Month: October 2005

Finally

We’re finally going to hire another full-time staff person here at the office so I won’t have to man the front desk more than I’d care to (which is why I’ve been busy as heck today — when I’m running my own schedule, I’m able to take a few minutes out of the day to blog, but not when I’m at the whim of the front desk staff, guests, etc…). Meanwhile, if anybody’s interested in working here in Sunriver, pop me an e-mail.

On top of the craziness, our recent new hire called in sick today, so I had to run the front desk by myself for about three hours today, so that was a barrel of laughs. Hopefully I didn’t screw anything up. Usually, I’d say tomorrow’s staff can fix whatever I screwed up, but they’re under trained, too. So maybe I’ll go double-check my work really quick….

October 11, 2005

Any .NET Programmers in Bend?

I had somebody e-mail me, wondering if I knew anybody who was a .NET Programmer. Personally, I don’t hang out with too many Microsoft fans, let alone folks who can program in their languages, so I figured I’d post it here. If you have MS .NET Programming skills, and live in Central Oregon (preferably), e-mail joshua strudel paladin-data punt com (huh?) and you might get some work out of it.

Note that I’ve never dealt with this company before, nor can I vouch for anything beyond what is stated above. E-mail the address above if you want more information. But looking at what the company does, it appears to be Point of Sale (POS) type of stuff. If anybody gets a stupidly high paying job out of this, let me know so I can bill you for a finders fee.

October 11, 2005

My New Spam-Fighting Technique

Instead of calling “@” an “at” sign, I’m going to call it “strudel” like some Israeli writers do. Or you could call it sobaka, majmunsko, apestaart, Aff enschwanz, or dalphaengi like they do in many other countries.

So if you need to get ahold of me, my e-mail is jake strudel utterlyboring dot com.

October 10, 2005

Definitions of Profanity

I have no idea what 90% of those words/phrases mean, but if I ever wanted to know what that swear word/phrase meant, I can look them all up here. I’m sure this will come in very handy when my kids get older so I’ll know what the hell they’re saying.

October 9, 2005

The Child Left Behind

What if George W. had a third daughter he’s been hiding all these years because she’s a Democrat? Watch the brilliant video here.

October 9, 2005

How Many Condoms Can You Wear At Once?

According to this little science project, over 600 (assuming certain parts of your anatomy are as strong as their artificial replacements).

(Don’t worry, the site’s mostly safe for work).

October 9, 2005

PETA Should Be Furious

I mean, come one — somebody has to protect the squirrels from this needless torture.

(OK, so maybe no squirrels were harmed during the above video, but I’m sure they were back when I posted that squirrel launcher. Or when folks were dressing the things up.)

October 9, 2005

Some Fun Videos

I’m stupidly busy at the office right now, as we’re understaffed, management is finally starting to realize it, so we will probably be hiring another front-desk person here soon (if I’m the most experienced front desk person, we have a problem). Meanwhile, here are a few videos that have been e-mailed to me the last week to keep you entertained (hosted on my server here, but somebody can provides mirrors, if need be):

If you have any more videos, pop me an e-mail with it as an attachment and I’ll post it here.

Update on 10/8: Got some more for you:

October 6, 2005

DNS Troubles

I’m having some issues right now with my server that’s hosting this site (and many others). It’s affecting domain resolution on the machine. I’ve posted a support query over here (also copied in the extended entry for this entry in case people don’t want to register) that’s much too geeky for much of this site’s audience. But if you’re getting bounces when using my e-mail form on the left, this is probably causing it.

If I don’t get an answer soon, I’m probably going to have to reboot my server, which I never like to do as a server should never have to be fully rebooted (usually services can be restarted to fix most problems).

Update on 10/7: It actually ended up being a host problem. They changed some things on their routers and/or firewalls that required more declarations in our resolv.conf file. So after lecturing the host about notifying me about those minor little changes, things are up and running again. I’m changing the post time on this post so it goes below my videos post on the front page until I can get up more entries.

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October 6, 2005

How The Movie Should Have Ended

I’ve had my opinions about how some movies should have ended, but here are some animations of alternate endings for Braveheart, Seven, Episode IV, and more.

October 4, 2005