August 2003 Archives

Alright, stop imagining my singing voice. Trust me, its better that way. Alright, we are soon off to Ohio for the weekend for Leslie's family reunion in the Dayton-ish area. We'll be back late Monday. Should be a lot of fun.

A lot of the link topics have been of a serious nature of late. Relax, this entry is all in good fun.

For today's offering, we have a quiz called Programming Language Creator or Serial Killer, courtesy of Craig Trible. Even if you score high on this, remember that you had to think about it a couple times.

Leslie has contributed a link concerning the dangers of drinking in excess. Yes, it will make you shudder. (And yes, it's comedy people.)

Plus, who said playing computer games was bad for you? Not the BBC.

Update: I almost forgot to mention this. I have a two-week temporary job at Bally Gaming filling in for someone at their help desk there. Its not a permanent gig but I can at least be doing SOMETHING for a few days. Wish me luck and all that.

Our building is filling up with students. One of the guys who moved in next door to us is really, REALLY loud. Hopefully he'll find the error of his ways soon. Or just move somewhere else....

Okay, an update to that ludicrous lawsuit against Al Franken. It has been basically laughed out of court as it should have. And then there's this odd story, which still seems like someone's idea of a joke to me, but it appears to be real.

If you are familiar with the trashy web trend of having people vote for pictures of you, ala Amihotornot and that nonsense, Ned Bronson linked me to Amigovernorornot.com, which is a pretty squirrelly take on the idiotic California rebellion-of-the-grumpy. My favorite pick thus far?

And yes, that link has potentially offensive stuff at play too so once again, you were warned.

A movie critic from Kansas City tries to explain reality to the movie industry. I doubt she'll succeed, but let's wish her the best anyways.

And I haven't linked any Dave Barry stuff for awhile, but here is what we'll just call the Back to School edition.

And in a tie-in to yesterday's idiot parade, we bring you "people who should stick to waving protest signs." I may be cruel in your eyes, but I care a lot more about history than I do a duck. Not that I particularly like liver, but I don't ever plan on stopping anyone from eating it; though I may stop you from cooking it in our kitchen.

Other stuff:

Democracy in action?

From Australia, a humorous look at SWAT hand signals (yes, its off-color and you HAVE been warned).

Last but not least, are you about to have a blackout? A link for the paranoid.

It seems that Keiko, the killer whale from the Free Willy flicks doesn't want to go to the wild after all. More here.

Speaking of creatures who missed the point, here are some tales about stupid neighbors, race-baiting Bush websites (original and "corrected" - check the middle pic on the bottom - editions), and oversized little leaguers just to round out the mix of madness. (For more on the original version of that "tasteful" website, go here.)

Just because I can, a little more invective, courtesy of August 9th's Doonesbury:

And yes, we are fine...the flooding was on the other side of town.

The first thing on my mind, of course, was "Glad I'm not there." So far all those folks without power in the NorthEast seem to be muddling through okay, and that's good news. I swear, its like there is a determined effort to make the rest of us think New Yorkers are actually polite. Go figure.

Well, I was gonna link this story anyway, but while it was humorous to begin with; I'd really like to see all these snobs whine about their "backyard" being sullied after today's events. Good luck you dopes.

So, I'm trolling through the job ads this morning and then bounce over to CNN to check on the news (yes, that IS entertainment for me). Anyways, our unofficial government news agency FoxNews is suing Al Franken because they don't like the title of his book - nor likely the content of it either. Just goes to show how whiny people get when you give 'em a little power.

Some of you may have come across that nasty MSBlaster/LoveSan worm. Hopefully you do not have it on your computer, but if you do, come on back after your computer reboots.

You back yet? Okay, take a visit over to this link, which will give you directions on where to get your relevant Windows updates. I will give you to quick links to McAfee and Norton's advice as well. Good luck out there.

Other than Leslie, I don't get acknowledgement of actual visitors to the site...and I stopped looking at traffic monitoring a long time ago. So it was with some surprise that I found out that Mitch Shiever comes to check out the incomplete project from time to time. Everyone say "hi" to Mitch and wish him luck on his new job.

Speaking of work, I just got down with a difficult but (hopefully) fruitful second interview today for a position at UNLV. To be honest, that's a good group of people I would have to work with if I got the position; so color me interested and impressed. I also just (at 9:30pm) found out that I may have an interview for my old job as Project Manager at Aristocrat next week. So at least I'm finally getting a foot in the door a couple places.

From our Entertainment/Science desk, a scientific chart for you about the condiments in your fridge. In other science-ish news, I just remembered an old article about the Dark Sucker theory. It comes from a site I haven't visited in years, IFAQ (Infrequently Asked Questions).

Yes, I'm bored.