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Say “yes” to crack.

Impressive resume-fodder: the ability to read, write, and speak in Elvish.

As suspected, I’m 101% evil. I add 1% because I lied for a few questions, just to get a perfect score.

The Dada Server: Please do not use this information for commercial purposes or for squelching the other parrots in the bathroom.

Jennifer Mauck won a contest and got her name listed in Metal Gear Solid 2.

Metal Gear Solid 2: 17 hours of lame cutscenes, 1 hour of gameplay.

Weird things are afoot on the mighty Unxmaal server. Every few days Perl apps [including Greymatter] appear to crash with a segmentation fault. The next day, these scripts work fine. In a fit of desperation, I attempted to install Moveabletype, only to have the base installer script segfault when it ran for the first time. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

“Jingle Bells” was inspired by the annual sleigh races between Medford Square and Malden Square, and it was written by a rebellious musician with a bad reputation.

Here’s my idea for the night: since my glasses keep slipping, I want to get magnets implanted in my nose, then put little magnets in the nosepads of my glasses. This way, no matter what, my glasses stay on.

A side benefit would be the ability to destroy credit cards with my nose.

On Rick‘s recommendation, I installed Dave’s Quicksearch toolbar. I’m not entirely convinced of its utility, though I’ve not used it much yet.

I’m still quite happy with Opera‘s handling of search queries: in the address bar, type “g term1 term2” to search Google for the listed terms.

When my wristwatch, the wallclock, my cellphone clock, and my PC laptop clock all showed different times, I knew something was up. According to this article, there was a Microsoft time server that wasn’t syncing properly. No problem, says I: add more timeservers with this little registry hack.