I'm still on hiatus, part IV.
I thought my hiatus was over, but it's not. The idea of putting even the simplest of entries together fills me with exhaustion.
The poll results were interesting. Six of you want me to come back, one of you thinks I'm too tired to come back yet, and six of you were looking for porn. Actually only five of you were looking for porn; one of the porn votes was me testing the poll thingy. Well, I'm not psychologically fit to come back, but as far as the porn goes, let me strongly suggest that you have a look at the excellent (and not safe for work) ErosBlog. Not only is it a pretty good blog, but they have links to lots of other similar blogs (which also aren't safe for work).
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Content. Sort of.
I'm sinking to an all time low today: this entry was email junk my sister forwarded me.
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We are sick and tired of hearing about how dumb people in the South are. We challenge any so-called smart Yankee to take this exam administered by the Clemson University Engineering Department:
1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10-pound possum.
2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in your front yard?
A. '65 Ford Fairlane
B. '69 Chevrolet Chevelle
C. '64 Pontiac GTO
3. If your uncle builds a still which operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine produced per hour, how many car radiators are required to condense the product?
4. A woodcutter has a chainsaw which operates at 2700 RPM. The density of the pine trees in the plot to be harvested is 470 per acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many Budweisers will be drunk before the trees are cut down?
5. If every old refrigerator in the state vented a charge of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the percentage decrease in the ozone layer?
6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?
7. A man owns a Tennessee house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has five children. Can each of his grown children place a mobile home on the man's land and still have enough property for their electric appliances to sit out front?
8. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 900 yards down a steep slope on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail. Given average traffic conditions on secondary roads, what is the probability that it will strike a vehicle with a muffler?
9. A coalmine operates a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area. The mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning is issued at the beginning of the 3rd shift. How many cartons of unfiltered Camels will be smoked during the shift?
10. At a reduction in the gene pool variability rate of 7.5% per generation, how long will it take a town that has been bypassed by the Interstate to breed a country-western singer?
I'm sinking to an all time low today: this entry was email junk my sister forwarded me.
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We are sick and tired of hearing about how dumb people in the South are. We challenge any so-called smart Yankee to take this exam administered by the Clemson University Engineering Department:
1. Calculate the smallest limb diameter on a persimmon tree that will support a 10-pound possum.
2. Which of these cars will rust out the quickest when placed on blocks in your front yard?
A. '65 Ford Fairlane
B. '69 Chevrolet Chevelle
C. '64 Pontiac GTO
3. If your uncle builds a still which operates at a capacity of 20 gallons of shine produced per hour, how many car radiators are required to condense the product?
4. A woodcutter has a chainsaw which operates at 2700 RPM. The density of the pine trees in the plot to be harvested is 470 per acre. The plot is 2.3 acres in size. The average tree diameter is 14 inches. How many Budweisers will be drunk before the trees are cut down?
5. If every old refrigerator in the state vented a charge of R-12 simultaneously, what would be the percentage decrease in the ozone layer?
6. A front porch is constructed of 2x8 pine on 24-inch centers with a field rock foundation. The span is 8 feet and the porch length is 16 feet. The porch floor is 1-inch rough sawn pine. When the porch collapses, how many hound dogs will be killed?
7. A man owns a Tennessee house and 3.7 acres of land in a hollow with an average slope of 15%. The man has five children. Can each of his grown children place a mobile home on the man's land and still have enough property for their electric appliances to sit out front?
8. A 2-ton truck is overloaded and proceeding 900 yards down a steep slope on a secondary road at 45 MPH. The brakes fail. Given average traffic conditions on secondary roads, what is the probability that it will strike a vehicle with a muffler?
9. A coalmine operates a NFPA Class 1, Division 2 Hazardous Area. The mine employs 120 miners per shift. A gas warning is issued at the beginning of the 3rd shift. How many cartons of unfiltered Camels will be smoked during the shift?
10. At a reduction in the gene pool variability rate of 7.5% per generation, how long will it take a town that has been bypassed by the Interstate to breed a country-western singer?
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Thursday, January 29, 2004
I'm still on hiatus, part III.
