This is nice to know, Its going to be a Wild Winter. "The Farmers' Almanac is predicting a wild winter with heavy precipitation and dramatic temperature swings in the Northeast." I can't wait. No really, I cant wait.

Happy Birtday Internet your so mature for such a young age.

I enjoyed the olympic games, or at least the parts I caught, but if you found them to be boring, check out these new events that are expected to be added in 2008.

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL!?
Saturday 09/04/2004 on ABC Michigan vs Miami (Ohio)
Sunday 09/05/2004 on ABC Purdue vs Syracuse

Boiler-Up ~ Go Blue

20+ hits yesterday and no comments! I'm insulted, leave me some love.

Do I look young? Conversation from IKEA on Sat:
Couple: Aww, getting ready for college?
Me: No, I graduated
Couple: Oh, congratulations, enjoy it before you start your career
Me: Too late

Later that night went to see Collateral (don't bother) and I got CARDED! Anywho I'm bling'n pages now at insane speeds so here are some highlights:

What Happens If I expose a Lego man to extreme heat?
What Happens If I cook an egg using a blowtorch?
Find out here - Reminds me a bit of the Peeps Research page.

Triumph: What substance was Hans Solo frozen in?
Fan: Carbonite
Triumph: No no im sorry...the correct answer is who gives a sheeet!

SMOKE...SMOKE...ARE YA SMOKING YET?

Bored at work/school? Print out some Transformers and unleash their super-charged fusion divine power.

Today I'll share a few keyboard shortcuts with you noobs:

Ctrl-Alt-Del - When all else fails...I need one of these for my Index, Middle, and Pinky
Alt-F4 - Closes the active window
Alt-Tab - Switches between windows (Hold Alt and tap Tab to find a specific window)
Shift-Delete - Permanantly delets a file
Windows Logo-D - Shrinks all windows (personal favorite)

In case you are interested here is a more complete list

There are some weird people in Chicago...

Cousin it?
Mini Sky Scraper
Bicycle on stilts?

I finally found a deal I could not refuse and got a new monitors. Now you can all stop nagging me about how indecisive I am. It should arrive today just in time for my blazing fast internet. Check it out:



Dell 20" UltraSharp Flat Panel
Image Contrast Ratio: 400:1
Max Resolution: Up to 1600x1200 Pixels
Response Time: 16ms

Beer Of The Week: Pilsner Urquell - The first Pilsener, brewed in 1842 Bohemia, was a lager unlike any other. Its brilliant clarity, golden color, and light body made it an instant success in a world that was accustomed only to dark, heavy, cloudy beers.

I'm so glad I have a camera phone, because if I didn't, nobody would believe me that I saw President George Bush on the 'L' this morning!! He sat there for the duration of the trip doing what he does best...staring blanky at nothing.



Grant Gochnauer has one of the sweetest personal pages I've seen. Flawlessly designed in ASPX, Grant's site includes a picture gallary, forum, moblog, a great link secton, and much more.

Narrated by David Cohodes: "Look at all the amazing things Google can do!! ::chuckle:: ::silence::"

Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Anacubis http://www.anacubis.com/googledemo/google/index.asp
Google Answers http://answers.google.com/answers
GoogleAlert http://www.googlealert.com
Google Features http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Google Indicateur http://google.indicateur.comGoogle
Guide: http://www.googleguide.com
Google Help Central http://www.google.com/help/index.html
Google Labs http://labs.google.comGoogle
News Alerts http://www.google.com/newsalerts
Google Services and Tools http://www.google.com/options/
Google Ultimate Interface http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html

Source: Barry Ritholtz's Blog

Goodluck to all of you starting school this week.

Again sorry for the crappy posts, I should be back in business on Friday. In the mean time, here are some websites to check before buying stuff online. They post deals that are better than your average sales. Some of them are price mistakes so act quickly or forever hold your peace!

Spoofee - **the best**
SlickDeals
FatWallet - FatWallet HotDeals Forum
DealNews

Happy Hunting ; )

This artist rocks my world...Think I might try to rasterbate some of his stuff.

Favorites:
You are entering a world of pain
Do not seek the treasure
Self Portrait

If your a single desperate lawayer

New: "Your ad goes here" - check it out!

Just some fair warning...I'm going to be on dial-up for the next week until I get set up with my Mach 7 Internet. Thats enough bandwith to make any geek giggle in java script. So bear with me, you guys know I always have something wacky to share.

Have to throw another sensless plug for the "Run" Hit wonder 5K Race. I'm going to run it at a nice relaxed pace and injoy the awesomely bad music along the way. Sign up before Sept. 1st and the entry fee is a reduced price. If your wicked hardcore like Cohodes, you need to hop on the Muddy Buddy race and get wild. Good luck finding a partner!

Get excited, new "Your ad goes here" article tomorrow!

Just saw an A-10 Warthog flyby preparing for the Air and Water Show. That is one badass plane. Check back for pics from the show tomorrow and sat. More randomness from my cellphone.

