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  • adam 10:56 on 2002/04/30 Permalink  

    Squirrels: Death from above! 

    Squirrels Invade Stanford University
    Squirrels Invade Stanford University
    By Tony Russomanno
    They may look cute and furry.
    But Stanford University students say they’re traumatized by squirrels. “Yesterday, I was riding my bike along Escondido Road, when all of a sudden, my friend Katie screamed at me,” said Vauhimi Vara. “When I turned around, it turned out I had almost biked over a dead squirrel … It was quite traumatic.”
    And I thought that having them mate in your back yard was bad enough…

     

    • Jeremy 21:14 on 2002/05/08 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      you know, we have the same thing at the university of alabama, it seems that squirrels think transformers looks alot like acorns, and eat them, cutting off power to much of the campus, and causing all sorts of chaos…i think its college campuses in general.

    • patric moore 09:48 on 2004/05/04 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      its just a fucking squirrel. get over it.

  • adam 10:49 on 2002/04/30 Permalink  

    Don't piss off the wife… 

    myCFnow.com – Body Found In Walt Disney World Lagoon
    Man’s Personal Items Reportedly Found Near Water
    LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The body of a New Hampshire tourist who disappeared after arguing with his wife at a Walt Disney World hotel was found Friday by divers in a lagoon near the Magic Kingdom, according to Local 6 News.
    Now, they’re not saying that the wife did it, but anything is possible. Of course, the poor guy was probably trying to feed some geese or something and then slipped and fell….. But then how do you explain his wallet and jacket washing ashore?

     

    • Sulaiman Bangura 03:40 on 2002/06/22 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hi Adam!
      Remember me – from TexYard? I am currently in Istanbul, and by chance I happened to see a site that bore your name, while making a search for something! Cool site you got there!! :) By the way, where are you?

    • Juaymah Kristel Atencion 02:29 on 2007/08/07 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Hi mr. Sulaiman Bangura!Are you from sierra leone.coz im looking for the father of my husband named gibrielle bangura who is SULAIMAN BANGURA,he has a brother named alfred bangura.are you born on august 15,1960?do you know genelyn vallejos from barcelona spain?is your mother bomporoh and your father abu bakar? please let me know.heres my email juaymahkristel@yahoo.com
      your son is looking for you for so long.were here in the philippines.here’s our address #5 Col Arroyo Street Zone 3 Signal Village,Taguig City,Philippines,1631.

  • adam 01:21 on 2002/04/30 Permalink  

    Mu-ah-ah-ah-ah 

    Evil Plans are fun:
    Congratulations on being the creator of a new Evil Plan ™!
    Your objective is simple: World Domination.
    Your motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure
    Stage One
    To begin your plan, you must first seduce a wealthy heiress. This will cause the world to sit up and take notice, stunned by your arrival. Who is this really bad guy? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in classic black?
    Stage Two
    Next, you will seize control of the Internet. This will cause countless hordes of computer programmers to flock to you, begging to do your every bidding. Your name will become synonymous with fuzzy bunnies, as lesser men whisper your name in terror.
    Stage Three
    Finally, you will reveal to the world your corporate takeover, bringing about a 1984 police state. This will all be done from a Warehouse, an excellent choice if we might say.
    These three deeds will herald the end, and the citizens of this planet will
    have no choice but to elect you their new god.
    Trust us, it’ll all come together in the end.

     

  • adam 08:15 on 2002/04/29 Permalink  

    Filmexchange 

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    I forgot to mention this. I’m shooting a roll of film (this time I’m using a disposable camera) and mailing it to a stranger. Someone else is doing the same thing. When I get it, I develop it and pick out 12 photos for an online photo show. Should be interesting….

     

  • adam 02:15 on 2002/04/27 Permalink  

    Memories 

    So, I was IM’ing an acquaintance from high school tonight (hi, Tina)…. and I got to thinking. First, we were only acquaintance’s – I didn’t have too many friends in high school, but Tina and I were also very different people, and as many people know, high school is all about who you hang out with. She had her circles, I had mine.
    Anyway, she started asking me who I still talked to, and what they’re up to, then started telling me who she talks to and what they’re up to….
    And I realized that I should have gone to the fricking reunion. We’re all so different now that all that bullshit that I put up with in high school doesn’t matter now. Granted, part of it was the fact that my wife was working that weekend. And it was expensive (at least compared to my wifes, and we ended up getting a hotel room for that). But I had no real reason to not go. I even had a sort of ex-girlfriend trying to convince me to go with her so that we would at least know each other. But I had to be a dumbass and not go. Oooops.

