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Because malevolent is too hard to say!
And you can't tell me the alien ain't CUTE!
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furtive explorations
"How stupid do you want them to think you are?"
Seek the power, find the Sock of Destiny!
The hostile team now consists of scads of
people hardly ever posting to this site! Of course that doesn't actually
equate to any more posts, it just ups the brownian motion of the
system a bit more.
Earth First! Make Mars Our Bitch!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
- 9:52:00 PM by mark
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- In Happy Feet, our hero winds up with a transponder on him... and its serial number is "// LeBJ760308 //". Imagine my disappointment with the internet that Google gets no hits on that.
Movie fans. Shame.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
- 8:10:00 PM by mark
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- Putting this here for when it is once again needed: "But to sometimes split an infinitive is something up with which we will not put!"
- 5:03:00 PM by mark
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- I gotta start doing this at work.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
- 2:17:00 PM by mark
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- Popehat... I've been reading it for a few weeks now. Great blog. Up there with Lowering the Bar for fun legal stuff.
The reason for posting, however, is that he's 8 years beyond me in coming up with a term I've needed at least that long. What do you call someone who (delusional or just weird) wants to (be/pretend to be) a vampire? Poseferatu. F-ing genius. Wow.
- 11:36:00 AM by mark
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- One of the candy machines at work has the price of one item listed at 80¢ but the actual price when you purchase it is 60¢. So, you know, "woo hoo"!
So, the next thought is to either exploit this or report it and pay up to honest levels. Complicating this is the fact that I have no idea who to report it to... and I'm a greedy bastard. ;-) Further complicating it is the fact that the next slot in the candy spiral is empty. That means that my first candy bar costs 60¢ but the second one winds up costing $1.20.
So, how many candy bars do I have to buy to "true up" to 80¢ per bar? 3, as it turns out. (4 * 60¢ == $2.40 == 3 bars @ 80¢) So, hurray for word problems, right? Interestingly enough, there are just 2 bars left in there behind the empty slot. But, I decided to take my 20¢ gain and call around to find someone to fix the beast. That way I come out ahead and at least feel fairly honest about it.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
- 1:47:00 PM by mark
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- As you can tell from the server being up... our power is back on.
I get to shower in hot water when I get home. *sob*
P.S. This is post 6001. Wow.
Friday, January 23, 2009
- 5:14:00 PM by mark
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- English needs a word for "the day after tomorrow". Based vaguely on other languages I nominate: "overmorrow". Yeah.
And, let me point out, I seriously considered "threemorrow" and "duomorrow". I could still be persuaded by "ubermorrow", too.
And since, when discussed, the iso-case always seems to arise e.g. here, I should propose "preyester" or something for the day before yesterday. It doesn't inspire me, tho.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
- 5:15:00 PM by mark
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- Every day each of us says the dumbest thing we are going to say that day. Wow. Profound AND profoundly stupid at the same time.
Actually, that is a pretty good review for Dinosaur Comics in general. ;-) His blog is full of tiny, amusing things so he's got that going for him, too. Great site.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
- 5:04:00 PM by mark
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- There are still a few hours left if you want to get a Free Dr Pepper. Ends at midnight tonight.
Monday, November 17, 2008
- 11:54:00 AM by mark
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- This application, "handle", may be the most useful windows tool I've used in a year.
If you are a unix type, you know "fuser". It tells you what files are in use by which user. This is the windows equivalent... and it is a nice one. It will search by partial file or executable name, will show the user's ID, and even lets you kill the file handle (rather than the entire misbehaving process. though I don't know why you'd ever do that, honestly... when was the last time you found a windows program that would gracefully deal with a file disappearing?).
