Archive for the ‘MISC’ Category

…you will be missed.

I remember sitting with my mom watching two shows as a child – one being MASH, the other Designing Women. I always loved the later, however, for one character – the badass, spunky, no-nonsense Julia Sugarbaker.

RIP, Dixie Carter. You were a part of my childhood and one that I will miss.

Julia is PISSED!

You Tell ‘Em, Julia!

And one of my favorites:

…whether I’d want to watch it or eat it.

Delicious Light: A Gummi Bear Chandelier

…well, perhaps. However I hesitate to put any more power to control merchandise, let alone food, in the hands of this evil corporation. Anyone who’s worked for this company will tell you – nothing good comes out of it.

He was right. In the grocery section of the Raynham supercenter, 45 minutes south of Boston, I had trouble believing I was in a Walmart. The very reasonable-looking produce, most of it loose and nicely organized, was in black plastic bins (as in British supermarkets, where the look is common; the idea is to make the colors pop). The first thing I saw, McIntosh apples, came from the same local orchard whose apples I’d just seen in the same bags at Whole Foods. The bunched beets were from Muranaka Farm, whose beets I often buy at other markets—but these looked much fresher. The service people I could find (it wasn’t hard) were unfailingly enthusiastic, though I did wonder whether they got let out at night.

During a few days of tasting, the results were mixed. Those beets handily beat (sorry) ones I’d just bought at Whole Foods, and compared nicely with beets I’d recently bought at the farmers’ market. But packaged carrots and celery, both organic, were flavorless. Organic bananas and “tree ripened” California peaches, already out of season, were better than the ones in most supermarkets, and most of the Walmart food was cheaper—though when I went to my usual Whole Foods to compare prices for local produce, they were surprisingly similar (dry goods and dairy products were considerably less expensive at Walmart).

The Great Grocery Smackdown

…in yet another case of “research can prove any-damn-thing”…

In “Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living,” authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog — including the amount of land needed to feed the animals that go into its food — give it about twice the eco-footprint of, say, building and fueling a Toyota Land Cruiser. Noting that a cat’s pawprint was roughly equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf’s, “New Scientist” (www.newscientist.com) asked an environmentalist at the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, U.K., to independently calculate animals’ environmental impact, and reported that “his figures tallied almost exactly.” The study apparently didn’t take into account the emissions of either the SUV or the dogs.

“If you look at a large-size dog, they can live 10-14 years, and it certainly wouldn’t surprise me,” Don Jordan, director of the Seattle Animal Shelter and President of the Washington State Federation of Animal Care and Control Agencies, said of the study. “There’s a lot that goes into manufacturing and producing food to care for dogs during the course of a life.”

…on why brick-and-mortar stores are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

Really it can only be for the best. For a long time I’ve gone to Best Buy or Barns and Nobel, only to catch myself thinking, “You know, I can get this much, much cheaper off of newegg.com or amazon.com.” The internet makes it cheap and easy to get what you want delivered right to your house – as opposed to driving out of your way and possibly not finding what you want.

These algorithms have their limitations, but they can be useful prompts for browsing. (When I’m forced to shop in an actual physical store, which is as rarely as possible, I feel rather lost and adrift. Where is the helpful “Customers Also Bought” window?) But these software programs are missing one crucial source of data – your social network. After all, the best way to figure out what kind of music you like, or whether or not you’ll enjoy Napoleon Dynamite, is to study your friends. If they’re looking forward to the new Monsters of Folk album, then so are you; if they enjoy old kung-fu movies, then you probably do as well.

The rest is here.

…is still a killing weapon, no matter the power of guns these days.

Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo’s house and taken two laptops and a video-game console. Now it was past midnight, and he heard noises coming from the garage out back.

With the 3- to 5-foot-long, razor-sharp weapon in hand, police say, Pontolillo crept toward the noise. He noticed a side door in the garage had been pried open. When a man inside lunged at him, police say, the confrontation was fatal.

Bastard got what he deserved, as far as I’m concerned. You take your life into your own hands when you break into someone’s house and steal.

The rest is here.

…is going to be awesome.

No, not the ill-conceived adaption of the popular cartoon from Nickelodeon where they have white children playing ethnic characters, I’m talking about James Cameron’s newest flick.

…prefer men who are taken? DEAR GOD ALERT THE INTERNETS! WHAT  A REVELATION!

Unknown to the participants, everyone was offered a fictitious candidate partner who had been tailored to match their interests exactly. The photograph of “Mr Right” was the same for all women participants, as was that of the ideal women presented to the men. Half the participants were told their ideal mate was single, and the other half that he or she was already in a romantic relationship.

“Everything was the same across all participants, except whether their ideal mate was already attached or not,” says Burkley.

The most striking result was in the responses of single women. Offered a single man, 59 per cent were interested in pursuing a relationship. But when he was attached, 90 per cent said they were up for the chase.

The rest of the completely non-surprising article is here.

…is back, with a gem of an article.

Heemeyer set to work on his new project almost immediately. The Komatsu D335A bulldozer that was meant to save his business was instead moved into the muffler shop, and Heemeyer began to make some modifications. He started by adding home-made composite armor–cement sandwiched between thick sheets of steel–to protect the cab, engine, and parts of the tracks. He installed front and rear cameras to feed images to monitors in the cab, and several gun ports were set around the control center. A stockpile of food and water was stored inside, as well as an air tank to help provide air circulation.

Throughout the one-and-a-half years of construction, Heemeyer documented his progress though notes and audio tapes. “Because of your anger, because of your malice, because of your hate, you would not work with me,” he stated in his tape recordings. “I am going to sacrifice my life, my miserable future that you gave me, to show you that what you did is wrong.” He received several visitors at his shop while working on his armored vehicle of vengeance, and none of them seemed alarmed at the weaponized armor shell atop his earth-mover. In his notes Heemeyer credited a higher power with “clouding their vision.” On one occasion he wrote, “I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”

The rest is here.

Chaos Seeds will be on hiatus for two weeks while I move. Upon return, expect all the ass-kicking action, full-frontal nudity, and pointless blood and gore that you’ve all come to know and love from this site.

Sow the seeds of chaos, that possibilities may flower forth,

Lord Khaos

While I’m at the place where I’d watch anything Christopher Nolan makes, it would make me very excited to see a Batman film with these characters in it.

By the way, they’re fake, so don’t get over-excited.

Link to original article -more pictures there.

The awesomeness appearing before you is courtesy of Gamer Phreak over at videogamelife.com who, when not spawning mutants to field his army of genetic clones, dabbles in web layout and other assorted kickassery.

Thanks man!

Found here. Unsure where it’s originally from.

Moving him one step closer to world domination, my buddy Gamer Phreak over at Video Game Life has successfully completed a biotechnological experiment involving insemination of a willing female partner for the purposes of fielding an army of genetic clones.

This is the face of your future oppressor. FEAR THEM!

(Congrats, buddy.)