Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

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BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure — right from Day One! — that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn’t about me…….

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on ‘THIS’ side of the road before it goes after the problem on the ‘OTHER SIDE’ of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his ‘CURRENT’ problems before adding ‘NEW’ problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road…

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken’s intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he’s GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road?
Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed I’ve not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can’t you people see the plain truth?’ That’s why they call it the ‘other side.’ Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like ‘the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It’s as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken.. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra…#@&&^(C% ……..reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken! What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one? Where did that sucker go?

DICK CHENEY: Where’s my gun?

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens a colorless white? We need some black chickens.

(via one of those pointless emails)

-Kyle

Summers Here…

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It has been rather a dull month here on kylemayne.com, due to my dissertation and exams postings been very slow. Well officially summer is HERE, a period in which I become rather unproductive. So, I line up a few books I want to read, prioritise some DVDs (I’ve decided upon all ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’ to start with, although I still haven’t complete Palin yet) and become very repetitive in not doing much. That is normally my summer, yeah you might travel here/there for a few days but it isn’t a big occurrence. I tell work I don’t want to be bothered between Monday to Friday and I slip into doing nothingness.

There’s one big problem with ‘nothingness’, I hate it, it grinds me down, I become more tired doing nothing than studying for exams or completing that handsome twelve-thousand word document. So what can I do about? Well go travelling, but again I find that about as exciting as watching Big Brother on Channel 4. I could become productive, I have been asked to design a website for a company, but again I need some encouragement and currently money doesn’t do that. The problem is that I need to become energetic, getting up earlier on the morning and maybe heading to the gym would do the thing. Not that I’m unhappy with my fitness, just I can’t seem to shake this unmotivated rut I’m currently stuck in. I have quickly become set in my routine and I need to break free of it!

Leave it with me, although I encourage you to leave comments below!

- Kyle

I Will Derive!

Geek’s have too much time!

-Kyle (via Neatorama)

Ballmer and Eggs

Watch as a Hungarian student tries to pelt Steve Ballmer with eggs;

The distance must have only been 10 foot away and he still missed! Good to see he’s quick on his toes though.

-Kyle

The best pranks of the Internet

Some good pranks in here;

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I also dislike Jeremy Clarkson, I think he’s a bit of a twat, but he still comes out with corking one liners;

“Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.”

Worth a read if the day is passing by slowly.

You might as well check out the 10 worst URLs;

Here is some of my Favourite;

  • We have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
    www.molestationnursery.com
  • Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
    www.expertsexchange.com
  • A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
    www.whorepresents.com

-Kyle

Voice of Bart Simpson

We have all seen this sort of stuff before, but I couldn’t resist;

-Kyle (via Neatorama)

I want one.

Forget about the smart phone being the true ubiquitous input device BLAH, it is a pen…

I would like one, although I dislike the fact you have to use their paper, although for £75 I don’t think it is that bad.

-Kyle

Official Site

P.S Watch out for the Piano function.

 

 

HCI Stanford Seminars

Over on the IxDA discussion list, a contributor posted about the availability on iTunes of Stanford University lectures in human-computer interaction.

I just browsed the list of seminars and some of the topics look rather interesting. Below, is a selection of the videos I’ll be watching first.

  • Sketching and Experience Design, Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research, Spring 2007 (I like Bill Buxton, I keep meaning to get his book.)
  • Designing Interactions, Bill Moggride, IDEO, Winter 2007
  • Innovation on User Research Methods During the Development of Windows Vista, Gayna Williams, Microsoft, Fall 2006

I’ve just finished watching ‘The Design of Implicit Interactions, Wendy Ju, Stanford, Spring 2007′ - Although, nothing major or new was discussed it was still nice to watch the presentation.

You can point your browser to this link to get to the class listings within iTunes.

-Kyle

Einstein’s chauffeur

alberteinstein When Albert Einstein was making the rounds of the speaker’s circuit, he usually found himself eagerly longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks and manner) that he was tired of making speeches.

“I have and idea, boss,” his chauffeur said. “I’ve heard you
give this speech so many times. I’ll bet I could give it for you.”

Einstein laughed loudly and said, “Why not? Let’s do it!”

When they arrive at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur’s cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein’s speech and even answered a few questions expertly.

Then a supremely pompous professor asked an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody’s fool.

Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, “Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me.”

*I don’t know if this story is true, but it made me smile*

- Kyle (via)

Back on the Boardwalk

Open for Business

After a few weeks on the sideline, Kyle Mayne is back at Wings of Some Wheels to raise havoc with random ramblings of shite.

Expect more Soon!

-Kyle

DANNY FEDERICI

From Brucespringsteen.net

“Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much…we grew up together.”
—Bruce Springsteen

Danny Federici, for 40 years the E Street Band’s organist and keyboard player, died this afternoon, April 17, 2008 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three year battle with melanoma.

The Federici family and the E Street family request that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund. A web site for the Fund is being established and we’ll post its link when it is on line.

Bruce Springsteen’s concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale and Saturday in Orlando performance are being postponed. Replacement dates will be announced shortly.

Deeply upsetting I’ll watch the Live in NYC DVD tonight. Lets all remember what Danny was great at;

-Kyle

Spot this!

Just a quick post, who can spot the newest member of the family?

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Back to work!

-Kyle