    (More …)

     

  • adam 12:56 on 2002/04/26 Permalink  

    PSA: SIDS 

    I, Cringely | The Pulpit
    Chase Cringely sounds like the name of a NASCAR driver. Chase Cringely was my son. He died this week after 74 days of life, a victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). He literally stopped breathing lying in my lap while I did e-mail.
    I’m not one to over-worry, but this is something I’m always a little concerned about when I see :abby: sleeping. I can’t imagine how painful it would be to loose any of the kids, but to loose one of them to something that no-one even really understands fully….

     

  • adam 01:37 on 2002/04/26 Permalink  

    And the inbox just fills back up 

    So, I now have 601 messages in my inbox. I think about 15% of them are messages from myself (at work) to myself (at home) with URL’s/tidbits/notes/reminders/whatnot. The rest? Well, I’m sure there’s some spam that I didn’t catch. So figure about 500 or so messages to process. That means an awful lot of PR pieces that didn’t get filtered. Messages from friends/family/whoever that I haven’t processed. And it just keeps getting worse. I think I need a vacation from my email…..
    Yeah, right. I’m about as addicted to email as you can get. Here I am, 1:30 in the morning, blogging and processing emails. I got home from work about an hour ago (0:30) and spent that time reading thru the email I got since I left for work at 15:00. God that’s a lot of email.
    Of course, if I’d just cut to the chase and un-sub from the 2 high volume mailing lists I’m on, I’d probably be much better off. Thank god for filters.

     

  • adam 11:21 on 2002/04/25 Permalink  

    nerdsluts 

    nerdslut.org .:. we always make passes at girls who wear glasses…
    So I haven’t had time to check it out too thoroughly, but I like it just from the domain name….

     

  • adam 11:14 on 2002/04/25 Permalink  

    Ass pennies 

    Upright Citizens Brigade Season 1 on DVDThe Very Unofficial UCB Site
    Every time a penny passes through your hands stick it up your ass…
    The wisdom of ass pennies is not to be ignored.
    Upright Citizens Brigade was a show on Comedy Central. It’s also a comedy troupe that gives lessons and such. I just know that they were pretty funny.

     

    • TJ 21:24 on 2003/08/20 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      You think you’re better than me? Oh, you’re not better than me. You handle my ass pennies everyday. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them. You give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with.

    • Anonymous 23:21 on 2004/05/04 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      can i have change for a dollar please?

    • larry 23:21 on 2004/05/04 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      can i have change for a dollar please?

    • Andrea 12:22 on 2005/09/04 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Do you have any change in your pockets? Yah? Any pennies? THOSE PENNIES HAVE BEEN IN MY ASS!

    • Katarack21 19:59 on 2005/12/14 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I’ve been sticking $30 in pennies up my ass every day for 11 years! that’s 3000 pennies a day! 21,000 pennies a week! 1,092,000 pennies a year! To date, that’s 12,012,000 pennies! EIGHT TIMES THE POPULATION OF NEBRASK! THOSE PENNIES WERE IN MY ASS!

    • DC 19:42 on 2006/03/02 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      You don’t have it together Nick. You stick pennies up your ass for confidence. That’s not having it together.

    • Michael 21:38 on 2006/03/12 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Oh I laugh at you before you can laugh at me! Your pennies have been in my ass!! You hear me?! Your pennies have been in MY ASS!

    • Matt 18:45 on 2006/09/01 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      To date, thats 12,012,000 pennies, eight times the population of Nebraska, those pennies were in my ass!

  • adam 10:56 on 2002/04/25 Permalink  

    Food is good! 

    I lost another 4.8 lbs this week. That brings me up to a total of 12.6 lbs that I’ve lost – not bad, eh?
    Considering that I thought I’d gained weight this week, that’s not too shabby – and I’m a little less flabby :)

     

  • adam 02:05 on 2002/04/25 Permalink  

    Aggregation, aggravation… 

    Found some neat RSS aggregation tools today, but one of them isn’t working like I thought it would – hence the aggravation.
    I’m hella-pissed at myself – I had some work to do for a client, but I seem to have lost my copy of it. So now I have to go back there and get another copy of it all… and it pushes things back by a bit. It’s a pain in the butt, especially since I just took forever to do some other work for them.
    And now it’s really late and I hear a baby crying. Joy.

