In case you were feeling left out, the Segway has its own dedicated weblog.

Today’s the second day in a row that I’ve forgotten to charge the battery on my poor little cell phone. I defend myself by saying I’m trying to wean it off of electricity. The downside of not having my phone handy is that since my phone stores my phone number list, I have no idea what anyone’s number is. I guess having these numbers stored in my phone is good, as it means there’s one less group of facts that I have to remember, but it does suck when I forget to charge the battery.

I heart Pine. Today I saved a coworker a lot of time by explaining Pine’s batch-apply commands.

Say you want to move all emails containing the string “monkeys” in the subject line to another mail folder. These are the commands to enter:

; to enter Selection Commands

B Broaden Selection

T select based on Text

S select text in the Subject line

type in the string of text you’re searching for, and hit Enter.

Zoiks! It’s only fifteen minutes into The Hour of the Squid.

Sometimes there’s nothing like Usenet for text-based profanity-loaded hilarity. Favorites include A Question For Scientists and Some _ that happened to my foot.

Happy Birthday to Unxmaal.com!

This week marks two full years of regular posting on this site.

As you can see from the first week’s archive, the quality of the posts have not declined. Expect many more links to clown sex, Invader Zim, Bleemcast downloads, and … well… any other stupid, weird, or just plain wacko thing that catches my eye or might attract the attention of some poor, depraved Google-searching moron desperate for a glimpse of some women farting videos.

Per Thomas Gold, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Cornell University, in his book The Deep Hot Biosphere, it is a myth that oil comes from dead things [like squished dinosaurs]. Instead, oil is produced by bacteriological processes deep within the Earth’s crust. This concept answers several questions with the current concept of oil generation, such as: “how can there be oil on asteroids, if there were no organic matter to make it from?” “Why do dry wells fill up?” “Why can we find oil literally anywhere on the planet if we drill deep enough?” “How could there possibly have ever been enough biological matter present under the exact conditions necessary to produce oil?”

Oooh: the DVD boxed set of the Transformers first season is on sale for about $50. Drool!

For your next vacation, visit Sana’a, one of the oldest cities in the world. More photos of Yemen can be found here.

However, before vacationing in Yemen, you should read the US State Department’s warning.

Note to self: read and memorize this massive online Nonverbal Dictionary.