Archive for January, 2004

Monday, January 12th, 2004

Cowboy up!

Friday night my friends Jason and Heidi hosted a “cowboy party”, which involved dressing up in all the cowboy gear you could muster, and walking into a room with The Magnificent Seven on the TV, and Johnny Cash on the stereo. Some people really pulled off the cowboy thing well, especially David (who made [...]

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004

From the ‘What the fuck?’ file

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, featuring Leonard Nimoy.
Found via Edith Frost → Wedding-crashing dancer

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004

From the headlines

Mysterious new head found among Easter Island statues.
and

Feralboy.com supports your right to be naked in public.

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Thursday, January 8th, 2004

Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes

I had a few friends over the other night for a “beers ‘n’ queers” party, which involves a case of assorted Dogfish and an episode of Queer Eye. After the show was done, Lauren invited me to see her friend’s band play in the Strip this weekend. Wanting to know a bit more, [...]

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2004

iPod Mini = teh sux0rs

Matt got it right this is a horrible idea.
Why the fuck would I pay $250 for an iPod that holds 1000 songs, when I can get one that holds almost 5000 songs for $50 more? Oh, because it comes in some pretty colors? Bollocks.

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Monday, January 5th, 2004

Owowow.

So, in a bit of a drunken state this past weekend, I managed to lose one of my eyelets that I wore in my earlobes. Went to a local piercing shop on my way home from work (where I took a friend to get pierced a few months back), and took a look at [...]

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Friday, January 2nd, 2004

Shortsighted

There’s almost nothing I love more than slogging through other people’s code. Usually it’s actually not that bad, but every once in awhile I’ll find an utter gem, like this morning’s nugget.
You don’t even need to be a programmer to understand this one.
loginCookie.Expires = New DateTime(2003, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59)
That basically says to [...]

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Thursday, January 1st, 2004

Happy New Year

It’s 2004 and I have a rotten cold. I don’t think it’s the flu, but it ain’t fun. My sister was supposed to come in yesterday for a new year’s party, but she was having a sore throat, same as I was. So, I made a brief appearance at my friends’ party, [...]

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