Archive for October, 2005

October 25th, 2005

Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Attack

Study Reveals Pittsburgh Unprepared For Full-Scale Zombie Attack
“When it comes to defending ourselves against an army of reanimated human corpses, the officials in charge have fallen asleep at the wheel,” Murphy said. “Who’s in charge of sweep-and-burn missions to clear out infected areas? Who’s going to guard the cemeteries at night? If zombies were to [...]

October 25th, 2005

How much is your blog worth?

Boing Boing: How much is your blog worth?

My blog is worth $2,258.16.How much is your blog worth?

based on math from
(note: not that i think my blog is worth more than say, 100 bucks, and thats only for the domain registration and the servers that make hosting it possible)

October 25th, 2005

down on the robot farm

we make money not art: Cows do milk themselves, down on the robotic farm
this is awesome, whenever cows want to be milked, they just go into the milker and get it done
sure they have it set up already, but what i wanna know is how long it took to train the cows to use it [...]

October 24th, 2005

Tributes for chicken in C Minor

BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Tributes left for a dead chicken
Well-wishers had laid more than a dozen bunches of flowers at the scene, along with cards and teddy bears.
Local gossip
One of the cards read: “RIP Little Baby. Safe in the arms of Jesus. From someone who is a loving mother xxxx.”
Merseyside Police told [...]

October 24th, 2005

watch it already, honestly

ABC.com: Grey’s Anatomy
ug, todays episode ended dramatically
will he sign the divorce papers on his cheating wife?
will he forgive her?
grrr, only next week will tell

October 23rd, 2005

Apache-php-mysql rebuilds

Server Version: Apache/2.0.55 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.7g-fips DAV/2 PHP/5.0.5
Server Built: Oct 23 2005 23:06:33
finally!
i had built the php5 stuff yesterday i think, but since the old version was still loaded into memory with apache, it all worked
the entire webserver was down for a while because it kept crashing whenever I tried to go to a page [...]

October 23rd, 2005

CANOE — CNEWS - Media News: Who will be the next Howard Stern?

CANOE — CNEWS - Media News: Who will be the next Howard Stern?
“His feeling was you want to be the guy replacing the guy who replaced Howard,” McKenzie said. “Because no matter who the first guy is, Howard’s audience is going to hate him.”
kinda like the pope?
Pope john paul II or whatever was “such a [...]

October 23rd, 2005

Q and A

Mardi Gras 2006? | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Blacks Disapprove Of Bush
Polls conducted by NBC have Bush’s approval rating with African-Americans at 2 percent with a 2 percent margin of error. What do you think?
Sylvia Munsoon,
Seamstress
“Bush is just lucky this isn’t a real democracy, or else he’d be in trouble.”

Bush’s Not-So-Candid Chat
A televised [...]

October 22nd, 2005

Hot coffee thwarts carjacking

CNN.com - Hot coffee thwarts carjacking - Oct 21, 2005

The suspect tapped the car window Wednesday morning with a gun and motioned the driver to get out, Chief Deputy Roy Hughes said.
But the driver — who had just bought a cup of hot coffee — slammed the car door into the carjacker’s legs, threw the [...]

October 21st, 2005

Eighth Grade Math

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?
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October 21st, 2005

old drivers

Tampabay: Driver goes 3 miles with lodged body

“A 93-year-old motorist struck and killed a pedestrian Wednesday evening, then drove about 3 miles with the body lodged in the windshield until he was stopped at a Sunshine Skyway tollbooth. The driver told officers he thought the body had fallen from the sky.” … “The impact severed [...]

October 21st, 2005

law suit

Slashdot | iPod Nano Scratches Result In Suit

Earlier this week a class action lawsuit against Apple was filed claiming that the iPod Nano has a widespread propensity for scratching easily. The lawsuit alleges that Apple violated state consumer protection statutes, as well as express and implied warranties and charges that Apple knew that there were [...]

October 21st, 2005

Gallery

Gallery
YAY!
gallery 2.0.1+ up and running
hmm, it seems to sorta suck as an upgrade option. all of my “titles” and such were moved to “summary”, I guess i could have kept them where they were, but because a bunch of them were too long and kept getting truncated, they were lost

October 21st, 2005

Gallery

Gallery is down right now
I am in the process of upgrading to gallery2, with a mysql backend for the gallery database instead of flat files. Since its such a different style of storing the data, its gonna take a while to update all of the pictures, but gallery should be back up today. and [...]

October 20th, 2005

John Stewart

John Stewart was @ RIT for brick city weekend a while back, i didnt get to go because well, im a slacker and they sold out before i got a ticket
John Stewart:
“It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the president’s plan was a day of prayer. I [...]