Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
No, that’s not me just smashing keys on my keyboard, that’s apparently the (un)official name for Lake Webster east of Webster, Massachusetts. It’s the longest place name in the United States. More information here and here. You can see the sign for the lake here.
But I have one question: Can anybody pronounce it?
Thanks Barney for the link.
Studies show that the best way to woo women is to wine and dine them. Duh.
I could’ve swore I had linked to this before, but I couldn’t find it (I did link to a bunch of random LiveJournal photos, which doesn’t have thumbnails anymore, which is disappointing). Thanks to “K” for reminding me of that site.
Somebody really needs to make the latest 50 from LJ into a screen saver. I’m sure that would kill somebody’s bandwidth in a hurry, but I know I’d probably run it.
How do you cover a story about a man who died having sex with a horse?
Be sure to check out the Google ads on the page: Several PETA and Animal Cruelty ads. Considering the subject matter, that could’ve been a lot worse.
Don’t blame me, blame Shasta Bob…
Two Palestinian mothers are sitting in the cafe strip chatting over a pint of chocolate goat’s milk. The older of the mothers pulls her bag out and starts
flipping through pictures and they start reminiscing.
“This is my oldest son Mohammed. He’s 24 years old now.”
“Yes, I remember him as a baby” says the other mother cheerfully.
“He’s a martyr now though” mum confides.
“Oh so sad dear” says the other.
“And this is my second son Kalid. He’s 21.”
“Oh, I remember him” says the other happily “he had such curly hair when he was born.”
“He’s a martyr too” says mum quietly.
“Oh gracious me ….” says the other.
“And this is my third son. My baby. My beautiful Ahmed. He’s 18” she whispers.
“Yes” says the friend enthusiastically. “I remember when he first started school”.
“He’s a martyr also” says mum with tears in her eyes.
After a pause and a deep sigh the second muslim mother looks wistfully at the photographs and says…
“They blow up so fast, don’t they?”
Better do something about it. Quick.
If your office is ever taken hostage, be sure to have these common office supplies in your drawer so you can make yourself a vicious bow and arrow.
Did I miss this in the local paper? I happened upon this Spokesman Review article that says that OneEighty (formally known as Highspeed Communications, formally known as EmpireNet, formally known as a guy whose name I completely forgot running a BBS out of his basement) is selling it’s Bend and Madras branches to Unicom. OregonTrail, I’m assuming, is part of that deal as well (as they were bought up by OneEighty).
Personally, I haven’t dealt with any of those companies for quite a while (I have had to deal with OneEighty on behalf of a client, but it was on minor issues that are probably going to get much more complicated now). I did have to deal with OregonTrail when I first started working at Sunray, as they hosted Sunray’s site (long since moved) and they were a bit of a pain to deal with as they didn’t know much about hosting, it seemed.
I also know there are some folks locally who are getting free hosting from OneEighty in return for links back to the company’s site — are those folks going to get booted?
So who does that leave in Central Oregon for Network/Data Center providers? Other than BendCableBroadband, who else is there? It seems most of the smaller ones that used be around have disappeared.
Update: I’m an idiot. Now I know why it’s not in the Bulletin — it probably ran two months ago when the actual purchase happened. So not only am I not on the ball, but The Spokesman Review is quite a bit late to the game, too.
Ugh…I need more free time to keep up on this stuff…
If you’re one of those weird people, here are some videos of people with hiccups.