a great movie idea

How many places can you hear two evil mad scientists arguing with each other about how to destroy the world?  Usually there’s just one criminal super-mastermind, but here we have two.  I think this should be made into a movie!  Think about the possibilities…  Of course you’d have the obligatory good guy trying to save the world, but in a clever twist of plot, you’d have two evil geniuses trying to destroy both the world and each other!  I think it’s time for a movie produced by Buffet o’ Blog.

You can read their first verbal assault toward each other here.  Initially they are defusing a PETP representative, then they go after each other.

that’s French for German

I stumbled across an interesting website recently, called Poetry in Translation.  You type in a sentence or part of a poem and press OK.  It uses Google’s Automatic Translation service to translate your text from English to German, then to French, then back to German again, then back to English.

For example, I typed in : “This poetry translation contraption is pretty cool.  It definitely creates some random results.”  This became : “This Poesieübersetzung invention is rather fresh.  It causes some occasional results definitively.”

Definitely random!  (Or should I say, rather fresh?)

again looking forward to Monday

Am I crazy?  No.  (Well, not for this reason, anyway.)  This upcoming Monday is Labor Day, so we’re off work.  And so it’s exciting.  I’m not sure yet what I’ll be doing, but it will involve getting enough sleep and not going to work.  So it sounds promising.

We need more holidays that give you Monday off…

Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship

Now there’s a Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship.  People from around the world went to Finland to compete.  The gold medal winner threw his phone 292 feet (which is about the length of a football field).  One contestant said three things were needed to compete : technical skills, power, and a sense of humor.

If they can make this into a sport that’s getting big headlines, we should make up our own sport.  We can have trophies, T-shirts, nachos, burgers — the works.  We’ll do it right.  And when it gets all popular, we’ll get some advertisers to donate food and stuff.  So let’s see… what could we do?  Any ideas?