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Quantum Toilet Seat
Recently, some issues regarding bathroom tidiness have come up among the work crew. Besides the obvious issue, the fact that the little silver handle on the front of the tank is *not* intended to be solely decorative, another has come up – where the toilet seat should ideally be when not in use. We will
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More UIs should have one…
“Live Long and Prosper” button! From the Analog Devices’ SwitcherCadIII filter-design software I downloaded today. (for some stupid reason, they call it a ‘move’ button.)
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Out comes LART
Grr, I think something’s a-brewing. Since this Monday I’m getting deluged by an exponentially-rising number of blog comment spam attempts…before Monday I was averaging ~ 6 comment spams over the lifetime of the blog, or about 2 years, which is pretty good. But now… Spam spam spammity spam Holy rock salt Batman, that’s a lot
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KMQADNS
Doublethinking:: “Aww, that’s too bad…” and “Yesss! Yesss!”. I kind of feel like a bastard. But sometimes being a bastard kind of feels good. QOTD (yesterday) : “Before Bush, they just stayed in their little holes and went “God God God God God God…”…and nobody cared. Now they’re coming out of their little holes…” -JR
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Oh fine…everyone else is doing it!
LJ Interests meme results boston:Err…I live here. I lived in Chicago until a little less than 2 years ago (wow…has it really been that long?), where I was a fresh college grad with nothing better to do than unsuccessfully job-hunt and read/post Slashdot, which ended up landing me the interview with my current company in
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Timezone offset fixed…
…maybe? (Time on my watch is 10:45am..) WordPress is a little broken.
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Standing still <--> still standing
And fighting time so hard I pray that this moment last forever. And will the world stay standing still, at least for me. It isn’t common that your thoughts can be summed up by song lyrics written long before them. But today in a seemingly perfect moment, feeling better than I have in a very
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xmortis
Yesterday, “goth nite” at its temporary club, preceded by dinner at the Pu Pu Hot Pot (beating Rockford, IL’s own (former?) “Lung Fung’s” [for those who don’t see things like that, that’s one character away from Lung Fungus {google concurs}] for Most Badly Named Chinese Restaurant, but the food was okay). Since I don’t exactly
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More stuff from today…
Posting over neighbor’s unsecured wireless because our Internet access was cancelled…but moron that later. Speaking of the radio: Wow, you can say the n-word on the radio? I never knew that. Whatever on-air personality my officemate listens to said it about 5 times in a row this morning in the course of the usual morning-zoo
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“We’re there when you need us…call 1-800-EAT-WORMS; That’s 1-800-EAT-WORMS.”
Am I going deaf? Or are radio adverts getting less distinct? I don’t really listen to it much, but our new intern at work always has a radio on in our office. (“Keep the country goin’, government farms…”) Maybe it’s one of those things where, once you hear something wrong once (due to low volume,
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Observables (0xc0ffee)
Skunk spray smells deep blue; black and blue. And smooth, not like B.O. with its prickly peaks of fiery yellow and orange, giving themselves over to more earthy tones of yellow-gray and then brownish as they disappear into the vanishing point of a hard-to-describe, non-spatial dimension…this image is that of every less-than-inspired physics textbook’s text-and-figure
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LJ(-only) memespread
(Sorry, doesn’t work off LJ… try
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Who do these guys think they are? My reply:
To whom would I be billing this time? > > > Dear Tim *******: Exhibit Surveys, Inc., an independent research firm, has been commissioned by the show organizer to certify the number of attendees to NEPCON/Assembly East 2005. Your response is extremely important for the accuracy of this project. Our records indicate that you registered
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Noise gain
I’m kind of used to noise. Right now I’m even working up to my elbows in it as part of a hobby project…if you know the form that noise is likely to take in a specific circumstance, you can disregard it. He who hesitates…. I’ve made that mistake before. Heh…I’d like to say my feet
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Parasites that perform chemical ‘mind control’ .. (See, I’m not just paranoid ;-)
New Scientist article: Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive. There is also a video link in this article, but the dialogue is in French. More detailed: Do hairworms (Nematomorpha) manipulate the water seeking behaviour of their terrestrial hosts? (Anyone able to find more info about these behavior-altering ‘enslaver’ fungi? Even Google’s drawing a blank…)
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Martial law?
I haven’t seen much mention of this aspect of the hurricane Katrina rescue efforts in the US media… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4205074.stm Thanks KRISTOFF for the heads-up.
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Xbox mystery solved….
The Xbox I randomly received in the mail yesterday? Credit fraud. Let’s call the fraudster “Grim Reaper” after his l33t Yahoo email account, conveniently supplied in the account he created in my name at a popular electronics store. Dear Mr. Reaper: You are quite possibly the world’s dumbest criminal. When you buy goods with a
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Xbox mystery…
I got home today to find a mystery Xbox waiting for me. No info on who placed the order, no “You’ve won!” or anything else, just a packing slip. “From:” a Best Buy distribution center in Ohio. Not really practical, since I don’t really find time to play video games, and don’t have a TV
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Wheel[s] Work[.s] (the old ones didn’t)
Putting a new bicycle through its paces with my bike dr. / consultant :-) QOTD: “You look, like, fifty years old!” -L*, commenting on facial fur growth Arc*: Go on, ask me how many badges I’ve made. me: they can have my dot matrix when they pry it from my cold dead hands me:
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Altera training
This is mostly just here for datestamp, since about 0 people I know are interested in this sort of thing :-) Was at a set of training courses yesterday and today…paid time off work, learning stuff, and free food. And now I know (indeed, even more than I wanted to) about the architecture of Cyclone
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