I paid my $15 to Haloscan to upgrade my account, so now all the old comments show up in my archives. I also added a nifty search box below my archives list. It's from Atomz and I couldn't be happier with it.
So, I've done all the little home improvements I've wanted to do for awhile, with the exception of cleaning up my archives of all those annoying blank spaces that would occasionally appear at the end of entries done with a text editor back in the days when I wasn't hep to the fact that blank space could count as content. And, of course, correct all the misspelled words. Unfortunately, these two things will have to fixed manually. Unless someone can tell me otherwise.
I still have no set date for my return to regular programming.
I paid my $15 to Haloscan to upgrade my account, so now all the old comments show up in my archives. I also added a nifty search box below my archives list. It's from Atomz and I couldn't be happier with it.
So, I've done all the little home improvements I've wanted to do for awhile, with the exception of cleaning up my archives of all those annoying blank spaces that would occasionally appear at the end of entries done with a text editor back in the days when I wasn't hep to the fact that blank space could count as content. And, of course, correct all the misspelled words. Unfortunately, these two things will have to fixed manually. Unless someone can tell me otherwise.
I still have no set date for my return to regular programming.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
I'm still on hiatus, part II.
I got my feed up and working finally. I kept trying to use the feed URL Blogger told me to use which is my regular URL with /atom.xml stuck on the end. That never worked. I set up the feed on my secret R&D blog and it worked using this addition to the URL. I saw another blog that had their feed up and running and they too had the /atom.xml URL. So what was the problem with Volume22? I found out, by accident when I republished the entire blog, that my feed URL for some strange reason is my regular URL plus /rss/volume22.xml. Huh? So, be warned if you plan to set one of these feeds up that the URL Blogger tells you the feed is on may not be the URL it's actually on. If that makes any sense. I only barely understand it.
I got my feed up and working finally. I kept trying to use the feed URL Blogger told me to use which is my regular URL with /atom.xml stuck on the end. That never worked. I set up the feed on my secret R&D blog and it worked using this addition to the URL. I saw another blog that had their feed up and running and they too had the /atom.xml URL. So what was the problem with Volume22? I found out, by accident when I republished the entire blog, that my feed URL for some strange reason is my regular URL plus /rss/volume22.xml. Huh? So, be warned if you plan to set one of these feeds up that the URL Blogger tells you the feed is on may not be the URL it's actually on. If that makes any sense. I only barely understand it.
Monday, January 26, 2004
I'm still on hiatus, part I.
I'm still on hiatus, this is just the first in a series of posts that may appear from time to time before I come out of hiatus (whenever that'll be).
You may have noticed a few changes to my sidebar. I've been doing some improvements. I now I use Blogrolling for my links, I've changed my archives to monthly instead of the completely excessive weekly scheme I've had for over a year, and I'm getting the new Atom site feed set up. I'm also going to put a search box in the sidebar. Another thing I'm pondering is whether or not I should part with $10 of my hard earned money to get a paid Haloscan account so all my old comments will appear again.
Thank you for your patience.
I'm still on hiatus, this is just the first in a series of posts that may appear from time to time before I come out of hiatus (whenever that'll be).
You may have noticed a few changes to my sidebar. I've been doing some improvements. I now I use Blogrolling for my links, I've changed my archives to monthly instead of the completely excessive weekly scheme I've had for over a year, and I'm getting the new Atom site feed set up. I'm also going to put a search box in the sidebar. Another thing I'm pondering is whether or not I should part with $10 of my hard earned money to get a paid Haloscan account so all my old comments will appear again.
Thank you for your patience.
Cheesy Guitars.
If you ever been curious about what kind of electric guitars were made in the Soviet Union (come on, there has to be at least one of you that's wondered that), then have a look at Cheesy Guitars. Large and crude with bodies shaped like amoebas, some of these guitars are amazing. Freaky. [Link via VintAxe.]
If you ever been curious about what kind of electric guitars were made in the Soviet Union (come on, there has to be at least one of you that's wondered that), then have a look at Cheesy Guitars. Large and crude with bodies shaped like amoebas, some of these guitars are amazing. Freaky. [Link via VintAxe.]
Finally!
Finally, a blog written in the Klingon language has surfaced. [Link via Qov (whose link to his homepage didn't work).]
