And a lot of boinging. (Courtesy of Nothing To Do With Arbroath.)
Fortunately for me, when I’m plastered I routinely lose the ability to type — at least without committing so many typos that I simply give up on the project until the blood alcohol drops. So this isn’t for me.
But for those who have better motor skills even when inebriated, Google now introduces an app that (when enabled) slows you down with math before you send that late-night boozy message.
Fascinating…
(If you can’t see the YouTube video embedded below, go here.)
(courtesy of Mark Evanier’s news from me)
Today’s delights from LJ’s Metaquotes community:
Deep Ones! Meet the Deep Ones! / They’re a rugose, squamous familyyyyy…
“…OH CHRIST WHO LET JOKER HAVE PENCILS!?”
…In these days “batshit” literally meant the shit of bats, and flame wars were conducted via snail mail or newspaper editorials.
And:
Trek and Stargate: kindred under the skin
(Gazelle milk, huh?)
A lot of traffic finds its way to Out of Ambit via Google. Some of the searches (as they display in the system / stats logs) are interesting. A selection from the last few days:
“Diane Duane” mormon
I’m not.
best crumpet recipe
That’s over here. (Or here.)
creator of wolverine
You’re looking for my old friend Len Wein.
afterlife money
(blink) What??
So who else remembers that great line from the film Crazy People? It featured Dudley Moore as an off-the-rails, burnt-or-burning-out ad exec who is chucked into a psychiatric hospital and then winds up (with the assistance of some of his fellow patients, one of them played by Darryl Hannah) doing something absolutely unthinkable: basing print and TV ad campaigns on the truth.
There are some hilarious fake ads in the film. “Buy Volvo! It’s boxy, but it’s good!”, one urges. Or: “Porsche! It’s a little too small for you to get laid inside. But you’ll get laid as soon as you get out!” And at the end of the film, there’s also this wildly un-PC fake Sony commercial that explains why Eastern electronics are so superior to Western ones.
…Brought to you by a company that specializes in OTC antidiarrheal preparations. This would seem at first glimpse like a really useful online resource.
However, alas, there’s a catch. It appears that if you are anywhere but in the continental US, you are (so to speak: forgive me if the idiom suggests itself…) s**t out of luck. I guess the rest of us are all just going to have to hold it in.
This came up the other day. Now I see that Mark Evanier has had an email about it too.
But then Mark does one of the things he does best and asks the next question. 
I’m very fond of the LJ community customers_suck. I read it often to remind myself of the dreadful crap that almost all service-providers have to put up with at one point or another… yet another reason to be nice to all the behind-the-counter people whose paths I cross. But also I read it because sometimes there’s just something so hilarious to be found there that it makes the whole afternoon or evening.
This is one. If I wrote this into a screenplay, my producer would send the scene back with “Not believable, nobody is really this stupid” scrawled across it. …Nonetheless, what a great scene it would be to write.
