Science... and crap

In which the chaff is separated from the not-quite-so-chaffy chaff.

Friday, May 28, 2004

Google Sets

Google. Is there anything this company can't do? I think not. Here, enter in some items and google will fill out the rest of the list for you. Why is this useful? For those times when you need to make an example list, but aren't smart enough to think up more than one or two examples.

Tennis Anyone?

Today's DG is a good one. It's called Setball and it is the best online tennis game I have ever played.

Just for John... because he's my buddy.

Here's an excellent commercial for a Japanese construction company. Of course, by "excellent" I mean "really, really weird".


Oh man. It was a stellar day for pictures today... hard to choose just one. But I finally decided on this one. Look at it and try to figure out who the freaky guy on the left is supposed to be. Posted by Hello

What's wrong with today's highschool seniors.

Senior pranks have gone from the realm of awesome to unbelievably stupid. Here's a recent one where the students all just drove really, really slow to school. What the crap?

Hoopity-hoo.

I have been informed that my site is not showing up properly on certain browsers. If you are having difficulty, could you leave a comment (if that is even possible) with the type of browser you are using and if something isn't working (or is working just fine)? Danke.

Thursday, May 27, 2004

Get your crazy rocket paintings here.

Because every home needs a painting of a rocket in it. Oh, and hands off #9 jerks. That one's mine.

Man... somebody beat me to it.

So, last time I was on a flight, I came up with the idea of flying all over the world, taking pictures of the land right below me when I was taking off or landing. Well, this guy beat me to it. And now I want his book.

Hey, you got Radiohead in my Bluegrass...

and you got Bluegrass in my Radiohead. Wait a second, that's not half bad. In fact, I would go as far as to say it is 2/3 good.

It should be a law

If you lack the manual dexterity to assemble a trampoline, you should not be allowed to use said trampoline. Especially if you are trying to set it up in your front yard, 10 feet from a busy intersection.

Oh wait, maybe they were going to set up another trampoline across the street as some sort of uber-modern door-to-door transportation system. Then I take it all back. Carry on.

Open memo to guy at the urnial...

Next time, don't answer your phone while you are still peeing. In case you were wondering, that is why I laughed at you.


Now that I have a job, I am going to have to retrofit all of my drinking utensils. And label all my food "CJ's food... no touching (or eating)". Posted by Hello

Consider me gainfully employed.

Oh yeah! I have procured myself what the kids call "a job" with Cypress Semiconductor. I will be working at their Bloomington site as a Failure Analysis Engineer. What does this mean? It means life is good. It also means I will be moving to Chaska, so Jess and I are ch-ch-checking out apartments there this weekend. Maybe I'll try to find one that lets me have a dog. Or a dawg. Either spelling is acceptable now-a-days.

However, one should note that in the days of yore, dawg was the only acceptable spelling north of the Mason-Dixon.

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Excuse me, I'm just browsing here.

An excellent little rant in defense of mp3 blogs. I have always tossed around the idea of "Song of the day", but never had the gall (or bandwidth to do it). Paul, over at the DR does it weekly, and I say... Huzzah to him! Huzzah Paul! Huzzah.

Included in this link right here is a nice list of current mp3 blogs out there. So get to perusing.

Cookie Mongoloid

Decimating and regurgitating. That's what the Cookie is all about ladies.

I've got a disease... and the prescription is more cowbell.

If rock were chocolate, the cowbell would be the nougat center.

I love my referrer logs.

Just a quick listing of some of my favorite search requests that people have used to access this site.

* revenge of the nerds lamar rap lyrics
* ambihelical hexnut history
* gallon of milk puking
* father of vladimer putin
* pierre curie's photo album
* questions to know if i'm angry
* areticles [sic] on turtles

This whole time I've been calling her Crab-apple!

Note how the title of this post has absolutely nothing to do with the content. But hey, It's All in the Cards

Daily Game

Dear Pumpkin Guy,

You do realize that pumpkins don't really explode on their own, right?

Love,
Bomberman

P.S. That top looks totally cute with those pants!

A Critical Analysis of the Oak Island Legend

I love it when the titles are automatically put in the title bar for me. Yeah Blogger... yeah.