Finally, a blog written in the Klingon language has surfaced. [Link via Qov (whose link to his homepage didn't work).]
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Suspended Animation.
Well, it's official, I'm going on hiatus. Or rather, my blog's going on hiatus. I hate doing this hiatus thing, mainly because I hate it when other people do it, but it wasn't until quite recently that fully understood why people do it. If you're too busy to write, or can't think of anything to write, then there's no use in forcing it. And I really knew it was time to take a break when it seemed incredibly laborious to even slap together several links for my semi-daily posts. I have no idea how long this hiatus will last. Maybe only for a week or two. Maybe for a couple of months. I really don't know. I do plan on coming back. I may even post things here on occasion, but don't come here every day expecting new stuff because you're going to be very disappointed.
If any of you who link to me want to take my link down, go ahead; I don't want to clog up anyone's sidebar or Blogroll.
Well, it's official, I'm going on hiatus. Or rather, my blog's going on hiatus. I hate doing this hiatus thing, mainly because I hate it when other people do it, but it wasn't until quite recently that fully understood why people do it. If you're too busy to write, or can't think of anything to write, then there's no use in forcing it. And I really knew it was time to take a break when it seemed incredibly laborious to even slap together several links for my semi-daily posts. I have no idea how long this hiatus will last. Maybe only for a week or two. Maybe for a couple of months. I really don't know. I do plan on coming back. I may even post things here on occasion, but don't come here every day expecting new stuff because you're going to be very disappointed.
If any of you who link to me want to take my link down, go ahead; I don't want to clog up anyone's sidebar or Blogroll.
Monday, January 19, 2004
Saturday, January 17, 2004
A new reason to get up in the morning (besides a full bladder).
Mina Naguib Website Mixmaster mixes the layout of one site with the text of another. Here's an example of this blog's text mixed with Yahoo's layout. [Link via Metafilter.]
Mina Naguib Website Mixmaster mixes the layout of one site with the text of another. Here's an example of this blog's text mixed with Yahoo's layout. [Link via Metafilter.]
Friday, January 16, 2004
Living Color.
A gallery of pre World War I color images each built from three black and white images taken through red, blue, and yellow filters. [Link via Metafilter.]
A gallery of pre World War I color images each built from three black and white images taken through red, blue, and yellow filters. [Link via Metafilter.]
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
A Very Bad Thing.
Things have gotten a little spare here recently I know, but unfortunately they may get even sparer. My class load this semester is a bit heavy, but even worse than the general class load is the fact that I have to take Accounting II. Anyone who was reading this blog last Jan-May may remember my semi-frequent rants about how much I hate/fear accounting. Simply put, the subject drives me absolutely insane. I have the mathematical skills of a sideshow mule, but even though accounting mostly deals with addition and subtraction, entering in all of the figures in the right places and making sure the account is balanced gets me so frustrated I become almost completely unhinged. After twenty minutes or so of struggling with this stuff I get so infuriated I practically foam at the mouth. Then I get up and begin pacing, flailing my arms wildly, muttering the vilest obscenities I can think of, and making all kinds of crazy accusations. Accounting is bad, people. Very, very bad. And if I don't pass the class, I don't graduate in May, and the class won't be offered again until next spring.
Things have gotten a little spare here recently I know, but unfortunately they may get even sparer. My class load this semester is a bit heavy, but even worse than the general class load is the fact that I have to take Accounting II. Anyone who was reading this blog last Jan-May may remember my semi-frequent rants about how much I hate/fear accounting. Simply put, the subject drives me absolutely insane. I have the mathematical skills of a sideshow mule, but even though accounting mostly deals with addition and subtraction, entering in all of the figures in the right places and making sure the account is balanced gets me so frustrated I become almost completely unhinged. After twenty minutes or so of struggling with this stuff I get so infuriated I practically foam at the mouth. Then I get up and begin pacing, flailing my arms wildly, muttering the vilest obscenities I can think of, and making all kinds of crazy accusations. Accounting is bad, people. Very, very bad. And if I don't pass the class, I don't graduate in May, and the class won't be offered again until next spring.
Monday, January 12, 2004
Food.
