Furry FREEDOM It was such a nice day outside that I decided to open up my windows when I got home from work. The cats got excited when I opened up the living room windows. Their noses pressed right up to the screen. I then went to open up the window in my spare bedroom. Simon jumped up to the window... and proceeded to jump out the window and run around outside. It seems that the window screen had been knocked out at sometime in the past... most likely during the last big storm a few weeks ago. It was completely bent out of shape and even torn up a bit. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention, and Simon busted through with his brute strength. Link to this article Posted at 08:32:14 PM EST by copus
Engineer Mafia Great wedding weekend in Columbus. All of us old TA types went out after the reception to hang out in the back room of the Surly Girl Saloon. We were all still dressed up when we left the place, and three of us walked out together wearing black suits. I heard a girl "bar whisper" to another girl in a dead-serious tone, "Ohmygawd, they're mafia!" I wish I had put out a hit on her for ratting us out. Posted at 09:43:30 PM EST by copus
Rubber Matrix From IMDB's Matrix Reloaded trivia: The freeway in Akron, Ohio was initially the first choice for the location to shoot the freeway chase scene but the crew decided not to shoot there as it will take one hour to back up all cars as to prepare for the start of a take. Wow, they really should have filmed here. As long as they told people there was "construction" on the freeway, nobody would have really noticed a difference. Posted at 07:11:56 AM EST by copus
Advice for the aspiring engineer Part Two Rule 2: Women generally are not impressed by the size of your graphing calculator. Please don't whip it out and show it to them. Corollary: This rule also holds for your website. I suppose if she IS impressed.... well, at least she likes your calculator..... Posted at 10:07:14 PM EST by copus
Advice for the aspiring engineer Part One Over the years, I've compiled a list of collected wisdom and advice for the young aspiring engineer. Every time I saw (or did) something bizarre that was very stereotypical for an engineer, I took note of it. And now, due to sheer boredom, I pass it on to you. Rule 1: A Leatherman (or any other sort of pocket knife, I suppose) is not a suitable device for personal hygiene. Especially in public. Or in front of the opposite sex. Oh, c'mon, at least CLEAN the thing when you're done! Posted at 10:15:25 PM EST by copus
On carrots and mattresses It's time for another insightful peek into the dark recesses of my brain. I had a dream last night about a farmer who convinced me to grow carrots. In my mattress. Yes, growing carrots in my mattress. So, I ended up having these carrots growing in my mattress. While I was trying to sleep on it. And then came the rabbits. Rabbits started crawling through the inside of my mattress, trying to eat the carrots from inside the mattress. I think I tried to get the carrots pulled out before the rabbits got to them. The rabbits also made my mattress lumpy. I suppose the carrots did, too. I also remember yelling at the farmer for not telling me how the carrots and rabbits would totally ruin my mattress. About that time was when I woke up. I was totally exhausted, and I blamed those carrots for losing a night of restful sleep. Until I looked at the clock. 11:45pm. I had just gone to bed. Damn carrots, always trying to mess with my mind. And don't get me started on those rabbits! Posted at 08:30:19 PM EST by copus
Plasma equasl iPods My friends are messed up. Two of my FEH-related friends are trying to sell plasma to pay for iPods. If only they realized that I would buy them one in exchange for THEIR SOULS!!!! Posted at 07:37:35 PM EST by copus
JUGGLE FIGHT So, people start sending around some "amazing" video of a guy juggling to some rather lame Beatles song. Good jugglers note that the guy is pretty crappy and don't like how the crowd cheers at basic juggling stuff. Then one of them decides to parody the guys routine, using the same soundtrack, except using five balls. Pretty neat to watch. I can't wait until some guy does a 38 ball routine to the song (which is being played in double time) while standing on his head. It shall be called "Mutually Assured Juggle-Destruction." The planet will promptly implode due to the sheer stupidity of it all. Posted at 10:05:39 PM EST by copus
Car Stereo Stud The only temptation I have to start playing World of Warcraft is to start doing stuff like... oh, I don't know, maybe pretending to be a girl and having random stupid guys give me things worth money. My favorite part is when a guy tries to get the "girl" to come to his place and stay on his DELUXE COUCH: Clives: i'm an assistant manager at a car stereo joint Clives: im loaded To Clives: that sounds so hot Oh, baby. I have to use THAT line sometime. Posted at 08:45:42 PM EST by copus
Classiness Abounds Overheard at the T.G.I.Friday's in my hotel in St. Louis: Drunk "Texan": Hey, bartender, get your big titties over hear and get us our drinks! Bartender: Where did these hillbillies come from??? Posted at 09:56:06 PM EST by copus
Smoke and Mirrors Since the only people who seem to read my blog are hicks without electricity and coworkers that drink too much to properly handle a keyboard and mouse, it should be quite easy to glean cool stuff from other sites and pass it off as my own wonderful discovery. Well, this time I've "magically" discovered (not from Boing Boing) that Penn and Teller had once created a video game for the Sega CD. Despite the brilliant choice of platform, this game was never actually released. I mean, until now. So, go download the Sega GENS emulator and find a Sega CD BIOS somewhere. And then download the Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors via BitTorrent. And then play such minigames as: Desert Bus where you get to drive a bus from Tuscon, Arizona to Las Vegas at a maximum 45 mph for EIGHT HOURS. There are no turns, no cars, no scenery. Your bus veers to the right just slightly, so you can't just tape down your controller and do something else. Mojo the Psychic Gorilla. I really don't know what this game is, but I like the name. The ACTUAL game is a side scroller with a lot of really weird easter eggs, random violence, magic tricks, stunt doubles, and unskippable movies of Penn & Teller eating pizza in silence. So weird. So wonderful. Posted at 07:57:44 AM EST by copus
Crippled Cat Part Deux Shoester has been limping... again. This time it's the right front leg, and I couldn't find any lumps. He's spending a lot of time hiding under the bed. Again. At least he only seems to be in pain when he's walking around. Maybe he just wants pity or something. I'll start limping around so Shoester feels normal. And I get pity. Posted at 09:52:41 PM EST by copus
Tasty Car See the FINAL version of our TORCS car. 
If only I'd actually put some effort into making the car run fast.... Posted at 05:47:43 PM EST by copus
Einsteinian Messages I'm out of town this weekend, attempting to find Einstein and tell him to stop sending me stupid equations: 
What an idiot. Posted at 04:40:13 PM EST by copus
Teach your children well Wow, it's offical, we've finally spotted the worst parents in Canada. Person loses camera. Family finds camera. Family decides to keep camera because kid likes it. So, (stupidly, in my opinion), person agrees to let them keep the camera in exchange for the memory cards with her pictures on them. Weeks later, family sends burned CDs with the images... but not the memory cards. That's just shady. Just like Canadians. Posted at 09:40:43 AM EST by copus
Nerd Extravaganza It's time to show off the current revision of my team's TORCS entry. Bask in the screen shot glory:     Posted at 10:38:10 PM EST by copus
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