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"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!
Friday, October 05, 2001
- 7:54:00 PM by mark
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- This cartoon may be the best Dr. Fun of the year. And I'm including yesterday's and this one and even the pr0n one!
Of course, Angry Flower is doing pretty well for itself as well.
- 5:38:00 PM by mark
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- OK, this is really funny. Old Man Murray Fights For America! Yet another amusing article about the least funny thing to happen here in at least a decade.
Also from the same issue of NTK come this wonderful listing of response codes for tabulating their recent census. The category is religion. page 18 (92 in text) at the bottom, number 896.
- 4:54:00 PM by mark
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- Today's word of the [random time period] is desquamate; see it used in a sentence and laugh...
I'd link goldschlager's homepage but it is dead, showing only the go away with your filthy non-Netscape-or-IE browser -- no matter which browser I use... Also, I'd rather link that word to Mirriam Webster's page but I didn't feel like figuring out the stupid cgi again. Man I'd rather they made a linkable-yet-ugly URL so I could link to a definition without a hassle.
Thursday, October 04, 2001
- 9:19:00 PM by mark
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- So I finally am getting around to updating the comics page. I was planning on moving it to another site with a different layout and adding the review stuff but at this point I'm too damn busy to do it. =)
Added are
- Sexy Losers a weekly that looks suspiciously like my old lost favorite "ThinHLine". Ahh, necrophila and masturbation humor...
- Kung Fool which took a bit to grow on me (along with noticing the damn buttons on the left side of the flash comics, thus leading to the actual humor bits as well as a shit load more art. Way cool.
- Howard Cruse goes into watching.
- 9:47:00 AM by mark
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- IBM is going to roll out new equipment and if you are in the industry you are going to be impressed. We got a quick peek at what they are bringing to market yesterday and it ruled. When they say "...there is no technological apartheid at I.B.M. anymore..." they pretty much mean just that. They have knocked down the ivory towers and are using super computer tech on their NetFinities and are moving some cool PC tech up to the high end boxes.
If only I needed new computers for the office. Too bad we run a Datacenter and could do that with about 10 PCs. Monitoring, DNS, Mail, Billing, Office. Maybe two each and a webserver somewhere on one or the other is all you really need here. Sure we have more but we don't need them. This just isn't rocket science.
- 9:40:00 AM by mark
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- Letter from Yale is toughie but worth reading. Learn about the death of education from people at the top, I suppose. Try this quote:
But he is right about the twin pillars of criticism, analysis and evaluation. Until it cuts back on one, and makes room for the other, Yale will continue to be the place where language goes to die.
Wednesday, October 03, 2001
- 6:22:00 PM by mark
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- Is it April 1st somewhere? No? Then I suppose this Body Massager Module for the HandSpring Visor is completely legit? Good god what is the world coming to when people need electrical shock exercisers built into their personal organisers?
I want one. Just so I can tell them I have a portable modern electro-shock kit. I'd never stick that thing on my body and turn it on, never. Ever. If there was ever a "one-up the mates" contest for these plugin modules, this one wins. And you just know some stupid fuck is going to bung voltage through their prong or prong voltage through their bung and sue them... you just know it...
My boss says he got this link from Locker Gnome's daily mailing so if it sounds familiar...
- 4:36:00 PM by mark
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- Well, if Hamlet isn't your thing, maybe you'll find this 'sysadmin poetry' amusing. RFC1121 and RFC1300.
Actually half the stuff listed here is poetry. Geek humor...
- 10:06:00 AM by mark
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- Compare this company's datacenter tour and my company's tour. Notice that we have edited our pictures to have embedded text. The earlier version didn't have that text... and see what happened? How sad is that???
Now some people might ask if we weren't the "stealer" rather than the "stealee" but I can quench that argument by providing nice pictures of myself in the DC on demand or by simply pointing out that we offer a real tour of the DC on our site. =)
- 10:00:00 AM by mark
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- The word nobler only appears 20 times in all of Shakespeare. See for yourself.
- 1:00:00 AM by mark
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- Yesterday, while watching TV my roommate and I were struck by the inherent irony of advertising a children's bible songs album during a movie about Vlad the Impaler (A Christian, you will likely not recall, who you had also probably forgotten committed most of his atrocities whilst keeping the Muslim Turks at bay from his country.) Ah TV programming in these dire times is always tricky...
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
- 3:05:00 PM by mark
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- Muppet Radio
- 11:07:00 AM by mark
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- Satire Wire's fabo article Memorial to be Built... almost one-ups The Onion
- 9:12:00 AM by mark
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- I had epic nightmares last night. No really. Epic. I'm pretty sure Grendel was there. I woke up no less than 4 times from nightmares, all different and all only vaguely recalled. I'm pretty sure I was on trial in one and maybe killed by a mob in another. The last time I woke from a nightmare was last Sunday and on Monday I wound up in the ER. Not a good sign, folks...
