I almost peed myself laughing while reading “On The Ball”:http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000920.html over at “defective yeti”:http://www.defectiveyeti.com/.
bq. One moment we’re merrily boinging up and down, the next we’re laying there with dazed looks on our faces, I sprawled cockeyed against the wall, The Squirrelly several feet away on his back, looking like two guys waking up on the morning after a particularly enjoyable bachelor party.
via “Ned Batchelder”:http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200406.html#e20040615T085839 I was reading about the “Two Things”:http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/thetwothings.html meme (as in:
bq. For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not important.
Anyway, I laughed out loud at one of the entries, so I decided to share.
The two things about cosmology ((by Dennis Moore):
1. Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen all at once.
2. Space exists so that everything doesn’t happen to you.
The makers of “T-Shirt Hell”:http://www.tshirthell.com/ have now brought us “Wrap Hell”:http://www.tshirthell.com/wraphell.shtml.
There are people I would give this stuff to… :-)
With the price of gas today, it’s no longer worth the drive to Acton…
(via “jack-fm”:http://www.925jackfm.com/ :)
Jeff K says: You are aware the Old Hyde House has a location on Queen Street? Or was it a general joke? Let’s do the math: You’re yearly gas bill is $1500 @.89/L => 1666L @ 10L/100km => 16660km – 50weeks*5days*40km to/from work = 6660km of personal travel => 133km/week => It was worth the drive to where, exactly?
Now how about me. Retired 76 Impala with 170000km, ’82 Honda 184000km, 75 TransAm +100000, 87 Mustang 60000km, 89 Topaz 330000, ’95 Intrepid 240000 = 1,084,000km or about $4000/yr for gas in today’s dollars for 24 years.
Whatever, the facts are straight, but I’m mostly joking to put your “woes” in perspective. In order to get $49.99 DVD players at Walmart, you have to let the Asian countries use some fuel to ship stuff around. (HiFi VCRs in 1991 were about $600).
…but um, don’t let anyone rip you off! I need all the people I can to care about Hydro & gas & taxes. I’m rather much too busy with my hobbies to spend time worrying about such things. Btw, everything the Liberals have done has been a violation of LAW not just nefarious lying. They’re simply repealing the laws, like good criminals would do.
As an aside, BitTorrent does not work well for me. The ftp in Mozzila is completely useless, but “Bullet Proof FTP” did an amazing job getting Fedora Core 2. [from less.cogeco.net] Now all I have to do is install it. Yawn, the sun came up a while ago, didn’t it….?
Jeff K says: Doh. It’s on Richmond, I think. Also, I forgot about my 2000 Windstar, 60,000km. Also, you can add in my dearest wife’s km’s if you’re so inclined, which would be another 1/2 dozen cars and about 400,000km.
Jeff K says: http://leathertown.com/info_locations.htm
s/Old Hyde/Olde Hide/ It’s on King street.
When I read “Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067977548X by James Gleick, one of the anecdotes that struck me was about people who would type 88 seconds instead of 90 seconds on microwave keypads, because it’s faster. So I laughed when I saw this:
bq. I read once of a person who would microwave their coffee for some unusual amount of time, like 48 seconds. I think it was a brain teaser: why would the person do this?
bq. The answer was that they had timed the spinning of the carousel in the microwave, and knew that if they zapped it for 48 seconds, the mug would make some number of whole revolutions, and end up with the handle pointing towards them, making it easier for them to pick the mug up again.
(via Ned Batchelder)
Do you know “what to do if the Internet goes down?”:http://www.thetoque.net/031118/internetdown.htm
H: gas is 66.5 cents a litre?
M: That’s almost beastly!
Jeff K says: Speaking of numerology, did you know they crushed B-52 #56-666 but left #56-665 for display in the Wright-Patterson Airforce Base museum?
Think of all the jet fuel wasted on 24 hour alerts through the 50’s and 60’s. The B-52 was quite the beast.
