Osama’s bin bloggin’

While running a spell-check on my last entry I discovered that Homesite doesn’t like the plural of geek. Rather than accept “geeks” it prompted me to change the word to “geek’s.”

Clearly, Homesite is not l33t.

I’ve seen a lot of movies in the last two days. (We’re making up for not seeing many in the last few months.) Here are my reviews.

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March is quite the birthday month among my geekboy friends. (Geek boyfriends?) Especially the end of the month.

So, now, I must post the obligatory birthday wishes and silly photo of Scott.

Happy Birthday, Scott!

We love you!

According to the “Breaking News” blurb at the top of CNN.com, Britain’s Queen Mother, Elizabeth I, has just passed away, at the age of 101. Details “coming soon.”

Update: There’s now a full story at CNN.

At least this time my results were much more clear cut than the last time I took a personality test. (Number in parenthesis is my score for that section.)

( 7) Type 4: The Artist. The intuitive, reserved type.

( 5) Type 2: The Helper. The caring, nurturing type.

( 4) Type 6: The Skeptic. The committed, security-oriented type.

( 2) Type 7: The Generalist. The enthusiastic, productive type.

(-1) Type 8: The Leader. The powerful, aggressive type.

(-4) Type 5: The Thinker. The perceptive, cerebral type.

(-6) Type 3: The Motivator. The adaptable, success-oriented type.

(-8) Type 1: The Reformer. The rational, idealistic type.

I always knew I was the sensitive type. Now, shower me with much love and adoration. Or I’ll cry. [via Julie]

Today is the 29th birthday of my dear friend, Aaron. In honor of his birthday, I wish to embarass him by relating a brief story and by sharing a couple of pictures with you.

The Story

The location: The Mexican Restaurant Jericho picked for birthday dinner

The scene: We’ve been discussing how Steve’s girlfriend is now trying to set up Aaron with friends of hers. Aaron is, of course, getting teased about being single.

Aaron: Well, it’s not like I don’t have chicks hitting on me….

Pamela: {patting Aaron on the shoulder} Sweetheart, those girls send those emails out to everyone.

{Pam gets a round of high-fives from the rest of the table.}

The first photo is a little naughty, so click ‘more’ to see ‘em.

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Happy Birthday, Jericho!

We love you!

I’d really like to post something here that would embarrass Jer, but he’s just too damn cool. So I’ll just make something up.

Jericho wears He-Man Underoos.

Take one pet door, a webcam, a mirror, a flashlight, throw in some image recognition software, and you have the most sophisticated cat door on the planet.

Oh my, this is an intriguing little toy, the Danger Hiptop. It’s a mobile phone, PDA, wireless internet device (email, web browsing, and instant messaging), rolled into one fairly compact device. It also has a camera accessory that takes color photos which can be emailed right from the Hiptop. The product will hit the market in late spring 2002, and they anticipate that the unit will be priced at about $200 USD, comparable to many mobile phones currently on the market. I suspect the real cost is going to be in subscribing to the service.

[via Meryl who got it from Cory, who reported that after seeing it he had, “a technology boner that could cut glass.”]

Now that’s a hell of a recommendation.

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embrace your computer problems

Two things:

1. I want the blue screen of death (girly) shirt.
2. These photos rule!

[via a comment left in one of Christine’s entries]

Any Working Assets customers out there? I’m getting ready to switch our long distance to them, and I know they have a referrer program. So if you want credit, be the first to email me.

Russian Roulette Kids Toy. Seriously.

That’s just horrible.

Thanks to Kristin, I just sat and played with virtual staplers, making them go up and down and click in time to the song that was playing in Winamp. (Smash Mouth - Diggin’ Your Scene, if you were wondering.) I was really grooving for a while. Even switching staplers as the beat changed.

I feel like an even bigger dork than usual.

I hope this isn’t becoming a trend, but lately bloggers have been turning off their comments due to repeated abuse. (I mean, I hope the abuse isn’t becoming a trend.) Ernie did it three weeks ago. Alison just did it. And Julie recently requested that people have the courtesy to not post anonymously.

I don’t understand people who get off on causing trouble. Harrassing people they don’t know. Treating people online in a crude manner that they’d never have the nerve to do face to face. I don’t just mean blog comments. I also mean email, message boards, chat rooms, and the like. Trolls in general.

I haven’t ever had a problem with this, ’cause I’m just not that well-known (and comments are a fairly recent edition to my site). I guess obscurity has its blessings.

Harry vs. the ‘Goliath’: How one man got fed up with junk e-mail, bitch-slapped a spammer, and walked away with some nice pocket change.

The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the US Army

Some of my favorites include:

• Not allowed to add ‘In accordance with the prophesy’ to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
• Must never ask anyone who outranks me if they’ve been smoking crack.
• Must not tell any officer that I am smarter than they are, especially if it’s true.
• I should not drink three quarts of blue food coloring before a urine test.
• Nor should I drink three quarts of red food coloring, and scream during the same.

OK, here’s what’s happened:

• Some time last week, the construction workers busted our water pipe. Probably Thursday or Friday. The damage wasn’t severe enough for us to notice a change in water pressure, but it did cause a pretty steady stream of water that ran down the gutter, across our property, and next door into the storm drain.
• Some time last week, the city noticed the water leak but didn’t do anything about it, like notify us, because it’s not their responsibility to do so.
• This morning, about 9:00, a rep from the city informed us of the water leak and said that the construction workers would contact a plumber to enact repairs.
• About 9:00 am our water was shut off. Neither Dale nor I had showered yet.
• About 3:00 pm Dale called the city to find out why no one had repaired our water line yet. He was told that the city would contact the builders again and then call us back. The city never did.
• About 4:00 pm a plumber came by to tell us he was going to begin fixing the pipe. He said he’d gotten the call initially around 11 am but there was some problem with the request, so he didn’t do a damn thing.
• About 5:00 pm we were informed that the pipe had been fixed and we could turn the water on again. Dale and I finally get our stinky butts into the shower.

Dale was also told that the builder was informed that he was responsible for the damage and excess water. But what Dale and I have to do is wait until we get our bill, compare the water consumption to last month, and send a bill to the builder to cover the excess. At this time, we have no idea how much that will be. Nor do we know whether the builder is going to be cooperative in this matter or not.

The doorbell rang. It was someone from the city. Informing us that they’re just now getting around to fixing our busted water pipe.

We’ve been without water for 8 hours.

It figures. The workmen clearing the lot next door have busted our water pipe, so the city’s turned off our water supply until they can repair it. I noticed that water has been coming out from under the pile of rubble on the sidewalk since the weekend, but I didn’t know if that was from one of the other neighbors watering or the rain we’ve been having on and off since then. Now I have the really bad feeling that it was our water. Now, I think it may have been our water trickling away unheeded for the last five days. I can’t wait to see what our bill is gonna be like this month.