http://www.myownlittleserver.us/chernobyl/

Pictorial of the present-day Chernobyl area, captioned in broken English.

Throughout his long career as a circumcision specialist, the surgeon had saved his patients' foreskins as mementos. His wife wanted to give him a unique souvenir of his career for a retirement gift, so she took his collection to a leather artisan and asked him to make something special. "I'll see what I can do," said the artisan. A week later, she ( Read more... )

I'd better get some phone calls tonight, and I'd better not understand or remember a word of them.

When I was 18, I owned a pair of silver vinyl pants from Gadzooks, and was thin enough to wear them (32 waist). I was trying to emulate Billy Corgan from the Bullet With Butterfly Wings days.

Now that I look back, I don't think I had any idea, but I can't imagine that I didn't look like a complete homosexual.

Three inalienable rules of my existence ( Read more... )

Now that Christmas is over and more people have their Wiis in hand, let's have those codes ( Read more... )

Bigger christmas post coming later, but for now ( Read more... )

Upgraded from a Radeon 9600XT to an X1950 Pro. The difference is phenomenal. Have another matched pair of 512mb RAM sticks coming in a week or so as well.

Here are some meaningless benchmarks.

3DMark with 9600 XT

01 - ~17000
03 - ~4000
05 - ~400

With X1950 Pro

01 - ~22500
03 - ~14000
05 - ~8000

Wii Code: 3985 3094 2853 5255

Folkenffxi (10:11:02 PM): So you get your Wii?
a freezing star (10:11:22 PM): linkFolkenffxi (10:12:00 PM): We're out at a friends place playing the Wii bowling drinking game ( Read more... )