Only a geek will truly appreciate how much of a pain in the butt this probably was, but the finished product — with it’s brushed aluminum and wood grain — is sweet.
Month: December 2005
Knot Tying For Dummies
I remember having to know some of these way back in my Cub Scout days, but this is a nice handy reference with nice animations for us knot-tying nitwits.
Google Does A Lot Of Stuff
Just check out this comprehensive list.
Man With The World’s Strongest Penis
How did he prove this? He attached himself not once but twice to a rental moving truck and pulled it several yards across a parking lot. Ouch.
Welcome Spiegel.de Readers
This site was inaccessible this morning for a bit. Why? Because it was getting killed by traffic from this link (update on 12/14: And this link, too). I don’t speak German, so I have no idea what any of it says, but I do know they managed push 10 gigs of bandwidth and an average of 300 connections per second in the last 24 hours linking to this entry. I’ve since moved the video to another server (thanks a ton to Karin, my partner in crime on this server) so hopefully that will make things function a bit better (and make it so I’m not totally saturating a 10mbs connection).
It’s also totally hosed my e-mail for this domain, so if you’ve tried e-mail any address at utterlyboring.com, it didn’t get through, so go ahead and try to e-mail me at utterlyboring [at] gmail [dot] com.
Update at 12:50: Looks like there are quite a few sites linking to that entry. Welcome to everybody!
Update at 3:40: At last count, in the last 7 hours, we’ve pushed 19.3 GIGs on that video above. Amazing….
Bend Schools Closed Today
We’ve gotten a bunch of snow last night with more on the way, so Bend/La-Pine school district schools are closed today according to a note on the District’s site as well as Bend.com (and I’m not linking directly to their story because for some reason the story just mentions local Christian schools, but the front page lists more). That would also include the school in Sunriver. COCC is also shutting its doors today, Morning Star Christian School is Closed, Madras Schools are Closed, Culver Schools are Closed, Gilchrist Schools are Closed, and Redmond Schools are on 2 Hour Delay, Sisters Schools on 2 Hour Delay are closed.
It’s a mess out there folks, so be careful.