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.

We've all been burned before

But here are various and sundry rock stars have actually caught fire on stage. They all survived. With the exceptions of the heretics and witch. And that f(&*^* ass-hot who turned me into a newt.

On to Pluto

NASA's New Horizons has swung by Jupiter on it's way to Pluto. No word on whether or not it'll swing by Uranus or not, but it might still be prudent to keep your pants up until the.



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MC Hawking to go weightless

MC Hawking is to experience zero gravity this April. Here is a recent music video (Sorry YouTube doesn't have 'All My Shootings Be Drive-bys'):





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A Real Class Act

Craig Ferguson on Britney Spears:



He speaks of his own problems with alcoholism, his sobering up, and why he won't make fun of Britney Spears.  It's nice to see that there are still class acts on TV.

MacBook 1, Cat 0

See the cat vs. Macbook. Not surprisingly, the cat loses....





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ANother good use for duct tape....

You can use it to tie up astronauts who flip it. Or you can simply promise them a 900 mile drive in a diaper when they land.





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The Britney Spears rehab count is now at

Three. As much as I (like nearly everybody else) likes to follow the celebrities and make fun of there hi-jinks, she really does need some help.

Happy Chinese New Year

Now begins the Year Of The Pig (or to be more precise, the Year Of The Boar). For Christmas this year, my brother-in-law did a wee bit of Chinese astrology and got us all presents based on the year we were born. I was born in the Year Of The Cow, and so I got a couple of ceramic cows (well one of them's a wind chime, but I don't want to push my luck w/ the neighbors).

On the frailties of life....

It wasn't until I was in the eighth grade that I really took an interest in the newspaper. Of course there were the headline, the top stories, and comics, etc. But there was one column I always looked forward to reading. L. M. Boyd's trivia column. Some of you may know him as Mike Mailway. Throughout the years, the service of the local newspapers left me disgusted (multiple billings, failed deliveries), but his column was still the only reason why I still read the paper each day (that and a little bit of Garfield, too). And then one day in December of 2000, he announced his retirement. I canceled my News Tribune subscription a few months later.



Human life can be so fleeting. People you see here today can be gone tomorrow in a flash. This Christmas Eve, I was overnighting at my Grandmother's house. When I went to bed that night, the thoughts were of joy and happiness. When I got up the next morning, the first headline I see was James Brown passing away. Then Gerald Ford went the same way, too. A couple of weeks later Saddam Hussein snuffed it. And then last week, Anna Nicole Smith passed on.



Why am I saying this? Because I just found about L. M. Boyd's passing (obit here). Forget Ann Landers, or Dear Abbey. He was my favorite. Now that he's gone, I have no other reason to read newspapers (there are a whole bunch of other ways to get the news, like google, for instance).

Anna Nicole Smith is dead

Anna Nicole Smith has died. She was only a few years older than I am. Make one want to ponder the frailties of life.....

Hey, Igwanarob

Enjoy your new pipe. Although I shouldn't say that, given my personal view on smoking. At one time or another, we've all been burned on the Internet. I have it happen to me a couple of times. The first time was when I decided to buy a model of the USS Voyager (from Star Trek Voyager), and someble took my credit card and decided to buy $600.00 dollars of viagra. A phone call to police, and another to the credit card comany to dispute the charge took care of that. Then there was time I decided I had to have Encarta 2002 (this was before I discovered Wikipedia - for better or for worse, at least it's not published by The Anti-Christ). Ordered it online from The Anti-Christ, and they shipped by DHL. Who promptly decided to leave it at my door-stop without bothering to take to the apartment manager's (who btw, will receive packages) office, like brown or fed-ex do. So, guess who's three figure software shipment was stolen? And then when I called to complain, I was simply told to pound sand. A few expletive filled phone calls to both microsoft and dhl got it straightened out, and I ended up getting what I wanted at Officemax, who btw really kick ass when it comes to getting what I need, and then taking it back when I realize I got the wrong part to begin with.





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