Finally found a way around my pesky connectivity issues with getting the old laptop back on the Internet – just setup a simple proxy server on one of my connected machines and Bam! – we’re flying once again!
Should at least work temporarily until I have time to reformat it, anyways… 🙂
It seems that The Onion is going around, running articles that are actually funny again – who knew?!
Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076
‘Not Quite Perfect’ McDonald’s Opens In Illinois Outlet Mall
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31009
Report: World’s Nuclear Arsenal ‘Pretty Much’ Accounted For
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29474
Hmmm…I wonder if they’re hiring… 😉
LOL – I also wrote one about this oil nonsense, for anyone who’s interested. Maybe one of these days I’ll get that website done that I’ve been talking about… 😛
I’ve kept quiet on this one for most of the week because it’s really just too much to take in – haven’t really watched much tv, so all I’ve seen are the newspapers and some pictures online:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe
http://www.digitalglobe.com/katrina_gallery.html
http://video.freevideoblog.com/neworleans/index.htm
Plain and simple, these folks need all the help that they can get – I wrote a column about it (below), so I’ll leave it at that, but if you haven’t already made a contribution or three, please consider forgoing pizza or the latest DVD releases this week … they could use the money a lot more than you can…
In a completely unrelated task, I stumbled across a whole lot of bandwidth stealing from Just Laugh when I was going through server logs earlier this evening. Apparently that’s not something taught in your average middle school web design class – host your own images!!!
Fortunately, cPanel makes it quite easy to take care of that – as of earlier this evening, several hundred MySpace and Xanga pages will now be sporting a nice, little message from the editors until their owners catch on and wise up…
A la the wonderful digg.com, here’s a spectacular view of Hurricane Katrina from this morning…
http://www.anthonymontalbano.com/Katrina1615z-050829-1kg12.jpg
If you ask me, I don’t know why we even have Mondays – I don’t think I’ve ever been productive on a Monday, so why not just abolish the damn things from the calendar altogether…
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Hmmm, if we did get rid of Mondays permanently, would Tuesday become the new Monday or do you think things might flow freely after all???
Sunday:
My checkout experience was almost comical…at least, it would’ve been if she hadn’t been completely serious:
Cashier: Are you interested in getting a Target Red Card?
Me: No thanks.
Cashier: Teeheehee … ummm, can I ask why?
Me: *glares* Because I don’t want one?
Cashier: Is it because it’s a credit card?
Me: Yep.
Cashier: What’s wrong with credit cards? I don’t see what the big deal is…
Me: *getting pissed* Spend the next six years of your life paying off $20,000 worth of credit card debt and you’ll figure it out.
Cashier: *blank look* Will that be credit or debit?
Me: …debit…
The girl couldn’t have been more than sixteen…at best…and for some reason, I see distinct financial problems in her future. Sad, really – I wish I’d have been more educated about handling money when I was a teenager…it would’ve saved me a whole lot of grief on down the road! 😛
The new Target that I went shopping at tonight had its own three-level parking garage:
http://ssevener.textamerica.com/?r=3167740
http://ssevener.textamerica.com/?r=3167731
Oddly enough, it wasn’t any bigger than your average, run of the mill Target – the lower level of the building had a Linens ‘n Things or something. Interesting…