Category: Useless knowledge

Information you have no need for. Ever. Usually about me, but possibly about other trivial crap in the world.

Posting again – hackery at work

Thanks to Andrew’s suggestion that I use Windows Live Writer, I’m able to post again.  The program has improved significantly since I first tested and rejected it.  There are still some problems I have with it, but I think in part they tie in to the problems I have with how WordPress handles posts and the HTML code behind the posts, so I’ll have to sit back and work out those issues behind the scenes.

I have no idea WTF is up with year-old comments showing up as recent comments in the sidebar, there, but that’s another issue I’ll have to figure out later.

Now that I’m posting, look for loads of updates in the next few days as I try to get caught up.  Might not be much today while I deal with real-life crap (I’m looking at you, crapped out Air Conditioner), but tomorrow or possibly even tonight I can get going again.

[tags]Useless knowledge, Posting again[/tags]

Church messages

YES, THE SITE IS SCREWED UP RIGHT NOW.  Sorry for the shouting.  I’m working on it, but it will probably be a day or more before I’m able to fix it.  I’m not sure if I can even post updates right now, giving the problems I’m having with the site software right now.

I wonder if I can convince my wife that God believes she should blow me more often?

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See, proof that God and the church want you on your knees more often.

[tags]Humor, Church signs, Blow me[/tags]

A special kind of ugly

I just recently upgraded my cell phone to an LG enV VX9900. While searching online for a decent protective cover for it, I stumbled on this special kind of ugly snap-on faceplate for a different phone. Apparently, it is covered with Swarovski crystals, which is somehow supposed to make me desire adding the ugly to my phone enough to pay almost $150. There are two different faceplates, so be sure to click on each to seem them in their full ugly glory.

[tags]Ugly, Swarovski crystal, Cell phone face plates, A special kind of ugly[/tags]

Snake attack

The ball python is not native to North Carolina, so I’m sure that played into the certain shock experienced when one bit the ankle of a 15-month old boy recently in Charlotte.

Christine Abdelmonem had taken her son, Adam, to get a better look at some ducks waddling nearby in Freedom Park on Monday. As she lowered the boy to the ground, she felt a tug and saw the snake wrapped around his leg.

When she screamed for help, two maintenance workers came and attacked and captured the python. The child is fine, but maybe not so much the snake.

John Calchera, a pet store owner in nearby Pineville, took in the constrictor snake. He thinks it may have been abandoned by a pet owner and that it won’t survive being beaten.

“It’s a totally harmless thing,” he said. “Why attack a harmless thing?”

I’m going out on a limb here, but I bet biting a child somehow factors into the answer to that question, Mr. Calchera. That plus the likely lack of proper snake-attack reaction training for the general public.

But hey, if you want to join the Ball python owning community, make sure you learn proper selection, feeding, enclosure, handling, and treatment for the snake.

[tags]Snake attack, Ball python, Charlotte NC[/tags]

All your robot needs – until they take over, at least

Is there much in life cooler than robots?

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Well, I guess frikkin’ sharks with frikkin’ laser-beams on their heads. And robots with chainsaws for hands. And fire-breathing amphibious zombie shark robots with lasers and chainsaws.

And ninjas or pirates or ninja pirates or pirate ninjas. But that is just about everything that that could be considered cooler than robots. And once the robots take over, none of them will be allowed to exist, so it will become a moot point.

[tags]Robots, Ninjas, Sharks, Pirates, Robots will take over[/tags]

Gene for my awesomeness found

Oops. That headline is supposed to read “Gene for left-handedness found”, but sometimes, my self-proclamations of awesomeness just escape before I can stop them.

Scientists have discovered the first gene which appears to increase the odds of being left-handed.

See. Simple story. Simple quote. Here’s a kick-in-the-pants, though.

The Oxford University-led team believe carrying the gene may also slightly raise the risk of developing psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia.

What? So since I’m a lefty, I’m more likely to go all wacko? Great.

The full article discusses a bit more on the gene LRRTM1 and how it appears to play in assymetry of the brain, hemisphere assignment for speech and emotions, and potential effect as a contributor to schizophrenia. So much from one little series of markers.

