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Leonidas Rex

From the kings of stop-motion parody, a glimpse into the daily life of Leonidas.

Frank Oz, ladies and gentlemen

Apparently a blooper collection from Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas. Muppets FTW, with an MVP award to Frank Oz for this one.

rewritification

Widge, See the Apache docs on RewriteRule. Your rule RewriteRule ^(.+)\\.html http://www.needcoffee.com/html/$1.htm [r=301,nc] says to match using ^(.+)\\.html (Beginning of URI, one or more characters until we hit a \ (presumably counts as backslash or slash here?) ending in .html, and store the “one or more characters” part for later use in a backreference. Having [...]

spam as poetry

It’s an actual spam. Enjoy, or pretend you just hit Delete. Subject: coffee transmitted recipe injudicious btl ulysses theism bragging inexpert situs beside pinscher colosseum pinscher pollen troika selena pinscher conjectural novosibirsk strafe transmitted theism amort coffee beside strafe bouquet transmitted cuddly aphid wold disrupt nitty nitty btl beside aphid nitty kittle aphid haney pinscher [...]

mypod 2nd gen

The mypod has been replaced by the new generation! I got a great deal on a used Creative Zen Vision M 30G player, and so far it’s been very nice to use. I like that it’s software-agnostic, not requiring installation of Creative’s software bundle or even Windows. This is Creative’s answer to the iPod Video, [...]

start on time, adjourn early

Just like classes, meetings need to start on time and adjourn early. Expecting others to wait because you have loose ends to tie up causes entire schedules to slip. Early adjournment solves this by preallocating slack time for people to mentally shift gears, prepare notes, or travel between locations. Adopting a 50-minute hour for your [...]

a post about nothing

I came here to post something and got sidetracked by the news of the new WordPress release. I think it’s way cool that they decided to honor The Sound with the name of this one. Makes me want to get my car stereo situation fixed.

Joost you wait

I’ve signed up for the Joost beta. Good luck to me, and good luck to them. TV needs something to save it from itself.

Passing of The Drama Queen

Today my Uncle Jr died. Too be fair we all thought he was faking it. Oh sure he had pneumonia but he was doing his normal stunts when it came to being in the hospital…. only letting one of my relatives be close to him, turning his father away and calling for secuirty, talk about [...]

Firefox 1.5

Firefox 1.5 has been released. This dovetails nicely with Computer Security Day, which is tomorrow. Go get it, and never use Internet Explorer again.