General

BlogFinder is a nice little Google-based search engine that indexes all the weblogs –as if you haven’t guessed that already.

A special fork-in-the-eye for whichever nimrod that signed me up for CrushSuck. It sounds nice, at first, and only after running the gauntlet of their signup procedure do you realize that it’s a cleverly disguised spam-harvester.

That’s ok; if I notice any increase in spam, or I don’t get confirmation of their removal of my email address, I’ll have Rackspace halt their service due to violation of TOS.

Yeah, more embarrassment for me: I’ve recently grown this terrible affinity for SCOTS: Southern Culture on the Skids.

Couple the manic riffs of psychobilly punk with the homey romance of microwaved meals and trailer parks, and you’re really close to the sounds I’m talking about. Of course, then you have to take a sharp left at Pumpkin Center, Alabama, drive through forty miles of dirt roads, and bash your head with bricks a few times.

Articles like this piss me off.

It’s quite obvious to me, someone who can’t even claim that he knows anything about webdesign, that Valerie Casey is merely diddling on Jakob Nielsen’s name so that she can grab some of his spotlight. I’m almost suprised that she didn’t add how FreeBSD rules, Slashdot sucks, Microsoft is the devil, and how she was so much more three-one-three-three-seven than all of us because she hacked a Gibson.

Free monkeys for everyone!

Hey, remember that song that goes … well, kinda like this? [Hums]. If you don’t you can use this new software. Hum the tune to your computer, and the software extracts pitch and timing data and searches a database for possible matching songs.

When you get a bunch of geeks together for a weekend of gaming and debauchery, you usually end up with some pretty terrifying memetic results.

This weekend’s new concepts:

• Wood Blinds: I noticed a sign, while driving through Atlanta, that said “Wood Blinds.” At first I thought, “Advertisement for window coverings.” Then I thought, hey, what if this is really a public service announcement, as in “Drugs Kill” ? Maybe these people are trying to do us a favor: Wood blinds! I relayed this epiphany to the group, and they concurred that there were many ways that wood could blind. Splinters, flying sticks, and even chopsticks can rob hapless children of their sight. Remember, kids: Wood Blinds.
  • Kayvan: Kayvan’s name sounds like a unit of measurement. “Captain, the Amphilons are at 3500 Kayvans and closing!” We’re not sure, but we think that Kayvan is about six feet tall. If Kayvan is six feet tall, how far away is Huntsville from Atlanta, in Kayvans? Answer: a little over two Megavans, which is a bunch of Kayvans. And you know what to do with a buncha Kayvans.

Chew your way to Jesus!

In deference to the weekend’s festivities (or lack thereof), I bring you more in the Action Series: Hot Sweaty Nonlinear Physics Action!

After two days of Nyquil-induced stupor, my cold cleared up enough that I was able to drive to Atlanta for the weekend. My network connection has been spotty (rather, nonexistent). I blame this entirely on Charter Cable‘s pathetically poor service. I’m hoping Dori will be able to find another cable ISP soon.

So far, I’ve not been able to see Hannibal, but I have had some awesome sushi at some Japanese place that I forget the name of.