SuburbanAdventure

If you haven’t seen the Powerthirst YouTube videos, I strongly advise you do.  I’d link to them, but anything that rhymes with “reaming tedia” is banned at work.  Anyway, named after Purple Drank the sedative-laden drink popular in the South, Drank is now available.

Tired of spiking your beverages with sedatives and cough syrup to slow [...]

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This is what’s really happening when place a marker on Google Maps.

Via Gizmodo.com via Dark Roast Blend
I’d like to meet the poor bastard that has to run around when you do street level viewing.

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I’ve been doing some investigation into the EPA over the last year or so and found an amazing opinion from the Circuit Court for DC regarding daily pollution rates. The EPA had said that “Daily” was merely a construct and pollution could be calculated on a seasonal or annual basis. The Court shot [...]

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I found the following in an Economist.com article on why kids can’t read:
No question, without a wimpy GUI, computers would never have become as popular as they are today. The command-line interface—with its forbidding prompt and blinking cursor—required mastering a whole catechism of arcane instructions that only a priesthood of computerdom could cherish.
When “root@computername:~# shutdown [...]

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Over the last semester, on Mondays and Wednesdays I’d stop for lunch on my way to school at some fast food vendor and put the napkin I got above the passenger visor.  If I got a note or something I’d jam it in there too and a day or two ago I took out the [...]

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I purchased a Yoohoo today and saw a new label on it “99% caffeine free”.  If this implies that it’s 1% caffeine that’s 4.5 mL of caffeine or 5500 mg of caffeine or the equivalent of 68 Red Bulls or 27 caffeine tablets, in other words just enough to kill an adult.  Should this bear [...]

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I integrated google analytics into the OSR page to see where people were going and hopefully create better navigation tools. I looked at the map showing usage patterns by locations and found this:

A near perfect T. Middle America (both horizontally and largely vertically) hates us.

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An advertisement for Underarmour for someone who doesn’t know the meaning of the word exercise.

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Variance of MLEs ->Variat-cat piss

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I will have one of these ready for Summer Camp: Nintendo Cartridge Harmonica
Via MAKE

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