Rantings of a New Yorker

If you can't handle swearing, get off the internet. People suck, including me, and these are my rantings.

Entries for September, 2009

Eric Idle Responds to Your Fatuous Comments

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The best image I’ve ever seen

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San Francisco airport at night

It might seem like something from a science fiction movie, but it’s really San Francisco’s airport lit up at night.

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TinEye, the reverse image search engine

Ever had an image and wondered where it came from?  TinEye can do that for you.  It’s a search engine that allows the user to load an image and search for websites that have that image.

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What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor?

There are many things that you never would have suspected lie beneath the harbor, including a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms. In 1865, a freight train was carrying baggage and failed to realize that the Peekskill drawbridge was open, killing two men. Dead bodies, surveillance systems, stripped [...]

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Hugo Chavez answering a FOX news reporter

The best part of this video is when Chavez’ face lights up when he hears the guy is from FOX. Even Chavez knows not to take FOX News seriously. If the FOX news reporter had watched Chavez on Larry King, he would have seen that Chavez basically said that he doesn’t agree with Ahmedinijad’s views [...]

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The last seltzer man in New York City is laid up

Brooklyn native, Ronny Beberman, one of the last real seltzer delivery man left in Brooklyn.  Unfortunately, he fell off his truck, the first time that’s ever happened to him in nearly 40 years of work, and now his clients are left without proper seltzer. Mr. Beberman drives the last real seltzer truck in New York, [...]

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Little 12 year old Fidel Castro writes to President Roosevelt

Santiago de Cuba Nov 6 1940 Mr Franklin Roosvelt, President of the United States. My good friend Roosvelt I don’t know very English, but I know as much as write to you. I like to hear the radio, and I am very happy, because I heard in it, that you will be President for a [...]

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Branford Marsalis says that most students today are completely full of shit

This video clip is taken from the documentary, Before The Music Dies.  If you haven’t seen it, you should.  It’s excellent.

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Text of the 20 Classic Douchebag Quotes

Because the Nerve.com‘s version is built on crappy flash, here’s the text version for you to read and enjoy.  These are all from the book, The  Quotable Douchebag by Margaret McGuire. “The feathered [hair] cut projects an attitude of ease and quiet confidence that seems to have all but eluded our generation. This is a [...]

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