     

  • adam 00:47 on 2002/04/24 Permalink  

    Life in the slow lane 

    I’m at a bit of a cross-roads, career wise. Do I want to continue with the current, semi-technical path that I’m on? Or do I want to go back to my “roots” and try to find some design/production work?
    It all stems from a co-worker telling me that I should start getting certifications – Microsoft, Cisco, whatever. That will, of course, cost money, but it could be worth money in the long run, right?
    On the other hand, there’s the design/production stuff. I guess the learning curve for that involves getting up to speed on XML and XHTML and CSS stuff (I do know a little CSS, thank goodness). There’s also the programming aspect – ASP, more Perl, PHP, SQL, and any other TLA I can think of. I have a bit of a problem with languages – my brain just doesn’t seem to be wired that way.
    There have actually been studies about this, I think. If you start to acquire languages early in life, you have an easier time. I took French in middle and high school, then a little in college. It shows – I don’t really remember any of it. I took PASCAL in college, as well as some C programming courses – nothing. It’s all just GONE.
    So I tend to think of learning a language as being along the same lines as smashing my head against a brick wall. Or something like that.
    Anyone have any suggestions? It’s like I’m in the middle of a “choose-your-own-adventure,” but I’m living it. Which way do I go???

     

  • adam 13:12 on 2002/04/23 Permalink  

    The joy of the hold button 

    So, I’m calling :apple: computer to see if they’ll replace my Airport BaseStation (ABS) (aka wireless internet access) even though it’s out of warranty. It appears that that capicitors in my ABS have blown. It might seem like I’m out of luck, but there are 2 websites that I’ve found (SeanAdams.com and VonWentzel.net) where others have had similar problems and had them replaced as if under warranty. I took my ABS apart and my capicitors seem blown too, so….
    I’m on hold. Again.

    (More …)

     

  • adam 10:59 on 2002/04/21 Permalink  

    Don't Panic 

    Oh my god oh my god oh my god!!!!
    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy mini-series (from BBCtv) is coming out on DVD in the US!!! I love the books – all 5 in the trilogy – and a local PBS station in CT used to broadcast it when I was younger. My parents even taped it so we could watch it all the time. Of course, like any tape, if you play it too much… it wears out and you can’t ever watch it again.
    So now I can buy the DVD and watch it forever….
    Oh, did I mention that I bought a DVD player? Sure, I have one in my laptop, but it’s a bit of a pain to hook the laptop up to the tv everytime we want to watch something like Oz – the complete first season, the Wizard of Oz (a Christmas gift for my whole family – good choice), or even Snow White (the first DVD that I bought for the kids).
    The player is pretty cool – it does DVD’s (duh!), MP3′s, and even JPG’s – so if I stick a CD full of images in it, it’ll display them all. Kinda cool, don’t you think?

     

    • stanley 00:37 on 2002/04/23 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Oh Boy! I watched that whole BBC series on television and then listened to when it came out on recorded books… I even dubbed the tapes so I could listen over and over again. The DVD is a must buy! Thanks for the news! BTW, I like the new look for your blog.

  • adam 20:28 on 2002/04/20 Permalink  

    Victory is mine 

    So, the lawn was done in under an hour – major deal, since it normally takes me at least 1 1/2 hours. Probably ’cause half the back yard is dead…..
    No fertilizer/weed control got put down (maybe tomorrow) but my nephew Pat and I did manage to finally take some control of the basement. Half of it’s finished (that half is now a mess, but ’cause Jen is sorting through all the hand me downs for the kids) and the other half is the pig sty. Empty soda boxes, all kinds of empty boxes, crap, and just stuff is on that side.
    We filled the extra fridge with soda and started breaking down all the empty boxes – there was quite a few of those. Garbage galore (mostly paper stuff), tons of cobwebs, and lots of now useless packing material – all thrown away (properly sorted for recycling, of course….). Anyway, you can actually walk around down there, so it’s a major change – and a good thing.
    Why? Well, if I ever want to have an office of my own, we need to clean up first, then take out “the closet” (a small room where we just throw things we don’t know what to do with) and put the office in. I feel like I accomplished something, and it’s a step in the right direction. Wahoo!
    This evening we’re gonna watch Sugar & Spice, Moulin Rouge and Heartbreakers. Should be fun – if I can stay up that long.

     

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