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After a month of login headaches, Sounds Spicy returns at a new muxtape address! Here’s May’s mix, full of urban angst, summer nostalgia, lots of dance, and other odds and ends. So, open up your windows, pour yourself a cocktail, dust off your boombox, and enjoy.
Mix #2: Flotsam ‘n’ Jetsam
1. Javelin: Education 2. Laura Veirs: Flotsam ‘n’ Jetsam
3. Frank Black: I Burn Today 4. Cake: Jolene
5. Shugo Tokumaru: Sleet 6. Public Enemy: Fight the Power
7. The Headphones: Natural Disaster 8. Justice: Never Be Alone
9. Salt-n-Pepa: Doper Than Dope 10. James Chadwick: The Wooden Floor
11. Bumblebeez: Zulu 12. Eels: Sixteen Tons
[picture via Square America]
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Given that we’re all really man-children here at Spicybiscotti, it would be out of character to pass up this post. Man babies is an awkward, awkward site, that plays digital god by switching the heads of fathers and their children. I can only imagine what the head of my portly father would look like on my sweet angelic baby body — uncomfortable at best. Check out their site for some more freaky friday-type photoshop action.
[via BoingBoing]
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Few things in life bring the sB team more joy than stuffing our faces. That said, we’ve always been a bit more discerning than your average obese Americans. We strive to bring to light the best in unhealthy food by alerting our readers to unique ways of slowly killing themselves.
Here in the USA May is a very important month. It’s the month we put aside our disdain for Mexico and pretend to celebrate it’s rich cultural heritage and social contributions such as $1.00 Coronas and sangria (the fact that sangria isn’t Mexican is moot). So what better time than now to talk about our favorite Mexican food?
El Oasis is probably the most unassuming restaurant in Lansing. It’s actually just a cart set up in a parking lot. As far as we can tell, they hold no strict hours preferring instead to appear like it’s namesake, only when you need it most. The Oasis serves up some fine authentic cuisine. The menu is expansive and the fair is cheap. Last time we went we stayed unusually conservative, getting cilantro-lime tacos and tortas. For those feeling more adventurous, you could get pork tongue or brains or whatever it is our southern friends eat.
Just walk right up and prepare yourself for some Antojitos Mexicanos!
Seriously the best tacos I’ve ever had.
Nothing like a cool Jarritos to wash down cheesy, fatty, fried goodness.
Money
El Oasis is at 2501 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48933 (maybe)
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I’ve been meaning to throw these bits of news onto spicy for a while. Here’s what’s been blowing our minds:
{ Move over tupperware, it’s time for Taser Parties. I can just hear it now: “Can they kill? Hah! Oh girrrrl, these things are harmless!”
{ Scientists can now manually switch flies’ sexuality. I can’t imagine the impact that this could have upon the
LGBT community if it could be applied to humans. When thinking of this, images of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “We” haunt me.{Apparently scientists have also devised a method to create self catching fish. If this were to ever pan out I guess it would mean the end of all those “Perfect Storm” type fishing shows. Damn.
{Finally, this does not count as current news, but it is new to me. It seems that the news/fear mongerers always blow any sort of shooting or bombing (especially school related) way out of proportion. Now, I’m not saying that these things shouldn’t be mentioned, but they happen, will happen, and have happened. In other words, it’s important not to stop living, this is how the world goes.
Case in point, of all the “terrible” shootings stories that I have ever lived to encounter, nothing seems as gruesome as the 1927 Bath School Disaster. In fact, it is still the deadliest act of mass murder in U.S. school history. Long story short, Andrew Kehoe, a school board member got angry at a levy, which he blamed on a subsequent foreclosure. Soooo, he killed his wife, bombed his farm, bombed the school, drove over, got out, and fired his gun at his car filled with explosives. The end. The sign below is Kehoe’s epic last message — left in a fence and later found by authorities.
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Recently at work we discovered a noisy fan inside a Netgear GS516T Gigabit switch. Sometimes when fan bearings start to fail they can be silenced with a little percussive maintenance. Despite our best efforts to tap and bang on the switch we were unable to cure its disease.
In an effort to get warranty service I looked up the original purchase order for this switch. Although it was far beyond its service expiration, I discovered that we paid $1332 for it when 1000Base-T was brand new in 2002. Ouch! This was probably the first gigabit hardware our building had ever seen. Considering an equivalent replacement now costs around $189, I didn’t want to see this unit die of heatstroke. This switch has since been demoted, so with nothing to lose I decided to take it apart and see if I could fix it myself. Click to continue…
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