Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
It’s amazing what they sell on eBay:
You are bidding on my collection of fast food restaurant condiments that I have collected over the past year at my job. An impressive collection of condiments that everyone seems to drop their jaw when seeing it for the first time.
There are about 129 condiment packets. The bidding is up to $15.50 and if it goes over $25, he’ll throw in some useless crap from Wendy’s (a plastic fork, knife, and straw).
If you miss the TV Show, you can find Beavis committing crime here in Oregon. Link via BuzzMachine.
Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. The pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: “You don’t need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead.” Full Story.
Why don’t I trust the government to do things right? When they’re fully convinced that a six-year-old girl is some sort of terrorist. I don’t care how nice they were to her, the security people should have never had to do that to a little girl — period. Quoted:
My daughter was scared and shaken up by the ordeal and told us that she “hated it.” At least the security people were polite to her. But they were like polite robots, unable to laugh at the fact that someone had mistakenly pegged a little girl as a potential terrorist. No, they insisted that she had to take off her shoes and get patted down and have a wand passed over her body and have her Hello Kitty suitcase opened and examined with a fine toothed comb.
Salon has a good editorial about this.
Get a Knoppix CD and follow these directions. Link via Neil.
Amazon’s founder is lampooned in a hidden easter egg on Amazon’s Web site (search for “old fart”). In case Amazon takes it down, it goes here.
Great signature I saw in an email today:
Some Democrats are talking seriously about Hillary Clinton running for president in 2004. I don’t think they are serious — I think they are trying to get Rush Limbaugh to go back on drugs.
End of AP’s story on CES in Sunday’s Oregonian had this:
“One interesting little device debuting at the trade show claims to put truth detection voice analysis on the bridge of your nose.”
“Voice Analysis Eyeglasses” provide real-time analysis on the inside of the lenses about whoever is talking at the time, says its maker, the Israeli company Nemesysco, which developed the technology for counterterrorism and government customers.”
“A chip inside the glasses is able to read the voice frequency of the person you are talking to,” said Beata Gutman, a spokeswoman for the company. “The voice is analyzed through that chip, and there are lights that indicate whether the person is lying.”
“She said the truth spects were expected to be available at the end of January for $400 to $500.”
Raises all sorts of intriguing questions, doesn’t it? If it works, that is.
Can’t find anything on that particular product on their Website but do find an equally intriguing press release from late ’02 about “LOVE-SENSE,” which the company calls “the first-ever PC software that can detect love!” by analyzing the voice over the phone in real time to “detect deep emotional feelings.”
Sure, yeah, right. I believe that, don’t you?
Just got my bill for my stay in the hospital (all three hours of it) and it’s a bit over $3100. That included rental of the space, all the various drugs I got while I was there, rental of the recovery room (and hour of time for $300 — and the would’ve kept me longer if I wasn’t like “I’m fine, get me the hell out of here.”), etc… . That didn’t include the anesthesiologist (which I’m still waiting on a bill for) or the surgeon (which I don’t have to pay for). I still have to pay off my MRI (about $1000), and I know the anesthesiologist won’t be cheap (probably a $1000). So I still have $5000 of medical bills or so (could be worse — if I had to pay for the surgeon and post-surgery care at the specialist’s office, it’d be over $10,000).
Donations still being accepted 🙂. Hopefully I’ll get back some money in taxes this year (and I should), so that’ll kill off about 25% of it (crossing fingers as I got a good refund last year), and I’m playing the “transfer balances between zero interest credit cards” game to avoid paying interest on it so I won’t be paying double in the long run.