A guy buys a loaf of normal white bread. Takes it home to discover that it’s sliced horizontally instead of vertically. So he decides to make a sandwich fit for a king. That’s a thing of beauty, and even bigger than the monster I had at Lindy’s in NYC. Link via b3ta.
The worst last name for a cop
This guys’s a police chief. He’s trying to convince his city to create medical marijuana guidelines. His name is Kenneth Thrailkill. His last name is pronounced “Thrill Kill”. Tip via Barney.
Is Donald Trump’s Face on it?
Woman tries to pass a $1 million bill at Wal-Mart. The rumor has it that she tried to pass one of these novelty bills and had two more in her pocket. Thanks Barney for the tip.
Only Four More Days until the Grand Challenge
On March 13th, unmanned robots have 10 hours to get from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. First robot there gets a million bucks from the U.S. Government. Official race site. The Raw Feed has provided several news links about it, including some entries surviving qualifying trials as well as a link to some entries.
DARPA is the same U.S. government defense agency that we can thank for the Internet, as well as Vietnam war-era mechanical elephants.
Unused space on hard drives recovered?
Has anybody tried this and had it work? Using the methods on that page, the folks there claim the following drive size increases, with no data loss:
Western Digital 200GB SATA
Yield after recovery: 510GB of space
IBM Deskstar 80GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 150GB of space
Maxtor 40GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 80GB
Seagate 20GB EIDE
Yield after recovery: 30GB
Unknown laptop 80GB HDD
Yield: 120GB
I’d be interested to see if this works, but damn, I don’t know if it’s worth the risk. Anybody tried it?
Testing, 1, 2, 3…
OK, DNS issues resolved, and now I’ve got my own server with root access, and things are running smooth (hopefully). I’m going to be manually putting in a few of the comments that were posted on the old site, but if you’re reading this, than the transfer worked.
Still need to work out a few bugs with my Dada install, as that never likes transferring properly, but otherwise, things are working dandy, and I love having root access 🙂
Update: Mailing list working again, writing up a goodbye letter to previous host as we speak. Regular blogging to continue as soon as I get a free few minutes and can clean my inbox out.
Update on 3/9: In case your curious as to the full reason why I left my previous host, here is a post on their forums. But so far, the site loads quicker and things run better. We’ll just have to see how things go. I’ve got my Dada mail installed and working right, but haven’t gotten the scheduler back up and running yet, so that’s on the to-do list for today (thanks to Bailey for helping me set that up).
Moving to New Host
Just a quick announcement. I’m going to be moving this site, as well as several others, to my new host and server this weekend. More than likely, I won’t be posting much at all until I made the move to the new server, hopefully on Sunday. I’ll keep you posted.
Happy Birthday to Spam
It’s 10-years old today. It started on Usenet, and has come to consume more e-mail traffic than regular mail. A good look at spam’s ugly history.
A novel idea: Same-person marriage
Another brilliant commentary from Barney:
Same-sex marriage? That’s so 2001. Okay, 2002.
I want to promote same-person marriage.
That’s right. I want to marry MYSELF. Me, myself and I — my goodness, it’s almost a menage a trois!
I love me, as all good, right-thinking people should. I’m my best friend. I’ve known me all my life, sometimes, ahem, in that personal way people only really get to know themselves.
I try to take good care of myself. (Not always succeeding, but I do try). And I forgive myself when I don’t. I try to be honest with myself, because I deserve it.
When I look in the mirror, I see a right handsome dude. Others can’t see in me what I see in myself. We have a special bond, and even look fondly on “Me and My Shadow,” especially when we’re strolling down the avenue. Like SNL’s Stuart Smalley said, “I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough and Doggone It, People Like Me” — so why shouldn’t I pay myself the ultimate compliment, and marry me? (If I’m good enough for myself, that is.)
So I think I’ll head to the county clerk’s office. If two people of the same sex can legally marry, why can’t I marry myself? I want to hear the preacher say, “I now pronounce you … you.”
Haven’t you ever just loved something you did, said or … performed, enough to say, “Boy, I sure love me right now!” Why not be able to profess that love to the whole world?
Now, isn’t that special? (No, not a ‘special right’ – a special ME!;-)
“Do you send out Free Porn?”
I’m sure this lady is going to unsubscribe from my mailing list for saying this, but I’m not mentioning her name, I just got a kick out of this. She e-mails me the following: “This might sound very bad, but do you send people who subscribed free porn?”
I told her I would — if she asked really nice.
She thought it was a funny joke, and she’s still on the list — last I checked.