I wanted to test drive Firefox RC3 at work as the memory leaks had started to become problematic on my new old computer. I tried to get the American English version but the work filter blocked it as a Phishing Site so I downloaded and installed the British English version. I haven’t noticed any difference. I need to leave now to get in queue to take a lorry to the lift at my flat.
D'oh, a Deer
I hit a diminutive pre-dead deer the other day while driving. I thought it was a lot smaller or my car was a lot higher (apparently I nearly bottom out over speed bumps) and I ravaged the corpse fiercely. My car began making rather loud (Harley with a glasspack loud) so I swapped it out with another car at home.
I got a call from my dad:
Dad: Did you hit a deer?
Me: Yeah, how did you know?
Dad: Two things: the size of the dent, as well as the deer fur, deer blood, deer guts and what I think was a deer tooth lodged in your undercarriage.
No iPhone
Today at 2:00 PM EDT, Steve Jobs was to hold aloft the 3G iPhone fortified with vitamin GPS, video-conferencing, MMS, cut and paste and Bluetooth and he was going to become the first man to die from the concussive blast of so many people shitting themselves in amazement. He’d have been held aloft as a martyr of innovation, someone who like Prometheus had stolen sacred functionality from the gods and paid the price.
Instead, he has given birth to wind.  I now have to wait until July 11th for merely a step of innovation rather than a pole-vaulted leap. Sigh… My work and camp coworkers who’d known how thrilled I was helped me get through my loss. Thank God for friends.
ERS Renaissance
Egyptian Rat Screw is a fast-slapping playing card game I’ve loved for years. I played it at first in elementary school but not until I had hours to kill as a Scout volunteer did I really develop retarded skill at the game. My current streak is 74 games most against Joe Naylor. Some of the persons present when Joe an I were player weren’t familiar with my preternatural slapping speed.
Pat: How are you so stupidly fast at this?
Me:Â I think it’s a combination of spending my youth summing house numbers on my way to school and screwing with my cat.
Pat: How did the cat help?
Me: He was never declawed.
This last part came back and bit me when I was screwing with Joe’s cat, and in an attempt to avoid getting scratched I pulled my hand away whiping like 9 drinks off the table. I later found out it was declawed and getting pawed by it was like being a attacked by a handful of Q-tips.
A new kind of competition
While instructing a session on MSDSs someone mentioned that smiling stifles the gag reflex and can be used to prevent vomiting. Thinking about this I propose a new courtesy training scenario: Each person takes a shot of syrup of ipecac and starts smiling, the last person still smiling has a job as a greeter at Wal-Mart or Disney World.
Anti-Powerthirst
If you haven’t seen the Powerthirst YouTube videos, I strongly advise you do. I’d link to them, but anything that rhymes with “reaming tedia” is banned at work. Anyway, named after Purple Drank the sedative-laden drink popular in the South, Drank is now available.
Tired of spiking your beverages with sedatives and cough syrup to slow you down? Try Drank!
via Consumerist.com via Village Voice
Wikipedia: Articles to edit
I lost the login to my Wikipedia account and couldn’t really remember the name so I had to start over on wikipedia as terry.r.robinson, I made my first edit and cried at the first edit I had to make. I had to remove the following from the Rick Astley page.
Trivia
- He’ll never give you up.
- He’ll never let you down.
- He’ll never run around and desert you.
- He’ll never make you cry.
- He’ll never say goodbye.
- He’ll never tell a lie and hurt you.
May the Internet forgive me.
Wikipedia: Articles to edit
I lost the login to my Wikipedia account and couldn’t really remember the name so I had to start over on wikipedia as terry.r.robinson, I made my first edit and cried at the first edit I had to make. I had to remove the following from the Rick Astley page.
Trivia
- He’ll never give you up.
- He’ll never let you down.
- He’ll never run around and desert you.
- He’ll never make you cry.
- He’ll never say goodbye.
- He’ll never tell a lie and hurt you.
May the Internet forgive me.
Storing Food for Summer
Meetings at work have slowly become more common and the arts of foraging (taking food after a meeting) and poaching (the daring taking of food before a meeting) has returned. Today, a meeting ended and there were about 30 cans of various colas left so I grabbed 12 or so (two in each front pocket, one in the back pocket, two each in the front pockets in my lab coat, and one in each of the other three pockets.) I was walking back to my desk when:
George: Did you take any of the sodas from that meeting down the hall, I have a meeting in there afterwards.
Me:Â I can’t lie, *looks at lab coat* no.
George: Did you at least leave the regular cokes?
Me: Yeah. Just took the diet iced teas
George: Good, the diet gives you cancer and the tea gives you kidney stones.
Me: Worth it.
Olive Foons
Foons are a Lexan reworking of the spork and they are owned in great quantities by Bucks County Council. They were destine to be the financial savior of the council, but there was one problem, they were olive and they kept getting lost in people’s SwitchBacks, the norovirus-generating pants replacements that are entirely responsible for any drop in participation in Scouting. The two deserve each other.