People with 140 IQ scores (a score of 100 is average) missed payments and maxed-out their credit cards more often than their lower IQ counterparts. Full story.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Wow. Just wow….
The federal government is suing former State Senator John Ford’s Rolex, claiming the watch was seized during the commitment of an unlawful offense and that confiscating it is within the law.
Yes, you read that right: Our government is suing a wrist watch.
Video Link Dump
Here are a bunch of fun (or geeky) videos I’ve come across or have had sent to me recently (after the jump).
Drugs Make You Do Dumb Things
Like make you attack somebody with a bag of Cheetos.
Finally, Something To Do During Malware Scans
I’m frequently staring at progress bars when trying to clean up spyware from somebody’s computer. But now, at least when I’m using SpyBot S&D, I’ll have something to do.
My New Toy
Long story short, a co-worker convinced management that he needed something fancy to keep himself organized. He then gave his two weeks notice after about two weeks of using it, so I’ve inherited his toy: A Blackberry 8703e. Since we’d already paid for the thing, and nobody else really knew what to do with it, I took over the account. I now look just like all the real estate agents in my office with their fancy phones (nearly none of who know how to use them).
Now I’ve never had a phone (or device, for that matter) that’s this fancy. I’ve found some good sites for help and tips on this thing (as I haven’t the slightest idea how to do anything with it, as we don’t have the user manual). I do plan on installing an SSH client, and already have Google Maps installed, and will install Google Apps for mobile (as I use that for the two companies I work for). I’m going to go through the stuff here and see what they have
there.
My one gripe so far? Upon quick glance, I can’t seem to find a mobile blogging app that will work on the blackberry. Found several that work on the Windows Mobile platform, but nothing for Blackberry. I use MovableType, and while Blogger and WordPress have built-in functionality for e-mail to post, I wasn’t really wanting to do that as anything I post via that method will have the generic “Sent via US Cellular Blackberry” footer (unless there’s a way to get rid of that).
Anybody have any useful hints, tips, tricks, good software suggestions, etc… for a geek like me, I’d love to hear it. I have an unlimited data plan, though it’s on US Cellular’s really slow data network (slower than dialup), so Google Maps is really neat looking, but boy does it take forever to load data. Mobile KTVZ is really handy, however (don’t try looking at the Bulletin’s site on these things — looks horrible).
And of course, fun little games to kill the lunch hours are always good suggestions, too.
Time Breakdown Of Modern Web Design
I’d never consider myself a professional web designer, as I really don’t think I’m as good as I could/should be to have that title (though there are many folks who suck at it that still have that title), but I’ve had jobs where I totally feel like this:
Thanks Dave for this, but if anybody knows the original source, please share.
Does My Business Card Suck?
Like I’ve mentioned before, I’m working on getting a design together for a personal business card. I didn’t realize how hard it was designing a card for yourself. I’ve designed cards for other people and companies (I’m not a designer by trade), but it’s been a bit of a process designing one for myself.
Like I mentioned in my previous post, I was trying to find three words that described me and would sell me on a business card. I was going to use Geek, Blogger, and left the third one up to my readership. I wanted a simple design that incorporated those three words. So here’s what I came up with, based on comments from before. This will be a full-bleed, full color card, and the front and back are below.
I used Adobe’s fun little tool to find a color palette, and that is a subtle watermark of my ugly mug on the card (didn’t want to put a full obvious picture on there and scare the crap out of people).
Thoughts, criticism? I haven’t printed them yet, so thoughts are welcome. Whatever I decide on will become a basis for a design that will get incorporated at some point at my personal site.
I Wish I Were Making This Up
Leona Helmsley stiffed two of her grandkids out of any inheritance, gave five million to two other grand kids, several million to her brother, but her dog (yes, her dog) came out the best of all with $12 million to his name. Like Jack said, bitches stick together.
It Got Him Suspended…
…but after watching the results of this senior prank, it was worth it. Watch the video below:
Thanks to Obscure Store for the links.