AAAGHGHH patent office! WHY have you forsaken ME?!

DAMN it why?!

Why must I always fail?!

Why do you have the most convolouded, Fucked up system known to man?!

Will the new private pair work?!

Who knows?!

You can't get a fucking webcast to work!!!!

Also, You can login,, if you have a customer number...

Oh good, you've got that,

in under 2 months.

Now you can get your "certificate"

Careful, remember to send in your email address, so they can tell you that it's not there and not mail you anything and totally forget to let you know about it in any way possible.

Oh yeah, and when you get that information,,

IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!

ARRRRRRRRRGHHH!!!!

I am not a well man.

Have a great life day! Or I'll have Chewie pull your arms off!

fun video goodness for today

Oh and bridge to terrabithia is coming out!

And you'll get a kick out of this! It's from the YKK zipper people (why? I have no idea!)

Go Gauchos!!!! UCSB wins soccer National Championships!

Now that's how to win!! (they dump the goal posts into the ocean, check the vids!)

I think Mary had a little lamb,, in silence maybe?

USFL, gosh,, ummm, it was football.

Found this, had to show it.

When once there was a time....

Yes, that's an oakland Invaders helmet.
You're welcome.

Technology for technology's sake, ahh the stupid.

Thanks FQuick

Give!!! (it just takes a click!)

For some reason there's a way to click and that's giving (who knows why!)

anyway, here's the link! Click like mad!!!

Thanks lifehacker!

Nice Astra!!

wow!

What Will Schumi do next?! This!!!

You'll laugh

You'll cry,,

But only if you know who 7 time world champion Michael Schumacher is.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Rock the NNAKA!! That's Hannukah slowbies!!!

Time to bring the fun with Jdub records.

Reboot, highly kosher bizdevrockin.

Over at the PJalliance (Progressive Jewish Alliance, not pajamas!) They're talkin bout the Vodka Latke Festival of lights! (SF/LA sorry right coasters!)

See how bad it is being a Jew from Fresno, I never knew about the Vodka part!!! (ok, no one I'm related to drinks, that splains` it well).

So get ready to light em up!! Get your fair trade gelt out (fair trade coffee too, come on, what else are you having with your cake?!) and rock the driedel old school!!! 1322 baby!!!

Keep it kosher and current.

What the heck, just move to Chelm! Thanks Golem, your oscar is on the way!

Tuesday afternoon goodness, but it's MY goodness!

ooh!!! an easy way to learn about the web!

Gotta check these chairs!! They hold books!!!
Another book holding chair!

Thanks for those popgadget!

Oh and to my buddy Erik, here's a fun Train Blog! He's not well, he likes Trains, John Deere, and Fisk!

Oh yeah, and all you plus loving kids, get this for when santa comes!! (it's what's pictured)

Here's today's dose of Super!

To begin, there is CERN. You know, where the science comes from (and the chocolate, the Swiss Rock!)

Here's a group of videos that show how the ATLAS detector on the world's biggest machine works.

Here's a link to a company that makes sweet Heads up displays for biking, karting, and other forms of awesome racing! So cool. Thanks Gizmag

Oh yeah, and if ya wanna go grow your own ACL go here.

Doh! I almost forgot!

here's the fab at home main page

FSM, it's flyingspaghettimonstertastic!

ok Mike here ya go!!!

Flying Spaghetti Monster!

wikipedia's link

boingboinged

The Church of the FSM

That should explain it.

(oh yeah, and it mocks the idiots that don't believe in evolution if you hadn't figured it out yet.)

thansk wikipedia for the image!

Testing testing, this is only a test, if it were testicles, that would be different.

See it's just a test, in the event of an actual
testicle, you'd be at a bad site. Who wants to see
balls?!

Speaking of which, Amy Sedaris has a new book, it
looks great! I can't wait!

I want!!!!

Ok, so it' s that time of the year again. So here's a way to know what to get for people (if they're named me)

you can always go to where I blog for this post

You can find my Amazon gift list

You can find my iwants list at delicious,

or you can always wing it with a Lotus Elise.

I'm just saying.

been too long, but I'm back on it!

You do understand, first of all, that Chuck is EVERYWHERE

Second, Russian Bears are cute! Especially if they're the basis for the 1980 olympic mascots and alcholics!

