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Archive for April, 2005
VoIPToday 2 guys came to our house and wired all the phone-jacks around the house to go through a small black box sitting next to our DSL modem. Today we were the first paying VoIP customers in town with a local number (I’m sure some people have Vonage.) It’s awesome. The quality is perfect and I can do fancy things such as “if work calls, send them to voicemail” or “if my parents call, and I don’t answer, send the call to my office phone, followed by my cell phone” and stuff like that. And on top of that, it’s half the price of our regular calling plan that we had with SBC. Update: Today we are finally 100% SBC-free so of course I just got a call from SBC telling us that DSL is now available in our area. I said “we just canceled your DSL service and switched companies”. “You did?” “Yes.” “Oh. Thank you!” You are welcome SBC, you are welcome.
I’m not the PopeA new Pope has been selected. And it wasn’t me. I had some hopes, after all I qualified for the position (I’m male, single and Catholic) and I bet that the Pope hat looks better on me. I don’t know what name I would choose though. So this new guy is 78, which is about 4 years above average life expectancy. This means that he is already eligible to be a part of the next death trifecta. Awesome bumper sticker Scooby Doo, where are you?For some reason, Ron and I started having a beer last night and ended up having way too many of them. Not only does it make it for a not so fun morning on a work day but now there are mysteries that must be solved. - Brown liquid that looks as if it has leaked from the oven and into a puddle on the floor. The liquid has no smell but I’m not crazy enough to taste it. - Food from a Mexican delivery place, uneaten, in the kitchen and the check to pay for the food on top of the TV. What the hell? How embarrassing (so of course I have to post it for everyone to read).
Holy crap!Adobe is buying Macromedia! [link]
Asshole embedingIn the past I’ve talked about people hotlinking to my pictures. Now when people hotlink to my pictures, they see a horribly disgusting gaping asshole. So I thought I’d show you what happens to people who do this.
Interestingly enough, people don’t seem to mind or know because The picture also appears on people’s personal profiles, so you see things like rainbows, unicorns and the asshole. I’m loving every minute of it. And by looking at the logs, less and less people are trying to hotlink to my pictures and they are removing the ones that they linked to in the past.
The party palace Obviously there is still a little bit of tweaking left to do, such as spread the legs so the bottom of the netting touch the ground, but that is the party palace. You can be out at night in the summer without being eaten alive by bugs. And what happens in the party palace, stays in the party palace.
Cowboy TroyI love to browse the Apple iTunes music store on “New Music Tuesday” and find new stuff. Sometimes my eye notices a catchy looking band name, or a cool looking album cover. For some reason my eyes were diverted by a blueish cover by a guy named “Cowboy Troy”. I clicked on it and I saw it was a black guy. This I had to see. Not that Aaron Neville is chopped liver. But you know what I mean. What I encountered was a black guy rapping to country music with lyrics such as this: “Now, big and black, clickty clack and I make the train jump the track like that” And so I present you with I Play Chicken with a Train by Cowboy Troy. And of course, the music video must also be seen (OK, not really, it sucks, but I had to find a good way to link to it.) This is a hit in the making. You’ve heard it here first. Car 1, Deer 0After a long ordeal, I finally got my car back. I’m glad that is over with. I would even say it drives better than it did before. But it may just be because I was stuck with the crappy Chevy as a loaner and I got used to it’s suckiness.
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