My boss has finally give me the go ahead to replace our aging Panasonic 2MP camera here at the office. The images I’m primarily shooting are of our vacation homes, interior and exterior, for use in print and online publications, and I’m looking for some help in my decision making. Read on if you’re interested …
It’s (Almost) Official
There’s still one more game in the tournament pick ’em, but Brad is going to win the t-shirt. Below are the final scores. These shouldn’t change, as while a few people picked UCLA to make the final four and/or final game (which certainly shot their scores up), nobody picked them to win it all:
1) homersolo BHSSN: 81 points
2) Josh Ausborne’s Picks: 71 points
2) Lazykosse: 71 points
4) severe anxiety attack: 70 points
5) Hoffmann: 68 points
6) Hoosier Daddy: 65 points
7) Chris’ For Utterly Boring: 57 points
7) Jo-Anne: 57 points
9) Jen’s Picks: 56 points
10) Let It Rain: 53 points
11) TTU Golden Eagles: 52 points
12) Crunk Time: 51 points
12) Jake’s No Strategy Picks: 51 points
14) monkeyinabox.net: 49 points
15) incontrovertible evidence: 46 points
16) LukaPuka: 44 points
17) Ty’s Tops: 37 points
18) Shannon: 25 points
All in all, it looks like I got pretty well creamed, despite leading after the first day.
So Brad, go pick your shirt, and e-mail me with your desired size, design, etc… and I’ll put you in touch with the store’s manager so you can make your claim.
Thanks again for everybody joining in and thanks to the Ruthless Bastard for putting up prizes for the competition, and let’s do it again next year (and maybe if I plan ahead a bit more I can get a few more prizes on top of the t-shirt).
Internet Jackass Day 2006 Recap
As I tend to on April 1st of pretty much every year, I really don’t get into April fools all that much. I generally just stayed offline yesterday as it was my day off anyway. I don’t usually spend too much time online on my days off, and spending it trying and figure out what was fake or not isn’t the best use of my time. But if you’re looking for some good recaps, check out Waxy’s list, Urgo’s huge list and Wikipedia’s massive collection of both online and offline hoaxes.
Google Deletes An Entire Site With Its Spider
This is what happens when you don’t have your authentication on your CMS setup properly. Whoops…
Don’t Shoot The Puppy
With my bent on torturing animals, have fun with this little flash game where you have to avoid blowing the puppy to pieces (and it’s a lot harder than it looks).
Why I Should Never Have A Cat
Because I would undoubtedly do something like this to it. Just look at the poor thing stagger like it’s drunk…
You Know What’s Sad?
Over the years, this site has had 8683 published comments. The thing that’s sad? The automatically incremented comment ID number in the database for this site is 22887. Which means I’ve had 14,204 spam, duplicate, or otherwise deleted comments (and I generally pretty much let anything get published, unless it’s spam or a duplicate). That means for every 1.6 spam comments, I get a regular comment.
Luckily, MovableType 3.2’s spam blocking settings sends the bulk majority of the comments either to the junk folder or sets them to unpublished status, so they’re not appearing on my site and they’re not sapping server resources on rebuilds, but it’s still annoying (and I can’t install mod_sec or other things like that, as they’ve caused some issues in the past and have slowed things down too much).
Update on 4/9: 8780 comments published, 26,630 total, so 17,850 spam (big attack last night — all dumped into the junk folder, as they were all that Mike Furir spam and I had that stuff blocked a long time ago during the first wave of attacks.
‘”While My Guitar Gently Weeps” On The Ukulele
I’ve been told (as I don’t play guitar) that George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is a pain in the butt to play on guitar. So you can only imagine the talent it takes to play it flawlessly on a ukulele.
Tom Cruise Is A Nut Job
Yeah, I know, that headline is fairly obvious, but here’s some more evidence (and more evidence that anybody who believes in Scientology is cracked):
Tom Cruise’s pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes will be reminded to keep her vow of silence during birth — by signs plastered around their home.
The couple — following the Scientology tradition of a silent birth– had the posters delivered to their Beverly Hills mansion.
The 6ft placards will be placed so Katie can see them in labour.
One reads: “Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable.”
Oh, but it gets better. Some more snippets….
Followers believe it is traumatic for babies to hear their mother scream or groan when giving birth. They think it can cause “psychic” damage, which takes years of therapy to overcome.
[…]
The doctrine stresses newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or spoken to for seven days.
So if there is something wrong with the baby, no medical attention can be given to it for seven days — assuming it survives that long. Nor can the voice he’s been listening to in the womb for the last nine months — his mother’s — be heard for seven days.
The comments on the article are hilarious, one commenter writing that they should have those signs to keep silent wherever Tom goes so he’ll keep his mouth shut. Or how one said “Perhaps Katie Holmes could hold Tom Cruise’s testicles throughout the birth and see if he remains silent!!!” I think you should just cut his nuts off so he doesn’t make the mistake of breeding ever again.
Worst Decisions In Video Game History
There are some wonderful memories on this list including Nintendo’s decision to dump the Playstation, the Hot Coffee mod, the enormous Xbox controller, and more.