The Internet's going down the toilet!

Google is introducing free, wireless broadband. There's just one hitch..... (link)



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Goldfish is a depp fryer?!

Apparently this is a functioning deep fryer with a real livbe goldfish tnk at the bottom.



Since the hot oil naturally floats on the water, the goldfish aren't apparently fried. Not that I would want to constantly eat deep fried fish food....

Friends don't let friends

Drive Drunk. Actual 1979 PSA:

Almost 200

Did a windows rebuild tonight. The first thing I do (after calling The Anti-Christ to activate it) is to go to Windows Update and get all the relevant update. Tonight, I'm pushing almost 200 megabytes (and this is with service pack 2 already slipstreamed into the disk). Either it's time for another update, it's time to just make an Operating System out of nothing but patches.

The Birth Spasm! It has Occured!

My employers had a baby girl Friday night. Of course this means they're unavailable to work, and so I had to pick up the slack, and work open to close three days in a row (I will not mention where my $day-job is, or where I work at in this blog. Just in case my employers and I don't see eye to eye, and I'm not really in the mood to burn bridges). But anyway, pass the cigars around (or the grog, if you don't smoke), and grin, and feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and .........



[Remind me not to have Brother Maynard write the blog entries any more]



Oh, and both the Bulldogs and the Cougars choked it in the big dance. Maybe next year. Although, I was surpised the Cougars even had a baseketball team (I mean, it's an indoor sport, and the cheerleaders have no place in the venue to graze). Gonzaga should perhaps try not letting junkies be starters.

Arrrgh!

Today's stupid bonehead mistake:



I was going to go from a single boot system (with WinXP) to a multi-boot system, which usually means wiping the drives completely to resize the partitions to make room. I'm usually ok with this, as I have two hard drives, and I never keep the 'My Documents' folder on the same drive as the Windows directory. Unfortunately, this time I wiped out the wrong drive (Actually I had moved everything to a temporary partition first. I just deleted the temporary partition without moving everything back th where it should've gone). So I pulled out my archive DVD's. My last backup was January 29. I lost at most a few pictures and mp3s, and I can restore those. But it's a pain in the arse.



Somehow this is all AT Ellen Norberg's fault.

Marvel Comics Jumps The Shark.

Marvel Comics has now jumped the shark. Captain America is now dead. All superman could say is 'Been There, Done That'. Now all Marvel needs to do is make Ted MkGinley a superhero....

Why I will shop at Office Depot

Office Depot customer service representative goes above and beyond the call of duty. True, the store could have handled it better (like honoring the advertised price, or not offering a half-assed excuse for not honoring it). But, in the end, the CSR saved the day. Generally, when the Corporate Office gets called, something terrible has gone wrong, and it's up to them to put it right.





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Teach Your Children Well

And what a better way to do it than with The Flying Spaghetti Monster Coloring Book. Sure, you've got your kids the requisite eye-patches, the parrots, and the peg-legs, but what have you taught them about The Noodly Master and His Truth?



Ramen.