Saw this quote today: “We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said ‘If you just had a gun for that.’ A little light bulb went off in my head,” he said. It’s about a guy who is setting up a ranch so that people can remotely, over the internet, shoot...
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Archive for November, 2004
I eat meat, but this is just disgusting
Solution to PC Hell? Get a Mac
I happened to notice this article on the latest hot (or not) spyware threat on Windows: Coolwebsearch. The funny thing is, it’s not just amateurs or newbies that get hit with this stuff … and it’s not just little-known malware. Our offices’ resident Bill G-lover, Mike Skovgaard, who is a high-level developer and computer...
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Kindergarten girlfriend
So our son piped up today: “I have a girlfriend at school.” Ethan happens to be all of 5 years old, and in kindergarten, of course. Further questioning elicited the fact that, yes, he had a friend at school, and yes, she happened to be female. “Do you play with her at recess?” my...
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Closing comments – I hate online gambling
Due to a certain online gambling site that I will not name nor link to that insists on comment-spamming sparkplug9.com, I’m turning off comment posting. This sucks. Hard. But there’s nothing for it; I don’t want to deal with all the crap. May all spammers of all types drown in spam.
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Ego-surfing on Google again …
The best part of ego-surfing on Google is Google’s amazing capability to bring up pieces of your history that you’ve long since forgotten. The fifth link that searching for my name on Google brings up is this email to the US Department of Justice. Wow – I had forgotten all about it. Very cool....
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MAC versus Mac
OK. I’m only going to say this once. If you write MAC, you’re talking about an address of something on a network. If you write Mac, you’re talking about a fruit-flavored computer. To those who are clueless out there: get it straight!
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Quickly throw out this hot stock analyst
You have to love quotes like this: Our second big observation is that mp3 players, and specifically the iPod from Apple Computer, are selling like hotcakes. Take a look at Apple’s stock price, which has jettisoned from the $20s to the $50s on strong iPod sales. (found at Forbes) One can only hope this...
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