December 2007
1 post
Tales of the Plush Cthulhu →
“Wait, you plush fools!” cried Professor Blue Smush DinoBaby. “‘In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.’ Do not disturb Him, or you will doom us all!”
November 2007
1 post
Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork →
Forward. Eat. Forward. Eat. Forward. Eat. You’d think it wouldn’t take any time for “You’ve eaten another glowing dot!” to get old, but you should try it for yourself — you might be surprised. (Or you might not, of course.)
October 2007
2 posts
September 2007
1 post
August 2007
3 posts
Everything should taste like bacon. →
“We’re on a quest to make everything taste like bacon.”
“We’re Justin and Dave, and this is our improbable bacon-flavored story.”
“Why would you have fries if you could have bacon fries?”
July 2007
4 posts
Hydrogen Atom Scale Model →
I bet protons aren’t really blue, though.
June 2007
9 posts
“Tofu … was at one time made from ufos. But now it is not made from ufos....”
– Rebecca Borgstrom
Return of MST3K →
OK, it’s not really MST3K. There aren’t any bots, and the only writers are Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy. But those are the voices of Mike and the Bots, so it’s pretty much the same deal. Go and vote for Hollywood After Dark, won’t you? Or … vote for something else if you want. But I’d like to leverage the awesome ballot-box-stuffing-power of all...
FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox ! →
Select a part of your gmail message, hit “crypt”, and bam! it’s encrypted using GPG. Assuming you have GPG. And assuming you’re using firefox. But you do, and you are, right? You can sign messages too. The huge downside: you won’t get targeted ads from google based on the text of your message! I know, anything that means you can’t be marketed to as effectively...
ruby on rails validation woes
ActiveRecord is the basic O/R mapping feature of the Ruby on Rails web application framework. If you didn’t know that already, feel free to skip the rest of this entry. Some people would think that any time you call “valid?” on an ActiveRecord object, Rails would call before_validation before it actually runs the validations. I’m one of those people! And so are my...
May 2007
9 posts
Do not buy Promise Technology Inc products.
They’re no good. Really, if you try to use one of their products — in particular something like their Vtrak M500i iSCSI RAID units — you will wind up being somewhere between dismayed and enraged. Here’s my story, which I hope is not typical. My company owns one of the aforementioned iSCSI RAID devices. It has 15x500 GB SATA drives in it, two of which are online spares;...
“I sense danger! But I’m very tempted by the special candy! ”
– Clarence (from The Brak Show)
My new favorite online music store →
These guys are cool. Not only is their order confirmation way nicer than ANYONE else’s — although I’m forced to wonder just how long I got to be their “customer of the year” — they’ve got a great page full of flavors of music, so you can shop for something that suits particular moods or occasions.
Where else can you find categories like “Depressed?...
