Greener Living thru Technology

If being Emo makes you happy… you’re doing it wrong.

A co-worker of mine was in the break room last week and heard That’s not my name by The Ting Tings. It’s a catchy song with a strong beat.

Apparently she misheard some of the lyrics…

They call me “quiet girl”
but I’m a riot
Mary-Jo-Lisa Maybe Joe Levi
Always the same
That’s not my name
That’s not my name
That’s not my name
That’s not my name

Listen for yourself at Youtube.

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Yup, you read it right… they’re making a third installment of Toy Story.

My wife and I watched a commercial the other day, in it everyone was driving a Toyota Prius. It was an awesome commercial, until the “end credits” ran, and we found out the car in the commercial was made by Honda.

“What?! That’s not the 2010 Prius?” I asked out loud.

It sure looks like a Prius. It has the same side-profile as a Prius. It has the same hatch-back as the Prius. It has the same small window on the hatch-back’s lift-gate. It has the same antenna. It even has the same tail-light angles as the Prius.

Nope, it’s a Honda.

Now, I’m not saying that Honda’s new Insight is a knock-off of Toyota’s Prius… I’ll let you decide for yourself.

What I’m wondering, is this new Insight body design going to make people think it’s a Prius and drive Toyota sales? Or is it going to make people think that all the Priuses (Prii?) on the road are Honda’s?

In either event, I drive a Prius (and I’m straight).

“Rock, paper, scissors,” sometimes called jan-ken-pon, rochambeau, or roshambo, is typically a two-person game of chance used to help with decision making. Unlike truly random selection methods (such as coin-flipping), a player can often recognize and exploit the behavior of an opponent, tipping the odds in their favor.

To help combat this, the cast from That 70’s Show adds Nuclear bomb and cockroach to the choices.

A geekier version involved Sheldon, a physicist on the CBS sitcom Big Bang Theory, making his own variant of the game that adds two options to the standard three: lizard and Spock.

In this variant, the rules are extended such that:

• Scissors cut paper
• Paper covers rock
• Rock crushes lizard
• Lizard poisons Spock
• Spock smashes scissors
• Scissors decapitates lizard
• Lizard eats paper
• Paper disproves Spock
• Spock vaporizes rock
• and as it always has, rock crushes scissors