Archive for February, 2004
Thursday, February 26th, 2004
Howard Stern off the air in Pittsburgh
Definitely an interesting bit of news. There are two things at work here that annoy me about this. First off is the new “zero-tolerence” policies of Clear Channel and Viacom. This is all due of course to boobie-gate, and the new moral standard that politicians are clamoring for in the absence of doing something useful, [...]
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Friday, February 20th, 2004
The first one is the hardest
Dusted off the bike this morning and rode in. I had been a little leery of the ride in, since so much of my ride is on 2-lane blacktop with little or no shoulder as it is, and the tremendous amount of snowfall and cold temperatures we’ve had here this winter have reduced the shoulders [...]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2004
Howard Dean formally withdraws from race
All praises due.
No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by mattcomroe
Wednesday, February 18th, 2004
Funny emails
David and I have been swapping some funny emails yesterday and today. As a little bit of background, he’s been really hot to set up some sort of web collection to buy this hot dog suit. As a further bit of background, today is his last day at his current job. bq.. From: David To: [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Friends by mattcomroe
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004
Die, fuckers.
The trickle of comment spam that I’ve been seeing in my comments has finally increased to the point where I was finally driven to install MT-Blacklist, and I have to say I’m amazingly impressed with how easy it was to install, and how clean the interface is. Imported the current blacklist without any problems, and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Site News by mattcomroe
Monday, February 16th, 2004
Drinking contest
In order to liven things up, we’re having a drinking contest here at work today. Not the alcoholic kind; water. We all will have our measured containers, and whoever downs the most during the course of the day wins. I will update throughout the day with current tallies, because I’m sure you’ll all be on [...]
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Friday, February 13th, 2004
Oh _really_?
I don’t really care at all if he didn’t want to go to war; that shouldn’t be what defines someone’s character. In fact, I’d be happier with someone at the helm who was less eager to do so. I guess it’s easy when you send kids over there instead of yourself, and your Veep’s former [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Current Events by mattcomroe
Thursday, February 12th, 2004
Wake Up!
For my birthday my mom got me a CD alarm clock, which I sorely needed. The alarm clock I had was probably at least 15 years old, and would make a nice loud pop when the radio alarm would turn out that basically sounded like a small gun going off in the room… not the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004
Oh no… Three Oh!
Last weekend I turned 30. Not a big deal; not like I have a big hangup about my age. In fact, I had a much worse time when I turned 27 1/2, for some reason being halfway between 25 and 30 seemed like the end of the world for me.
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004
Fuckin’ Microsoft….
This morning when I get into work there was a Critical Update waiting for me. I installed it on my XP machine at home, no problem, so I figured it would be the same thing here. Nope. After the reboot it said that my boot.ini file was invalid, and then there was a problem with [...]
