The Saga of Gmail I got a strange email to my main email account the other day, telling me that if I wish to reset my Gmail password, I should click the link in the email. Now, I never, ever, use that account, and I certainly am not clicking on a link and giving a site my password, no matter how legitimate it looks. So, I went directly to Gmail and logged in, and I had a strange email in my inbox. From a GAY PORN website. With some guy's name, password, home address, and part of his VISA number in the email. It seems that some guy (with a similar name) had signed up for the site, paid with his credit card, and then accidentally put my email address down in his contact info. Then, he must have tried to log into my account, couldn't get in, and tried to reset the password so he could get in. Poor guy. Now I have his name and address. Of course, he also signed me up for emails from Rent.com, so maybe he's looking for another apartment in Kentucky. And before you ask, no, I did not use his account, and no, I'm not sending the guy a letter. That's just creepy. Link to this article Posted at 08:42:06 PM EST by copus
Mirror, Mirror, Please Stay on the Wall I finally put up a new mirror in the pink bathroom. I'm a little paranoid about it falling down again. And, since the mirror was relatively cheap, I won't worry too much if I have to replace it when I finally remodel that bathroom and not make it quite so "pink" anymore.  Fabulous. Link to this article Posted at 08:34:59 PM EST by copus
Vegas Baby FYI, I finally put up photos (Stewart's photos, actually) from my Las Vegas Trip over a year ago in a browsable format. Thanks to Google Picasa, more random photo sets are probably forthcoming. Link to this article Posted at 02:24:18 AM EST by copus
An Old Birthday Card I found a card while cleaning out my garage today: Whatever it is I think I see becomes at Tootsie Roll to me. And then it starts talking to me about how I should stop wasting my whole life worrying about insignificant details. How I should maintain a closer relationship with my friends. How true happiness comes from within. How our apartment would be a whole lot cleaner if I would stop throwing my feces everywhere. And then the card opens to: That's when I eat it because I was hungry. And that's why the remote is missing. Happy Birthday? Steve Note: I'm not completely sure this card was actually for my birthday, or if Steve was just bored at some point during his office hours in college. Link to this article Posted at 09:09:13 PM EST by copus
Flat Tire My goal for the night tonight was to buy a bathroom mirror to replace the one which had such an unfortunate ending. So, I headed from work to the hardware store, noting that my car was listing to the right a bit. As I drove, it got harder to keep the car on the road.... I must have a flat tire. Well, I was almost home, so I headed there to check things out. I could hear the hissing as the tire met its demise, so I put on the spare in the trunk. As luck would have it, the spare was low on air... but at least it was in better shape than the leaking tire. I drove to the absolutley closest tire place, but first I decided to bring a barely used extra tire that had been sitting in my garage since my last wonderful experience with a flat tire. The sidewall on the flat tire was so damaged, the tire guys said it had to be replaced. Luckily, they didn't care that I brought my own replacement. Their only problem was the big creepy spider out of my tire. They argued over who had to kill it. I was just worried at what kind of anti-spider campaign I was going to have to undertake in my garage when I got home. Of course, I had been in such a hurry putting on the spare tire, I apparently cross threaded one of the bolts while tightening things up. So, of course, that snapped off when they took the spare off. We spent the better part of the next hour getting that fixed and the new tire put on. What did they charge me? Nothing. I didn't buy a tire, and they were cool enough not to charge for labor or the new lug nut. Wow. That's rare. Of course, I wonder who I'm going to buy my next tires from? Link to this article Posted at 09:29:53 PM EST by copus
A Paralyzing Solution A debate broke out about a very serious subject last night. Let's assume you have a girlfriend of multiple years, and you're totally in love with her, but she gets in some random accident that leaves her a quadriplegic. And she may even be in a half-vegetative state. Do you move on? Stay with her? Stay with her for awhile, make sure she was taken care of financially, and then find someone else? We spent awhile going over the options and their ramifications, when one guy came up with this brilliant idea: "What you should do is set it up so she catches you cheating on her with another woman. Then she'll be the one who dumps YOU. Then there'd be no guilt, right?" As the women included in the discussion reacted in shock and horror, I added my thoughts: "And make sure that you cheat on her with another quadriplegic, so that it looks like you didn't cheat on her because of that." This also did not go over well with the females. However, most of the guys agreed that this was the proper way to end a relationship, if that was the decision. MAN LAW! (On a side note, we also decided this debate also officially guaranteed our entrance into hell.) Jeff adds his thoughts based on a movie he watched last night: "You could take Fando and Lis's approach...carry her on a cart thru the desert looking for a mythical city, stopping occassionally to torture or abandon her... ....then eventually beat her to death for no readily apparent reason. At least I think that's what happened at the end of the movie...it was 5 AM" Link to this article Posted at 12:00:27 PM EST by copus