Blow me, as stated by a dolphin, (or something like that)

One of my new favorite bands! (oh yeah, and it's time for Mike to make his debut!!) Show me the bands buddy!

Nuts to you too buddy! Nahh, I'm just stressin out!

Hope your turkey day was filled with awesome!! If it wasn't,, why!? Oh yeah, and so you bloggers know, blogger is now hooked up under your gmail account.

P.S. you can find me blogging at www.coolest-gadgets.com now!! wahoo! (it's professionalesque!)

I did it finally! THUNDERBIRD Ho!!!

Yeah, so I put in a day of thunderbird work and added a few extensions. Well,, I did!

Anyway, it seems to work rather nicely. It's just weird to finally do something so smart. (should I have said that?)

Well I did, it is very smooth and simple. It works quite well, I think I need to figure out how to use the spam and the filters a bit better, but once I've got that down I think I'll be ok.

I've hooked up all my webmail stuff, which has kept me in fear of doing this, but once I found the proper extensions, and figured out some simple settings (yes, I felt stupid too). Anyway, it rocks, now I can't wait to integrate all my work correctly, alas, it won't be today, still too lazy to complete the patent stuff I should, aargh!

Hello you wonderful IP people, here's the firefox stuff I promised

Ok folks, here's how to run firefox the fun way!

First of course, ya's gots to get yer firefox.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

read the simple rundown on that page and be blown away, firefox is that great!

Now, you can click on the tools tab to get extensions, (it's just that easy!)
You can also go to the popular extensions site

https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?app=firefox&appfilter=firefox&type=E&sort=downloads

at this site, you can easily select the top 15 or so with confidence (as they apply to you). Additionally it is their official site, so you can trust it more.

The site below has a more focused route for telling you about extensions that do specific jobs (try them both, hit control + T enter a new tab and bring them up next to each other, welcome to tabbed browsing!!)

http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-firefox-extension/index.html

here's the official list of "Fred approved" firefox extensions.

IE tab: runs native windows explorer in a firefox tab

NoScript: ad/popup/script blocker

Fasterfox: makes it go faster, no brainer!

Adblock: ad/popup/script blocker

AdblockPlus: ad/popup/script blocker (I know I get redundant, I also don't get viruses!)

pdfdownload: use it for those .pdfs I told you about

del.icio.us: best extension here,, you are using del.icio.us aren't you?! Aren't you?! (hint, put me in your network if you do any tech research whatsoever! ( freds4hb, it's always how to find me))

bugmenot: gets you stealthily into la times, etc. helps when you don't have a subscription, kinda bad, but sometimes I just want the info.

aspator: patent nirvana! Use it, or waste lots of time, your choice.
videodownloader: nuff said

sessionsaver: did your firefox crash? So what! Just turn it back on and you're right back where you were! A real lifesaver! Beats the crap out of history.

googlenotebook: sign up for a gmail account (duh) then go get into googlenotebook, make notes on sites just for yourself, they stay with you across platforms since they're used by logging into google, it's a real help for simple notes, even when you're away from your machine! (think shared notes at home, work, or on the go with a laptop you can always access)

tabmixplus: nice for viewing multiple tabs at a time

stumbleupon: great time waster/random good site generator


I hope that helps!!

Also here's a quick rundown of what I use on a daily basis.

Office
Adobe Creative Suite
Firefox
itunes (ok, I'm a sucker for old time radio, just stream it people, it's freee!)
titlebarclock (just handy lightweight, free, and helpful)
convert: converts any units, really helpful! http://joshmadison.net/software/
Rhino (here at work)
solidworks at home (it's the best thing ever for 3d modelling!)
Palm pilot (duh) been using it since 1996, I'll change when,, ok I won't.
google earth (note to self: put globe in trash)

seriously the only other big help I can give you is to use del.icio.us!!! It's so powerful, and by using the extension to add a tag in firefox, it just does so much to organize what you're looking for (and yes you can keep them private just by clicking the checkbox for private)

I hope I've helped!!

Why is Barry Bonds allowed to play baseball?

Read This article

and This one

and tell me that Barry Bonds is allowed to play baseball. Your answer will be NO.

Cheating is wrong!

Note to all designers,, STUPEFY!!!

