Stock Photography Gone Bad
(Note: I know this is an old link, and I thought I posted it before, but I couldn’t find it doing a quick search. So if you find that I posted it before, feel free to smack me, and I’ll give you a cookie.)
Long Term Prank
Because you never really know how long it’ll take an image to get onto Google Maps’ satellite view, this giant phallus probably had to be there for quite a while.
Thanks Geekologie.
I Could Do That Blindfolded
Assuming the ball was wired up so it would go nowhere but the basket, and I was about 80 feet closer…
That’s Not How You Play Oregon Trail
You should never be the banker, you idiot.
My New Toy
I finally got a new phone, and, sadly, haven’t had time to play with it it all as I got it yesterday (on sale at Best Buy), and just got it activated and my number transferred. Data currently doesn’t work on it, which is annoying, but I’ll hopefully have that working by the end of the day so I can get e-mail and such on there. I got the phone from Sprint. Their coverage is pretty good in Sunriver, not-so-good at my house (but it was crappy with US Cellular and T-Mobile as well — I live in a cell-phone dead spot, for some reason).
But initial impressions: It’s a pretty sweet phone. More in-depth review sometime. Or not. But it is nice having a phone that I can actually do something with (data was so slow on my Blackberry that data usage was pointless).
Will hopefully have time to play with it and tweak it more this week, but I’m slammed at the office now, so not today.
We Have A Functional Sewer Again
After digging things up yesterday after having issues for a while, it appears we now have everything under control again, and things are flowing fine. We dug up about an eight-foot stretch from where the sewer line comes from my house into my yard, and had to cut out and basically replace that whole stretch of pipe and hook it back into the existing line in my yard (which apparently is old asbestos cement pipe, at least in that part of the yard), install a clean out, snake the heck out of things (we finally got that root out of there), and put everything back together. Thanks to the help of the folks at Deschutes Plumbing (who unlike many of the plumbers I’ve dealt with lately, showed up on time and had reasonable pricing and actually tried to get at the problem instead of band-aiding it), we got things all taken care of, and things are happy in plumbing land.
And I hope to never have to deal with this mess ever again.
Bill O’Reilly Is…
(Mirror, in case image link dies.)
It’s Like A Virus
I linked to a similar video before, but this Flash animation of Wal-Mart spreading across the country is far more telling (and much better quality).
(And no, I’m not anti-Wal-Mart, I just thought the video was interesting.)