+ 1 - 0 | § ¶The Grocery List Collection
As of today, the Grocery List Collection has 385 lists. Mostly scans of discarded grocery lists. It i snice to see that some of the lists are as pathetic as mine used to be. Squirt gun. Hot peppers. Strawberries. Bee trap. Pie pans.
Again, wtf.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶StatueMolesters.com - Molesting statues since 1834
After directing you towards StatueMolesters, you must be wondering, 'don't you have anything better to do?!?'
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Internet Shopping List
eGroc.com is so you can set up your shopping list online so you can access it from home or work.
Not only that, but you have to pay for it. Why didn't one of us think of this doozy of a site? At $9.95 US a month, how many people to do you need to use it before it starts making money? Bandwidth and storage costs must be minimal at best. I mean, wtf.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶More from memepool
This guy likes to write stories about Roy Orbison wrapped in 'cling-film'. Hoooleee crap. I mean, I write stores about people in cling-film too, but at least I don't post them online. Yet. Hm. 'Cling-film'. I guess the boys at 'Saran' came down on him like a ton of bricks.
Ulli's Roy Orbison in Cling-film site
Edit: I just noticed the URL, the people I work with will get a kick out of this, the URL for the above is http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.htm. Hm.
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶misternicehands.com
Those if you who frequent memepool.com will no doubt realize that a lot of the stuff I put here comes from there.
Misternicehands.com is an example of the stuff you can find on memepool.com.
+ 1 - 1 | § ¶Switching To Mozilla
You really should think about Switching To Mozilla.
Mozilla really beats the pants off of Internet Explorer in all aspects except for speed in certain cases as far as I can tell. Tabbed browsing is amazing (it lets you keep related things or themes linked by windows - example: you are surfing cnn in one set of tabs, and another windows has 5 tabs of movie news). One big caveat of tabbed browsing is that if you are a bit twitchy on the mouse (I wail on everything, keyboards and mice don't have a very long life in my hands) you can close a window full of tabs before realizing you only wanted to close one of the tabs. It warns you before you do it, but I click first and think later.
Anyway, when you have used tabbed browsing, it is hard to go back.
But tabbed browsing isn't the only good thing about mozilla, you also get bayesing filtering on your POP3 email (you mark what you think is spam, and it statistically gets better at recognizing spam for you), *built-in* pop-up blocking, Google search built in, and more. Read the article, as they say if you try it and don't like it, Internet Explorer isn't going anywhere soon.
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Yet another Mastercard spoof
AtomFilms - Indecent Proposal
Is it MasterCard or VISA? Shows how well the advertising works... duh.
This is a video short adapted from a very old joke. Still funny. Not hilarious, but funny. Under one minute long.
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Segway scooter climbs Mt. Everest.
...sorry, I meant Mount Washinton... - CNN.com - Segway climbs to mountain's peak - Aug. 28, 2003
I so want one of these scooters, maybe I should start a paypal fund so people can send in donations - the scooters are only $5000 US.
+ 1 - 2 | § ¶1977 Schwarzenegger interview
From the irascible SmokingGun.com comes the 1977 interview where Arnold talks about drugs, women, and how "we had girls backstage giving head" at the 1972 Mr. Olympia competition.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶Technical Documentation Oddities
I was hooked by the very first picture at the Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness:
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Proce55ing.net
Proce55ing.net is a new language. It is a bridge language from what I gather. It is an extension of Java in that Proce55ing applets are Java windows, but it takes the simplification of programming a bit further. Threading is built in as opposed to Java where you have to decide when and what to thread; double-buffering is built in so graphics are a lot easier to program. (I could never get past the double-buffering in Java, but I am a bit of a moron.) It gets past one of my main beefs about Flash in that Java is far more open. Proce55ing will be free and multi-platform, and the source code will be made available. Looks good to me!
+ 1 - 1 | § ¶Something I really hate...
... is god damn DVD players. I have a Samsung that plays nicely... usually for about 80% of a movie. I also have a PC set up that playes DVDs nicely... except when it doesn't. Which was tonight, in case you were wondering.
I really like having company over and having the DVD player crap out at 60%. It even tried to skip a few chapters. Maybe it knew we were in a hurry, that was really considerate.
Off to Future Shop tomorrow I think. Lori was not impressed. I don't think my guests were either. Maybe there will be photos of the insides of a DVD player later this week....
"His insides... they've left him."
The movie was the Pianist. No, Pianist.
He dies at the end. The Pianist, I mean.
