It's green...but not.

Awesome story about how much illegal marijuana production hurts the environment in California. This story is amazing not only for the environmental parts but for the technology behind these illegal grow operations. Large scale water pumping, clear cutting hillsides for grow patches and 1Kw generators for grow lights with 10,000 gallon diesel tanks? That's insane!

Maybe rabid environmental activism will finally accomplish something on the legalization of pot. Does anyone still believe it should lumped in with narcotics like cocaine instead of something like tobacco or alcohol? You could eliminate 90% of the violence surrounding marijuana production, use and sales by turning it into a highly regulated cash crop.

Video Stumble Recap

Here's some video I stumbled on today....


Nimble little minx.

Paul Potts won the first Britain's Got Talent contest and if you've never seen or heard of him prepare to be amazed. Imagine a guy walking in off the streets and being able to sing an amazing piece of Tenor Opera. He even impresses Simon Cowell.

How the hell is Jackie Chan still alive?

WAH!!! Cry babies.

I read the blog at TreeHugger for two reasons. First, they actually have a lot of good stories about new and innovative technologies meant to make us all more "green". Second, they are a bunch of cry babies with no sense of humor and an over inflated sense of impending ecological doom. Take, for instance, this story about a skit that Top Gear did showing that the Prius was less economical than a BMW M3. Watch the offending video on their page, a normal person that has a sense of humor would recognize that as satire. No one in their right mind ould watch that video and be offended or feel that it was misrepresenting the Prius. But not uppity hippies, no they take this kind of attack on their beloved Prius very seriously.

I can't wait until 2020 because by then we'll be able openly make fun of the Prius and the people that gush over it. Today's Hybrid systems are mostly a success story for marketing firms and deliver little in the way of ACTUAL benefits from a ecological or economical standpoint. In a scant 12 years the Prius will look something of an Edsel.

Lord of Self Confidence

I'm loving the Holy Taco. Listen to some of the funniest voice messages you have ever heard left by the Lord of Self Confidence from the land of douchebags.

Ouch.

Yesterday the auto industry published its year over year sales numbers. Those numbers make June of 2008 the worst month for car makers since 1992. Some of the numbers are frightening and have no doubt that there will be serious consequences over the next few months. Here are some of my favorite points:

• Hummer sales were down 60%.....now that is a serious drop.
• Chrysler's sales sunk 36% the worst (by far) of the Detroit automakers.
• Sales of the Chrysler Aspen SUV dropped 49%. They only sold 944 in the entire country.
• Mitsubishi is in serious trouble with a 42.4% drop in sales. They've had a rough few years and news like this doesn't bode well.
• Porsche drops nearly 20%...The ill advised blight on the Porsche name known as the Cayenne may finally face the ax. It boosted Porsche's sales but diluted the brand and I will not miss it.
  

My life in 10 minutes and 23 seconds.

First a rant. You douchebags need to register for fucking GMAIL accounts so that you can leave more than anonymous comments. Are you aware of just how good Gmail and its complimentary shit is now? There is ABSOLUTELY ZERO FUCKING reasons to use Yahoo or Hotmail anymore. And don't give me that "...Google can read my email bullshit" because you're not interesting enough for them to give a squirt. End Rant.

So a video was linked in a comment from some anonymous asshat that I'm assuming was Mark (see rant above) since he lives on Break.com. This video pretty much sums up what my daily professional life as been like for the last 10 years. It's almost painful to watch and for those of you that don't work in IT you won't appreciate just how eerily familiar it feels.

And I can confirm that there is no "arrange by penis" option for the Windows Desktop....but there should be.

Bloodsport

Auto racing just isn't what it used to be (NSFW classic racing crashes). In the old days of the Indianapolis 500 and the glory days of F1 the drivers took their lives in their hands every time they got in the car. The reason these guys didn't have seatbelts was because they had balls the size of anvils and the belts just would not fit. I know people like to say that it's socially unacceptable to only be interested in racing when there's a chance someone could die but it sure as hell was more entertaining in those days. It really was on of the few televised bloodsports that ever existed.

Shots over the bow

Still don't believe that Chrysler is in its death throes? Well how's about this bright little piece of news courtesy of Jalopnik. Chrysler is still the number one seller of minivans and these new models cost a mint to bring to market, so when even those aren't selling then you should be very concerned.

My favorite part is the fact that they had invested $800 million dollars in the two plants that are closing. There's money well spent.