble (but still really really important) opinion.
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It’s the X-treme Geek USB Forklift!!!
I don’t know what I’d lift with it, but I need one anyway. Bad. Real bad. Wet-your-pants-if-you-aren’t -granted-gratification-within-20-minutes bad.
I know my wife (aka “Frog”) reads this drivel that I write so maybe I can get one without groveling.
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Since the Universe is not without balance (meaning God has a wicked funny sense of humor) the mixed variety of individuals at X-treme Geek have another offering…
The Please, since my hearing is 50% gone and wear hearing aids, correct me if I’m wrong… vinylphiles keep their LP’s because the analog nature of the LP gives music more depth/range/warmth and leads to reduced chances of toenail cancer and bleeding gums in lab rats. So, I take my USB record player, put my LP on it, the signals get digitized at Nyquist sampling frequencies (44KHz) and sent over the USB link and through my digital sound card and spit out to my speakers. How is this useful? Great! Now I can cart around my LP’s and a bulky player everywhere! And less quality “Win-win”, oh yeah.
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Honorable mention goes to the Remote Revolver.
I would remove the little orange-red thingy. If I’m going to pretend I’m shooting my tv in my own home, I’m going to do it w/o ruining the illusion. It beats my current system which will only turn off the tv. My current controller requires no batteries, and is really hard to lose – it’s called The Brick and comes in red, brown, and grey colors.
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A cool Universal Card Reader:
Neato! I like the simtel aspect of it.
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And lastly, the single most obnoxious thing I can imagine ever walking, rolling, or slithering across the face of this earth, besides most current-office-holding democrats…
Coco, the cute but soon to be short-lived alarm clock
Little Coco would last just one single night (morning). It would then go through stages of decombobulation.
- Stabbing via Abalone Knife (reserved for just such occasion, but with normal clocks)
- Burning, using ashes and sugar to prolong the pain
- Crushing blows via 15lb sledgehammer, with lots of garlic (can’t be too sure with these things)
- Wrapping in a bag of salt
- Burial, 6 ft deep hole, minimum
- Pavement over the top of the hole, not less than 6″ thick
To close today’s festivities, I can speak for all of us, I’m sure, when I say that this is a MUST HAVE item.
Laser Tag = Fun.
Laser Tag + Shocking The Snot Out Of You = Scream-Like-A-Girl Fun.
I see you have the Moronosphere widget on your sidebar, you want in the Moronosphere blogroll? It’ll get you some extra exposure and maybe a little traffic.
Yes, that would be great! I started out with regular contact with Weasel, McGoo, PJ Momma, Enas, and Ace all about the same time. Weas put me on her roll, but yeah, officialdomness would be nice.
Nice to meetcha DPUN.
– LK
Cool, I’ll have CB add you to the Giant list o’ Morons, it may take a little while, but it’ll be up.
I confess (hangs head in shame) I have not counted. Do you have a ticker somewhere that shows the number of names on the active roster of Moronbloggers?
Nah, but you can go to dpud and see the Moronosphere blogroll and count…best I got. Most of them are active, but a few aren’t, and I’m sure there are a few missing.
I don’t need to know so bad that I want either of us to go and count… working at home tonight and hard enough to stay on-task.
Thanks again DPUD.
Welcome to the club!
Also much love for directing me to x-treme geek. I am now lost amongst the absolute COOLNESS of that place.
Thank you Old Iron – it’s been a lot of fun so far.
X-treme Geek isn’t just a company, it’s a religion. No known cure. No one has ever tried.
Do let me know if you buy something cool there, ok? Enas gave feedback on his plasma mug from Think Geek, and it’s good to hear feedback from someone you know/trust based on some sort of connection rather than the possibility that all the reviews are generated like Mad-Libs. (not likely, but fun to imagine)
Not a problem. I actually am a little partial to the bottle cap opener / 1 gig USB drive, but the fork lift is a must purchase. I’ll get back to you on those when they come in.
Elsewhere, I have seen this and think it is terrific, but the price is a bit… much.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/99f1/
But it looks like it’s great for records/documents that you cannot let anyone have unless you intend to let them have it.
I mean, if someone wants it bad enough to break into extractable data, they cave it.