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halloween hell
October 31, 2005 link category: Stare
So, you dast come to the Factoids abode, sans costume, and about a decade past the median begging-for-candy age, and expect to get away without a lecture? 'Ha,' says we. Should you be crass enough to attempt to extort sweets, have the common decency to at least don a modicum of greasepaint or a token latex mask. Or, act your age instead and spend the evening yapping at your little friends on the phone.
And to the whorish teenager who flounced to our door with a pack of cigarettes shoved into her barely-pubescent cleavage, your mother doesn't slap you nearly enough.
Stick It
October 31, 2005 link category: Technojoy
comments: 1
We are virtually certain we're the very last to know about the lovely little Stickies for Windoze, but we could give a flying 3/4 backwards twirl. Adhesive is deuced hard to remove from LCD screens, you know.
Kind of limits the prank options
, but we suspect we'll survive the disappointment.
Yes, we bloody well know this sort of thing comes already packaged with a Mac, we just
Do.
Not.
Care.
Reading Comprehension
October 31, 2005 link category: Office Space
"I got confused reading your signup email..."
Well, that's *exactly* what we like to hear from nascent resellers, for sure. If something as simple as that confuses you, poppet, then we think the vagaries of navigating your reseller interface are definitely going to be more than you can handle.
Reselling internet hosting is not the way to riches and glory...well, except for the actual host...and you people who treat it like a multi-level-marketing scheme get right up our left nostril.
Drool
October 30, 2005 link category: Teh Cool
We are not a gamer, nor do we mod very much, but this Deck LED backlit keyboard is enough to make our mouth go dry and hands tremble ever so slightly...
We'll take one in Ice, please.
ThinkGeek has them for a bit less than the asking price of yon Deck site... I'm just sayin'.
But It's Cute Clutter
October 28, 2005 link category: Teh Cool
comments: 2
Desk crap, yes, I need MORE desk crap.
Via In-Sect
E for Effort
October 28, 2005 link category: Technojoy
comments: 1
As much as we despise sleazebag spammers, and indeed would not move a muscle towards the brake pedal should we find one in front of our speeding SUV, we do <3 the inventive names the little tykes sprinkle throughout our Junk folder:
Blissing O. Yemeni
Overwrite I. Ruffled
Aptitudes H. Monument
Glamor A. Archaism
Immoralities V. Papilla
Interchangeably P. Grammy
Buchwald P. Flit
Preshrunken V. Charwomen
Marion E. Askew
Denominating M. Jays
We're thinking of changing our name to Blissing X. Archaism. Has a nice ring, doesn't it?
15 Pieces of Flair
October 28, 2005 link category: Office Space
comments: 2
We are a Linux admin these days, solving problems for those too stupid to plug in a computer, much less run a website. In our time, we've encountered some truly mind-boggling idiocy. We could be charitable, say that the clueless simply are ignorant, instead of stupid and malicious in that stupidity but we'd be big stinky liars.
Some clues, for the sans-clue:
- You're not receiving your precious email because you're out of disk space. Did we sneak in at night and secretly add files to your account? Yes, because we clearly have little better to do. No, stupid, you didn't empty your email box, did you, therefore the lack of disk space is indeed your fault. We're not sure why you're taking being told this so very personally, though...
- Your domain expired almost two months ago. We told you to hurry up and renew before it went into the evil redemption period, and cost you another 150 clams to renew, yet you still waited five more days to pay the invoice, then chose a payment method that required a clearing period with your bank. This is our fault how, exactly?
We are more than glad to answer questions. Getting the morans to actually ask them is another storybook.
We Loves our Kitsch
October 28, 2005 link category: Teh Cool
New to us is this fantastic site: Uncrate
Our intrepid surfers have ferretted out the following gems:
We love sites that do all our surfing work for us.
Just what *are* you teaching them?
October 27, 2005 link category: Stare
Our son's third grade put on a talent show at the school this evening...ostensibly to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina (something we're sure the victims of Hurricane Wilma will no doubt appreciate), yet more likely to benefit the school PTA. At the end of the show was a slide show put together by one of the staffers, set to a very nice a capella rendition of "Amazing Grace", and prominently featured on the second slide was a waterlogged copy of Patrick Buchanan's Where the Right Went Wrong.
Nothing like a little partisan politics with your elementary school fund raising, eh?
Knittery
October 27, 2005 link category: Teh Cool
A knitted homage to Dawn of the Dead. Gimme some sugar, baby. Oh wait, wrong Dead.
Here We Are Again
October 27, 2005 link category: Et Voila
We've been blogging since the good old days, back when the "blogosphere" did not have a name, when there was a feeling of community about the whole effort, the media didn't know we existed, and "trolls" were only found under bridges or on Usenet.
Many things about blogging have changed since then, not very many of them good, in our opinion...after all, if you give a monkey a pencil, you'll still get nothing but the thoughts of a monkey. Or, y'know, random holes poked in the paper.
Yet the urge to fling one's thoughts out into the ether remains. Blogging is a sight more convenient than pen and paper, to those of us chained to our machines, and offers near-instant feedback. Write in a journal and you have to die before anyone sees it. It's kinda the rule.
Speaking of feedback, comments are TypePad moderated. Be rude at your own risk, as we might just publish your comment for the sheer joy of heaping scorn upon it.
Re: the name...just a domain we had lying around. Will there actually be facts? Maybe.
