Tin Foil Soldier

Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.
via repeated diverted occupied cut pasted fragile developed pushed played tried tested [...]

Kev and I were talking the other day about who owned what on TV, and I finally remembered to try to look it up.  I don’t think they want you to know what all each mega corp owns.
All those hundreds of TV channels may lead you that there’s a true diversity and variety in today’s [...]

Smoking contributes to and empowers the imminent robot death squad apocalypse.
-a message from the US Surgeon General
Extreme Anti-Smoking Ad – CollegeHumor video.

The goal here is to convince the antagonist, in this case the landlord, that you are so crazy as to not be worth their time. And it all began with this seemingly benign letter…
via No Pets Clause | Emails From Crazy People.
The site is made up of hilarious e-mails from crazy people, as you may [...]

“Its shiny cars, wistful eyes and roast beef for dinner.
Its questions and answers and ‘I dont knows.’
Its finding true love and losing it and finding it all over again.
Its music and sensation and touchdowns and chocolate.
Its spirituality and inspiration and money and traffic jams.
Its disaster and heroism and paper clips and knowing when to breathe.
Its [...]

A new dish became extremely popular among some Russian bloggers lately. Now it’s not quite clear who was the first one who invented this mod by pinning some uncooked sausage with hard spaghetti sticks and then boiling this alltogether and getting first “haired sausage” ready.
via English Russia » Russian Haired Sausage.

Its actually really awesome, even [...]

This is why you’re fat. – The Rubix Cubewich (via insanewiches).

I don’t think that the Rubix Cubewich is the particular reason that most people are fat, but it does look delicious.
This Is Why You’re Fat has 3 basic kinds of foods:
There are the slightly unhealthy foods like fried ravioli, which I don’t really see as [...]

I should show you what our apartment looks like for electricity. BF went hardcore this time…
EVERYTHING we have plugged in, including our microwave, are all on power strips. The oven is the only exception. When we go to sleep, we shut off the power strips, therefore, cutting all energy vampire suckage while we are conked [...]

…exciting news from Cat Cora!
The Iron Chef star and her wife Jennifer have welcomed their fourth son, Nash Lemuel Cora.
via OK! Exclusive: Cat Cora Welcomes a Baby Boy! – OK! Magazine – The First for Celebrity News.
Congrats Iron Chef Cora!
Well ya learn something new every day.  Not that it matters, but I did not know [...]

This morning there was a cop car on either side of the road on John street on the way to RIT, slowing traffic and making us go through their little road block one direction @ a time.  I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I bet they were checking Inspection and Registration.  Mine are [...]

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Rachel had Pat Buchanan on her show and he spewed racist lies the whole time, so she needed to make some corrections to her own show.
Her points were so “oh snap” that I was laughing so hard as I watched it.
Pat: “This has been [...]

Photo: Faith-based repentance we can get behind – Good As You

via JMG

Tin Foil Soldier » Blog Archive » Apache Hung.
still not sure what happens, but the server sends tons of DNS requests out while it is happening (I can see that much from the Cisco FWSM)
Apache doesn’t have HostnameLookups turned on, I already checked.

We got back around 3pm yesterday, we had beach volleyball @ 6:45 so we didn’t have much time to unpack, do laundry, buy food and eat it before it was time to go kick butt @ the beach.  The games were close, but the other team managed to stay undefeated.
Camping was fun, Dexter was mostly [...]

Spectacular photographs of volcanoes in Hawaii and Ethiopia by Patrick Koster – Telegraph.
Purdy!
I also really like the streams of lava in this photo