And he was apparently robbing a local liquor store (reminds me of the local Crusty The Clown and Selma Bouvier lovechild from way back in the day).
Is George W. Trying To Give An Elephant An Enema?
It sort of looks like it, doesn’t it? Thanks Mark for the link/headline.
People Do Stupid Things
Like this nitwit (mirror) who manages to light his pubic hair on fire (not safe for work, obviously). Why (how?) you would do something like this, I have no idea. Link via b3ta.
Traffic Update
After last week’s storm of traffic (which is still coming just not as hard), my server’s finally recovered a bit. I know I’ve pushed at least 50 gigs of traffic in the last few days on that video (can’t get good stats on the old server, so I don’t know for sure). I’ve been pushing about 10,000-20,000 page views for the last few days. I had to shut off BlogAds for part of the weekend as it wasn’t responding to the traffic (Google’s Adsense servers were responding just fine). It’s since been reenabled with two ads that came in over the weekend.
Speaking of ads, you might notice the ad up in the upper right for our local cable company. In full disclosure, yes they are paying for that spot, but I do still reserve the right to criticize them if I feel the need (they know they’re not allowed to touch the editorial on this site). Why are they doing it? Because my traffic rank is higher than bend.com and near to the Bulletin’s (many days I’m higher) and they’re no dummies.
What A Waste Of Computer Resources
Now if somebody could get this to work on a small device so that didn’t require it to be hooked up to your PC, then this doorbell would replace mine in a heartbeat.
Atari 800 XE Laptop
Only a geek will truly appreciate how much of a pain in the butt this probably was, but the finished product — with it’s brushed aluminum and wood grain — is sweet.
Knot Tying For Dummies
I remember having to know some of these way back in my Cub Scout days, but this is a nice handy reference with nice animations for us knot-tying nitwits.
Google Does A Lot Of Stuff
Just check out this comprehensive list.
Man With The World’s Strongest Penis
How did he prove this? He attached himself not once but twice to a rental moving truck and pulled it several yards across a parking lot. Ouch.
Welcome Spiegel.de Readers
This site was inaccessible this morning for a bit. Why? Because it was getting killed by traffic from this link (update on 12/14: And this link, too). I don’t speak German, so I have no idea what any of it says, but I do know they managed push 10 gigs of bandwidth and an average of 300 connections per second in the last 24 hours linking to this entry. I’ve since moved the video to another server (thanks a ton to Karin, my partner in crime on this server) so hopefully that will make things function a bit better (and make it so I’m not totally saturating a 10mbs connection).
It’s also totally hosed my e-mail for this domain, so if you’ve tried e-mail any address at utterlyboring.com, it didn’t get through, so go ahead and try to e-mail me at utterlyboring [at] gmail [dot] com.
Update at 12:50: Looks like there are quite a few sites linking to that entry. Welcome to everybody!
Update at 3:40: At last count, in the last 7 hours, we’ve pushed 19.3 GIGs on that video above. Amazing….