Fun with Charts

These two charts were made by people more talented than me, but I have to share them -

Let's Be Realistic

It is no secret that I really like cars - cheap cars, exclusive cars, old cars, terrifyingly fast cars, and so on. But in all reality I will never own (or even be near) a lot of the cars I love. So in the interest of killing time before lunch here is a quick rund0wn of cars that I like and could also own one day. Plus a couple bonus cars at the end that clearly are NOT realistic. :)

1. Ford Fiesta (yes, that's correct...they're bringing it back! At least in Europe...maybe US in a few more years)

2 and 3. Audi A4 and A5 - I have been lusting after the A4 for quite a few years, and it just keeps getting better looking..

4. Mitsubishi Lancer

5. Nissan Maxima - I really like this one..

6. Dodge Challenger SRT

And now the bonus cars! I give you the Maserati Gran Turismo S and the 2009 Aston Martin Vantage. Yow.

Unrelated

* Did you know that gangrene can set in even if the wound/infected area isn't exposed to the air? It can happen completely internally! You learn something new everyday, eh?

* I am really looking forward to the VP debates tonight. It promises to be painful, and funny.

* I think it is incredibly insulting when someone completely ignores you because they think you are beneath them somehow. The president of the place I work has been pretty sick lately, and every once in a while his wife will come in with him when he stops by to sign a few things. I don't think she has ever acknowledged my presence. I'm pretty sure she thinks that because I am a secretary (Executive, for the Vice President, mind) that I am not good enough to warrant a Hello or Good Morning. There have even been times where she has walked up and shut the door at the hallway entrance to keep me totally separated from all the other corporate folks. Even my attempts at talking to her are met with glares. Nice.


* Next weekend I am going to Las Vegas for the Ride. There is a brand new Lamborghini showroom that opened up there so of course it is on very small list of things I want to see. Aside from the Lambos, here are a few of the other cars they have on display (I wonder if they let people sit in them?):
Bugatti Veyron, Koenigsegg, Saleen, Spyker. The value of just one of these cars is more than I will ever see in my lifetime. I'm very excited!

Comedy Explosion!

I cannot stop laughing at this transcript. For real. I find it more and more difficult to read all of these stories and interviews, but the McCainwreck has gotten so goddamn bizarre I can't stop paying attention. There will most likely be more where this came from in a little while.

Couric: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It's funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don't know, you know … reporters.

Couric: Mocked?

Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.

Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

Bikes and Batshit

This is what I did this weekend -



Also: people have gone batshit crazy. By people I mean anyone involved with the John McCain Train Wreck. Holy balls, what a fantastic mess! I have so many things to say about the events of the past couple days, I could write for 10 hours and still not have it covered. My suggestion? Find some video or audio of Letterman responding to being bitchslapped by McCain, find some transcripts from the Palin/Couric interview, and then read absolutely everything on Hanlon's Razor today.


Wow.

Words Fail Me

Charlie Gibson managed to get the first unscripted interview with Sarah Palin, and they showed the first part of it last night. And yes, you read that correctly: unscripted. Wow.

Anyway, it was a train wreck. For Palin.

In brief - doing 180's on certain topics (Iraq war is a task from God, specifically) and painfully clearly changing the topic back to the one or two things she knows about after presented with her exact quote; making flippant remarks about two extremely serious foreign involvment situations (Israel & nukes, going to war with Russia?!?) when she admittedly has absolutely zero foreign policy knowledge or experience; and NOT KNOWING WHAT THE BUSH DOCTRINE WAS. AT ALL. That is fucking fantastic.

Kill it! Kill it!

Holy shit, is this ugly. An as-yet-unconfirmed image of one of the 'new' Transformers, the Chevy Trax...I think I have a picture of it somewhere in a previous Transformers post - it's the red/orange one. Anyway, onward to the horror:

That thing looks like it was shit out of some bizarre shredding machine. There is some talk that the smaller, blurry picture is early Bumblebee concept art from the first movie, but look how deformed and stubby it is.

I shudder to think that this will actually be part of a 2 hour movie that will otherwise be filled with awesome.