How It’s Made - Rally Cars (by PanosDCC)
Combining two of my favorite things: How It’s Made and rally!
The first advice most aspiring rally racers receive is to never build your first car; instead, buy a used rally car - it’s cheaper and it teaches you a good lesson: it’s definitely going to break and it’s probably going to be your fault.
You’re less likely to be emotionally attached to a used car than to something you spent weeks designing and building - emotional attachment has no place in rallying, because…
- If you’re focused on not breaking your car, then you’re not focused on winning.
- If you’re not focused on winning then you’re not focused on driving.
- If you’re not focused on driving then you’ll think you heard your codriver say “keep left over crest into short 4 right plus” when he actually said “keep left over crest into short 4 left plus” and then you’ll find yourself crying because you wrapped your car around a tree.
Anyway. Rallying is a serious goal of mine - even if it’s just a 5-day class at Team O’Neil Rally School.
Randall (of Honey Badger fame) provided narration on the teaser video for the new season of Mythbusters. The results are predictably hilarious.
It’s a bit weird, but I have a huge crush on the actress in the QuiBids commercials.
Thanks to this creepy blog, I know her name, her history, her favorite color, why she will never again eat Thai food, and what kind of toilet paper she prefers for wiping her beautiful bum.
Anyway. It’s only weird because she’s so far off my radar in terms of the type of woman I’m attracted to and because I’ve tried to program my DVR to record QuiBids commercials but the stupid thing doesn’t know how to do that.
All 13 episodes from season 1 of the best new show on TV are currently available for streaming at Hulu.com, and some expire on June 5th, so don’t hesitate! Go watch them asap before you have to pay for them!
Go! Now! Watch!
fake-obituary:
Serenity McLavabo, who has died at the age of 49 of embiggened lymph, will be remembered by many people mostly for her roles in many popular children’s television programmes. She will also be remembered by many other different people for her roles in many popular hardcore bondage films…
OK, people. Listen up. I’ve bottled this up inside for a few months but I can’t keep on like this.
Consistently smart and exceptionally witty, Fake Obituaries deserves to be followed by everyone. The Laughs Per Paragraph meter is pegged at the top. It’s quickly become one of my all-time favorite Tumblrs.
Ladies and gentleman,
Bob’s Burgers is far and away the best new show on television. It has me laughing heartily with each new episode, and the writing has more intelligence and heart than any of the other crappy animated series’ on Fox.
Do yourselves a favor and tune in.
This has been a public service announcement from your friend,
Steelopus
PS: It’s been greenlighted for a second season. SQUEE!)
merlin:
“Welcome back, Dave.”
Foo Fighters - “Everlong” (Late Show; Feb 21, 2000)
[snip]…And, brother, is that Taylor Hawkins ever a goddamned force of nature. Crunch.
It’s definitely one of the best songs of the 90s, and this performance is even more impressive when you realize how many subtle changes they made to the song’s structure and dynamics, yet they literally never missed a beat.
But… my favorite part of this song is that by simply changing the first word from “Hello,” to “Jell-O®,” you can turn it into an instant Weird Al classic.
globochem:
best
Last night’s episode was quite solid. Tracy in the Cash Cab was one of the funniest things they’ve ever done.
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Don’t search Twitter for “Jeopardy” and read through an hour’s worth of tweets unless you want to see a lot of people being genuinely stupid.
I saw far too many “Jeopardy is fixed” tweets… because the Final Jeopardy question was “Sports and the Media” and Jelisa, the sports writer, won the show.
Right. It’s fixed. Or maybe, those other two dudes are complete fucking noobs.
The answer, “On Feb. 8, 2010, the major headline in this city read, “AMEN! AFTER 43 YEARS, OUR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED” might be one of the easiest I’ve ever seen.
OK. Fine. Not everyone is a sports fan. That Roger dude is a PhD computer science nerd, not your typical sports fan. But THIS ISSSSSSSSS Jeopardy! They were being tested on an event that happened less than a year ago! An event that made headlines around the world - not just sports headlines - as an occasion to celebrate the turn-around and recovery of a great city. That’s not “fixed.” That’s common sense. It doesn’t take a genius, or a sports writer, to know that the Super Bowl - arguably the most publicized sporting event on the planet - happens the first week of February, every year. And yet, you think that because they essentially asked the contestants “Hey dude, who won the super bowl this year?” it was all a setup? That’s just fucked up.
She won fair and square, fueled by an intense final minute of Double Jeopardy in which she significantly closed the gap between herself and Roger. I guess you’re also gonna tell me that they fed her the question “What are the Lacrimal Ducts?” (Seriously… that was some impressive shit.)
She’s a woman and she’s got a brain and she took down goliath and it was awesome and you can all take your conspiracy theories and shove them right up your asses.
</rambling rant>
A lot more people will be happy about Jelisa’s win than will be sad about Roger’s loss. Just as nature intended.
Stephen Lopez