The Good Life
Damn I kinda miss college
Or do I?

Beer Of The Week: Special Export - Celebrating a half-century of being the "import taste" of the Midwest. Brewed in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Special Export and Special Export Light are both crafted to be crisp and smooth with a true European taste profile."

Import taste yet brewed in the midwest...Sounds like a bit of an Oxymoron?

The best guide to obsolete technology I have ever seen

For those of you who can spell and did not inherit the "no spelling gene" which I have discovered is dominant, you can join the rest of us with the misspellilzer

There are a couple of people I'd like to give this shirt to...then again there are a couple of people I would like to give this shirt to!

Today I would like to step aside and draw your attention to the upper right corner of the page. Brian Ginsberg, who has diploma's ranging from McKenzie Elementary School to Yale University, is the brilliance behind the site's newest feature "Your Ad Goes Here". Enjoy, and feel free to post feedback below.

2004 World Series of Poker premiered on ESPN last night. Its always fun to watch math get the best of "professional" poker players. Chris Moneymaker is a blithering idiot and it gave me great pleasure to watch him leave over 2000 players behind. For those of you who missed it, he ::CALLED:: an all-in after the flop with A high and nothing to hope for.

Don't think you need Service Pack 2 for Windows XP? Take a look at all the problems / vonerabilities that it fixes. They may have gone a little overboard on the security issues, but its very easy to set yourself to a security level you are comforatable at.

Click at your own risk (Wait for auido to load, not 56K friendly)

Car accident occurred right outside my building...Jonah and I (and like 20 other nosey tenants) had to go take a look. While we only heard a deafening screech followed by a thunderous boom, we got the scoop. Taxi Driver "Stupid" was flying down Sheridan at 45 MPH when he came to an intersection where there was a fellow making a left turn. Instead of stopping, stupid swerved around the car failing to notice Taxi "Wha Happen!?" who was parked on the curb with the trunk open. Stupid plows into Wha Happen' and all hell breaks loose.


I NEED to find a use for this pimp switch. Maybe I can trick out my PC with hydraulics or perhaps make the floppy drive into a flame thrower. Any suggestions? There has got to be use for that thing.

And the rims keep spinn' every time I ... stop peddling?

This is the shirt Bev is bringing me back from Lebowskifest. It was really tempting to get the Speed of Sound Tour shirt but only the hardcore Lebowski fans would get it.

Does anybody give a crap about the olympic games in Greece? I wouldn't be caught dead in one of these. I had it on in the background for a good part of the day and its just swiming, diving, more swiming, rowing, then more swiming.

Breaking News
At Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school math teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a setsquare, a slide rule, and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General John Ashcroft said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means of extremes, and sometimes they go off on tangents in search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns,' but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are three sides to every triangle.'"

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes."

::Shoot me I like crappy puns::

You saw it first here => Its A Lie <=
(well worth the short wait for you cavemen on Dial-Up)

I had NO idea that the Weekly World News was on the internet. Its publications like these that keep the general public informed on current events.

Another strangly addicting game

I'm looking after Jonah's kittens:

As promised here is a barage of media:

They are filming Batman Begins not to far from my office...Took a walk at lunch to check it out.


This guy is the reason I have a camera phone:


The sober twins:


Brad's New Car (Thanks bev nice photography)

Finally, images are back!!

Short and simple again with no multimedia, but expect fireworks to shoot out of your floppy drives as soon as I get my precious webserver back. Hopefully soon I will be hosting my own site and I wont have to worry about these shenanigans.

New version of Ad-Aware released, "Hardened against third party uninstall with encrypted preference files" which translates to please install this and run it so I don't have to after you complain to me that your computer is running slow, and the lycos dog keeps popping up.

NBA players that look like rappers. I think they were really running out of ideas when they said that Kid Rock looks like Tyrone Nesby. Must admit though that a couple are somewhat amusing.

Holy Shit! Accu-Chek.co.uk goes LIVE!! For all of you that dont know this is one of the websites included in the project that I have been working on since I started work at Braun Consulting. Everyone feel free to admire the right and bottom modules as for I designed them and programed the templates, rules files, and xsl.

I'm pretty limited with what I can do with no webserver...I have all this multimedia I want to post, but its going to have to wait until Fri/Sat.

In the mean time entertain yourself with Operation Thunderbolt! I though I had an addiction to Hellicopter, but this is truely the crack of flash games.

The Rasterbator goes COLOR! For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about check out this old post.

Build a bush - Yet another wacky site to mock our motard president.

List of company name etymologies. Interesting stuff...Click on the company name for an in depth profile chalk full of links.

Who wants to run a 5K? Nike is sponsoring the "Run Hit Wonder" 5K and 10K races on Sept. 23rd. Live bands as you run including Flock of Seagulls, General Public, Tone Loc, and yes, Devo!! I'm not much of a runner but if I can get a couple of people to join me I'm game. Registration is $25 towards charity and you get a free Nike Shirt.

