General

Hmm.. according to the Hobbit Name Generator, I’m Fredegar Bracegirdle of Hardbottle. Apparently, Robert is a cousin, as his Hobbit name is Grigory Bracegirdle, also of Hardbottle.

Ahh, the untold secrets of Dr. Evil.

“I once sat on a bus and tried to will myself a menstrual cycle. “

According to Pravda, terrorist http://ca.news.yahoo.com/010913/5/aci6.htmlMohammed Atta carried a passport from the unrecognized Republic of Conch.

Here’s a few notes:
If you’re here looking for Conch passports, you must understand that you are intrinsically a fucking moron. I have no passports for you. I have no idea how to get them or why in fuck’s sake you’d want one. I could truly care less.

Since you’re a fucking moron, let me be clear:

Does my point get across?

MACDADDY: Massive Anti-Chicken Defense Array (Dealin’ Death, Yo!)

Anthrax. As an 80s metal band, it was heavy. As a weapon, it is deadly.

More regarding my advocacy of ad-blocking software:

X writes “I’m all for the suppression of popups – because they’re annoying as hell and companies that use them should damn well know better – but suppressing banner ads deprives the sites of needed revenue, which in turn helps force ’em out of business that much faster, which in turn means we get ad-free surfing but nothing to look at.”

First, I feel this software fixes severe security holes in Internet Explorer, holes that can be easily exploited by malicious website owners. Second, supressing banner ads via a locally-owned and operated piece of software prevents one person from seeing those ads: me. To my knowledge, I have clicked one banner ad in the last three years. I did not buy anything after I clicked it. Therefore, there is zero revenue to be gained from me. Even if I did see the ad, I wouldn’t buy the advertised product, thus the ad image is simply wasted data that I’ve involuntarily downloaded to my PC. As my PC is my personal property, to do with as I choose, I choose not to waste my resources downloading things I don’t want. Third, it is not my responsibility to keep websites in business. It’s nice that there are websites to look at. However, if these sites cannot come up with a business model that will allow them to stay operational, tough. This is called business in the real world. If all the content-providing, interesting to look at sites all shut down because nobody clicked on their casino/hotteensex ads, I’ll go read a book.

I highly recommend AdShield. From the website: “AdShield is a freeware banner ad blocker that improves browser performance and usability by suppressing the download and display of ad images, pages and popups.”

Thanks to Rod for restoring the site after its outage yesterday. Yay!

I really like the idea of this head-tracking hands-free TrackIR mouse. However, I can imagine playing Diablo 2 with it and dying horribly while scratching my nose, or sneezing.

I watched Enterprise Wednesday night – conveniently time-shifted by my beloved Tivo. I thought it to be the best Star Trek pilot made yet. This doesn’t say much: I still have occasional terrible memories of “Encounter at Farpoint.” And yes, the theme song was definitely stolen from some deodorant commercial.

So what did you think about “Enterprise: starring ThatQuantumLeapGuy and Jolene Blaylock’s Nipples” ?