It’s amazing how technology has made us into people like this.
Can You Tell The Difference?
This game is just a simple quiz: Steak House or Gay Bar? Since I don’t frequent either (the former I can’t afford, the latter because I’m not gay), I batted about 40% on this one.
Huh?
I don’t know about you guys, but I think she’s sitting on the toilet:
Seriously, why would anybody make a video like this? And why would anybody remix it (videos after the jump)?
Time Killers For The Evening
Just got done watching the series 8 premiere of the totally awesome Spooks (great show — which unfortunately you have to work a bit if you want to see it on our side of the Atlantic), and thought I’d share some time killers while I recover from the tense episode…
- CCCPirates where you get to shoot cannon balls in an attempts to save treasure chests.
- Momentum Master is a tough little bugger of a game, but a heck of a lot of fun.
Enjoy!
Links For The Day
Another busy evening (have rehearsal tonight right after work until late and am already tired after today), but have a bunch of stuff to share…
- Developing Games for Android.
- A really cool multi-app installer which will be great when setting up new computers.
- Why do we have an IMG element?
- The “Less Than Free” business model.
- Unfortunately, victim in fatal car accident was not Glenn Beck.
- Twitter Lists How-to.
- Old buddy of mine started up Central Oregon Athlete, covering local sports.
- ABC Numbers are out, and The Bulletin bucked circulation decline trends by actually posting a very small gain in circulation. They did last year as well. I’m sure you can all come up with reasons as to why they managed this, so knock yourself out below.
Links For The Day (And Technology Sucks)
I’ve dealing with an accounting “upgrade” that has caused me nothing but trouble and more work the last 48 hours (and a hardware upgrade on a client PC that needed more RAM because Quickbooks said so). Since the first of the month was the beginning of our fiscal year, the software needed to be in place ASAP (it didn’t help that Costco cancelled my original order and caused a three week delay in getting it). It’s finally working after working out some quirks with the new version of Quickbooks and Windows Server 2003 (see my link above for the gory details), and I now have my backup system of Karen’s Replicator (backing up to multiple hard drives and date-based directories around the network) and Ahsay OBM in place (after rebuilding our offsite backup server after a motherboard failure — another time killer), so I can finally sleep a little bit better.
So instead of something witty or resembling humor on here, here are some links I’ve had sitting around for the last couple days that I’ve wanted to share:
- The Map That Change The World.
- 15 Guides That Teach You Useful Stuff.
- Man Sues Axe Body Spray Because Women Didn’t Throw Themselves at Him.
- Best Bike Ever: A cargo bike built in Portland that holds two kegs, has a bar, holds pizzas, and has a built-in sound system. Sweet.
- Movie Narrative Charts is a brilliant way to see character interactions in some movies.
- A pile of useful Windows 7 guides.
- Spammers are evil, and now are using delayed DNS to scam people.
- Be careful with that forklift.
- Google Groups is Dead.
Time Killer For The Day
It’s a simple game — just fill in the spaces so that the same colors don’t touch. But the part that makes it fun is trying to do it in as few colors as possible. It’s Flood Fill and I managed to get gold stars (meaning you did the level in the fewest amounts of colors possible) on all 20 levels (just plan on trying to use three colors on later levels).
I Survived Halloween, and My Wedding Anniversary
As I mentioned in the past, my wife and I got married on the day before Halloween not because we liked the holiday, but because we liked saving money (we got the building we got married in for free if we got married on that day — we couldn’t pass it up). Ten years ago yesterday, my wife — and my best friend — and I tied the knot. How she’s managed to tolerate me all these years is beyond me. Just the same, I surprised my wife with a day-before-the-day-of (so Thursday) overnight trip to Sunriver to stay in a Sunriver home with my employer and a nice dinner at the Pine Tavern, where we went for our first anniversary. I actually got the house for two nights, knowing good and well my wife couldn’t get away for more than a night, so we brought the kids out for the second night (the actual night of our anniversary) and had a good time with all of us in a nice fancy house.
So as per tradition, my wife and sis-in-law decked out our house for our annual Halloween party. I don’t really like the holiday, probably primarily because of it’s timeliness to our wedding anniversary, but I still survived the day. All the nieces and nephews came over, we had far too much food and desert, and bunch of trick-or-treaters that my brother-in-law dealt with. We did have a couple teenagers who were old enough to drive that I just flat-out told to go away (I didn’t dig out the pickled asparagus with the labels). My exterior lights were off, I was enjoying the tail-end of the World Series and the Duck Game, and these guys were pounding on my door with nothing resembling a costume. I just told them we were out of candy. They didn’t believe me, I said I didn’t care and told them to go away. Little punks — I should’ve turned the hose of them.
Otherwise, the kids all had a great time, and that’s really all it’s about. Now I’m going to bed to hopefully take advantage of the extra hour of sleep that I really need.
Darth Vader Was At The Yalta Conference?
Apparently so. On top of that, photographic evidence show that Batman, Spider-man, and The Hulk were all in the War.