Jesus H. Christ, Boston, get over yourselves!

Authorities in Boston have detonated a suspicious "device" that was chained to a stop sign.

The "device" appears to be a traffic counter, placed there by... most likely... the city works department.

I'm curious, will the Mayor of Boston turn into a giant pussy and demand financial restitution from the Boston City Works department for placing a "hoax device" on a street corner in the financial district? For all the lost man hours and the bomb squad?

Or will this just be swept under the rug by a city's administration that sleeps with a gun under the pillow and has an itchy trigger finger?

Just wondering, as are Ignignokt and Err.

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You can't kill the Rooster

A mugging in Brazil gone wrong.

Shots fired.

A MacBook Pro gets between the bullet and the intended victim.

The MBP takes the bullet, stops it... and still boots up.

Think your Dell, HP or Vaio could save your life?

Suck it, Panasonic Toughbook.

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For those of you with offspring

Because I've not spread my seed, I'm regularly left out of the conversation when the other two Weisenheimers males discuss their children. The Wiggles, Bob the Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine and the Veggie Tales; sure I've watched some Lazy Town episodes for my own personal reasons, but by and large I'm in the dark.

As usual, Robert Smigel (the genius behind TV Funhouse and Triumph the insult comic dog) hit the nail on the head, at least so far as I can reckon, on the Veggie Tales.

Enjoy.

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The shows went very well, thank you.

Hey Weisen-buddies,

Sorry about the long sleep between postings. We've all been busy with work, projects, fun, touching ourselves and of course last weekend's run of shows at the Icehouse. Thanks to everyone who came out and braved the horrible weather to watch us do our thang. Three sold out shows (out of five) and the most reserved seats for a comedy show at the Icehouse. That factoid is courtesy of the door guy and alternately our Thursday night opener. We've heard different quantifiers like "this year" or "ever" so you be the judge. Regardless, it was a helluva turnout and everybody seemed to have a good time except for the inevitable table of douchebags who show up drunk, are mean to the wait staff, yell out stupid things at the wrong times and are asked to leave. We average about one table like that per week-long club run that we do. They got off light with merely being asked to leave, seeing as how Monty likes to shred drunk hecklers and eat their souls.

Anyway, if you missed the show we had Friday nights' early performance professionally taped and I'll be posting clips on youtube in short order. Also Home Office Brontosaurus Photography took pictures at all the Friday and Saturday night shows and will be cleaning those up and we should have some tasty new pics of us in action before too long. These things take time people.

I did run a stationary camera off stage for a portion of Saturday night's early show and have put those clips up on youtube. You can check them out on my channel here. The audio is a little muddy, but you get the idea.

Also, if you have not yet made us your myspace friend then stop foolin and head over to our myspace page and do so immediately. Times a-wastin'!

I'll be resuming regular comedy-related posts to the Weisen-blog this coming week, so take heart. I'm sure Monty might post something once in a great while as well. The other two? Not so much. But whatever, they're lovable nonetheless.

Love to you all, kids!

Junk Watch: Vista Launch pt.2

As you see below, I made a little mention of the indifference Vista is receiving to the scorching popularity of the Zune.

Well, today things got a little uglier in Redmond. One of the Executives that launched the Zune project is "leaving" Microsoft.

From Seattlepi.com:

The Microsoft Corp. executive who oversaw the launch of the Zune music player, its challenger to Apple's dominant iPod, plans to leave the company.

Microsoft described the expected departure of Bryan Lee, 43, as a personal decision not related to the performance of the product. Before the Nov. 14 launch, the company acknowledged that it faced an uphill climb against the iPod, and it reiterated Wednesday that Zune has so far met its expectations.

Some analysts were skeptical of Microsoft's explanation. Lee was one of the two top executives leading the Zune project.

"This is clearly a sign of trouble in Zune-land," said Van Baker, industry analyst at Gartner Inc., citing sales results for the Zune device. "It had an acceptable launch week, but then it immediately slowed down."

How does this bode for the little brown Zunes that float like so much Microsoft debris in the toilet of technology? Not so well, one would imagine. Particularly in light of the iPhone, the inevitable widescreen iPod, and all of Uncle Steve's other little secrets he's got stashed up his be-turtlenecked sleeves.

Microsoft's official word is that the guy is "retiring."

He's 43 years old.

I totally buy it. Don't you?

2007 is going to be an interesting year in portable electronics.