3/1/2007 #
Truth Test
This is one of those Onion articles that seems to have more truth than snark.
2/28/2007 #
What Was I Thinking?
Why did I not like No. 4 from the Stone Temple Pilots when I bought it? It’s really good.
2/28/2007 #
Frankenstein
I am amazed to discover how much of Young Frankenstein was actually based on Bride of Frankenstein, which I am watching now on PVR.
2/27/2007 #
An Idiot Might Say 'Ironic'
This is Kristin’s. Hilarious.
You Are Ernie
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Playful and childlike, you are everyone’s favorite friend – even if your goofy antics get annoying at times.
You are usually feeling: Amused – you are very easily entertained
You are famous for: Always making people smile. From your silly songs to your wild pranks, you keep things fun.
How you life your life: With ease. Life is only difficult when your friends won’t play with you!
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The Sesame Street Personality Quiz
2/26/2007 #
Personality Quiz
I hate these memes, but this one is pertinent.
You Are Bert
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Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable – even if you don’t love them!
You are usually feeling: Logical – you rarely let your emotions rule you
You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil
How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others
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The Sesame Street Personality Quiz
2/26/2007 #
Library Expansion
And so the depth increases.
2/25/2007 #
Vocabulary
I think the coolest word I ever learned from an RPG is “torpor.”
2/25/2007 #
Special Delivery
Thanks to MegaNameServers.com (“we no spamma ju!”) for screwing over my Drupal project by blowing up my SQL server permissions after a few ten hour blocks of labor.
Here’s a suggestion.
2/25/2007 #
Advertising
I just heard a Chevy commercial that used the phrase “Final Salute,” and I’ll be danged if I didn’t hear “Final Solution.” Twice.
I either need to stop knowing my history, or they need to move away from such phrases.
2/22/2007 #
You Know?
I saw for myself how pestery Vista is with respect to telling you when there is a 0.00001% chance you are screwing something up. That was in beta.
The very thought of my primary desktop asking me these inane questions really irks me. But then, I have the unique experience of having my account destroyed and recreated every time I log in to the XP-based machines in the engineering lab for grading.
I also have the unique pleasure of using IE 6 for awhile, which tends to result in the sundry “You are viewing a web page. Okay?” and “You were doing something over http, and now it’s over https. This means it’s safer. Okay?” warnings that I must do a rapid-fire OK clicking session to get rid of.
Then, I try to download a file attachment via webmail (Sun Java webmail, oh goodness) and IE decides to prevent the “popup” from loading, and instead of a popup I get a popup telling me that popups are disallowed. Then I right-click to get another popup to tell the darn thing to allow popups… temporarily.
I click the stupid attachment again and get the “yellow helpful shield of death” in the status bar, which is Microsoft’s way of telling you that solving the problem will take longer than getting around it.
So, I download the thing to my desktop (so now if it’s a trojan I can spread it more easily) and open it in Word 2003, which realizes that my profile has been deleted from it as well, and requests my initials and full name so accordingly.
I allow it to proceed with the incorrect user id-based default and it promptly forgets that I opened it for some use, and instead settles on displaying the ever-so-lovely MS-default MDI (multi-document interface, or somesuch) darker-pooier-gray background with no document in view, so I still haven’t been afforded the opportunity to unleash the cavalry from Hades on the local system.
So I close the stupid thing and re-open it, no warnings this time, and the document is in view.
This seems to confirm the suspicion that we only think other things don’t work because they choose to not work in ways different from how the junk we use every day doesn’t work.
If that makes sense. Okay?
Update: Clicking save from Textpattern to post brings a “Do you want to enable AutoComplete?” dialog.
