Category: Weird Seen

I carry a camera all the time, and whenever I see a weird car, I shoot it.

Name that flu… Schweinerdämmerung!

A bit of a meme has popped up on Twitter, with people trying to come up with a better name for the swine flu and its accompanying media pandemonium. My friend Damian Amrhein tweeted this one he had heard: “porkulinum panicausinus”

I used to work with Damian and his Germanic origins were always a source of geek humor around the office, so this one popped into my mind: Schweinerdämmerung!

Schweinerdämmerung!

It just seems to fit, given the whole “end of the world” hysteria being whipped up by the media. I came home yesterday to a Seattle Times headline in 72pt type “SWINE FLU FOUND HERE” … c’mon folks. More people have died falling off ladders in the last week than have been killed by this illness. But you don’t see any mass panic about the danger of ladders do you?

I don’t watch TV, especially not the news, and barely read the paper or listen to the radio. The 24hr news cycle is just too worthless to spend time on when all they can do is work into a lather about completely pointless things.

Unintentional laughs from CraigsList

I have several saved searches on CraigsList in my RSS feed that help me land supples and feedstocks for my BioDiesel home brewing. While I sit lazily on my butt, these little technological tidbits ceaselessly scour the “free” section of the Seattle area listings and report their findings back to me. They search for terms such as: Oil, Gallon, Diesel, BioDiesel, and Barrel. The latter is leftover from when I was still building my setup, but I keep it because it provides me with some entertainment and confidence boosting. I see at least 3 posts a month with somebody giving away a “Wheel Barrel”… and for some reason that makes me feel elevated to the “smarter than the average bear” crowd as I would never butcher the language thusly. Besides, my maternal ancestors in Ireland would have never learned to walk upright if it weren’t for the English invention of the wheelbarrow.

Today I opened up my RSS feed to see this headline, which gave a good chuckle for some reason. So while perhaps I am smarter than the average bear, I can still find humor in (very) low places.

Weird Seen: Boxster takes Wing

huh?

Whilst driving southbound in the I-5 Express Lanes on my commute yesterday morning I spotted the above … um… thing ahead of me as we merged into the I-5 mainline. First of all, if it is 65°F and sunny outside, I would not be driving my convertible with the roof raised. But perhaps the driver of this particular Boxtser wished to remain hidden from view due to the absurd wing stuck to the ass of the Stuttgart Spyder.

I had to get a better shot of this inane Parts Store accessory aisle travesty, unfortunately the driver and the angle of the sun did not cooperate.

The driver was a left-lane sitter (the lane to his left in the shot is an HOV lane), and sat there until he approached his exit, at which point he traversed 5 lanes in front of me and I was able to grab this one:

The mind boggles. Your thoughts?