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the big lebowski action figures Technorati Tags: actionfigures, biglebowski, jefflebowski, lebowski, thebiglebowski, walter, waltersolczeck

Dude #1: So, why did you break up with her?Dude #2: Because she got herpes.Dude #1: What?! You gave it to her!Dude #2: Yeah, I know, but it’s different — herpes is gross with girls. It’s like a battle wound for guys, though. –Slipper Room We Now Present This Public Service Announcementvia Overheard in New […]

just a reminder about the dan potthast show at radio radio (which is a non-smoking venue, so even expecting mothers can go, wink-wink mandi). Technorati Tags: concert, dan potthast, danpotthast, indiana, indianapolis, radioradio, rickjohnson, show

This post-it note was stuck on a page inside Oscar Kiss Maerth’s The Beginning Was the End, a wonderful book that (seriously) advances the theory that sex-crazed, brain-eating apes were responsible for human evolution. I checked this copy out of the University at Buffalo Library. The actual text and pictures are mind-bending on their own, […]

so i finally got around to buying a new battery for my camera. yay!

at radio radio on april 24 at 9:00 pm is a show being put on by none other than j1, and i couldn’t be more pleased to invite everyone who reads this to see: dan potthast & rick johnson rock and roll machine they each have myspace pages: http://myspace.com/danpotthast http://myspace.com/rickjohnsonrockandrollmachine j1 has stellar taste in […]

at my new job, at least one of the sites i am now tasked with taking care of uses asp/vbscript. now, i am not an expert programmer, by any stretch of the imagination. i am self-taught and i went to art school, and because of my ADD, have trouble sensing patterns, so this means my […]

It’s been a great ride these past five years. Please join me in giving a fond farewell to WebKit, and a hearty welcome to our new Microsoft overlords. right, david, like that wasn’t obvious Technorati Tags: aprilfools, hyatt, joke, jump, lame, notfunny, safari, shark, st00p1d, st00pid, stoopid, stupid, unfunny, webkit

so my doctor is making me get blood work done, i forget what all is being tested, but it’s related to my ADD and lack of sleep. so i’m sitting in a waiting room at a hospital, anticipating some nurse sticking me with some needle. this sort of thing used to terrify me, but my […]

and i didn’t even get nauseous when i saw that the nurse had drawn three effing vials of blood. i did, however, ask, “am i going to live? don’t i need that stuff?” Technorati Tags: blood, bloodwork, hospital

so it’s sunday morning, and it is not quite 5 am, and i am awake. at 5:30 am starts my very last starbucks shift, and it only goes until 9:30 am, at which time i’ll be done. done. starbucks was fun, but that feels great. yesterday i went bike shopping, since my new job is […]

i am, at this very moment, i am having to re-learn how to use flash, which is now in version eight. the last time i used flash it was in version 4. things have changed. wow.

Evolutionary computer improves its hardware with genetic algorithms: Cory Doctorow: Techies at the University of Oslo have built an evolutionary computer that changes its design using genetic algorithms to improve performance: What their hardware does is par up “genes” in the hardware to find the hardware design that is the most effective to accomplish the […]

this video is a little slide show to a bit of narration from my favorite non-fiction book, last chance to see. via the another chance to see blog.