2002-08-14 5:15 PM
What's Shiny Today
So many things have been shiny lately, but I've been too busy watching TV to write about them. Let's catch up, shall we?
- Here's Baseball Prospectus'
quiz on
contraction. Better get up to speed now, before you have to sort out
the impending baseball strike too.
- It's baaaaaaack...
- Bunnie asks, "What says 'I love you and your many moods...I understand
your body is undergoing normal physical changes right now and I will be a
compassionate partner to you during this time in your life please don't kill
me,' better than this doll?"
- I saw this
on my way into work the other day. California version, and on a big truck,
natch. (And they even make one for the 51st state, Canada. Isn't that cute?)
- This is a record that's just begging to be broken. And I'm just the girl to
do it.
- Why babelfish rules, part 1347193481: I sent a spam report to terra.com.br,
and plugged the reply into babelfish.altavista.com. The translation starts out:
Prezado(a) Customer, Its email was received successfully by the Department from Abuses the Land. - Adam
Ant has apparently been taking lessons in having a sense of humor about
himself from Gary Coleman.
- The burning question that every sysadmin has wondered about has been
answered by LinuxWorld. (Hey, I
never said that syadmins would actually like the answer...)
- When we were kids, my brother had a succession of guinea pigs. And each
and every time he asked me to hold one it would pee on me. (OK, there was
that one time one of them didn't pee on me.. because in the excitement
of galloping over towards me, she couldn't hold it and peed on the bed instead.)
So as both an animal lover in general, and as someone with a particular grudge
against the species, nothing could make me happier than hearing that a
busload of guinea pigs was being shipped to happy homes... out
of state and far far away from me. My clean clothes salute you, Peninsula
Humane Society.