Ahhh back on broadband...hook it into my veins!! If you have a high speed connection and Windows XP you should pick up Service Pack 2. Its got all the most recent security patches and a built in firewall to save you from the Mongorrians. While your at it check out the XP PowerToys if your geeky enough to handle them.

For all you idiots who ran out and bought Doom3

Porn Star, or a My Little Pony? Your job is to try and tell the fornicator from the latter. You make the call. I got a 2 out of 12 Post your scores! (Safe For Work)

Does your phone have bluetooth? Lookout, you might get "snarfed"! In other words, your phone can get hacked from up to half a mile away.

Since I have been on 56K for the past 24 Hours, I have no hilarious links to share. Instead of zipping all over the internet today, take a look at these pictures that have been growing mold on my phone:
Come home Bev!
View from the bullpen bar at Sox Park.
Psycho crazy serial killer mime! o_0
View of my office from the Merchandise Mart L stop.

Happy Birthday AJ and Paul!! From Ryan somehow managing to loose his gum in a bottle of beer, to David chugging a beer to wash down a Red Bull drink he suffered through, it was a great night. Or at least it got Greg's seal of approval.

Some assorted randomness for your lazy Sunday afternoon:

Ever get mad because the person in front of you is driving so damn slow?
Science with an attitude! Perhaps he had this professor?
Some people like stick figures...O..K...
Whew! Tigger is innocent...Love the picture
Click at your own risk

2756 N Pine Grove Will be my residence as of Sept. 1st

Layout of the apartment
(More to come)


For all you Will Ferrell fans and Bush Haters - (Fast Speed) (Low Speed)

Wow, more linkage, thanks Marisa! Two published authors in 1 week im flattered.

"I have provided a link to Brad's website because he is the kind of guy who will take camera-phone pictures of all the insane people on Chicago's public transportation and document them on his website, and I will continue to repay his generous technical services in cold, fermented beverages."

Found some great deals on PCs check it out:


Since I aparently have a repuatation for "if they mated" experiments, check what some of the Simpsons characters would like if they got their freak on.

Beer of the week: Flying Dog Pale Ale "Dry Hopped with a "shit-load" of Cascade hops grown in the Pacific Northwest. Doggie Style has enough hop character to satisfy hop-heads, but isn’t overpoweringly hoppy. It’s brilliant amber-copper color and pleasant malt flavor comes from the addition of Carastan malts."

Note to self: Don't get haircut from crosseyed lady!




This page honestly made me Laugh Out Loud. For those of you who are too lazy to figure this out on your own, this guy took the titles of spam that he recieved and drew pictures with respective titles. Reminded me a little of Exploding Dog (same concept but titles are submitted by users) Anyhow, here are my favorites:

who likes masturbators!
On a lo-carb diet? Not anymore..
We have your medicine
LOOK AT ME IM RICH
We have located several horny women in your area!

Name a movie any movie!

Thanks Brian for my first blurb. I'm honored to be next to the Saturday Night Live Transcripts:

"Brad's Blog. Whether he's reporting on an "If They Mated"-esque Photoshop project with his sister or airing his frustration about a shady computer monitor deal going south, Brad updates frequently with lots of pictures, as well as the obligatory hilarious text. "

The military is building a supercomputer consisting of 1186 powerful IBM computers connected together with a total of about 2,300 64-bit microprocessors made by AMD. Did somebody say Digital Fortress?

Hail Purdue! My monitor woes are over. Anybody got a flatbed truck, a lock pick, and a ski mask? Maybe I could just write a check for it.

Hey you Sprint PCS subscribers its you lucky day...Download all the ringtones you want from this site. You can even upload your own MIDI file and send it to your phone. Sorry T-Mobile folks keep shouting into your GSM phones...you'll come to your senses some day.

Must have for my apartment
Daom! Rejected!
What the hell is this?

How pimp would you look talking on this phone walking down the street? I wish they made one for my phone, I would get this one.

I know a couple of you are in food service...Thought you might appreciate this site. Here is your opportunity to get back at those shmucks that give you crap then stiff you.

This is a sweet short if you have high speed internet. For all you 56k'ers out there...Fuck it

Screw work, I want to grow a fro and go back to school!

I'm just kidding, I really like my job and my appartment. Also, I can now laugh at my friends in school when they are craming for exams or trying to crank out an essay at 3 AM.

For you digital photographers out there, this digital frame is pretty modestly priced. This one is not, but its twice as cool :)

New iMac came out, its slightly smaller than the original. Maybe all you idiots who ran out and bought an iPod because they are trendy should pick one of these up too.

In case you havn't noticed, I made some revisions to the page. I am no encouraging an elite few to create thier own posts and publish them for your enjoyment. We'll see how it goes, please comment on your opinions.

Sometimes I just love having a camera phone. Yesterday on the L this man came stumbling on our train chatting to himself. I couldn't really determine if he was just speaking gibberish or in a different language. He sat down and proceeded to tell himself a few jokes and laugh at them, then as shown in the first picture, he got up to dance! On his way off the train I was able to snap the second picture of his not so concealed beverage.