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[Oct. 7th, 2005|12:23 pm] |
This is wrong in so many ways that it makes my brain hurt...
A bank robber in Bumpus, Tenn., handed a teller the following note: "Watch out. This is a rubbery. I hav an oozy traned on your but. Dump the in a sack, this one. No die packkets or other triks or I will tare you a new naval. No kwarter with red stuff on them, too." Dr. Creon V.B. Smyk of the Ohio Valley Educational Council says such notes are, lamentably, the rule. "Right across the board, we see poor pre-writing skills, problems with omissions, tense, agreement, spelling and clarity," he moaned. Smyk believes that the quality of robbery notes could be improved if criminals could be taught to plan before writing. "We have to stress organization: Make an outline of your robbery note before you write it," he said. "Some of the notes get totally sidetracked on issues like the make, model and caliber of the gun, number of bullets, etc., until one loses sight of the main idea -- the robbery."
I grabbed this off of http://www.crazycriminals.com/
The one after that is pretty funny too. |
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[Oct. 3rd, 2005|02:52 pm] |
| Your Fortune Is | 
Man who jump off cliff, jump to conclusion. |
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| geek humor |
[Jan. 18th, 2005|11:18 am] |
| [ | music |
| | God Bullies - 2+2 | ] |
The Amiga is back!!!
From this article:
" Jobs was reported to be extremely worried about the Amiga, but fortunately for him and Apple, Commodore had absolutely no idea what they were doing."
The OS geek in me wants to get one, but not anytime soon. |
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| Mac Mini photos |
[Jan. 14th, 2005|02:14 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | Pavement - Box Elder | ] |
Jesus, check this out:
http://appletalk.rhapsody.com.hk:443/appletalk/viewtopic.php?t=9233
And I remember everybody thinking the Cube was a technological marvel when it came out. Oh and the Cube was 4x the price of the Mac Mini.
I currently don't have a need for one, but for Apple's sake I hope these things sell like hotcakes. |
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| Hehe... |
[Dec. 1st, 2004|10:20 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Shellac - Dog and Pony Show | ] |
The music I was playing was a complete coincidence. I shit you not. |
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| Creepy |
[Nov. 30th, 2004|02:41 pm] |
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| | The Jesus Lizard - Then Comes Dudley | ] |
Something rather disturbing happened to me over the holiday. To give some background to the story, I have next door neighbors that have around 5 kids, most of them pretty young. One of them is around 5 or 6 and used to always try to talk to me when I would do yard work over the summer. He kept calling me Sparky because he couldn't remember my name every time I told him what it was.
This past Friday I came home in the afternoon to pick up a couple things before I went off to do dork things. Two of the kids were outside playing next door. It was the two oldest ones a boy and a girl, around 9 or 10, not the one who called me Sparky. When I came out of the house, there was a folded up note on a yellow piece of paper on my porch steps. It read:
Michael/Sparky,
Who is your favorite serial killer?
Keep in mind neither my or my roommates name is Michael. I did not reply. |
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[Nov. 22nd, 2004|04:52 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | The Advantage - megaman 2, wiley | ] |
At least there was one bright spot so far today...
On Talk of the Nation on NPR, they read some letters from listeners about some previous shows and someone commented about a show on video games and said something about Metroid. Then at the end they played The Advantage doing the music from kraid's lair and credited them with it. So I got a kick out of hearing The Advantage on the radio and it made me smile for once today.
I hate cars even more than usual today. They are expensive, unreliable, dangerous, and just an all around hassle. Their only redeeming quality is that they can get me from point A to point B in a reasonable amount of time. |
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| Ticket of the day... |
[Nov. 22nd, 2004|12:34 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Big Black - Steelworker | ] |
Computer Running Slow
Emac sn: xxxxxxxxxxx OS version: 10.3.6 Computer is running incredibly slow. It only has 128K Ram |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 18th, 2004|12:22 pm] |
writer's block, writer's block, writer's block
There is so much in my head, but none of it seems to formulate into any words. I feel like life is testing me right now, and I need to step up to the plate and show that I want it and can do it, rather than inching away or slipping by like so many times in the past.
