Will it blend?
In The Story That Just Won’t Die…
…Bend “Pregnant Man” Debuts his baby in People Magazine. And apparently the family earned a cool $300,000 from People for exclusive picture rights (because “you don’t go on the cover of People magazine for free honey!”)
I’m sure (I guess, I hope) they’ll make good parents (despite their love for the spotlight), I just feel bad for the daughter and the therapy sessions she will probably need as she gets older.
More Random Links
A bunch of links that have been sitting here for a while (hmm…sounds like yesterday)…
- Best remix ever? Radiohead’s “Nude” performed by a ZX Spectrum, dot matrix printer, scanner, and hard disk array.
- What’s beyond the edge of the album art?
- How to hide MP3s in Flickr images.
- The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts (great interactive journalism).
- Seth Godin asks “Why bother having a resume?“
- Creative barcodes (only in Japan).
- Lies I’ve told my three year old recently (one of the most entertaining MetaFilter threads I’ve ever read).
- Viagra, Cialis, Levitra: Customer Service Deathmatch.
I need to sleep. More tomorrow.
Random Links
Been getting behind on my link sharing, so here are a few older links of all sorts:
- Find items at a variety of stores with free shipping (including Amazon and eBay).
- Newbie time-travelers always kill Hitler their first trip (they obviously didn’t follow these time-traveler tips).
- In case you need help convincing the wife, here are 10 reasons to have sex tonight.
- How to guarantee that a woman never breaks up with you.
- Facinating interview with Keith Richards (is he still alive?)
- Safely send NSFW links to your buddies.
- Screw deciding on college, these parents decided to fight over which gang their four-year-old should join.
- This is exactly how I feel about techno music.
- So this is how big media is going to make money in the future: T-Shirts with headlines on them.
- Probably the best thing you could buy for your car.
- For the crazy money-blowers out there, the $500 Ethernet cable (read the if you want a great laugh).
- The Big Picture is probably my favorite new blog (interview with its creator).
- Is that number you’re calling a home number or a cell phone number? Look up the phone company for the number here (thanks Dave!).
- If you want to be really anal-retentive (or are a magazine designer), here are ten typographic mistakes everybody makes.
- What newspapers still don’t understand about the Web.
More later. I need to sleep.
Another Great Firewall Candidate
While I’ve always loved and used Smoothwall for years, I’ve been having trouble getting it to recognize a Compaq DL320 that I had sitting here in the office. I intentionally bought the IDE version of the server (which I got on eBay cheap) because I figured it would be more compatible than the SCSI version. I was try to find something that fits nicely in the rack-server setup I’m building. But Smoothwall, no matter what I did, could not recognize the IDE controller. So I decided to give Endian — an IPCop fork which was originally a Smoothwall fork — a try. Endian is basically a version of IPCop with all the cool modifications and add-ons already built in. And lo-and-behold, it just worked — and I didn’t have to monkey with it other than setting up my firewall rules. And I now have a speedy little firewall that takes up far less space than before (1U versus a tower).
I still love Smoothwall’s community as it’s full of tons of useful folks and great modifications, but if I ever need to install a firewall system on Compaq server hardware again, it’ll be on a Endian box.
So How Did Bend Officials Do With Their 4th of July Enforcement?
Back before the 4th of July, I talked about how I hated the holiday and how the local police were trying to make an effort to cut down on use of illegal fireworks locally with a large advertising campaign and media blitz. I predicted they’d give out less than 10 fireworks-related citations. That number ended up being far less. Read on…
You Don’t Watch Rambo For Romantic Moments
You watch it to see raw carnage:
I Don’t Remember Seeing This Game On My NES
Anybody else remember Super Chuck Norris Bros.? I sure don’t…
I’m Back…
After driving for many hours, we’re home. What did I miss (other than the earthquake)? Anything fun?
(I don’t plan on reading my email or RSS feeds any time soon, as there is just too much crap to go through — so I’m taking the lazyweb approach.)
(Updated with correct link for earthquake story.)
I’m 24 Hours Into My Vacation…
…and I’ve already been called by the office a few times. Why do I bother?
Anyway, I’m in Salem as we speak. We’re planning on heading over to Newport tomorrow for the next couple nights. We originally planning on driving from Bend straight to Newport tomorrow, and then we realized that the Sisters Quilt Show was going on tomorrow. We realized it would be worth paying the extra money than to try to avoid that mess tomorrow (and yes, we do know the back roads around Sisters, it’s still worth the money).
I’ll be back in town on Monday, and will be taking Tuesday off as well, as I have a bunch of vacation time just sitting there going unused (though I always do regret going back to the office after days off as I just get more and more behind). I probably won’t have email/phone over on the coast as my cell phone doesn’t work where we stay in Newport (tragic, isn’t it?), so if it’s an emergency, tough crap — it’ll have to wait until Monday night.