Know how tv weatherpeople get a bad rap for the level of inaccuracy we all know and enjoy in their forecasting ability?

Well, I was thinking about it today and have discovered the cause for this. At some point in time it became trendy-if you were a tv news programmer-to hire someone with a degree in meteorology to do your forecasting for you. Now ( Read more... )

{Editors note: This was written December 12th, 2005, 2:55pm.}
Know in those cop shows when Good Cop and Bad Cop have to go to the morgue to either ID a body or ask The Coroner whether or not some unlikely murder method is possible?

Inevitably, Good Cop goes “Ughh!,” violently turning away, putting his hand over his nose/mouth as they approach the ( Read more... )

{Editors note: This was written December 12th, 2005, 2:55pm.}
Know in those cop shows when Good Cop and Bad Cop have to go to the morgue to either ID a body or ask The Coroner whether or not some unlikely murder method is possible?

Inevitably, Good Cop goes “Ughh!,” violently turning away, putting his hand over his nose/mouth as they approach the ( Read more... )

Lore’s Bad Gods shortform flash animated thingymawhatsits have begun showing up online. You should go take a peek. I promise you won’t be sorry*.

I wasn’t sure what I was going to think of it based on his description of it months ago, but I really dig what he’s doing. There’s just something about the limitations he’s imposed that really work for ( Read more... )

Because searching for a solution had no result, and because I happened to luck into a solution by accident, I feel it is my duty to post a little something for other people having the same difficulty.

I just upgraded Ubuntu from Breezy to Dapper and found that telling my laptop to suspend had absolutely no effect. Neither having GNOME do it, GDM, ( Read more... )

A while back I disabled trackbacks on my site because of the enormous amount of spam I was getting. Since disabling it, I’ve now begun to get comment spam with much greater frequency.

Lately the spam comments have included some really amusing little comments, which are undoubtedly designed to fool spam filters.
Here’s a few of my favorites:

>Q: ( Read more... )

The other night I spent a few hours working on a tattoo design idea I recently had.

Here’s the initial sketch:

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Would anyone like to have this one-of-a-kind handcrafted (by me) stained glass window? The subject no longer lies within my interests or decor schemes, so I don’t want it any longer. If’n you want it, drop me a line either in the comments or at jer@nyquil.org and we’ll figure out how to get it to you. Bonus points if you’re in the greater PDX ( Read more... )

Dear MagicWeb, can you tell me what this logo is?


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Perhaps you can assist me.

I’ve got the punchline of a crappy joke, I’m just not able to string together a series of events to lead up to said punchline. Before I tell you the punchline, I do want to explain that the joke involves a nice fellow from Czechoslovakia and a medieval “arrow proof jacket.”

The punchline would be something like ”...no ( Read more... )