Check this out. Homer simpson goes to town with about 100 sound clips. Imagine the prank phone calling fun you could have with that piped in through your telephone. It reminds me of a prank I pulled in college. A guy who was hosting the night’s party had a little doohickey hooked into his phone that could play a variety of sounds over the phone, about 20 of them, including barnyard animals, police sirens, ambulance sirens, doors slamming, windows breaking, and so on. The host had never held one of our frat parties at his place before so people were calling to ask for directions and the host was out on the beer run, so a friend and I were left in charge…
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All the earth that’s fit to see
Looking for a cool desktop picture? Or maybe you’re interested in looking into aerosol accumulation in the atmosphere on the west coast of the US? Possibly you’re concerned about deforestation in South America? In all cases, this is the site for you. Tons of cool pictures of the eart from space in all kinds of spectrum, scale, and so on. Very cool stuff.
Lunch with Kevin and Marcia
I had lunch at one of my favorite places in portland, the vermont flatbread company. The occasion was Marcia’s birthday. I missed her surprise party a couple of weeks ago for lack of a safe ride home, so I took her and kevin out for lunch instead. The beer was great and the Gorgonzola, Pruciotto and roasted asparagus pizza was awesome. I snapped a pic of kev and marcia as well:
I was right
I did have the bad guy pegged 15 minutes into The Gift. Oh well. Skip this movie is my advice. It has a few interesting moments but all in all you can tell where it’s going almost from the very beginning.
Cool ebay score.
I won a signed copy of Hope Muntz’s Golden Warrior, which also came with a signed invitation to a new year’s party from the author himself. I thought it was pretty cool, the card itself is excellent too as you can see below.
Training day….
…is just ok. The plot takes a few interesting twists and Denzel Washington definitely does a great job, but at its core the movie is typical hollywood dreck elevated above average by decent performances and a slightly above average screenplay. You can check out other folks opinion as well. Overall I would say it’s a worthy rental but I’m glad I didn’t spend $8 to catch it in a theater.
deja vu in a movie about a psychic
Well,
Sorta. I’m sitting here watching The Gift and I have this horrible feeling 20 minutes into the movie that I know who dunnit. Damnit! Other than that the movie seems decent if not exceptional. More later after it’s done.
Iron Monkey is all that
I rented Iron Monkey on DVD this weekend. Very cool flick. The acting is poor to awful and the plot is straight out of a saturday morning cartoon, but still it’s a fun and entertaining flick with awesome kung fu action. If you’re a fan of kung fu flicks you’ll almost definitely like it. Plus some of the dialog is great for unexpected laughs – at one point a 12-13 year old kid exclaims
My kungfu is good!
After beating ass on a gang of thugs.
Yes it is son, yes it is 😉
yet another stupid windows thing
So I’ve had my new machine up and running with Windows XP for about 3 weeks now. All in all I’m pretty happy with it. I did have to run out and get more ram because with 256mb it was struggling, but in general this has been the smoothest OS transition ever for me and it contrasts nicely with the nightmare of OS X on the mac boxes. But one issue haunts me. Every time I print a document, the OS helpfully points out that the document failed to print and offers to troubleshoot the problem for me. The only problem seems to be the OS not actually knowing what’s going on, because the documents are printing fine and sitting in the printer tray waiting for me. So what’s the deal? Who knows, like I said, yet another stupid windows thing.
Spam of the day
Today’s spam of the day brought to you buy some yahoo, who asks would you like a brain tumor? in the subject line. I didn’t read the mail but I have to wonder, who answers yes to that.
