Google Maps car in the hood.

Google Maps car in the hood.
Originally uploaded by andrewmartin

Shutter your windows if you don't want your cats on Google Maps. The Google Maps car's in the neighborhood.

washington lottery - penguin

This is my favorite commercial these days:

more on waffles.

photo by simplesimon

I saw this shop in Ginza, Tokyo at 9 or 10am -- the line was longer then. The demand is always there.

waffles!

I'm disappointed but not surprised to read this in the PI today:

Heather Jaynes has bought the only espresso cart in downtown Winslow on Bainbridge Island. The former owner of Bainbridge Vacation Rentals renamed the cart The Little Café and said she will sell ice cream and Belgian waffles this summer. — MA

That was MY idea! I guess they're not selling them around bars...but that's the next step. I need to find an investor for my waffle cart. Shoot off an email and we'll talk.

liveblogging Incredible Hulk

I was a big fan of Incredible Hulk when I was a kid. I never saw Ang Lee Hulk movie and I'm not really planning on seeing the new Hulk movie either.

However, here is some liveblogging of 'The Disciple' from the original series, originally airing on 3/16/1979. Gueststarring Mako and Rick Springfield.

0 min: Title Scene: awesome.

2 min: Hooker making noises that sound like French (but comes out as gibberish). Oh. The hooker's actually a snitch. in the 70's, everyone was a snitch.

5 min: there's Mako (you'll remember him as the voice of Splinter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

10 min: cops get blown up. No Hulk

20 min: guy in hospital, stopping his own heart with the power of his mind. No Hulk yet.

24:40: no Hulk spotted.

30 min: I think Lou Ferrigno went on vacation this week...no hulk yet.

31 min: Mako dies. David Banner is getting irritated to mildly annoyed. No hulk yet.

32 min: There he is! Staring contest with Rick Springfield. Hulk SMASH (window)

35 min: Hulk no like bright lights. Hey, should the Hulk's hair really be colored green? Just a thought.

36 min: Back to David. Rematch of the staring contest.

37 min: this episode is turning out to be a lot like the Yoda/Luke story in The Empire Strikes Back. Just witness the seen where Mako tells the policeman that he's the successor to Mako's study. "But I'm just a policeman..."

40 min: There's talk of vigilanteism.

41 min: The apprentice shows that now HE is the master; Mako dies.

47 min: the hooker/girlfriend(?) comes back to visit Rick Springfield.

48 min: no hulk in act 2 or 3.

51:40 min: one of the Simons (Rick's brother) from Simon & Simon is irritating David. No Hulk yet.

53 min: guns are firing. No Hulk yet. Someone should yell at David.

55 min: someone get David! He's stuck in the car. there's gunfire in the building!
55:10: I spoke too soon. There here is.

HULK SMASH CAR.

HULK SMASH WINDOW

HULK NO LIKE FIRE

HULK TOSS BURNING BOX AT SHOOTING VILLAN. WHO MISSES every shot.

HULK SMASH NEATLY PLACED BRICK WALL

57 min: Simon turns on Rick Springfield. Threatens to shoot Rick. Rick begs Simon to shoot him. Simon doesn't shoot. Rick thanks Simon.

60 min: David and Rick part ways.

darmok and jalard at tanagra. the walls fell.

This may not be the best example, but it's the most current example of how people are using metaphors in language...

"The part that [is important], at least as far as Rails programmers are concerned with, is they would like to be able to do some Ruby on the client. JavaScript is no longer the ugly stepchild that it used to be, but it's quirky in certain ways. That's not to say that Ruby isn't, but Ruby has more 'oohs and ahs' about it than JavaScript does."

Hearing business-speak and pop-culture references to describe real-life thing, I always think of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Darmok:

The story centers on Captain Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, and Dathon of the Tamarian race, played by Paul Winfield. The Tamarian language is unintelligible to the Starfleet's universal translators, because it is too deeply rooted in local metaphor, so its sentences do not have any meaning to other civilizations. When the Tamarians realize that this attempt has failed, the Tamarian captain gives the order to have Picard and himself transported to the planet Elandril, which is occupied by a hostile entity.

wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok_%28TNG_episode%29

I'll find more examples later...