Shredding Papers A re-enactment of a conversation between two coworkers who shall remain nameless: Employee 1: I was using the paper shredder by our cubicle today... does it actually shred anything? Employee 2: What paper shredder by our cubcile? Employee 1: You know, the one right here one with the big paper feed on top. Employee 2: That's not a paper shredder, that's one of the servers on our network. You just shoved paper down into the vents. Employee 1: Hmmm, that's why it was so quiet. Link to this article Posted at 03:23:17 PM EST by copus
Site Stats Part 1 Since I'm a nut for numbers, I decided to play with some of the web site statistics for this domain compiled over the last three years. Today's edition is search referrers. What web searches have led people to this site, and can I figure out what they were looking for? There were 23,252 searches that led to this site between January 2004 and mid-December 2006. SEVENTY EIGHT PERCENT of them were related to the term "The Last Supper." I'm guessing they were looking for the famous Da Vinci painting. What did they get? Something slightly different. Sorry, Ali. Ok, what was the next most common search, comprising about seven percent of the results? "Fantasy Background." I'm not sure I even know what that means. I'm not sure exactly what that search returned, but I think it was another Ali-related image. That's not exactly what I would call a fantasy. Maybe a nightmare. Moving on, the next most popular search term, comprising bit more than two percent of the total search results, was "mutton chops." Classy. From there, we go onto more rare searches, but they usually show up on my monthly stats logs: satan selling drugs cats on drugs monopoly board santa satan strangle cerro chirripo Uh....strangle? Yeah, I have no clue. Anyway, there are surprisingly few searches for me, but I count results for at least a couple dozen friends, so good for them. And then there are a few results that are almost scary: james scoonie penn interview stigmata look it is the four pillars of the male heterosexual psyche strangle pics pictures of falling off toe nails heart to heart teddy bear auto gunbound what is copus guest book of farmers in canada Wow, that was illuminating. Next up, I'm going to try and compile country information, hit rates, and site referral information. Why? Because has been raining constantly outside and I don't feel like working on the inside of the house. Link to this article Posted at 06:28:48 PM EST by copus
Mystery Machine Zoinks! I saw this van when I was out to dinner with Raj and Jay:  Matt Ho just sent me the same picture today. Looks like some nosy kids are snooping around solving mysteries! I just hope there's a guy and a dog getting high in the back of that thing. Link to this article Posted at 04:16:21 PM EST by copus
I find your lack of pants disturbing Jeff sent me a list of the Top 237 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants" . I think this proves the Internet is officially a COMPLETE waste of resources and time... and that makes me so very happy. Link to this article Posted at 01:22:05 PM EST by copus
Famous Residents In my usual web wanderings, I stumbled on the Wikipedia entry for Buckeye, Arizona. This is the town I (fittingly) stayed in the night before the Fiesta Bowl in January 2003. The page is the usual data on demographics and neighborhoods (a population of 6,000 that is projected to grow to 2 million within the next 30 years? That's... optimistic). What really got me is the list of "Famous residents." Since it is on Wikipedia, it may get changed soon, so here's a screenshot:  I know he has been out to Arizona four of the last five years, but I don't think he spent enough time out there to consider him a permanent resident! (Of course, I'm referring to the great Upton Sinclair.) Link to this article Posted at 11:02:13 PM EST by copus
Bad Coverage After watching FOXs coverage (so far) of the BCS bowls, I'm really not looking forward to what they might do to mess up their national championship game coverage. Muddled sound. Cutting away from the action to shots of the crowd in the middle of a play. Cameras biting hard on every single play fake or trick play. Mediocre announcing (although it's been improving). Hyping the national championship game as "the game of the century." I'm surprised, because their NFL coverage is generally pretty good. At least they show the marching bands at halftime. Link to this article Posted at 10:15:04 PM EST by copus
Totally Robbed This is the only time you'll hear me say it, but Michigan got totally robbed by the field conditions, officiating, universe, and superior opponent last night. As for the Fiesta Bowl, Boise State lovers have gone from "we're just glad to make the BCS" to "we should get a share of the national championship?" Really? Grrrr.... Link to this article Posted at 06:56:46 AM EST by copus
Bush Beats Satan I guess the Associated Press did a poll on the Biggest Villain of 2006. And Bush won the poll (he also won Biggest Hero of 2006). I thought his major competitors were interesting, notably that Saddam Hussein was on the list, despite spending the whole year tucked away in prison. And, of course, that Satan only garnered one percent of the vote. Does that make Bush 25 times worse than Satan? I personally like to think of them both as imaginary bogey men dreamed up to frighten little children. Link to this article Posted at 07:12:18 PM EST by copus
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