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Do Hot Nerd Girls Exist?

February 28th, 2008 by John Strunk

Hmm so the big question all nerds and dorks ask is if there is such a thing as a hot nerd girl. I was directed to watch the following:

Depressing I know, but true it is. I was reading the comments as I normally do. Mostly its poopy jokes and stupid crap. There is always the video responses with people talking into tin cans with oversized head sets. However I was quite pleasantly surprised to come across this video reply:

You’re the hottest girl with down syndrome ever!

Best comment ever. Thanks zendulo, you give me faith that there really could be hot nerd girls out there.  I think I am in love …

Oh and the elvish talking, very sexy ZOMFG! Are we guys really this easy? … Yeah, yeah we are, at least I am.

Doesn’t take much for me:

  • you have or own elvish ears
  • you have sword fighting skills
  • you own a few video gaming systems and are addicted
  • you spent at least 70% of your life in the 80’s watching cartoons (and loving them)
  • you know that Japanese anime is only good in its native tongue
  • you can use a computer for stuff other than FaceBook
  • you could spend an entire afternoon in BestBuy just looking
  • Apple products turn you on
  • you can code and admin a Linux server
  • you actually have a sense of humor that doesn’t suck
  • you celebrate “Talk like a pirate day”

I don’t think that is too much to ask for right? If you meet those requirements please give me a call.

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T-Shirt Brit

February 27th, 2008 by John Strunk

Every once in a while you come across the following gem in YouTube. This guy apparently got the Guinness World Record for most t-shirts worn. Very neat idea:

I can only imagine it was hot as hell in all those t-shirts. The record, 224 shirts. Anyone else up to breaking this record?

I think I am going to try seeing how many pairs of underwear I can put on …

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115,000 lbs Of Thrust Between Your Legs

February 24th, 2008 by John Strunk

I was really saddened to see this article today on Gizmodo of how a B-2 crashed after takeoff. The pilots apparently ejected safely. Them things is $1.2 billion dollars, wonder if that is coming out of someone’s paycheck. Oh yeah, it comes out of YOUR paycheck in taxes!

Anyway it reminded me of how cool the B-2 is from its looks. Christened the Spirit of Missouri, this thing exemplifies new hotness in aviation. Yeah new hotness even though it was made before 1988 when it was publicly displayed. I also noticed that it is powered by GE’s turbine motors.

GE now has the world record for most powerful turbine motor. Here is an article on that. Oh and cause we are AV centric, a video of it going through GE’s battery of tests:

I think its crazy that when they do the test flight, they only have one GE90-115B engine on that plane out of the 4 engines on that test plane.

But will it blend? You bet your arse it will blend, it will blend 4.5 tons of water per minute and cut up a 5.5 lb bird in milliseconds with no lost in thrust or damage.

115,000 lbs of thrust rated (but brought up to 127,500 lbs of thrust) now compare that to the B2 bomber’s puny F118-GE-100 with 17,300 lb thrust engines (4 of them). Thats some serious power from a single engine.

But with all this power and new hotness, is the loss of sex appeal. The new ones are all cold and doesn’t have that biological feel. The planes from the 60’s and 70’s defiantly had a sex appeal. My love is the B1 bomber:

B1s
(photo from Wikipedia Commons)

Now that is a sexy plane with heart! Watch this Fatboy Slim music video “Bird of Prey” and tell me that the plane in it, a Hawker Hunter, doesn’t have more heart and sex appeal than a F-22 Raptor:

BTW if that video was trippy it was. It was about how they used to test LSD on pilots to see affects of drugs and stress. For the old people in the house, you’ll also note that the repeating voice track was taken from Jim Morrison, of The Doors album, “An American Prayer.” Damn good video though and again beautiful plane.

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Gawdamn Gate!

February 24th, 2008 by John Strunk

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Gate Closing 3/3

So Saturday, me and my friend are starving to death so we decide to go to get a pizza. I go to pick him up at his apartment complex. I stop at the culdesac and see that the gate is open. Sweet me thinks, so I drive on in from park. I get in and all of a sudden the whole truck stops. i look in the mirror and see the gate open again. FU&K! )$&^)

It appears the gate closed on me, for what reason I have no idea. The gate has this long bolt used to adjust the tension of the chain which actuates it. In the larger picture you can see the threads from this bolt which projects out from the gate. It managed to just clip the wheel well and pulled it out when it retracted. I am not sure at all how that happend. I can only assume it was stuck open and that me driving over the rail shook the gate to have it start closing. The retractor seems delayed, it like opens, then notices a block then stops for a big then retracts. But that bolt extends at least 5-6 inches out from the gate so its going to hit you before the bumper on the gate does. As well I was going in to the complex, and the sensors are on the other side.

I didn’t notice the damage cause it was really dark at the gate. After about an hour and a half I call the complex to see what to do. The complex is closed but the answering service picks up. The maintenance had already locked the gate in the open position at this time and I didn’t want to leave and have them say I screwed up their gate and call the cops. I tell them the story and they are like well they will call you back on Monday. I ask if I am supposed to call the cops or what I am supposed to do cause I dont want to just leave. They tell me they will send a patrol car, to sit tight, and they will call me back.

2 hours later, its midnight and I am really freaking pissed by this point. I call the complex again, again the answering service picks up. I tell them WTF is going on I been waiting for 2 hours waiting for this cop. They tell me

Oh, we got a call back from the complex, they said if you want to do anything about it, you gotta call SAPD and have them sort it out.

I tell the lady they were supposed to call me back and that they were sending a patrol car. She says no I gotta do it. SON OF A B$7@*

So I go look up the non-emergency number, call up SAPD, tell them the story, they send a patrol car. When I told the cop the story he was like “THEY TOLD YOU WHAT!?” He was pretty pissed off for me. So he takes the report so if I have to I can get insurance to fix it. After he leaves, its 1:30 and this happend at 8:30.

I am not looking forward to Monday to see how much this is going to cost me.

This makes me a very sad panda :(

I have had a hell of a time since the moment I got to San Antonio. With my RX being backed into, having a water leak, getting rear ended by a truck, and now this.  I have just bought this truck about 5-6 months ago and was waiting for a time to have it professionaly cleaned so I could take pictures of it an post them.  But no, my first posted pics of my new truck is of this.  WTF dude…

Again, me = very sad panda :(

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My Thoughts Exactly!

February 24th, 2008 by John Strunk

I think this is dead on:

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Enter the ICHC online Poker Cats Contest!

I’m going to have to start a similar program.

It apperas that the guys at “I Can Has Cheezeburger” is having a contest here for best picture. Be sure to enter. You can win a two-night trip with hotel stay to Las Vegas with $500 in spending cash and free airfare for 2.  Perdy sweet!

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