‘I Drink Your Milkshake’ T-Shirt Guide
Posted by David | Filed under Arts & Entertainment
During a late night drunken food run, Kumar and I noticed a guy at the pizza place with a brown “I Drink Your Milkshake” t-shirt. I thought it was pretty cool and searched online for a similar shirt. However, there are a variety of ‘milkshake’ shirts available from different sources, like snorgtees.com and cafepress.com. To make it easier for you, I have a guide to some of your ‘milkshake’ shirt needs.
List goes from worst to best:
Price: $21.99
The description says, “Go Green!” My reaction, “How about no?” Extra points off for no clever graphic and the lack of creativity with using the Old English font. Grade: F-
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Price: $19.95
Zazzle advertises this tee to be “The Original!” Unfortunately, it’s very bland. White shirt with the quote and a stupid looking graphic of a milkshake. Grade: F
Stoneman 3000 (Cafepress)
Price: $22.99
Slightly a step above the green shirt. You can’t go wrong with black and it does have a milkshake graphic, but there’s nothing else to it. Grade: D-
Price: $18.99
This is the one I saw at the pizza place and it got a chuckle out of me. I like the oil derrick graphic because it reminds the milkshake is just a metaphor for oil…sweet, sweet oil. However, there’s no explicit humor to the tee. Grade: C
Flippin’ Sweet Gear (Cafepress)
Price: $13.99
Rather than just pasting a measly looking milkshake cup, we got the recognizable mustache of Daniel Plainview and the straw that’s drinking it up. I like the how the ‘k’ mimics the mouth sucking the straw. The listed price is also pretty good for Cafepress, which usually rips you off. Grade: B
Price: SOLD OUT!?!
This is a work of art! No quote, but a nice rendition of Plainview with a derrick-topped milkshake in his hand. Notice the cherry on top of the oil derrick. I would give this an A+, but it sold out in March and hasn’t been on sale since. Boo! Grade: DISQUALIFIED!
Price: $16.95
This one’s a keeper. Not only do we see Plainview drinking it up, we see his straw reaching acccrroooooos the room and drinks your milkshake. It’s also one of the cheaper shirts. Grade: A
Conclusion
There are plenty of other shirts with a variation on the milkshake and the oil derrick graphics. It’s really easy to slap a quote and clip art onto a cotton shirt, but it takes wit and creativity to graphically design a funny shirt. Bach would know.
And yes, I know I’m very behind on the milkshake t-shirt craze.
We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver’s seat.
Posted by Robert | Filed under It's Science, Video
I stumbled upon a video of a space shuttle booster thing, from the perspective of the booster, falling back to Earth. The video cuts and jumps ahead to the splash down near the end, but I found the rest of the video pretty interesting. I had always wondered what the actual process of falling back to Earth looked like.
24 in the 90’s
Posted by Chris | Filed under Funny, Uncategorized
Imagine if we had 24 in the 90’s….imagine no longer!! http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161
Hey, I know that guy…
Posted by Tony | Filed under Uncategorized
I think we’ve found Chris’s long-lost twin:
stupid dog does not realize there is no glass in door
Wait for the last shot!
Nor Cal Adventures, Part 1
Posted by David | Filed under Personal
So I’ve completed my first weekend of my Nor Cal vacation and it’s been wonderfully busy. Saturday, Alex and I went into San Fran to see our friend, Monica, before she left to visit hometown Buffalo, NY. We had some happy hour, got some pupusas at an El Salvadorian place for dinner, did a little karaoke (I sang Depeche Mode), and ended up playing drinking games at her neat apartment with Mike, her fiancee. I need to credit Monica for keeping my senses awake even though my mind and body was drained. After a long day of traveling and roaming through the Mission Distrist, I got to Kumar’s apartment at 1am and went to bed an hour later.
On Sunday, Alex, Kumar and I went to Berkeley to visit Christie, another friend from my graduating class. Christie gave us a wonderful adventure through the hills and forests of Berkeley. Through the 2-hour hike, we were able to find some sweet wild plums and berries. I got pictures ready to be posted, but I can’t get my own laptop to work with the school’s internet. I’m using Kumar’s laptop for now.
Tomorrow, I got a luncheon with my former STEP supervisor and then dinner at Armadillo’s Willys with Ben. Monday is All-You-Can-Eat ribs!
Seven Dirty Words
Posted by Robert | Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Funny, Video
After I found out that George Carlin died over the weekend, I started watching clips of his old stand-up. His Seven Dirty Words bit stands out the most both because it is incredibly funny and because of the fact that it resulted in FCC v. Pacifica (which became one of the seminal cases in First Amendment Jurisprudence). I may put something up about the First Amendment later, but, for now, enjoy George Carlin doing what he does best.
Amtrak Ridership Way Up
Posted by Damon | Filed under It's Science, Politics & Society
LA Times road sage Steve Hymon is reporting that Amtrak ridership has increased significantly since last year.
Ridership in California is up 4.9% since October (the beginning of Amtrak’s fiscal year) and went up 5.8% in May on the Surfliner –- the line that runs from San Luis Obispo to San Diego through Los Angeles and Orange counties, said Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham.
Reportedly, some trains are so crowded in the morning that they are now standing room only, unless you spring the extra dough for a business-class seat. Amtrak has said that they may be able to bring some additional trains into service after refurbishment.
It will be interesting to see how ridership increases during the summer which is traditionally the biggest travel season, especially for Amtrak. Steve estimates that at around $35 one way, a ticket from LA to San Diego now costs as much as driving in a car with 20-25 mpg, though my estimates put it around more like 15-20 mpg. Still, depending on traffic, the train, at around 2.5 hours, may very well get you there faster.
I think it’s also interesting to note that as time progresses, trains have become more popular mostly because travel by car is ever-increasingly expensive and ever-decreasingly quick, a good indicator that having a society dependant on cars and highways probably isn’t sustainable. Hopefully in the future, improvements to train service, primarily the California High Speed Rail, will expediate that switch even more. I know I’ll be taking the train the next time I go to SD (they even have 3 light rail lines to move you around once you arrive).
Cannilbalism
Posted by David | Filed under Personal
Originally uploaded by david403
I just wanted to share a picture from Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas. It was quite fun doing that one mile hike and almost resorting to cannibalism.
New OCD
Posted by David | Filed under Memo
Hello everyone,
Due to some laziness, the pervious version of OCD was vaporized. So, here we are with a new version, but don’t worry. We’ll continue with the irrelevant posts about nothing.