So, Oak Island is a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia that supposedly has buried treasure, replete with booby traps. People have been prospecting there for many (read: hundreds) of years, but nothing yet. Well, save for a sweet story about a severed hand. Severed hand stories are always uber cool. Anyway, this is a fascinting critical analysis of the entire kit-n-kaboodle.

Yeah for that guy!

Well, I guess you can finally get some closure. And some much needed rest, you angry freak.

Look at me! I hate ambulances!

Hey everyone... look at me! My business meeting is so important that I refuse to pull over to the side of the road so the ambulance can get through. It's probably just an old person in there anyway! Whoopity-whoo!

Look at me! Ambulances are stupid!

Hey everyone... look at me! My business meeting is so important that I refuse to pull over to the side of the road so the ambulance can get through. It's probably just an old person in there anyway! Whoopity-whoo!

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Are you ending a sentence or just giving out someone's initials?

I don't freaking know, because you never use two spaces in between sentences. Use two spaces you idiot. That's why the convention exists.

Change the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) Size

How's this for science? Jerks. If you use a dialup at home, or if you use some other sort of crazy connection, like TTY, you will probably want to change the MTU (maximum transmission unit) to a lower value. Why? Because it speeds up (relatively) your connection. Here's how you do it. Now go out there and screw with some registry keys!

Robots Attack!

This is why I love Madison.

A little background: the TA's here were striking to get a pay increase, and apparently these guys felt they needed to get in on the action as well. Awesome... simply awesome.

Monday, May 24, 2004


I need this on a t-shirt. Stat. Posted by Hello

Sunday, May 23, 2004

Old Comments vs. New Comments...

Old comments win. Have at 'er people; I changed the comment system back so everyone doesn't have to sign up to not post anonomously.

Hmmm... phone plans are complicated.

Since Jess and I are moving back to the Cities, we figured it would be a good time to change phone services and sign up for one of those "family plans". However, upon further review, phone plans are complicated. Does anyone have suggestions for their favorite/least favorite carrier?

Friday, May 21, 2004

The weather sucks, but the sky looks pretty swass.

There is probably a thirty or forty mile per hour wind pushing the clouds over our heads along a quite the rapid pace. It looks like one of those time-lapse movies, only in real time.

Holy Crap! It's the return of the Daily Game!

Simsi. Try to catch the white dot and bring it back to the center using your arrow keys. Don't hit the black dots. Don't die. Make it past level nine. Because I don't know what's past level nine.

While I'm ranting...

Speaking of another invasion of privacy... how one decides to handle his email. Do I want someone knowing how long I spent reading their email? No. What if I did the same thing with a tiny freaking camera and a postcard? Huh? You like that? Jerk.

("tiny freaking camera and a postcard" patent pending.)

Remember RFID?

Remember yesterday? When I was busy being a pompus ass and saying that RFID would never really progress past the point of being used as a hinderence to theft. Well, I was wrong... very, very wrong. But not as wrong as these idiots who are getting RFID implants to skip ahead of the line and pay for drinks at a club. People, consider yourself uniquely ID'd and tagged like ducks migrating for the winter.

I'm thinking of getting a new pen.

So, of course I turn to Everyday Matters, your source for hand sketched drawings and reviews of pens, among other things. Like a showerhead, or a bike.


Blue Cat always crushes Yellow Cat. As it has been and always will be. Posted by Hello

This is why you don't mention Maury.

Had I known that all it took to meet the desperate people destined for fame was to mention Maury on my website, I would have done it a long time ago.

Brandon Bird: The Greatest Painter Ever

The man knows how to sling the oil, and those Duke boys love him for it. In fact I am thinking of commisioning a painting from him. How much do you think it would cost to get a rumble between Bea Arthur and Lincoln forever preserved on canvas. We could always replicate the fight instead, using giant robots.

Hey! Wait just a gosh darn second.

You know what has been missing lately? Stories involving people hitting the gas instead of the brake and subsequently crashing into buildings. In the immortal words of the Clavin "What's up with that?".

Seriously folks, I want... nay, I demand more stories involving gas instead of brake. Tell our elderly to get out there and start driving.

Whoa there pardner!

