A Brush With Greatness, Kitschy Americana-Style
“Oh I wish I were an…” Caught with my very own RAZR crapcam.
Drooling Over Leopard Server
Much virtual ink has been spilled over the revelations concerning Apple’s next operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), with Windows fanboys complaining that Apple is shamelessly copying the Big M and Apple partisans returning fire. All of these discussions…
Don’t Waste Those Processor Cycles On Just ANY Old Screensaver
This one’s for all you Mac owners out there: Phill Ryu’s Top Ten OS X Screensavers. There are some good ones on there, for certain, although most of my machines just end up running Electric Sheep by default anyways.
Consider Yourselves On Notice
This one’s for all you Colbert Report fans out there: please consider adding the On Notice! board generator to your Bag of Useful Internet Tricks, right up there with the Church Sign Generator and the dynamic Einstein blackboard.
O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!
…He chortled in his joy. My issues with WJJZ 106.1 FM Philadelphia are well–documented in this space, so it is with no little schadenfreude that I officially note its demise. I come not to praise Smooth Jazz, but to bury…
Fun In The Sun (Microsystems Server)
Or: RedHat Enterprise Linux’s `ypbind` Is Functionally Brain-Dead WARNING/WARNUNG/ADVERTENCIA/AVERTISSEMENT: Geeky rant follows. If you don’t give a hoot about UNIX and/or Linux, you may just want to give this post a pass. -ed. First, a little background: like many shops…
H2Oh No!
I was sitting in a meeting this afternoon when a rather vicious line of thunderstorms moved in, complete with torrential downpours and large bolts of lightning. About 20 minutes into the meeting, lightning apparently hit a power substation somewhere near…
News You Can Use: How To Totally Fake Being A Geek
Tired of feeling inferior to your geek bettersfriends, what with all their technical jargon and carrying on about obscure scientific and cultural phenomena? Then Penguin Pete’s guide, How To Totally Fake Being A Geek, will be of immeasurable assistance in…
A New High Water Mark Has Been Set In The Office Prank Arena
Purveyors of packing peanut cubicles, aluminum-foiled apartments and balloon-filled offices * have met their match: the all-cardboard office. Nice. * [Language/Humor Impairment Warning: video link contains humorless foul-mouthed University of South Carolina student body Vice President making a royal fool…
One Way To Shed Those Baby Pounds
My wife sent this one my way – it’s definitely worth a read and a chuckle or two. The Toddler Miracle Diet: Americans are always on the lookout for a new diet. The trouble with most diets is that you…