Just so's you know.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶Vacation Chronicles, Day Two
Photos, Ship Harbour, August 26th, 2003
We all spent the day in Ship Harbour. I am sure that my mother will be impressed that these pictures are online. The house is under heavy renovations, so it has only looked like this for ....um.... 30 years or so.
Damn gallery software 'somehow' (I changed a setting that I misunderstood) resized all these to 640x480. If anyone wants larger (why?) I can certainly provide them.
The highlight of the day were the two large yellow spotted salamanders, I have not seen any of these for years. Decades, even. Are they rare?
The vacation continues.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶Vacation - Day One
Here is what I have done so far on my first day off: Sunny day, Feet Up
For those of you who do not know, I am off this week. It better be sunny. The first day has been, if I extrapolate from that, then the rest of the week will be too!
+ 0 - 2 | § ¶Eric Ball (guitar stings manufacturer) removes all Microsoft products
If you read this forum thread: RedFlagDeals.com -> LF: 10Liter Bucket of sh³t - hurry up needed b4 september 28, you may get a chuckle. This is a Canadian deal forum I read all the time, and it has a section for people looking for things..... As you can see, this guy needs 10 litres of human feces. He says it is for "performing scientific experiment, in releasing energy from it. We are also going to use it for a few more experiments, which are in TOP Secret from publicity".
He will pay for it, and is willing to buy up to ten buckets. Need I say more.
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Eric Ball (guitar stings manufacturer) removes all Microsoft products
Rockin' on without Microsoft
This is as Cnet article on the Ernice Ball company. Mr. Ball's company had a surprise visit from the BSA and it turned out there were a few illegal copies of software on some of their PC's.
If you know me, you owe it to me to read this article.
...okay, you don't owe me Jack diddley, but this is a great article about a company continuing to exist (happily) without any Microsoft products.
Keep in mind that I use, and actually like, many Microsoft products. I just think open source should exist in many more places than it does.
edit: There is also the slashdot.org thread if you want popular opinion on this.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶RIP - Filthy Movie Critic
"He was killed in a bicycle
collision late on August 7, 2003.
He died the way he lived--wobbling aimlessly in the slow lane."
The Filthy Critic
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶The Terrible Mr. G
overstated: the terrible mr. g
This guy plays too much CounterStrike (and badly) - curses non-stop. A co-worker records it and puts it to music. The result is the Terrible Mr. G.
Also see The Voz, for those of you with Windows.
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶I hate flash.
ARSE i Am
This guy at ARSE i AM seems to know something about flash. Check out the eye and the 'systems' section.
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Word of the day: Tensegrity.
My 18" 270-strut Tensegrity Sphere
A structure whose stability relies on tension and compression without torque.
I used to work at a place like that.
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶..and from SomethingAwful.com - something awful!
Something Awful Kids Books
I know a few people who will laugh themselves silly at these. Here is one of the tamer ones:
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶More on yummy pets.
This guy had a bunny. It died. He ate it. Pictures!
siamang: Sad Times, and Rainbow Bridges
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Whats wrong with this picture?
Gawd this is old, but it is still in my bookmarks for the 'marks' in the crowd.
Amusing late at night, if your spouse hasn't seen this one.
www.tekzoned.com - Whats wrong with this picture?
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Got a minute? Waste it here:
Nothing to be said. Almost funny. I watched it, you shouldn't have to.
Spiderman will make you gay.
+ 0 - 1 | § ¶Yummy.
PETSorFOOD.com - The best place for pet and food products on the Web!
Great parody. A list of animals (endangered ones too!) and prices of said animal prepared. Best quote:
"I took the family camping last year. Problem was, food was too heavy to carry. Then we found your site, and dinner walked right along with us (even caught a few Frisbees on the way)"
+ 1 - 1 | § ¶Sunday Game Night
Well, that sucked for me. The bots were cranked so high I felt like a dumb-ass loser. Not enough people, as usual, but it is summer after all. I guess people have better things to do than help entertain me... wft.
At least I am not so lame I am reading this. HA!
+ 2 - 1 | § ¶Day two. What now?
So there is at least one person viewing this site. Wow.
I thought about putting a forum on here too, we could use it to set up Sunday game night if nothing else. And make fun of co-workers too, apparently. If I can find a decent forum that doesn't require SQL (no SQL support on the plan I bought) then perhaps I will just go ahead an install one.
And then write notes to myself because there will likely not be anyone else paying attention.
Comments, anyone?
+ 1 - 0 | § ¶This is a test post...
...using Pivot. Pivot looks pretty neat. Now all I need is content and the will to continue.