Thursday, September 14. 2006Al-Mormons
You just might be able to catch more flies with honey instead of vinegar. Enjoy!
Wednesday, September 13. 2006mmmmmmmm!
I just wanted to let Joey know that I was eating Ming's chinese food for lunch. And boy is it good!!!! :)
Saturday, September 9. 2006Cause it made me laugh
So I was driving into work today and I noticed something that made me laugh. You may have heard it before but I thought I would share it any way. The license plate holder around the car in front of me said this:
There are 3 types of people in this world; those who can count and those who can't. On an unrelated note, is anyone else uncomfortable about the fact that dictionary.com has changed their look? Friday, August 11. 2006Monkey Play
How in the world this Monkey survived, I will never know.
Tuesday, August 8. 2006Anyone need a good laugh?
Exercise never looked so hilarious, or gay!
Friday, August 4. 2006Behold, the power of ninjas
Note to self: ninjas can only be defeated by the power of the sea.
Sunday, July 30. 2006She's Crazy
This is the crazy telemarketing phone call thing I was talking about.
Tuesday, June 20. 2006Just for Laughs...
I came across this quote from one of the guys at work, and I felt that all of you should share in its juicy goodness. The quote:
I'm not a vegetarian because I like animals, I am vegetarian because I hate plants. Tuesday, June 13. 2006A Blast from the Past
So I guess thanks to AoD, Giggler went looking for the About Us Pages that Maverick made for the Company way back when.
In reading it we came across this classic from Radar. He works on "my own brand of unix and Java script operating system. I call it: "JOS" (which stands for the "Junix Operating System, not the first name of the creator of Buffy, and Angel tv series). My design allows me to parse out the DOM at a much faster RAM to CPU ratio, thus allowing the ddl and the css port to integrate along side the xslt ribbon cable. My design effectively makes the USB coolant fan obselete, and out of date. Also, by linking the GUI with the ROM slot cable, I have increased proscesor speed to ten megapixels per unit of PCI. Yeah, put this in your pipe and parse it Steve Jobs, Linus Torvald, and Bill Gates!" Tuesday, June 13. 2006Sweet, Sweet Nerd Love
I came across this article in the Wall Street Journal today. It's so funny that I had to share it.
To Find a Mate, Raid a Dungeon Or Speak Like an Elf Some choice gems: Nick Yee, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Stanford University who studies online games, found in a survey earlier this year that 29% of women players and 8% of men said they had gone on to date someone they met in a game. He says the games are filled with scenarios that shed light on players' personalities. A risky raid on a dungeon, for example, can reveal whether someone is a team player. "These are trust-building exercises," he says. Players "are constantly having to make decisions like, 'Do I run out and save myself or help the others survive?' " Situations that reveal so much about someone's character are less common in the real world, he thinks. David Knife, 32, fell in love with his wife, Tracy, 30, while playing Anarchy Online, a science-fiction game. Mr. Knife says he was impressed by her leadership skills. Ms. Knife, who in the game led a guild of about 50 players, "was very motherly to many of the players," he says. "It's the way she controls everyone by still being very nice." Terri Perkins, a spokeswoman for Funcom NV, the Norwegian publisher of Anarchy Online, says the company knows of more than 20 couples who married after meeting in the game, which was launched in June 2001. Because so many players like to stage in-game weddings, she says, the company has assigned about a dozen volunteer players to help arrange the weddings, which can include fireworks displays at the ceremony. "I have to remember two wedding days and two engagement days," Unlike Napoleon Dynamite's brother, these examples did not hit close to home for me. Wednesday, May 17. 2006Another Milestone reached...
So I have this new job, working for a web development company. It is great! I have a higher wage. I have newer, better fitting, and cooler clothes. I have self confidence. I have responsibility. I have a new title (Project Manager). And most important, I have one thing Joey wishes he had: Jared.
But alas, I am not hear to gloat about my victory over Joey. The accomplishment I wish to share is regarding the amount of work I do. You see I have been doing a bit more work than my responsibilities require. A lot more. Up until now, my personal best amount of work was about 100 hours for a two week period. That included working on saturdays. I only work Monday through Friday, and so for my last two week pay period, I topped out at 123 hours! Some of you (namely Joey), might say this is nothing. And I would probably agree. But this is me we are talking about not Joey. I actually enjoy sleeping at night. 123 hours in ten days is pretty good in my book, and I just wanted to share. Thank You ps. heee heee heee Joey. I got him! Thursday, May 4. 2006Words I Like
I like that the word Polysyllabic, is itself, Polysyllabic.
Friday, April 28. 2006
Marten's got enough uteruses in his ... Posted by Wren
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Marten's got enough uteruses in his life as it is.
There are some things I will never understand.
Tuesday, April 25. 2006From Peter
Nash asked me to post this.
Monday, April 10. 2006I Don't Claim To Know the Answer . . .
My question is: Why do we still have borders?
I don't like borders. I've crossed the border between the United States and Mexico a few times, in a few different places. I've also crossed the border between the United States and Canada a few times in a few different places. And I've dealt with visa and customs problems more times than I can even remember. I've probably wasted several months of my life standing in line so that some government official could look over someone's papers, frown officiously, and then stamp them as his way of saying that he would allow that person to stay inside of "his" borders for a little while longer. So why do we have those borders? What purpose do they serve? Do they make us safer? I don't think so. I don't have any data to back up my position, but I really have a hard time believing that illegal immigrants commit a disproportionately large number of crimes. My experience with illegal immigrants has been that most of the time, they're too busy working to have time to commit many crimes. Do they help us economically? I don't think they do that, either. Sure, illegal immigrants are willing to work for ridiculously low wages because they know that if they protest, they could be deported, but there are significant costs that come with having such low wage workers around. Health care, schooling, and other public resources are straining to deal with the added expense that comes from having so many people depend on them who can't afford to pay for them. Maybe if they weren't so worried about borders, they would be able to protest the inhumane working conditions that they have to deal with. And maybe then, they could afford to pay for the public resources that they use, bringing down the costs for all of us. So, do borders protect us culturally? Maybe they do that. But realistically, what is American culture? We don't have our own language. We don't have our own religion. We don't have anything that is really ours. Nearly everything that we think of as ours was really someone else's before it was ours. All we can really claim is the American Dream, the dream that through hard work and perseverance, anyone can succeed, and realistically, who embodies that dream better than illegal immigrants? Why do we have borders? They're a convenient way to define Us and Them. We can use them to say, "We have certain rights, protections and privileges that They don't have." Think about it though. What did you do to deserve those rights? Do you deserve them because your parents were born in the United States? Do you deserve them because you were born in the United States? So, They don't deserve those rights because they weren't born in the United States? Whatever happened to the idea that "all men are endowed with certain inalienable rights . . ." ? Is a man alienated from his inalienable rights simply because he is an alien? |
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