In the course of the past week, I have accumulated 800+ SPAM e-mails. These don’t include the phishing scams I routinely get for eBay and Paypal. I think this is pretty amazing, since I don’t have a lot of web-noteriety (I’d hate to see how many mails web-celebs get).
Quick IQ test: It’s 10pm at night. It’s Sunday. You’re out with your buddies in the parking lot of an apartment complex. It’s quiet. The Fourth of July is several weeks passed. The parking lot of the apartment complex overlooks a pond with lots of possibly flammable grass on its banks. What do you do?
Sit [...]
Why do they call the font Times New Roman, anyway?
I think I’ve fixed some of the issues I’ve had on my machine with USB and certain devices. It appears the EHCI driver under Linux kernels 2.4 isn’t all that stable, so I reverted all of my devices to use the usb-ohci driver instead. Amazingly, it seems all of the devices I’ve had trouble with [...]
Happy Birthday Andy!
Rest in peace, Marty. You were the sturdiest fish I’ve ever had. You were there with me as I learned more about fish and fish disease. He was always the first to greet me, with his hungry dance that never seemed to be quenched. Bright red was his spirit and his color. Goodbye, Marty. You [...]
JoDee and I finished the last episode of the anime classic “Evangelion”. This was the version that was the broadcast in Japan initially, before all of the movies and the director’s cut. After the whole experience of trying to figure out the mysteries and secrets in the series, the last two episodes were… uh… pretty [...]
It loks like Marty (our betta) is not doing so well. He’s bloated out a bit, although he’s not pineconing. I’m hoping it’s not the first stages of a serious disease like dropsy (second link) or some other problem. I’ve been a bad fish father.
In sadder betta news, Ruth’s betta, Ralphie, passed away. He [...]
Ugh! Seems the new thing in candle scent technology is to include patchoulli in otherwise OK scents. JoDee and I were out just browsing around in several shops, and we smelled some truly awful things. Vanilla with patchoulli. Yuck! Worse, yet, happened when we went into the Yankee Candle Company, and some proud salesclerk excitedly [...]
Michigan may be home of some rather stupid criminals and some sick minds, but I don’t think we can even hold a candle to this guy.
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