So umm,,, read the link, but basically it says,, if you design complex crap, then people who are dumb will send it back cause they'll think they broke it.
here's the link. duhhh

Now I need a bear to hold this

Check this out, Darpa is doing a little work on Remote control Sharks.

Next up lazers outta their heads.

Then, a special bear holder. (ya know,, a bear holding a shark!)

click here

Just a little nuclear fusion,, no big whup.

ScienceDaily: 'Double Crystal Fusion' Could Pave The Way For Portable Device

This great device development, can shoot out neutrons (not super useful for energy generation in this arrangement). But hey! It's real fusion!! (not star making, but there ya go!)

Torino!!!!!

If you're not already excited about the olympics, you need to see this great ad for the biathalon!!!

Biathalon


I also have an idea for an additional biathalon type competition, but I don't know if you want to play or not. Basically it's the same,, skiis, and guns,,,, only,,

it's downhill on the moguls course,,
there's no stopping,

and it uses shotguns!!!!

First one down wins!

Play along at home, as I configure Thunderbird!! (it's like email that goes with Firefox!)

Ok, so I'm a monster techie,,, idiot. I choose to avoid things like the word DNS, and IMAP, and POP3 for as long as techily possible.

Well, no more,, tonight, I make email my bitch!!!!!!


To begin, open 1 standard size beer bottle, apply liberally to the inside of your mouth, add fries to taste.

Download and install Thunderbird, (of course!)

Then,,,,

I have an account with,,,, yahoo, hotmail, gmail, and 1 at a go-daddy domain of mine.
Let's play hardball and load em all!!!

(but first, I'll update my itunes)


http://products.secureserver.net/email/email_thunderbird.htm

ok, so I tried!!!

I managed to get the Yahoo stuff up and running, but I failed only on,,,

hotmail,, gmail,,, and my own domain through go-daddy.. I'll try again another day!!

arrrgh!!! I'm dum!

oh yeah, and Robot Elephants,, I almost forgot!

So ummm, robot elephants,, yeah,, take that ya other stupid robot pets.

Only this one is 30 feet tall! So, why don't you take a look. It was to celebrate Jules Verne's birthday in France,, so the downside of course,, it's a French Robot. Oh well.

Check the video here.
Maybe you remember the AT AT walker, it now has a little brother. Unky George (Lucas) will be proud.
Other links are here, and here.

Let's go racing people!

So I've got a new race team to pull for,, ok, not really, but it's pretty funny.

Yes,, playboy racing,, just click the link.

Cheers!
(it's for the articles)

look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a spacesuit!!!

NASA and our buddies in Russia are developing a "Suit Sat" to orbit. They're going to push it out the door at the ISS (international space station people!)

It's got a Ham transmitter on it and everything, so you can listen to it fly by.

There'll be telemetry on it the whole way, and it's orbit will eventually decay into a firey ball in around a week or so.

Should be neato! Umm, click here for more info!

More original info here too!

Hah!! Two more great suitsat links!

Here! (for the creepy suitsat photos!)

and Here for the ISS listing page

been there done that! (I think)

create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

today's nuggest of joy brought to you by the letter aRrrgh!!!!

ok, the title has nothing to do with the joys included in this post, just thought it was funny!

First, the folks over at worth1000.com do great little contests every day, but sometimes, they're easy enough so everyone can actually do a good job and look good. Check out, celebrity day jobs!! They're hysterical!

Second, I don't know what genre this really is so I'll try and describe it via tags,
stormtrooper, Che, video, scratch DJ,
yeah I think that appropriately describes it.

Oh yeah, and Darpa's new blimp project kicks ass. It even has a great code name, Walrus.

That should do it,, oh yeah, and thanks to google earth, which, if you don't have by now, your life is diminished a little, companies are painting their logos on their roofs now! Cool!

And, if we get off our asses soon, we'll get out our Jan 13 cards out (as usual really late!)

Hey all you suckas!

You know what?!

The trailer for clerks II is out you mother @(#*$

So go there,

-Jay out!

(umm if you missed Clerks,, or have no idea who Kevin Smith is,, I really didn't like you to begin with.)

Say my name!!!!

so umm, I can't even make this stuff up.

click for this article!

Apparently saying my name releases stress! So, if you're stressed, why don't you do a little Fredding? It's great for you!! (why didn't I have this years ago! Dating would've been a snap!)

Somewhere alyson hannigan is laughing while saying my name!