I may or may not have just been informed that only registered Blogger users can post on the site. Is this true? I am far too lazy to log out and check it for myself.

Come to think of it, in the time it took me to write this post, I probably could have checked it. Of course, that time is now gone, and once again I don't have time to see if the log in works.

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Rock rock on!

With Reynold.


Who's the guy from 21 jump street. Posted by Hello

Build your own: Duct Tape Messenger Bag

I don't know about this one. I would think that for the price of all that duct tape you could go out and buy a bag instead. I mean, isn't that what underpriced foreign labor is for?

Hello, my tiny little mouse friend.

IBM has a travel mouse. I would much prefer a travel hamster, but I don't see that happening any time in the near future.

Some crazy guy wants us to Boycott Gillette.

Why? Because their products (namely replacement blades) have RFID tags on them. Now, I know people tend to freak out about RFID, but the main reason tags like that are on there are to keep people from stealing their (overpriced) razors. I agree that Gilette should be boycotted, but for much more obvious and intuitive reasons.

One Block Radius

Kind of an interactive art project looking at an area that is, well... one block. It should really be called "One half of a block Radius", but hey, they're artists, not engineers. Or 7th grade geometery students.

Because if it's not "the original" it's crap.

And by that logic, since it's not Teddy Ruxpin. It's crap. Or just the "Hands Free Panda Bear for Cell Phones". You are intrigued, are you not?

Still, I'd rather have a laptop than Roseanne Barr.

Mostly because laptops can grab their crotch and spit. Well, not yet anyway. Take a peek into the proverbial computer spitting future at NextFest baby.

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

This is a fantastic book. I had originally gotten it as a gift for my cousin Cristy (who will soon be attending med school, thus making her one step closer to getting me blackmarket allergy medication), but I liked it so much I bought a copy for myself. It's a quick read, though I wouldn't necessarily read it whilst eating haggis or tripe.

I usually just use the Doh's flower pots.

But for those of you who don't know where he lives (505 West Awesome Street), you can find a restroom close to you with this handy restroom find-o-matic.

I see you too, have studied under the great Lamar.

Man that crazy Lamar. Whether he's throwing a special aerodynamically designed javelin or laying down the bombastic beat with his buddy Wormser, Lamar keeps it real 110% of the time. Just like the guy who came to my site looking for "revenge of the nerds lamar rap lyrics".

Here's another random link

Because I needed an excuse to test the "draft" feature of this software, you get to check out some bad Scrabble hands.

Yeah, so I'm trying to figure out why I take up so much bandwidth.

Part of the reason I went on hiatus (and still technically am... I'm not typing this, someone else is) is that I went over my alloted bandwidth for my server provider company type people. Why? I think was because I kept republishing large portions of the site whenever I made posts. And since I made posts throughout the day, instead of in one big post-fest (2k+4), the transfers just kept coming. So now, I think I will try to upload once a day. Or I'll just buy more bandwidth. Haven't decided yet... guess that depends on whether or not I have a jorb.

Also, just because it is a sweet site. I present... EXCELTIPS.COM! (In scary, all-caps format.)

Oh yeah... it's a test post baby.

Well, after a thousand posts, I figured a redesign was in order. And by "redesign" I mean "picking a pre-designed template from a list of available templates on Blogger, and then using said template".

Also, since El Rando has finally procured himself his very own weblog I have decided to cut him loose and go this on my own. And since I cut him loose, I figured I would go freaking cut happy!
Cord, you're out. Bog, you were never in. Everyone else, I would be happy to let you join so I could then cut you.

The other major change is, hopefully, in the comments section. I am trying out Blogger's very own commentorium. Might as well become completely dependent on one source for publishing while I still have the chance.

#1 Summer Jam!

Everybody to the limit! (The Cheat is to the limit). All this and more at the Homestarrunner Wiki. What? You don't know what a Wiki is?

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Holy Crap... (Post 2k+1)

Well, this is kind of weird. I guess, in honor of my achieving one thousand posts on this weblog, Blogger decided to do a complete redesign of their site and user interface. Good for them. I mean, there's no way this is a conincidence. Nope. No possible way.

Thursday, May 06, 2004

Ring ring ring ring ring...

Bananaphone!

Why? Because it's interactive-odular.