Tag: wtf

  • Tandoori pipe

    Don’t have a tandoori oven? Turns out you can sort of make a ghetto-rigged tandoori from an old chimney pipe. But good luck getting the nann to stick. And try not to burn yourself.

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  • What?

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  • Growing Green Babies

    I was in the customer service line at Safeway when I spotted this unusually-titled DVD. Not sure what this movie is about, but I imagine there’s a lab where mad scientists grow babies — of what species I’m not entirely sure, but perhaps human judging from the box art — and their growing process contains…

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  • Beings Of Nibber Glux Six

    Back in the winter of 2004 when I was in college — and perhaps a bit stoned — I created a short-lived comic strip series called “Beings Of Nibber Glux Six.” Here they are, reprinted, in their long-forgotten glory. Episode 1: Episode 2:

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  • Human bodies: the missing features

    There’s a lot of things I’d change about the way our bodies work if I could. We could be so much better. So what would I change? I’m going to forgo the obvious here. There’s no need to discuss superpowers, infinite lifespans, Matrix-style brain plugs, regenerative limbs, the ability to run 100 MPH, etc. My…

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  • The Apple iBrik

    Copy and paste? Multitasking? Folders? These are old concepts; even on phones. But don’t tell Apple fans that the “new” features on their precious JesusPhone were on your Treo half a decade ago. Likewise, Turkish coffee is over one thousand years old. But slap an Apple log on it and it’s exciting and new! Behold…

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  • How to fix Muni Metro

    A few years ago, I moved closer to a Bart station simply so I could get to work on time. While Muni Metro has the potential to be a great system, it simply didn’t work for me for any other situation where I needed to get somewhere on time. The problems I experienced with the…

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  • Bookmark: TheDailyWTF

    It wasn’t so much that Richard, a software engineer, sat in his cubical making animal noises all day — as it was that he was getting very little done.  And what he had been doing needed a sort of Rosetta Stone to explain.  If you never considered how one variable might be a “ghost” and…

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