While browsing Milk & Cookies I found a link to a flash movie that I found very amusing. Truly, I did. And I’m not as easy to amuse as you might imagine – facts to the contrary notwithstanding. So go, follow the link and be amused. But be warned! It’s… naughty humor *shhhhh!*
May, 2005
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Made me laugh
May 31, 2005 by Collin
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Still sick but (hopefully) improving
May 31, 2005 by Collin
Yesterday, for Memorial Day, I spent nearly the entire day laying down trying to rest while coughing out a lung or two. I barely had the strength to stand upright and was quite glad that both children can manage to feed themselves for the most part. They stayed out of the latched cabinets so all is well with them. They have lived to see another day and so have I! Yay!
Today I’m at work, you know, working. Everyone around me probably wishes I would go home before I infect them. But just to be spiteful I’m not gonna. Actually, I figure if they didn’t get it from me all last week when I was sick, odds are they are safe. And if they DID get it, it’s incubating inside of them right now like a teeny-tiny Alien ready to burst forth from their chests in a horrendous spray of mucus and coughs. Who wants to miss seeing that? Not I.
So here I sit. Waiting. Grinning. Coughing. So this is what it’s like to be evil? No wonder Derek is always so happy.
On my lunch I finished up my next stupid ribbon idea that’s for sale at my cafepress shop. Here it is:
Click it if you wanna check out the booty. Why support fallen angels? Hell if I know. I just had the design idea and ran with it. Perhaps I’ll make a “Support Angels” ribbon to keep things fair.
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CliparToon #59: If you hear tiny footsteps and a clinking noise, cover and run.
May 27, 2005 by Collin
I’m sick. Still. But I couldn’t let the week pass by without at least one new CliparToon regardless of what common sense says, so here it is. Have a great weekend everyone!
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My home computer is kaput.
May 27, 2005 by Collin
Last night my Dual G5 decided to stop working. It’s similar to the problem that my old (well, not THAT old) work G5 was having. That one went to the repair center three times and they couldn’t get it to duplicate the error. The final solution? Plug it directly into the wall instead of through the power strip. It seems it needs more power than it could get through the strip.
The same problem happened to my coworker Scott’s new G5 iMac. Plugging it in directly to the wall fixed his too.
The similar thing between all three of these computers? They were purchased through Mac Mall and they came with a free RAM chipset in addition to the Apple memory that was included. Possibly the extra RAM is failing and it needs to draw more power as time goes on until the strip can no longer provide it. If that’s the case then it’s just a matter of time before the component totally craps out.
So, tonight when I get home I’m going try plugging directly into the wall and see if that fixes it.
Right now I’m still under warranty if that isn’t the problem but I really, REALLY need to splurge the $300 to get the extended Apple Care Warranty before my year is up.
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Now for the REAL before and after photos:
May 27, 2005 by Collin
Before
After
So, I’m no Keanu Reeves but I’m also no Phil Specter, so that’s a good thing. Most of the comments around work have been positive, but Ray asked me if my mom cut it. Now that I look at it, I’m still a bit too fuzzy on the face though.
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My ‘Before’ & ‘After’ photos:
May 25, 2005 by Collin
Before:
After:
Overall, quite an improvement, don’t you think?
(real photos still to come)
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Something I learned about myself yesterday.
May 25, 2005 by Collin
I’m a geek. I always had my suspicions, but now I can prove it. There were bushes arranged in front of the podium and stage (read two posts down for an explanation of the event) and there was a sign thanking the nursery that provided the “shrubbery and bushes.” And I realized that I absolutely cannot see the word “shrubbery” without thinking about the “Knights Who Say ‘Ne!’” So, not only am I a geek, I’m one of “those’ geeks. Yes, that is right. I’m a Monty Python geek who looks like he cut his own hair (one post down). BUT I did manage to keep from sitting in my seat saying “Ne! Ne!” to myself and giggling, so there is hope of a somewhat normal life among non-geek society.
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Oh yeah…
May 25, 2005 by Collin
I also got a haircut yesterday. I’ll post before and after pictures at some point. When Derek came in to work and saw it he first said:
“I can’t tell if you got a haircut or it’s just laying flat.”
He then followed up with:
“Did you do it yourself?”
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I’m sick
May 25, 2005 by Collin
It feels like a Summer cold. I don’t have an ounce of energy, I’m achy, my balance is off and my throat hurts like hell. I felt the beginnings of it yesterday morning but it was nothing like today.
I attended my brother’s high school graduation yesterday. It felt a lot longer than it was, but that was probably due to my being sick. It got me thinking about my own graduation. Man that sucked. I’m glad I don’t have to go through that again.
Trevor graduated from Wasson. When I graduated from Mitchell in 1986 we, like most of the high schools around Colorado Springs, held our ceremony at Wasson’s stadium. These days they hold their ceremonies at the World Arena, the local house of hockey when there is hockey to be housed as well as other ice oriented events. And non ice events. Basically an indoor arena. The advantage of this is we weren’t sitting out in the hot sun for 3+ hours. The disadvantage is when it was over there wasn’t really a way to get down to where the graduates were without jumping over a wall. Also it was obvious that many of the graduates and guests had never skated a day in their lives. I hope they release a blooper video. All things considered it was going well until Trevor went past the podium and received a 5-minute penalty for slashing. He was lucky he wasn’t ejected from the ceremony; the teacher never saw it coming.
I’ve been considering writing a post about how things would be different if I were God but it’s just not in me right now. If I were to write it today, number one on the list would be, “I wouldn’t be sick.” I may still eventually do it, but perhaps not. Eh.
I was also considering mentioning how it would appear the new thing for teens to do when they are out “cruising for sexual opposites (or equals, who am I to judge?) to impress” is to take the “support” magnets off of SUVs and large trucks and toss them up on the roof where the average sized vehicle owner will never see them from the ground. This will cause the owner to purchase another whereupon it too is tossed on the roof at the earliest opportunity. The goal is to see how many times you can do it to the same vehicle. The record is somewhere around six. Yes, let’s say six since I’m making it all up anyway. This isn’t really happening to the best of my knowledge. Or maybe it is. Who knows? It might have been a lucky guess on my part.
Thank God it’s We
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Your Character’s Alignment
May 24, 2005 by Collin
Interesting. I took this quiz to determine “my character’s” alignment. I was a big AD&D geek many years ago and the characters I played would generally be neutral-good, neutral-evil (when I played an assassin) or chaotic-neutral. It seems I wasn’t that far off the mark.
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Based on your answers to the quiz, your character’s most likely alignment is:
Neutral
A neutral character does what seems to be a good idea. She doesn’t feel strongly one way or the other when it comes to good vs. evil or law vs. chaos. Most neutrality is a lack of conviction or bias rather than a commitment to neutrality. Such a character thinks of good as better than evil. After all, she would rather have good neighbors and rulers than evil ones. Still, she’s not personally committed to upholding good in any abstract or universal way. Some neutral characters, on the other hand, commit themselves philosophically to neutrality. They see good, evil, law, and chaos as prejudices and dangerous extremes. They advocate the middle way of neutrality as the best, most balanced road in the long run. The common phrase for neutral is “true neutral.” Neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you act naturally, without prejudice or compulsion.
–excerpted from the Player’s Handbook, Chapter 6
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