For those of you coming here to find my musings, it should be pretty obvious that I don't post here any more and haven't for quite awhile. Head over to http://ozmonic.com/blog/ for my current inane ramblings.

Okay, I was totally suckered by this one. It was just pointed out to me that my score isn't showing up as the 161 that I thought it was ... yes, yes, the joke is, apparently, collectively on us all. I even just checked again and it's still 161 but when I check it from a computer that I didn't take the test from, it shows up as 74. So rather than ( Read more... )

I saw this link quite a lot while purusing the "random LJ pics" page. It's one of those "yet another internet quiz"-type tests. The quiz results have been around 75,70,85 on the results that I'd seen and there were some people that were saying, "Oh yeah, this is just an internet quiz so take this with a grain of salt ( Read more... )

Yesterday, 10/4, Scaled Composites won the $10 million X Prize with their second flight in, not two weeks but, ONE week ( Read more... )

Congratulations to the team of Scaled Composites and their successful launch and return to Earth yesterday. This is the first time that someone has reached space on private funding alone and I couldn't be happier about it ( Read more... )

It's certainly good to know that it's not just American executives that can screw up a company:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/463603.html

So Shrek2 topped ET to become the #3 domestic grossing movie of all time... when I wasn't looking.  Apparently it happened on Friday, August 13th.  I had thought it wasn't showing anymore - go figure ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream about a ex-girlfriend of mine who was a total bitch.  She was all wrong for me and, I'm ashamed to admit, that I was pretty bad off while we were dating.  Any how, in the dream, she was helping out with a problem that we were having at work while I was running around upgrading the memory in everyone's laptops for some ( Read more... )

*sighs ( Read more... )

I can't call this the daily quote since I don't do one but here's a snippet I saw today that made me laugh: "I could melt a 5lb block of aged swiss on a plate and it would still be less cheesy than your team ( Read more... )