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2 Rat City Rollergirls tickets: Free to Derby Virgin
If you haven't been to a modern roller derby bout yet and you're free tomorrow evening, I have a pair of tickets for you to see the exhibition against Portland's Rose City Rollers. This is going to be a fantastic event, as these two leagues have been itching to play each other since the Portland league formed over two years ago ( Read more... ) -
in other nerd news...
Google Maps has enabled scroll-wheel zoom. Man, that's cool. -
precedence
yoyojedi points out that I should really establish precedence right away for coining the term "Dutch Windows Disease" a few weeks ago. Good thing I've got me one o' them new-fangled weblogs everyone's talking about for just such purposes.
In related news, Happy Windows 98/ME Freedom Day! -
upgrade time
In the unlikely event that anyone within the sound of my voice is still running Windows 98 or Windows ME, please let me know so I can explain to you what horrific things are going to happen if you do not upgrade in the next few days. Laggards, it is time to move on ( Read more... ) -
free tomorrow? free tomorrow!
If you haven't yet seen a Rat City Rollergirls bout, tomorrow's your day. I have two tickets to tomorrow's bout for the first roller derby virgin(s) to reply.
On your mark...
Get set...
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how is this possible?
Google has failed me. -
y'all need to stop jacking my discoveries before I post them*
"The iPod was not developed by Baptists in Waco, Texas. There may be a reason for this..."
"... It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power... "
-- Garrison Keillor writes at Salon.com (watching an ad ( Read more... ) -
fun* with reverse dns lookups
chris@servo:~$ ping -c 1 thepiratebay.org
PING thepiratebay.org (83.140.176.146) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org (83.140.176.146): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=174 ms
* for suitably nerdy values of fun -
murraybot of the day:
[murraybot] you'll be a really excellent sith lord one day -
obligatory soccer post
(from the deeply underappreciated Sports Night)
DAN: I know we promised you soccer highlights, so let me just tell you that Columbus beat Miami one-nothing. Dallas beat San Jose one-nothing. Chicago beat Colorado one-nothing, and New England beat Kansas City two-one in an offensive slug-fest.
A modest proposal - make the nets bigger.
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