You can make hot dogs in the Toast-R-Oven. If I'da known this ten years ago, college would have been very different.
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10/21/2008 23:17 #46242
bulletin!Category: food
10/20/2008 21:19 #46217
youtube roundupCategory: a series of tubes
...or, an easy way to waste one hour, three minutes, and 49 seconds of your life.
There's actually a lot of pretty cool stuff on YouTube. But how come when I'm bored all I can find is Japanese gameshows?
First we've got some Scottish dude with a pianozookelele singing Europe's 'The Final Countdown.'
Which led me to these Latvian dudes rocking out with their cellos out. [Yes I've heard of Apocalyptica.]
Here's some other Latvian dudes for whom walking is just too boring. [fast forward two minutes]
And then I spent like a couple hours watching Flight of the Conchords videos.
This guy over here isn't on YouTube but he listened to 'Dancing Queen' on Repeat One for an entire four-hour road trip -- and then got stuck in traffic for another hour. I don't know why.
- Z
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You wanted Japanese gameshows? Like for reals? Fine, here's Marshmallow Eater, What a Cool We Are, Silent Library, cat weightlifting, Door Runner, and Brain Wall keeping the treadmill and ice water industries in business. I can only imagine what kind of poor life decisions turn you into a recurring character on these shows.
There's actually a lot of pretty cool stuff on YouTube. But how come when I'm bored all I can find is Japanese gameshows?
First we've got some Scottish dude with a pianozookelele singing Europe's 'The Final Countdown.'
Which led me to these Latvian dudes rocking out with their cellos out. [Yes I've heard of Apocalyptica.]
Here's some other Latvian dudes for whom walking is just too boring. [fast forward two minutes]
And then I spent like a couple hours watching Flight of the Conchords videos.
This guy over here isn't on YouTube but he listened to 'Dancing Queen' on Repeat One for an entire four-hour road trip -- and then got stuck in traffic for another hour. I don't know why.
- Z
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You wanted Japanese gameshows? Like for reals? Fine, here's Marshmallow Eater, What a Cool We Are, Silent Library, cat weightlifting, Door Runner, and Brain Wall keeping the treadmill and ice water industries in business. I can only imagine what kind of poor life decisions turn you into a recurring character on these shows.
tinypliny - 10/21/08 23:24
Yikers, you are like a youtube über-sucked-in-watcher! :D
Yikers, you are like a youtube über-sucked-in-watcher! :D
dragonlady7 - 10/20/08 21:27
Melo-M is cooler than Apocalyptica, because while Apocalyptica works the Finnish death-metal vibe, Melo-M instead has that frenetic hardcore Baltic dorky vibe, which I much prefer.
Also I never heard Apocalyptica do a cover of "Take On Me", which has just needed to happen.
Melo-M is cooler than Apocalyptica, because while Apocalyptica works the Finnish death-metal vibe, Melo-M instead has that frenetic hardcore Baltic dorky vibe, which I much prefer.
Also I never heard Apocalyptica do a cover of "Take On Me", which has just needed to happen.
10/19/2008 23:36 #46204
why don't i hate vista?I was feeling adventurous last week so I managed to install Windows Vista Ultimate on my MacBook. It's certainly got its share of annoyances but I don't understand why everybody seems to hate it so much.
Installation was much less painful than xp. In particular, that first software update after a fresh install was a hundred times easier- only had to update & reboot once rather than a half dozen times.
Graphics performance: I've got a totally weak Intel 945 'integrated graphics chipset.' I'm running the full Aero interface and, weirdly enough, it hasn't exploded yet.
Memory consumption: I've got 1GB, the minimum recommended. Memory usage is pretty high but it seems roughly comparable to Mac OS X. If I were doing more than testing websites I'd probably be more concerned.
This is a weird one: it keeps 'asking for permission.' When you click 'more details' all it shows is a UUID. I know from context what it's doing, but seriously people. In general, though, I've noticed much fewer weird geeky error messages than xp.
Graphics design: one thumb up for improved controls and icons, one thumb down for the over-the-top window decorations. I like how the folder icons are stuffed with the actual icons of the folder's contents.
Graphics technology: much improved over xp. Text is super-crisp, and that frosted glass effect, while annoying, is pretty impressive.
Screen savers: What happened to the series of tubes?
- Z
Installation was much less painful than xp. In particular, that first software update after a fresh install was a hundred times easier- only had to update & reboot once rather than a half dozen times.
Graphics performance: I've got a totally weak Intel 945 'integrated graphics chipset.' I'm running the full Aero interface and, weirdly enough, it hasn't exploded yet.
Memory consumption: I've got 1GB, the minimum recommended. Memory usage is pretty high but it seems roughly comparable to Mac OS X. If I were doing more than testing websites I'd probably be more concerned.
