Category: Miscellaneous

It’s a good thing I finally finished the Internet because it’s almost midnight and I haven’t been getting enough sleep lately anyway. I’ve been working on it pretty hard, you know, visiting at least 1 or 2 new sites everyday, and trying not to spend too much time on the same old sites.

Malware writers are releasing competing variants of current worms, each containing taunts deriding the coding skills of the others.

“And now the authors of MyDoom.G, spreading today, have included comments in the worm’s code insulting Netsky.

A similar message was found in Bagel J, also discovered today, which ended: “Don’t ruine our bussiness, wanna start a war?”

Netsky’s authors responded with the following message in Netsky.F: “Skynet AntiVirus – Bagle – you are a looser!!!”

“We have three different groups fighting here,” said Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research for F-Secure.”

I don’t know (or care) who’s going to win, but what I do know is that not one of these guys knows how to spell.

L-O-S-E-R (s).

The Mars Rover Opportunity is the first of the two twin robots to discover strong evidence that water once flowed on mars. “That does not mean life was there. We don’t know that, but this was a habitable place on Mars at one point in time,” said Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres who works as the principal investigator for NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity rover missions. But as Squyres explains, “This was the kind of place that would have been suitable for life.”

Every morning on Rock 106’s morning show Fraser and Rosie reenact a scene from a movie and the listeners call in and guess the movie. This week they are doing all Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson movies. This was the scene they acted out:

FRASER
Can I ask you something?
ROSIE
(pause)
OK.
FRASER
Are you trying to steal my woman?
ROSIE
(pause)
I beg your pardon?
FRASER
You heard me, Coltrane.
ROSIE
(long pause)
Coltrane?
FRASER
What?
ROSIE
Did you just call me Coltrane?
FRASER
No.
ROSIE
You didn’t?
FRASER
No.

Since I thought this was a totally obvious movie I didn’t even bother to phone in. Too easy I thought. I got up and walked into the kitchen. I still hear the radio coming from my room. “Is it Zoolander?” asked one oblivious caller after another. “Sorry, it’s not Zoolander”. “Is it Zoolander?” “No.” “Is it Zoolander” “NO!” “Can I have a hint?” “Sure, this one has lots of big actors in it, Gene Hackman was in it” “Uh… I don’t know, are you sure it’s not Zoolander?”

At this point I was like trying to remember the number to call in because apparently nobody in Lethbridge can appreciate a quality stylized film. It’s one of my favorite movie. Luckily I have the number programmed into my cell phone and doubly lucky was the fact that I had charged it overnight. Rosie picked up and as Iawkwardlyy asked if they had an answer yet, I could hear my voice being broadcast live. “It’s The Royal Tenenbaums,” I stated.

So my prize for getting the movie right is two tickets to see Starsky and Hutch this Friday. With Anna-Maria in Edmonton, who will I take?

I am excited to get some sleep – but since it is 2:46AM and I wanted to celebrate my “being done”, I can’t exactly phone Anna-Maria and tell her the news, so I decided to post to the blog. Good night – I hope your paper writing experiences are better than mine.

I tried out new flash game that I found on the net, a blatantly poor use of my time, but “Bush Shootout” proved to be kind of fun and I needed a break from the essay I haven’t been working on. Jeff Milner = biggest procrastinator ever. My final score: 266847.

The next time you do anything in life – have the Death Clock ticking away on your screen and it will help you realize that maybe what you are doing is not the most efficient use of your time. It’s actually pretty freaky to have this thing staring back at you.

My Personal Day of Death is… Sunday, December 22, 2052. I told Anna-Maria, my girlfriend, about this and her immediate response was, “You better NOT die right before Christmas.” I’ll try and hold on for the extra three days, but I’m pretty sure the death clock does not lie.

Quote / Unquote:

“Is it art or FedEx? Because only FedEx delivers the mail.”

My Production Management professor speaks in metaphors and riddles. Anyway the game menu I created for that class now links to the beta version of the game. Your results may vary. At the present there is no reset control so if you tip your car over or find yourself falling endlessly outside of the map, you’ll have to hit refresh (F5 on most popular browsers) to start the game over.

Update: The class is over and the link has been taken down.

Here is a link to the flash menu of a new 3D game that I am helping to make in my production management class. The big green rotating guy that used to be there has been updated with a rotating jeep from the game. I’m also going to try and put in a three-dimensional map of Lethbridge in the map section. What do you think?

Update: The class is over and the link has been removed.

This problem is widespread and so I’d like you to just take a moment while I explain something.

It’s SPELLED L-O-S-E not L-O-O-S-E.

lose
v., lost (lôst, lŏst) los•ing, los•es.

To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of; mislay: He’s always losing his car keys.

To be deprived of (something one has had): lost her art collection in the fire; lost her job.
To be left alone or desolate because of the death of: lost his wife.
To be unable to keep alive: a doctor who has lost very few patients.
To be unable to keep control or allegiance of: lost his temper at the meeting; is losing supporters by changing his mind.
To fail to win; fail in: lost the game; lost the court case.
To fail to use or take advantage of: Don’t lose a chance to improve your position.
To fail to hear, see, or understand: We lost the plane in the fog. I lost her when she started speaking about thermodynamics.

Loose is something completely different.

Thank-you.