Category: Miscellaneous

It might be redundant to say this, considering everything looks different, but I’ve been working on a site redesign – which I think is coming along nicely. I’ll have comments up soon, as well I’m still going to update the flash part at the top. Please let me know what you think.

Update: Comments are up, but the archives are a mess.
Another Update: Everything seems to be working great. Please feel free to comment if you think otherwise.

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.

“The Douglas Adams media archive is presented here by the wi2600.org groups for your enjoyment. This also is to serve as a tribute to Mr. Adams’s great, but suddenly shortened career. Those who have not heard his voice and those who know it well will both enjoy having this material available. We will miss him!”

I downloaded the collection tonight and made myself a nice MP3 CDROM for the Jeep. I’m guessing I fit just under 9000 minutes or 150 hours of Hitchhiker audio fun on that CD. (I recommend using a program like Getright to enable efficient downloading of that many MP3 files).

Update: The Mediawhore.wi2600.org link to Douglas Adams media archive is down. I guess copyright / bandwidth limitations were too much.

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.