Being Smart Doesn't Always Pay The Bills

This is what happens when you upset a customer who happens to be an engineer.

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A Creative Mind & Strategic Placement

It believe as a majority it is human nature to desire the new over that which is old. Otherwise, why would New and Improved be so popular among the latest and greatest products – consumers clamor to the next great thing.

Print advertising isn’t dead and it definitely plays an important place in today’s advertising and marketing campaigns. I believe the main reason that people are so captivated with online marketing is the ease with which it’s effectiveness can be tracked.

However, these print ads prove that a creative mind and strategic placement is what catches consumer’s attention.

Microsoft's oFone Is The Phone To Know!

The oFone makes the iPhone look obsolete, old and redundant! Not only as a techie device but as a whole concept. There is no comparison between the two devices as they are not even in the same universe. Microsoft's oFone is the future! It has a circular text display, and it folds like nothing you have ever seen and it’s also highly customizable and completely fake!

Yep...MS created a great spoof video depicting a fold-out device with circular text display with variable number placement and doubles as a boomerang.

Mother's Day Is Every Day When You’re Psychotic

Top Five Mother Psychotics

Formally Mrs. Andreas M.

Divorce is difficult for anyone. But for one Austrian woman, who has only been identified as the wife of "Andreas M.," divorce transformed her from an accomplished attorney into an outright Mother Psychotic.

Shortly after the divorce, the then 46-year-old former Mrs. locked her three daughters, ages 7, 11, and 13 in her upper middle-class suburb house. She shut the blinds, and allowed only one lightbulb. For the next seven years they remained without sunlight or fresh air.

Her ex-husband, a local judge was not allowed to see them, despite his claims for access reaching court nine times.
The girls were rescued only when police broke into the house after a neighbour had repeatedly reported his suspicions several times and finally threatened a local council official with a lawsuit.

Kathy Bush

Why do we continue to trust bushes when they’re all weeds?

Kathy Bush had the role of "long-suffering mother" down to a science. Her seven-year-old daughter, Jennifer, had been hospitalized nearly 200 times for a rare gastrointestinal illness until too many claims of “woe is me” didn’t add up.

The Bush family claimed they were broke due to the medical bills but there was, apparently, money available for trips to Disney World and a $25,000 motorcycle. Then an anonymous tip came in: Why did Jennifer's health always seem to decline whenever her mother (Psychotic) was around? Turns out, Bush had been making Jennifer sick by speeding up her feeding tube, giving her excessive and potentially lethal doses of anti-seizure medication, and even contaminating her blood with feces.

Authorities suspected Münchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP), a condition in which mothers deliberately keep their children sick, or make them sicker to make themselves look like the heroes and all caring adoring mother…

Bush was convicted of child abuse and fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.

Jeanette Maier

• Business women
• Canal Street Madam
• Mother Psychotic

Jeanette Maier was a businesswoman whose business was women and that included her daughter, Monica. By age 15, Monica had started stripping with her mother, and by 23, she was turning tricks and paying mom and grandma's steep 50 percent commission. Geeze no family discount!

Jeanette compared time spent at the brothel to college life. "It was like family. It was like a sorority of girls," she told 48 Hours. "We'd hang out, watch movies, eat popcorn at night." And to make matters even more bizarre, Jeanette's own mother also worked at the brothel until the age 62 where she took on administrative duties.

After all were caught, Jeanette Maier whored out her story with the tell all book called The Madam's Family: The Truth about the Canal Street Brothel. We can only hope the real Monica got a better deal on film rights than she did working for Mother Psychotic.

Dakeysha Lee

One good thing that Dakeysha Lee did was to give birth to an incredibly industrious child. For the 19 days Lee was in prison for aggravated assault, her 2-year-old toddler Breanna lived a real-life Home Alone.

Brianna was left to her devices, with only a TV to keep her company and whatever food she could manage to pull from the refrigerator and kitchen cabinets.

She lived on dry pasta and condiment packets for nearly three weeks. Her father says the girl was found watching cartoons, covered in ketchup residue.

Mother Psychotic lost custody to the child…

Wanda Holloway

Mothers have always been willing to kill to protect they’re daughters…

Wanda Holloway killed to get her on the Cheerleading team. Now that is Psychotic Motherly love. Holloway put out a hit on the mother of one of her 13-year-old daughter's cheerleading competitors. Her plot failed, but Halloway became a legend among stage moms everywhere.

Though the crime should have earned her 15 years in prison, she was released after six months and continues to live in Houston, Texas.

After the incident, the principal of her daughter's school told Time magazine, "There is a part of Wanda Holloway in all of us." Which confirms that Texas is a severly screwed up state!

Bonus: Wanda Holloway has earned the rare distinction of spawning not one but two TV movies: The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, starring Holly Hunter, and Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story.

Mother's Day is May 13th!
Don't forget to remember your non Mother Psychotic kind of mom.

Sticky Keys - Waffleware

Because breakfast just isn't nerdy, I present to you the Keyboard Waffle Iron.

Some of the best blog comments I found online:

• I'm afraid I can only eat 3 WPM
• Do you get a poached egg mouse on the side?
• Leggo my Commodore
• CTRL-ALT-DELicious
• MY CAPSLOCK IS STUCK! BREAKFAST HAS BEEN RUINED!
• Ugh these Waffles are terrible -ALT F4-
• For those seeking the "key" to a good breakfast
• Please eat ANY key to continue
• A part of this balanced workstation.

Chris Dimino a strange but cool artist is the designer behind waffle iron maker. Which means don't expect this to be sold at Target any time soon. Chris Dimino is one of those (since there is no artist picture I have no idea) guys / or gals that takes ordinary tasks and turns them into bizarre but cool objects of geeky lust.

The keyboard waffle iron is one of the latest idea s/he cooked up along with his keyboard vacuum and a table hockey game made entirely out of typewriter parts.

So here is the moment you have been waiting for. It’s OK to spill syrup on your keyboard! I would have said coffee but coffee and waffles? Hmmm coffee waffles – yo McDonalds have I got an idea for you!


Coming soon from ThinkGeek...caffeinated maple syrup! (J/K)