Mother-in-Law and The Holy Land

A man, his wife and mother-in-law went on vacation to the Holy Land.

While they were there the mother-in-law passed away.

The undertaker told them, “You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here in the Holy Land for $150.00.”

The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, “Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your mother-in-law home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and spend only $150?

The man replied, “A man died here 2000 years ago, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can’t take that chance.”

Thanks Craig for the joke.

September 30, 2004

Spam Filters Will Never Work Right

When spam filters don’t do their job right, it angers people. However, it does make for entertaining commentary (just don’t try to e-mail the author with “booby” in the subject line).

September 29, 2004

Bloggers are ‘net Version of Sad Guys with Police Radios

This guy’s going to get some flack over this (get user/pass here):

Do bloggers have the credentials of real journalists? No. Bloggers are hobby hacks, the Internet version of the sad loners who used to listen to police radios in their bachelor apartments and think they were involved in the world. …Most bloggers are not fit to carry a reporter’s notebook.

Generally, I agree with him, but there are many great bloggers out there that are probably better reporters than he is (and many good reporters who are also bloggers). Link via Romensko.

September 29, 2004

Dilbert’s Ultimate House

If I ever built my own house, and had a pile of money, I’d like to think that my house would turn out something like this. They’ve got a great deal of well done computer imagery and virtual walk throughs, as well as explanations as to why they did what they did in each room. Very cool.

September 29, 2004

eBay Misspellings Search Engine

One of the best ways to get great deals on eBay is to find mis-spellings of items on eBay — they’re hard to find, so the prices are stupidly low. This search engine makes it a ton easier. The search uses the guy’s eBay affiliate ID so he can make a few bucks (which is only fair), but he does off an affiliate-free version.

September 29, 2004

Local Bear Loves Pizza

Apparently the odor from the pizzas from Old Town Pizza on Greenwood in Bend will linger in your car for a while. So much that a local bear chewed on the bumper and tried to get into a car that had, just a few minutes before, been a pizza transport out to a party in Tumalo.

September 29, 2004

Need ASAP: 2×512 MB DDR400 — Have DDR2 for Trade

OK, I need this ASAP so if there’s anybody locally who can help me out, that’d be dandy, as I’m on a deadline with this client, despite them screwing with me on their requests.

I misread the specs on a motherboard I ordered for a client’s computer, discovered that I need DDR400, not DDR2400. So I have 2 512 MB Sticks of DDR2 400, would like to trade straight across for DDR of the same capacity.

And if anybody has an adapter that will allow you to use a 20-pin ATX power connector on a 24-pin ATX connector motherboard, please let me know as well.

E-mail me at jake [at] [this site’s domain] dot com. My IM handles are over here, if you want to use those.

If you could ship these overnight, or even drive them to Bend, Oregon (if you’re in the area), that’d be terrific, and you’ll be getting much more valuable RAM out of the deal.

Update on 9/30: No dealers locally would trade, so I had to buy some and RMA the old stuff. Thanks anyway, folks!

September 29, 2004

Moron Crook for the Day

If you’re going to steal large pieces of equipment from a lumber yard, make sure you don’t leave drag marks that run straight to your house.

Update 9/29: Sorry, Newsday link originally posted now dead. Updated link to story.

September 28, 2004

Asinine Lawsuit for the Day

Not in the mood for sex? Blame McDonalds.

September 28, 2004

Somebody’s Having Too Much Fun

She was driving drunk with her two kids in the car, urinated next to car, threatened police officers with a tennis racket, and decides to kick police officer in the nads and break a police car window, just for fun. All in a day’s work.

September 28, 2004