Joseph is vacationing in China for two weeks or so. The hotel prices have shocked him.
Joseph: Dammit, I just paid 20 bucks for 2 cans of Diet Coke!
Me: Really?!
Joseph: And 370 dollars for lunch!! Do NOT eat at your hotel here.
Me: Man, I had one of those “YOU WIN A FREE 20OZ BOTTLE OF COKE” bottlecaps I could’ve sent you.
Joseph: It’s screwed. I can buy a clone Palm V for 25$, or get two cans of Diet Coke. WTF?
Beth will be blogging for 24 hours straight on July 28th and 29th, during the 24-Hour BLOGATHON. In this time she hopes to raise some cash for the Second Harvest charity.
Go sponsor her now: she’s #28 on the list, and her sitename is “<a href=http://unxmaal.com/cgi-bin/clickcount.cgi?action=jump&URL=http://www.geocities.com/thejettgrrrl/blog.html">All blogged up and nowhere to go“.
Me, to my British friend: It’s way hot here, in Atlanta. It’s 90-something Fahrenheit, and humid.
My British friend: In Celsius?
Me, to Smarterchild: Smarterchild! I command thee! Convert 90F to Celsius!
Smarterchild: There are 32.222222 ??c in 90 ??f, my liege!
Me, to MBF: 32?? C
MBF:Erk! I would die! I can’t leave the house if it gets that hot! How do you survive?
Me: I sprint across the parking lot to my car. My car, being a Ford, has the air-conditioning of Christ, and can drop the temperature inside from about 110??F inside the car to a nice 70??F in 5 minutes. I open the door, jump back to let the blast of hot air pass, jump in the car, start it, turn the AC on HIGH, roll down the windows, drive out of the apartment complex really fast so the engine assists the compressor, then roll up the windows. By the time I’m on the highway to work, it’s fairly comfortable. Once I get to work, I park the car, and sprint to the nicely-airconditioned building.
Blizzard has been granted preliminary injunction against New Line Cinema prohibiting them from using the term ‘Diablo’ in any form. New Line had been planning a drug-war movie titled ‘Diablo’, and had changed the title to “El Diablo” last month.
According to Blizzard’s press release, the company owns “a pending U.S. intent-to-use trademark application for “Diablo” in connection with the production and distribution of motion pictures,” which makes me wonder if we should expect a Diablo movie any time soon.
Invader Zim Obsessive Anonymous is another great Invader Zim fansite. There’s a few nice .wav files for download, and some screen captures.
Sadly, since the untimely death of my Tivo, I can no longer watch Invader Zim. I suppose I could hook up the VCR properly, but that would involve crawling amongst the deadly wire nest behind the TV. Here there be tygers.
Sometime last week, I started working on the clickcounter script. I just knew that Daniel had been loading up his stats, so I hacked around on the script. I broke it horribly.
Since I am a genius world mastermind, I gave it to Daniel to fix, because I ph33r his leet skiLLz. Using his mad ninja powers, he was able to get IP-logging enabled on the script. Of course, once I had it installed, he clicked his link about 2000 times [with another script he made], so I was forced to go into the database and “correct” his numbers.
From Daniel: Hey leat h4x0rz! Now you too can take out a whole telephone company with your very own Blotto Box!
Thursdays are for words found in Interesting Dictionaries!
I always wanted to know what omphalomancy meant. Now you can know too!
Scientists developing stink bombs for the Pentagon have “found two odors that appear to transcend culture, and a mixture of the two could form the basis of a weapon.”
I suspect that the two odors come from Robert’s left and right socks.