Monthly Archives: August 2005

Just Stuff, Tech

Send yourself to Pluto!

Or.. send your name at least. Since I don’t think there’s really room for all of you to squeeze onto the probe.

At this point, you’re probably asking yourself, “Self, what the hell is he talking about?”

NASA is going to be launching a probe early next year that is going to go check out Pluto and the Kuiper Belt (an Asteroid belt just past Pluto).. and the company that is actually building the probe, is letting people sign up to have their names sent to Pluto (presumably on a CD or something like that). And, if you feel like hanging around.. the probe’s orbit will cause it to return to Earth (or, near Earth) in only 50,000 years..

Go, sign up.. what’s the worst that could happen? Plutonians think we’re attacking and come kick the ass of everyone on the list?

Apple

Safari Update

Available now via Software update.. an updated version of Safari for both 10.4.x and 10.3.X

Here’s the description of the update:

Safari version 2.0.1 for Mac OS X Tiger improves website compatibility, application stability and support for 3rd party web applications.

Not very descriptive.. and what’s up with needing a restart just for a browser update Apple? you taking lessons from Microsoft?

Current Events

Hurricane Idiots

So.. the super heavy coverage by mainstream media of Katrina has highlighted some of the stupid people in the world.

The day before Kat made landfall.. Fox News showed 5 or 6 people getting ready to go into the ocean..to surf

Today.. I’m reading some of CNN’s coverage on Kat, after her landfall.. and I find this gem:

“Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live,” resident Chris Robinson told The Associated Press via cell phone from his home east of downtown

Uhhh.. hello?!?! if you wanted to live that badly.. how come your dumb ass didn’t evacuate as part of the MANDATORY evacuation??!?!? and how come you called the press, instead of.. oh.. I dunno.. 911 if you wanted to be rescued???????

and then there was this winning quote:

Surging water catches New Orleans residents unaware and boats struggle to the rescue.

Exactly how does anything related to a Category 5 hurricane catch you by surprise? What did it sneak up on you? you didn’t notice the 145mph wind? Maybe you didn’t notice the rain? you didn’t hear about everyone evacuating for 3 days?

Yes.. I realize that makes me sound like an Ass.. but come on! they had like 3 or 4 days warning.. plenty of time to get to a shelter if for some reason you were unable to get the hell out of town…

These are the kind of people that show up as Darwin award winners

Current Events

Bye-Bye New Orleans

In less then 5 hours.. Katrina is going to hit New Orleans.. And if the estimates are correct.. it will definitely be “not good”. If you live in New Orleans and you’re reading this.. now would probably be a good time to find a very tall, very secure building to go to… if you’re in a ground floor apartment.. you’re screwed!

Seriously, if anyone reading this lives in one of the areas that’s going to be nailed by Katrina, or has family in one of the areas.. Good Luck.. I hope you (or your family) was able to evacuate in time, and is safe.

Site Stuff

Movable Type Anti-Spam

One of MT 3.2’s new features, is the integration of SpamLookup, in conjunction with a built-in junk scoring system. So far, its been working flawlessly. I haven’t seen any comments/trackbacks getting junked that shouldn’t be, and only a couple of comments have made it through the filters to get to me for approval. This morning, I found out that this combination has more tricks up its sleeve… it can also auto-ban IP addresses that submit too many junk comments/trackbacks (apparently, 45 in a row is enough to trigger the auto-banning, since that’s how many I had in my junk folder)

Definitely a handy feature..

Just Stuff

Everyone’s got one

There’s one in every neighborhood… luckily, I haven’t met the one in mine yet.. although, I’m sure there’s one here somewhere.. My favorite part of the article:

“They’ve called on numerous neighbors to the Children’s Hotline, saying they’re abusing their kids, their kids run free in the neighborhood,” said neighbor Sarah Kozlowski. “It’s sad, you know, you have to watch over your back, you shouldn’t have to.”

Lesiak’s main targets were her next-door neighbors, Jason and Mary Ellen Ottinger.

The charges she made against them ranged from trespassing, to child abuse, to “engaging in unnatural acts with their animals.”

Complaining because kids run free in the neighborhood? Ummm.. she was expecting them to be on a leash or something? Sure… kids can be loud, messy, and.. kids.. but to report them as engaging in unnatural acts? Probably a bit excessive..

And to think, this nice lady only has 79 complaints filed against her neighbors

Just Stuff

Bill Collectors

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Holy Crap!

You.. stop what you are doing right now.. and go here. Read the linked entry on some guy’s blog… and commence with laughing and snorting and whatever else it is you do when you’ve just read some of the funniest shit you’ve seen in awhile!

A Brief excerpt:

  • f.f.b.c.c.w.: “Sir, I just need to schedule a payment.”
  • me: “Schedule it for Friday, then.”
  • f.f.b.c.c.w.: “And you’ll be able to pay it by then?”
  • me: “Probably not.”
  • f.f.b.c.c.w.: “Then can we schedule it for a time when you will?”
  • me: “Sure. Schedule it for May 16th, 2010.”
  • f.f.b.c.c.w.: “I can’t schedule that far, sir.
  • “me: “Friday, then.”
  • f.f.b.c.c.w.: “But you’ve already said you won’t be making a payment then.”
  • me: “I won’t, but some other account representative will be on duty then, so it’ll be their problem.”

Ya gotta love seeing someone screw with Bill collector’s.. uhh.. I guess.. that is unless you happen to be a bill collector.. then you probably hate it unless its really funny, and not you that’s being screwed with

Site Stuff, Tech

Its released!

Today, Six Apart has officially released Movable Type version 3.2. I’d imagine there will be much downloading and upgrading done tonight! Since I’ve been running the betas, my favorite new feature is the “junk” feature, which works to help prevent comment and trackback spam.. and it seems to work pretty good.

I’m downloading now, and will update tonight. Two important tips… back up your database! and make sure that you have the mt-site.js file up to date… otherwise funky things happen on comments

Apple, Just Stuff

Sims 2 Expansion

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Because all you Simmers (is that even a real word?) don’t spend enough time playing with your Sims:
Aspyr Media today announced they will publish The Sims 2 University, the first expansion to The Sims 2, with an anticipated release in November 2005.

Now you know what to add to ask Santa for

Current Events

Bikini

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Further proof that women will wear anyting.. There is now a water based bikini floating around.. and apparently, its designed to have cold water poured into the cups to keep you cool…and adjust your breast size, and get you in shape, all at the same time.

From the Sun:

And according to boob boffins, the cold water will even help tone, firm and shape your beach body.

The bra’s filter funnel means bikini babes can top up the water level at their leisure, controlling how cool they keep their boobs.

My guess is the ‘tone, firm, and shape’ portion comes in, as you keep running around to refill your boobs, and escape the stares of every guy on the beach