quacky: —–+—+—–

Where I work, the malware is making me hungry, and a little bit ill.
New Bagle Variant Combines Spam, Trojan
Or, Latest Bagle Worm Attacks With Spam, Trojan.

A SPAM™ bagel. That could be good. Here’s a recipe.

Spam Breakfast Bagels

Kind of lame. Toast the bagel, scramble the eggs, fry the spam, make sandwich. The person who sent it in even assures us :

“This is for real. My mom got this from an advertisement for Spam™. And it’s delicious. I don’t care if people do make fun os Spam™.”

Uh right lady. I didn’t need no convincing there.

It’s probably a hell of a lot better than this disaster though:

What World Wide Webpage RU? take quizzy.

heh. heheheh. Homestarrunner indeed.

via linkfilter

MANOUSCHKA: If you make me laugh, I love you. Doesn’t matter if you do smack and you’ve been to jail five times, as long as I feel like your day was fulfilled because you made me laugh. Especially if a guy has that potty humor — it shows he’s so comfortable that he can say whatever’s on his mind.

Yeah, Hi. For a number of deeply personal reasons, I’ve started working out a bit. I’m going to get in shape, and look fit, and buff, and hot. That’s the idea anyway.

I’ll probably end up joining a gym, I guess. But it’s going to cost money.
In the meantime, I’ve been causing myself great pain by working out by myself at home.
Doing these excersizes from an issue of Men’s Health I picked up.

Oh. My. God. I hurt.

That’s all.

I’m reading this Spider Robinson book called The Callahan Chronicals, and it’s quite good, but I’ll save the book review.

The thing about it is, it’s full of wisdom, some of which is good for me to remember. Like this quote, from The Blacksmith’s Tale

Finn, you’ve been unable to love because you haven’t loved yourself because you haven’t loved us — it’s time somebody got you off the loop. You ninny, of course you didn’t save us out of love! You did it out of compassion. That’s something that’s underrated, but I think it’s just as good as love — who knows, maybe better. You can love only your equals — with your superiors or inferiors, compassion is the best you can do, and it’s pretty damned good, at least as high up on the ethical scale. With time, it can lead to love. I speculate that it could even be the basis of a pretty fair marriage. Do you think?”

I like that. It says something to me about something that is real. About the loop, and about loving equals.

But I’m not sure if it is a cool Google sport, like Googlewhack or making fun of bad spelling…

Anyways, here’s the rules, er, rule, I guess:

• Find phrases, that you might actually hear, read or say in real life, that have exactly zero Google results. Four words or less, smaller words better.

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I thought, for fun, while I have only to monitor a new server for a few days,
I’d try to learn more about RRDTool so I
tried to create a bit of data source and pull a graph from it, by hand.

I don’t think I’m doing it right…

Bleh.

The Meatmen are a cool band I know very little about.
Except that they have some pretty funny songs, and they rock.

Examples:
• Centurions of Rome
• How Soon Is Now (Morissey Tribute)

With our new digital camera which totally rocks, we’ve managed to snap a few really cute pictures of our kitties.

Here are two

The Japanese equivalent of DEVO, right down to the yellow jumpsuits. Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, the POLYSICS are one of the great hopes for the future of music. A less poppy Devo, mixed in with the aggressive sounds of the Bordeoms, trickle in the energy of the Dead Kennedy’s, and topped off with the moods of Man or Astroman.

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A few days ago there was a story on TheRegister called The Perils of Googling.
It’s about some super-tricky sort of hidden features of google that can help you find all kinds of stuff your mom probably wouldn’t want you to find.
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Yay! Qwest is to begin offering, or is already offering “NAKED” dsl, that is,
dsl service without a phone line. I think I’m gonna do it.

Also, I found on MetaFilter a pretty nifty Color Scheme appl.
which I then used to gin up the very subtle and refined new stylesheet you are
most likely seeing this with. Suave!

It’s always seemed unreasonable to me to pay the phone company for complete
telephone service in order to get a DSL line. I decided to try Qwest’s
customer service chat, to see if I could get some answers. DAMMIT!

This is a transcript, of me, playing dumb, asking good questions.

Thank you for using Qwest.com. A Sales and Service Consultant will be with you in a moment. Currently, your estimated wait time is 0 minutes and 10 seconds.
Welcome to the Qwest.com live chat service. My name and agent ID is Jared (2112). May I please have your name?
Billy: Billy
Jared (2112): Hello Billy, how may I help you?
Billy: I want to know, do I have to pay for a phone number to get your DLS internet service?
Jared (2112): Yes, DSL is a feature added to a phone line.
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Go see for yourself … it’s plastered all over DrudgeReport.
Which, you know, makes it [insert scare quotes here] Absolutely True.

I mean, what gives here? How come it’s all ways the damn Dems with the sex scandals? Where are the Republican
sex scandals?? Oh wait, they don’t have sex, is that it? Who’d wanna have sex with them anyhow, right?

The Dems could really capitalize on this, or at least I think they should.

You know, like bumper stickers…

Democrats: We actually LIKE having sex!

Women don’t realize that a lack of sex reduces a man’s ability to be patient and considerate with a woman.

Men don’t realize that a lack of consideration and patience reduces a woman’s sexual interest in a man.

I was plunking around today and found something called Supermodel Meat Sports. It’s quirky and funny and it has
cute skantily clad ladies dancing with various meat.

What could be better!!??

Anyhow, click click click later… I see a reference on some funny pictures web-board to a term ‘badunkadunk’.
I’d never heard that term before, but I stick it in google (that’s how it always goes? )
And boink! Urbandictionary.com has the answer for me. A big booty.

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I enabled them earlier today. This way, I could find out if anybody but me
reads this stuff. Not that I care so much, because it’s fun figuring out how
to make blosxom work, and how to make comments work, and how to get the thing
on the comments page to look right, so it’s not like you’re abruptly flung
into a strange web world when you comment. All in all, I did a jolly good job.

I think.

My longtime friend Captain_Tenille just made himself a new personal web page.
Called Captain_Tenille.org. So I thought I’d make him a rad logo to use.

I used a nifty transformers-ish font I found a long time ago, some really old
Photoshop tricks for a drop-shadow, and wha-LA!

Yeah. One of my best friends, who goes by the very nice name Captain_Tenille,
has a new baby girl. Mom_Tenille, Dad_Tenille, and Baby_Tenille are all doing
very well, she apparently has everything a new baby should have. And she has
one thing lots of babies don’t have…

TEH ROKC!

See??

I forgot how big of a grin I get on my face when I see pictures of pointy
vibrator-shaped space rockets!
I was trying to find some infos about a composition by my newest best favorite
jazz composer <cough> — Raymond Scott. He’s the guy who composed that
one theme for Warner Brothers cartoons “duh duh daaa, duhdada da duh daah” you
you know, the one that backs up all the like sinister factory/machine scenes…

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About those music files.
They will only be available for a short time!!!
Then I’ll take them away. Heh!