Cruel – An expert in combat Cruel uses his terrifying crushing grapplers to destroy any robot he meets. He is silent and indestructible which makes it easy for him to commit heinous acts. He also has two communication antennae on the upper sides of his head which allow him to communicate to others over long distances.
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Check out the Kranti and Rubina zap guns. They are awesomely loud and used to shoot sparks, but the flints are worn out. Also, these two wooden tops have sharp metal points which are now rusty.
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This guy was made by Bandai in 1984. Bob remembered his name.. PSYCHO. Not to be confused with Cy-Kill. Bob can remember the names of *all* our old GoBots and Transformers…
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In an old box of recently-discovered childhood toys, we discovered an epic battle between Leader One and Skeletor had been raging since the mid eighties.
Leader One was made out of metal in JAPAN, so you know he’s gonna win!
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And they are pissed!!!
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It seems that researchers have found a new reaction carried out by the hemoglobin molecules in our red blood cells. Specifically, the researchers have discovered a method of converting nitrate salt stored in the blood cell into nitric oxide by oxidized hemoglobin. I found this article interesting not simply because of the new finding, but because it supports the idea that hemoglobin has undiscovered functions in the human body.
The main purpose of hemoglobin is to pick up oxygen molecules as blood passes through the lungs, then deposit the oxygen in the tissues that need oxygen. However, the average person has a hemoglobin concentration of about 15mg per deciliter of blood. This hemoglobin is 100% saturated with oxygen when leaving the lungs. At the end of the round trip through your body, it is about 70% saturated with oxygen before picking up more oxygen in your lungs. Think about all the energy that your body spends pumping blood around your body during the course of a day. If the only purpose of hemoglobin is as an oxygen transporter, that is a lot of reserve! The human body is generally more efficient that this, suggesting that hemoglobin serves some as of yet undefined purposes, making it even more of an elegant molecule than presently known. Of course, the role of this newly discovered reaction on vascular hemodynamics is yet to be defined.
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How come I am almost thirty and I have not yet had the occasion to use one of these?
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Bob: I’m bored. What should we do?
Raj: Only one thing, of course.
Bob: What is that?
Raj: DANCE!!!!
Bob: Um, OK.
Raj: Posse!! Gather and bring me my boombox!! HYAH!!!
NOTE: Watching the entire video may cause you to mess up at whatever you are doing.
My life is saga of bad customer service/customer experiences. This morning, the latest culprit was Time-Warner Cable. Assholes. My plan to decompress from the stress of the day was to pop in a netflix movie and chill out before going to sleep. I had just rented Rang De Basanti, which I had been looking forward to watching for a while. However, when I put it in my playstation, it turned out to be an audio CD!!! They gave me the soundtrack!!! Now, you may say, “Bobslobster, this soundtrack looks pretty good, maybe you should make some lemonade out of this lemon and give it a listen?
Well, Mr. Smart Guy, it just so happens that I just went to India, a country of 1 billion people, and came back with exactly 3 cds. One of which was the SOUNDTRACK TO RANG DE BASANTI!!!!!!!
ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! NETFLIX. IS. SCREWING. ME.
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Tom Waits, the legendary live performer who rarely performs live, will in fact be performing on the Daily Show tonight. I am assuming this is to promote his new album, Orphans, which is a 3-CD 56-song extravaganza of old and new stuff. I hoped this would mean there would be an upcoming tour, but so far it doesn’t look like it. His last tour was in August ‘06 and went unnoticed by me, I assume due to the unfathomable choice of tour locations such as Akron, OH and Asheville, NC.
When asked about the tour locations, he responded (in a press release):
“We need to go to Tennessee to pick up some fireworks, and someone owes me money in Kentucky.”
Enough said.
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We got a little tennis in on thursday. We estimated this to be the 13th (mostly) annual turkey day spectacular!
This year’s bonuses:
- no lights
- good weather
- continuous cop and ambulance action behind us
- new rackets
- a special appearance by the folding chair
- a brief stop at wal-mart that yielded this:
See the rest of the pics here. All in all, another success. Of course, it was followed by several hours of great coffee-fueled ideas at denny’s. Feel free to join us next year!
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Due to my general distaste for getting tasered, I have been avoiding the UCLA library. However, I found this odd calendar among their online collections. It was made by a chemical company 1899 and intended for physicians. Coincidentally, the dates match up with 2006. Here is the library’s description:
“The Antikamnia (“Opposed to Pain”) Chemical Company of St. Louis, Missouri produced several calendars (1897-1901) illiustrated with “Skeleton Sketches”–chromolithographed series based on watercolors by the local physician-artist Louis Crucius. The limited edition calendars were mailed to physicians who provided business cards or letterhead correspondence as evidence of their medical standing. Antikamnia was a proprietary product consisting of acetanalid (antifebrin) combined with sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and caffeine.
The Liebeskind Collection recently acquired a copy of the calendar for 1899, which matches 2006’s calendar day-for-day.”
Also, check out some more of their online medical exhibits here to learn about things like bloodletting, and be glad that today’s healthcare system is so much less absurd.
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I don’t know a lot about this, but it seems pretty self explanatory. A celebration of LA public transportation, with art from the cobra snake and Shepard Fairey as a guest DJ. Sounds fun! You need to ride public transportation to get in. I will be there as soon as i figure out how…
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That’s right. If your register by tomorrow, you can be a master of MS Word, or concealed weapons! Or both!
The thing about the midwest is that it’s so hard to make fun of, because this kind of thing would just seem silly if it weren’t true. This is a sign outside a vocational school near where I grew up. Of course, the small coffee shop near where I live in LA with a valet stand would be far stranger here. Growing up in one place and living in another, they both seem weird, but at the same time they both kind of make sense. I wonder if that class includes throwing stars?
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Remember this guy? It turns out the Rev. George Bush A.M. is, in fact, a distant relative of the current president. Apparently he was a biblical scholar in the 1800’s, and a Presbytarian until he was kicked out for being too ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive,’ according to this wikipedia article. Here’s another online version of the previously mentioned book.
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If only this shirt came in this guy’s size….I think I’ll call the Giant Robot store on my lobster phone to suggest it.
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here’sa nifty site that teaches you to examine a heart. Use the tutorial to look at some anatomy, or test yourself with the quiz! Just in case you were wondering what your doctor is listening for..
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Need to tell your friends about that sweet lobster harmonica you just bought? If only the phone on this shirt was for sale.
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