I love watching cooking shows on TV. I never cook anything complicated, but I love watching someone else cook (as long as it's on TV; in real life it's not fun at all). A couple of weeks ago I was watching one of these programs and a chef was preparing two live lobsters. I'm not completely naive, I know lobsters are cooked alive. So I just assumed the chef would toss the lobsters into a big pot of boiling water and be done with it. Nope. He picked one of the lobsters up and, while it was still moving, chopped it in half length-wise with a big meat cleaver. It sort of reminded me of the episode of The Simpsons I'd seen where they go to a restaurant called the Slaughterhouse. The restaurant had live cattle on one side and you could chose the one you wanted and they'd kill it in front of you.
I love watching cooking shows on TV. I never cook anything complicated, but I love watching someone else cook (as long as it's on TV; in real life it's not fun at all). A couple of weeks ago I was watching one of these programs and a chef was preparing two live lobsters. I'm not completely naive, I know lobsters are cooked alive. So I just assumed the chef would toss the lobsters into a big pot of boiling water and be done with it. Nope. He picked one of the lobsters up and, while it was still moving, chopped it in half length-wise with a big meat cleaver. It sort of reminded me of the episode of The Simpsons I'd seen where they go to a restaurant called the Slaughterhouse. The restaurant had live cattle on one side and you could chose the one you wanted and they'd kill it in front of you.
Mouse Pad.
I bought my spiffy new computer a little over a week ago, but yet I'm still using the same mouse pad I've been using for over two years. It's looking a little diseased. I'm not one of those people who eats a lot when I sit at my computer (otherwise I'd weigh 300 pounds), but still the mouse pad looks filthy. I think most of the filth, if you can call it that, is skin. I have very dry hands. The pad isn't ragged, just dirty. So my question of the day is, Can you wash a mouse pad? Have any of you ever washed one? If so, how? In the sink by hand? Washing-machine? Dishwasher?
And, yes, I know mouse pads are cheap and I can just go buy a new one instead of trying to wash the old one, but I just bought a new computer and I don't have any money left. So there.
I bought my spiffy new computer a little over a week ago, but yet I'm still using the same mouse pad I've been using for over two years. It's looking a little diseased. I'm not one of those people who eats a lot when I sit at my computer (otherwise I'd weigh 300 pounds), but still the mouse pad looks filthy. I think most of the filth, if you can call it that, is skin. I have very dry hands. The pad isn't ragged, just dirty. So my question of the day is, Can you wash a mouse pad? Have any of you ever washed one? If so, how? In the sink by hand? Washing-machine? Dishwasher?
And, yes, I know mouse pads are cheap and I can just go buy a new one instead of trying to wash the old one, but I just bought a new computer and I don't have any money left. So there.
Saturday, January 10, 2004
New Toy.
I've been playing around with the Narrator in Windows XP. This feature, intended for the sight-impaired, reads on-screen material in a robotic voice. Naturally, since I'm not blind, I find this feature amusing rather than helpful. A few days ago I had it reading emails I'd pasted into a text editor. Very funny (for a little while). The voice isn't appropriate for anything. It emphasizes the wrong words, sometimes dragging them out ridiculously, thus changing the tone of the text its reading. I would like to get it to read blogs for me (I've simply gotten too lazy), but even though it's supposed to work with Internet Explorer, I can't get it to read most web pages. I've yet to coax it to read a blog. Anyone have any ideas? And not just about the Narrator, either. I'll take any ideas, I'm fresh out.
I've been playing around with the Narrator in Windows XP. This feature, intended for the sight-impaired, reads on-screen material in a robotic voice. Naturally, since I'm not blind, I find this feature amusing rather than helpful. A few days ago I had it reading emails I'd pasted into a text editor. Very funny (for a little while). The voice isn't appropriate for anything. It emphasizes the wrong words, sometimes dragging them out ridiculously, thus changing the tone of the text its reading. I would like to get it to read blogs for me (I've simply gotten too lazy), but even though it's supposed to work with Internet Explorer, I can't get it to read most web pages. I've yet to coax it to read a blog. Anyone have any ideas? And not just about the Narrator, either. I'll take any ideas, I'm fresh out.
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