Archive for January, 2003

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

by @ Friday, January 31st, 2003. Filed under Books, Stories, etc

Chief Inspector Blancharde knew that this murder would be easy to solve-despite the fact that the clever killer had apparently dismembered his victim, run the corpse through a chipper-shredder with some Columbian beans to throw off the police dogs, and had run the mix through the industrial-sized coffee maker in the diner owned by Joseph [...]

Sony Ad, Carry On

by @ Thursday, January 30th, 2003. Filed under Art

Ok, this one‘s nice enough for me to want to share it.

Relationship Spam

by @ Thursday, January 30th, 2003. Filed under Security

Hi there, how’s it going? Well for starters I must confess that this is indeed pretty awkward. I noticed your profile o­nline and figured I’d drop ya a line….I bet that doesn’t happen to you everyday! I never really even thought about it until someone saw mine and got in touch a little while back. [...]

Open Letter to Saddam

by @ Friday, January 24th, 2003. Filed under the spews of Evil Bastard

Dude,With the weapons inspections not going so hot lately, and the threat of getting yourself deposed in the time it takes to make homebrew, you’ve got to be sweating it. Although, I really can’t sympathize with you, I asked myself the other day “what would I do if I were in Saddam’s shoes?” After a [...]

Marine Rules for a gunfight

by @ Friday, January 24th, 2003. Filed under Guns and such

Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns. …rest

First gun post

by @ Thursday, January 23rd, 2003. Filed under Guns and such

I’d attempted to avoid posting anything about my gun hobby on this site for fear of frightening my coworkers (some of which have nothing better to do then read my site) or making management uncomfortable. I’ve hit the point now where certain things have changed: 1) Most of my coworkers who are close enough to [...]

Warning sign

by @ Thursday, January 23rd, 2003. Filed under Uncategorized

I'd probably get in trouble for putting o­ne of these up at work.

Stairway to Gilligan’s Island

by @ Tuesday, January 21st, 2003. Filed under Music

I’d heard that the cadence on Gilligan’s Island and Stairway to Heaven were the same. I’d even tried to sing one to the other, but couldn’t ever stick with it. Well, it turns out that somebody actually put out an recording of that mix.

ThinkGeek SUCKS!

by @ Friday, January 17th, 2003. Filed under Uncategorized

You’d think that ThinkGeek, given their attempts to be hip, trendy, and cool, would have some small part of a clue when it comes to customer service. Nope. Here’s my email trail, in chronological order.

Books

by @ Thursday, January 16th, 2003. Filed under Books, Stories, etc

I normally try not to quote Slashdot, but sometimes they have news worth repeating. Cory Doctorow is another one of the geek techno science fiction writers. Here is one of his stories, here is another.

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