This is a weird one: it keeps 'asking for permission.' When you click 'more details' all it shows is a UUID. I know from context what it's doing, but seriously people. In general, though, I've noticed much fewer weird geeky error messages than xp.
Graphics design: one thumb up for improved controls and icons, one thumb down for the over-the-top window decorations. I like how the folder icons are stuffed with the actual icons of the folder's contents.
Graphics technology: much improved over xp. Text is super-crisp, and that frosted glass effect, while annoying, is pretty impressive.
Screen savers: What happened to the series of tubes?
- Z
tinypliny - 10/20/08 19:23
I didn't like Vista because it was too memory intensive. Plus all those "asking for permissions" almost drove me to smash a rock through my monitor because it got to a point where I was being asked to confirm 20 times for one single thing! I turned off most of the confirmations but some were still popping up. It was frustrating to the max - like having a overbearing parent who doubts your ability to do anything right and asks you a zillion times whether you want to be where you are. I mod and tweak all my installations a lot and delete a lot of windoze components that I never use, but Vista didn't let me do that in a smooth fashion. For zikes sake, don't treat your users like they are from planet "not-only-am-I-dumb-but-also-stoned".
I didn't like Vista because it was too memory intensive. Plus all those "asking for permissions" almost drove me to smash a rock through my monitor because it got to a point where I was being asked to confirm 20 times for one single thing! I turned off most of the confirmations but some were still popping up. It was frustrating to the max - like having a overbearing parent who doubts your ability to do anything right and asks you a zillion times whether you want to be where you are. I mod and tweak all my installations a lot and delete a lot of windoze components that I never use, but Vista didn't let me do that in a smooth fashion. For zikes sake, don't treat your users like they are from planet "not-only-am-I-dumb-but-also-stoned".
jason - 10/20/08 08:56
Yes, you're probably right, 2GB is pretty much the real minimum if you want to do anything meaningful.
One really funky thing with UAT, in case you haven't seen it yet, is when you get asked for permission when you view source. Ta da!
Yes, you're probably right, 2GB is pretty much the real minimum if you want to do anything meaningful.
One really funky thing with UAT, in case you haven't seen it yet, is when you get asked for permission when you view source. Ta da!
paul - 10/19/08 23:49
I love the error when it says you need elevation to continue instead of saying elevated privileges. I agree though, it is better than XP.
I love the error when it says you need elevation to continue instead of saying elevated privileges. I agree though, it is better than XP.
10/12/2008 21:09 #46079
yeah i'm a dorkCategory: not politics
but I really like this houndstooth pattern. Apparently 217 other people do, too. I guess it attracts the kind of person who would have the tenacity to look through sixty four pages of themes but then totally just give up.
Last night, it was potatoes. Tonight, my nonpartisan campaign coverage hits musical endorsements. At the event where John McCain brought out Daddy Yankee to announce his endorsement, somebody asked Mr Yankee what his song 'Gasolina' is about. His answer: 'energy independence.'
Meanwhile Barack Obama's got Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, and, depending on your interpretation of this runaway inflatable pig, Roger Waters.
But now that we've finally got a black guy from Chicago on the ticket, where's all the blues singers?
Wow, I wish I hadn't seen that. He's got Al Gore rhythm.
- Z
Apparently 217 other people do, too. I guess it attracts the kind of person who would have the tenacity to look through sixty four pages of themes but then totally just give up.Last night, it was potatoes. Tonight, my nonpartisan campaign coverage hits musical endorsements. At the event where John McCain brought out Daddy Yankee to announce his endorsement, somebody asked Mr Yankee what his song 'Gasolina' is about. His answer: 'energy independence.'
Meanwhile Barack Obama's got Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, and, depending on your interpretation of this runaway inflatable pig, Roger Waters.
But now that we've finally got a black guy from Chicago on the ticket, where's all the blues singers?
Wow, I wish I hadn't seen that. He's got Al Gore rhythm.
- Z
dragonlady7 - 10/12/08 22:57
YOU ARE SUCH A DORK.
YOU ARE SUCH A DORK.
10/10/2008 18:37 #46049
mccain '08!Category: not politics
You read the news, you get what you deserve. These ads are on rotation at the Boston Globe
This ad campaign is so great, they've even got puns about Oven Mitt Romney. I wish I'd thought of it first.
- Z
are on rotation at the Boston Globe This ad campaign is so great, they've even got puns about Oven Mitt Romney. I wish I'd thought of it first.
- Z
james - 10/10/08 18:43
Now that is crispy, oven baked goodness I can believe in.
Now that is crispy, oven baked goodness I can believe in.
I used to make macaroni and cheese in an electric kettle. And it made college AMAZING!
Hmmm... life in college might have been different had I known about the existence of a device popular here. The microwave oven.