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The iPad Photoshop Collection

With an awesome name like iPad pitting it against very popular woman sanitary products many people couldn’t contain themselves to open their GIMP or Photoshop, and let loose.
Here’s a collection of some of the best so far:

From: http://failblog.org/2010/01/27/name-fail-photoshop-win/

From: imagebin.org

From: imageshack.us

From: cylblog.com Shrunk to fit on page better.

From: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=ipad_lyttjf4khcjjn27j8a6w.jpg by Danny Ross

From: http://www.shackpics.com/viewer.x?file=ipad_spwop2fcdz9zdvynzvkr.jpg
Note: first image was from: www.urlesque.com
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KFC Australian Commercial – Racial Uproar

Recently KFC released a new commercial in Australia and it is causing quite the uproar, with many people calling it “Racist” as it depicts a single white Aussie easing an “awkward situation” with a bucket of chicken.
I’m surprised during the making of the video, not one person in marketing had any inclination of the possible uproar this would cause, and how it could, or would, [ continue reading... ]

Happy New Years

Just wanted to say happy new years too all the readers.
Hope you have your 2010 goals in mind, your drinks ready and chilled, and be sure to stay safe.

Pictures from bigfoto.com, not mine.. I couldn’t afford a camera that took pictures like that.

Ben Jr (my son) Playing His New Drums on Christmas Morning

Just thought I’d share a pretty fun video of my 2 Year Old Son, Ben Jr, playing his new drum set that he received from Santa Claus on Christmas Morning.
I received some awesome noise cancelling headphones. (no, not really but if you want to donate to a pair, I wouldn’t mind).

Guitar Hero Meets Christmas

Ok, I’m bored so I’m going to blog about boring things. Here’s an awesome Christmas Light Show that I wanted to share.
Boy that’d be quite awesome to have, your favorite game, connected to your favorite season.
Enjoy.

And for one of our sponsers:

Dallas Stars Ivan Vishnevskiy Own Goal vs Sharks 12/21/09

The other day while watching the Sharks game, one of the funniest first goals I’ve ever seen was made.
Stars had pulled the goalie, and the face off was outside of the Sharks blue line. The puck came to rookie Ivan Vishnevskiy from a push from Ryan Clowe and well, the rest will be in Ivan’s mind forever (you have to remember this is his first [ continue reading... ]

Blogilo – The Blog Gigolo – KDE 4.4

I’ve recently come across the application Blogilo, which I from here on out will reference as the Blog Gigolo. Most of my blog posts I do in the wordpress backend, in a web browser since it’s what I knew.
However, recently I found this awesome application which is supposed to be shipping along side with KDE 4.4. The name Blogilo comes from unknown source to me, [ continue reading... ]

Difference Between Santa Claus and Tiger Woods

Here’s a nice festive poke at Tiger Woods.
Q: What’s the difference between Santa Claus and Tiger Woods?
A: Santa Claus stops at 3 Ho’s.
Ok.. ok enough of that.. Happy Holidays to All.
And from the peeps at slay.me:

Glenn Beck Letter from Arizona Woman

Keeping the truth alive. It’s been a while since I read this letter which was sent to Glenn Beck back in June, but re-read it again today and wanted to make sure we keep the truth alive.
In the months since the letter was sent, the problems have only gotten worse. We have more czar’s which are directly appointed, and don’t have to follow normal procedural [ continue reading... ]

My Christmas Lights – First Year

This year marked a very exciting year for me, as I purchased my first house. Not only are we in a new house for the first year, but this is the first year since my son was born that we’re going to have XMas Mornings / Night at our own house (this is big for me, since I started to think that my son wouldn’t [ continue reading... ]

Comcast Question and Missing Answer

So recently I had a problem with my Comcast bill, and went onto their website to check out their FAQ. That is when I saw the question:
What Should I Do If My Cable Is Out?
The question in itself made me wonder about the answers, and well the most obvious answer I was looking for was missing, but why?
First, here’s a picture of the question and [ continue reading... ]

Team Mate of the Year

As some of you may know, I follow hockey. Although I typically don’t blog about hockey on my site, I just couldn’t pass this one up:

Yes.. That’s Keith Ballard nearly Decapitating his Team Mate Tomas Vokoun. I could only imagine what it would have been like if he did that to the opposing teams Goalie.

7 Banks Fail – FDIC Receiver of All of them

This week we had 7 bank closures, you heard that right, 7 bank closures. To make matters worse ALL 7 bank failures named the FDIC as the receiver. Here’s a list of all the banks:
Founders Bank, Worth, IL
Millennium State Bank of Texas, Dallas, TX
The First National Bank of Danville, Danville, IL
The Elizabeth State Bank, Elizabeth, IL
Rock River Bank, Oregon, IL
The First State Bank of Winchester, [ continue reading... ]

FDIC Shuts Down 5 Bank on June 26th

I am blown away at this. With all the “green shoots” (thank you Ben Bernanke for that term) and supposed health of the financial systems, we continue to have a high rate of bank failures, and have now totaled 45 banks for 2009.
The banks closed on June 26th were:
Mirae Bank, Los Angeles, CA
MetroPacific Bank Irvine, CA
Horizon Bank, Pine City, MN
Neighborhood Community Bank, Newnan, GA
Community Bank [ continue reading... ]

Beale Beatdown at Beale AFB

Right off the ropes of Travis Fury comes the Beale Beatdown at Beale AFB: Here’s a snip of some of the fighters (I train at Combat Fitness which is part of the Rapacon Martial Arts school) which is cornering Rob Witlock.
The World Fighting Coalition & 9 Force Support Squadron Presents “Beale Beatdown”
10 bouts of full contact MMA fighting, right off the heels of “Travis Fury” [ continue reading... ]