Archive for April, 2006

April 28th, 2006

cd mover

Do you have a bunch of CDs in one place, but would like them moved to another place, at a rapid pace? If so, you need one of these awesome things.
TechEBlog » Hammerhead - The Lego CD Thrower
The “Hammerhead” — another Philo creation — can eject a CD disc at high speed, literally causing it [...]

April 27th, 2006

Gaim

What Is Gaim? - Gaim
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks.
For the longest time I had been using an older version of AIM [...]

April 27th, 2006

happens every day?

wow, talk about her lucky day
Passing defibrillator salesman, RNs save heart attack victim in Missouri crash | CP
ST. PETERS, Mo. (AP) - A driver who suffered a heart attack and crashed into a guardrail was saved by a defibrillator salesman and two nurses who happened to be passing by.

April 25th, 2006

silence

If only I didn’t like the sound of my own voice so much
Day of Silence - Soon to be silent in a school near you! - GLSEN & USSA
WE ARE HOURS AWAY FROM THE DAY OF SILENCE!!®
Are you going to be a part of one of the largest actions in American schools?

April 25th, 2006

knowledge is futile

Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 24, 2006 - Wikiquote
“The end of man is knowledge but there’s one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because [...]

April 24th, 2006

Pimp My Snack

Pimp My Snack
This website has lots of recreated snacks, except they are huge!
Ferrero Rocher
Nutra-Grain bar
They are mostly British snacks, but they are still cool and still alot of snacks that either sound good and I wish we had here in the States, or random things that well, I am not even sure why [...]

April 24th, 2006

women are persons!

Canada
24 Apr 1928 The Supreme Court of Canada declares that though women are indeed legal “persons,” they are nevertheless ineligible to serve in the Canadian Senate. The Court agreed that the term “person” applies equally to humans of both genders, but the British North America Act referred specifically to “fit and qualified persons” — necessarily [...]

April 24th, 2006

The 11th Commandment

Boners: The 11th Commandment

April 21st, 2006

forever sunrise

Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 21, 2006 - Wikiquote
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth [...]

April 20th, 2006

Should you be in AA?

I got 3 out of 12
Chilli Man - Guess the Beer Label
Can you match all the beer bottles with the correct labels?

April 20th, 2006

i’ve never had that problem

Don’t you get like 50 pounds? STOP TAKING SO MUCH SHIT! and you will no longer have this problem, I know lots of people that go on vacation and bring back tons of crap, and I don’t think any of them have ever been charged for a bag that is too heavy
Boing Boing: Self-weighing luggage
Ricardo [...]

April 18th, 2006

Religion Map

It’s kinda cool, a mapish thing showing where religions are more prevalent, as well as the “Primary” religion for all the counties in the US.
Map Gallery of Religion in the United States
The following series of county-level choropleth maps, which reveals the distribution of the larger and more regionally concentrated church bodies, draws on this resource.

April 16th, 2006

yo mamma?

I was trying to find something to watch, and this is what was showing on MTV.  I just thought it was funny, I don’t even know what “Yo mamma” is about
Listings - Yahoo! TV
MTV
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01:00am - 01:30am: Yo Momma
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01:30am - 02:00am: Yo Momma
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02:00am - 02:30am: Yo Momma
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02:30am - 03:00am: Yo Momma
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03:00am - 03:30am: Yo Momma
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03:30am - [...]

April 13th, 2006

downtime

09:21:29 ~ # uptime
9:21PM up 134 days, 22:53, 2 users, load averages: 0.34, 0.38, 0.43
If you can read this, it means tinfoilsoldier.com is already back up from power upgrades
Apparently I broke PHP, so I had to rebuild it, and ap-php and php-mysql
but now everything should be back up and running 

April 11th, 2006

because you RITizens wanted to know

its like “how a baby is made” but for RIT the campus
Cool Stuff Being Made: How Bricks Are Made
via MakeBlog