Jason Clement

Fred Zing! Catapult Spoon

ZING! launch your lunch Everyone knows you shouldnt play with your food. But hey - sometimes you have to defend your dinner! Now theres a new weapon in your homeland security arsenal - load up a particularly mushy pea or corn niblet, aim, pull back the spring-loaded handle, and watch your food take flight. ZING! Its WAY more fun than a war of words.

Great interview with WALL•E writer - director Andrew Stanton.

Stanton: They tell you that as a storyteller, it’s vital to just stick with and be honest with your values system. The last thing I want to do is go to a movie and feel like I’m being preached to or being told how to be, and I think it’s more honest—and you’re going to have more effect—to be truthful with the values of your characters, working off of your own values. That was the case with WALL•E. The greatest commandment is to love one another, and to me, that’s the ultimate purpose of living. So that was the perfect goal for the loneliest robot on earth, to learn the greatest commandment, to learn to love.

I cannot wait to see this movie!

Happy Fathers Day!, originally uploaded by jasonjclement.

I’ll be spending mine on the river!

While everyone else is all hyped up about the new iPhone all sorts of new features, or the latest Leopard (Snow) with no new features… I simply want one thing from Steve… a black Mighty Mouse to match my MacBook. Is that to much to ask from the company thats supposed to pay attention to detail? If you care enough to tell me that its “designed in California”… at least give me a wireless mouse to match! I’ll let the fact that my power cord shouldn’t be white either slide for now…

Fun in the mud…, originally uploaded by jasonjclement.

Gabe enjoys a slide into the freshly made mud hole!

This is from Time magazine in 1947.

The average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants — and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment on the old one.

By last week, this peculiar state of mind had not only sucked thousands of American oil wells dry, stripped the rubber groves of Malaya, produced the world’s most inhuman industry and its most recalcitrant labor union, but had filled U.S. streets with so many automobiles that it was almost impossible to drive one. In some big cities, vast traffic jams never really got untangled from dawn to midnight; the bray of horns, the stink of exhaust fumes, and the crunch of crumpling metal eddied up from them as insistently as the vaporous roar of Niagara.

 (via kottke, via david)

Antique Boat Museum, originally uploaded by jasonjclement.

The kids launched their skiffs and displayed their paddles and
paintings today at the ABM.

…this is promoting the Zune. Great video!