Entries from August 2007

August 24, 2007

One More Reason (as if you needed another one) to Never Ever Ever Ever Ever Buy a Dell Computer

And this is the reason:

This is what a Dell Inspiron 1150 looks like immediately after having devoured its own hard drive. Not just nibbled at a couple of sectors or munched on a couple of random files, but downed the entire thing with a single greedy gulp.
And this is not the first time this [...]

August 23, 2007

Wildebeest Wisdom

Check out the newest addition to the Wildebeest Online: the Wall of Quotes. Quotes submitted for inclusion will be considered, and probably rejected without explanation.

August 23, 2007

It’s Been a Hard Week for the Little Guy

Note: gentleman readers may want to cross their legs before reading any further…
These two articles are short enough that I’m going to post them in their entirety. Do not try any of these at home, especially if you are a Demon Dwarf.  And ladies–what the hell??
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August 22, 2007

Lil’ Thangs

The Wildebeest is no stranger to accomplishing Important Things. Just this morning, for example, he managed to drink half a cup of coffee and eat an apple while communicating with three people simultaneously on Facebook. About ten minutes ago he was able to cut a frozen pizza into more or less symmetrical pieces [...]

August 21, 2007

The Apple of Her Eye Never Falls Far From the Tree

Is it just my imagination or does Jenna Bush’s new fiancee look disconcertingly like Daddy Bush? Another confirmation of my theory that women always have their fathers in mind when looking for a dude: they either want someone just like him or someone the polar opposite. Clearly this is a case of the [...]

August 18, 2007

Check Yo’ Sef

Last weekend found the Wildebeest lying on his back on the roof of his apartment building at 1am hoping to see a couple of Perseid meteors through the glare of Washington DC. The heavens did not let him down, and his patience was rewarded by one of the coolest sights he has ever seen [...]

August 18, 2007

Some Clarification

Well, I’m sure everyone is already aware of this, but here is the proof–the musings of the Wildebeest are officially in the same class as Aristotle and Darwin. The question of male nipples has apparently been pondered over for centuries, and there is in fact an anwer. It’s so they can nurse their [...]

August 16, 2007

The Beest Blogs

When informed of the Wildebeest’s intention to start a blog, the Turk responded with her ongoing effort to reduce the entire universe to a series of theoretically sound and empirically testable hypotheses worthy of being to submitted to and hopefully accepted by a peer-reviewed journal.
“Why do you want to do that?” she asked.
“Because it would [...]