Dell: We'll Sell You Ugly Servers, Unless You Pay Us Not To
Dell used to pride themselves on shipping, if not "pretty" servers, then at least non-ugly ones. They're well-known for their steely-grey faceplates which over the years have served well to obscure the patent ugliness of multiple drive bays, optical disk bays, power buttons and other assorted server miscellania. We recently ordered a couple [...]
Fantasy Football Results, Weeks 6 & 7
And The Barrage uh… rolls on!
Week 6
The Barrage (170.00 pts) defeated Fifteen by Female (167.00 pts)
The Barrage (170.00 pts) defeated El Diablo (A Mexican Fighting Chicken) (161.25 pts)
I moved to a 10-2 record two weeks ago, defeating two teams by relatively narrow margins. 15xFemale actually should have beaten me, but for some unknown reason [...]
Dubious Award Of The Day
The "Get On With It!" Musical Award of the day goes to Snow Patrol for their song "Chasing Cars". The entire song sounds like the intro to a bad Flaming Lips parody with the same two notes being played ad nauseum over and over. The song functions as one continuous crescendo with no [...]
Bad Dates
It appears that Indiana Jones' application for tenure at Marshall College has been denied, to the shock of few. McSweeney's has the straight dirt:
The committee concurred that Dr. Jones does seem to possess a nearly superhuman breadth of linguistic knowledge and an uncanny familiarity with the history and material culture of the occult. However, his [...]
Your Honor, I'd Like To Ammend My Previous Statement
What I meant to say was: there's regular cool, and then there's flippin' tank paintball cool.
Now, I just need to scrape together airfare for the English countryside. What's the $ to £ exchange rate these days?
There's Regular Cool, And Then There's "Cylon Jack-O-Lantern" Cool
Okay, that's just way off the "Flippin' Sweet Meter". Learn how to make your own personal Autumnal Ode to a Toaster here, complete with working "eye scanner".
Oh, The Huge Manatee!
Memo to Brad:
If you are unable to convince your employer of the folly of their recent moves, I will hold you personally responsible. I mean, they can sell cigarettes, lunch meat and mac n' cheese all they want, but when the mess with Miracle Whip, why, they've gone too far! They must be [...]