P.S. - you are amazing and you know who you are |
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[Nov. 11th, 2004|09:57 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Hella - Welcome To The Jungle Baby, You're Gonna Live! | ] |
So now Yassir Arafat actually COULD be eating lunch inside your head. |
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| Thought for the day... |
[Nov. 10th, 2004|01:37 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Pigface - Suck | ] |
The psychological effects of information overload in today's society.
It sounds like somebody's thesis, but I was thinking about the difficulty I have keeping up with all the shit there is to know in this world.
BTW - this song is the single greatest thing Trent Reznor has ever done. Seriously. Although his reworked NIN version wasn't that great. The Ogre version isn't bad though. |
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[Nov. 10th, 2004|12:25 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Lightning Bolt - And Beyond | ] |
Hmm, while the iPod photo looks neat, it's really expensive and I don't know how much I would actually use the photo features. The 60GB of space is what really caught my eye. My current iPod is almost full and I can't bring myself to trim off songs to make room for new CDs that I have bought. I may consider getting a 40GB and selling the 20 since I think I can fit my entire CD collection on the 40. I estimated I have about 340 CDs worth on the iPod now.
In other news, life has been pretty good. I may actually see myself getting out of the slump I felt like I have been in for awhile. If only I can motivate myself to work on some projects that I have been putting off for way too long--mainly stuff around the house and music. |
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| where's my cigar?... |
[Nov. 9th, 2004|02:51 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Days Of Swine And Roses | ] |
You Are a New School Democrat |
You like partying and politics - and are likely to be young and affluent.
You're less religious, traditional, and uptight than most Democrats.
Smoking pot, homosexuality, and gambling are all okay in your book.
You prefer that the government help people take care of themselves.
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I don't know how I feel about this one. If I answer the welfare question slightly differently (change from horrible idea to not good), It tells me I'm a liberal republican. I'm not really sure how I feel about welfare so that was the question I didn't feel comfortable with. I tend to take the view of the idea being good, but the implementation sucks. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 4th, 2004|09:53 pm] |
Yesterday I thought I had the most mind-numbingly moronic help desk ticket ever. It was a ticket from someone that said they couldn't open helpdesk tickets. I had to get up from my desk and walk around after reading it. It turns out my "assistant" submitted it from that person's computer after they complained they couldn't submit tickets and he fixed it. Oh well.
Shit outside of work has been pretty cool. I've been going to a lot of shows and hanging out with different groups of people and having fun. I've also started going to shows alone again. I used to do that a lot in college. Part of me likes it and part of my feels awkward when I am there.
This weekend looks like it might be a dull one though... |
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[Oct. 16th, 2004|09:07 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | The Shins - Pressed in a Book | ] |
So I've kinda ignored this little page for quite awhile.
Some things have been good, some not so good. It's the weekend and I should be in a good mood but I'm not. I'm getting ready to go to a show at the Talking Head where my friend Mark from New York will be. It's always a good time when he is in town usually, but this time is different because most of my friends that I normally hang out with won't be there but the group of people I played baseball with will be there. It'll be good though. I love the music scene but my closer friends (if you can even call them that) don't have the same views of a good time. I would even go so far to say they are more bitter and antisocial than I am. The people who I have more in common with I can't make friends with. It's like trying to find a date.
I feel like a kid who wants to run away from home, but as soon as he makes it to the door, he realizes there's nowhere to go.
I swear, I can never make a post on this damn page without making it negative. |
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| OMG - a post!! |
[Sep. 14th, 2004|10:29 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Fugazi - Glue Man | ] |
I bet you thought it was going to be something worth reading. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 19th, 2004|07:25 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Hey Mom | ] |
If you already had a 19" CRT and wanted to run a dual monitor setup, would you rather buy a 17" LCD or a 21" CRT for the other display?
I'm torn because an LCD would be nice to have but the 21" I can run at a higher resolution, but it takes up a crapload of space and uses more electricity, and CRTs are always fickle when it comes to geometry and interference. |
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