Archive for May, 2006

May 14th, 2006

anxiety attacks!

I can’t say I have dreamed about it, but I do worry about it happening in my apartment when some of the roomates just take dishes out instead of emptying the dishwasher.  I always lock the dishwasher if they are clean, as a sort of warning
defective yeti: Friday Afternoon Scratchpad
Last night I dreamed that I [...]

May 12th, 2006

PSAs for Haters

wow
just wow
Proceed at your own risk
A Christian group, the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) has generously offered to work with CBS to create a public service announcement (PSA) for daytime television in order to educate teens and parents that no one is born gay and that “you can come out of the homosexual lifestyle.”
TVC believes that [...]

May 12th, 2006

Basic Input Output System

So I haven’t been posting much lately.
One of the main reasons is cause I borked my desktop computer for a few days.  I was trying to flash the bios, from within windows (stupid), while defragmenting the hard drive (even stupider) and windows blue screened.
Basically, I turned my computer into a $1500 space heater.  Asus was [...]

May 8th, 2006

Seat Belt

Know what? its mostly right

Find your own pose!
on a side note…
what is “baby fur”
what does this even mean?
Do you own your own equipment?
Yes, but it’s second-hand and it rubs
I prefer to rent my equipment because I go out so rarely
Yes, it’s in the garage, somewhere
Yes, two full sets!
and finally
if you enjoy [...]

May 8th, 2006

easy test

I want this test, I would get a perfect 4.0! (I used to teach swimming lessons back in high school; it was my first job)
Time to sink or graduate - The Boston Globe
Just one test, terrifying to her, remained. She, like scores of undergraduates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had been putting it off for [...]

May 3rd, 2006

education

Wikiquote:Quote of the day/May 3, 2006 - Wikiquote
“Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.” ~ Pete Seeger

May 2nd, 2006

Klaatu barada nikto

More great stuff over at ZUG
ZUG: Comedy Articles: Electronic Road Signs and Me
This was the first time I had attempted a prank like this, so I expected the control box to be locked, and the programming functions password-protected. I was wrong. First of all, the control cabinet had no lock. Swinging open its door, I [...]

May 2nd, 2006

Tough Cookie, jar

Great stuff over at the sneeze on cookies being awesome, super heroes being awesome, but how they are a different kind of awesome
The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions. - Tough Cookies

“I pity the fool who don’t take a lemon bar out my head.”

May 2nd, 2006

sorry, i don’t work here

Their pranks are always hilarious, and this one definately kept with their style.  It is a huge page, with stories from lots of people involved.
Improv Everywhere Mission: Best Buy
The idea for this mission was submitted by a stranger via email. Agent Slavinsky wrote in to suggest I get either a large group of people in [...]

May 1st, 2006

busy

Someone has been keeping me busy, both in the real world, and mentally distracted
Friday a friend came back from CA to finish some work @ RIT and crashed at my apartment.   we hung out, and obviously drank lots.
some sort of IIPA ( “double India Pale Ale”)  at macgregors which was awesome, 11% [...]