A Toast! (26)
irst up, a Toast to the Techno Viking, who is the unwitting star of this YouTube video and a resulting Internet meme. Take the Techno Viking, add any music you like, and hilarity occurs! I approve. The video in the corner is made by none other than my friend Violent Clay. Also, check out Techno Viking’s Too Sexy and Techno Viking Thriller.
A Toast to 1337 hax0rz, or however the hell the kids are spelling it these days, for cracking the power grid and causing cities to lose power. Didn’t they make a movie about that this summer? And no one thought it could actually work? Huh. Imagine that. I still don’t think you could actually drive a car into a helicopter, though.
A Toast to chess champion Bobby Fischer, who died on Thursday. The guy was brilliant, and probably just a little crazy. (Most brilliant people are. Comes with the territory.) Bobby Fischer once said, “I don’t believe in psychology, I believe in good moves.” And then he promptly had his fillings removed so the CIA couldn’t wire secret instructions through them. Possibly, he should have believed just a little harder in psychology.
And finally, a toast to this dude. Like it said over at Fark, “I thought it got dark early today, but it was just this guy’s balls blocking out the sun.”
The jet swooped in a few feet above cars heading for the airport - including one carrying Gordon Brown. Cool-headed Capt Peter Burkill realised his Boeing 777 had suffered a total power failure as he approached Heathrow at 200mph - and calmly announced: “I’ll just have to glide it in.” The jet was flying over the densely populated West London suburbs surrounding the airport when he lost all power and all the electrics suddenly died. Capt Burkill and his crew managed to keep it airborne above houses, schools and offices - clearing Heathrow’s perimeter fence by just five feet before crash-landing into a field 500 yards short of the runway. [Emphasis added by me. -- Java]
