Entries from May 2006The Posts You Asked For

You may have seen the results of the annual Wacky Warning Labels contest, where entries are judged on their silliness (e.g., a label on a kitchen knife: “Never try to catch a falling knife.”).
On the other end of the spectrum we have the warning at United Nuclear’s (a cool science shop) neodymium magnets page. You [...]

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Every now and again I hear people complain about how there were dozens of spams in their Inboxes when they got back from long weekends. Whoopdie-doo.
I use SpamAssassin to stop my spam from coming in, and I send it all to what it calls a “SpamBox” that I can check as a separate e-mail account. [...]

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ahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
(Hat tip: Eric)
PS: Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

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A Chicago school district has added a line to its students’ code of conduct saying that those who write about illegal or inappropriate behavior on their blogs could get in trouble.
I’m not going to go into the free-speech issue (who decides what’s “appropriate”?) because others are doing that. Instead, I found something else amusing.
Here’s [...]

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From the Rosen College of Hospitality Management’s site:
Ron Logan is…
A highly motivated, results-oriented executive who flourishes in a fast-paced, synergistic, creative environment and mentors his people to heightened levels of success; has proven expertise in finding effective solutions to difficult problems by combining creative spirit and strategic thinking.
Synergistic?

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At the AAA office and travel store, I spotted a line of luggage. The model: Avenger. Because, I don’t know about you, but when I think travel, I think vengeance.

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I got a press release today from the Business Software Alliance about the results of a new survey.
“Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on personal computers (PC) worldwide in 2005 was illegal,” it reads, “amounting to $34 billion in global losses due to software piracy.”
Wait wait wait. That kind of logical leap is what [...]

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Here’s something funny.
The folks over at MacDailyNews, always good for a laugh, have a headline: “Research firm: Intel, Boot Camp powering huge Apple Mac sales surge” it gushes.
A huge sales surge in Macs? Interesting.
That is, if it was true. But, typical with MDN, it’s not — it’s hope and hype.
What the research firm’s report [...]

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I have to wonder if Pat Robertson can see the deep end in his rearview mirror, ’cause he’s driven well off it.
Get this: Today he declared that God told him storms will hit America’s coastline this year.
In other news, it will snow in Minnesota, and Phoenix will have days above 100 degrees.
The guy makes [...]

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So I did a stupid thing: I accidentally deleted a bunch of photos from my camera’s memory card before moving them to my PC or to disk. I searched for “recover deleted photos compactflash” and found lots of pages with utilities promising to recover the images.
They all cost money, though, and I wasn’t about to [...]

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So this was kinda funny. We were waiting at the gate at LaGuardia, when Karen pointed out that we would probably have to check Sam’s umbrella stroller planeside (we were on a puddle jumper). Not being sure if it needed to be screened, I went to the agents’ desk.
Lo and behold, there was a stack [...]

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(This entry has been expanded since originally posted.)
I signed up with E*Trade Bank in the late 1990s, when it was Telebank. (E*Trade later bought the company.) It was great — incredible online banking and easy bill pay, plus, if you were charged a fee to use someone else’s ATM, E*Trade would refund you up [...]

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This will mean nothing to someone not from New York, but one stop on my trip was my old public school, PS 163. I even got to walk around inside for a bit, and took this shot of a doorknob.
“A doorknob?” you ask. All the NYC public schools have (or had) these cool brass doorknobs. [...]

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After a trip to NYC and a very busy few days, I’ll be writing more starting later today. I hope. :)

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So Tom Cruise wanted Katie Holmes to give their daughter a silent birth, because one of the beliefs that Scientology cultists have is that sounds of pain are bad for the kid. (She’s got enough problems — Cruise also believes her body is invested with the souls of dead aliens. Seriously.)
Anyway, comes this news story [...]

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Interesting article in the Boston Globe the other day about Presidential power.
Bush is the first president in modern history who has never vetoed a bill, giving Congress no chance to override his judgments. Instead, he has signed every bill that reached his desk, often inviting the legislation’s sponsors to signing ceremonies at which he lavishes [...]

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