The Off Topic Topic

[Tonitrus]

Came across this, the single worst Product Idea I have ever heard of.

Apparently, in the '70s, Gerber came up with the notion of selling their baby food to adults.

The notion was that adults, who had just left home, would want the comfort and convenience of eating baby food.

They called this product "Singles".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerber_Singles

Seeing that on your shelf is sure to impress any dates you bring home ... 


Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Ms. Crabapple buys "Chef Lonely Hearts Soup-For-One" at the Quick-e Mart. Only, this is baby food, which adds a whole new level of sadness to the mix.

Should have waited ten years...use Robocop as the pitch man.

[Josquius]

Getting internet for my place in Switzerland is proving a pain.
Shop around a lot for the best deal then have to check whether it is randomly available in my apartment or not.
In praying I don't have to spend more than 60 euros a month here, but I hear bad things...

[mongers]

Getting internet for my place in Switzerland is proving a pain.
Shop around a lot for the best deal then have to check whether it is randomly available in my apartment or not.
In praying I don't have to spend more than 60 euros a month here, but I hear bad things...

Have you considered mobile broadband or tethering a good data enabled cellphone to your computer?
More flexibility and cheaper than striking a land-line based deal.

[Sheilbh]

It's a disgrace a building this beautiful is being shut down
http://www.architectmagazine.com/architecture/berkeley-art-museum-closes-in-brutalist-building-by-mario-ciampi_o.aspx?dfpzone=home

[Ideologue]

Agreed.

[Tonitrus]

The best part of the winter season = HOTT weather ladies in sweater dresses.

[Ideologue]

The best part will come when I can run.in actual SUNLIGHT and not sleep 10 hours a night.

[garbon]

The best part of San Diego (as I've just recently seen again) is the surfer dudes stripping out of their wetsuits 365 days a year.

[Admiral Yi]

The best part of the winter season = HOTT weather ladies in sweater dresses.

Coeds in leggings and boots.

[jimmy olsen]

It's a disgrace a building this beautiful is being shut down
http://www.architectmagazine.com/architecture/berkeley-art-museum-closes-in-brutalist-building-by-mario-ciampi_o.aspx?dfpzone=home

The angles inside are interesting, but aside from that it's hideous.

[Ideologue]

It's socially realist.

[Sheilbh]

The angles inside are interesting, but aside from that it's hideous.

Isn't that a bit like looking at a Rothko and saying the colour's interesting, but aside from that it's hideous?

[jimmy olsen]

The angles inside are interesting, but aside from that it's hideous.

Isn't that a bit like looking at a Rothko and saying the colour's interesting, but aside from that it's hideous?

As with all brutalist architecture it's an inhuman, totalitarian, spiritual void.

[CountDeMoney]

It's a disgrace a building this beautiful is being shut down
http://www.architectmagazine.com/architecture/berkeley-art-museum-closes-in-brutalist-building-by-mario-ciampi_o.aspx?dfpzone=home

Sorry, man.  The sooner brutalism is wiped from the face of the earth, the better.  The only benefits they possess are as location shots for post-apocalyptic films of man's dystopian future existence, and that can be CGI'd in.

I walked passed the slow demolition of the Morris A. Mechanic Theater downtown not too long ago.  Buh bye, you Stalinist lunar space station, you.

[Tonitrus]

It's a disgrace a building this beautiful is being shut down
http://www.architectmagazine.com/architecture/berkeley-art-museum-closes-in-brutalist-building-by-mario-ciampi_o.aspx?dfpzone=home

The angles inside are interesting, but aside from that it's hideous.

Looks like a set from Total Recall (the original one).