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Cryptonomicon Spam
I’m getting really freaked out by all the spam I’m getting lately containing quotes from Neal Stephensen’s Cryptonomicon. Here is one of of the subjects:The knock on Rudolf von Hacklheber’s door had come at four o’clock in the morning, a time exploited by the Gestapo for its psychological effect. Rudy is wide awake. Even if…
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Yard Sale
We had a town wide yard sale on Saturday and the weather was great. We unloaded a ton of stuff and made about $300. I started taking our stuff outside at 7:45AM and our yard was packed by 8:00! The vultures were even going through our boxes that we hadn’t unpacked yet. Haha. The only…
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Trading a Paperclip for a House?
Want to know how to trade one red paperclip for a house? This guy is doing it, although he’s not quite there yet. He traded the paper clip for a fish pen, and then the fish pen for a door knob, then the door knob for a coleman stove someone didn’t want, and so on.…
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Nighthunter
I pulled out an old hard drive tonight and found something I thought I’d lost for good. When I was in college I spent a few weeks working on a game in C++/DirectX that could be described as a cross between Spy Hunter and Grand Theft Auto. I never finished it, but it’s playable and…
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Odd Man In Updates
I think I fixed the last bug in the team games. I use two different queries to retrieve the players in each game and I forgot to update one of them before. If the current team game goes smooth I’ll make it an official game option. I’ve been playing around with ajax and I think…
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Rob Corddry Cares About his Fans
TiVo is one of the greatest inventions of all time. Not only does it allow you to watch shows you would have probably missed, but it allows you to catch subtle details no one even sees. For example, yesterday I watched a segment on the Daily Show with Rob Corddry about intolerance towards Racists. At…
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Allpeers
I have three invites to the Allpeers beta program. Does anyone want in? It’s basically a P2P file sharing extension for Firefox that lets you share files with your friends. More info on it here.
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Rambling and Rambling
First of all I have to give props to my cousin Jessica for scoring the highest score ever in the GameShow last month. She beat out Holly in the last two days. For some reason my iPod stopped syncing up properly with iTunes, so I reformatted it and am in the process of loading everything…
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N64
I’ll cool it with the YouTube posts for a while, but this is hilarious. This kid is super excited about getting a Nintendo 64 for Christmas.
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Cutie Theater
Cutie Theater is the story my neices imaginary friends, the cuties, and the evil robots that try to eat them. Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4
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Cutie Theater on YouTube
Want to post Cutie Theater on your website? I put the first episode up on YouTube. Update: You can now watch all four episodes here.
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Tribes/Teams in Odd Man In
Some people on the forum noticed I have a test game running for Odd Man In that includes tribes. Putting players together in groups is the next step for Odd Man In and here is what I wrote in the forums. The way it currently works is as follows: Group assignments are given out randomly…
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Lesson Learned
There isn’t a faster way to learn not to stick your fingers through a car window than getting your finger crunched in the power windows, which happened to me over the weekend. Ouch. It looks fine, but it’s still numb. Is that bad? Maybe I need one of these. I picked up Wolf Parade’s Apologies…
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A-OK
If you’ve ever used Flickr you’ll get a kick out of this video by Jonathan Coulton. He wrote a song to go along with a bunch of flickr photos. Via Stereogum
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New Built to Spill
Found this on stereogum this morning. Built to Spill – Conventional Wisdom (mov) Built to Spill – Conventional Wisdom (win) So far the songs I’ve heard from the new album sound great. I ordered two CDs (Wolf Parade and Andrew Bird) from mars-red a little while ago and they haven’t called me to say they…
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Internet Explorer Sucks
I frequently checked out this site in Internet Explorer while redesigning it, but I guess I must not have tested enough. I just looked at it and it looks like poop in IE. Update: I fixed it (mostly)
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Know Any Mechanical Engineers?
If anyone knows any Mechanical Engineers looking for work in the South Jersey area, let me know, especially if they have used Solidworks. We’re also looking for Mechanical Engineering students if possible.
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Open Letter to Craisins
Dear Craisins, I think we first met at a Saladworks. I ordered a Mandarin Chicken salad and there you were. I thought to myself, “Wow, what kind of raisins are these?” Back then I didn’t even know your name, but since then we’ve both grown up a little bit. I thank the fine people at…