I'm getting tired of the interrogation that comes ever more frequently at the sales counter of stores. Name. Address. Phone number. Email. Zipcode. Sometimes I just make shit up, create some false data to screw with their ever growing statistical profiles. Sometimes, I just say "no", and they look at my like I'm crazy. I want to say, "I don't want ( Read more... )

Chinese villager confused over government's decision to paint the mountain green

In case somehow you missed it: Astronaut involved in love triangle between her, an airforce captain, and a shuttle commander drove 500 miles to intercept her rival at the airport and pepper spray her in an attempted kidnapping ( Read more... )

And I have 15/2 MTpS (MegaTubes per second ( Read more... )

I was at the gas station this evening fueling my car, when I caught a whiff of cigarette smoke. At first I though I was imaging things, but as the smell persisted, I peered around my pump ( Read more... )

Cell phones would be so much cooler by now if the companies had done two things ( Read more... )

Holiday
RIP
Epitaph

MLK Day, President's day, Labor day, Etc
0000
I'm not even sure what/how you are supposed to celebrate.

ST Patrick's Day
1991
Realized I wasn't Irish, had no idea what the holiday was about, and if you think you can pinch me for not wearing green, you've got a surprise coming to you.

Valentine's Day
1994
Buying cards for ( Read more... )

So when I was in Worcester, an unnamed somebody made a date with the Wiimote and my parent's TV. Fortunately it didn't break, but there is now a 3 inch scratch on the screen.

There has to be some way to idiot-proof this thing. Watching how people play Wii-Sports makes me nervous. Particularly, bowling.

I'm really surprised how bad digital cable looks. Any fast movement results in almost incomprehensible pixelization. With any kind of unusual lighting, say moonlighting for example, there are some odd. There are also some weird effects when there is a scene change, a stuttering as if it's waiting for a key frame or maybe some sort of cache dump ( Read more... )

I had my last straw with Yahoo yesterday, when I sent a test email to my account from gmail and got this:

PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 5.0.0 ... RCPT TO: Relaying not allowed - please use SMTP AUTH ( Read more... )