July 18th, 2006
the internets
The Internets moved my furniture
Overheard in New York | Brunettes Have Four Weeks More Fun!
Blonde chick: I don’t understand. It’s stupid. You mutiply it by 4.
Brunette chick: No, there are 52 weeks in a year.
Blonde chick: No, you multiply the months by 4. 12 times 4, and you get 48.
if you don’t get it, leave a message and i [...]
omarphillips.net: The wait is over
It’s been over a year, but the wait is now over. I couldn’t be more excited to announce the release of LawnTerror 2.0!!
While the many game improvements will be obvious to those who played version 1.0, the omarphillips.net game development team has kept one crucial element in place: the game doesn’t [...]
Report: Wal-Mart to charge shoplifters who steal $25 or more - Jul. 13, 2006
The New York Times reports the change in policy, citing internal documents from Wal-Mart that say it will now only press charges against those between the ages of 18 and 64 who take at least $25 worth of goods. Formerly its policy [...]
apparently I have been doing real work related things @ work, and haven’t been posting as much lately, because the main page of my blog is rather short.
or… the internet just isnt as interesting
or… I am getting jaded as to what i find interesting
probably the first one
- I will try to keep yall informed of [...]
Tainted drinks injure trio
A woman began spitting up blood and her sister and a friend suffered burns in their mouths after drinking martinis laced with a caustic cleaning substance Saturday night at a downtown Columbia restaurant.
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The dishwasher, also a new employee who speaks mainly Spanish, gave her a box containing a white substance that looked [...]
Wikiquote:Quote of the day - Wikiquote
“In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.” ~ Erasmus
Logo Contest
this is driving me crazy
I got 21 on them with some cheating
but cannot figure out the rest, for the life of me.
these are the logos that I cannot figure out
i cheated and joel told me. Take 2 interactive, and Consumers Choice Coffee
via Joel, who linked to this terrible thing that doesnt have the [...]
Comic in a book from 1942 for US Army/Navy soldiers.
HOW TO SPOT A JAP (1942)
1942 US ARMY/NAVY EDUCATIONAL COMIC STRIP
Via BB
a key isn’t even that interesting, did the producers never bother to understand that a key isnt some magical device that unlocks doors, it is a piece of metal that lifts pins based on how high the ridges and valleys are. something that you can re-create from an image / impression /etc. they [...]
Sometimes I find some random link to wikipedia, and then can spend hours browsing from article to article. EMPs are as good as a place as any to start, so here ya go.
Electromagnetic pulse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The worst of the pulse lasts for only a second, but any unprotected electrical equipment — and [...]
Daily Rotten: Weird News
Jul 3 1988
Mistaking it for a F-14 fighter plane, the American warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air flight 655, killing all 290 people aboard. Despite his country’s having recklessly downed a passenger airliner while operating inside Iran’s territorial waters, Vice President George Bush declares a month later: “I will never apologize [...]
yeah, or something, perhaps it isnt happy
but gallery is back up
had some weird dreams about continuously going to the kitchen silverwear drawer, and there was always dirty utensils in it, covered in like, dried gravy.
it happened like 3 times
what does that mean ?
it probably means “don’t sleep for 20 hours, you are hungry!”