Forget the trick, they just want the treats

Apparently someone stole a truck with 36,416 pounds of confections from a truck stop and dumped the truck off in Ann Arbor, MI. In unrelated news, Bart Simpson and his friend Milhouse were found on the side of the road with a major sugar high.

Belated Birthday Wishes

Looks like I forgot to mention a few birthdays in September (sorry about that). Happy Belated Birthday wishes to Sheryl, Shawn (who is now 5), and Julie. Hope you all had incredibly wonderful birthdays!

Stupid UNIX tricks

“cat /dev/zero | tail” is a nice way to grind your Linux machine to a halt. Warning: You’ll want to make sure you do this on a machine you don’t care will grind to a halt with no possibility of user intervention.

Jim Harper and the Moron Show

Usually I don’t navigate around on the radio airwaves but today I was playing with my radio’s TRAF button (which allegedly allows a traffic report to interrupt a CD or something along those lines, but none of the stations use this feature). Most of the Greater Media stations have adopted a system which allows for [...]

Windows is Broken

Windows is Broken. You may now switch to another operating system at your leisure.

Ask someone else

It’s tough to be an out of work mascot, especially when your name is on the site. Anyone have a place for an out-of-work butler?

Magnatune: Share the love

If this isn’t the coolest thing you’ve ever seen a label do, then please share with me, because I think this is the COOLEST thing that any label has ever done in the history of labeldom.

Maybe Windows users need to pick up a record player

Finnish record executive says Mac and Linux users should just buy CD players. Dear Finnish Recording Executive: Already have one. Would much rather have the music available on the computer as well. Also like having it on my MP3 player as it doesn’t skip whenever I run or play drums or mow the lawn.
Thank you [...]

Happy Birthday Dave!

Happy 730 staff months, Dave (or, if you prefer, Happy 1042.85718 fortnights!)

Hurricane Rita

Fuzzymonkey (my provider) just sent me a note to let me know that they’re doing everything they can to ensure that I don’t have downtime on this server, which is located in Texas. Just in case, though, I have everything backed up, including the forum. Fun fun fun.