Just a quick post to say sorry to all the people who’ve reported trouble with the telnet comments system. I did a server reconfiguration a while back that broke inetd in a way that wasn’t immediately obvious to me. The telnet comments are working once again…just connect to 4d2.org on port 23. I’m really surprised [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
I find the commercial below absolutely hilarious, for a variety of reasons that would take much longer to explain than it will take you to just watch the commercial: THE TICKETS ARE NOW DIAMONDS! The thing I find most impressive about this commercial, after watching it for the twelfth time, is that it appears to [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Kara and I have been a little wrapped up in ourselves the last month or two. I know at this juncture it’s customary to say “OMG so sry 4 not bloggin more LOL”, but I am far too classy for that. We’ve been a little sparse here because we’ve been moving out of Frederick, where [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Folks, it is my sad duty to report that the people of the state where I was born–Oklahoma–are morons. I can’t help but hope that it hasn’t always been this way. The educational system in Oklahoma hasn’t ever been great, but they’ve occasionally done OK for a smallish state with a low per capita GDP. [...]
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Here at 4d2 dot org, we get a lot of spam. Most of it I just flush out of the SpamAssassin quarantine, but sometimes one arrives that looks particularly amusing. This one is my new favorite. UNITED STATE OF AMERICA OFFICE OF THE SECETARY OF STATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT (RESOLUTION PANEL ON PAYMENT) WASHINTON [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Today I was looking through the most popular movies in various categories on Netflix’s website, trying to find new things to add to my queue. These are the 4 most popular “classic” films of all time according to Netflix’s data — which is pretty darn good, as data goes. Surely I’m not the only person [...]
I know, I know. Isn’t this really old news? Don’t we all already know this? The results of a new Rasmussen poll, released today, show that if the 2012 presidential election were held today between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, 42% of Americans would vote for Sarah Palin. One wonders exactly why this poll was [...]
I really like the idea of RFID road toll collection. It gets rid of the need for people to stand in little booths at all hours of the day to take your money $1.75 at a time. Unfortunately, the implementation on the east coast of the US, in the form of E-ZPass®, has sucked. They [...]
Attention all people wearing Crocs: You look stupid. Really, really stupid. You look like someone who spent $20 on an ugly, non-functional pair of shoes that occasionally leads to horrific escalator-related maimings. Oh, wait, you are someone like that. Seriously, your shoes look stupid. Especially the new ones with the faux-fur inner lining that look [...]
About a year ago, I bought a Flat Fold Colander, which you can see Cathy Mitchell pitching on TV here. It was a good purchase, because it was six bucks, it performs as advertised, and it hasn’t broken yet. But I am not here to extol the virtues of the Flat Fold Colander, diverse though [...]