(I steal these, not experience them. But, I may have some empathy for them)
By Kosa:
One day when I was like 13 or 14 I think, my mom was in the kitchen reading or something. So I ask her an innocent question: "When’s your anniversary?" I asked because I knew it was the current month and I wanted to get her a gift. But instead of an innocent answer, she looks at me really seriously, almost afraid, and goes "Why do you want to know?" I look at her like she’s insane and just say "Umm . . . I’m just curious." So she then has me sit down and proceeds to say something along the lines of "I guess you’re wondering why your birthday is in July . . ." And as I sit there, she proceeds to tell me how I was born in July when my parents were married the November before. To state it blatantly, my birthday would put conception the month before my parents got married. So great, I want to do something nice for my parents and I get the gift of knowing I was partially an accident. Gee, thanks Mom!
Linkfest: Work was alright this morning, I got a lot done. But, now the hard part: looking busy!
LIFEHACKER: How to deal with Internet Meanies [Link] "here's something about the feeling of anonymity on the Internet that can turn otherwise reasonable, pleasant people into complete blockheads. Given an open, free, global network to communicate, people use it to rant, rave, flame and complain. We've all done it.
But when YOU are the target of an insulting post or sharply-worded email, quite frankly, it can really suck. Today I've got some strategies for dealing with Internet Meanies: those faceless virtual bullies who take pleasure in shooting other people down from the safety of their keyboards."
Life Tools [Link] "Life Tools offers free personal development training to educational institutes and communities. If you have a real appetite to be more effective and make positive changes in your life then we can help."
Feedo Style [Link] Include RSS and ATOM content from any feed on your web site! I'd do this, but I've got it cluttered enough already.
Firefox Extension: ListZilla [Link] This extension outputs either a plain text, vB code, or HTML file that lists all installed themes or extensions. Very helpful when switching computers. But why not go portable? My stuff is on my USB drive.
Organize Blogger Posts [Link] labelr lets you add categories to your www.blogger.com powered blogs. I'd use this, but I can't be bothered. I have search and that's fine for me.
The Wayback Machine [Link] Browse through 55 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.
TEXT GAME: Hacker [Link] I think I played this before, it's just reading and typing. I do enough of that :)
Enemy Territory [Link] Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is the ultimate online strategic shooter: An objective-driven, class-based shooter set in the Quake universe. Sounds like fun, but I'm doing other things right now.
My Usual Self-Questionnaire. What's playing? Head Cramp - Rawk Knocker
What was the last thing my TV did?Still nothing.
How am I feeling? Why?Alright, just kinda exhausted from the past 24 hours.
Complete this: "The Weather Is..."Cloudy, partially rainy. Perfect day for depression, but I don't have the time for that.
Random Comments:Teach what you know, learn what you don't.
"Lowbrow Moment" posted by Spook at 9/01/2006 12:39:00 PM |