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BlogI've had the
Google Toolbar installed on my system
since late August, and in that time it has
blocked 572 popups. If the popup blocker was the only feature of the toolbar I'd love it, but add to that the text search/highlight features, convienient search box (with options to search images or current site only with one button) and it's a necessity. Much as I often ask "what did I do before Google?" I now ask myself the same question with regard to the toolbar. Too bad they're going public soon, stock holders tend to squash creativity with bean counting. Until then, I'm a proud member of the
Church of Google.
The suspected
radiation fallout on the
GnomeCam turned out to be a
malfunctioning video receiver. Those of you wearing tin foil hats can once again rest assured impending doom is not near (at least not near my house). Fortunately I had a spare receiver just waiting for a chance to prove itself. We'll see if it can exceed the previous receivers record of 2 years non-stop receiving.
If you've seen the
latest ads for Quizno's you know their marketing department is on to something. Totally idiotic (read: shockingly funny), yet you can't get the song or images out of your head. Add to that a $1 off any sub and you have a winning combination. It worked on me, I took in a 2-for-1 beauty supply coupon for my discount. Strangely enough, the song stopped repeating in my head only while I was in the store. Maybe it's TOO effective.
Apparently there is either a very strong solar flare or a nuclear device has been detonated near my house. My wireless webcam seems to be having trouble transmitting to my server. It definitely makes for some interesting captures, but isn't very effective at surveillance.
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For the last three weeks I've been using
biodegradable garbage bags for my household trash. My previous Glad trash bags
were not biodegradable and I felt that was an awful lot of plastic to add to the landfills. As a religious recycler, I try to reduce the amount of landfill I contribute whenever possible, and since biodegradeable bags disentegrate instead of permanently taking up space it's an easy choice. I had initial concerns that the bag would biodegrade before the week long garbage pickup cycle, but after three trial runs I'm quite confident in the bags strength. Since the trial run was a success, I'm buying 3 rolls and
suggest everyone else do the same. Then you too can call yourself a hippie.
This weekend I attended the
Sno*Drift Rally in Atlanta, Michigan. This was the third year in a row I've been to the event, which is always equally cold and fun. We decided to stay at a
bed and breakfast that was close to the rally, forgoing the traditional Mio Motel which we stayed at the previous two years. The first stage would prove to be the most interesting stage, where a car
got stuck in a ditch. The
rest of the rally involved the typical ice sheet turns which made stopping virtually impossible, but spectating quite entertaining. Another successful rally edventure.
The second and final weekend of the
LAN party was tonight. We started off with a quick game of NFS:U, followed by a few games of Starcraft. After everyone got sick of that, we played some Postal 2 before Scott introduced us all to Rise of Nations, a much more involved Real-time Strategy Game that was overwhelming for us simple Starcraft fans. By the time everyone left it was
ten below zero, unbelievably cold even by Michigan standards.
While out driving with
Stavos I happened upon the
White Castle Area Office. While most people think of food, we decided to take advantage of the recent snowfall and have some fun with my rear-wheel drive S-10. We started off with an
easy slide and moved up to a
spin stop. Since no police had yet arrived, we decided to get serious. A
figure eight followed by a
full 360 got us warmed up for a
good drift and finally, the
perfect drift. Who knew White Castle could be so fun?
As you may have heard, NASA has had trouble getting the Spirit rover on Mars to send back data. Well it appears the
jig is up and they are getting it back under control, so I think it's time for me to come clean. A few days ago I hacked into the rovers system and re-tasked it to explore the heat shield impact area. I have great faith in NASA, and it's clearly my favorite organization on the planet, but every joe blow knows an impact like the heat shield will throw up some serious debris. Why bother digging for alien fossils when you can just pick them out of the dust from the impact? After re-tasking and successfully exploring the impact zone (with mixed results) I had a hard time over-riding the commands from NASA and eventually shut down the rover to protect it from possible software corruption. The news media took this excursion of mine as a failure on the part of NASA, which is not surprising since the media is ignorant of everything not related to J-Lo. As a result, I've decided to let NASA do the driving from now on while I compile the results from my short jaunt across Mars. The rover will soon power back on and everything will be hunky dory again. J-Lo be damned.
Either Butt's
recent strike is over as of 1:30pm today, or somebody really liked his
picket sign. Whatever the case, my policy of non-negotiation has prevailed.
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