One advantage to administering your own weblog: when you make a typo in a comment, you can correct it :-)
G: “Yu-Gi-Oh is _last_ year!”
bq. It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious. (Roger Berg)
Mark made me laugh again today. From Foolproof [dive into mark]:
bq. [using the timer] is generally beyond my capabilities, since it involves doing math in my head, but I cheated and used my wireless-Internet-enabled laptop to do the calculation in the Google calculator, thus utilizing over $3000 dollars worth of hardware and software locally and God-only-knows how much hardware remotely in order to compensate for my inability to count to 8 without wandering off and logging on to IRC.
I had read that and was humored by it too.
Damn, “Stephen blabbed”:http://cubicledweller.ca/canadianchristmas/. I guess we’ll have to exile him; I hope the “ice weasels”:http://blog.cfrq.net/chk/ice-weasels/ don’t get him.
From ryochiji’s blog:
bq. I accidentally ran over my PowerBook with my dad’s SUV today.
bq. It’s not very often that someone gets to say that. But perhaps what’s even more surprising is the fact that I’m writing this on that very same PowerBook. Hold a 12″ PowerBook G4 and you can just tell it’s sturdy. It’s thin, but not flimsy, and the aircraft-grade aluminum case makes it feel like a lump of metal, rather than a sophisticated high-tech gadget.
If I ran over my Acer, there’d be a pile of pieces on the ground. While the lid is wrapped in metal, the rest of the system is plastic case and layers of circuit board…
It has now been confirmed: the blackout was caused when a courier (or was it a security guard?) hit the EPO switch instead of the door unlock button…
<ducking>
Why do you have to click the Start button to shut down?
bq. That’s when we decided to label the System button “Start”.
bq. It says, “You dummy. Click here.” And it sent our usability numbers through the roof, because all of a sudden, people knew what to click when they wanted to do something.
The real science of usability… (laughter)
Seen on the elevator today:
bq. Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
— Greg Egan
How true…
“Teal Sunglasses”:http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/000549.html → “Steve Jackson Games”:http://www.warehouse23.com/item.cgi?SJG9401A :
The Teddy Bears Summon Cthulhu!
“If you go out to the woods today
You won’t like what you will find
If you go out to the woods today
You’re certain to lose your mind
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
Today’s the day the teddy bears summon Cthulhu!
Ritual time for teddy bears!
The little teddy bears are waking the Elder Gods today!
Smell the incense in the air!
And see them dancing their eldritch ballet!
See the waving tentacles
While in their pentacles
They summon your worst nightmares!
And soon their Lord, Great Old One Cthulhu
Will rise up from the sea
Because they’re faithful little teddy bears
You could go out to the woods today
With the bears and their evil tome
It’s lovely out in the woods today
But safer to stay at home
Beneath the trees where nobody sees
They’ll chant and pray as long as they please
Today’s the day the teddy bears summon Cthulhu!”
–lyrics by Mia Sherman
My co-worker described the activity around the announcement as “pre traumatic stress disorder”…
Why don’t _I_ ever think of these things?
bq. “Write better emails. Make more moneys.”
Two workshops in particular caught my eye (ouch!): “Grammatical errors: What’s the optimal number?”, and a debate on “The effectiveness of using all UPPERCASE characters.”
Too funny…
“Jeremy Zawodny”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000763.html → “The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference”:http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm
jok says: According to http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ that 419 scam stuff is Nigeria’s 3rd to 5th largest industry. Reading through that stuff, I learned something new (not that I would have fallen for it) but online buyers are sending counterfeit certified checks and money orders above the amount required for the merchandise and asking for cash to be wired back (since banks honor those two things right away even though a counterfeit can still bounce).
-jok
There was a question in Ronnie’s homework today. “Look at the numerals on a digital clock. What can you use to check your adding that has the same kind of numbers?” The answer is supposed to be “a calculator”, however, Ronnie has almost never used a calculator. In fact, I couldn’t even find one to show him.
My house is the same; what’s a calculator? I’ve got two old HP scientific calculators in a box somewhere, but I doubt they still have batteries. On the other hand, I’ve got more than one software calculator on each computer, two palm pilots, and two cell phones; why would I *need* a single-purpose calculator?
I remember my very first calculator. It was huge. I won it in a machine at the CNE in Toronto, in the late 1970s. It had an LED display and four functions (I don’t even think it had a ‘memory’). How far we’ve come…
Oh dear lord, I LOVE THIS SITE!!!!! Thanks for the link.