Obsessional hobbies are part of the geek lifestyle. You can’t call yourself a geek if nobody’s ever feigned organ failure to get out of a conversation about your pet topic.

Checkout a few here!

Simulated air traffic control

Motorized chariot racing

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Did you know that 89.3% of New Year’s resolution diets FAIL in just 3 weeks? No?

Well, that’s probably because I made that stat up. (FACT: 63.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.)

I’m pretty sure most diets do fail, though, on account of their requiring you to eat significantly smaller portions of cake – and, let’s face it, that’s a trade-off no one wants to make.

Still, for you foolhardy few trudging on in blatant defiance of Mother Nature, your genetics, and the Baskin Robbins large chocolate Oreo shake, here are some motivational visuals sure to make you lose your appetite, if not that spare tire.

Via CakeWrecks

Feeling fisted by the Invisible Hand of the Market lo these past fifteen months? Lost a job lately? Or half the value of your 401(k)? Or a home? All three? Been wondering whence the too-long-ascendant political and economic ideas and forces behind Greenspanism, John Thainism, blind Wall Street plunder, bankruptcy, credit-default swaps, Bernie Madoff, and the ensuing Cannibalism in the Streets? Then you, sir, need to give thanks to Ayn Rand Assholes everywhere—as well as the steely loins from which they sprang.

Via GQ