The advantage to eating while on a treadmill is that crumbs on the track are quickly dropped on the floor where they form a nice pile that my dog Max sucks up like our Dyson.
Month: January 2008
This post void if removed
I’m doing they type of testing I hate, where it’s busy enough that you can’t do anything else at the same time and dull enough that you’d envy sorting sand by size. In the two minute testing cycle I have one 25 second break and one 17 second break where I stare at the stuff around me. It’s also not easy enough that I can hold more than bits of conversation while doing it, so it may be the dullest test I’ve done to date.
Anyway, while staring around I started looking at all the calibration stickers in the lab that I could see from my station and noticed one that was partly peeled and said “CALIBRATION VOID IF REMOVED”. Most of the time, a shitty cellophane tape is used so it’s obvious if they’re removed, except for this one looked matte rather than glossy so during my 25 second break I started picking at it and peeled it off. I looked on the other size and imprinted on the back was this: Avery EZ-reMOVE. So, how did I use my new weapon? I placed it over the casette deck section of the boom box so one of my co-workers could put any of his gaiye free-jazz tapes.
Last Year, Last Semester, First Day
BA 4196 – Instructed by the world’s ugliest man. In fact, during the opening discussion I had trouble talking with him as I was distracted by all the hideous he had on his face. He has bat-like vision and dog-like hearing and doesn’t like computers so I’ve been trying to find a way to type quietly.
Econ 3563 – Instructor’s taught the course for 38 years and does the entire course without notes or an outline and I’ve always admired teachers that could that. He has no concept of formatting and it appeared he was equally likely to double space after a period as to simply hit tab.
Him: Unless your an accountant or an actuary, most of the material in this course is useless.
Me: WOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (my shout of joy lasted a good three seconds and was impolitely loud)
He also made fun of Philadelphia for using the term jimmies instead of sprinkles.
Lunch-A delicious chicken Caesar sandwich. If tasty needed a representative on the UN Security Council, this sandwich would be in the running as a delegate from Tastionia.
Act Sci 3503-Worst handwriting I’ve ever seen, like difficulty making somewhat straight lines bad.  He read the syllabus as someone who’s retiring remembers the milestones of his work “Credibility indexes, we had some wild times when those first came on the scene. We were young” and the like.
Train-Sandwiched between woman thinking I was reading her book and women whose book I was reading.
Radio show host pwned by Gordon Freeman (yes, the guy from Half-Life)
If you’re unfamiliar with the characters and plot from Half-Life and Half-Life 2 focused around the character of Gordon Freeman you can skip this and not feel that you missed anything.
Coast to Coast AM is a radioshow that I’ve found I’m only able to take in 5 to 10 minute bursts and focuses on cracked conspiracy theorists talking about psi and other junk. Anyone, the host Mr. Noory was pranked by someone calling in as Gordon Freeman and bought the line, darg. Video here.
I found this from skepchick.org.
I've never heard a UFO described in those terms…
A UFO sighting near Stephenville, Texas caused a bit of a brief stir last week and a traditional problem with UFO sightings has been sizing. Airborne objects are damn-hard to size as it could be a small object close or a big object far and getting roughly the same apparent size. One pilot swept this away by using an object metric: “It was bigger than a Wal-Mart”, said a pilot in the area. First heard during an NPR spot, text available here.
In writing the search tags for this post I giggled when I wrote “UFO, NPR, Wal-Mart”
I've never heard a UFO described in those terms…
A UFO sighting near Stephenville, Texas caused a bit of a brief stir last week and a traditional problem with UFO sightings has been sizing. Airborne objects are damn-hard to size as it could be a small object close or a big object far and getting roughly the same apparent size.  One pilot swept this away by using an object metric: “It was bigger than a Wal-Mart”, said a pilot in the area. First heard during an NPR spot, text available here.
In writing the search tags for this post I giggled when I wrote “UFO, NPR, Wal-Mart”
Economics of Commercial Sex Work
Economics of Commercial Sex Work from the Economist.com
I’d be curious if the wage increase caused by having a pimp is cause or correlation. Pimps could be an associated service like having a fixer/personal assistant that can help with scheduling and so on akin to an agent. Alternatively, pimps could merely be trying to feed off of successful prostitutes like volcano insurance salesmen.
I’d like to also see data regarding STI infection rates and if there’s a niche market for condom-only workers, much like the premium placed on cocaine from verified uncut stock.
unu bileto angle
I’ve spent the day trying to find the trial version of Microsoft’s OneNote software after I installed Vista on my tablet. Most people would identify three problems with that statement, but I shall continue. I couldn’t find the official trial to convert to a registered version as everything on Microsoft is like “only homos use 2003, 2007 is as amazing as Vista over XP!” I broke down and searched the tubes for a torrent of the files I needed but a version that wasn’t cracked as I had a valid registration code. I finally found and installed one only to discover after the install that the program was in Icelandic. I then tried to remove the program except that the removal options were in well, Icelandic so at each removal prompt I had to guess which option to pick only to discover I had hit the Icelandic word for “cancel” or “repair”. After about 6 tries, I removed it only to find that in the installation process, the default Office language had been changed… to Icelandic.  Ugh.
The Sleep Rebellion
I was sitting at my computer today setting devious traps with explosives in Team Fortress 2 when I heard a screech and a car slam into what I assumed was a telephone pole as the lights went out. It took me a minute to realize that was actually the case as every device from my modem to my computer monitor is on battery back-up. The power wasn’t on after a few minutes and thinking to past experiences I decided to go to bed at 8:00 PM as usually it takes hours for PECO to respond. I was later awoken by my dog that had to pee and glanced at my clock versus my watch. The power came back on less than 3 minutes after I went to bed. I was so angered by this I slept for a total of 16 hours. I wish I got angry like this more often.
Zombie Survival Merit Badge
I ran a session today on how to avoid bullets during a firefight based on a wikihow.org article largely to positive response. I’d like to expand this to a merit badge-like program at camp along with other activities like how to barricade a door, kill a zombie and jump off of a building into a garbage truck. Ideas?