Archive for March, 2003
Tuesday, March 18th, 2003
Duh (or, is that my Final Answer?)
My co-worker Amy and I got grabbed on the walk back from lunch by one of the local crappy news outfits for a “man-on-the-street” interview. They asked “what countries border Iraq?’, obviously to point out how useless America’s educators are, and further to prove that we probably have no business bombing the shit out [...]
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Monday, March 17th, 2003
Flush, Part II (or, I really mean it this time)
Not flushing the urinal is slightly annoying, but today was worse. Went into the Executive Washroom (i.e. the handicapped stall) to throw on shorts for the bike ride home, and had to pee while I was in there. Lifted up the seat (so as not to make a mess, you see…), and saw [...]
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Saturday, March 15th, 2003
Various (mostly nerdy) bits.
The whole Puma ads thing has taken on a life of its own (much like a certain oversized snack food), with threatening letters from lawyers flying around. Gawker seems to be following it most closely.
This post is the first one that I’m trying to format with Brad Choate’s MT-Textile plugin. It’s basically just [...]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2003
Climbing game (or, something you won’t see anytime soon)
Found this neet-o info about a climbing game in development by Chris Hecker. As you can see in the picture, it is an actual picture of an indoor gym wall, and then there’s an animated figure that you presumably have to guide up to the finish hold. Of course, this is a game [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2003
Eeek!
Just randomly wondering why my pagerank had gone up to 5, so I check my stats and see I have a new referrer, Technorati. I go to their site, and see they have this “Link Cosmos” thing, so I check out referring webblogs, and I see that Tankek has linked me in his “now…” [...]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2003
Is it da shoes?
Here are some (supposedly) real Puma ads running in Maxim of Brazil. First ad and Second ad. (Links definitely Not Safe For Work™)
Gawker → AdRants → Ad-Rag.
update: ok, so they really are fake.
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Monday, March 10th, 2003
Shock (or, maybe there is some good in this world)
Waiting for the bus. Cold. Oh so cold. Oh, no! Here comes crazy lady! Run! Hide!
Oh, wait. She apologized for “talking my head off the other day”, and tried to blame it on coffee. While I will admit that I’ve seen too much coffee make people do [...]
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Saturday, March 8th, 2003
Duck!
It was such a nice day out today that I went for a little ride after climbing. On the Hawthorne trail on the last leg back to my place, guess who I saw walking the other way? That’s right, the crazy lady from the other morning. Luckily I was almost fully camoflaged; [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2003
Changing Templates
As I’m bringing in all my Blogger content, it’s taking awhile to move all my entries into categories. I still wanted to have the nice link to the category archives at the bottom of posts that have it, and amazingly there’s no conditional tag as part of MT. So, had to find one… [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2003
New Weblog (or, change is A Good Thing™)
OK, so after one too many Blogger posts getting eaten, I’ve decided to give MT a whirl. So far I already love it; much more flexible archiving, categorization, built-in comments, EASY importing of my Blogger content, etc.
I have a bunch of maintenence to do… need to pick up the DB-driven elements from my [...]