Let me be clear that I don't particularly believe in dreams as portents or omens. Your subconscious is hooked up to your whole body tho and often figures out stuff your conscious mind hasn't put together. OTOH, most dream analysis is complete crap. Some times a cigar is just a cigar and sometime all nightmares mean is that you should turn on the A/C. =)
Monday, October 01, 2001
- 10:21:00 PM by Dodd
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- Was "musspilling" intentional? Very funny if so. Even funnier, if not.
- 9:06:00 PM by mark
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- I was informed that I've been musspilling poor Muad'Dib's name.
Oops. Unfortunately, transposed letters is just about my worst typo habit. I do it all the time but especially with paired vowels since three of them are mashed together. I'll do better now that I've been scolded. =)
Updated: Yaeh, rihgt. I mitsakenly swichted thsoe lteters aruond. :P
- 9:04:00 PM by mark
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- I was introduced to the Technical Virgin site today. I've seen one of the videos before but had no idea that an entire supporting site and growing canon of work was there to build up the legend. Man I'll bet Infinity Dog is one weird place to work. Thanks for the link, Cary!
- 6:40:00 PM by Dodd
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- The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches
- 6:06:00 PM by mark
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- Ok, I really don't need this here since I snagged it from Muad'Dib's page but I'll need this in the future and I want to be able to search my own archives for A Game Theoretic Approach to the Toilet Seat Problem. There is a calm, beautiful purity of spirit in approaching one of life's most intractable intersocial male-female issues. Like drowning a sack full of fighting cats in a still mountain lake, applying mathematical theory to emotional problems just leads to more noise and someone getting all wet.
- 11:43:00 AM by mark
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- So at some point this morning I either clicked on a link or someone else popped on my computer for a few minutes and opened up this Screen Writing page. I have no idea how or when this opened up but there it is. And I have javascript pop-ups disabled in Mozilla so it wasn't an advertisement that did it. How creepy is that? Either I am so distracted I don't even remember opening the page or I am so distracted I didn't notice another person opening it.
OTOH, at least my work machine is operational. The monitor died last Friday. Of course I wasn't sure what had died so I spent a bunch of time pulling various parts off the spare computer and trading them out (till I had effectively transplanted my harddrive into the other computer) but no combination worked.
The trick to troubleshooting is to narrow down the problem efficiently. You know generally that only one thing dies at a time. (Except after lightning, assume it is all dead, then if any of it works, you are happy.) So I did the standard things: try a new monitor (same weird clicking, no picture); try a new cable on the new monitor (same), try a new video card (same), try a whole new computer with the old video card but my harddrive (same). Now given that both computers will boot (I can get to them via network once they boot up) they can't have any critical problems and so there must be more than one thing wrong. *bleagh*
So I ask around for advice on what way to go next and while wandering around one person asks me what the symptoms of the monitor were before it died and after. So I tell him it had popping noises before and clicking afterwards. And he says, "Oh, just like the monitor we had that died a couple days ago here." And he points at a working monitor. So I ask how he fixed it and he says, "You can't fix it, I just took the monitor off the spare computer." *ouch* Guess which monitor I was using to troubleshoot...
Sunday, September 30, 2001
- 11:16:00 PM by mark
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- Well the atomic weapon antibiotic they threw at my illness seems to be working as "less" becomes the catchword. Less pain, less trips to the porcelain pond, and less whining...
Heck I'm feeling so good I might just spend an hour beating up people for fun and prizes.
Or maybe I'll spend some time dreaming about the cast of Goth: The Movie. Oh, and that is one cruddy picture of Johnna. There is a bunch of nicer shots here.
- 2:51:00 AM by mark
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- Here is the grand idea my roommate just had for a fine dining experience.
Soft-serv mashed potatos. Just like the ice cream things all these places have for dessert but with scrumptious mashed potatos. Maybe the double one with garlic mashed on one side and homestyle on the other so you can do the half and half thing. And once you've built up a nice spiral pile of warm goodness, you can squirt cheeze or gravy on it from the pumps they use for fudge sauce. Little sprinkle bins for the bacon and chives... maybe pumps for the butter and sourcream as well? Any way you cut it, fucking brilliant.
Other quotes reported back to me from the dinner I missed:
- That's not a steak, that's a jet engine.
- It isn't a pork loin, it is an entire pork ass.
- It was huge... But he was eating for two, himself and his swollen ankle.
