From Obscure Store:Andrew Nierman, 29, has won the International High IQ Society’s first “World’s Smartest Person” competition. The title is “pretty funny,” says Nierman, adding: “The smartest person in the world probably wouldn’t bother entering this contest. I just thought it would be fun.” Full Story.
Month: February 2003
Michael Jackson has never had plastic surgery
And he also wants to live forever. Full Story Here. Whether he is going to live forever or not is debatable (for about two seconds), but certainly, with the amount of plastic on his face, he’ll still be preserved eternally.
Flipper goes to war, and morticians needed in Navy
From Al’s Morning Meeting: Sea lions and porpoises are being sent to the Middle East to help search for underwater mines. The story is from ABC News.
The article from Al also linked a story from Salon in 2000 that said Iran had purchased mercenary sea animals including “killer dolphins” and a whale. This is getting weird.
Speaking of war, the Navy needs morticians.
Couple Sue McDonald’s Over Tough Bagel
It would appear that everybody is suing McDonalds over something, and the latest is a couple who claimed their marriage and their teeth were damaged by a tough bagel. I only wish I were making garbage like this up.
Skynyrd Guitarist Not Sure About War With Iraq
Have the media just run out of people to interview about this that they really give a rip what a rock-band guitarist things about Iraq? In case you care about that sort of thing.
Space Shuttle may provide light show
This article was from sfgate.com on the 31st, the day before the shuttle exploded. The article quoted: “Bay Area watchers may catch a brilliant flash of light crossing the Northern sky.” Sadly, they were more correct than they thought.
Don’t buy anything Romanian…
…without checking for fluids first. Link from Dave’s Blog.
My Laptop is Here
So don’t bug me :-). I’m in the process of setting it all up, so don’t expect much from me until tomorrow when it will hopefully be 90% setup.
Like I said before, if you’re looking for a good deal on a notebook, e-mail me.
About This Site
Originally, Jake Ortman created a blog at jake.orty.com as a personal site that would host his resume, portfolio, and the like, but it’s slowly blossomed into something bigger, and he’s decided to split things up a bit — resume, portfolio and all that fun stuff, over at his personal site while the blog that everybody has come to love will be posted at UtterlyBoring.com. The site you see now is a result of that split.
UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 32-year-old dad, percussionist, wanna-be Web programmer/designer, sysadmin, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn’t getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and graphic designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you’re trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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The site will be updated nearly-daily. Typically, if it’s not going to be updated, it’ll be Friday or Saturday because those are my days off from the day job and I’m not glued in front of my computer those days. I actually like to see my family now and again.
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Seven feared dead in space shuttle disaster
In case you haven’t heard, the space shuttle Columbia appears to have broken up in flames over North Texas. It is feared that all seven crew members, six Americans and an Israeli, have been killed.
My heart goes out to the families of those brave men and women who piloted that ship. The press conference from NASA is due in about 15 minutes.
My idea (and I’m sure this will anger a bunch of people): Put some of the billions of dollars we put into NASA every year into education in the country. Then we’ll be able to create better rocket scientists and engineers starting now so stuff like this won’t EVER happen again. I remember seeing the Challenger explode when I was in elementary school and crying. This should never happen again. Ever. Put some money into education in this country so that it doesn’t. Done ranting now, thanks for listening.