Year: 2004

Always remember, when installing servers into a rack, be sure to wear your hard hat.

As an avid reader of Slashdot, it was hilarious to read this… on Slashdot:

Slashdot is no better than Simone:

“My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.”

It’s funny because it’s true.

This is an absolutely awesome spam message:

“This email was sent by the Citibank server to verify your E-mail address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link below and entering in the small window your Citibank ATM/Debit Card number and PIN that you use on ATM.”

It would take someone with the brains of rotting cabbage to actually go to the web site and fill out their credit card number. Then you know they’ll call Citibank (the real Citibank) a week later and complain about those mysterious four-thousand-dollar charges against their card.

The sad thing is, scams like this must work. Otherwise they wouldn’t exist.

Seen in a newsgroup:

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”

Great, I need to stop writing such clever code!

An oft-overlooked benefit of digital cameras is the ability to have kids grab them and take pictures… and not get upset that they’re “wasting film” or costing money in development.

Take, for example, this masterpiece photograph of what I can only assume is Zack’s little Lego creation.

We were biking along a little trail through town, and passing through an area that had a lot of trees looming over the trail.

Kyra was right in front of me, and she said, “I’m pretending I’m a girl going through a bunch of trees.”

Wow, what an imagination!

She’s an eBay fiend!

You know how all those people write books (and send spam) about how you can quit your day job and make a fortune buying and selling crap on eBay? Well, Laralee is the most diligent researcher I know when it comes to getting a good bargain. She’ll spend hours looking at different items, comparing prices and shipping and feedback and whatnot. She builds spreadsheets– no kidding!– showing the different items and their total cost of ownership, yada yada.

And in the end, she’ll have a new pair of knee and elbow pads she can wear while roller-blading.

I think I set a new record last week, when I wrote five different proposals for work.

They say when it rains it pours, and I guess the clouds suddenly opened up… I’ve been presented with a whole bucketload of opportunities and I figured I might as well jump at them and see what happens. My usual success rate with proposals is pretty meager; for every three I write I might land one of the jobs.

So far I’m one for five… one of the proposals has already been accepted. Woo hoo!

If you know anyone who died just after saying “Hey, y’all, watch this!”, you might be a redneck.

From The Register:

“A Chinese man has paid the equivalent of $1.1 million for a mobile phone number. The unnamed buyer shelled out a whopping nine million yuan for 135 8585 8585, which is apparently pronounced as “let me be rich, be rich, be rich, be rich” in Chinese.”

Ha! I’m thinking this guy WAS rich until he bought the stupid phone number…