Entries Tagged 'time-wasters' ↓

The only thing for Obie to do after a tough box-shredding session:

My newest computer peripheral. (Still training him on how to fetch a file.)

The State of the Union address. All the standing up and sitting down is so the clap-happy audience gets a chance to give their brains some air.

And cribbing directly from Americablog:

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research – human cloning in all its forms … creating or implanting embryos for experiments … creating human-animal hybrids … and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.

Seems that he wants to make sure we don’t mate any more humans with chimpanzees.

Behold! The power of cheese!

“He’s dead, Jim!”

Toby is the King of the Kitchen…

and Sander thinks he’s a cat…

It’s 9pm and my co-worker K. just IM’ed me in a panic.

Yoiks! I can imagine the knot in her stomach, especially since the laptop is a brand new HP which the company just bought her when she came back from her second mommy leave. But, a quick Google on “pen stain lcd monitor” brought up a page on Appletechs.com’ forums entitled “Help! My 3-year-old wrote on my Powerbook screen with a marker!” Obviously, K isn’t the first one to suffer this problem, since this post was started on January 2, 2003 and the most recent addition was yesterday, November 17, 2004!

The range of suggestions is pretty amazing, from eucalyptus oil to a product called Kleen Screen, to fingernail-scraping to WD-40. The consensus seems to be either 70% Isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip, or — and this one is pretty weird — writing over the mark with a dry-erase marker and quickly wiping it off. Seems the dry-erase marker has a pretty strong solvent in it to keep the ink liquid, so writing over the ink dissolves whatever is there.

You find amazing things on the web when you are trying to stay away from politics for a little while!

I’ve been wondering why the birdseed was disappearing so quickly! (Sorry ’bout the quality, the cameraphone was all I had handy.)

This has nothing to do with anything, and I’ll be damned if I can remember or figure out where I found the link, but this is one of the most intense optical illusions I’ve ever seen. It’s alive!

Just a couple of program sponsors or underwriters which caught my attention recently on my local NPR affiliate station, WYPR:

Marketplace is sponsored by Bank One Corp., issuer of “more than 1200″ different credit cards! Many of these cards are co-branded, bearing logos and benefits from groups as diverse as Kampgrounds of America, your favorite college or university, stores, airlines, ASPCA, Disney and Starbucks. They have interest rates ranging from 7.15% to 14.24%, and annual fees ranging from US$0 to US$79 per year. (Actually, these numbers are taken from Cardoffers.com‘s survey of just 173 of Bank One’s cards.) Bank One is the 3rd largest issuer of credit cards in the US, but is this by volume or variety? Is there a company which issues more than 1200 different credit cards? Yikes!

The local programming on WYPR is sponsored in part by the Open Society Institute, one of George Soros‘ foundations. OSI has established a branch in Baltimore, dealing with “…critical national urban issues as they are expressed locally…” It’s a great program, but I just get a cynical grin when I hear the WYPR announcer say, “The Open Society Institute, committed to bringing the idea of democracy to” — this is where I smile — “Baltimore.” Gee, I wonder if they’ve thought of opening a branch a little further south. They could use some democracy down in DC…

Supposedly, this Radio Userland thingie, will enable me to post my entries to my Radio weblog AND to my Movable Type weblog. This post means nothing in itself, but if it posts to both places, that’d be sweeeet.

Been using Movable Type for the past year for my regular weblog — a clever sheep — and the collaborative weblog Guy and I maintain — participo. But for an exploratory project for work, Guy thinks Radio might be more appropriate. So…