Month: January 2004
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World traveler, my ass. According to this site, I’ve only visited 5% of the world countries. (That’s 13, to be exact.) Most of ’em were in Europe, and quite a few were mere airport stopovers. See, I told you I’m not really that interesting.
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I discovered a useful site today called geekgirls.com. It’s got a lot of “plain-English” computor tutorials. I particularly liked: Passwords Made Easy and Database Design from Scratch. I’m still going through the rest of the site…
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Wow, a pickled dragon! That reminds me of the dragon “fossils” I saw for sale in Birmingham a few years back.
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The smugness of the County Spelling Bee Champion.Ha! The next time I get into an argument with someone who calls me a “Spelling Nazi”, I’m going to point them to this NYT article. Summary: Dumb eBay sellers list items with misspelled titles. Smart buyers find the items, buy them cheap, relist them with correct spellings,…
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Holy crap! Our cherry tomatoes are finally coming ripe and we’ve got too many of them. I just picked about fifty and there are plenty more still green. I’m thinking of making some homemade salsa. Anybody got a good recipe? Actually, do you have any other ideas for what to do with them? Suggestions welcome,…
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It’s that time again! The Oscar nominees have been announced and the web-goddess Oscar Contest 2004 starts today. First prize is, of course, a sock monkey. (If you already have one of my sock monkeys, a doggie will instead be offered.) Current predictions can be seen here. Only one entry per person and you can’t…
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How to make soap from bacon fat. (PDF) Seriously. Just flip to page 18. I am strangely intrigued by this idea.
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There’s a nasty new Windows virus making the rounds and one of you may have it. I’ve been getting flooded with bounced e-mails that have spoofed my address as the sender. So if you get anything suspicious from me, don’t click on it! (I don’t have the virus; I have a Mac.) If you’re on…
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Everybody’s linking to the Charlie Brown “Hey Ya” video but by the time I went to download it the original file was gone. Fortunately I found a mirror. It’s a big download but it’s sooo worth it.
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Oh my God… Jem and the Holograms is being released on DVD! Sadly, I would purchase this in a heartbeat. I watched way too many episodes of that as a kid. (Thanks to Bill for the heads-up.)