Archive for July, 2004

Why yes, it is a pyramid referral thing

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

This is a referral pyramid thing, but people have been getting free iPods and flatscreen TVs from it. Here’s what you do. You click on the link. You sign up with a valid email address. You register and click on the eBay link, then sign up for that (it’s ok if [...]

Ayuuuun Sheffu!

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

For those of you who are Iron Chef fans, I present this:
Iron Chef: Battle Long Pig
I think I peed myself.

Gack.

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

She’s reanimated and she’s hungry. For your braaaaaaaaaaaaaains.

Assholes

Monday, July 26th, 2004

I jump through hoops to get rid of the comment spammers and then today I get 90 trackback spams. Sheesh. So I’ve renamed my trackback script, and it won’t work anymore. Spammers suck the joy right out of life.
Go check out ARGN, lots of exciting news in the last week!

Mondegreens

Saturday, July 17th, 2004

My kids have rediscovered their Hello Kitty CD player. I let them have the Free to Be You and Me CDs, and handed over my version of The Beatles One. Jo knows about 50% of the words and makes the rest up. “She’s a big weasel. She took me half the [...]

What the?

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

We’re watching this show on the History Channel about hygiene. Apparently on the Space Station and Shuttles they bring pottie waste back to Earth.
Why?

Not just a job

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Caroline keeps peeing so much her pullups leak and make a puddle on the floor. Last night we had to have a showdown with Jo about her sleeping habits; she wants someone to sit in the room with her until she goes to sleep. Hub was in there for an hour and a [...]

Had to do it

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

Since June 9:
350 attempted comments have been blocked by the Blacklist plugin
I don’t have a count of how many comments have NOT been blocked, but I have added 100 URLs to the Blacklist.
Simply put, the spammers have been making it not fun anymore. So I upgraded to Movable Type 3.0. This means that [...]

Upgrade

Thursday, July 8th, 2004

I upgraded to Movable Type 3.0. Many things are broken, including the comments. Bear with me; I hope to get it fixed sometime in the next couple of days. If you need something in the meantime, email me. Link’s on the right-hand bar.

That’s the way the cookie crumbles, and crumbles, and crumbles…

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

What am I doing wrong!?!?
This is the second batch of cookies I’ve attempted in the past couple of days that has turned out spectacularly awful. The first time I used Alton Brown’s “Chewy” recipe, and they came out totally powdery, with a dry, cake-like crumb. This time I used the Tollhouse recipe (which [...]