Happy New Year to All Followers of The Alt-Tab

I see many of these babies in my future tonight.

Going to be a long last day of the year at work today (hence the ass crack of dawn posting spree I'm on) so I'll get this out of the way early.  

Happy New Year to all my current readers.  Thank you for your continued readership, lack of comments, and refusal to follow me via twitter.  Without you my self-esteem would plummet (you didn't really expect me to give a sappy thanks did you? That would be too out of character). 

Hope everyone is looking forward to a day filled with jerks and old ladies saying "see you next year" as if they're the first clever person to ever come up with that expression, and all the true assholes who gripe and complain about hearing it (I'm griping and complaining via blog, I'm not a big enough asshole to ruin some old ladies New Years Eve by calling her out).  

Equally as annoying today will be your co-workers begging you to cover for the rest of their work, as if they're the only ones with plans tonight.  News flash, everyone goes out tonight, you're not unique.  

Most of all, Happy New Year to those among us who foolishly think whatever bar or party they go to tonight will be anything but a let down.  Everyone hypes up this night so much the results can never possibly live up to the expectations.  I look forward to over hearing all my co-workers stories of disappointment and regret (or shame in some cases) on Monday, an annual tradition I treasure each year. 

And finally my New Years wish, may The Alt-Tab find some sponsorship or advertising during 2011.  This is becoming quite the time consuming hobby, a guys gotta get something out of it.  


PS: See y'all next year (what an asshole)!

UCONN Womens Basketball Team Loses---Meh.

ESPN - UConn's winning streak -- which had stretched to 90 and brought the Huskies and women's hoops an avalanche of attention -- came to an end Thursday. It will be a particularly happy New Year's celebration for the Cardinal and their faithful, after a 71-59 victory Thursday ended mighty UConn's streak.

Ho-Hum, nothing to see here. I was going to write an extended recap to the end of this historic streak, but then something happened.  I flipped on Fox 25 news and the two female anchors for the morning were discussing it and clearly had no clue how many games in a row they had won or how far back the streak reached (they mistakenly said 2006 instead of 2008).  Honestly, if your own gender doesn't care about the streak that purportedly equals that of any mens streak shouldn't these ladies care?  They're news anchors! This is news.  This isn't your average girl off the street not giving a crap about woman's athletics, this is paid news anchors whose job it is to care about and make us care about what they're reporting on. 

Sorry, this whole debacle is making me reconsider my stance that the UConn women's streak is as impressive as UCLA's from the 70's.  If you can't get your target audience to care then how important can it really be?  And more important, why should I care at that point?

PS: Stanford can relax.  Its a regular season game ladies, no need to act like you've actually won anything, I'm sure Uconn will roll you in the tournament come March so lets try and act professional here.

Man Kind Rejoice! The Ultimate Fridge Is Here!

Men, we've reached the mountain top, the pinnacle of civilization, the most momentous day in history. It seemed like every 10 seconds this guy just managed to one up himself.  

This is the kind of work we need our dorks, geeks and scientists working on, stuff that will change American History.  Because make no mistake about it, this is the kind of invention that our forefathers built this country on.  Just pure, unadulterated, slightly arrogant, American innovation.  The Beer Robot will one day undoubtedly be spoken about in the same light as Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin, or Henry Ford's invention of the assembly line and the Ford Model T.  Yea, its that big of a deal.

Don't believe me? Or can't watch at work? Let's take a look at the features:

1.  It has an air cannon, freaking awesome.

2. All beer tosses are broadcast to Twitter, for those of you who like "checking into places" this is right up your alley.

3. Controlled by your Iphone...I personally would have chosen a droid, but I'm sure that app will show up eventually, either way, you no longer have to get up or beg your lady friend to retrieve you a beer, its all at your finger tips now.

4. Offers a selection of beers that would make any non-beer snob proud (classic inclusion of PBR, this momentous occasion wouldn't be complete without the Blue Ribbon Winner). 

5. The machine has the classic vending machine sound when dropping the beer. Seemingly not that big of a deal, but definitely creates a Pavlov's Dog Type response from this blogger. 

6.  Web Cam view allows you to aim fridge before firing - Fan-fucking-tastic.  Up til this point I was afraid this was going to be one of those gimmicky things where I had to be sitting in a particular seat for this to work, thus defeating the whole purpose.  Nope, this guy thought of everything.  

7. Guy caught the cannon fired beer while maintaining video documentation, bravo sir, bravo.  

When do these puppy's go on sale?