[tags]Gene for handedness, Lefty could increase chance of crazy?[/tags]

Nicole Richie to grow the stagnant end of the gene pool

Well, what can be done? Unfortunately, we’re not allowed to stop people from reproducing just because they inhabit the shallow end of the gene pool.

After months of rumors, Nicole Richie confirmed Tuesday that she is pregnant.

“Yes I am. We are,” Richie told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in an interview to be aired this week. “I’m almost four months.”

I know. I’m hateful. But really, she and Paris are responsible for a lot of the bad that is reality television that we have to suffer through these days. Not the first, but some of the worst.

[tags]Nicole Richie pregnant, The shallow end of the gene pool[/tags]

Finally done

I know I’m late to the party on this, but I have finally finished the last Harry Potter book. Bought it release day, read one-third of it, then the wife took it to read after she finished whatever it was she’d been reading that week-end. After I got it back, I only read a few chapters a day – I’m not a reader in a hurry to get to the end. So I just finished it, and now my wife can talk to me about it all she wants. Seems she has been waiting for me to finish it because there is something in or near the end she wants to talk about but she did not want to spoil the book for me.

Since I am not bothered by knowing endings of movies or books before I finish them, I told her she could talk about it, but she wanted to wait. Guess tonight she will finally get to tell me whatever it is that she wanted to discuss.

[tags]Harry Potter, Worthless knowledge, Stick a fork in me[/tags]

Fan as hair dryer

The Modern Mechanix blog shows us that way back in 1924, the June issue of Popular Mechanics ran this article on using a fan attachment to make a hair dryer as an alternative to electric fans for keeping your lovely locks dry and full of life (to borrow the modern parlance).

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Drying the hair with an electric drier is a quick and convenient method, but not every one cares to buy one for such occasional use. Where some other electrical appliances such as a fan is at hand, an attachment can easily be made for it, that will serve the purpose.

The attachment consists essentially of a cone-shaped piece of sheet metal such as brass, to which a rubber tube with a nozzle is attached, as shown. The cone is made by cutting a circular piece about one-third larger in diameter than the fan guard, making a radial cut from the center to the edge, putting the edges thus formed over each other and riveting them together. Three catches made of brass are riveted to the cone so that it can be securely fastened to the guard. The tip of the cone is cut open and flared out so that a brass sleeve, about 1-3/4 in. diameter, can be soldered to it. A 6-ft. length of rubber tubing of the same size is attached to this sleeve, and a 4-in. length of brass tubing, with the end rounded as shown, is pushed into the end of the hose to serve as a nozzle. In one case a 1-3/4 in. motorcycle inner tube was used for the hose, but it may be still handier to use the rubber tubing usually provided with a fully equipped vacuum cleaner. The drier should be placed on or near the top of a radiator so that it delivers hot air.

Any rumors you hear that suggest I know from experience that attaching this to the rear of the fan instead of the front creates insufficient suction for true enjoyment are pure fluffery. I assure you I never commented on how poorly this worked when I experimented with the idea.

[tags]Modern Mechanix, Last century hacks, Fan as hair dryer, Popular Mechanics[/tags]

With friends like this, who needs an enema?

I have never been able to use that line more appropriately than now.  It is, perhaps, the most perfect summation of this dreadfully painful to read story that I could envision.

A MAN rammed a pool cue into the rectum of a drunken friend with such force it snapped off, leaving 31 centimetres stuck inside his bowel, the Tasmanian Supreme Court in Hobart has been told.

Roofer Matthew Noel Triffett, 21, who’d previously pleaded guilty to a charge of grievous bodily harm, was given a six-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and was ordered to perform 140 hours of community service.

. . .

He said Triffett thought it was a big joke until the full extent of what he had done was revealed.

In crippling pain, the complainant went home and removed the cue from his rectum.

Read the rest.  It’s even ickier (that’s a medical term, I believe) than what I’ve clipped here.

[tags]Owwwwww, Perforated colon, Rectum?  Damn near killed him, Man snaps pool cue off in buddies ass[/tags]