Month: September 2006

A University of Florida professor was evidently bombed out of his mind during lecture. On video.

He was fired the next day.

Also, go Phillies.

Evidently TO didn’t try to commit suicide, he’s just allergic to his painkillers, or maybe himself.

See you later!

Wow. These old advertisments are outstanding.

Especially this one, this one, and this one. (via boingboing)

We’ve been working a lot on Sasha’s bedroom. Check out the results.

Before

After

I must be behind on this, but when did Microsoft release Visual Studio Express? It’s a free version of their Visual Studio, which includes Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, etc. They’re vague on how it differs from the full blown version, but here’s their official description from the FAQ:

Express Edition products are designed for hobbyists, students, and novice developers. As such, they lack the full breadth of features found in higher-end Visual Studio and SQL Server Editions. They are designed specifically for scenarios common to the hobbyist, student, and novice developer. Each Express Edition includes targeted documentation that will help the beginning programmer quickly learn the concepts required to build more advanced applications. The user interfaces are significantly streamlined to ensure that extraneous features do not interfere with the learning process. If you later decide that you do need additional features available in the higher-end editions of Visual Studio and SQL Server, you can seamlessly upgrade your code and skills.

There are no licensing restrictions for applications built using the Express Editions.

You can seamlessly upgrade your skills? That’s a weird way of putting it. In any case, I agree with this guy who thinks this should ship with every copy of Windows.

There’s a great bunch of cartoons on this site showing how various movies should have ended. Here’s the best one I’ve seen so far.

I added a few new links to the side today.

Below are the stats for two baseball players. One is the 2005 rookie of the year, a candidate for MVP in 2006, and has hit 53 home runs this season. The other is just barely able to see Pirates of the Carribbean 2 without his mom buying the ticket for him.

Player #1
Height: 6’4″ Weight: 250

Player #2
Height: 6’8″ Weight: 256

If you haven’t guessed it, Player #2 is Aaron Durley, a 13 year old kid on the Saudi Arabian little league team. I don’t know how I missed this, but I came across it watching a rerun of the Daily Show this week. Incredible.

This is definitely one of those things you can’t believe happened, but in retrospect can’t believe it didn’t happen sooner. The Crocodile Hunter, dead at 44 from a stingray.

Television personality and environmentalist Steve Irwin has died from a stingray wound while filming off north Queensland.

Friends believe he may have died instantly when struck by a stingray as he filmed a sequence for his eight-year-old daughter Bindi’s new TV series.

Irwin had been filming a new documentary called Ocean’s Deadliest with friend and manager John Stainton at Batt Reef, off Port Douglas about 11am.

“He came over the top of a stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” Mr Stainton said.

Say what you want about Steve Irwin, he was one of a kind. The first time I saw him he was looking for scorpions and digging them out of their nests. I couldn’t believe it. So long Steve.

First seen on Blinq

You don’t see many baseball posts here, but Ryan Howard’s 4-4 with three home runs today deserves a post. Incredible.