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This is getting way too confusing. All along, someone said “Georgia” and I thought of the southern state. And then there was a war in Georgia with Russia, and I was just geographically-astute enough to know that they meant the country. So that raged on for a while, and now, whenever I hear about something [...]
Astute readers may remember my last trip to the dentist and how it was a less-than-enjoyable experience. I went for another filling today; at my cleaning a few weeks ago, they told me that my usual dentist was out, and asked if I’d mind if some other dentist did the final once-over for the cleaning. [...]
Do you remember standardized tests, especially in grade school and middle school, where they’d have you read a passage of text and you’d have to identify the “main idea” of the writing? Most of the choices were things that were in the passage, but only one of them was plausibly the main idea, whereas the [...]
You know those times when you decide to let yourself surf aimlessly? And an hour later, you have absolutely no idea how you got to where you did? I found the K0S Strange Antenna Contest page from 2003, where some ham radio operators started using, well, strange things as antennas. Who’d think that a ladder [...]
I don’t know why, but I find these absolutely hilarious. Since I haven’t given it out in a while, this guy gets HERO OF THE DAY.
In: 2008|Cool Links|Funny|Humanitarianism|Insanity|Politics|Rants & Raves
17 May 2008Can you guess the state? Recently had about 100 students arrested, and several fraternties banned, after a massive drug dealing operation was busted at a state university. Recently became the second state in the nation to give homosexuals equal rights. Recently had 2 arrested at another school for selling body parts on the black market. [...]
I’m now (essentially) graduated, with a Bachelor’s of Science. As I was walking across the stage, there were five different people who shook my hand. A few congratulated me; the President beamed with joy as she shook my hand (given that I’m a W-name, her facial muscles must have been aching?). But the last guy’s [...]
In: Computers|Funny|Insanity|Living|Programming|Rants & Raves
12 May 2008I’ve always been a little creeped out by some of the stuff on Craigslist. There’s pretty obvious prostitution and drugs going on, in addition to people seeking affairs. And if you read through the “personals” section (which is pretty entertaining), watch out for ones with pictures… Something they’re, uhh, graphic. So I went through about [...]
This falls into the category of things very few people would notice, but…. Microsoft provides time.windows.com, a public NTP server, operating in stratum 2. I just came across NTPmonitor, a novel Windows app to monitor a handful of NTP servers. (Sadly, it doesn’t offer the option to sync to any of them, probably because most [...]
I stopped at McDonald’s on my way home today, since I was starving and otherwise would have gotten on 128 at around 5:30 on a Friday, which is just asking for a headache. So I took a leisurely dinner. I’m fairly certain that, as long as I was there, not a single normal thing happened. [...]