Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of its head with a note that says 'you.' after that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
-Deep Thought of the day by Jack Handey

Share the Passion of Christ™!
Saturday February 28th 2004, 4:38 pm
depressing

Get your The Passion of the Christ™ merchandise. My personal favorite is The Nail. I can’t wait for the movie to come out. I’m considering going to the Philipines during easter so I can see a real crucifixion!

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Letter from my Attorney General
Saturday February 28th 2004, 11:53 am
neato

I received a letter yesterday:

February, 2004

Dear Oregon Music Purchaser,

As Attorney General for the State of Oregon, I am pleased to enclose payment for your claim in the settlement of the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation. This lawsuit was brought by the Attorneys General of 43 states and three territories and by the counsel for the Private Class Plaintiffs on behalf of purchasers of music CDs. In accordance with the terms of the court-approved settlement, payment is being made to music purchasers who filed a valid and timely claim.

Whether you filed your claim online at the settlement web site, www.MusicCDSettlement.com, or by mail, the attached payment represents full payment of your portion of the Settlement. Please note that the attached payment instrument must be cashed by May 20, 2004.

It is a pleasure to bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion and to return value to consumers who purchased CSs while the challenged pricing policies were in effect.

Hardy Myers
Attorney General of Oregon

I’m going to use the $13.86 to buy CD-Rs.

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Funny + Controversial
Friday February 27th 2004, 3:55 pm
funny

This flash movie caused some controversy at work due to a certain part in the opening scene (watch and you’ll understand). I personally think it’s funny; others didn’t. I’ll leave it to my legion of loyal readers to decide.

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Subtly Simpsons
Friday February 27th 2004, 2:40 pm
funny

Check out Subtly Simpsons for a long list of insider jokes featured on The Simpsons:

When Sideshow Bob is in jail, his prisoner number is: 24601.
This is also Jean Valjean’s number in Les Miserables
Episode: 8F20, The Return of Sideshow Bob

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uNm41n74bl3
Friday February 27th 2004, 2:24 pm
technology

I should’ve read How To Write Unmaintainable Code when I was in school. I would’ve learned a lot, and given the graders migraines at the same time.

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The Mario Saga
Friday February 27th 2004, 9:48 am
neato

Words fail to describe the epicness of this, the best use of Flash I have ever witnessed in my life.

Be sure to have speakers at a hearty volume when enjoying this saga.

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Turnabout is fair play
Thursday February 26th 2004, 12:16 pm
net

George W. Bush has a nifty tool on his website: a form which allows you to send letters to editors of newspapers in your area. It is intended to be used by Bush supporters to send pro-Bush messages to newspaper editors, but there’s nothing stopping you from using it to send any message you please. I did. I received feedback from teh editor of The Multnomah Village Post asking me what organization I represented because he’d received several emails in this exact same format. Here’s the letter I sent:

When are we going to be united?

George W. Bush ran for president promising that he was "a
uniter, not a divider", but here we stand today with our nation
torn apart by his call for a constitutional amendment to deny a
minority group the right to engage in a civil union. How did this
happen? Why does he believe the government needs to intervene to
prevent the States from deciding their own fate? The
rationalizations he presented in his speech demonstrate an unfounded
fear of homosexuality and an unfounded fear of the effects of
allowing governments to recognize it. Legalizing homosexual unions
is portrayed as endangering heterosexual ones. How? If the
government wants to secure marriage and considers it crucial to the
stability of our society, why hasn’t the president called for a
constitutional amendment prohibiting divorce?

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Programming books
Thursday February 26th 2004, 10:09 am
net

Submitted for you approval: free programming resources for programmers in a host of languages, from Ada to XML. Many are entire books in PDF form, such as “Thinking in C++”.

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Back to the future
Thursday February 26th 2004, 9:49 am
technology

Researchers at Penn State are using 0 Comments

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Free is my favorite price
Wednesday February 25th 2004, 11:20 am
neato

Free After Rebate demonstrates that the best things in life are free, after six to eight weeks. Especially if you believe the best things in life are CD-Rs.

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