Monthly Archives October 2006

BoingBoing Link Jamboree

Even though I made the Firefox thing a separate post below, I did have a bunch of other links besides Lifehacker that I caught over at BoingBoing and wanted to natter on about for a minute or two.
Let’s start with the most amazing one. I dont read Dilbert a whole lot, but I do [...]

Firefox, Firefox, Two-point-oh!

So yeah, I downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0 today! It went very smoothly and so far I’m having no real problems of any kind. Each iteration of the browser seems to get a wee bit more sluggish, but to be fair I use about 3,200 add-ons and those slow Fx down considerably. [...]

Pinwheels are cool.

I have several. Theyre stuck in unexpected places.
There’s one outside on top of the bookcase that’s next to the patio that is completely cluttered with boxes still unpacked from the Great Burst-Washing-Machine-Hose Flood of ‘06. It’s made out of mylar so it catches those awesome prisms.
There is a mild breeze tonight coming off [...]

Dear Sony: Eat a bag of dicks. Love, Perilous.

I hate these fucking guys!
Look!
Thanks to Lilmoo for pointing this out yesterday in his away message. BoingBoing has it, too. I’m not into a lot of the shit that Lik-Sang sold but if I needed anything like that, Lik-Sang is probably where I’d have gotten it. I’m a gamer, though, and hardcore [...]

Thinking about voting Republican?

Why?
Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O’Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad [...]

Weird Al Rules!

Okay so an excellent friend of mine who is stubbornly unlinkable unwittingly directed me to my most recent obsession: the new Weird Al Yankovic record, Straight Outta Lynwood.
More specifically, he showed me the video for the single off the record, “White & Nerdy.”
Pretty much every line of this song either describes me or [...]

Electric Sheep

No, it’s not a porn site, Scott. Keep your sporran on.
Check it out. It’s really quite amazingly cool.
Thanks to Mingis for turning me on to this.
the electric sheep screen-saver