Monday, November 13, 2006

Friday, November 10, 2006

Monday, October 23, 2006

Where's my money ?!?!?!?!?!

I received a dollar bill the other day as change for a purchase. I noticed an odd stamping on it. It read, "http://www.wheresgeorge.com". Intrigued, I surfed to that website and learned that it is an informal site to track the physical location and progress of currency as it moves around the US and globe. "My" dollar bill started it's journey in Ohio and it is currently here. Now if I could only find my keys and Waldo ....

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Check out Saturn, the Earth, and the eclipsed Sun...

APOD: 2006 October 16 - In the Shadow of Saturn

Thursday, October 19, 2006

There's a cloaked enemy vessel somewhere nearby .....

Cloaking Devices - now at your local drug store.....

Well - almost... :-)

Monday, October 16, 2006

The 2006 Winners!!!!

Improbable Research

My two favorite:

LITERATURE: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly."
REFERENCE: "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 20, no. 2, March 2006, pp. 139-56.
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Daniel Oppenheimer

MEDICINE: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage"; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."
REFERENCE: "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage," Francis M. Fesmire, Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 17, no. 8, August 1988 p. 872.
REFERENCE: "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage,"
Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven, Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 227, no. 2, February 1990, pp. 145-6. They are at the Department of Internal Medicine, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
REFERENCE: "Hiccups and Digital Rectal Massage," M. Odeh and A. Oliven, Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery, vol. 119, 1993, p. 1383.
WHO ATTENDED THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Francis Fesmire
CBGB's is history....

My Way News - CBGB Hosts Last Concert Before Eviction

and now here's what will replace it...

Got your bot yet?
Your news will be here

Where are you going to spend the weekend?

Sun and Toyota obviously believe it...

... and my name is Jawaka Whorfin...
CBGB's is history....

My Way News - CBGB Hosts Last Concert Before Eviction

and now here's what will replace it...

Got your bot yet?
Where are you going to spend the weekend?

Sun and Toyota obviously believe it...

... and my name is Jawaka Whorfin...

Monday, October 09, 2006

A must-have for every System Admin and Network Manager....

ThinkGeek :: USB Missile Launcher

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Friday, September 29, 2006

Some thoughts (for bumper stickers?):

"1. My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought
he was God and I didn't.
2. I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.
3. I Work Hard Because Millions On Welfare Depend on Me!
4. Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them.
5. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
6. Don't take life too seriously; no one gets out alive.
7. You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
8. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
9. Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.
10. I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are missing.
11. Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
12. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the-heck-is-the-room-spinning
medicine.
13. God must love stupid people; He made so many.
14. The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
15. Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
16. Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
17. Being 'over the hill' is much better than being under it!
18. Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew
up.
19. Procrastinate Now!
20. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do You Want Fries With That?
21. A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
22. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
23. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere!
24. They call it PMS because MadCow Disease was already taken.
25. He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.
26. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three
thousand times the memory.
27. Ham and eggs. A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment
for a pig.
28. The trouble with life is there's no background music.
29. The original point and click interface was a Smith and Wesson.
30. I smile because I don't know what the hell is going on."
A Human Clock.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Friday, September 15, 2006

A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media: "Having been called names, one looks back at one's own angry outbursts over the years, and I recall having once referred to Republicans as 'hairy-backed swamp developers, fundamentalist bullies, freelance racists, hobby cops, sweatshop tycoons, line jumpers, marsupial moms and aluminum-siding salesmen, misanthropic frat boys, ninja dittoheads, shrieking midgets, tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, pill pushers, nihilists in golf pants, backed-up Baptists, the grand pooh-bahs of Percodan, mouth breathers, testosterone junkies and brownshirts in pinstripes.' I look at those words now, and 'cat stranglers' seems excessive to me. The number of cat stranglers in the ranks of the Republican Party is surely low, and that reference was hurtful to Republicans and to cat owners. I feel sheepish about it.
"

Friday, September 08, 2006

Monday, August 28, 2006

This is The Most Incredible Knife but it's NOT a pocket knife, I think....

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Coolest internet bandwidth test site .... EVER!!!!

Visit SpeedTest.Net
Here are my results:


What are yours?
Hostess Twinkies Sushi!

Monday, August 07, 2006

This is amazingly stupid - I cannot believe that AOL would release this data...

The Paradigm Shift ? Blog Archive ? AOL Search Data Shows Users Planning to commit Murder.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Great Minds Think Alike Dept.


Link: Weird Al Yankovic Releases Free MP3

Weird Al just released a parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" on his web site, as an mp3... it's being "slashdotted" I think, hard to hit.

What's scary to me is that I have a file on my laptop timestamped June 1st - I was "inspired" after hearing the song for the 200,000th time that morning. I have to admit I looked at the real lyrics and now that I know what he's really singing it's not as bad as I originally thought, but no matter...

My lyrics:


"I'm Pitiful"

I am a moron.

I'm such a moron.

Brain cells are few.
I saw a Devil.
Her face was turning blue.
She screamed at me on the subway.
Her shopping cart was large.
I think she was a bit confused,
She said her name was Marge.

I'm pitiful. I'm pitiful.
I'm pitiful, it's true.
I saw your face in the Subway,
And I wanted to throw up on my shoe,
Hope I'll never be like you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Freaked OUT.
And I don't think that I'll meet her again,
Especially if I happen to see her first!

I'm pitiful. I'm pitiful.
I'm pitiful, it's true.
I saw your face in the Subway,
And I wanted to throw up on my shoe,
Hope I'll never be like you.

I'm pitiful. I'm pitiful.
I'm pitiful, it's true.
I saw your face in the Subway,
And I wanted to throw up on my shoe,
Hope I'll never be like you.

If you see a devil with a face so blue,
Don't dare let her know that she was noticed by you,
And if you think she figured it out, you probably oughta run.
Get out of there, go home, and if you have one find your gun!
But if you don't and she traps you there...
You might set fire to your hair...

I like Weird Al's lyrics better, but then of course - he's Weird Al. I bow to the master.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

It's the end of an era ....

A cloudy day today in Mountain View as famed Sun Microsystems' CEO Scott McNealy steps down after 22 years at the helm ....
IT Conversations: Jonathan Schwartz - Syndicate
Quite a day at Sun...

Here are some quotes from Jonathan Schwartz and Scott McNealy from one of the Blogs at Sun

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

The "I'm really surprised" Award.

Today Microsoft announced a delay to the initial release of Windows Vista. I am so shocked!!! A company with the clout, the financials, the brain-trust. I can't imagine something like this ever happening in the past ........

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Great Idea for your next party!!
Pikachu Hors d'oevres

Monday, January 16, 2006

This is parked across from my office right now...
Airliners.net Photos: Qantas (John Travolta) Boeing 707-138B

Hey hey, Barbarino!!! (showing my age here...)

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Are iJeans next ????/

Just when you thought it was safe to purchase that next pair of Jeans....
Hell Freezes Over - pt 2 ....

There was another dramatic shift in the Force today as Apple unleashses new machines with Intel Inside .......

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Monday, January 02, 2006