Git Yer Woz On!

Then he built it, using scrounged-up parts, soldering them onto a motherboard at his desk at night after work, and writing the code that would link keyboard, disk drive, processor, and monitor. Months later he flipped the switch and it worked. “It was Sunday, June 29, 1975,” Isaacson writes, “a milestone for the personal computer. ‘It was the first time in history,” Wozniak later said, ‘anyone had typed a character on a keyboard and seen it show up on their own computer’s screen right in front of them.’”

Celebrating an iconic geek moment. Stay inside with your hypercooled CPU's today bastards, it's like 105 out there.

That's Good Frog

                                                  WAXY MONKEY LEAF FROG

Racing regulators kept hearing the reports: trainers were giving their horses a powerful performance-enhancing potion drawn from the backs of a type of South American frog. But for months postrace testing could not find the substance, a painkiller far more powerful than morphine. Then a lab in the Denver area tweaked its testing procedure, and in recent weeks more than 30 horses from four states have tested positive for the substance, dermorphin, which is suspected of helping horses run faster. “We hear about some pretty exotic stuff,” said Dr. Steven Barker, who directs the testing laboratory at Louisiana State University. “Frog juice — this is exotic.”  Full article here.

Japandroids

Hey, Man! Is that Celebration Rock? Well, Fucking Turn it uP!

Damn Kids!

A woman in New Jersey is suing a little league player after his errant throw hit her in the face. Elizabeth Lloyd is seeking more than $150,000 in damages from 11-year-old catcher Matthew Migliaccio. Lloyd was sitting at a picnic table near the baseball diamond when she was hit by a baseball two years ago. The ball was thrown by Migliaccio who was warming up a pitcher before the game. Migliaccio, now 13, said that he ran over to Lloyd at the time of the accident to see if she was OK. When she said that she was fine he returned to his warm-up. Migliaccio said: “I ran over to see if she was all right. She said she was OK. I was just on with warming the pitcher up, and I was not horsing around.” The lawsuit claims, however, that Micliaccio’s throw was “intentional and reckless” and caused “severe, painful and permanent” injuries. The little league lawsuit goes on to say that Lloyd is still experiencing pain from Migliaccio’s “negligent” and “careless” act and is asking the baseball player to pay for her pain, anguish, and medical bills. Lloyd is demanding a jury trial.

Jay...

I think they're on to us...

Happy Summer, Bastards!

Try something tasty this weekend.

Just ... Wow

It's not addressed here, but what if the woman asks?

Fascinating

But this shit'll still kill you.

Writing About Music Is Like...

I always attributed this quote to Elvis Costello, but evidently I was wrong:

Oh, God! Can I please put in print that I didn’t say that! I may have quoted it, but I think [’7os US actor/singer] Martin Mull coined that. It still follows me around, that one. It’s probably in some book of quotations credited to me.

According to this guy, it probably was Mull, but nobody knows for sure. I like Lennon's line: Listen, writing about music is like talking about fucking.

When I'm Sixty-Four (+6)

Happy 70th Macca.
One of my favorite origin stories. Also has the birthday mention, and props to any lefty who can play a right-handed guitar without re-stringing.

Catchy Friday Where Have You Been?

Memphis garage rock, yeh! (If I've never heard of them, then they're new to me)

The Inevitable Bastard Summer Slow Down

Anybody want to talk about Prometheus?

Irony-Free Tuesday

Thanks to Mike/Matt who originally helped us get our Oatmeal on.
The website "Funny Junk" - which stole, re-hosted and monetized The Oatmeal - is now extorting The Oatmeal's creator for $20,000 under threat of a federal lawsuit. Story here. That's some straight, shameless, irony-free hubris!
Although our Bastardus Emeritus and British barrister could probably explain the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and other relevant legal minutiae to us in excruciating detail... the best thing by far is The Oatmeal's response. Enjoy.

Go Listen To This NOW

You're welcome.

Oh, Baby

Tarantino redeemed himself with Inglourius Basterds, and he seems to be on a roll.

Shit

 No official confirmation yet, but apparently Ray Bradbury has died at age 91.

Cool

This weekend, bastards. Prometheus is easily my most anticipated summer movie.

Happy Birthday, Bastard!

Dave's still got it!

He Couldn't Help Me Either...

Pete likes to hear himself talk.

TGIF

Before Airplane!, Police Squad! and Top Secret! (to name only a few), Jim Abrahams and Jerry and David Zucker gave us The Kentucky Fried Movie. Enjoy "A Fistful Of Yen" - a sketch from the film parodying Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon - as you head into your weekend ...