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Please allow me to introduce the Automachine. This little slice of genius will soon be coming to a Yellow House party near you, assuming I am allowed anywhere near the computer. In its purest form, this essentially allows an iPhone-endowed person to rock the party ’til the breaka’ breaka’ dawn from their palm.

Laura finished day 1 of her comps today, so we were slumming it at Red Robin for dinner. 3 tables had birthdays in the time we were there, as evidenced by the gathering of the entire wait staff clapping and singing… 3 times.

Not nearly enough.

Enter Operation Birthday Bash. We shall make a field trip to Red Robin. We shall make a staggered entry and sit as separate couples and groups. We shall recruit acquaintances/co-workers/professors and their children so we’re not a conspicuous influx of 20-somethings all eating Red Robin on the same night.

And, of course, there will be a birthday at every table. And the wait staff will sing and clap. Over and over. It will be the happiest birthdayest night in the history of Red Robin.

It’s funny how hypocritical some bloggers and commenters are about these misplaced Yes on Prop 8 ads that appeared today all over the place. That example is not one of the hypocritical ones. If they don’t want the ads on their site, of course that’s cool.

It’s the ones that are all pissy about Google selling those ads at all that are funny. So Google should refuse to show things that you disagree with because you have personally deemed the other side “evil”? Yeah right.

Brilliant. This is why they get free gourmet food, dry cleaning, fancy buses, and the big bucks.

Mail Goggles in Gmail

If the online studio had been around back then, Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard would be called Bojam instead of Postal Service.

has anybody made plans to travel cross-country for this yet? I’d really like to go, but my upcoming trip to the other side of the world is leaving me feeling stingy. I’ve looked a bit at airfare, some of it isn’t too bad, and I might be able to use AA miles. Is everybody flying into the Charlottesville airport? Are there other decent ones to choose from? Apparently this marriage is too formal an affair for evite, so I’m still not entirely sure who is going. I assume the groom & groom will be there (rest assured my gift will include His & His towels, even though there is no registry). Who else? What’s your trip itinerary?

Tuffy McFucklebee has hereby invented the vertical jowler!!! The VertJowl™ © patent pending.

Moment of first inception.

First production run.

Also, the band Birdlips has filed an improvement to the original jowler with the addition of a fist to the scene. The knockout jowler. Unfortunately another local band Straight Punch to the Crotch failed to incorporate this improvement in their versions, even though Punch is in their name.

Birdlips’ Lindsay on a knockout jowler.

Any time aspergers disease comes up in conversation, “ass burger” of course comes to mind with a snicker. It turns out there are real life ass burgers. If you’re French…and Canadian.

I don’t know why aspergers comes up so often, by the way … there was a story a while ago about Silicon Valley possibly being a hotbed of aspergers or something.

via Neatorama

I think this is how a lot of our friends are feeling right now. Me too.

Ken Robinson, on how our education system is designed to kill creativity. I watched it and bought his book.

via Fresh Creations

One of my favorites (even though I only did it once), Bring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW) is on this Sunday at 5pm. They moved it to Vermont St, on good old Potrero Hill. From the pictures last year on Lombard St, it looked like there were crazy huge crowds! Guess they messed up the foliage a little much and had to move.

Here’s us riding down Vermont St. In a car. After Monkey Bowls at Lingba. Scott frantically keeping us on the road.