In another obvious “I have too much crap in my folder” move, here are a bunch of fun videos (after the jump):
Stevie Wonder Is An Incredible Musician
You all know that he’s a great piano player, but did you know he was a killer drummer, too?
Another Parent Of The Year Nominee
This time, instead of a drugged out mom, it was a dad who just made a mistake…
An 11-month-old boy died in the back seat of the family car in Concord on Wednesday after his father apparently forgot to drop him off at day care and instead left him locked inside the vehicle while he spent the day at work, police said.
If Your Going To Run For A Top Political Office…
…make sure you know your country’s national anthem and don’t start singing France’s anthem.
Anybody Need A Computer?
Long story short, I built a computer for somebody who I thought was a friend of mine who was trading work for me who then decided to leave town without paying me for said computer or finish his work. So I have a basically brand new, pretty darn fast (smokes my home PC), computer with 17″ LCD Monitor sitting here that I can’t afford to keep as I need the money, and just want to get rid of for my cost of the parts: $675 (I’d usually sell it for $800+ with all the time/labor I spent on it to build it).
Quick specs on the thing:
-Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Case with 450 watt ATX Power Supply
-ViewSonic 17″ Black LCD (with built-in speakers)
-ASUS P5NSLI motherboard with built-in sound, network, etc… – upgradeable to dual (SLI) video cards and Core 2 Duo/Extreme processors and up to 4GB of RAM.
-160GB 7200RPM HD
-1 GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM
-Intel Pentium D 915 Presler 2.8GHz (Dual Core)
-Radeon X550 256MB PCI Express Video Card
-10-in-1 Built-In Media Reader
-Lite-On Dual-Layer DVD/CD Burner
-Windows XP Pro (if you can provide a CD Key, as I used this guy’s CD Key to install it and that would be piracy and that would be bad) or Windows Vista Business Edition (as I have a copy of that).
Understand that I’m not Dell, and I don’t have their buying power, so I can’t provide 24-hour tech support, and it’ll probably be chaper to buy from a gigantic vendor. But I have built dozens of PCs over the years, and rarely have to work on them ever again. All the parts in the system carry at least a one-year warranty. It’s been fully patched and anti-virus software has been installed, useless crap uninstalled, as has some basic (free) office software from openoffice.org.
It’s seriously a great little desktop computer, and it’s pretty darn quiet, too. If I had the extra money, I’d just replace my home PC with it — so unless somebody’s willing to just give me $675 so I can keep this thing, I have to sell it.
Would prefer to deal with somebody locally, as I don’t really want to ship this thing. Questions, let me know.
Update on 7/29: The computer’s been sold. Thanks everybody for your interest!
I don’t even know what to say about this one…
…I’ll just let the first couple paragraphs explain this one:
TORONTO (CP) – What do a woman wrapped in sausages, a bag full of elephant manure, and a skinned monkey all have in common?
They’re just a few of the strange and stomach turning things officials with the Canada Border Services Agency have come across and confiscated during routine luggage checks at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in recent years.
Update: You know it’d probably help a lot of I gave you the link to the actual story.
The 100 Hottest Women
You’ve probably all heard of the various mens magazine’s hottest women lists, but the interesting thing about this one is that it was chosen by lesbians.
What’s Pee Wee Herman Been Up To Lately?
(Yes, I know the article’s a month old — I’m clearing out old items, give me a break).
Yet Another Reason To Come To (Or Avoid) Central Oregon During The Summer
The tourists that come here like to try to break odd ball world records — like the nearly 4,800 folks who all sat on a whoopee-cushion at the same time, far short of the 5,983 needed to break the record.
They have a video of it, too, but I’d recommend you watch it from the front page of the site as the video link on the article page tries to use Windows Media, which sucks and doesn’t work in Firefox at all, while the front-page Flash version (which I can’t link to) works fine.
All these folks were all here for The Rally, which is a gigantic annual RV Rally in Redmond. I sure you could think of a hundred old farts in RVs jokes that would be appropriate here, but I’ll leave that to you.