Archive for February, 2005
Chicken Shield
As I’m writing this Jeremy is in his kitchen pounding out chicken. Juice and ice projectiles are flying about the kitchen. He came up with an idea to solve it called a Chicken Shield. I started to think about how many ideas are brought up in random conversation and dismissed as the talk continues. The [...]
Future Food.
Sometimes when deciding what to eat I think about where the food is at that moment that I will consume in the future. The hamburger patty sitting in a box in the freezer at Wendy’s or the sour cream in the caulk gun they use at Taco Bell are all patiently waiting for me to [...]
Phone Spam
About 30% of my e-mail spam is related to mortgage applications. They go something like this, “We got your mortgage application and would like to follow up on it.” Recently I have been getting the same kind of spam on my answering machine at home. I get the feeling it’s sneaky companies harvesting whois information. [...]
Valentines Day.
As most guys, I have never really been a big fan of Valentines Day. Instead of a rant I decided to do a bit of research to see just where this holiday came from and how it got turned into the big competition it is today. There has to be a dark secret somewhere, right? [...]
Quest For The Perfect Working Environment. Vol 1 – Desktop Environments.
As you may know I have been a dedicated SuSE use for a few years. Most distributions support many desktop environments but have only one that they focus their development on. SuSE uses the ‘K’ Desktop Environment or KDE as their primary desktop environment. They maintain packages for several others but the default is always [...]
Campus Coffee Machine
Don’t worry this isn’t a rant. It’s more a description of the campus coffee machines that kept me alive through my college years. During the colder months of my time of higher learning I spent the first few minutes on campus shivering in front of the coffee machine. After putting in the same quarters multiple [...]
isnoop.net gmail-o-matic
For those of you that don’t know isnoop.net has a program setup to distribute Gmail invites. I received a thank you note today from somebody that got one of my donated invites. It seems isnoop has more invites than they can give out since Gmail recently gave out 50 invites per user but I’m sure [...]