Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
If anybody in the office tells you that the fancy Ricoh copy machine’s display says “Empty Toner Waste Bottle,” don’t volunteer to empty it. Ever.
Now excuse me while I try to get this black powder out of my hair, fingernails, and pretty much my entire outfit.
I briefly mentioned that my dad had won a raffle for a fancy new playhouse down at the Bend Fall Festival. Since my parents are trying to sell their house, they obviously didn’t want to put it at their house, so they gave it to us. After moving all the firewood out of the way, the trailer was still too wide to get to our backyard, so we had to roll the thing on pipes. Having moved much larger objects on pipes (sheds and hot tubs, for example), it went pretty quick as I knew what I was doing. I had completely forgotten how impressive and cute this thing was — and a little girl’s dream come true. We got some bricks in place and shimmed the thing up to make it was all level, attached the deck, and my little girls couldn’t have been more excited. Read on below and you’ll see why:
Some more random geek links, mostly for my reference:
Apparently, though it has long been decommissioned. Some morons tried to steal a bunch of copper wire from there, but their truck couldn’t handle it.
Anybody who’s done any sort of search engine optimization will get a kick out of this (back story).
I don’t play computer games much, and I certainly haven’t played Half-Life 2: Episode Two. Apparently there are are achievements you have to meet during the game, but there is one hidden achievement involving a little garden gnome that you can pick up in the beginning of the game: To send the little gnome to space. Which basically means you need to carry it with you the entire game and do some fancy work to hold on to it and not lose it or blow it up. Read up here for an entertaining gnome adventure with hilarious screen shots.
Then walk in to their office with a hammer and start bashing things, like this woman did to Comcast.
“I smashed a keyboard, knocked over a monitor … and I went to hit the telephone,” Mona said. “I figured, ‘Hey my telephone is screwed up, so is yours.’ “
Can’t say that I haven’t thought of doing the same thing with other utility companies.
Link via Consumerist.
If you’ve ever just randomly glanced at the photos that pop up as popular on Flickr (I usually get to them via popurls), you’ll appreciate all the hilarious in-jokes on this Flickr image.
Link via Waxy.
But we’ll never see this on Ann Coulter’s site:
Image via Digg. I don’t know if this was a legit hack (apparently it’s being discussed on Coulter’s forums, but that would require me to actually go on her forums) or just a photoshop job, I don’t really care — it made me laugh.