Obviously, I don’t watch too many movies, as I only got two right on this little quiz.
Oh Crap
Another major earthquake has been reported off the Indonesian coast. This one was an 8.2 8.5 (from story link above), which can still cause some pretty serious tsunamis.
Additional Reuters story and more from WikiNews and CNN.
I just hope this isn’t as bad as the last one.
More to come when more news breaks. Comment here if you find any more news.
Surgery Finally Paid Off
As many long time readers of this blog know, I had surgery on my back just over a year ago. Despite getting the surgeon for free, I still had to pay off the hospital and some other bills. I’m happy to say that my tax return killed off my remaining balance, and I now I don’t owe the local hospital a single dime — and now I have an extra $95/month in my pocket.
Now if I could just get rid of my student loans, then life would be good, and I’d have another $130/month in my pocket.
The School Shooter Was One Messed Up Dude
We all know about the school shooting in Minnesota last week, but what’s more disturbing is why they didn’t see something wrong with this kid before? I mean, look at the violent Flash animation the kid created, or the posts on his LiveJournal, or his postings on a neo-Nazi message board. The kid had some serious issues, and if nobody noticed this and offered help or guidance, then there is more to blame than just this kid. Obviously, he pulled the trigger, but he wouldn’t have felt the need had he had some support.
It doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things anyway, as everybody will just blame violent video games.
Experimenting With Ads
Don’t mind me, I’m experimenting with some ad formats from FastClick. There will be a small one appearing on the upper right of this page and one at the bottom.
If you see a problem with these ads, please let me know, I’m just trying to find a way to make a few bucks on this site to support hosting fees, etc… . If you find them intrusive, let me know!
And no, I’m not selling out, I just figured if I could make a few bucks on this, I could convince the wife to let me spend more time doing it, so click away, folks!
Barf Bag Collection
It’s official: You can find collections of anything online. Thanks Michelle for the link.
13 Things That Don’t Make Sense
Most of this is entirely out of my realm of understanding, but it’s still a fascinating read.
I’m Not Worried About Terrorists
I’m worried about our law enforcement officials losing explosives in major airports.
Short Time Only Fun Downloads
As you can see by this lenghty forum thread, my old server, which is supposed to be up until the end of the month, will be suffering some downtime in a couple days thanks to the actions of a poorly-managed webhost who bought out my former host. I’ve long since moved my sites (including this one) to a new server, so this site won’t go down. Since I’m primarily using the old server for storage, and it’s paid through the end of the month, I’m going to mirror some stuff there that I’ve had sitting on my hard drive that I think is pretty funny. If you have a file that you want mirrored there or a funny video you want me to plop there, let me know.
Note that these links could go down at any time, so don’t whine to me if it doesn’t work. They should, in theory, be up at least for another six days. Have fun downloading, and share the links (I’ve got about 75 gigs to kill in six days).
- A great Simpsons couch gag (10 meg Quicktime).
- Star Wars Episode 3 Parody Trailer (30 meg Quicktime, but hilarious)
- A mirror of that Skeleton Puppet video, NHL Hockey plea for help, that weird crash game and simple grid game, that I posted about here, here, here, and here.
- A picture of my naked wife.
- A guy who swears a lot while playing games.
- Some idiots trying tow a car out of a snow bank (14 megs).
- That impressive breakdancing VW Golf GTI commercial.
- Bush’s one-finger salute.
- Denis Leary’s Infamous A**hole song and his rant about Beer, Coffee, and The Pope (Buy his DVD, folks, he’s hilarious).
That’s all for now, more to come later if I get any submissions or find anything else on my hard drive that I feel like posting. Like I said, these links will probably die in a few days, so enjoy them while you can.
Again, let me be clear: UtterlyBoring.com is not going anywhere. I’m on a new, meaty server with a good Web host, and I’m just trying to take advantage of some extra space and bandwidth that I have sitting there unused elsewhere.
Update at 3:30: Apparently the old server is down for one reason or another. I’ve got a support ticket in there, as I’m paid through the month and I’d better get my month’s worth, so we’ll see. I’ll keep you posted.
Update at 3:50: Old server appears to be running again. Don’t know what was going on.
Update on 3/26 @ 1:00: The old server were taken down yesterday, as planned, but it’s not back up in the 11 hours like they planned — it’s going on 18 now. There’s a nice thread over at Web Hosting Talk about this whole mess. Hopefully everybody will be able to download again in a few hours.
Update on 3/27 at 7:00am: Looks like things are back up again — 48 hours (or more) later. Idiots. Boy am I glad I don’t have to deal with those morons.